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工作和娛樂(lè)
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use starting late in life to say: “I will take an interest in this or that.” Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort. A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly get any benefit or relief. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do. Broadly speaking, human being may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death. It is no use offering the manual laborer, tired out with a hard week’s sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend.
要想真正生活得幸福和平安，一個(gè)人至少應(yīng)該有兩三種業(yè)余愛(ài)好，而且必須是真正的愛(ài)好。到了晚年才開(kāi)始說(shuō)“我要培養(yǎng)這個(gè)或那個(gè)興趣”是毫無(wú)用處的，種這種嘗試只會(huì)增加精神上的負(fù)擔(dān)。在與自己日常工作無(wú)關(guān)的領(lǐng)域中，一個(gè)人可以獲得淵博的知識(shí)，但卻很難有所收益或得到放松。做自己喜歡的事是無(wú)益的，你得喜歡自己所做的事。廣而言之，人可以分為三個(gè)類別：勞累而死的人，憂慮而死的人和無(wú)聊而死的人。對(duì)于那些體力勞動(dòng)者來(lái)說(shuō)，一周辛苦的工作使他們精疾力竭，因此在周六下午給他們提供踢足球或者打棒球的機(jī)會(huì)是沒(méi)有意義的。對(duì)于政界人士，專業(yè)人士或者商人來(lái)說(shuō)，他們已經(jīng)為棘手的事務(wù)操勞或者煩惱了六天，因此在周末請(qǐng)他們?yōu)楝嵤聞谏裢瑯雍翢o(wú)意義。
It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one. Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations. The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. But Fortune’s favored children belong to the second class. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vacation. Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential. Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.
或者可以這么說(shuō)，理智的，勤奮的，有用的人可以分為兩類：對(duì)第一類人而言，工作就是工作，娛樂(lè)就是娛樂(lè);對(duì)于第二類人而言，工作和娛樂(lè)是合二為一的。很大一部分人屬于前者。他們可以得到相應(yīng)的補(bǔ)償。在辦公室或工廠里長(zhǎng)時(shí)間的工作，不僅帶給他們維持生計(jì)的金錢，還帶給他們一種渴求娛樂(lè)的強(qiáng)烈欲望，哪怕這種娛樂(lè)消遣是以最簡(jiǎn)單，最淳樸的方式進(jìn)行的。而第二類人則是命運(yùn)的寵兒。他們的生活自然而和諧。在他們看來(lái)，工作時(shí)間永遠(yuǎn)不夠多，每天都是假期;而當(dāng)正常的假日到來(lái)時(shí)，他們總會(huì)抱怨自己有趣的休假被強(qiáng)行中斷。然而，有一些東西對(duì)于這兩類人來(lái)說(shuō)都十分必要，那就是變換一下視角，改變一下氛圍，嘗試做點(diǎn)不同的事情。事實(shí)上，那些把工作看作娛樂(lè)的人可能是需要以某種方式將工作不時(shí)地驅(qū)趕出自己的大腦。
人生如詩(shī)
I think that, from a biological standpoint, human life almost reads like a poem. It has its own rhythm and beat, its internal cycles of growth and decay. It begins with innocent childhood, followed by awkward adolescence trying awkwardly to adapt itself to mature society, with its young passions and follies, its ideals and ambitions; then it reaches a manhood of intense activities, profiting from experience and learning more about society and human nature; at middle age, there is a slight easing of tension, a mellowing of character like the ripening of fruit or the mellowing of good wine, and the gradual acquiring of a more tolerant, more cynical and at the same time a kindlier view of life; then In the sunset of our life, the endocrine glands decrease their activity, and if we have a true philosophy of old age and have ordered our life pattern according to it, it is for us the age of peace and security and leisure and contentment; finally, life flickers out and one goes into eternal sleep, never to wake up again.
