中英文化通：猴年祝福語

猴年吉祥

Good luck for this Monkey year

猴年大吉

Lots of luck for this Monkey year

猴年送你五只猴：

This Monkey year, I give you five monkeys:

機靈詭秘如獼猴，

the ingenuity1 of the macaque,

健康快樂像馬猴，

the health and happiness of the monkey,

悠閑富貴似猴子，

the leisure and wealth of monkey-kind,

無憂無慮比猿猴，

the lightheartedness of apes and monkeys,

聰明伶俐勝孫猴。

and intelligence and wit surpassing the Monkey King.

祝你猴年前程

I wish you in the Monkey year ahead

一個筋斗十萬八千里，

a somersault of 9,000 kilometers (18,000 li),

兼七十二變混世才學，

72 simultaneous transformations2 in scholarliness,

具八十一種創業本領。

and 81 kinds of creative skill