厨师，是以烹饪为职业，以烹制菜点为主要工作内容的人。一起来看看厨师工作的自我评价，仅供大家参考！谢谢！
时间如流水一般急忙忙的逝去，回首往事，在这多姿多彩的季节里，我取得了一些成绩，在往后的日子里，希望我能做得更好。
一、 政治思想上。
我认真学习党的路线方针、政策，理论，党和国家的教育政策、方针、教育法律法规不断提高自己的思想素质和政治理论水平。向来坚持以大局为重，服从组织安排，干一行爱一行从不讲价钱，虽然自己是厨师，我从不认为自己低人一等，总是以自己的实际行动抓好厨房管理工作。保证餐饮部出品各项工作正常动转。
二、 工作上，我担任卧佛基地餐饮部主管兼厨房成本控制工作。
首先保证用餐从不失职失误并在技术上不断提高自己的烹饪技术。在实践中我不断探索，根据桂林地区的饮食爱好，不断提高自己的烹调技术，配制有多套特色的菜谱，让培训班学员和来往客人都能吃上香甜可口的饭菜。让中心职工吃的满意，生活安心。第二我在食堂管理上狠抓了几个环节。一是把好食堂原料进货关，我不怕远路，进市场，货比多家，选购各种营养丰富的食品原料，保证物美价廉，让中心职工吃得好，吃的健康。二是保证食品及原料不腐烂，不变质，不浪费，节省食堂开支，保证成本管控。三是保证按时开餐，作好厨房的后勤准备工作，在2012年7月的新员工班期间圆满完成中心及餐饮部任务，得到中心领导及各部门的'认可。
三、 在生活上，我崇尚质朴的生活，养成良好的生活习惯和正派的作风。
此外，对时间观念性十分重视。由于平易近人待人友好，所以一直以来与人相处甚是融洽。敢于拼搏刻苦耐劳将伴随我迎接未来新挑战。注重学习，养成读书看报的良好习惯。关心时事政治，关注国家大事，做到头脑清醒，不落后于形势。
烹饪是一门实践性很强的工艺，非一朝一夕所能掌握，但只要我开卷细读，用心体会，并且按图索骥，认真仿制，就一定能获得烹饪技艺的真谛过不断学习我体会到了。具备了水台、砧板、打荷、上杂、候锅、明档等基本功，只要运用不同的原料、不同的烹调方法、不同的造型及口味，相互变换制作，即可创新出色、香、味、形、质、器俱佳的各款菜点来。我将更严格地要求自己，改正缺点，发扬优点。
篇一：值班经理
工作以来，在公司领导的精心培育和教导下，通过自身的不断努力，无论是思想上、学习上还是工作上，都取得了长足的发展和巨大的收获。
想当初，领导把前台的管理交到我手上时，我也曾顾虑过，荣幸与不安在我心里激烈交撞。一方面是领导和同事们对我工作的认可让我倍感欣慰和值得，另一方面我也曾顾虑自己的年轻、经验、能力和性格能不能胜任，会不会辜负。但是从领导中的谈话给了我自信，我虽年轻，经验少，资历浅，可我不怕，因为我愿意学，愿意干，只要有这两样我就能在新工作、新岗位上学到新知识、积累新经验，有些人可能在部分工作中干的久了、顺手了，我从零开始，只要坚持在干中学，在学中干，不放弃，终有一日我也能达到。虽然我曾经也让部分领导觉得个性太强，不太“听话”，但是当我站在新的角色、新的身份上时，将心比心，换位思考，我对前台员工在接受工作时的态度多了一份包容，对安排工作时多了一份理解，彼此间加强沟通，寻找有效的方法和路径，更重要的是坚持以身作则、用能力去说服人，用善意去感化人，共同营造一个团结向上的集体。当我站在新的角色、新的身份上时，我要求自己用更加积极、主动和负责的方式去对待工作，以前我认为只要做好我自己的活儿就行了，但现在我得对整个前台对公司负责，倾心尽力地去教导和交流；虽然偶尔觉得很累，很不公平，也质疑自己是为了什么，但也及时地调整了心态，在
其位谋其政，这个心我必须地操下去，以一个能做事，敢负责的姿态体现出我个人的价值。
最后，我想说的是，上面只是我工作中取得的一点成绩，这与单位的领导和同事们的帮助是分不开的。我始终坚信一句话“一根火柴再亮，也只有豆大的光。但倘若用一根火柴去点燃一堆火柴，则会熊熊燃烧”。我希望用我亮丽的青春，去点燃周围每个人的激情，感召激励着同事们一起为我们的事业奉献、进取??
XX酒店：XXX
20xx年07月31日
篇二：20xx年个人
20xx年很快过去了，在这一年的时间里，我们G3营业厅经历了一次大的装修，将原先的营业厅打造成体验式营业厅，这意味着我们的工作将面临更大的挑战。这一年我认真履行好自已的工作职责，积极配合厅经理开展各项工作，现将这一年的工作做以下总结：
一、现场管理
今年，营业厅在人员布局方面都有了几次改变，为了保证营业厅能正常开展各项工作，对各个岗位都明确了工作职责，根据2012年服务暗访新标准对目前营业厅在服务规范中存在的薄弱环节，有针对性的整改。同时，加强每天的日常巡检工作，根据巡检表对当班员工进行管理，做到有据可依，提高员工的服务主动性，做到有问题早发现、早解决，让员工意识到服务的重要性，提升员工的专业服务能力。其次，我的现场管理能力还有所欠缺，虽然服务厅也制定了相关举措，但实施起来并不严谨，未能坚持下去，所以成效不大。“严一阵，松一阵”不利于管理和制度的实施。
二、基础管理
在这一年的工作中，我根据各项工作要求做好营业厅基础的管理，主要负责文件的整理与归档、安全生产管理、等，能够及时传达文件，与员工共同学习营销方案，做好营业厅安全生产防范工作，确保营业厅的财产安全，但偶尔不能及时整理文件和基
三、服务提升
营业厅作为移动公司的服务窗口，是客户与公司业务往来的一线平台，环境、设备、人员服务等，都是客户对公司服务的直接感知。G3厅作为新一代的体验式营业厅，提供业务体验、销售和售后服务一体化服务，这对员工的能力要求会更高。而G3厅的大部分员工均是90后的年新员工，她们个性鲜明、工作经验不足、主动学习能力较差。因此，在服务主动性和主动营销等方面均较薄弱，为了提高营业厅客户满意度，组织员工学习营销方法、服务规范、业务基础知识和G3终端功能介绍等，以此加强和巩固员工的业务知识和服务水平。根据一年的跟班情况，目前我厅的员工在处理投诉和解答咨询技巧有很大的欠缺和过分依赖值班经理，导致不能独立处理客户投诉。在即将到来的一年里，首先加强自己的业务知识和投诉处理技巧，并在日常工作中与员工共同讨论投诉案例和投诉技巧，进一步提升员工的能力，从而提高营业厅的客户满意度。
四、班组建设
根据20xx年班组建设计划，G3营业厅以“效率和效益”为导向、以“服务”为中心开展班组建设工作。但在这一年的班组建设工作中因我的工作经验不足而未能如火如荼的开展。在接下来20xx年里，积极总结经验，合理安排班组活动，提高全体员工的参与率，进一步发挥班组的作用。
20xx年，我会以此作为一个新的起点，在工作上更加努力、
勤奋。在厅经理的指导和各位伙伴的支持配合下，我会不断的总结经验，积极配合厅经理开展各项工作，为打造G3营业厅成为服务一流、业绩一流的目标而努力！
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20xx年1月4日
篇三：公司值班经理竞聘稿
亲爱的徐总，裘经理，各位领导，各位同事：
大家好！
首先，非常感谢公司给了我这样一个机会来 展现自己，我为能参加这次竞聘而感到非常自豪，今天我竞聘的是值班经理一职。我本着锻炼提高的目的走上讲台，展现自我，接受各位的评判。在座的各位大都是我成长经历中给我帮助和鼓励的良师益友，在大家的关心帮助下，我在在水一方走过了 将近半年的发展路程。在此，所有给过我帮助的领导和同事们，谢谢你们！
服务行业是第三产业的核心，洗浴行业是其中的一个窗口，但随着人们生活水平的提高，特别是北京这样的大城市，越来越多的人在满足于物质生活的同时，开始注重精神享受，洗浴行业，我们在水一方正好迎合了消费者的意向，为顾客提供了这样一种修身养性的环境。在日常经营中，除了正常接待，服务客人之外，难免会产生一些客人于公司之间的矛盾，投诉。这时候就需要有人——值班经理 站出来 协调人的关系和做好事务性工作。应热情服务，做到 以诚相待，以心换心，要 体现公司提出是我“以人为本 ”的基本理念，客人至上。“金杯银杯不如百姓口碑”这就要靠一点一滴细致工作赢得客户信赖，在消费者心中树立’在水一方‘的优秀品牌。重要的工作岗位激励人去奋斗，去创造成绩，成就辉煌！
