1. 这好像是另一个世界，这个世界里的一切跟我的环境完全不同。我也许羡慕这一切。可是我又明白我自己做不到。所以读了这些书，犹如一个乞丐站在富家花园墙外听见里面的欢笑声，或是走过饭馆门口，闻着里面的肉香饭香，心里不知道如何的难受！

1. This seems like another world, where everything is completely different from my environment. I might be envious of all this. Yet, I also understand that I cannot achieve it myself. So, reading these books is like a beggar standing outside the wall of a wealthy family's garden and hearing the laughter inside, or walking past a restaurant and smelling the savory aroma of meat and rice, feeling an indescribable discomfort in my heart!

2. 箫的如泣如诉的低鸣，被悠扬的笛声盖住了。笛声飘扬地在空中飞舞，屋里四处都飞到了，然后以轻快的步子，急急地越过栏杆，飞过水面，逃得远远地。歌声更响亮地升起来。淑华姊妹的清脆的声音和觉民高亢的声音一起在空中飘动，追逐着笛声，一点也不放松，于是它们也跟着笛声跑到远方去了。

2. The mournful, wailing sound of the Xiao was overpowered by the melodious sound of the flute. The flute notes danced in the air, flying to every corner of the room, then with a light, swift step, they hurriedly leaped over the railing, soared over the water surface, and fled far away. The singing grew louder. Sister Shuhua's clear,脆的声音 and Juemin's strong voice floated together in the air, pursuing the flute notes without letting go, and so they followed the flute notes into the distance as well.

3. “生”的确是美丽的，乐“生”是人的本分。——巴金

3. "Life" is indeed beautiful, and to be joyful about "life" is the duty of humans. — Ba Jin

4. 天空变成一片明亮的淡青色，上面还涂抹了几片红霞。这些映在缎子似的湖水里，在桥和亭子的倒影上添加了光彩的装饰。

4. The sky turned into a bright pale blue, with a few streaks of red clouds painted on it. These reflections shimmered in the lake, like silk, adding a decorative glow to the inverted images of the bridge and pavilions.

5. 两个人对望着，好像没有话说了，其实心里正有着千言万语。

5. The two people were looking at each other, as if there was nothing more to say, but in reality, they were overflowing with a thousand words in their hearts.

6. 我追求光明，追求人间的爱，追求我理想中的英雄。结果我依旧得到痛苦。但是我并不后悔，我还要以更大的勇气走我的路。——巴金

6. I seek light, love in the human world, and the hero in my ideal. In the end, I still receive pain. But I do not regret, and I still want to walk my path with greater courage. — Ba Jin

7. 一个人的生命是短暂的，而我们的事业都是无限长久的。个人尽可以遭到许多不幸，许多痛苦，但是只要我们的劳动融合到集体的胜利里，那幸福也就有我的一份。只要我活着一天，我事实上为党为人民工作一天。——巴金

7. A person's life is fleeting, and our cause is eternal. An individual may suffer many misfortunes and much pain, but as long as our labor merges into the collective victory, happiness is also a part of mine. As long as I live for a day, I in fact work for the Party and the people for a day. — Ba Jin

8. 我的生活里充满了种种的矛盾，我的作品里也是的。爱与憎的冲突，思想和行为的冲突，理智和感情的冲突……，这些织成了个网，掩盖了我的全部生活，全部作品。我的生活是苦痛的挣扎，我的作品也是的。我的每篇小说都是我的追求光明的呼号。——巴金

8. My life is filled with various contradictions, and so are my works. The conflict between love and hate, the conflict between thought and action, the conflict between reason and emotion... These weave a web that covers my entire life and all my works. My life is a painful struggle, as is my work. Each of my short stories is a call for light in my pursuit. — Ba Jin

9. 我不配做一盏灯，那么就让我做一块木柴吧！

9. If I am not worthy to be a lamp, then let me be a piece of wood instead!

10. 奋斗就是生活，人生只有前进。

10. Striving is life, and life is only about moving forward.

11. “巴金”这一笔名源自他一位在留学法国时认识的一位巴姓的同学巴恩波，以及这位同学自杀身亡时巴金所翻译的克鲁泡特金著作。他把这二人的名字各取一字，成为了他的笔名。

11. The pen name "Ba Jin" originates from a classmate named Ba Anbo with the surname Ba, whom he met during his studies in France, as well as from the works of Kropotkin that Ba Jin translated at the time of his classmate's suicide. He took one character from each of their names to become his pen name.

