confucius 孔子英文介绍.pdf

可编辑As you all know,China is greatly influenced by Confucianism.Today I will introduce a famous person(people is plural,person is singular),Confucius.Confucius,name Qiu,styledzhongNi,Lu Spring and Autumn period of people.-I dontunderstand what this means,but I believe Lu Spring and Autumnperiod of people should be in the kingdom of Lu during theSpring and Autumn period Is that what you meant?Confuciusis a famous ancient thinker,educator,and founder ofConfucianism.(lists that do not end in etc.always need andbefore the last item in the list)Confucius was born in a poor family in the year 551B.C,andhe was born-since you already said that he was born you donot need to say it again,so you can delete this in the stateof Lu(now QuFu Shangdong province).His father,commander ofa district in Lu,died three years after Confucius was born,leaving the family in poverty,but Confucius received a fineeducation.He was married at the age of 19 and had one son andtwo daughters.Confucius was a well-known leader in philosophy.and he also made-sounds more natural to say He also isfamous for(usually you create or say phrases rather thanmake them)many wise phrases and theories aboutthe law,life,and-可编辑the government.(Usually people consider Confucius sayingsto apply to more than one type of law or government,so you donot need the article the(it is broader than on government,etc.)Confucius is famous for his philosophy because he mademany wise saying in ancient China that helped manypeople-his wise sayings helped many people in ancient Chinalearn about nature,the world,and the-delete human behavior.He also helped the government and the emperor by teaching themlessons on how the emperor should rule his kingdomsuccessfully.As the founder and great thinker of Confucianism,Confuciussthoughts were mainly collected in the Confucian Analects(sincethe Confucian Analects are a specific thing,you need thearticle the).The Confucian Analects reflect Confuciuspolitics,thoughts,and ethical relation thoughts-morenatural to say thoughts on politics and ethics.If you wantto know more about Confucius,you should read the Analects ofConfucius.I believe you could learn more from thisbook.-repetitive.Could remove,or say leanr more from thisbook than from(something else)-可编辑Thought of Confucius-Confucian thought in Chinesehistory of great significance-has great significance inChinese history,has-having already affected more thantwo thousand years of history in China,therefore,Confuciussposition in history is also very high.Now,more andmoreChinese and foreigners start-(are or havestarted)studying Confucian culture.Confucius,are-is(because youre talking about Confucius,a singleperson)worthy ofgreat positions of-a great position in(because usually one person only holds one position)China!At last,-better to say Lastly(at last sounds like wewaited a very long time for you to finish and are happy you aredone,which is not the case:)I want to introduce somethingabout the eyes of Confucian gentleman.Gentlemanly(adding-ly makes gentleman an adjective to describe personalityand sounds more natural)personality is one of the idealpersonality modes which all Confucians have been pursuing andadoring-(Confucians have been pursuing this idea for a longtime,which is correct,but you should say that this mode issomething which all Confucians pursue and adore,because itis not just people who have been pursuing for a long time,itis also people who are just starting to pursue)-可编辑.If you want to be a perfect gentleman,its not easy.Youshould have a good command of the six arts:ritual,music,archery,carriage driving(carriage on its own is only a noun,need the act of driving it to make it an art),calligraphy andmathematics,but even this is not enough.Confucius said,Agentleman does not seek satiety(satiety is a very hard word!I think it would be easier to say satisfaction,this conceptis a hard to translate easily into English)at the table or easeat home.He is diligent in business and cautious in speech.Bothloyalty and filial piety are attained,and so on.Confucianphilosophy is a kind of a system of ideas and thoughts that talkabout the humans-human beings behavior and the rules thatyou should follow to make-have(we usually say you havea successful life or you make life successful)a successfullife.Now,we are studing at QuFu,the hometown of Confucius.I think we must learn something from Confucius,although justa little.I know,maybe we couldt become a gentleman orgentlewoman,but we still could make a successful life throughlearning Confucianism.-可编辑Thank you,thats all.-