差不多先生传_胡适_英汉对照翻译

Do you know who is the most well-known person in China?

This person is well known over the world. His surname is Cha and his given name is Buduo, which means “About the Same”. He is a native of every province, county and village in this country. You must have seen him or heard about him. His name is on the lips of everybody every day, because he is representative of the whole Chinese nation.

The physiognomy of Mr. Cha Buduo has same as you and I. He has a pair of eyes, but does not see straight. He has a pair of ears, but does not hear clearly. He has a nose and a mouth, but does not smell and taste well. His brain is not too small, but he has a bad memory and careless think.

He often says, “Everything just needs to be OK, why to be so serious about them?”

When he was a child, his mother let him buy some brown sugar, but he brought some white sugar instead. H is mother scolded him, he shook his head and said, “Brown sugar or white sugar are about the same, aren’t they ?”

In school,his teacher asked him, “Which province borders Hebei on the west?” He answered, “Shaanxi.” The teacher sai d “You are wrong. It’s Shanxi, not Shaanxi.” He retorted, “Shaanxi or Shanxi are about the same, aren’t they?”

Later he worked as a waiter in a shop. He could write and calculate, but his mathematics were often wrong. He also made mistake that wrote the Chinese character 十for 千or 千for十. The shopkeeper was angry and often scolded him. He just only apologized with a smile, “The difference between character千and十is one short stroke.Chinese character 十or 千are about the same,Aren’t they ?”

One day, for an urgent business,he went to Shanghai by train. But he went to the railway station unhurriedly,when he arrived the railway station,the train already gone, because he was two minutes late. He stared at the smoke belching from the train, and shook his head, “ I have to leave tomorrow,however, today and tomorrow are about the same. But the railway company is too serious? 8:30 or 8:32 are about the same, aren’t they?”He walked home slowly and talking to himself why the train hadn’t waited for him for two minutes more.He did not understand.

One day he fell in ill suddenly, he told his families to fetch Dr.Wang of East Street immediately. His families went in a hurry, but he couldn’t find the Dr.Wang on East Street. So instead of Dr.Wang on East Street he fetched Vet Wang of West Street .Lying on his sickbed,he knew that his families fetched a wrong person. But, with pain and worry, he was seriously ill and he could not wait any longer. So he said to himself, “Luckily, Vet Wang is about the same as Dr. Wang. Why not let Vet Wang have a try?” Then, the vet walked up to his bed, with the medical method of cow, treating Mr.Cha Buduo . In the end, Mr.Cha Buduo is died less than an hour.

When Mr. Cha Buduo was about to breathe his last, he uttered intermittently in one breath,”Live or die, it’s about… about… the same…. Everything just…needs to be…OK, why to be…so serious…about them”As soon as he finished his motto, he stopped breathing.

After his death, people all praise him for his way of seeing through things and thinking through all things. They say that all his life, he refused to work seriously and that he was never calculating or haggle over every ounce. He is virtuous man, So they honored him with the posthumous name Master of Easy-Going..

As time goes on his fame has spread wide and become more and more famous. Thousands of people follow his example, thus everybody has become Mr. Cha Buduo,however, China will be a sluggard nation!