女人之美

这是一篇很棒的文章，女人的美不在于外表，
而在那颗纤细敏感的心，包容了多少波折却平静依然


a little boy asked his mother "why are you crying?"

一个男孩问他的妈妈："你为甚么要哭呢？"

"because i'm a woman," she told him.

妈妈说："因为我是女人啊。"

"i don't understand," he said.

男孩说："我不懂。"

his mom just hugged him and said, "and you never will."

他妈妈抱起他说："你永远不会懂得。"

later the little boy asked his father, "why does mother seem to cry for no reason?"

后来小男孩就问他爸爸："妈妈为甚么毫无理由的哭呢？"

"all women cry for no reason," was all his dad could say.

"所有女人都这样。"他爸爸回答。

the little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry.

小男孩长成了一个男人，但仍就不懂女人为甚么哭泣。


finally he put in a call to god; and when god got on the phone,
he asked, "god, why do women cry so easily?"

最后，他打电话给上帝；当上帝拿起电话时，他问道："上帝，女人为甚么那么容易 哭
泣呢？"

god said: "when i made the woman she had to be special. i made
her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world;
yet, gentle  enough to give comfort."

上帝回答说："当我创造女人时，让她很特别。我使她的肩膀能挑起整个世界的重
 担；并且，又柔情似水。"
"i gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the
rejection that many times comes from her children"
"我让她的内心很坚强，能够承受分娩的痛苦和忍受自己孩子多次的拒绝。"
"i gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when
everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and
fatigue without complaining."

我赋予她耐心，使她在别人放弃的时候继续坚持，并且无怨无悔的照顾自己的家人
 渡过疾病和疲劳。

"i gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and
all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly."

我赋予她在任何情况下都会爱孩子的感情，即使她的孩子伤害了她。

"i gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and
 fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart."

我赋予她包容她丈夫过错的坚强，和用他的肋骨塑成她来保护他的心。

"i gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his
wife,  but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him
unfalteringly."

我赋予她智慧让她知道一个好丈夫是绝不会伤害他的妻子的，但有时我也会考验她
 支持自己丈夫的决心和坚强。

"and finally, i gave her a tear to shed. this is hers exclusively to
 use  whenever it is needed."

最后，我让她可以流泪。只要她愿意，这是她所独有的。

"you see: the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears,
the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair."

你看，女人的漂亮不是因为她穿的衣服，她保持的体型或者她梳头的方式。

"the beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is
the doorway to her heart and the place where love resides."

女人的漂亮必须从她的眼睛中去看，因为那是她心灵的窗户和爱居住的地方。

every woman is beautiful.

每一个女人都漂亮
-------------------- the path of glory lead but to the grave.

I'm so moved[em071]
it makes me miss my mother[em132]
she is a prefect women,she 's beautiful,kind-hearted, virtuous....I love her so much...[em050]

Thanks for rainlakes giving us such a moving story [em126] --------------------

it is also for my mother
the life has toiled much
but she just broke through with her hand
as well as the love within her not strong body


love for you--mom


and for every mother~ [ 2004-04-05 17:00:44 rainlakes 修改 ]

"i gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the
rejection that many times comes from her children"
"我让她的内心很坚强，能够承受分娩的痛苦和忍受自己孩子多次的拒绝。"

"i gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and
all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly."

我赋予她在任何情况下都会爱孩子的感情，即使她的孩子伤害了她。  

mum,I owed you too much
and u are always so easily  to be satisfied -------------------- 希望斑竹纠正我英文中的错误

"i gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the
rejection that many times comes from her children"
"我让她的内心很坚强，能够承受分娩的痛苦和忍受自己孩子多次的拒绝。"

..

我觉得应该是：

Mum, I owe you too much. 不用过去时。不是曾经欠母亲太多，永远都还不了的。

你觉得呢？我语法不好，凭感觉。

-------------------- 我已厌倦了这样的日子，
亲爱的，
我一直以自己的方式表示着对你的忠诚。

中文译得很好。是斑竹翻的么？[em129]
很多年前就看过这篇文章，但只是英文。
只是我个人更倾向于将”Mother"译作“母亲”而不是“妈妈”。
可能是我老了。我想念我的母亲...[em075] -------------------- 我推开灰色窗户，不能不想哭泣，时间流逝了，而我依然在这里。

cool -------------------- 世界就象一张很大很大的网 彼此游来游去的我们 谁也不能逃脱 相遇 偶然或必然
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