有其父必有其子

有天打電話給獨居的老爸，手機一直關機，作為子女的我們都不在身邊，焦急萬分的我們想盡各種辦法找。找樓下的人去敲門但沒人應，打電話給小區保安詢問，甚至小區附近的小賣部都問過……終于老爸的電話通了，我們長舒了一口氣。老爸后來告訴我們，幾乎全小區的人都知道他的子女在拼命找他，言語中他流露出的是感動和開心。老爸是愛我們的，雖然他不善于表達。作為子女的我們，多向自己的老爸表達愛意吧，讓他的日子每天都是父親節！

Like Father， Like Son

On a third Sunday in June， Americans take time to recognize and thank a special person in the family—fathers！ Father’s Day celebrates the importance of fathers， young and old， and the men thought of as father figures.

“Like father， like son” is probably the most common father expression. It means a boy is very much like his father， and sons often do what their fathers did before them. This can be a good thing or a bad thing.

Harry Chapin’s song， Cat’s in the Cradle， was popular in the 1970s. He sings about a father who did not spend time with his son. His son grew up to be a man who did not have time for his aging father. Like father， like son.

“…And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me， he’d grown up just like me. My boy was just like me.”

The words “the child is father of the man” come from the William Wordsworth poem My Heart Leaps Up. It means people’s personalities form when they are children. They will most likely have the same qualities as an adult that they had as a child.

Used in everyday speech， one could say， “In his case， the child was father of the man； he loved nature as a child and now works as a botanist.”

Let’s say you want to tell a child a story about something that happened long before they were born. You could say it happened when they “were just a twinkle in their father’s eyes”. This expression has a humorous and dreamy feel. Here， the word “twinkle”suggests the interest your father had in your mother.

When a much older man is interested in a much younger woman and supports her with his money， he is called her “sugar daddy”. The money part is very important—that’s the sugar.

Sometimes fathers are not a good influence or active in the lives of their children. In that case， a person may look for a father figure， a man who is not actually the person’s father but who acts like one.

The relationship between a man and his son can be complex.

There is a time when the son wants to grow into his own man—something described often in literature. Author Tom Wolfe wrote about a father and son relationship in his 1987 book， “The Bonfire of the Vanities”.

“Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later...that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy， a boy much like himself， a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and， as best he could， out of a sense of duty and， perhaps love， adopted a role called Being a Father.”

Rarely are father and son relationships as complex as they are in the film series Star Wars. Luke Skywalker， the hero， fights against the evil Darth Vader. Then， Vader gives Luke the shock of his life.

（Soundbite of Star Wars）

The words “I am your father” are now part of American pop culture. And it’s more fun if you say it like Darth Vader.

The relationship between a father and daughter is often simpler. The expression “daddy’s little girl” is understood to mean that， in a father’s eyes， his daughter can do no wrong.

There is usually not a dry eye at any wedding during the traditional father-and-daughter dance， especially if they are dancing to a song like Michael Bublé’s Daddy’s Little Girl.

（Soundbite of Daddy’s Little Girl）

like father， like son意思是有其父必有其子，類似的說法有Like author， like book.（書如其人。）

the child is father of the man 直譯是孩子是成人之父。出自英國著名詩人威廉·華茲華斯的詩歌《我心雀躍》（My Heart Leaps Up），意思和中國人所說的“三歲看大”差不多，指一個人性格上好與壞的特征都是在孩童時期就建立了。

sugar daddy 美國口語，意思是甜爹（以年輕女人為情人的老頭子），（在青年女子身上濫花錢的）老色鬼。

I’m your father 是《星球大戰》中最著名的臺詞之一。在好萊塢電影里，經常引用《星球大戰》第五集里，達斯·維達對天行者盧

克說的話：“No， I am your father！”（不，我是你的父親！）。這句話使該場景成為了星球大戰中最著名的一幕。