[請益] 幾個疑問

[Cadi ( )]

大家好，有四個疑問想請教：

1. Children don't naturally behave in a civilized fashion.
   The normal child is not a "good" child.
   What is the normal child like? Does he just eat and grow and smile sweetly?
   No, that is not what he is like.
   A normal child, if he has the confidence of his mother and father,
   pulls out all the stops.
   In the course of time he tries out his powers to disrupt, to destroy,
   to frighten, to wear down, to waste, to wangle and to appropriate.
   Everything that takes people to the courts has its normal equivalent in
   infancy and childhood, in the relation of the child own home.

   請問 if he has the confidence of his mother and father 是甚麼意思呢？
   我不懂 the confidence of mother and father...有什麼特別之處？o_O


2. 有一節講的是，有時該讓孩子放縱一下，讓他們宣洩精力，　　
　 才不會把精力累積成大災難。

　 這一節的開頭是這樣說的：

   All children have a barbarous streak.
   Even if you remove every stumbling block
   (這裡說的絆腳石，是指各種容易讓孩子變得不乖的情況，譬如孩子很餓很累),
   it is only fair to let them break free from their constraints now and then.
   All children need a messy, unstructured, unproductive free-for-all every
   now and then.

   字典上說 it is only fair to 是
   used for saying that a particular action is correct or reasonable

　 可是我總覺得這樣的解釋，跟文章裡的句子搭不起來耶...
　 請問應該是甚麼意思才對呢？


3. 某個校長懲罰在廁所亂塗鴉的學生 Moshe.

   Instead of suspending Moshe from school,
   the headmaster kept him there after hours and put his hands to work:
   Moshe cleaned up the bathrooms and graded papers until 6 P.M.

   請問 graded papers 是指把 papers 分類嗎？
   那 papers 應該是指什麼樣的 papers 呢？


4. 有一段提到，既要愛孩子，也必須嚴格對待孩子。

   When dealing with a child,
   be it ever your way to thrust him off with left hand
   and draw him to you with the right hand.

   請問這裡的 be it ever 是甚麼意思呢？
   是 就算... 的意思嗎？

   為什麼要加一個 ever 呢？還有類似的其他用法嗎？



感謝！！



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※ 編輯: Cadi            來自: 61.228.45.146        (11/18 10:16)
推 l10nel:4. be it ever your way = let it be always your way
→ l10nel:2. 意思不怪啊，it is only fair to ... 說話者認為應該
→ l10nel:如何如何才是公平、恰當的
→ l10nel:3.就是字面上的幫忙改考卷吧,可以是很簡單、機械化的動作
→ l10nel:1. 這個if句去掉也沒關係，但作者想說，就算小孩真的遺傳了
→ l10nel:父母的什麽什麽好了，他也...，這裡恰好選了「自信」來舉例
→ Cadi:非常謝謝l大! :)