And haiku are super short poems, 17 syllable.

句是超短诗，有17个音节。

That's what an original haiku is.

这是原创句。

Haiku are short poems that are based on syllables and do not rhyme.

句是以音节，不押韵的短诗。

In today's Everyday Grammar, we will look at the cinquain and the haiku.

在今天的《每日语法》课程中，我们来看看五行诗和句。

I thought it was like a folk song, I thought it was like a haiku.

我认它像一首民谣，我认它像一首句。

The story's headline and opening paragraph read like some oblique zen haiku; MYSTERY GIRL FOUND.

这个故事的标题和开头段落读起来像一些隐晦的禅宗句；神秘女孩被发现。

Now, you have the structure for two kinds of poems created by using syllables, haiku and a cinquain.

现在，你知道了两种用音节创作诗句的结构，句和五行诗。

Can you distill your life down into a three-line haiku?

你能把你的生活提炼成三行句吗？

What is that, some kind of Polish haiku?

什么玩意儿 句吗?

So, that's just to show how a haiku can be funny, can be a joke.

所以，这只是了展示句如何变得有趣，如何成一个笑话。

And also, with haiku there is often a philosophical aspect.

而且，对于句，通常有哲学的一面。

In English, haiku can deal with nature, or they can be about anything, as long as the traditional structure is maintained.

在英语中，句可以是关于自然的内容，也可以关于任何事物，只要保持传统的结构可以。

So, the haiku comes from Japan originally.

所以，句最初来自日本。

Tell me, does Dr. Thompson seem like a haiku guy to you, or maybe he'd prefer a good limerick?

告诉我，在你看来，汤普森博士是不是喜欢句，或者他更喜欢打油诗？

So, it's a very simple, straightforward scene, just a description of something in nature, and haiku is often describing something in nature.

所以，这是一个非常简单、直接的场景， 只是描述自然界的一些东西，而句往往是描述自然界的一些东西。

So, first of all, I'd like to thank my students, Kuni and Negu, for their help in training me to recite this haiku in Japanese.

所以，首先，我要感谢我的学生 Kuni 和 Negu，是他们帮助训练我用日语背诵这首句。

Like a haiku that conjures profound imagery within a strict syllabic constraint, minimalist design, too, can conjure beauty and functionality within its self-imposed constraints.

像句在严格的音节限制内唤起深刻的意象一样，极简主义设计也可以在其自我强加的限制内唤起美感和功能性。

Or you can write your idea in a paragraph form or a list, and then fit it to the structure of either a cinquain or a haiku.

或者你可以把你的想法写成段落形式或列表，然后把它放在五行诗或句的结构中。

Compare her language to a haiku, the ancient Japanese poetic form that emphasizes bursts of brief intensity with just three lines of five, seven, and five syllables.

将她的语言与句进行比较，句是一种古老的日本诗歌形式，仅用五、 七和五个音节的三行来强调短暂强度的爆发。

Okay, so here is an example of a modern haiku written by my friend Sarah Lawson who has given us her permission to use her poem.

好的，这是我的朋友莎拉·劳森 (Sarah Lawson) 写的一首现代句的例子， 她允许我们使用她的诗。