Thus it is that firmness and strength are the concomitants of death; softness and weakness, the concomitants of life.

故坚强者死之徒，柔弱者生之徒。

Those who are soft and yielding are the disciples of life.

柔弱者生之徒。

In many ways, water is weak.

在许多方面，水是柔弱的。

The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff.

人之生也柔弱，其死也坚强。

Right? Girls are weak, and boys are strong.

对吧？女孩很柔弱，男孩很强壮。

It is a tender plant, and is easily injured by cold weather.

这种柔弱的植物很容易被寒冷天气摧毁。

The girl was not strong enough to resist him.

这个柔弱的女子是无力抵他的。

They make you sound like a weak candidate.

它们会让你看上去像一个柔弱的应聘者。

This wizard of theater cast her in the stage comedy The Weaker Sex.

这位戏剧大师让她出剧《柔弱的性别》。

My mother is old and infirm. You couldn't make her leave?

我母亲是个柔弱的老人。你们难道没办法叫她走？

The snail has a heart, a stomach, a lung, and many nerves inside its soft body.

蜗牛柔弱的身体中长有心脏、胃、肺以及许多神经。

For silkworms are tender creatures, and must be cared for as though they were fretful babies.

因为蚕是柔弱的动物，必须像照顾焦躁不安的婴儿一样。

Lao Tzu argues in the Tao Te Ching that the soft overcomes the hard.

老子在《道德经》中认为柔弱胜刚强。

" You're not wrong" . Soft and bland. Precisely. How had she known?

" 没错。" 娇嫩又柔弱。中肯极了。可她怎么知道呢？

But, as stated at the beginning of the video, people generally like strength and look down upon weakness.

但是，正如视频开头所说，人们通常喜欢力量，而看不起柔弱。

Yet nothing is better than water, for overcoming the hard and rigid, because nothing can compete with it.

天下莫柔弱于水，而攻坚强者莫之能胜，以其无以易之。

First lesson, there is nothing more compelling to a man than a vulnerable woman. Observe.

第一课，对于一个男人而言，没有什么比一个柔弱无骨的女人更加吸引人了。注意观察。

With her light brown hair, green eyes, high cheekbones, and fragile aura, she was very attractive.

她有一头浅褐色的秀发，绿眼睛，高颧骨，有些柔弱，十分迷人。

The boy smiled faintly-so very, very faintly-and put his hand upon his friend's gray head.

男孩子有气无力地微笑了——简直柔弱极了——并且把手放在他朋友斑白的头发上面。

He saw her in her white dress among the leaves, a pale, shining figure in the dark.

他看到了在一堆树叶中穿着白色衣裙的她，黑暗中一个柔弱、美丽的身影。