我今天演讲的内容分为三个部分：
一、我的个人情况。
我叫石xx，来自山东省，88年出生，XX年开始从高校走向社会，一直从事服务行业，XX年进入中国移动，整整一年的移动生活让我见 到了形形色色的人和事，思想觉悟和为人处事都有了很大提高；XX年初加入我们在水一方这个大家庭，一直在男浴工作。我怀着对本岗位的无比热爱，努力向业务精通，经验丰富的领导和同事学习，从一个站行蹲姿都不标准的“外星人”到成为本部门一名合格的兵，一直到今天站在这里的我！
二、我的`竞聘优势
①我具有正直的品质，良好的个人修养和相对完善的工作作风。“做事先做人”这句话对一个服务员来说，对一个管理人员来说都是至关重要的；一个不称职的管理者只是件次品，而一个品质不好的管理者则是危险品，我的原则就是诚实，做事要对得起自己的良心
②我有 吃苦耐劳，勇于奉献的精神，在男浴的工作生活培养了我‘特别能吃苦，特别能忍耐，特别能奉献的’良好品质
③我有较强的上进心，自从工作以来，我不忘读书，理论联系实际，能够在遇到问题的时候多思考，多研究，不断给自己充电，努力把学到的，总结出来的东西运用到实际工作中去。
④我有较强的文字表达能力，我所写的4篇稿件中已经有3篇被集团公司采纳并在《在水一方时间》刊登
⑤我能够很好地跟同事处好关系，有很强的沟通能力。
当然，在肯定优势的同时，我也清楚的认识到了之自己存在的不足，最大的就是管理经验不足，我只是想通过一次又一次的挑战发现，改进我的不足，也是想通过我这样一名普通的员工向大家证明：在水一方人是开拓进取的，是敢于发出挑战，并迎接挑战的，我们是永远的挑战者！
不过我有信心，相信勤能补拙，凭我还年轻，凭我对新事物的接受能力，还有各位领导和同事的关心帮助和支持，我会克服困难，做好值班经理这一职位！
三、是对值班经理这一岗位的认识和我的工作设想。
作为值班经理，①必须了解公司的经营思路和方向，以公司标准为准绳，处理好横向与纵向的关系，用心服务。服务是在水一方的生命线，现在消费者是拿钞票当选票，服务质量就成了拉票的关键。②要想方设法提高员工的素质，员工素质上去了，服务质量也会跟着提升，进而达到增加效益的目的。③换位思考也是很重要的，
因为我们都是服务员，整天摆架子的谁看了都不会舒服，要用自己的实际行动做表率，“其身正，不令而行；其身不正，虽令不从；这句话告诫我们必须培养正气，以身示范。④最重要的就是要调动员工上班的积极性，做到快乐上班，热心服务，让整个营业区热起来！
如果竞聘成功，在以后的工作当中我会更进一步加强自身业务学习，不断提高自身素质，我想只要有强烈的责任心和事业心，我会很快适应这个工作岗位的。上岗后，我会以‘以人为本，注重效益，热情服务’的宗旨，努力做到‘准备到位，服务到位，巡查到位，处理到位’。我会在徐总的领导下，裘经理的具体指导下，团结在水一方的兄弟姐妹们，努力创造北京分公司的辉煌业绩！
最后，请允许我邀请在座的诸位领导和同事们和我一起，用最真诚最热烈的掌声为即将当选的各职位的同事表示祝福，为北京分公司祝福，为 在水一方祝福！
请大家记住我，我是石xx！
篇四：值班经理岗位职责
一、 建立值班制度的目的
酒店是一个不间断向顾客提供安全和服务保障的特殊行业，来不得一点大意。为了对客服务的全天候政令畅通、服务规范、处理问题及时。除正常的组织管理之外，需另设值班经理负责指挥日班之外的工作，以保证酒店运转始终处于良好状态。
二、 值班经理工作职责
1. 值班期间，确保手机24小时开机振动状态（保证手机电池电量充足），工作电话接听率100%；着工作装；并随身
携带对讲机
2. 值班时，应着酒店制服，并注意仪容、仪表。
3. 值班期间，有必要拜访一些常客，以了解客人对酒店的服务质量、服务设施、服务项目的要求和意见，并把了解的
情况记录在日志上。
4. 值班前和值班期间，尽量不饮用含酒精类饮料，也不要因工作外的事接待亲朋好友。
5. 值班期间巡视酒店各经营场所不少于规定次数(6次)，并将巡视检查的情况记录在日志上。
6. 不无故离店外出，如有特殊情况确需离店外出，需经上级批准，并把通讯方式和回店时间告知相关人员或部门。
7. 密切关注经营、运转情况，及时做好组织协调和服务工作。
8. 负责做好安全的预防工作，妥善处理酒店发生的治安问题。检查各安保岗、酒店各通道，以消除各种隐患，保证酒
店财务以及客人的人身财产安全。
9. 处理顾客的投诉。遇到顾客对酒店的投诉时，认真倾听并在工作日志上做好书面记录，无论对错都不做争执，并适
时适当站在客人立场上，以期尽快平息顾客。在考虑公司的利益得到最大保护的同时，可以适当的满足顾客的合理要求，以维护酒店的良好声誉。
10. 主动征求顾客的意见，对顾客的意见及时加以分析、处理，并采取预防措施，促进酒店优质服务的开展和质量的改
11. 维护整个酒店温馨祥和的营业气氛，督导各营业点摆设、灯光、背景音乐、服务质量等影响营业气氛的工作环节
12. 晨会上值班经理要对昨天的当班情况进行汇总说明，对检查过程中的不合格项进行评析，各部门负责人针对不合格
项提出整改措施，下一值班经理对其进行质量跟踪和落实。
13. 值班经理负责对各部门员工仪容仪表规范进行监督落实。
14. 今日重要宴会信息，今日有无计划内的可能对客人造成影响的事件如：停水、电、改建、装修、消防演习、工程
三、 值班内容
1.代表酒店全权负责酒店内经营管理中发生的问题，确保酒店经营管理工作正常进行。
2.突发事件的处理。值班工作是上传下达、传递信息的重要环节，对当值班发生的任何问题，接待任务和突发事件均应及时处理报告。
3.处理顾客投诉。当值班期间发生客人投诉，应谨慎行事，抱着实事求是的态度进行解决，并将处理结果做好记录。
4.巡视检查。对酒店各要害部位以及设施设备情况，如楼层、厨房、供热水系统、空调、消防等加强巡视检查，会同保安人员切实做好营业场所的安全保卫工作，注意防火工作。
4.员工的有声服务、仪容仪表及礼貌礼节规范进行纠正。
5.检查是否有常流水，常明灯现象，各区域的卫生情况。
四、值班经理权限
1、有权处理酒店突发事件，维护酒店利益不受损害。
2、有权协调各部门之间的关系，并接受和处理酒店内部员工投诉。
3、有权监督上岗员工的工作表现，对违纪员工有权按章予以处理，对工作中表现突出的员工，有权向相关部门建议给予物质或精神奖励。
4、有权审查和核批业务部门在岗最高人员权限以外的优惠、减免事宜。凡确属紧急情况须减免或优惠的，应做好详细记录并逐级汇报。
五、值班记录
值班要记录好值班时所处理的事项与问题和巡视时间。记录简明扼要、突出重点、文字通顺、字迹清楚。领导层嘱办的各种事务工作也应在值班记录中说明。在第二天的会议上汇报值班情况，责成相关部门整改。
六、值班标准
（一）公共区域
1、户外广告灯、霓虹灯、地灯、照明灯工作是否正常
2、烟缸是否整洁
3、鲜花、植物的新鲜程度及卫生状况是否符合标准
4、花盆内是否有垃圾及烟头
5、大厅地面光亮程度是否达标
6、大厅玻璃光亮程度及扶手光亮程度是否达标
7、公共洗手间的卫生是否达标
8、大厅活动告示牌是否整洁，摆放规范、无误：
（二）餐厅
1、开餐时是否有引座员引领、入座，有无个性的礼貌用语。
2、服务员在递菜单时有无敬语、姿势是否规范。
3、服务员是否推销、介绍食品菜肴及“今日特选”。
4、服务员是否重复点单。
5、点单后您等候多长时间上饮料、菜肴。
6、上菜时是否报菜名。
7、服务员是否主动巡台及时整理台面，撤换骨碟、烟缸。
8、是否征求您的意见。
9、饮料茶水快用完时，服务员是否主动添加。
10、结帐需等候多长时间。
11、如何评价您的用餐（意见卡的收集）。
12、离开餐厅时，是否有道别语。
13、对于老客户、长住客，是否提供针对性的服务。
