Beneath the Banyan Tree”的英语相关表达方法。

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For readers who want to understand more about the Philippines, I would like to recommend to them this rare book of a family history: Beneath the Banyan Tree.
要想多些认识菲律宾的读者，我会向他们推荐这本罕见的家史︰《榕树荫下》。

This superbly researched chronicle is supported by rare photographs, maps and letters. It depicts the minutiae of life in the Philippines. Such minutiae include interesting terminology: such as Chinos, or Mestizos, and Terno (which is the beautiful puff-sleeved national dress for women) etc.
透过精心研究，这本年代记录书带有罕见的照片、地图及信件。它描写着菲律宾生活的各种点点滴滴细节︰包括有当地的特别字眼来描写中国人；或者混血的中国人；及宾妇所穿的美丽的大袖子国家服装等。

The book is written with a personal focus and the author is the daughter of a Philippine ambassador to the United Kingdom. She is also the daughter-in-law of Sir Kenneth Fung Ping-fan in Hong Kong.
本书是位菲律宾驻英大使的千金所著的个人经历，她也是香港名门望族冯秉芬爵士的媳妇。

Chinese life in the Philippines
This chronicle covers four generations of the Lichauco family, which migrated in the 19th century from Tong'an to settle down in the Philippines. The book straddles different places across the Pacific Ocean, from Hong Kong and China to the Philippines and the USA.
这本时代录记载着四代在菲律宾的李草哥家史，李氏于十九世纪从中国同安县移居到菲律宾。这故事跨越太平洋各地，包括中国与香港、菲律宾、美国等国家。

Written with the objectivity of a historian, this gripping story unfolds the history of the Philippines before our very eyes. From this book, readers also get a glimpse of how Chinese migrants survived, how they settled down there and made the Philippines their home.
从此书客观的历史性内容，读者更可瞥见当日的华侨如何生存，直到他们安居乐业地定居在菲律宾。

Each interesting episode is told skillfully and dispassionately, revealing the pre-World War II history of the Philippines; the fight for independence from their Spanish colonisers in a turbulent bygone age; through the Japanese occupation during WWII to the modern day Philippines, with Hong Kong serving as an important backdrop.
以客观的历史学家的眼光，作者一页一页地展开菲律宾紧张的历史故事。每个有趣的插曲，灵巧地、真实地揭露着菲律宾在第二次世界大战前后的经历，从抗西班牙殖民的动荡日子起，透过日本占领的时刻，直到现在的菲律宾。香港所扮演的重要背景角色，也同时显露出来。

Published by CBL Fung
Printed in HK by The Green Pagoda Press Limited 2009.
Cornelia (Nelly) Lichauco Fung is the eldest daughter of Marcial and Jessie Lichauco.

Born in the Philippines, she was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart. Later she went to the US and studied at the Wellesley College, where she graduated with a BA degree in History. She further pursued post graduate studies at the School of Education of London University, the UK.