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法句经中英文对照学习 The Dhammapada（英文取自S. Beck版）华香品第十二（十有七章）Flowers华香品Who shall conquer this worldand the world of death and the gods?Who shall find the clear path of truth,as a skillful person finds the flower?孰能择地，舍鉴取天，谁说法句，如择善华，The wise student will conquer this worldand the world of death and the gods.The wise student will find the clear path of truth,as a skillful person finds the flower.学者择地，舍鉴取天，善说法句，能采德华，-Whoever knows that this body is like foamand has learned that its nature is a mirage,will break the flourishing arrows of Maraand never see the king of death.知世坏喻，幻法忽有，断魔华敷，不睹生死，见身如沫，幻法自然，断魔华敷，不睹生死，-Death carries off a person who is gathering flowers,whose mind is distracted,like a flood carries off a sleeping village.Death terminates a person who is gathering flowers,whose mind is distracted,before one is even satiated in pleasures.身病则痿，若华零落，死命来至，如水湍聚，贪欲无厌，消散人念，邪致之财，为自侵欺，-As the bee collects nectar and departswithout harming the flower or its color or scent,so let the sage live in a village.如蜂集华，不娆色香，但取味去，仁入聚然，Not the faults of othersnor their errors of commission or omission,but ones own errors and omissions should the sage consider.不务观彼，作与不作，常自省身，知正不正，-Like a beautiful flower, full of color, but without scent,are the fine but fruitless wordsof those who do not act accordingly.如可意华，色好无香，吾语如是，不行无得，-But like a beautiful flower, full of color and full of scent,are the fine and fruitful wordsof those who do act accordingly.如可意华，色美且香，吾语有行，必得其福，-As many kinds of garlandscan be made from a heap of flowers,so many good works may be achieved by a mortal after birth.多作宝华，结步摇绮，广积德者，所生转好，The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind,not even that of sandalwood, rose-bay or jasmine,but the fragrance of good peopletravels even against the wind.A good person pervades everywhere.琦草芳华，不逆风熏，近道敷开，德人逼香，-Sandalwood or rose-bay or lotus or jasmine-among these perfumes, the perfume of virtue is unsurpassed.栴檀多香，青莲芳华，虽曰是真，不如戒香，-Limited is the scent of rose-bay or sandalwood;but the perfume of the virtuousrises up to the gods as the highest.华香气微，不可谓真，持戒之香，到天殊胜，-Mara never crosses the path of those who are virtuous,who live without thoughtlessness,and who are liberated by true knowledge.戒具成就，行无放逸，定意度脱，长离魔道，-Just as on a heap of rubbish thrown upon the highwaythe lotus will grow sweetly fragrant, delighting the soul,如作田沟，近于大道，中生莲华，香洁可意，So also among those who are like rubbishthe wise student of the truly enlightened Buddhashines brightly with wisdom above the blinded crowd.有生死然，凡夫处边，慧者乐出，为佛弟子。-The Fool暗愚品第十三（二十有一章）Long is the night to one who is awake.Long is ten miles to one who is tired.Long is the cycle of birth and deathto the fool who does not know the true path.不寐夜长，疲倦道长，愚生死长，莫知正法，-If a traveler does not meet with one who is better or equal,let one firmly travel alone;there is no companionship with a fool.These sons belong to me, and this wealth belongs to me;with such thoughts a fool is tormented.One does not belong to oneself;how much less sons and wealth?痴意常冥，逝如流川，在一行疆，独而无偶，愚人着数，忧戚久长，与愚居苦，于我由怨，有子有财，愚惟汲汲，我且非我，何有子财，The fool who knows ones own folly,is wise at least to that extent;but the fool who thinks oneself wise is really a fool.暑当止此，寒当止此，愚多预虑，莫知来变，-If a fool is associated with a wise person all ones life,the fool will not perceive the truth,any more than a spoon will taste the soup.顽暗近智，如瓢斟味，虽久狎习，犹不知法，-If an intelligent person is associated with a wise personfor only one minute, one will soon perceive the truth,just as the tongue does the taste of soup.开达近智，如舌尝味，虽须臾习，即解道要，Fools of little understanding are their own worst enemies,for they do wrong deeds which bear bitter fruits.愚人施行，为身招患，快心作恶，自致重殃，That action is not well done, which having been done,brings remorse, whose result one receives crying with tears.行为不善，退见悔吝，致涕流面，报由宿习，But that action is well done, which having been done,does not bring remorse,whose result one receives gladly and cheerfully.行为德善，进睹欢喜，应来受福，喜笑玩习，-As long as the wrong action does not bear fruit,the fool thinks it is like honey;but when it bears fruit, then the fool suffers grief.愚所望处，不谓适苦，临堕危地，乃知不善，过罪未熟，愚以恬淡，至其熟时，自受大罪，-Let a fool month after montheat food with the tip of kusha grass;nevertheless one is not worth one-sixteenthof those who have understood the truth.愚好美食，日月滋甚，于十六分，未一思法，A wrong action, like newly drawn milk, does not turn soon;smoldering, like fire covered by ashes, it follows the fool.When the wrong action, after it has become known,turns to sorrow for the fool,then it destroys ones brightness and splits the head.愚生念虑，至终无利，自招刀杖，报有印章，-Let the fool wish for reputation,for precedence among the mendicants,for authority in the convents,for veneration among the people.Let both the householders and the mendicantsthink that this is done by me.Let them always ask mewhat should be done and what should not be done.观处知其愚，不施而广求，所随无道智，往往有恶行，远道近欲者，为食在学名，贪倚家居故，多取供异姓，学莫堕三望，莫作家沙门，贪家违圣教，为后自匮乏，Su