往事如昨差不多先生传_胡适_英汉对照翻译

2021年1月20日发(作者：景清)


Mr. About-the Same










Do you know who is the most well-known person in China?




This person is well known over the world. His surname is Cha and his given name is Buduo,
which means
“About the Same”. He is a native of every province, county and
village in this country.
You must have seen him or heard about him. His name is on the lips of everybody every day, because
he is representative of the whole Chinese nation.




The physiognomy of Mr. Cha Buduo has same as you and I. He has a pair of eyes, but does not
see straight. He has a pair of ears, but does not hear clearly. He has a nose and a mouth, but does not
smell and taste well. His brain is not too small, but he has a bad memory and careless think.




He often says, “Everything just needs to

be OK, why to be so serious about them?”





When he was a child, his mother
let him buy some brown sugar, but he
brought some white
sugar instead. H
is mother scolded him, he shook his head and said, “Brown sugar or white sugar
are
about the same, aren’t they ?”





In school,his
teacher asked him, “Which province borders Hebei on the west?” He answered,
“Shaanxi.”
The
teacher
sai
d
“You
are
wrong.
It’s
Shanxi,
not
Shaanxi.”
He
retorted,
“Shaanxi
or
Shanxi are
about the same, aren’t they?”





Later he worked as a waiter in a shop. He could write and calculate, but his mathematics were

often
wrong.
He
also
made mistake
that
wrote
the Chinese
character
十
for
千
or
千

for
十
.
The
shopkeeper
was
angry
and
often
scolded
him.
He
just
only
apologized
with
a
smile
,
“The


difference between character
千
and
十
is one short e character
十
or
千
are about the
same,
Aren’t they ?”





One day, for an urgent business,he went to Shanghai by train. But he went to the railway station
unhurriedly,when he arrived the railway station,the train already gone, because he was two minutes
late.
He
stared
at
the
smoke
belching
from
the
train,
and
shook
his
head,
“
I
have
to
leave
tomorrow,however, today and tomorrow are about the same. But the railway company is too serious?
8:30 or 8:32 are
about the same, aren’t they?”He walked home slowly
and talking to himself why the
train hadn’t waited for him for two minutes more
.He did not understand.
One day he fell in ill suddenly, he told his families to fetch of East Street immediately.
His families went in a hurry, but he
couldn’t find the on East Street. So
instead of
on East Street he fetched Vet Wang of West Street .Lying on his sickbed,he

knew that his families
fetched a wrong person. But, with pain and worry, he was seriously ill and he could not wait any
longer. So he said to himself, “Luckily, Vet Wang is about the same as Dr. Wang. Why not let Vet
Wang
have
a
try?”
Then,
the
vet
walked
up
to
his
bed,
with
the
medical
method
of
cow,
treating
Buduo . In the end, Buduo is died less than an hour.
When Mr. Cha Buduo was about to breathe his last, he uttered intermittently in one breath,”Live
or
die,
it’s
about…
about…
the
same….
Everything
just
…
needs
to
be
…
OK,
why
to
be
…
so
serious
…
about them”As soon as
he finished his motto, he stopped breathing.
After his death, people all praise him for his way of seeing through things and thinking through
all things. They say that all his life, he refused to work seriously and that he was never calculating or
haggle
over
every
ounce.
He
is
virtuous
man,
So
they
honored
him
with
the
posthumous
name
Master of Easy-Going..




As time goes on his fame has spread wide and become more and more famous. Thousands of
people
follow
his
example,
thus
everybody
has
become
Mr.
Cha Buduo,however,
China
will
be a
sluggard nation!