Live And Let Live——待人寬容
** people should accept the way other people live and behave, especially if they do things in a different way(大家應該接受別人的生活和行為方式,就算他們以不同的方式做事。)
~~ 待人寬容;和平共存;和平共處;待人容忍;相互寬容,互不干擾;待人寬容如待己;自己活也讓別人活
!! In 1622, Gerard de Malynes wrote this Dutch proverb in The Ancient Law-Merchant:“According to the Dutch prouerbe …… Leuen ende laeten leuen, to liue and to let others liue.”
(一六二二年,傑拉特‧德‧馬雷尼斯在《古代商人法》中寫下了這條荷蘭諺語:“根據荷蘭人的說法……自己活也讓別人活。”)
!! It was the spontaneous rise of non-aggressive co-operative behavior that developed during the prolonged periods of trench warfare in World War I, particularly the Christmas Truce of 1914 when two opposing sides laid down arms and played soccer.
(在第一次世界大戰長時間塹壕戰期間,尤其是1914年聖誕節休戰時,對立雙方放下武器並一起踢足球,這是自發興起的非侵略性合作行為。)
>> In most circumstances, criticism in the office does not promote collaboration; the more productive mindset is to live and let live.
(大多數情況下,辦公室裡的批評不會促進合作;更有成效的心態是待人寬容。)
>> How many wars could have been prevented if people only learned to live and let live? But, that will not happen as long as human nature persists.
(如果人類只是學會和平共存,那麼可以避免多少次戰爭?但是,只要人性持續存在,就不會發生這種情況。)
學勤進修教育中心英語專科導師
李啟文 教授