El Dorado 黄金国 (罗伯特.路易斯.史蒂文森) |
人生在世，能够得到的东西似乎很多.世间充满联姻婚嫁和决战厮杀。无论身在何处，在每天的固定时刻，我们最终都会不可避免地会将一份食物津津有味地吞入腹中。乍一看，似乎竭尽全力去获得是喧嚣人生的一个目标。但是，从精神层面上来看，这只不过是一个假象。我们身处在一个上升的阶段，生活幸福，好事连连，永无止境。目光长远的人，视野总是开阔；尽管我们居住在这个小星球上，为日常琐事而忙，生命短暂，且希望就像群星那样遥不可及，但我们生来生命不熄，希望不止。真正的幸福在于我们怎样开始而不是怎样结束，在于我们想要什么而不是我们拥有什么。渴望永远是一种快乐，是像不动产一样坚实的财产，是我们用之不竭，年年给予我们快乐的财富。要想拥有这一切就要达到精神富有。对于那些既没有艺术也没有科学灵感的人来说，世界只不过是颜色的混合体，或是一条崎岖的小路，走在其上他们很可能会摔伤小腿。正是人类的渴望和好奇心才使得我们充满耐心地继续生存；才使得我们被芸芸众生而吸引；才使得我们每日清晨醒来都会以新的面貌愉快地投入到工作中。渴望和好奇是人们用来观察这个五彩缤纷世界的两只眼睛：他们使女性美丽，化石有趣：只要有这两道护身符，即使他将财产挥霍而尽，沦为乞丐，如果仍快乐的话，他依然是富有的。假设一个人吃得一顿饭紧凑而丰盛，他将不会再挨饿；假设他一眼就把世间万象看透，那他对知识就不会那么渴求；假设他在每个经验领域都是如此，那他从此以后还有任何乐趣而言么？ 一位徒步旅行的人包中只装有一本书，他仔细研读，时常停下来思考，且经常掩卷沉思，凝望风景或观赏客栈里的字画。因为他恐怕乐趣一旦结束，剩下的旅途时光将孤寂无伴。最近一位年轻人读完了托马斯竹笋的营养价值.卡莱尔的作品，如果我没记错的话，他将关于腓特列大帝的笔记整整作了十本。“怎么？”这个年轻人惊叫道，“苏烈出装再也没有卡莱尔的作品了？那我只好读报纸了？”代理商品一个更出名的例子是关于亚历山大的。他痛哭流涕，因为已没有国家让他去征服了。当吉本写完《罗马帝国兴亡史》，也就兴奋了一阵子；他怀着一种清醒而又忧郁的心情与他的劳动成果作别。 我们兴奋地把箭射向月亮，但都一无所获；我们的希望都寄托在遥不可及的黄金国上；我们无果而终。就像芥菜一样，收获兴趣只是为了下次的播种。你会认为孩子出生了，一切麻烦都会到此为止；其实这只是新的烦恼的开始；因为你要看着他成长，入学，最终成家，哎！每天都会有新的恐惧，新的复杂情感；你子孙们的健康就像你的健康一样使你牵肠挂肚。同样，当你已经娶妻，你会认为你已到了顶，可以步履舒缓地下坡了。但这只是恋爱的结束，婚姻的开始。对于傲慢自大和桀骜不驯的人来说相爱和赢得爱情都是困难的；但爱情的维持也很重要，做到这一点夫妻之间就须相敬如宾。真正的爱情故事从圣坛开始，摆在每对新人面前的是一场关于智慧和大度的最壮观的竞争，且他们要为不可能实现的理想奋斗终身。不可能实现？啊，当然不可能了，这正是因为他们是两个人而不是一个人。 布道者抱怨，快门“著书无终。”但却没有觉察到他正对作家这一行业评价是多么地高。确实，著书立说，体验，旅行，积聚财富都是没有止境的。一个问题引发了另一个问题。我们必须终身学习，我们永远也不会如期望的那样博学。我们从来没有塑造出我们梦中的塑像。当我们发现一个新大陆或穿越一座山脉时，却发现在远方还有海洋和山川。宇宙茫茫，即使我们再勤勉也没有尽头。它不像卡莱尔的著作那样可以读完。即使在其一隅，在一私人花园，在一村庄附近，天气和季节的变化是这样的迅速无常，以致尽管我们终生生活其中，也总会对周围的新奇事物感到欣喜与吃惊。 世上只有一种可以实现的愿望；只有一样事物绝对能够得到：是死亡。死有百态，但无一人能告诉我们死的究竟值不值得。 当我们不作休息，不停地走向幻想时，一幅奇异的画面展现出来：不知疲倦，勇于冒险的先锋。确实我们将永远不会到达目的地；甚至很可能不存在这样的地方；即使我们活上几百年，被赋予神的力量，最终也会发现自己没有接近所欲到达的目标多少。啊，辛劳的双手！啊，不知疲倦的双脚，并不知道向何方而去。就快要到了，你就会觉得自己一定会登上某个光辉的山顶，但再走几步，在夕阳下，你就会看到黄金国那些尖尖的塔顶。你并不知道自己有多么地幸福；因为满怀希望地前进，更胜于到达目的地。真正的成功就是奋斗。 电子邮件的特点 注： ①本篇标题为西班牙文，意为“黄金国”，指人类理想中的乐园，揭示出只有通过不断的努力，才能挖掘幸福人生的奥妙所在，只有为了理想坚持奋斗才能获得成功。 IT ems as if a great deal were attainable in a world where there are so many marriages and decisive battles, and where we all, at certain hours of the day, and with great gusto and despatch, stow a portion of victuals finally and irretrievably into the bag which contains us. And it would em also, on a hasty view, that the attainment of as much as possible was the one goal of man's contentious life. And yet, as regards the spirit, this is but a mblance. We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless ries. There is always a new horizon for onward-looking men, and although we dwell on a small planet, immerd in petty business and not enduring beyond a brief period of years, we are so constituted that our hopes are inaccessible, like stars, and the term of hoping is prolonged until the term of life. To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have. An aspiration is a joy for ever, a posssion as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. To have many of the is to be spiritually rich. Life is only a 114网址very dull and ill- directed theatre unless we have some interests in the piece; and to tho who have neither art nor science, the world is a mere arrangement of colours, or a rough footway where they may very well break their shins. It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he es the world in the most enchanted colours: it is they that make women beautiful or fossils interesting: and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps the two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure. Suppo he could take one meal so compact and comprehensive that he should never hunger any more; suppo him, at a glance, to take in all the features of the world and allay the desire for knowledge; suppo him to do the like in any province of experience - would not that man be in a poor way for amument ever after? One who goes touring on foot with a single volume in his knapsack reads