第607期:英语美文-Three Passions I have Lived for(在线收听) |
New Words: anguish n. 痛苦; 苦恼; Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong,have governed my life: the longing for love, thesearch for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, likegreat winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course over a deep ocean ofanguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. 三种单纯而极其强烈的激情支配着我的一生,那就是对于爱情的渴望,对于知识的寻求,以及对于人类苦难痛彻肺腑的怜悯。这些激情犹如狂风,把我伸展到绝望边缘的深深苦海上空东抛西掷,使我的生活没有定向。 I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy-ecstasy so great that I would often havesacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy. I have sought it, next, because itrelieves loneliness-that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over therim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because inthe union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven thatsaints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good forhuman life, this is what-at last-I have found. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men.I have wished to know why the stars shine…A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But alwayspity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children infamine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, andthe whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life shouldbe. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chancewere offered me. |
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