（三）结帐高峰时在收银台巡视
1、收银员是否礼貌热情、微笑。
2、收银员是否准确迅速。
3、收银员是否坚守岗位。
4、收银员是否准备票据、零钱等。
5、交接班是否有序。
6、岗点卫生、台面是否整洁。
（四）宴会预订
1是否三声铃响内接听电话。
2、是否礼貌地称呼您。
3、是否仔细聆听您的预订要求。
4、是否主动向您推荐和介绍相关服务项目。
5、是否询问您的姓名。
6、是否询问您的特殊要求。
7、是否向您转述预订情况。
8、是否向您致谢。
（五）厨房
1、厨师个人卫生是否符合规定。
2、厨房的灭火器材是否完备。
3、灶具、厨具是否整洁卫生。
4、垃圾桶是否有袋并加盖使用。
5、生、熟食品是否分开存放。
6、工作台是否整洁，无食物残留物。
7、食品是否用货架存放。
8、厨房工作人员的卫生知识是否掌握。
9、工作结束是否按要求关好水、电、气。
(六)更衣室：更衣室卫生是否达到要求。
七、营运中的项目负责
1、背景音乐播放时间：11：00—13：30、17：00—20：30（由吧台人员负责）
2、灯光管制：大厅及外景观灯灯光（由吧台人员控制）要求根据天色和季节的不同及时开关： 夏 季开关灯时间：有宴席11：00—客人全部离开、17：00—客人全部离开（包括吊灯）
无宴席11：00—客人全部离开、17：00—客人全部离开
春秋冬季开关灯时间：11：00—客人全部离开、17：00—客人全部离开（包括吊灯）
（阴雨天视情况而定）
3、空调管制：有宴席11：00—12：30、17：00—18：30
无宴席11：30—13：00、17：30—19：00
（春秋季节视气温而定）
4.电子屏灯光管制：（上午开由预订员负责，晚上关和修改内容由吧台人员负责）
9：00—21：00
5、公共指示牌、告示牌、张贴均齐全并正确
6、告示牌和张贴上的内容都是当前公司正在举行的活动信息，没有将已经结束而过期的信息展示于众
7、公司的外围：路标、装饰灯、路灯、景观灯、车辆停放、外墙、门、窗、玻璃、垃圾箱均完好、整洁
8、所有灯光、公共区域空调在规定时间内按规定开关指定灯光及指定区域的空调
八、安全检查：
1、公司中部消防通道：没有障碍物、照明灯完好；
2、消防器材：全部摆放到位，可以随时使用；无安全隐患：门、挂件、吊灯等牢固；
3、地面滑时有警示牌；
4、设备维修有警示牌；
篇五：值班经理岗位职责
值班经理岗位职责：
[直属上级]：店长、店长助理
[直属下级]：前台服务员、客房主管、餐饮主管、安保人员、工程人员
[岗位职责]：协助店长对宾客服务、质量控制、培训考核、日常经营、内部管理等方
面实施管理和服务工作。包含前台服务员的全部工作内容。
[工作内容]：
日常服务和经营管理工作：
1. 包含前台服务员的全部工作内容。
2. 店长、店长助理不在酒店时，根据授权负责酒店运行管理；在客房主管和客房领班不在时，行使客房主管职责。
3. 协助并指导前台服务员按标准完成各项工作任务。
4. 检查员工日常工作中是否殷勤有礼、热情耐心、细致负责，仪表仪容是否达到酒店标准要求。
5. 控制房态，达到收益最大化，并亲自处理需要特殊安排的订房事宜。并在销售中陪同宾客参观客房和简要介绍酒店。
6. 掌握监控和酒店安全状况动态信息，发生安全和意外事件时，负责保护好现场，组织临时救护，立即报告店长。
7. 负责处理宾客对饭店接待服务和客房设施等方面的投诉，使宾客满意而归。超过职责权限，及时请示店长。
8. 主动征询和收集客人意见和建议。
9. 根据宾客需求和情况变化，随时做好酒店内人员调配工作，确保对客服务质量。
10. 检查餐厅环境和开市准备工作，负责餐厅在营业中的人力调配、服务质量和食品卫生，及时处理客人的投诉。
11. 加强财产管理和客用品管理，最大限度地减少物品损耗。
12. 检查VIP客人和特殊客人的用房，并及时反馈信息给客房主管，落实改进情况。按规定数目抽查客房质量。
13. 负责夜间审核，对各类折扣审批权限、发票、转帐单等凭证进行审核，并和实际房态及电脑帐目核对，实施电脑夜审过帐。
14. 负责对各处交来的宾客遗留物品进行登记、保管、领取工作。
15. 负责按照酒店各项应急方案，及时处理应急事件。
16. 负责酒店日常巡视，确保质量，负责酒店灯光管理（招牌、大堂、走道、餐厅）。
17. 按规范做好交接班工作，并及时落实交接工作。
18. 完成上级指派的各项工作。
行政管理工作：按照店长指派分工，完成相关的行政管理工作。
1. 负责前台客用印刷品、客用物品、餐厅餐具和设备、大堂所有设施设备的管理工作。及时补充前台消耗品和报修损坏设施。每月对前台和餐厅消耗品进行盘点及编制预算，制作相应报表交店长审核。
2. 负责宾客满意度的调查，相关测评表格按时要求上传公司。并根据公司质量检查项目进行酒店内部自查，每月提交质量检查报告交店长。
3. 负责根据业务情况和人员配备，每月汇总和审核编排的排班和考勤，并填写相应的排班明细表和考勤汇总表交店长。
4. 负责按时限要求对中宾登记单、临时住宿登记表、预订单、团队名单等客史资料和转帐单、保险箱使用记录等表单完整地归类、装订、分期保管。
5. 对消防器材和安全设施定期检查，做好监护工作，确保器材可用。
6. 根据店长的要求和分工，组织实施相关服务规范的日常培训和督导工作。
散文名篇fame，大家是否比较陌生的呢。它是一篇英文的散文。fame声誉中英对照课文翻译，我们来看看。
英文散文佳作赏析：Fame 声誉
Fame is very much like an animal chasing its own tail who, when he captures it, does not know what else to do but to continue chasing it. Fame and the delighting popularity that accompanies it, force the famous person to participate in his or her own destruction.
声誉很像一只追逐自己尾巴的动物，当它抓住了自己的尾巴后，除了再继续追逐外再不知做什么。声誉与令人兴奋的知名度相生相伴，从而使名人走向毁灭。
Those who gain fame most often gain it as a result of possessing a single talent or skill: singing, dancing, painting, or writing, etc. The successful performer develops a style that is marketed aggressively and gains some popularity.
那些声名鹊起之人多半是由于有一技之长；唱歌、跳舞、绘画或写作等。一个成功的表演者发展了一种雄踞市场的风格因而受到欢迎。
And it is this popularity that usually convinces the performer to continue performing in the same style, since that is what the public seems to want and to enjoy. But in time, the performer becomes bored singing the same songs in the same way year after year, or the painter becomes bored painting similar scenes or portraits, or the actor is tired of playing the same character repeatedly.
