作者簡(jiǎn)介：
紀(jì)伯倫，黎巴嫩詩(shī)人。真正的詩(shī)人才可以寫(xiě)出如此深邃的文字，可以穿越歷史和空間，如此富有生命力地讓天下每一位父母為之動(dòng)容，從中受益。如果你有孩子，這首詩(shī)會(huì)讓你在教育子女上更有智慧；如果你還沒(méi)有孩子，那么這首詩(shī)也會(huì)讓你重新審視自己和父母的關(guān)系，并思考生命的本質(zhì)。
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
你們的孩子，都不是你們的孩子
乃是生命為自己所渴望的兒女。
他們是借你們而來(lái)，卻不是從你們而來(lái)
他們雖和你們同在，卻不屬于你們。
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
But seek not to make them like you,
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
你們可以給他們愛(ài)，卻不可以給他們思想。
因?yàn)樗麄冇凶约旱乃枷搿?/p>
你們可以蔭庇他們的身體，
卻不能蔭蔽他們的靈魂。
因?yàn)樗麄兊撵`魂，是住在明日的宅中，
那是你們?cè)趬?mèng)中也不能想見(jiàn)的。
你們可以努力去模仿他們，卻不能使他們來(lái)象你們。
因?yàn)樯遣坏剐械模膊慌c昨日一同停留。
You are the bows from which your children
As living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,?
And He bends you with His might,
That His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
So He loves also the bow that is stable.?
你們是弓，你們的孩子是從弦上發(fā)出的生命的箭矢。
那射者在無(wú)窮之間看定了目標(biāo)，
也用神力將你們引滿，
使他的箭矢迅速而遙遠(yuǎn)的射了出來(lái)。
讓你們?cè)谏湔呤种械膹澢蔀橄矘?lè)吧。
因?yàn)樗麗?ài)那飛出的箭，
也愛(ài)了那靜止的弓。