12. 父母们的榜样力量非常大。在我小时候，父母的脾气都好，父母从未打骂过孩子。想来想去，我想不出从他们身上学到什么坏的东西。今天有些年轻的父母高兴时把孩子当作‘小皇帝’、‘小公主’，动了气就打骂不休。不多久，他们的坏脾气全让孩子学到了，孩子们只会学长辈们做出来的行动，不会学他们嘴里讲的道理和心里想的理想。——巴金

12. The power of parents as role models is immense. When I was young, my parents had good tempers, and they never hit or scolded their children. On reflection, I can't think of anything bad I learned from them. Today, some young parents treat their children as 'little emperors' or 'little princesses' when they are happy, and they keep hitting and scolding them when they are angry. Soon enough, their bad tempers are all learned by the children. Children only learn the actions performed by their elders, not the道理 spoken by their mouths or the ideals in their hearts. - Ba Jin

13. 生命的意义在于付出，在于给予，而不是在于接受，也不是在于争取。——巴金

13. The meaning of life lies in giving and in offering, not in receiving or in striving for it. — Ba Jin

14. 往事依稀浑似梦，都随风雨到心头。

14. The past is hazy, as if a dream, all coming to my heart with the wind and rain.

15. 光辉的理想像明净的水一样洗去我心灵上的尘垢。——巴金

15. The brilliant ideal washes away the dust from my soul as clear water does. — Ba Jin

16. 人原来是这样健忘的，同样的一个人在短短的时间内竟然变换了两个面目。过后他又想，大概正是因为这样健忘，所以才能够在痛苦中生活下去罢。

16. People are so forgetful; the same person has changed two faces in such a short time. Later, he thought, maybe it's precisely because of this forgetfulness that one can live through pain.

17. 把热爱自己工作的人整成了应声虫，等于损害作家的独立思考。——巴金

17. Making those who love their work into yes-men is equivalent to harming the writer's independent thinking. — Ba Jin

18. 歌声突然止了，接着就是一阵哄然的大笑声。笑声在空气中互相撞击，有的碎了，碎成了一丝一丝的，再也聚不拢来，就让新的起来，追着未碎的那一个，又马上把它也撞碎了。楼房里的人仿佛觉得笑声在黑暗的空中撞击，逃跑，追赶。

18. The singing stopped suddenly, followed by a burst of raucous laughter. The laughter clashed with each other in the air, some shattered, breaking into thin threads that could no longer be gathered, allowing new laughter to rise, chasing after the unbroken one, and soon shattering it as well. The people in the building seemed to feel the laughter colliding, running, and chasing through the dark air.

19. 我最不高兴的是被人当作名人，仿佛很了不起，其实空无所有。好像很多人尊敬，其实谁也不了解你。

19. What I am most unhappy about is being treated like a celebrity, as if I am someone very important when in reality, I have nothing. It seems like many people respect me, but in fact, no one really understands you.

20. 人最怕的不是掉进深渊，而是掉进后被抛起再掉进去。——巴金

20. What people fear most is not falling into the abyss, but being thrown back up after falling in and then falling in again. - Ba Jin

21. 你明白我这时的心情。我的确有千言万语，却无法把它们全倾泻在纸上……。而且想到你，想到孩子，想到大家，这会给我增加勇气，我的心里永远有你。在艰苦中，我会叫着你的名字。在任何环境下我要做个值得你爱的人。——巴金

21. You understand my mood at this moment. I indeed have a thousand words to say, but I cannot pour them all onto paper... Moreover, thinking of you, thinking of the child, thinking of everyone, this gives me courage, and you will always be in my heart. In hardship, I will call out your name. Under any circumstances, I want to be someone worthy of your love. — Ba Jin

22. 我爱我的祖国，爱我的人民，离开了它，离开了他们，我就无法生存，更无法写作。

22. I love my motherland and my people. Without it and them, I cannot survive, let alone write.

23. 人生如同日记，每人都想记下自己的经历。但当他把记好的日记和他的誓言进行比较时，心情是何等谦卑啊！——巴金

23. Life is like a diary, where everyone wants to record their own experiences. But when he compares the diary he has kept with his promises, how humble his heart must be! — Ba Jin

24. 我有一种愿望，想使自己变得善良些、纯洁些，对别人有用些。——巴金

24. I have a desire to become kinder, purer, and more useful to others. — Ba Jin

25. 学习和改造是没有止境的……，我们决不能等到改造好了才动笔……，作家必须不断地写作，写作是他的工作，也是他的义务。作家用写作来为人民服务。广大读者向作家要求的是作品，更多的作品，而且更好的作品……。——巴金

25. Learning and self-improvement has no end... We must never wait until we are completely transformed before we start writing... Writers must keep writing continuously, as writing is their job and also their duty. Writers use writing to serve the people. The general readers expect from writers are works, more works, and better works... — Ba Jin

