The soul of a great nation is expressed in the life of its humblest people. In this simple story of a Chinese farmer may be found something of the soul of Chine. Its humility, it's courage, it's deep heritage from the past and it's vast promise for the future.
一个国家的灵魂表现在老百姓朴素的日常生活中，这个故事讲述的是一个中国农夫的平凡生活，谦虚，勇气，前人的遗产，对未来的希望等，可以感受到中国人民的这种高尚的灵魂。
Tea? Have you lost your mind? Tea is like eating silver!
你煮茶了？疯了吗？喝茶像喝金子一样。
This is good land. And old. My ancestors came here long ago. And they sleep in it. My father ploughed it and it's mine! The best the man can have! Now it belongs to us both!
这是一块好土地啊，很久以前祖先就来到了这里，后来埋在这里，以前是爸爸种的地，现在轮到我了，这是最好的地，以后就是我们的了。
I'll get eggs, and dye them red for the whole village. Everyone must know I have a son!
得把鸡蛋染成红色了，让村里的每个人都知道我有一个儿子。
O-Lan, the earth has forgotten us!
月兰，土地抛弃了我们。
No work of any kind! For things a beast should do, there were a 100 men, fighting! It would have been better to starve, in our own land, than to come to this great city, where there's no work for a man's hands!
找不到活，让牲口干的活，也有一百多人抢着做，挨饿也在家里挨饿好一点，而不是来到这里挨饿，这里是男人没事做的地方。
Come! I want to feel my toes in the earth again!
我要用脚感觉大地。
There's more in the world than earth and crops, there're songs and dancing! And girls who do these things elegantly!
世上除了土地和粮食，要看的东西还多着呢，有歌，有舞，还有轻歌曼舞的女人，好好看吧。
No! I've never been off the ground all my life! She's like a dream person!
我一辈子没有离开过土地，简直像梦中人一样。
Now then, it is said you may see a tea pot with 4 tea cups, but did you ever see a tea cup with 4 tea pots!? It is also said, do you ever see 2 spoons in the same bowl that do not nod against each other!?
不是有这种话吗，可以有4个茶杯的茶壶，不过从来没有1个茶杯有4个茶壶，还有，你见过两个勺子在一个碗里不磕不碰吗？
When I'm with her, it's not enough! When I'm not with her, there's nothing! Even the land is nothing! Then it will be better when she's in your house.
和她在一起也觉得时间不够用，不在身边就感到什么都没有意义了，连地也是觉得没什么用，能在一起生活就好了。
Drop a little earth on yourself! That's good for any man!
手上沾点泥土，对男人是好事。
"That a man is a slave to the earth, or its master and when it turns against him, he must fight it!" We can fight these creeping things! If we save but 1 field, it would a new thing in all this land, and the best in a thousand years!
我听过，人可以被田地主宰，也可以主宰田地，当田地作对时，我们要抵抗到底，和蝗虫也可以战斗，就算救下一亩地也是好的。
- For I must die, sometime.But the land will be there, after me.
- O-Lan, you are the earth!
- 人都有死的时候，不过地是不会消失的。
- 月兰，大地就是你。