Good-Fences-Make-Good-Neighbors

“君A hedge between keeps friendship green./Friends agreebest ata distance.子之交淡如水”亲兄弟明算帐Even brotherskeep carefulaccounts.各人自扫门前雪，莫管他人瓦上霜hoe onesown potatoes先小人后君子First Hyde,then JekyllMENDINGWALL RobertFrost有一点什么，它大概是不喜欢墙，它使得墙脚下的冻地涨得隆起，大白天把墙头石块弄得纷纷落；使墙裂了缝，二人并肩都Something thereis thatdoesnt lovea wall,That sends走得过绅士们行猎时又是另一番糟塌；他the frozen-ground-swell underit,And spillsthe upper们要掀开每块石头上的石头，我总是跟在boulders in the sun,And makesgaps eventwo can他们后面去修补，但是他们要把兔子从隐pass abreast.The workof huntersis anotherthing:I处赶出来，讨好那群汪汪叫的狗我说的have comeafter themand maderepair Wherethey墙缝谁也没看见或听见它是如何形成的，have leftnot onestone ona stone,But theywould have但是到了春天补墙时，就看见它在那里我the rabbitout ofhiding,To pleasethe yelpingdogs.The通知了住在山那边的邻居；有一天我们约gaps Imean,No onehas seenthem madeor heard好，巡视地界一番，在我们两家之间再把them made,But atspring mending-time wefind them墙重新砌起我们走的时候，中间隔著一there.I letmy neighborknow beyondthe hill;And ona沿墙落在两边的石块，由各自去料理day wemeet towalk theline Andset the wall between有些是长块的，有些几乎圆得像球，需要us onceagain.We keepthewallbetween usas wego.一点魔术才能把它们放稳当To eachthe bouldersthat havefallen toeach.And「给我好好待著，等我们转过身再滚落！」some areloaves andsome sonearly ballsWe haveto我们搬弄石头，把手指都磨粗了use aspell tomake thembalance:Stay whereyou are啊！这不过又是一种户外游戏，一个人站until ourbacks areturned!*We wearour fingersrough在一边此外没有多少用处在墙那地方，with handlingthem.Oh,just anotherkind ofout-door我们根本不需要墙他那边全是松树，我game,One ona side.It comesto littlemore:There这边则是苹果园我的苹果树永远也不会where it is wedo notneed thewall:He isall pineand I踱过去，吃掉他松树下的琵果我对他说am appleorchard.My appletrees willnever getacross他只是说「好篱笆造出好邻居」春天And eatthe conesunder hispines,I tellhim.He only在我心里作祟，我在悬想能不能把一个念says,Good fences make good neighbors.Spring is头注入他的脑里为什么好篱笆造出好邻the mischiefin me,and Iwonder IfI couldput anotion居？是否指著有牛的人家？可是我们此地in hishead:,Why dothey make good neighborsIsn*t it又没有牛我在造墙之前，先要弄个清楚，Where thereare cowsButhere thereare nocows.Before Ibuilt a wall Idask toknowWhat Iwas wallingin orwalling out,And towhom Iwas圈进来的是什么，圈出去的是什么，并且like togive offence.Something thereis thatdoesnt love我可能开罪的是什么人家那儿的什么东awall,That wantsit down.I couldsay Elvesto him,西，它不喜欢墙，想要推倒它」我说那But ifsnot elvesexactly,and Idrather Hesaid itfor是「精灵」，但也不完全是精灵，我想还himself.I seehim thereBringing astone graspedfirmly是让他自己看罢我看见他在那里搬一by thetop eachhand,like anold-stone savagearmed.块石头，两手紧抓住石头的上端,像一个He movesin darknessas itseems tome Notof woods旧石器时代的武装野蛮人看起来像是在only andthe shadeof trees.He will not gobehind his黑暗中摸索，这黑暗不仅是来自森林与树fathers saying,And helikes havingthought ofit sowell荫他不肯探究他父亲传给他的格言，想He saysagain,Good fencesmakegoodneighbors.H到这句格言，他很喜欢，便再说一遍，「好篱笆造出好邻居」Good FencesMake GoodNeighborsThe westernproverb Goodfencesmakegoodneighborsmeans onesrelationship with othersdepends,among otherthings,on respectingoneanothers privacy.In termsof space,good fencesmean theboundary whichshowspeople liveseparately fromeach other.In termsof relationship,goodfences meanthe patternby whichpeople communicateout ofmutual interestwithoutinvading oneanothers privacy.And whatis thereal significanceofgood fencesInmodern society,people allseek forindependence,particularity andcreativity.Individual spacemeans alot forman tomake adifference.Goodfences canexclude theharassment fromothers andprotect onesprivacy.Justlike theChinese oldsaying Ahedgebetweenkeepsfriendshipgreen.Eventhe closestfriends shouldkeep adistance betweeneach other,give othersaprivacy spacecan alsomake therelationship strongerand longer.Speakingfrom myown experience,my eldersister andI usedto doall thethingstogether asif wewere twinsand quarreledfrom timeto time.Now thatwe areindifferent schools,we canonly keepin touchwith eachother byphone.Tomy surprise,the distancehas broughtus closertogether.Apart frominterpersonal relations,good fencesalso appliesto therelationsbetween countries.To illustrate,wars betweenSouth Koreaandnorth aswell asthose foughtintheMiddle Eastwere mainlydue tothe fences,that isto say,the governmentscould nothandle territorialdisputes well.Imagine theycould makegood fencesbetween nationalborders.We willnotsee somany newly-wedded wivessay goodbyeto theirhusbands;We willnotsee somany innocentchildren becomehomeless;And wewillnotsee somanywhite-haired parentssuffer fromthe lossof theirsons.As aresult,people inthe worldare morelikely tolive likea bigfamily thatis freefromwar,sickness andhunger.In asense,good fencesis theprinciple ofgoodneighbors”.In conclusion,itisobvious thatfrom eithera microcosmicor amacrocosmicview,good fences”plays animportant rolein“goodneighbors”.It refersnot onlyto physicalspace,but alsoto socialrelationship.So ifwe wantto developa harmoniousand peacefulrelationshipwithpeoplearound us,build the“fence”first.。