容闳 英汉互译

[2] 容闳出生在贫苦农民家庭，童年时，父亲为把他培养成买办，设法将他送到澳门，在英国人创办的一所小学里受启蒙教育。
[2] Though Rong Hong was born into a poor pin the hope of making him a comprador, managed to send him to a school in Macao set up and run by the British, for elementary education.
[3] 1847年，在香港的一些英美人士的赞助下，容闳赴美留学，进入了马萨诸塞州孟松学校。毕业后，他又考入了美国著名的耶鲁大学。在大学里，他发奋苦读，克服了数学基础差和费用不足的种种困难，终于以优良的成绩获了文学学士学位。容闳是第一个毕业于美国大学的中国留学生。
[3] In 1847, sponsored by some Americans and Englishmen then living in Hong Kong, he went to the United States and entered Monson Academy in Massachusetts. After he graduated from Monson, he took the entrance examinations and enrolled in the famous Yale University where he worked very hard, overcoming difficulties in mathematics and shortage of funds and, finally, he got his bachelor degree with honors. He was the first Chinese ever to have graduated from an American university.
容闳Rong Hong
[1] 容闳，生于公元1828年，卒于公元1912年。号纯甫。广东香山通八达（今中山县）人。近代中国著名的爱国者、杰出的社会活动家和向西方学习的先驱。
[1] Rong Hong, his literary mane Chunpu, was born in Xiangshan (now Zhongshan County), Guangdong Province in 1828 and died in 1912. He was an ardent patriot of modern China, a prominent social activist and a pioneer who encouraged learning from the west.
[4] 容闳长年学习生活在国外，大学毕业后，他的生活习惯和内在气质，都已与中国同胞截然不同。但是他没有忘记自己是炎黄子孙，对祖国始终充满了爱。为了用自己的知识报效祖国，离开耶鲁后，容闳毅然拒绝了留在美国的劝诱，回到了祖国的怀抱。
[4] Having lived and studied in the United States for many long years, he had adopted a lifestyle and developed a makeup totally different from that of his countrymen by the time he graduated from the university. But he never forgot he was a Chinese descendant and he cherished a deep love for his country. Upon graduation from Yale he was offered opportunities to stay in the United States but, urged by his desire to apply what he had learned to the well-being of his motherland, he rejected the offers and returned to China.