正是由于这种受欢迎程度才使得他继续保持这种风格，因为这种风格是大众所需要和喜爱的。但最终，歌手为年复一年地以同样的方式唱同样的歌而感到心烦，画家为画类似的风景人物而感到厌倦，演员为反复演同样的角色而疲惫不堪。
The demand of the public holds the artist hostage to his or her own success, fame. If the artist attempts to change his or her style of writing or dancing or singing, etc. the audience may turn away and look to confer changeable fame which is passing quickly on another.
公众的需求使得艺术家们固守自己的名誉。若他们企图改变自己的写作风格、唱腔、舞步等，则听众、观众便会离去，把稍纵即逝的名誉给予他人。
I believe that fame and celebrity, influence and power, success and failure, reality and illusion are all somehow neatly woven into a seamless fabric we laughingly call reality. I say to those who desperately seek fame and fortune, celebrity: good luck.
我相信名誉和声望、影响和权力、成功与失败，现实和幻想都以某种方法整齐地编织在山张无缝隙的织缎中，即我们所笑称的现实。我对那些拼命寻求名誉、财富和声望的人说：祝你好运。
But what will you do when you have caught your tail, your success, and your fame? Keep chasing it? If you do catch it, hang on for dear life because falling is not as painful as landing. See you soon famous and almost famous.
但当你抓住自己的尾巴、获得成功和赢得名誉之后你又能做什么呢?继续追逐名利吗?如果你确实抓住的话，千万抓紧了，因为下坠与落地的痛楚不一样。祝你很快成名或差不多成名!
散文英译汉佳作赏析：我父亲的音乐
My Father's Music
我父亲的音乐
by Wayne Kalyn
韦恩凯林
I remember the day Dad first lugged the heavy accordion up our front stoop, taxing his small frame. He gathered my mother and me in the living room and opened the case as if it were a treasure chest. "Here it is," he said. "Once you learn to play, it'll stay with you for life."
记得有一天，身材瘦小的父亲背着一架沉重的手风琴，费力地走到前门廊。他把妈妈和我叫进厅里，打开了那只盒子，好象那是一个百宝箱似的。“就这个，”他说，“你一旦学会，它将伴随你一生。”
If my thin smile didn't match his full-fledged grin, it was because I had prayed for a guitar or a piano. For the next two weeks, the accordion was stored in the hall closet. Then one evening Dad announced that I would start lessons the following week. In disbelief I shot my eyes toward Mom for support. The firm set of her jaw told me I was out of luck.
如果说我勉强的微笑与他发自内心的笑容不和谐的话，那是因为我一直想要一把吉他或一架钢琴。随后的两个星期，那架手风琴一直放在大厅的橱子里。一天晚上，爸爸宣布下周我开始上琴课。疑惑中，我把视线急忙投向妈妈求助。她紧绷的下巴告诉我：我倒运了。
Spending $300 for an accordion and $5 per lesson was out of character for my father. He was practical always － something he learned growing up on a Pennsylvania farm. Clothes, heat and sometimes even food were scarce.
花300元买一架手风琴，每次上课再花3美元，这可不像父亲的作风。他一直是很实际的——这是他在宾夕法尼亚农场成长过程中学来的。那时候，衣服、暖气，有时甚至连食物都短缺。
Dad was a supervisor in a company that serviced jet engines. Weekends, he tinkered in the cellar, turning scraps of plywood into a utility cabinet or fixing a broken toy with spare parts. Quiet and shy, he was never more comfortable than when at his workbench.
爸爸是一家为喷气式飞机引擎提供服务的公司的主管。周末，他在地下室里修修补补，把胶合板的边角料做成一个实用的小柜子，或者用一些零件把坏了的玩具修好。他不喜张扬，不爱说话。最让他感到舒服的，莫过于在工作台旁边。
Only music carried Dad away from his world of tools and projects. On a Sunday drive, he turned the radio on immediately. At red lights, I'd notice his foot tapping in time. He seemed to hang on every note.
只有音乐会让爸爸远离他的工具和计划的世界。一个星期天驾车外出，一上车他就打开了收音机。遇到红灯时，我注意到他的脚在打着拍子，似乎能跟得上每一个节拍。
Still, I wasn't prepared when, rummaging in a closet, I found a case that looked to me like a tiny guitar's. Opening it, I saw the polished glow of a beautiful violin. "It's your father's," Mom said. "His parents bought it for him. I guess he got too busy on the farm to ever learn to play it." I tried to imagine Dad's rough hands on this delicate instrument － and couldn't.
然而，我还是没有思想准备，那是我在橱子里翻找东西时，发现一只像是装小吉它的盒子。打开一看，是一把锃亮的、漂亮的小提琴。“那是你爸爸的，”妈妈说。“他父母给他买的。我想他在农场里太忙了，没有时间学。”我试图想象爸爸粗糙的双手放在这精致的乐器上的情景——无法想象。
Shortly after, my lessons began with Mr. Zelli. On my first day, with straps straining my shoulders, I felt clumsy in every way. "How did he do?" my father asked when it was over. "Fine for the first lesson," said Mr. Zelli. Dad glowed with hope.
不久，泽利先生开始教我拉手风琴。第一天，手风琴背带压着我的肩膀，我感到浑身不自在。“他学得怎么样？”结束时，父亲问。“第一堂课，这已经很不错。”泽利先生说。爸爸眼中闪着希望的光芒。
I was ordered to practice half an hour every day, and every day I tried to get out of it. My future seemed to be outside playing ball, not in the house mastering songs I would soon forget. But my parents hounded me to practice.
爸爸命令我每天练半个小时，可每天我都想赖掉。我的将来似乎应在户外打球，而不是在屋内练那些很快就会忘掉的曲子。然而父母不断地督促我练习。
Gradually, to my surprise, I was able to string notes together and coordinate my hands to play simple songs. Often, after supper, my father would request a tune or two. As he sat in his easy chair, I would fumble through "Lady of Spain" and "Beer Barrel Polka."
渐渐地，让我吃惊的是，我竟然能把几个音符连起来了。手指的协调性也好点了，还能拉出几首简单的曲子。晚饭后，父亲常常会要我拉上一、两首曲子。他躺在安乐椅里，我则笨拙地拉完“西班牙女郎”和“啤酒桶波尔卡”。
"Very nice, better than last week," he'd say. Then I would follow into a medley of his favorites, "Red River Valley" and "Home on the Range," and he would drift off to sleep, the newspaper folded on his lap. I took it as a compliment that he could relax under the spell of my playing.
他会说，“不错，比上星期好，”然后我会接着拉他喜欢的曲子“红河谷”和“山上的家”。听着听着，他慢慢睡着了，报纸叠在腿上。我把这看作是一种赞扬：他能在我美妙的演奏中放松。
One July evening I was giving an almost flawless rendition of "Come Back to Sorrento," and my parents called me to an open window. An elderly neighbor, rarely seen outside her house, was leaning against our car humming dreamily to the tune. When I finished, she smiled broadly and called out, "I remember that song as a child in Italy. Beautiful, just beautiful."
七月的'一个傍晚，我正在拉“重回索联托”，拉得几乎完美无缺。父母突然把我叫到窗前。一位极少出门、上了年纪的老邻居，正靠在我们的车旁，跟着曲子沉醉地哼唱着。当我拉完时，她咧开嘴笑了，大声说：“小时候在意大利我听到过这首歌曲，我还记得。太棒了，真是棒极了。
”Throughout the summer, Mr. Zelli's lessons grew more difficult. It took me a week and a half to master them now. All the while I could hear my buddies outside playing heated games of stickball. I'd also hear an occasional taunt; "Hey, where's your monkey and cup?"
整个夏天，泽利先生的课越来越难。现在要一个半星期才能掌握。练琴时，我总是听到伙伴们在外面玩棍球的嬉闹声。偶尔还听到奚落：“嗨，你的猴子和奖杯哪里去了？
”Such humiliation paled, though, beside the impending fall recital. I would have to play a solo on a local movie theater's stage. I wanted to skip the whole thing. Emotions boiled over in the car one Sunday afternoon. "I don't want to play a solo." I said. "You have to," replied my father.
