A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
悲伤
Grief
For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
对于世界上大部分的女性来说,食物是我们自卑的第一个信号。它让我们知道,我们自己的家庭可能认为女性的身体不那么值得,不那么需要,也不那么有价值。
I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.
我希望我能挽回我在安然所做的一切,但我做不到。我知道我应该受到惩罚。法官大人,我接受你即将判处的监禁,并将毫无痛苦地服刑。
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
这是一个可怕的事实,我们可以在每天的报纸上阅读,而不中断我们的早餐,数字计算的死亡和破坏,应该打破我们的心或吓出我们的智慧。
I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.
我身上没有任何童年早期的创伤,如果这是你的暗示的话。关于自行车的故事——其中有三辆是我偷的——我处理得很好。
If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.
如果我被诊断出患有癌症,我可能会变得沮丧,但有些年轻人可能不会,他们可能需要与家人之外的人建立联系,因为他们的家人非常沮丧。
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
一阵大风席卷了贫民区,带走了耻辱、隐形和四个世纪的耻辱。但是当风停了,人们看到的只是一阵微风,友好的,几乎是温和的。
I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.
我认为埃伦诺感到尴尬和羞愧,她把所有的精力都投入到法律和帮助他人获得公正上,因为她很难面对自己争取公正的斗争。
Sweetest love I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter Love for me; But since that I Must die at last, ’tis best, To use myself in jest Thus by feigned deaths to die.
我不去做最甜蜜的爱,因为我已对你厌倦,也不寄希望于世界能对我显示出更合适的爱;不过,既然我最终还是要死的,那么,最好还是装模作样地装死,拿自己开玩笑。
You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.
你认为,最终,没有什么可以打扰你,你的神经是坚不可摧的。然而,看着那张熟悉的脸,我意识到死亡是一种我们永远不会变得麻木的东西。
In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child.
在太多的情况下,癌症儿童的母亲、父亲、兄弟姐妹必须站在病床旁无助地看着这种可怕的疾病吞噬一个无辜儿童的生命。
War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying, If the world be worth thy winning, Think, oh think, it worth enjoying.
战争,他唱道,是辛劳和烦恼;荣誉不过是一个空泡。如果这个世界值得你去赢得,想想吧,哦,想想吧,它值得你去享受。
I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'
我必须承认,就像很多女人一样,我一直都知道有机会。但就像很多女人一样,我从没想过会是我。我从来没有想过我会听到那些毁灭性的话:“你得了乳腺癌。”
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
We must walk the path of sadness in order to appreciate truly the path of happiness.
我们必须走悲伤的道路,才能真正欣赏幸福的道路。
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
只有在离别的痛苦中,我们才能看到爱的深处。
The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
治愈悲伤的方法是学习一些东西。
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
感受过最深悲伤的人,最能体会到最大的幸福。
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。
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。