A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
悲伤
Grief
The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse.His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.
光线对他有害,但并不像看东西那样有害;他打过一次主意,再也不动眼球了。一阵尘土在他的头上砰砰地响,使他眼前的景象像脉搏一样跳动着。他的嘴曾被某个夜间的小动物当作厕所,后来又成了它的陵墓。
There anchoring, Peter chose from man to hide, There hang his head, and view the lazy tide In its hot slimy channel slowly glide; Where the small eels that left the deeper way For the warm shore, within the shallows play; Where gaping mussels, left upon the mud, Slope their slow passage to the fallen flood.
在那里抛锚,彼得从人类中选择了躲藏,他垂下了头,看着慵懒的潮水在湿热的水道里缓慢地滑行;在那里,小鳝鱼离开较深的路,向温暖的海岸游去,在浅滩里嬉戏;在那里,裂开的贻贝,留在泥上,慢慢地向洪水倾斜。
The wonderful Southern night-sky that makes a man feel so lonely, alien: with Orion standing on his head in the west, and his sword-belt upside down, and his Dog-star prancing in mid-heaven, high above him; and with the Southern Cross insignificantly mixed in with the other stars, democratically inconspicuous.
奇妙的南方夜空让人感到如此孤独,如此陌生:猎户座在西边倒立着,剑带倒挂着,他头顶上方的狗星在天空中跳跃;而南十字星和其他恒星混在一起,不太显眼。
Sometimes she wished for someone she could tell about her problems, just to be able to say, ‘I’m in love with a man and I can’t have him.’ But that would only lead to questions she couldn’t answer, so she kept the secret and the pain inside, hoping someday she would no longer feel as if half of her were missing.
有时她希望有人能告诉她自己的问题,只是能够说,‘我爱上了一个男人,我不能拥有他。但这只会引出她无法回答的问题,所以她把秘密和痛苦藏在心里,希望有一天她不再觉得自己失去了一半。
The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering.
当我们意识到,只有我们可以简单的价值是实际和潜在变化的经验有意识的人类,我们可以考虑景观的这种变化,峰值对应的最大可能的幸福和对应于最低的山谷深处的痛苦。
It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?
当一名战士在一场不可避免地会导致他死亡的攻击下,选择先结束自己的生命,这并不被认为是疯狂的。事实上,这种行为已经被鼓励了几个世纪,甚至现在也被认为是做这种行为的一个光荣的理由。当你受到自己思想的攻击时,又有什么不同呢?
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沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
治愈悲伤的方法是学习一些东西。
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without also protecting yourself from happiness.
你不可能保护自己不悲伤,也不可能保护自己不快乐。
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。
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
失去朋友就像失去了一条腿;时间可以治愈伤口的痛苦,但失去的却无法弥补。
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。