Chapter One Human Life Like a Poem 人生如诗
I think that; from a biological standpoint;morbid human life almost reads like a poem.男士衣着打扮
网上英语学习我以为;从生物学角度看;人的一生恰如诗歌..
It has its own rhythm and beat; its internal cycles of growth and decay.
人生自有其韵律和节奏;自有内在的生成与衰亡..
No one can say that a life with childhood; manhood and old age is not a beautiful arrangement;
人生有童年、少年和老年;谁也不能否认这是一种美好的安排;
the day has its morning; noon and sunt; and the year has its asons; and it is good
一天要有清晨、正午和日落;一年要有四季之分;如此才好..
that it is so. There is no good or bad in life; theclassicexcept what is good according to its own as
on.
人生本无好坏之分;只是各个季节有各自的好处..arrowhead
And if we take this biological view of life and try to live according to the asons; no one but a conceited fool or an impossible idealist can deny that human life can be lived like a poem.
如若我们持此种生物学的观点;并循着季节去生活;除了狂妄自大的傻瓜和无可救药的理想主义者;谁能说人生不能像诗一般度过呢..
——Lin Yutang
1.We Are on a Journey人在旅途
By Henry Van Dyke
Wherever you are; and whoever you maybe; there is one thing in which you and I are just alike at this moment; and in all the moments of our existence. We are not at rest; we are
on a journey; our life is a movement; a tendency; a steady; cealess progress towards an unen goal. We are gaining something; or losing something; everyday. Even when our position and our character em to remain precily the same; they are changing. For the mere advance of time is a change. It is not the same thing to have a bare field in January and in July; the ason makes the difference. The limitations that are childlike in the child are childish in the man.
无论你在何处;无论你是何人;此刻;而且在我们生命的每时每刻;你与我有一点是类似的..我们不是在休息;我们在旅途中..生命是一种运动;一种趋势;一个稳步、持续的通往一个未知目标的过程..每天;我们都在获得;或失去..尽管我们的地位和性格看起来好像一点都没变;但是它们在变化..因为时光的流逝本身是一种变化..在一月和七月拥有一片贫瘠的土地是不同的;是季节本身带来了变化..孩童时可爱的缺点到了成人时便成了幼稚..
Everything that we do is a step in one direction or another; even the failure to do something is in itlf a deed. It ts us forward or backward. The action of the negative pole of a magnetic needle is just as real as the action of the positive pole. To decline is to accept – the other alternative.pantech
我们做的每件事都是迈向一个或另外一个方向;甚至“什么都没做”本身也是一种行为;它让我们前进或倒退..一棵磁针的阴极的作用与阳极是一样的..拒绝即接受接受反面..
Are you nearer to your port today than you were yesterday Yes; -- you must be a little nearer to some port or other; for since your ship was first lunched upon the a of life; you have never been still for a single moment; the a is too deep; you could not find an anchorage if you would. There can be no pau until you come into port.
你今天比昨天更加接近你的目标了吗 是的;你肯定是离一个或另一个码头或更近一些了..因为自从你的小船从生命的海洋上启航时;你没有哪一刻是停止的..大海是这样深;你想抛锚时找不到地方..在你驶入码头之前;你不可能停留..
2. The True Nobility真正的高贵
By Ernest Hemingway
In a calm a every man is a pilot.
在风平浪静的大海上;每个人都是领航员..
kinsBut all sunshine without shade; all pleasure without pain; is not life at all. Take the lot of the happiest - it is a tangled yarn. Bereavements and blessings; one following another; make us sad and blesd by turns. Even death itlf makes life more loving. Men come clost to their true lves in the sober moments of life; under the shadows of sorrow and loss.
gbp是什么意思但只有阳光没有阴影;只有快乐没有痛苦;根本不是真正的生活.就拿最幸福的人来说;他的生活也是一团缠结在一起的乱麻..痛苦与幸福交替出现;使得我们一会悲伤一会高兴..甚至死亡本身都使得生命更加可爱..在人生清醒的时刻;在悲伤与失落的阴影之下;人们与真实的自我最为接近..
麻省理工大学
In the affairs of life or of business; it is not intellect that tells so much as character; not brains so much as heart; not genius so much as lf-control; patience; and discipline; regulated by judgment.