with circumspection, pausing often to reflect, and often laying the book down to contemplate the landscape or the prints in the inn parlour; for he fears to come to an end of his entertainment, and be left companionless on the last stages of his journey. A young fellow recently finished the works of Thomas Carlyle, winding up, if we remember aright, with the ten note-books upon Frederick the Great. "What!" cried the young fellow, in consternation, "is there no more Carlyle? Am I left to the daily papers?" A more celebrated instance is that of Alexander, who wept bitterly becau he had no more worlds to subdue. And when Gibbon had finished the DECLINE AND FALL, he had only a few moments of joy; and it was with a "sober melancholy" that he parted from his labours. 葡萄糖代谢 Happily we all shoot at the moon with ineffectual arrows; our hopes are t on inaccessible El Dorado; we come to an end of nothing here below. Interests are only plucked up to sow themlves again, like mustard. You would think, when the child was born, there would be an end to trouble; and yet it is only the beginning of fresh anxieties; and when you have en it through its teething and its education, and at last its marriage, alas! it is only to have new fears, new quivering nsibilities, with every day; and the health of your children's children grows as touching a concern as that of your own. Again, when you have married your wife, you would think you were got upon a hilltop, and might begin to go downward by an easy slope. But you have only ended courting to begin marriage. Falling in love and winning love are often difficult tasks to overbearing and rebellious spirits; but to keep in love is also a business of some importance, to which both man and wife must bring kindness and goodwill. The true love story commences at the altar, when there lies before the married pair a most beautiful contest of wisdom and generosity, and a life-long struggle towards an unattainable ideal. Unattainable? Ay, surely unattainable, from the very fact that they are two instead of one. "Of making books there is no end," complained the Preacher; and did not perceive how highly he was praising letters as an occupation. There is no end, indeed, to making books or experiments, or to travel, or to gathering wealth. Problem gives ri to problem. We may study for ever, and we are never as learned as we would. We have never made a statue worthy of our dreams. And when we have discovered a continent, or crosd a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. In the infinite univer there is room for our swiftest diligence and to spare. It is not like the works of Carlyle, which can be read to an end. Even in a corner of it, in a private park, or in the neighbourhood of a single hamlet, the weather and the asons keep so deftly changing that although we walk there for a lifetime there will be always something new to startle and delight us. 爱播There is only one wish realisable on the earth; only one thing that can be perfectly attained: Death. And from a variety of circumstances we have no one to tell us whether it be worth attaining. A strange picture we make on our way to our chimaeras, cealessly marching, grudging ourlves the time for rest; indefatigable, adventurous pioneers. It is true that we shall never reach the goal; it is even more than probable that there is no such place; and if we lived for centuries and were endowed with the powers of a god, we should find ourlves not much nearer what we wanted at the end. O toiling hands of mortals! O unwearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it ems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the tting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blesdness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. |
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