And I would ask him, " Share with me your favorite haikus" .

我对他说，" 和我分享下你最喜欢的俳句呗。"

We started by reading haikus, hundreds of haikus, a deceptively simple masterpiece.

我们最开始读俳句，数百首俳句，一种看似简单的杰作。

And haiku are super short poems, 17 syllable.

俳句是超短诗，有17个。

That's what an original haiku is.

这就是原创俳句。

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

俳句是以为基础，不押韵的短诗。

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

在天的《每语法》课程中，我们来看看五行诗和俳句。

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

我认为它就像一首民谣，我认为它像一首俳句。

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

现在，你知道了两种用创作诗句的结构，俳句和五行诗。

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就像一些隐晦的禅宗俳句；神秘女孩被发现。

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

你能把你的生活提炼成三行俳句吗？

What is that, some kind of Polish haiku?

什么玩意儿 波兰俳句吗?

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

所以，这只是为了展示俳句如何变得有趣，如何成为一个笑话。

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

而且，对于俳句，通有哲学的一面。

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，俳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就可以。

So, the haiku comes from Japan originally.

所以，俳句最初来自本。

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俳句，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，这是一个非简单、直接的场景， 只是描述自然界的一些东西，而俳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语背诵这首俳句。

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.

就像俳句在严格的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俳句的结构中。