Translating classical Chinese - the good things are hard to learn

Original text: Someone ordered his son to say: "Every word and every move you make must be imitated by the teacher." He was ordered to serve the teacher.

Translation: Someone said to his son: "Everything you say and do, you must learn from what the teacher does." The son agreed to his father's instructions and accompanied the teacher to eat.

Original text: The teacher eats also eats, the teacher drinks also drinks, the teacher turns sideways also. The teacher laughed unconsciously, put down his chopsticks and sneezed.

Translation: He eats as the teacher eats; he drinks as the teacher drinks; he turns around as the teacher turns around. The teacher looked at the students' imitation and laughed secretly. He smiled and sneezed.

Original text: The student could not force himself, so he thanked him and said: "My teacher's wonderful skills are actually difficult to learn."

Translation: The student also wanted to sneeze, but what? Can't type it out either. Having no choice, he bowed deeply to the teacher and said guiltily: "It's really difficult to learn the wonderful things about the teacher!" Appreciation

"Guangxiaofu" is a Chinese classical Chinese book edited by Feng Menglong, a writer of the Ming Dynasty. Joker novels, ***13 volumes, this is a collection of jokes slightly improved on the author's "Laughter Mansion".

The article explains that learning is a kind of creative labor. Teachers must "preach, teach, and resolve doubts" to students, and students must learn from teachers' moral qualities and various professional knowledge.

Abandoning this fundamental learning content and only paying attention to learning the teacher's "words and deeds" from a formal perspective is a failure to learn well at the expense of the basics.