请帮忙翻译一点简单古文

琴儿.

5月分要当“佛祖诞生日”活动的自愿者，被分配到翻译一点古文佛语，本人的英文水平实在难以很好的胜任 ，请英文翻译高手现身帮忙翻译一下， 所有翻译统统有分鼓励 ，佛祖也会感谢你们的！
忍
唯有力者能忍
唯有勇者能忍
唯有智者能忍
唯有仁者能忍

astina.

Tolerance
Those who can tolerate are powerful.
Those who can tolerate are brave.
Those who can tolerate are wise.
Those who can tolerate are merciful.
抛砖引玉，等待高手。

longstart.

我觉得反了吧？
Those who are powerful can tolerate.
Those who are brave can tolerate.
Those who are wise can tolerate.
Those who are merciful can tolerate.

astina.

原帖由 longstart 于 2008-4-22 12:35 发表
我觉得反了吧？
Those who are powerful can tolerate.
Those who are brave can tolerate.
Those who are wise can tolerate.
Those who are merciful can tolerate.
恩，我本来是这么翻的，后来琢磨着是不是反过来说，更符合本意？

linjun70.

我试试:
only those are strong can tolerate,
only those are brave can tolerate,
only those are smart can tolerate,
only those are merciful can tolerate

linjun70.

感觉wise比smart用得好，powerful和strong应该都可以，本人倾向于strong，因为strong有坚强的意思，powerful一般指本身实力就很强大

astina.

恩，strong比powerful好，后者是不是跟权利有点关系

philgu.

"perseverance" could be better than tolerance. Just my 2c.

琴儿.

原帖由 philgu 于 2008-4-22 13:05 发表
"perseverance" could be better than tolerance. Just my 2c.
这个词我好像没见过， 刚查了一下字典也没查出来

widelink.

In fact, 力 should be translated as mighty  .