A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
悲伤
Grief
Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
“主啊,从深处开始,从深处开始,”我们教会最美丽的事奉开始了,我必须从我生命的深处来讲述这个故事。
It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished.
正是当我们含苞欲放的希望被一阵狂风吹得粉碎而无法恢复时,我们才最有可能想象,如果那些花盛开了,它们会开出什么样的花呢?
Blessed is the almost insensitive tree, more blessed is the hard stone that doesn’t feel, for no pain is greater than the pain of being alive, and no sorrow more intense than conscious life.
几乎麻木不仁的树是有福的,感觉不到的坚硬的石头是更有福的,因为没有什么痛苦比活着的痛苦更大,没有什么悲伤比有意识的生活更强烈。
My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?
我母亲从我四岁起就送我去看精神病医生,因为她认为小男孩不应该悲伤。我哥哥出生时,我盯着窗外看了好几天。你能想象吗?
Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.
关于你母亲或任何你爱的人的死亡,有一件事是这样的:你无法预料你死后的感受。人们会告诉你;一些可能接近正确,没有一个完全正确。
I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.
我开始认为真的没有治愈抑郁症的方法,幸福是一场持续不断的战斗,我想知道,如果不是这样,我将不得不为之奋斗终生。我不知道是否值得。
Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world’s anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.
由于他的行为能力是通过环境和压力被迫进入罪恶的渠道,人在成为道德之前是强大的。世界上的痛苦是由二十到四十岁的人造成的。
All things they have in common, being so poor, And their one fear, Death’s shadow at the door. Each sundown makes them mournful, each sunrise Brings back the brightness in their failing eyes.
他们有许多共同之处,都是那么穷,他们唯一的恐惧就是死神在门口的阴影。每一次日落都使他们悲伤,每一次日出都使他们衰弱的眼睛恢复光彩。
To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.
要面对殴打或伤害妇女或儿童的残酷现实,要应对你最初没有这样做的责任以及你确实这样做的知识,可能会非常困难。
I think it is tragic that a situation should arise where civilians on any side are killed. But it is almost a cliche to say that it is virtually unavoidable and this isn't unique to us alone.
我认为,出现任何一方的平民被杀害的情况是悲惨的。但是,说这几乎是不可避免的几乎是陈词滥调,而且这并不是我们所独有的。
The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.
敏锐的人的悲痛并不是对一个女人八十多年的死亡的个人抱怨,而是包含了潜藏在岛上每一个本地人身上的全部激情的愤怒。
Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity - clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.
在所有压迫我的事情中,大自然本身的这种罪恶的感觉——我对她的野蛮、笨拙、黑暗、对她自己的痛苦的嘲弄的厌恶——是最令人感到凄凉的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
要给予和接受爱,你必须接触到痛苦,你必须能够激发和感受它。
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
顺境的日子,你当喜乐;患难的日子,你当思想。
When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
当你受苦的时候,你会对自己有更多的了解,也会对别人的痛苦有更多的了解。了解一个人的第一步就是了解他们的痛苦。于是爱随之而来。
Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe.
不要害怕快乐会使痛苦加剧;它就像我们呼吸的空气一样是需要的。
Behind every beautiful thing there's some kind of pain.
每一件美好事物的背后都有某种痛苦。
There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.
有一种错误的观念认为非洲的妇女不像我们一样爱她们的孩子,不像我们一样为失去孩子而悲伤。但事实并非如此。