【39】美不美，家乡水；亲不亲，故乡人。
——《增广贤文》

投票：外方评委 5人投票 ★ ，中方评委 8人投票 ●

1．East or west，hometown and its people are always the best．

（王毅借用） ★★●●●●●

2．Nowhere is more beautiful than homeland，no one is more intimate than fellow villagers．

（张晓阳译） ★●●●●●●

3．As for scenery or people，home is best，because elsewhere I'm just a guest．

（华卫译） ★★●●●

4．Who can be closer than people from one's native land？

（倪庆行译） ★★●●●

5．Friends or not，meeting hometown fellows I feel blessed．

（石永浩译） ●●●●●

6．Beautiful or not，home river is the best；friendly or not，country fellows are the closest．

（杨中仁译） ★●●●

7．Sweet or not，water in hometown is tasty；close or not，people in hometown is lovely．

（丁如伟译） ★●●●

8．Lovely，lovely，my town's scenery．Affable，affable，my townspeople．

（铁冰译） ●●●●

9．To a wanderer，the sweetest water and the dearest people are always in his hometown．

（王成杰译） ★★●

10．Hometown landscapes are the prettiest art．Hometown folks are most dear to my heart．

（冯雷译） ●●●

11．The homeland is the most beautiful and the country fellow is the dearest．

（艾朝阳译） ★★

12．Since my hometown is the place where I was born and grew up，the landscape and folks there are the most lovely in my mind，no matter wherever I am．

（郁序新译） ★★

13．At all times，hometown is always so cheerful and beautiful；a all places，natives never fail to be near and dear．

（王绍昌译） ●●

14．One's hometown water tastes like nectar；each holds his town-fellows most dear．

（王昌玲译） ★

15．What can be nicer than one's native landscape？Hometown's river has the most splendid water，and hometown folks’smile is the most touching．

（叶如钢译） ★

16．No water is better than the water in our hometown；no bonds are stronger than the ties to our hometown．

（王梅兰译） ★

17．The sweetest water and the dearest people reside in my hometown．

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