Bilingual Vocabulary Flashcards

noun (Iñupiaq / Inuktitut) · kǒu chuán gù shì

Traditional oral stories, performed and enjoyed by community members across the whole life span.

世代口耳相傳的傳統故事，由族人在一生中不斷講述與享受。

Unikkaaqtuat are not children's stories — everyone in the community listens to them.

Unikkaaqtuat 不只是兒童故事——全社區的人都在聽。

noun phrase (Inuktitut) · yīn niǔ tè shì dài zhì huì

"What Inuit have known all along" — wisdom gained from long experience and passed down.

「因紐特人一直以來就知道的事」——由長年經驗累積、代代相傳的智慧。

Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit includes knowing the land, its names, and its history.

Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit 包含認識土地、地名，以及它的歷史。

noun (Iñupiaq) · chéng wéi wán zhěng de rén

Becoming a whole human being — the purpose of education.

成為一個完整的人——教育真正的目的。

The goal of the year is not a grade but inumgulnig.

這一年的目標不是分數，而是 inumgulnig。

proper noun (Inuit) · hǎi nǚ shén

The Sea Woman, from whose hands the sea mammals came; the story is told in many versions.

海洋女神，海中哺乳動物由她而生；這個故事有許多不同的版本。

Sedna's story teaches respect between hunters and the sea.

Sedna 的故事教導獵人與海洋之間的尊重。

proper noun (Iñupiaq) · yīng mǔ

The being who gave people the drum, the dance, and the feast.

把鼓、舞蹈與宴會贈予人類的存在。

The Eagle Mother story sits underneath our Eagle Drums novel study.

鷹母的故事正是《Eagle Drums》整本小說的根基。

noun (Iñupiaq · Kivgiq) · shǐ zhě shèng yàn

A great gathering of invitation, gift-giving, drumming, and dance between communities.

各村之間互相邀請、贈禮、擊鼓與舞蹈的盛大聚會。

The Messenger Feast turns a story into a whole community's work.

使者盛宴把一個故事變成整個社區共同的事。

noun (Iñupiaq) · jìng mò

Silence held as a way of learning — listening beyond words.

把靜默當作一種學習方式——在語言之外傾聽。

Week 4 is Nipaitsoq: we go outside and say nothing first.

第四週是 Nipaitsoq：我們先走到戶外，什麼都不說。

noun (Chinese) · sì shū wǔ jīng

The Four Books and Five Classics — the foundational texts of Chinese civilisation.

中華文明的根本典籍：四部書與五部經。

四書五經 have been read and re-read for over two thousand years.

四書五經 已被誦讀、重讀了兩千多年。

noun (Chinese) · lún yǔ

The Analects — the recorded sayings and conversations of Confucius.

《論語》——記錄孔子言行與對話的典籍。

論語 opens with the pleasure of learning and practising.

《論語》開篇談的就是學而時習的喜悅。

noun (Chinese) · dà xué

The Great Learning — illuminating virtue, renewing the people, resting in the highest good.

《大學》——明明德、親民、止於至善。

大學 describes learning as a path outward from the self to the world.

《大學》把學習描述成一條由己身通往天下的道路。

noun (Chinese) · zhōng yōng

The Doctrine of the Mean — balance, sincerity, and following one's own nature.

《中庸》——平衡、真誠，率性而行。

中庸 says: what Heaven confers is called Nature.

《中庸》說：天命之謂性。

noun (Chinese) · mèng zǐ

Mencius — the philosopher who argued that human nature tends toward good (性善論).

孟子——主張人性本善（性善論）的哲學家。

孟子 compares goodness to water running downhill.

孟子把善比作水往低處流。

noun (Chinese) · shī jīng

The Book of Songs — the oldest collection of Chinese poetry, full of seasons and daily life.

《詩經》——最古老的中國詩歌總集，滿是節氣與日常生活。

詩經 shows that a classic can also be a farmer's song.

《詩經》告訴我們，經典也可以是農人的歌。

noun (Chinese) · rén

Compassion, benevolence — caring for others as the root of being human.

仁愛、慈悲——做人的根本。

仁 is written as a person beside the number two: you cannot be humane alone.

「仁」是人字旁加「二」：一個人是無法成仁的。

noun (Chinese) · lǐ

Ritual propriety — the forms and courtesies that carry respect into action.

禮儀規範——把尊重化為具體行動的形式。

禮 turns a good feeling into a habit other people can rely on.

禮把一份好意變成別人可以依靠的習慣。

noun (Chinese) · xiào

Filial piety — care and respect for parents, elders, and ancestors.

孝道——對父母、長輩與祖先的照顧與敬重。

孝 is the first place where 仁 is practised.

孝是實踐仁的第一個地方。

noun (Chinese) · chéng

Sincerity — being the same on the inside as on the outside.

真誠——內外如一。

中庸 treats 誠 as the doorway to every other virtue.

《中庸》把誠當作通往一切德性的門。

verb phrase (Chinese) · xiū shēn

Self-cultivation — reading and study in order to become a better person.

修養自身——讀書求學是為了成為更好的人。

In this course, reading is 修身, not collecting facts.

在這門課裡，讀書是修身，不是蒐集知識點。

phrase (Chinese) · tiān rén hé yī

Harmony between humanity and the universe — heaven and human as one whole.

人與宇宙和諧為一體。

天人合一 links this course to our cosmology unit.

天人合一 把這門課與宇宙單元連在一起。

noun (English) · jīng diǎn shū mù

A body of texts treated as essential — best understood as a process of revision, not a fixed inheritance.

被視為必讀的一套文本——它更像持續修訂的過程，而非固定的遺產。

Asking who built the canon is part of reading it.

追問是誰建立了這份書單，本身就是閱讀的一部分。

noun phrase (English) · jīng diǎn de xíng chéng

The process by which some texts are chosen as classics — and others left out.

某些文本被選為經典、其他被排除在外的過程。

In Week 33 we build a canon of our own and defend the choices.

第 33 週我們自己編一份經典書單，並為選擇辯護。

noun phrase (English) · xué shù lǐ xìng zhǔ yì

A curriculum stance prizing classical texts and close reading, in contrast to empiricism's reliance on evidence and inquiry.

重視經典文本與細讀的課程立場，與依賴證據與探究的經驗主義相對。

Academic rationalism reads closely; empiricism goes outside and measures.

學術理性主義細讀文本；經驗主義走到戶外去測量。

noun (English) · yù yì gù shì

A story whose surface events stand for a deeper idea — as in Plato's Cave.

表面情節另有深層寓意的故事，如柏拉圖的洞穴。

The Allegory of the Cave asks whether we are watching shadows.

洞穴寓言問我們：我們看見的是不是只是影子？

noun phrase (English) · xiū fù xìng xù shì

Telling stories in a way that heals, returns voice, and honours many ways of knowing.

以療癒、還聲於人、尊重多種認知方式的方式說故事。

Week 32 asks: whose voice is telling this, and who is missing?

第 32 週要問：這是誰在說？又是誰不在場？