我以為，從生物學(xué)角度看，人的一生恰如詩(shī)歌。人生自有其韻律和節(jié)奏，自有內(nèi)在的生成與衰亡。人生始于無(wú)邪的童年，經(jīng)過(guò)少年的青澀，帶著激情與無(wú)知，理想與雄心，笨拙而努力地走向成熟;后來(lái)人到壯年，經(jīng)歷漸廣，閱人漸多，涉世漸深，收益也漸大;及至中年，人生的緊張得以舒緩，人的性格日漸成熟，如芳馥之果實(shí)，如醇美之佳釀，更具容忍之心，處世雖更悲觀，但對(duì)人生的態(tài)度趨于和善;再后來(lái)就是人生遲暮，內(nèi)分泌系統(tǒng)活動(dòng)減少，若此時(shí)吾輩已經(jīng)悟得老年真諦，并據(jù)此安排殘年，那生活將和平，寧?kù)o，安詳而知足;終于，生命之燭搖曳而終熄滅，人開(kāi)始永恒的長(zhǎng)眠，不再醒來(lái)。
One should be able to sense the beauty of this rhythm of life, to appreciate, as we do in grand symphonies, its main theme, its strains of conflict and the final resolution. The movements of these cycles are very much the same in a normal life, but the music must be provided by the individual himself. In some souls, the discordant note becomes harsher and harsher and finally overwhelms or submerges the main melody. Sometimes the discordant note gains so much power that the music can no longer go on, and the individual shoots himself with a pistol or jump into a river.
人們當(dāng)學(xué)會(huì)感受生命韻律之美，像聽(tīng)交響樂(lè)一樣，欣賞其主旋律、激昂的高潮和舒緩的尾聲。這些反復(fù)的樂(lè)章對(duì)于我們的生命都大同小異，但個(gè)人的樂(lè)曲卻要自己去譜寫(xiě)。在某些人心中，不和諧音會(huì)越來(lái)越刺耳，最終竟然能掩蓋主曲;有時(shí)不和諧音會(huì)積蓄巨大的能量，令樂(lè)曲不能繼續(xù)，這時(shí)人們或舉槍自殺或投河自盡。
But that is because his original leitmotif has been hopelessly over-showed through the lack of a good self-education. Otherwise the normal human life runs to its normal end in kind of dignified movement and procession. There are sometimes in many of us too many staccatos or impetuosos, and because the tempo is wrong, the music is not pleasing to the ear; we might have more of the grand rhythm and majestic tempo o the Ganges, flowing slowly and eternally into the sea.
這是他最初的主題被無(wú)望地遮蔽，只因他缺少自我教育。否則，常人將以體面的運(yùn)動(dòng)和進(jìn)程走向既定的終點(diǎn)。在我們多數(shù)人胸中常常會(huì)有太多的斷奏或強(qiáng)音，那是因?yàn)楣?jié)奏錯(cuò)了，生命的樂(lè)曲因此而不再悅耳。我們應(yīng)該如恒河，學(xué)她氣勢(shì)恢弘而豪邁地緩緩流向大海。
No one can say that life with childhood, manhood and old age is not a beautiful arrangement; the day has its morning, noon and sunset, and the year has its seasons, and it is good that it is so. There is no good or bad in life, except what is good according to its own season. And if we take this biological view of life and try to live according to the seasons, no one but a conceited fool or an impossible idealist can deny that human life can be lived like a poem. Shakespeare has expressed this idea more graphically in his passage about the seven stages of life, and a good many Chinese writers have said about the same thing. It is curious that Shakespeare was never very religious, or very much concerned with religion. I think this was his greatness; he took human life largely as it was, and intruded himself as little upon the general scheme of things as he did upon the characters of his plays. Shakespeare was like Nature itself, and that is the greatest compliment we can pay to a writer or thinker. He merely lived, observed life and went away.
