Quora精选：孩子们说过的最聪明的话
Answered by Andy Dent
Andy Dent的回答：
Trying to see if my daughter, maybe 4 or 5, was a pessimist or an optimist, I poured a half-glass of water and asked her: "Would you say that was half-full or half-empty?"
在女儿四五岁的时候，为了测试她是悲观还是乐观主义者，我倒了半杯水，问她：“你觉得这杯子是半满呢还是半空呢？”
Her response: "That depends if you're drinking it or filling it."
她回答：“这就要看你是要喝水还是倒水了。”
She is now grown up, teaching primary school and utterly adored by the kids she teaches.
她现在长大了，在小学教书，深受学生们爱戴。
Answered by Elangkumaran Jayabarathi
Elangkumaran Jayabarathi的回答：
This happened when I was teaching fractions to a kid at an NGO:
我在一个非政府组织教一个孩子分数的时候，发生了这么一件事：
I asked him: "How do you serve 3 apples to 4 people?" (expecting the answer of 3/4 apples per person) After a brief pause, the kid replied: "I'll make apple juice and serve one glass to each." Even though it was not the answer I was looking for, I was impressed.
我问他：“3个苹果要怎么分给4个人呢？”（我以为他会回答分给每人3/4个）
他想了想，很快答道：“我会把苹果榨成汁，然后每人分一杯。”
这虽然不是我希望得到的答案，但给我留下了深刻的印象。
P.S. I applied the kid's approach to solve a tough programming task later in the day.
那一天晚些时候，我用这个孩子的方法解决了一个棘手的编程问题。
Answered by Namrata Srivastava Patil
Namrata Srivastava Patil的回答：
My daughter at 7, was looking introspectively at the mirror. I asked her what she was thinking and she said, "My brain is so weird—it wants to think about me me me all the time, like I am the center of the Universe or something!. Mummy, Daddy has that ever happened to you?"
一天，我7岁的女儿若有所思地站在镜子前。我问她在想什么，她说：“我的脑子好奇怪啊——它总是在想着‘我我我’，就好像我是宇宙的中心或什么的！爸爸妈妈，你们也会这样吗？”
Answered by Narendra Singh
Narendra Singh的回答：
I asked a 5 year old kid to recite the multiplication table of 8. He recited it like this:
我曾让一个5岁的孩子背8的乘法表。他是这样背的：
8 1's are 8
8 2's are 16
8 4's are 32
8 9's are 72
8 7's are 56
...
一八得八
二八十六
四八三十二
九八七十二
七八五十六
……
I suggested to him that he didn't know what came after 2 or 3, since he had recited so randomly.
见他不按顺序背，我问他是不是不知道2或者3后面是什么。
Then he replied: "I did this way so that you may not feel that I am adding up, everyone says that I add up."
他回答：“我这样背你可能就不会觉得我只是在单纯地累加了，每个人都说我只是在做加法。”
Answered by Anonymous
匿名回答：
Driving around with my preschool age son, I would occasionally point out a particularly attractive woman and he would remind me that I was married. One time when I replied that just because I had ordered didn't mean I couldn't still look at the menu, he took time to consider that logic and after a while pointed out: "Dad... after you order, they take the menu away."
开车带我还没上小学的儿子到处逛，我时不时会指着某个大美女点评一番，儿子就会提醒我我已经结婚了。有一次我反驳说，即使点完菜我也还是可以看菜单啊，他就这一逻辑思索了一会儿，然后说：“爸爸……点完菜菜单就会被收走了呀。”
Answered by Ankit Arora
Ankit Arora的回答：
Someone asked my 2 year old cousin: "What color is an apple?" He replied: "inside or outside?"
有人问我两岁的表弟：“苹果是什么颜色的？”
他反问：“里面还是外面？”
Answered by Ron Maimon
Ron Maimon的回答：
A physicist I met once told me he asked his 6 year old son to imagine standing on top of a big ball in outer space. Then, he told his son, he looks over the edge, and there is a person on the other side of the ball, upside down, with feet on the bottom of the ball. He asked his son: "will that upside-down person fall off the ball?" His son thought about it, and said: "If the other person looks at me, he sees my feet, and I'm upside down to him. I'm not falling off, so he doesn't fall off."
有一次我遇见了一位物理学家，他跟我说他曾经让6岁的儿子想象自己站在外太空一个巨大的球上。接着，他告诉他儿子，向着球体边缘的方向看过去，能看到一个人头朝下脚朝上，站在球的另一端。他问：“那个人会掉下去吗？”儿子想了想，回答道：“如果那个人看到我，他会看见我的脚，那我对他来说一样也是脚朝上、头朝下的了。既然我不会掉下去，那么他也不会掉下去。”
Answered by Mike Hoffman
Mike Hoffman的回答：
My mother's friend's kid, 5 y.o., was in a religion class once (coming from a Catholic country). The priest was giving a lesson on what 'Sin' was. At the end of the class there was a recap. The priest asked: "So, what prevents us from going to Heaven?"
我母亲朋友的孩子5岁时，在一个宗教班上课（他们来自一个天主教国家）。当时牧师讲课的内容是“何谓‘罪恶’”。课程结束时要做一个要点回顾，牧师问：“那么，是什么阻挡我们上天堂呢？”
"Gravity" was the answer given by the five year old.
“重力！”那个五岁的小朋友这样回答。