26. ，原名李尧棠，字芾甘。笔名巴金。祖籍浙江嘉兴。清光绪三十年十月十九日（1904年11月25日）生于四川省成都府城北门正通顺街。现代文学家、翻译家、出版家，“五四”新文化运动以来最有影响的作家之一，中国当代文坛的巨匠。2005年10月17日因病逝世于上海。

26. Li Yaochang, his original name, also known as Feigan. Pen name Ba Jin. He was from Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. Born on October 19th of the 30th year of Qing Emperor Guangxu (November 25, 1904) in the north gate of Zhengtongshun Street, Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Modern Chinese litterateur, translator, and publisher, one of the most influential writers since the "May Fourth" New Culture Movement, and a giant in the contemporary Chinese literary circle. He passed away on October 17, 2005, in Shanghai due to illness.

27. 我写作时差不多没有停笔构思，字句从我的自来水笔下面写出来，就像水从喷泉里冒出来那样地自然、容易。但那时候我的激动却是别人想象不到的。我差不多把全个心灵都放在故事上面了。我所写的人物都在我的脑子里活动起来，他们跟活人完全一样。他们生活、受苦、恋爱、挣扎、欢笑、哭泣以及死亡。好像不是我在写小说，而是他们借了我的笔在生活、在那三个星期里面我无论在什么地方，都只看见那一群人。他们永久不息地在我的眼前活动，不让我有片刻的安宁。——巴金

27. When I write, I barely pause to构思, the words flow from my fountain pen as naturally and easily as water spurts from a fountain. But at that time, my excitement was unimaginable to others. I put almost all of my heart into the story. The characters I wrote came alive in my mind, just like living people. They lived, suffered, loved, struggled, laughed, cried, and died. It seemed not I was writing a novel, but they were living through my pen, and during those three weeks, wherever I went, all I saw was that group of people. They never ceased to move in front of my eyes, not allowing me a moment's peace. — Ba Jin

28. 沉默容易使人跟朋友疏远。热烈的诉说和自由则使人们互相接近。 --- 巴金

28. Silence tends to alienate people from their friends. Exuberant expression and freedom, on the other hand, bring people closer together. --- Ba Jin

29. 真正酷爱自由的人并不奔赴已有自由的地方，他们要在没有自由或失去自由的地方创造自由，夺回自由。——巴金

29. The truly free-spirited do not rush to places where freedom already exists; they strive to create freedom where there is none or where freedom has been lost, and to reclaim it. — Ba Jin

30. 好听的话越讲越多，一旦过了头，就不可收拾；一旦成了习惯，就上了瘾，不说空话，反而日子难过。——巴金

30. The more pleasant words one speaks, the more they come out; once it goes overboard, it's impossible to stop; once it becomes a habit, one gets addicted to it. Not saying empty words becomes a difficult day by day matter. — Ba Jin

31. 些人自己不习惯‘独立思考’，也不习惯别人‘独立思考’。他们把自己装在套子里面，也喜欢把别人装在套子里面。他们拿起教条的棍子到处巡逻，要是看见有人从套子里钻出来，他们就给他闷棍，他们听见到处都在唱他们听惯了的那种没有感情的单调的调子，他们就满意地在套子里睡着了。——巴金

31. These people are not accustomed to 'independent thinking' themselves, nor do they like others to be 'independent thinkers'. They put themselves in a shell, and they also enjoy putting others in shells. They carry the stick of dogmatism around everywhere, and if they see someone trying to escape from the shell, they hit them with a mallet. They hear all around them the monotonous tune they are accustomed to, which lacks emotion, and they satisfy themselves by falling asleep in the shell. — Ba Jin

32. 写作是种艰苦的劳动，必须要全心全意，把全部心血放到里面去。——巴金

32. Writing is a laborious endeavor that requires full dedication and pouring all one's heart into it. - Ba Jin

33. 所谓的讲真话不过是把心交给读者，讲自己心里的话，讲自己相信的话，讲自己思考过的话。

33. So-called telling the truth is merely giving one's heart to the readers, speaking one's own mind, expressing what one believes, and conveying what one has thought about.

34. 一个人的生命是短暂的，而我们的事业都是无限长久的。个人尽可以遭到许多不幸，许多痛苦，但是只要我们的劳动融合到集体的胜利里，那幸福也就有我的一份。只要我活着一天，我事实上为党为人民工作一天。

34. A person's life is short, but our cause is endless. An individual may suffer many misfortunes and much pain, but as long as our labor is integrated into the collective victory, happiness is also a part of mine. As long as I live for a day, I am in fact working for the party and the people for a day.

35. 即使在说谎成风的时期，人对自己也不会讲假话，何况在今天？

35. Even in a time when lying is the norm, people wouldn't deceive themselves, let alone today?