孩子的一百种语言

孩子的一百种语言

孩子是由一百种构成的

The child has a hundred languages

孩子有一百种语言

a hundred hands

一百双巧手

a hundred thoughts

一百个想法

a hundred ways of thinking

一百种思考方式

of playing

一百种游戏方式

of speaking

一百种说话方式

always a hundred ways of listening 总有一百种倾听方式

of marveling

一百种惊奇

of loving

一百种热爱

a hundred joys for singing and understanding

一百种歌唱与领悟的喜悦

a hundred worlds to discover

有一百种世界要去发现

a hundred worlds to invent

有一百种世界要去创造

a hundred worlds to dream.

有一百种世界要去梦想

The child has a hundred languages

(and a hundred hundred hundred more) 孩子有一百种语言（一百一百再一百）

but they steal ninety-nine

但他们偷走九十九种

the school and the culture separate the head

from the body.

学校与文化，将孩子身心分离

They tell the child to think 他们告诉孩子

without hands

不用双手去思考

to do without head

不动脑筋去做事

to listen and not speak

只倾听不说话

to understand without joy 不必带着喜悦去领悟

to love and marvel

爱与惊奇

only at Easter and Christmas.

只属于复活节与圣诞节

They tell the child

他们告诉孩子

to discover the world already there

去发现已知的世界

and of the hundred

在一百种当中they steal ninety-nine. 他们偷走九十九种

They tell the child that

他们告诉孩子

work and play

工作与游戏

reality and fantasy

真实与幻想science and imagination

理性与想象

sky and earth

天空与

reason and dream

理智与梦想

are things that do not belong together.

全都水火不容

And thus they tell the child

因此他们告诉孩子

that the hundred is not there.

一百并不存在

The child says

但是孩子说

No way. The hundred is there!

不，真的有一百！