15世纪的儿童礼仪书告诉孩子们不要贪吃奶酪

15世纪的儿童礼仪书告诉孩子们不要贪吃奶酪

Apparently, nose picking is (s)not just a bad habit of modern kids.

显然，抠鼻子不只是现代孩子的坏习惯。

Medieval children also needed to be warned not to go digging for gold, not to mention not to hog the cheese and, of course, burp like you have a bean in your throat.

中世纪的孩子也需要被警告不要去挖鼻子，更不要去吃奶酪，还有，打嗝就像你喉咙里有一颗豆子。

A 15th-century guide to children’s etiquette has just been digitized for everyone to enjoy — and it seems kids then weren’t much different than kids now.

一本15世纪的儿童礼仪指南刚刚被数字化，让每个人都能享受到——当时的孩子们似乎和现在的孩子们没什么不同。

The conduct book, The Lytille Childrenes Lytil Boke, intended to teach table manners, is available online at the British Library, and, according to The Guardian, exhorts children to “pyke notte thyne errys nothyr thy nostrellys” (don’t pick your ears and nose); to “spette not ovyr thy tabylle” (don’t spit at the table); “Bulle not as a bene were in thi throote,” (don’t burp like you had a bean in your throat); “And chesse cum by fore the, be not to redy,” (don’t be greedy with cheese); and “‘Loke thou laughe not, nor grenne / And with moche speche thou mayste do synne.” (don’t laugh, grin talk too much).

这本名为《Lytille Childrenes Lytil Boke》的礼仪书旨在教会孩子们餐桌礼仪，目前已在大英图书馆的网上出售。据《卫报》报道，该书告诫孩子们“不要抠耳朵和鼻子”;“不要在餐桌上吐痰”(不要在用餐时吐痰);“不要像喉咙里有豆子一样打嗝”(不要像喉咙里有豆子一样打嗝);(不要贪吃奶酪);(不要大笑，咧嘴太大的笑)。

The book is online, according to the Guardian “as part of a new children’s literature website bringing together original manuscripts, interviews, and drafts” by authors from Lewis Carroll to Jacqueline Wilson.

据《卫报》报道，这本书是由刘易斯·卡罗尔和杰奎琳·威尔逊等作家合著的原创手稿、访谈和草稿的儿童文学网站的一部分。

The medieval text is part of the British Library’s own collection, and by listing all the many things that medieval children should not do, it also gives us a hint of the mischief they got up to.

中世纪文本是大英图书馆自己收藏的一部分，通过列举中世纪儿童不应该做的许多事情，也让我们看到了他们所犯下的恶作剧。