不过，这种羞辱与即将来临的秋季演奏会相比，算不得什么。我得在当地一家影剧院舞台上独奏一曲。我想逃避这一切。一个星期天的下午，不满的情绪终于在车上爆发了。“我不想独奏，”我说。“你必须去，”父亲说。
"Why?" I shouted. "Because you didn't get to play your violin when you were a kid? Why should I have to play this stupid instrument when you never had to play yours?"Dad pulled the car over and pointed at me. "Because you can bring people joy. You can touch their hearts. That's a gift I won't let you throw away." He added softly, "Someday you'll have the chance I never had: you'll play beautiful music for your family. And you'll understand why you've worked so hard."
“为什么？”我叫了起来。“就因为你小时候没能拉上小提琴？你从来不用拉琴，我为什么必须拉那笨重的玩意？”爸爸把车开到路边，手指着我。“因为你能给人们带来快乐。你能拨动他们的心弦。我不会让你放弃这份才能。”爸爸又心平气和地说：“有一天你会有我从未有过的机会：你能为你的全家弹奏美妙的音乐。那时你会明白，如此努力到底是为什么。”
I was speechless. I had rarely heard Dad speak with such feeling about anything, much less the accordion. From then on, I practiced without my parents’ making me.
我不吱声了。我很少听到爸爸如此语重心长地跟我谈事情，更不用说是为了拉手风琴的事。从那以后，我练琴再也不用父母盯着。
The evening of the concert Mom wore glittery earrings and more makeup than I could remember. Dad got out of work early, put on a suit and tie, and slicked down his hair with Vitalis. They were ready an hour early, so we sat in the living room chatting nervously. I got the unspoken message that playing this one song was a dream come true for them.
音乐会那天晚上，妈妈戴上了亮闪闪的耳环，精心打扮一番；爸爸也早早下班回家，穿上西装，系上领带，头上抹了瓦特里斯，油亮亮的。他们提前一个小时就准备好了，我们就坐在厅里，紧张地谈论着。我感觉到，上台演奏这首曲子是他们要实现的一个梦想。
At the theater nervousness overtook me as I realized how much I wanted to make my parents proud. Finally, it was my turn. I walked to the lone chair on stage and performed "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" without a mistake. The applause spilled out, with a few hands still clapping after others had stopped. I was lightheaded, glad my ordeal was over.
在剧场里，当我意识到我是多么想让父母感到骄傲时，我极为紧张。最后，终于轮到我了。我走向舞台中央的那张椅子，演奏了一曲“今晚你孤独吗？”，一个音符也没拉错。顿时，掌声四起，难以停息。我 头有点晕晕的，庆幸我的苦难终于结束。
After the concert Mom and Dad came backstage. The way they walked － heads high, faces flushed － I knew they were pleased. My mother gave me a big hug. Dad slipped an arm around me and held me close. "You were just great," he said. Then he shook my hand and was slow to let it go.
音乐会后，爸妈来到后台。他们走路的样子，昂着头，精神焕发--我知道他们很开心。妈妈紧紧地抱住我。爸爸伸出一只手臂，牢牢地搂住我：“你太棒了。”说完，他使劲地握着我的手，不愿松开。
As the years went by, the accordion drifted to the background of my life. Dad asked me to play at family occasions, but the lessons stopped. When I went to college, the accordion stayed behind in the hall closet next to my father's violin.
随着岁月的流逝，那架手风琴渐渐退至我生活的幕后。只有在家庭聚会上，爸爸还会让我拉上一曲。但是风琴课不再上了。我上大学时，那架手风琴放进厅里的壁橱，在爸爸的小提琴旁边。
A year after my graduation, my parents moved to a house in a nearby town. Dad, at 51, finally owned his own home. On moving day, I didn't have the heart to tell him that he could dispose of the accordion, so I brought it to my own home and put it in the attic.
大学毕业后一年，父母搬到附近城镇的一栋房子。爸爸在他五十一岁那年终于拥有了自己的家。搬家那天，我不忍 心告诉他，说他可以处理那架手风琴，于是我把它带回自己家，放在阁楼上。
There it remained, a dusty memory, until one afternoon several years later when my two children discovered it by accident. Scott thought it was a secret treasure; Holly thought a ghost lived inside. They were both right.
手风琴一直放在那里，成了尘封的记忆。直到几年后的一个下午，我的两个孩子偶然发现了它。斯科特认为这是一件秘密宝藏。霍莉则认为里面住着一个幽灵。他俩都对。
When I opened the case, they laughed and said, "Play it, play it." Reluctantly, I strapped on the accordion and played some simple songs. I was surprised my skills hadn't rusted away. Soon the kids were dancing in circles and giggling. Even my wife, Terri, was laughing and clapping to the beat. I was amazed at their unbridled glee.
我打开盒子时，他们笑了，叫道“拉一曲，拉一曲。”我不情愿地背上琴带，拉了几只简单的曲子。真没想到，我拉起来还是那么娴熟。很快，孩子们围成圈跳起来，咯咯地笑个不停。甚至连我妻子特丽也笑了，打着拍子。看着他们纵情欢笑，我感到惊异。
My father's words came back to me: "Someday you'll have the chance I never had, Then you'll understand." I finally knew what it meant to work hard and sacrifice for others. Dad had been right all along: the most precious gift is to touch the hearts of those you love. Later I phoned Dad to let him know that, at long last, I understood. Fumbling for the right words, I thanked him for the legacy it took almost 30 years to discover. "You're welcome," he said, his voice choked with emotion.
我的耳边回响起父亲说过的话：“有一天你会有我从未有过的机会，那时你会明白的。”我终于明白，去努力，去为别人作出牺牲意味着什么。爸爸始终是对的：最珍贵的礼物莫过于打动你所爱的人的心。后来，我给爸爸去电话，告诉他我终于懂了。我笨嘴拙舌地找寻合适的词语，为他给我的宝贵财富表示感谢，这财富我花了差不多三十年才发现。“不用谢，”他激动得说不出话来。
Dad never learned to coax sweet sounds from his violin. Yet he was wrong to think he would never play for his family. On that wonderful evening, as my wife and children laughed and danced, they heard my accordion. But it was my father's music.
爸爸从未学过从他的小提琴上拉出美妙的声音。但是他以为自己永远不会为家人弹奏音乐，这种想法是错的。那个美妙的夜晚，我的妻子、孩子欢歌笑舞，他们听到的是我的手风琴，但，那却是我父亲的音乐。
英译汉散文佳作赏析：什么叫朋友
A Faraway Friend is someone you grew up with or went to school with or lived in the same town as until one of you moved away. Without a Faraway Friend, you would never get any mail addressed in handwriting. A Faraway Friend calls late at night, invites you to her wedding, always says she is coming to visit but rarely shows up. An actual visit from a Faraway Friend is a cause for celebration and binges of all kinds.
远方的朋友是这样的一个人：和你从小一同长大的，或者是同学，或者和你原本住在同一个镇上，后来你们中的一人搬到了别处。没有一位远方的朋友，你连一封手写的信都收不到。远方的朋友会半夜打来电话，邀请你去参加她的婚礼，她总是说要来看你，却很少露面。要是真的来访，那才叫“不亦乐乎”，各种名目的狂欢可就有了理由。
Faraway friends go through phases of intense communication, then maybe out of touch for many months. Either way, the connection is always there. A conversation with your Faraway Friend always helps to put your life in perspective: When you feel you’ve hit a dead end, come to a confusing fork in the road, or gotten lost in some cracker-box subdivision of your life, the advice of the Faraway Friend — who has the big picture, who is so well acquainted with the route that brought you to this place — is indispensable.
两个远方的朋友会经历密切交流的阶段，接下来或许几个月都不联系。但无论联系与否，友谊永远不会改变。与远方的朋友一席长谈，总是有助于你更好地认识生活；当你觉得自己走入了死胡同时，当你面对岔路而不知所措时，来自远方朋友的忠告就越发不可或缺，她看得清大局，完全了解你是怎么走到这一步的。
Another useful function of the Faraway Friend is to help you remember things from a long time ago, like the name of your seventh-grade history teacher, what was in that really good stir-fry, or exactly what happened that night on the boat with the guys from Florida.
