A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
悲伤
Grief
What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.
最让我难过的不是我会死,而是我让父母失望了。我感到非常内疚,为了追求我的梦想职业,牺牲了我的父母。
I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.
我只是想不出,如果孩子们已经失去了伊迪丝,我该怎么办……对我来说,把它们写出来太令人沮丧了。当然,我仍然希望,等待,等待,等待。
The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most. We that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.
我们必须服从这个悲伤时刻的压力,说出我们的感受,而不是我们应该说什么。老大生的最多。我们这些年轻的人将永远看不到这么多,也活不了这么久。
When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.
当你星期六离开的时候,我感到一种可怕的空虚,我到处都能看到你,在海滩上,在你的房间里,在花园里。
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
这本书,构思于悲伤之中,构思于悲伤之中,构建于绝望的边缘,包含了我头脑中最好的思想,以及我的灵魂战胜黑暗力量的胜利。
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
那些被某些事情折磨过的人一想起这些事情就会感到恐惧,这种恐惧会使其他一切快乐都丧失殆尽,甚至在阅读故事时也会如此。
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
什么是诗人?一个不快乐的人,他把极度的痛苦藏在心里,但是他的嘴唇却很结实,当叹息和哭泣从他们身上经过时,听起来就像美妙的音乐。
And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be; And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, And blinding with briars my joys and desires.
我看见里面有许多坟墓,和开满鲜花的坟石。穿着黑色长袍的牧师们在教堂里走来走去,用荆棘刺瞎了我的欢乐和欲望。
It would indeed be the ultimate tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more noble than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.
如果人类的历史被证明只不过是一只猿猴在汽油堆上摆弄一盒火柴的故事,那么这将是一场最终的悲剧。
I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.
我为一个在火灾中丧生的朋友写了这首歌。他在一间被烧毁的房子里洗桑拿,所以他不知道发生了什么事。这是非常悲伤的。
Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.
当这个不幸的消息传遍全城时,人们悲恸不已。这样哀恸的声音、没有听见过、因为合城都震动了。
Here, here will I remain With worms that are thy chambermaids. O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh.
在这里,在这里,我要和你的侍女虫们在一起。啊,我要在这里永远安息,从这厌世的躯体上挣脱厄运之星的枷锁。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope.
破碎的心会在希望中变得更坚强。
There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.
有一种智慧叫悲哀;但有一种悲哀是疯狂的。
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
忍受和坚持;这种痛苦不久就会好转的。
It is right it should be so, Man was made for joy and woe; And when this we rightly know, Through the world we safely go.
应该如此,人是为快乐和悲伤而生的;当我们正确地认识到这一点时,我们就能安全地穿过这个世界。
In your emotions: exercise Joy over sadness.
在你的情绪中:用快乐战胜悲伤。
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
父母的快乐是秘密,他们的悲伤和恐惧也是秘密。