双语有声阅读：关于父亲的名人名谚

A father is always making his baby into a little woman.

 

父亲总是把他的女儿塑造成一个小女人。

 

And when she is a woman he turns her back again. Enid Bagnold

 

当她成了一个真正的女人时，他又不断地指引她前进。巴格诺尔德

 

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.Alice Walker

 

我不厌其烦地不断寻找父亲的影子。最后，我终于深深地享受并懂得了他的用心良苦。爱丽斯·沃克

 

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a father who has not his equal in this world, so great, so good, so faultless.

 

你可能从来没有因为世界上有这样一位伟大的、完美的父亲而自豪。

 

Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps¹ and don’t be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be.

 

努力吧，跟随他的脚步，不要气馁，因为你们都还没有达到像他那样的程度。

 

Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.Victoria, Queen of England

 

我相信，将来你们会的，至少某一方面有点像他，而且你可以完全做到。英格兰王后维多利亚

 

That is the thankless position of the father in the family—the provider for all, and the enemy of all. J.August Strindberg

 

父亲在家里是个吃力不讨好的角色——既要养活全家，又受全家敌视。斯特林堡

 

It is a wise father that knows his own child. William Shakespeare

 

聪明的父亲都应该了解他们自己的孩子。威廉·莎士比亚

 

It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. Anne Sexton

 

父亲是什么样的人并不重要，重要的是我心目中的父亲是什么样的人。 安妮·塞克斯顿

 

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb

 

一个父亲比一百个校长还顶用。 英国谚语

 

To be a successful father.there’s one absolute² rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years. Ernest Hemingway

 

作为一个成功的父亲。有一个绝对遵守的原则：当你有了小孩的时候，在头两年里不要给他们太大的压力。海明威

 

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

 

我们知道，当一个人慢慢长大成人的时候，他们开始慢慢变得像他的父亲。

 

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. Sigmund Freud

 

我想象不出还有什么比父亲的保护让一个孩子渴求得更强烈。弗洛伊德

 

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day.

 

我看到一个小个子的男人，用他长满老茧的双手，每天工作十五六个小时。

 

I saw him once literally³ bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence⁴ of his example. Mario Cuomo

 

我曾经看到，红红的鲜血从他的脚底下流出来，这个男人来到这里，没有受过教育，孤零零一个人，不懂当地语言，就是这个男人，单单以他的言行，教会了我需知道的一切，关于坚强的信念，关于辛苦劳作。马里奥·库莫

 

If the new American father feels bewildered⁵ and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. Bill Cosby

 

如果一个美国新爸爸感到有所困惑，甚至是被击败，那么，让他欣慰的是，他所做的任何孕育下一代的努力，有50％的概率是正确的。比尔·考斯比

 

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! Lydia M. Child

 

幸福，事实上就是一个男人听到许多温柔的声音叫他爸爸！莉迪亚·M.C

1 footsteps   

n.脚步（声），一步的距离，足迹；脚步（声）( footstep的名词复数 )；一步的距离；足迹

参考例句：

• the sound of footsteps on the stairs 楼梯上的脚步声
• Their footsteps echoed in the silence. 他们的脚步声在一片寂静中回荡着。

2 absolute   

adj.十足的；绝对的；不受任何限制的

参考例句：

• The first year of the course was an absolute doddle.第一年的课程简单极了。
• I look upon this as an absolute necessity.我认为这是绝对必要。

3 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

4 eloquence   

n.雄辩；口才，修辞

参考例句：

• I am afraid my eloquence did not avail against the facts.恐怕我的雄辩也无补于事实了。
• The people were charmed by his eloquence.人们被他的口才迷住了。

5 bewildered   

a.困惑的

参考例句：

• She was totally bewildered by his sudden change of mood. 他的情绪突变搞得她全然不知所措。
• The big city bewildered the old woman from the countryside. 大城市把乡下来的老奶奶弄糊涂了。