“相由心生”如何翻译? 再J. M. Barrie的Little Minister中有这么一段对话: "Was she as bonny as folk say?" asked Margaret. "Jean says they speak of her beauty as unearthly." Beauty of her kind," Gavin explained, learnedly, "is neither earthly nor heavenly." He was seeing things as they are very clearly now. "Wat," he said, "is mere physical beauty? Pooh!" "And yet," said Margaret,"the soul surely does speak through the face to some extent." 这句直译,在某种程度上灵魂确实能从面向上表现出来。或者人面知心。 有人将下面这一句翻译为面由心生: The face is the index of the mind. http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/542078.html?fr=qrl 但是,不管怎么样,面相是相对稳定的一种面部形状或气色,较长期内心灵的作用而形成。但是,mind只是短时的想法或者念头,soul是一个人的灵魂,具有永久性。