A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
悲伤
Grief
Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.
女性常常推迟自己的生命,她们认为如果没有伴侣陪伴,生命就没有意义。在某种程度上,他们仍然在寻找他们的王子。虽然我们没有讨论这个问题,因为它太令人尴尬和悲伤了,但我认为它确实存在。
This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it's like replacing a football in your stomach.
这是移植后一年零几个月。在我生下它之前,我的医生告诉我,这将是我不得不面对的最大的事情,相信我,当他们把你的肝脏取出来,再放入另一个肝脏时,就像在你的胃里放了一个足球。
As I stood morosely contemplating the destruction of our cheerful domestic clutter, and recalling better days, I heard the sound of wheels on the gravel of the drive. The first guest had arrived. Gathering the robes of my martyrdom about me, I made ready to receive her.
我忧郁地站在那里,想着要把我们愉快的家庭生活弄得一团糟,回想起那些美好的日子。这时,我听到车道上的砂砾上传来了车轮的声音。第一位客人来了。我把我殉道时穿的袍子披在身上,准备迎接她。
After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.
当我放弃去的时候,我的心常常带着不寻常的悲伤,我的心常常转向主,在里面呼求他从天上来的支持,使我无论到哪里,都能跟随他。
What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.
疯狂是一件多么神秘的事情啊。我观察过病人,他们的嘴唇永远被永远的沉默封住。它们生活、呼吸、进食;人的形体是存在的,但是缺少了某种东西,身体可以没有它而生存,但没有身体就不能生存。
It's an unfortunate situation. After such a great play I felt like I got hit late, no flag, broke my hand. That's it. That's pretty much been the story for the past three weeks, and obviously at some point something catastrophic was going to happen, and I broke my hand.
这是一个不幸的情况。打了这么一场精彩的比赛后,我感觉自己被打晚了,没有旗子,我的手骨折了。就是这样。在过去的三个星期里,情况差不多就是这样,很明显,在某个时刻发生了灾难性的事情,我的手骨折了。
Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee: Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail.
然而,不要因忧愁或危险而希望生命是自由的,也不要以为人类的末日已为你逆转。书中记载了这位学者一生中所遭受的种种苦难:劳累、嫉妒、匮乏、资助人和监狱。
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
当我们遭受痛苦时,我们会回到童年早期,因为那是我们第一次学会承受完全失去的经历。不仅如此。在这段时间里,我们所遭受的损失比我们余生所遭受的损失加起来还要多。
But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big Chill, sort of. Four friends, who are not quite happy with their life, and every year they get together for a week and look for some comfort from each other.
但是,我认为我对这本书的反应,有点自相矛盾的原因是,它一开始就像一股寒意。四个朋友,他们对自己的生活不太满意,每年他们都会聚在一起一周,互相寻求安慰。
Oh! ever thus, from childhood’s hour, I’ve seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But ’twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die!
哦!从孩提时代起,我就看到我最大的希望破灭了;我从未爱过一棵树或一朵花,但它是最先凋谢的。我从来没有养过一只可爱的瞪羚,用它那温柔的黑眼睛来取悦我,但是当它熟悉我,爱我的时候,它一定会死的!
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to th’appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
既然每一个活着的人都是为死而生,没有人能以平等的心来夸耀真诚的幸福,那么发生了什么,让我们承受,不要为我们所不关心的事情过多地高兴或悲伤。就像朝圣者来到指定的地方;世界是客栈,死亡是旅程的终点。
In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain.
到了一定的时候,野蛮的公牛就会扛起轭来;总有一天,所有憔悴的鹰都会俯身去引诱;迟早有一天,最坚硬的橡树会被小楔劈成两半,最柔和的雨水会把燧石打穿,她迟早会从她的鄙夷中解脱出来,为你所遭受的友好的痛苦而悔恨。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
It is better to be hungry in joy, than to be filled in sorrow.
宁可在喜乐中饥饿,也不愿在忧愁中饱足。
Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope.
破碎的心会在希望中变得更坚强。
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。
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。
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。
Pain fades, but the lessons that you learn, always stay right there with you.
痛苦会消失,但你学到的教训,永远与你同在。