Maybe we can just marvel at the efforts of people over millennia, from the Buddha sitting under the Bodhi tree to the modern philosopher and neuroscientist who has asked themselves the question " Who am I? "

也许我只需惊叹于人在过去千年里付出的努力，有坐在菩下的释迦牟尼，也有现代的哲学家和神经学家，他都在问自己“我是谁”这个问题。

It's said that the Buddha achieved enlightenment during a deep meditation under the Bodhi tree.

据说佛陀是在菩下禅坐开悟的。

Alexander Platz, Thomas Mann is savouring his Noble Prize for literature in the shade of linden trees of Avenue of the Linden.

托马斯·曼在亚历山广场菩下道的菩下，欣赏自己的诺贝尔文学奖。

It was plain enough that the good old couple were now to spend a quiet hundred years or so, Philemon as an oak, and Baucis as a linden tree.

很明显，现在那对善良的老年夫妇要安静的度过概上百年了，菲利蒙是棵橡，而柏西斯是棵菩。

Until shortly before then, the Buddha had been represented only by sets of symbols the tree under which he achieved enlightenment, a pair of footprints, and so on.

在那之前，教直用些象征物来代表佛陀，如他开悟时的菩、双脚印等等。

The beautiful young lady woke up. She secretly went out of her room and dug under the linden-tree as the elf had said.

姑娘醒来后偷偷地离开房间。按照精灵所说在菩下挖出了她的爱人。

The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.

玫瑰开得正艳，两只夜莺各自在密林里呢喃，只杜鹃在菩梢开始唱得走了调。

Their city housed an offshoot of the Bodhi tree under which Buddha himself was said to have attained enlightenment.

他的城市安置了 菩的棵分支。据说，佛陀本人在菩下得到了启迪。

The house was an oldfashioned, widespread, oak-beamed brick building, with a fine lime-lined avenue leading up to it.

特雷佛的宅邸是所老式的、面积很的栎木梁砖瓦房，门前有条通道，两旁是茂盛的菩。

This didn't stop him from achieving enlightenment, which happened when he meditated alone under the Bodhi tree.

这些轻视并没有阻止他求道，最终他孤独的在菩下打坐时开悟了。

He drew his sword and cut the young man and buried him under a linden-tree.

他拔出剑，砍下了小伙子的脑袋并把他葬棵菩下。

" I am old Baucis! " murmured the linden tree.

我是老柏西斯！那棵菩喃喃地说道。

Rocked him in his linden cradle.

摇着他的菩摇篮。

After many experiences he finally sat under a pipal tree and meditated without moving for 49 days until, at last, he achieved enlightenment-freedom from greed, hate, and delusion.

在漫长的苦行生活之后，他在棵菩下打坐，悟道49天后终于开悟，脱离了人生的贪、嗔、痴。

One was an oak, and the other a linden tree.

棵是橡，另棵是菩。

There the Buddha is referred to through the tree below which he sat, where he became awakened, which is the meaning of Buddha in fact-to be awakened.

他曾于其下打坐的那裸菩开悟。

What I am trying to say now is not a dream. If you dig under the linden-tree in the garden, you will find your fiance.

我现在要说的不是梦，如果你去挖花园里那棵菩下，会看到你死去的未婚夫。

This will develop towards even a more elaborated structure, where you can have, in place of the tree, a flaming pillar, which means that out of the Buddha emerges light.

之后的象征手法变得愈加精巧，他用燃烧的柱子代替菩，火焰象征着佛陀发出的光芒。

Unter den Linden, under the linden trees, the name of a street in Berlin, Germany.

Unter den Linden，菩下，德国柏林条街道的名字。

Day by day I look at the coral buds on the lime-tree.

日复日，我看着菩上的珊瑚芽。