远方的朋友还有一个益处，就是能让你记起很久以前的事情，比如七年级历史老师的名字，那盘炒菜里究竟什么东西那么好吃，或者那天晚上在船里和佛罗里达来的男孩子们都干了些什么。
Ah, the former friend. A sad thing. At best a wistful memory, at worst a dangerous enemy who is in possession of many of your deepest secrets. But what was it that drove you apart? A misunderstanding, a betrayed confidence, an underpaid loan, an ill-conceived flirtation. A poor choice of spouse can do in a friendship just like that. Going into business together can be a serious mistake. Time, money, distance, cult religions: all noted friendship killers. You quit doing drugs, you’re not such good friends with your dealer anymore.
啊，从前的朋友。让人忧伤的事情。好了的话是一段伤感的记忆，不好的话你有一个危险的敌人，而且对你许多最隐秘的事情都了如指掌。可究竟是什么把你们分开的呢？一个误解，一个被泄露的秘密，一笔没有偿还的借款，一次有欠考虑的轻俏之举。择偶不慎也会使友谊分崩离析；一起做生意会成为一个严重的错误；时间、金钱、距离、宗教狂热，这都是耳熟能详的友谊杀手。如同一旦你戒了毒，你就不再是你供货商的好朋友了。
And lest we forget, there are the Friends You Love to Hate. They call at inopportune times. They say stupid things. They butt in, they boss you around, they embarrass you in public. They invite themselves over. They take advantage. You’ve done the best you can, but they need professional help. On top of all this, they love you to death and are convinced they’re your best friends on the planet.
而且我们别忘了：还有些朋友，你喜欢恨他们。他们在不适当的时候打电话，他们蠢话连篇，他们胡乱插手你的事情，他们把你指使得团团乱转，他们总是占尽了你的便宜。你已经尽了最大的努力，可他们需要的其实是专业人员的帮助。这一切之外，他们还爱你爱得要死要活，深信他们是你在这个世界上最好的朋友。
So why do you continue to be involved with these people? Why do you tolerate them? On the contrary, the real question is what would you do without them. Without Friends You Love to Hate, there would be nothing to talk about with your other friends. Their problems and their irritating stunts provide a reliable source of conversation for everyone they know.
那么你又为什么继续和他们打交道呢？为什么要容忍他们呢？反过来说，真正的问题是：没有他们你行吗？没有这些你宁可去憎恨的朋友，你和你别的朋友也就无话可说了。他们的缺陷和他们恼人的噱头，为他们认识的每一个人都提供了源源不断的谈资。
What’s more, Friends You Love to Hate make you feel good about yourself, since you are obviously in so much better shape than they are. No matter what these people do, you will never get rid of them. As much as they need you, you need them, too.
此外，他们还能使你对自己感觉良好，因为你的状况显然比他们好得太多。不管他们做出什么事情来，你绝对不愿摆脱他们。你对他们的需要，和他们对你的需要可谓不相上下呢。
At the other end of the spectrum are Hero Friends. These people are better than the rest of us, that’s all there is to it. Their career is something you wanted to be when you grew up — painter, forest ranger, tireless doer of good.
与此相反的另一个极端则是那些令人艳羡的朋友。他们比我们这些人都更出色，有这一点就够了。他们的事业就是你长大后的追求——画家、护林人，不知疲倦的行善者。
They have beautiful homes filled with special handmade things presented to them by villagers in the remote areas they have visited in their extensive travels. Yet they are modest. They never gossip. They are always helping others, especially those who have suffered a death in the family or an illness. You would think people like this would just make you sick, but somehow they don’t.
他们拥有漂亮的房子，里面满是手工做的奇特玩意儿，都是他们周游世界时到过的边远地区的村民总送给他们的。可他们依旧待人谦和。他们从不饶舌。他们总是去帮助别人，特别是那些遭受丧失亲人之痛或疾病折磨的人。你会认为这种人只能让你厌倦，可他们偏偏不是那样。
A new friend is a tonic unlike any other. Say you meet her at a party. In your bowling league. At a Japanese conversation class, perhaps. Wherever, whenever, there’s that spark of recognition. The first time you talk, you can’t believe how much you have in common. Suddenly, your life story is interesting again, your insights fresh, your opinion valued. Your various shortcomings are as yet completely invisible.
新的朋友是一剂无可比拟的良药。也许你是在一次聚会上结识她的，也许是在保龄球俱乐部里，也许是日语会话课上。无论何处，无论何时，只因为擦出了那钟惺惺相惜的火花。你简直无法相信你们有这么多共同点，而且只是第一次交谈。突然间，你的经历又变得有趣了，你的见识不同凡响，你的意见也倍受重视。你各式各样的缺点一时间也完全消失不见了。
散文英译汉佳作赏析：培根《论养生》
Of Regiment of Health
论养生
There is a wisdom in this, beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
养生有道，非医学底规律所能尽。一个人自己的观察，他对于何者有益何者有害于自己的知识，乃是最好的保健药品。
But it is a safer conclusion to say; this agreeth not well with me, therefore I will not continue it; than this; I fmd no offence of this, therefore I may use it. For strength of nature in youth passeth over many excesses, which are owing a man till his age. Discern of the coming on of years, and think not, to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.
但是在下断语的时候，如果说：“这个与我底身体不合，因此我要戒它”，比说：“这个好象于我没有什么害处，因此我要用它”较为安全得多。因为少壮时代底天赋的强力可以忍受许多纵欲的行为，而这些行为是等于记在账上，到了老年的时候，是要还的。留心你底年岁底增加，不要永远想做同一的事情，因为年岁是不受蔑视的。
Beware of sudden change in any great point of diet, and if necessity enforce it, fit the rest to it. For it is a secret, both in nature, and state; that it is safer to change many things, than one. Examine thy customs, of diet, sleep, exercise, apparel, and the like; and try in anything thou shall judge hurtful, to discontinue it by little and little; but so, as if thou doest fmd any inconvenience by the change, thou come back to it again: for it is hard to distinguish, that which is generally held good, and wholesome, from that, which is good particularly, and fit for thine own body.
在饮食底重要部分上不可骤然变更，如果不得已而变更的话，则别的部分也须要变更，以便配合得宜。因为在自然的事体和国家的事务上都有一种秘诀，就是变一事不如变多事的安全。把你平日饮食、睡眠、运动、衣服、等等的习惯自省一下，并且把其中你认为有害的习惯试行逐渐戒绝，但是其办法应当这样，如果你由这种变更而感觉不适的时候，就应当回到原来的习惯去；因为把一般认为有益卫生的习惯和于个人有益，于你自己底身体适合的习惯分别起来是不容易的。
To be free minded, and cheerfully disposed, at hours of meat, and of sleep, and of exercise, is one of the best precepts of long lasting. As for the passions and studies of the mind; avoid envy; anxious fears; anger fretting inwards; subtle and knotty inquisitions; joys, and exhilarations in excess; sadness not communicated.
在吃饭、睡觉、运动的时候，心中坦然，精神愉快，乃是长寿底最好秘诀之一。至于心中的情感及思想，则应避嫉妒，焦虑，压在心里的怒气，奥秘难解的研究，过度的欢乐，暗藏的悲哀。
Entertain hopes; mirth rather than joy; variety of delights, rather than surfeit of them; wonder, and admiration, and therefore novelties; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. If you fly physic in health altogether, it will be too strange for your body, when you shall need it If you make it too familiar, it will work no extraordinary effect, when sickness cometh. I commend rather some diet, for certain seasons, than frequent use of physic, except it be grown into a custom.
应当长存着的是希望，愉快，而非狂欢；变换不同的乐事，而非过餍的乐事；好奇与仰慕，以保有新鲜的情趣；以光辉灿烂的事物充满人心的学问，如历史、寓言、自然研究皆是也。如果你在健康的时候完全摒弃医药，则到了你需要它的时候将感觉医药对于你底身体过于生疏不惯。如果你平日过于惯用医药，则疾病来时，医药将不生奇效。窃以为与其常服药饵，不如按季节变更食物，除非服药已经成了一种习惯。
For those diets alter the body more, and trouble it less. Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it In sickness, respect health principally; and in health, action.
因为那些不同的食物是可以变更体气而不扰乱它的。对于身体上任何新的症候都不可小视，须要向人求教。
For those that put their bodies to endure in health, may in most sickness, which are not very sharp, be cured only with diet, and tendering.
