怨天尤人的英文10分！！快！

『怨天尤人』的意思總給人一種對際遇、挫折等等的不滿, 翻譯時要把這種感覺也傳達出來, 以下的例子可以給人這種感覺, 也把原文的中文字意保留 :

Murmur against the heaven and grumble against man.

Murmur against the heaven and grumble against man.
I wonder:
1) Does people understand what it meant? No Sir, I surely don't!
2) Who would say this strange sentence & under what situation?
3) I think any of the other 5 answers are better. At least, Kwai-lo understand what it means.

怨天尤人既英文係咩呀？
Complaining all the time. (即 - mug要投訴一番)

Blaming god especially man

In fact Google and Yahoo are quite good tranlating 怨天尤人 as:
to blame god and man; to blame everyone and everything but oneself--Google
Blaming god and man--Yahoo
Of course, there can be some other different and good translations.

2009-01-19 22:16:29 補充：









「怨天尤人」出自《論語》:
《論語．憲問》
子曰：「莫我知也夫！」子貢曰：「何為其莫知子也？」子曰：「不怨天，不尤人，下學而上達1>，知我者其天乎！」
意思是「抱怨上天，責怪他人」。比喻面對不如意時，一味地歸咎客觀環境，而不能自我檢討。
信神的人，天是神。不信的人，天是天命、天意。Providence一字包含了神、天命和天意的意思，在這裡「天」譯為'Providence'非常合適。
所以「怨天尤人」(抱怨上天，責怪他人)英譯是:
Complain about the providence and blame other people.
它的英文意思就是 When confronting unpleasant or undesirable situations, a person always blame objective environments, but never self-criticise himself.








　

The blame on others.

blaming everyone even the god but not oneself