人生有童年、少年和老年，誰(shuí)也不能否認(rèn)這是一種美好的安排，一天要有清晨、正午和日落，一年要有四季之分，如此才好。人生本無(wú)好壞之分，只是各個(gè)季節(jié)有各自的好處。如若我們持此種生物學(xué)的觀點(diǎn)，并循著季節(jié)去生活，除了狂妄自大的傻瓜和無(wú)可救藥的理想主義者，誰(shuí)能說(shuō)人生不能像詩(shī)一般度過(guò)呢。莎翁在他的一段話中形象地闡述了人生分七個(gè)階段的觀點(diǎn)，很多中國(guó)作家也說(shuō)過(guò)類似的話。奇怪的是，莎士比亞并不是虔誠(chéng)的宗教徒，也不怎么關(guān)心宗教。我想這正是他的偉大之處，他對(duì)人生秉著順其自然的態(tài)度，他對(duì)生活之事的干涉和改動(dòng)很少，正如他對(duì)戲劇人物那樣。莎翁就像自然一樣，這是我們能給作家或思想家的最高褒獎(jiǎng)。對(duì)人生，他只是一路經(jīng)歷著，觀察著，離我們遠(yuǎn)去了。
愛(ài)美麗
The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature. It is a moral quality. The absence of it is not an assured ground of condemnation, but the presence of it is an invariable sign of goodness of heart. In proportion to the degree in which it is felt will probably be the degree in which nobleness and beauty of character will be attained.
愛(ài)美及是整個(gè)健全人性不可或缺之一部分。它是一種道德品質(zhì)。缺乏這種品質(zhì)并不能作為受到責(zé)難的充分理由，但是擁有這種品質(zhì)則是心靈美好的永恒標(biāo)志。品德的高尚與美好所達(dá)到的程度可能與對(duì)美的感受程度成正比。
Natural beauty is an all-pervading presence. The universe is its temple. It unfolds into the numberless flowers of spring. It waves in the branches of trees and the green blades of grass. It haunts the depths of the earth and the sea. It gleams from the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects but the oceans, the mountains, the clouds, the stars, the rising and the setting sun---all overflow with beauty. This beauty is so precious, and so congenial to our tenderest and noblest feelings, that it is painful to think of the multitude of people living in the midst of it and yet remaining almost blind to it.
大自然的美無(wú)處不在，整個(gè)宇宙就是美的殿堂。美，在春日百花中綻放;美，在綠葉嫩枝間搖曳;美，在深海幽谷里游弋;美，在奇石與貝殼的繽紛色彩中閃爍。不只是這些細(xì)微之物，還有海洋，山川，云彩，繁星，日升日落 – 一切都是洋溢著美。這樣的美是如此珍貴，與我們最溫柔，最高尚的情愫是如此相宜。然而，想到很多人置身于美之中，卻幾乎對(duì)它熟視無(wú)睹，真是令人痛心不已。
All persons should seek to become acquainted with the beauty in nature. There is not a worm we tread upon, nor a leaf that dances merrily as it falls before the autumn winds, but calls for our study and admiration. The power to appreciated beauty not merely increases our sources of happiness---it enlarges our moral nature, too. Beauty calms our restlessness and dispels our cares. Go into the fields or the woods, spend a summer day by the sea or the mountains, and all your little perplexities and anxieties will vanish. Listen to sweet music, and your foolish fears and petty jealousies will pass away. The beauty of the world helps us to seek and find the beauty of goodness.
所有的人都應(yīng)該去認(rèn)識(shí)大自然之美。沒(méi)有一條我們踩過(guò)的小蟲(chóng)，沒(méi)有一片在秋風(fēng)拂掠之際飛舞的樹(shù)葉不值得我們研究與贊賞。欣賞美的能力不僅增加了我們快樂(lè)的來(lái)源，也加強(qiáng)了我們德性的修養(yǎng)。美使我們不安的心平靜下來(lái)，也驅(qū)散了我們的憂慮。到田野或森林去，在夏日的海邊或山上呆上一天，那么你所有微不足道的困惑與焦慮都會(huì)煙消云散。傾聽(tīng)悅耳的音樂(lè)，你那愚蠢的恐懼與狹隘的嫉妒都會(huì)過(guò)去。世界之美將有助于我們找到為善之美。
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