近朱者赤近墨者黑用英語怎麼翻譯

『壹』 近朱者赤近墨者黑，用英語怎麼說

漢英詞典中的翻譯為：one who stays near vermilion gets stained red, and one who stays near ink gets stained black. 或 one takes on the color of one's company. 也有人譯成：When you touch black, you become black, when you touch red, you become red.

英語國家中也有一些相近的表達方式：One takes the behavior of one's company. (一個人的行為，往往受到朋友的影響。) One takes on the attributes of one's associates. (attributes復數時是指品質、特性；associates指朋友、同事)

Watch the company you keep！（小心交朋友！）As one who lies with dogs will ride with fleas, how could your son learn anything good by mixing with those people? (就象和狗躺在一起的人身上會爬滿虱子，你兒子跟那些人混在一起,能學出個好樣來? )

具體選用那種翻譯方法要根據實際情況而定。選擇「one who stays near vermilion gets stained red, and one who stays near ink gets stained black」這樣的翻譯，能夠更准確地傳達出「近朱者赤近墨者黑」的意思。如果想用更為口語化的表達，可以採用「one takes the behavior of one's company」或「Watch the company you keep」，這樣的說法更為直接。

「one takes the behavior of one's company」強調了朋友或同伴對一個人行為的影響，而「Watch the company you keep」則更注重於選擇什麼樣的人作為朋友，以此來保持自己的品質。

「one takes on the attributes of one's associates」則是從品質的角度來解釋這個成語，說明了一個人會受到與自己交往的人的影響，從而習得他們的某些品質。

這些翻譯方法都可以用來解釋「近朱者赤近墨者黑」的含義，但在具體使用時，還需要根據上下文和語境來選擇最合適的翻譯。