在病中，主要的是注意健康；在健康的时候，主要的是注意活动。因为那平日使自己底身体习于劳动的人在大多数不很厉害的疾病中只要节饮食，多调养，就可以好了。
Celsus could never have spoken it as a physician, had he not been a wise man withal, when he giveth it, for one of the great precepts of health and lasting, that a man do vary, and interchange contraries; but with an inclination to the more benign extreme: use fasting, and full eating, but rather full eating; watching and sleep, but rather sleep;sitting, and exercise, but rather exercise; and the like.
塞尔撒斯教人养生长寿之道，最要的一端就是一个人应当把各种相反的习惯都变换着练习练习，但是在轻重之间却应当稍重那有益于人的一端；禁食与饱食都应当练习，但是宁可稍重饱食；警醒与睡眠都应当练习，但是宁可偏尚睡眼；安坐与运动都应当练习，但是宁可着重运动；诸如此类。
So shall nature be cherished, and yet taught masteries. Physicians are some of them so pleasing, and conformable to the humour of the patient, as they press not the true cure of the disease; and some other are so regular, in proceeding according to art, for the disease, as they respect not sufficiently the condition of the patient Take one of a middle temper, or if it may not be found in one man, combine two of either sort: and forget not to call, as well the best acquainted with your body, as the best reputed of for his faculty.
塞尔撒斯要不是一位医生而兼哲人的话，专以医生底身分他是永不会说出这种话来的。如他所说的办法，将使天生的体质既可以得滋养又可以增力量也。医生之中有些是对于病人底脾气很纵容迁就的，以致不能迅收治疗之效；又有些人则是照治病底学理行事，十分谨严，以致对于病者底实情不充分注重。选择医生的时候顶好请一位性情适中的；或者，如果一个人没有这样的性情的时候，则在两种人里各取其一而调和之。又在请医生的时候，固然要请那出名的好医生，也不可忘了请那个最熟悉你底体格的医生也。
汉译英散文佳作赏析：冯骥才《西式幽默》
西式幽默
Western Humour
冯骥才
Feng Jicai
学院请来一位洋教师，长得挺怪，红脸，金发，连鬓大胡须，有几根胡子一直逾过面颊，挨近鼻子，他个子足有二米，每迸屋门必须低头，才能躲过门框子的拦击，叫人误以为他进门先鞠躬，这不太讲究礼貌了吗？
Our institute employed an English teacher. He looked very strange red-faced, golden-haired, with a thick growth of whiskers that reached all the way to the nose. He was really tall-- no less than six foot five. When he came in through the door, he had to lower his head to avoid banging against the door frame. It looked as though he always bowed to you at the door and that was much too polite.
顶怪的是，他每每与中国学生聊天，聊到可笑之处时，他不笑，脸上也没表情，好象他不喜欢玩笑；可是有时毫不可笑的事，他会冷不防放声大笑，笑得翻江倒海，仰面朝天，几平连人带椅子要翻过去，喉结在脖子上乱跳，满脸胡子直抖。常使中国学生面面相觑，不知这位洋教师的神经是不是有点问题？
What was more, he never laughed, when he chatted with his Chinese students on amusing stories, nor did his face show any expression as if he knew no sense of humour. However, when it came to topics of the most dull nature, he would burst into uncontrollable laughter, roaring while rocking in his chair, almost falling flat on his back, his Adam's apple dancing up and down in his throat and his whiskers fluttering all over his face. The students would then look at each other, wondering if he was in his right mind.
一天，洋教师出题，考察学生们用洋文作文的水准，题目极简单，随便议论议论校园内的一事一物，褒贬皆可。中国学生很灵，一挥而就，洋教师阅后。评出了最佳作文一篇，学生们听后大为不解，这种通篇说谎的文章怎么能被评为“最佳”？
One day he set the students an essay to see how well they could write in English, the topic being A Comment on Life on the Campus-it her complimentary or critical. That was simple. And his students, quick at writing, finished it at one go and turned it in no time. He went through the papers and picked one that he thought the best. When he read it out to the students, they were greatly perplexed. Of all the comments, why did he like this one best, Not a single word of it was true.
原来这篇作文是写学校食堂。写作文的学生来自郊区农村，人很老实，胆子又小, 生伯得罪校方，妨碍将来毕业时的分数、评语、分配工作等等，便不顾真假，胡编乱造，竭力美化，唱赞歌。使得一些学生看后惯惯然。可是……洋教师明知学校食堂糟糕透顶的状况，为什么偏要选这篇作文？有人直问洋教师。
It was about the campus cafeteria and the author was a peaceable and timid guy from a village near the town. In order not to offend the school authorities -- a decisive factor: concerning his final grading, evaluation and, above; all, where he was to go after graduation -- he had made up a high-sounding story in praise of the cafeteria regardless of reality, thus making his ClaSS- mates very angry. The teacher was as well aware of the cafeteria's terrible conditions, but why should this piece in particular have appealed to him so much, Someone asked.
洋教师说：“这文章写得当然好，而且绝妙无比。你们听一一”他拿起作文念起来，“我们学校最美的地方，不是教室，不是操场，也不是校门口那个带喷水的小花坛，而是食堂。瞧，玻璃干净得几乎叫你看不到它的存在——。”洋教师念到这儿，眼睛调皮地一亮，眉毛一挑，“听听，多么幽默！”
"This is undoubtedly a good one,'' the teacher insisted. "Unprecedentedly good! Just listen --" He began to read. "'The most beautiful spot on campus is not the Classrooms, nor the sports ground, nor the small lawn with a fountain at the school gate; it is our cafeteria. Look! The windows are so clean , that you scarcely notice any glass on them' --" "He paused, his eyes flashing with a glint of humour and his brows shooting upward. "Listen! Isn't it humorous?"
幽默？怎么会是幽默大家还没弄明白。
Humorous? But what was humorous about it? The students were hard put to it.
洋教师接着念道：“如果你不小心在学校食堂跌了一跤，你会惊奇地发现你并没跌跤，因为你身上半点尘上也没留下；如果你长期在学校食堂里工作，恐怕你会把苍蝇是什么样子都忘了……”洋教师又停住，舌头“得”地弹一声，做一个怪脸说，“听呀，还要多幽默，我简直笑得念不下去了。”
"If you were not careful enough,'" the teacher read on, '"and had a fall on the floor, you would be amazed to find that you had not fallen at all because you did not get a single particle of dust on your clothes. If you had worked in the cafeteria long enough, you would have forgotten what a fly looks like ... " He paused again, his tongue clicking admiration. Working up a very funny expression on his face, he went on, "Listen, please! Could anyone else have made it more humorous?" He laughed so hard that he could scarcely continue.
学生们忽然明白了什么。
By now the students seemed to be cottoning on.
洋教师一边笑，一边继续往下念：“食堂天天的饭菜有多么精美、多么丰富、多么解馋！只有在学校食堂里，你才会感到吃饭是一种地道的享受……”
The teacher went on his reading punctuated by fits of laughter ."How wonderfully is the food cooked here! What a great variety of dishes you have here and how well your appetite is satisfied! In fact it is only at the cafeteria of the institute that you eating enjoyable...."
散文汉译英佳作赏析：老舍《小麻雀》
小麻雀
A Little Sparrow
Lao She
雨后，院里来了个麻雀，刚长全了羽毛。它在院里跳，有时飞一下，不过是由地上飞到花盆沿上，或由花盆上飞下来。看它这么飞了两三次，我看出来：它并不会飞得再高一些。，它的左翅的几根长翎拧在一处，有一根特别的长，似乎要脱落下来。
As soon as the rain stopped, a little sparrow, almost full-fledged, flew into the courtyard. It hopped, fluttered, darting up to the edge of flower pots and back to the ground again. Watching it move up and down a couple of times, I realized drat it could not fly any higher as the plumes on its left wing had got twisted with one sticking out as if about to come off.
