新月集 作者:泰戈尔
The Crescent Moon By Rabindranath Tagore 英文 中文 双语对照 双语交替 首页 目录 上一章 下一章 | |
26.SUPERIOR
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MOTHER, your baby is silly! She is so absurdly childish!
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She does not know the difference between the lights in the streets and the stars.
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When we play at eating with pebbles, she thinks they are real food, and tries to put them into her mouth.
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When I open a book before her and ask her to learn her a, b, c, she tears the leaves with her hands and roars for joy at nothing; this is your baby's way of doing her lesson.
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When I shake my head at her in anger and scold her and call her naughty, she laughs and thinks it great fun.
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Everybody knows that father is away, but if in play I call aloud "Father," she looks about her in excitement and thinks that father is near.
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When I hold my class with the donkeys that our washerman brings to carry away the clothes and I warn her that I am the schoolmaster, she will scream for no reason and call me d?d?. [elder brother]
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Your baby wants to catch the moon. She is so funny; she calls Ganesh G?nush. [Ganesh, a common name in India, also that of the god with the elephant's head.]
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Mother, your baby is silly, she is so absurdly childish!
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