中英文化通：猴年祝福语

中英文化通：猴年祝福语

猴年吉祥

Good luck for this Monkey year

猴年大吉

Lots of luck for this Monkey year

猴年送你五只猴：

This Monkey year, I give you five monkeys:

机灵诡秘如猕猴，

the ingenuity1 of the macaque,

健康快乐像马猴，

the health and happiness of the monkey,

悠闲富贵似猴子，

the leisure and wealth of monkey-kind,

无忧无虑比猿猴，

the lightheartedness of apes and monkeys,

聪明伶俐胜孙猴。

and intelligence and wit surpassing the Monkey King.

祝你猴年前程

I wish you in the Monkey year ahead

一个筋斗十万八千里，

a somersault of 9,000 kilometers (18,000 li),

兼七十二变混世才学，

72 simultaneous transformations2 in scholarliness,

具八十一种创业本领。

and 81 kinds of creative skill