It takes ten years to grow a tree and a hundred years to bring up a generation of good men. / It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
2.玉不琢，不成器
A piece of jade unless cut forms no article of vertu. / An uncut gem goes not sparkle. / The finest diamond must be cut. / Unpolished pearls never shine.
.3 “近朱者赤，近墨者黑”
汉英词典中的翻译为： one who stays near vermilion gets stained red, and one who stays
near ink gets stained black. 或 one takes on the color of one's company.
也有人译成：When you touch black, you become black, when you touch red, you become
red.
也有一些相近的表达方式：
One takes the behavior of one's company.(一个人的行为，往往受到朋友的影响。)
发表于 2006-6-14 19:13:35