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大度读人——冯骥才（中英对照） 大度读人——冯骥才Being Magnanimous to Read a Person——Feng Ji-cai翻译：付文中一个人就是一本书。读人，比读其他文字写就的书更难。我认认真真地读，读了大半辈子，至今还没有读懂这本“人之书”。 A person is a book. Reading a person is more difficult than reading a book written in other languages. I read the Book of Persons seriously to such an extent that I can’t understand it even though I have lived through more half of my life. 有的人，在阳光明媚的日子里愿意把伞借给你，而下雨的时候，他却打着伞悄悄地先走了。 ——你读他时，千万别埋怨他。因为他自己不愿意被雨淋着且是人家的雨伞，也不愿意分担别人的困难，你能说什么呢？还是自己常备一把伞吧。 On a sunny and clear day, somebody is willing to lend his umbrella to you, whereas on a rainy day, he stealthily goes away with his umbrella. ——If you read him, don’t complain about him, because he doesn’t want to be caught in the rain in addition to the fact that the umbrella belongs to him, neither does he want to share responsibiltiy of others, what else can you say? You had better get ready one umbrella by yourself. 有的人，在你有权势的时候，围着你团团转，而你离职了，或无权无势了，他却躲得远远的。 ——你读他时，千万要理解他。因为他过去是为了某种需要而赞美你，现在你没有那种功力了，也就没有必要再为你吟唱什么赞美诗了。在此，你就需要静下心来，先想一下自己过去是否太轻信别人呢？ When you are influential, somebody always fusses around you, whereas when you are dismissed or don’t have powers, he stays far away from you. ——If you read him, you should understand him, because in the past he complimented you in order to get something that he needed, whereas now that you don’t have powers, he doesn’t have to intonate whatever hymns for you. Now you need calm down and think whether you are a credulous person who believe in other people. 有的人，在面对你倾诉深情的时候，语言的表述像一条流淌的清亮甜美的大河，而在河床底下，却潜藏着一股污浊的暗流。 ——你读他时，千万别憎恨他。因为凡是以虚伪为假面来欺骗别人的人，人前人后活得也挺艰难，弄不好还会被同类的虚伪所惩罚，你应该体谅他的这种人生方式，等待他的人性回归和自省吧。 When somebody confides in you, his words are spoken out of his mouth just like a clear, sweet and flowing river, whereas beneath the riverbed lurks a dirty undercurrent. ——If you read him, you shouldn’t harbour hatred for him, because anyone in the disguise of a hypocritical person, who cheats others, really leads a very diffi