我试着往前凑，它跳一跳，可是又停住，看着我，小黑豆眼带出点要亲近我又不完全信任的神气。我想到了：这是个熟鸟，也许是自幼便养在笼中的。所以它不十分怕人。可是它的左翅也许是被养着它的或别个孩子给扯坏，所以它爱人，又不完全信任。
When I made an attempt to move closer, it jumped off a hit and stopped again, staring back at me with its small, black and bean-like eyes that had a mixed look of wanting to be friends with me and not being certain that I was trustworthy. It occurred to me that this must be a tame bird, having been caged since it was hatched perhaps. No wonder it was not much scared of my presence. Its left wing might have been impaired by some kid and that was why there was distrust in its look though it showed some intimacy with man.
想到这个，我忽然的很难过。一个飞禽失去翅膀是多么可怜。这个小鸟离了人恐怕不会活，可是人又那么狠心，伤了它的翎羽。它被人毁坏了，而还想依靠人，多么可怜!
Suddenly I was seized with sadness. How miserable it was for a bird to lose its wings! Without someone taking care of it this small thing could not survive. But man had injured its wing. How cruel he was! Injured as it was, it still wanted to rely on man. How pitiable!
它的眼带出进退为难的神情，虽然只是那么个小而不美的小鸟，它的举动与表情可露出极大的委屈与为难。它是要保全它那点生命，而不晓得如何是好。对它自己与人都没有信心，而又愿找到些倚靠。它跳一跳，停一停，看着我，又不敢过来。
The look in its eyes showed that She little creature was of two minds. It was small and by no means pretty, yet its gestures and expressions revealed that it had been wronged and landed in a difficult situation. It was anxious to keep its delicate life out of danger, but it did not know what to do. It had little confidence in itself and less trust in man, but it needed someone to rely on. It hopped and stopped, looking at me but too shy to come over.
我想拿几个饭粒诱它前来，又不敢离开，我怕小猫来扑它。可是小猫并没在院里，我很快地跑进厨房，抓来了几个饭粒。及至我回来，小鸟已不见了。我向外院跑去，小猫在影壁前的花盆旁蹲着呢。我忙去驱逐它，它只一扑，把小鸟擒住!被人养惯的小麻雀，连挣扎都不会，尾与爪在猫嘴旁搭拉着，和死去差不多。
I thought of fetching some cooked rice to attract it, but I dared not leave it alone test it should be attacked by the kitten. As the kitten was not around at the moment, I hurried to the kitchen and cause back with a few grains only to find the bind missing. I ran to the outer yard and saw the kitten crouching by a flower pot in front of the screen wall. I hastened to drive her away but, with a quick jump, she caught hold of the bird. The tame sparrow, with its tail and claws dangling from the kitten’s mouth, did not even know how to struggle. It looked more dead than alive.
瞧着小鸟，猫一头跑进厨房，又一头跑到西屋。我不敢紧追，怕它更咬紧了可又不能不追。虽然看不见小鸟的头部，我还没忘了那个眼神。那个预知生命危险的眼神。
With my eyes fixed on the bird, I watched the kitten run first to the kitchen and then to the ram at the west end. I was afraid to press hard after her, but I had to follow her in case she should tighten her jaws. Though the bird's head was not visible to toe, the look of anticipated danger in its eyes was vivid in my wind.
那个眼神与我的好心中间隔着一只小白猫。来回跑了几次，我不追了。追上也没用了，我想，小鸟至少已半死了。猫又进了厨房，我愣了一会儿，赶紧的又追了去；那两个黑豆眼仿佛在我心内睁着呢。
Between its look and my sympathy stood that small white cat. Having run a few rounds after her I quit, thinking it was pointless to chase her like that because, by the time I caught her, the bird would have been half dead. When the cat slipped back to the kitchen again, I hesitated for a second and then hurried over there too. It seemed, in my mind's eye, the little bird were pleading for help with its two black bean-like eyes.
进了厨房，猫在一条铁筒—冬天升火通烟用的，春天拆下来便放在厨房的墙角—旁蹲着呢。小鸟已不见了。铁筒的下端未完全扣在地上，开着一个不小的缝儿，小猫用脚往里探。我的希望回来了，小鸟没死。
In the kitchen I noticed the cat was crouching by a tin pipe which was installed as smoke duct in winter and dismantled in spring, at the corner, but the bird was not with her. The pipe leaned against the corner and, between its lower end and the floor; there was an opening through which the cat was probing with her paws. My hope revived: the bird was not dead.
小猫本来才四个来月大，还没捉住过老鼠，或者还不会杀生.只是叼着小鸟玩一玩。正在这么想，小鸟忽然出来了，猫倒像吓了一跳，往后躲了躲。小鸟的样子，我一眼便看清了，登时使我要闭上了眼。
As the kitten was less than four months old, it had not teamed how to catch mice, or how to kill for that matter. It was merely holding the bird in its mouth and having fun with it. While I was thinking along these lines the little bird suddenly emerged and the kitten, taken aback, bolted backward. Tile way the little bird looked was so registered to me at the first glance that I felt like shutting my eyes immediately.
小鸟几乎是蹲着，胸离地很近，像人害肚痛蹲在地上那样。它身上并没血。身子可似乎是拳在一块，非常的短。头低着，小嘴指着地。那两个黑眼珠!非常的黑，非常的大，不看什么，就那么顶黑顶大的愣着。
It was virtually crouching, with its chest close to the floor, like a man suffering from a stomachache. There was no stain of blood on its body, but it seemed to be shrinking up into itself. Its head dropped low, its small beak pointing to the floor. Its two black eyes, unseeing, were very black and large, looking last.
它只有那么一点活气，都在眼里，像是等着猫再扑它，它没力量反抗或逃避；又像是等肴猫赦免了它，或是来个救星。生与死都在这俩眼里，而并不是清醒的。它是胡涂了，昏迷了：不然为什么由铁筒中出来呢可是，虽然昏迷，到底有那么一点说不清的，生命根源的，希望。
The little life left in it was all in the eyes. It seemed to be expecting the cat to charge again, with no strength to resist or run; or wishing that the cat would be kind enough to pardon it or that some savior would come along to its rescue. Life and death coexisted in its eyes. I thought the bin must be confused or stunned, or else why should it have come out from the pipe? Stunned as it was, it still cherished some hope which, though hard to define, was the source of life.
这个希望使它注视着地上，等着，等着生或死。它怕得非常的忠诚气完全把自己交给了一线的希望，一点也不动。像把生命要从两眼中流出，它不叫也不动。
With that hope it gazed at the floor, expecting either to survive or die. I was so really scared that it became completely motionless, leaving itself all to the precarious hope. It kept quiet and still as if waiting for its life to flow out of its eyes.
小猫没再扑它，只试着用小脚碰它。它随着击碰倾侧，头不动，眼不动，还呆呆地注视着地上。但求它能活着，它就决不反抗。
The kitten made no more attempts to attack it. She only tried to touch it with her little paws. As the kitten touched it, it tilted from side to side, its head undisturbed and its eyes looking blank at the floor. It would not fight back so long as there was a chance of survival.
可是并非全无勇气，它是在猫的面前不动！我轻轻地过去，把猫抓住。将猫放在门外，小鸟还没动。我双手把它捧起来。它确是没受了多大的伤.虽然胸上落了点毛。它看了我一眼!
But the bird had not lost all of its courage; it acted this way only with the cat. I went aver light-footed, picked up the cat and put her outside the door, the sparrow remaining where it was. When I took it up in my hands and looked, it was riot seriously injured, though some fluff had come off its chest. It was looking at me.
我没主意：把它放了吧，它准是死；养着它吧，家中没有笼子。我捧着它，好像世上一切生命都在我的掌中似的，我不知怎样好。小鸟不动，拳着身，两眼还那么黑，等着!愣了好久，我把它捧到卧室里，放在桌子上，看着它，它又愣了半夭，忽然头向左右歪了歪用它的黑眼睁了一下；又不动了，可是身子长出来一些，还低头看着，似乎明白了点什么。
I had no idea what to do. If I let it go, it was sure to die; if I kept it with me, I did rot have a cage for it. I held it in my hands as if holding all the lives in the world, not knowing what to do. 'Me sparrow huddled up, motionless, its eyes as black as ever, still expectant. It remained that way for a long while. I took it to my bedroom, put it on the desk and watched it for a few moments. Suddenly it tilted its head Wit and then right, winking its black eyes once or twice, and became still again. By now its body seemed to have stretched a hit, but it still kept its head low as if it had understand something.
