【美文萃珍】罗素:三种质朴而又十分强烈的激情一直支配着我的人生(中英对照)


Three passions, simply but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

有三种质朴而又十分强烈的激情一直支配着我的人生,这就是对爱的渴望、对知识的求索和对人类苦难的无限怜悯。这三种激情,有如狂飙挟我四海漂泊,游移不定,直至苦海的深渊,濒临绝望的边缘。


I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy -ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness -that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it,finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what -at last - I have found.

我寻求爱,首先在于爱能带来狂喜——它是如此令人心醉神迷,我愿舍弃余生来换取片刻的欢乐;我寻求爱,还因为爱消除孤独——那种当一个颤抖的灵魂从世界的边缘透视那冰冷、荒凉的无尽深渊时感到的那种孤独;此外,我所以寻求爱,还因为在爱的交融中,我看见了圣者和诗人所预想的天堂景象的神秘缩影,这正是我心中之所求,虽然人生似乎难臻此境,我最终却不负所求。


With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

我怀着同样的激情来探索知识。我希望能够理解众人之心,我渴望了解星星缘何闪光,我也曾努力领会毕达哥拉斯赋予数的力量——主宰万物流变之力。我虽未创斐然之绩,却也还算小有所成。

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine,victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

爱和知识竭力引导着我超凡入圣,但怜悯又把我拉回了凡尘。声声悲号在我心中回响不绝。饥饿的孩子、惨遭压迫的苦难者、因依附儿子而被视为可憎重负的无助老人以及整个孤独、贫闲好痛苦的世界是对人们理想人生的嘲讽。我渴望减轻罪恶,却又无能为力,我也同样感到痛苦。

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

这就是我的人生。我觉得自己并未虚度此生,若有可能,我将欣然再一次度过如此人生。


P.S. 请订阅Patreon会员支持李燕铭/燕铭时评。如果订阅有任何困难,请在燕铭时评推特(https://twitter.com/XieTianqi2015)或燕铭时评博客网页(https://yanmingshiping.blogspot.com/)留言,或Email(xietianqi2015@gmail.com)告知;并同时向Patreon网站反馈、寻求解决方案(https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360000465611)。 

编辑:燕铭时评)

《燕铭时评》版权声明:未经书面允许,不得转载、摘抄《燕铭时评》文章完整内容。媒体、网站、自媒体引用《燕铭时评》独家消息、分析与评论,请务必注明来源。

评论

周排行榜

李燕铭:中共高官密集病亡(270) 十一前后37名中共高官密集病亡 四直辖市高官密集病亡重庆居首 安徽7高官接连病亡 原三亚市委书记广西政协副主席严朝君病亡年仅59岁 国家林草局高官钱永强病亡年仅44岁 上海市政府参事王凡病亡 河南省原副省长王菊梅病亡 全国工商联原副主席李宏昌病亡 福建省原政协主席游德馨病亡 四川省政协原副主席李培根病亡 天灭中共之病毒亡共系列之三(不断更新)

【独家重磅】李燕铭:李克强家族深涉内蒙古窝案 胡春华助力李克明抢夺探矿权 得罪彭丽媛 习近平隐忍十年后放狠话亲自上阵主攻李克强胡春华 深度内幕揭秘 团派团灭内幕(28) 习近平李克强明争暗斗内幕(102) 内蒙古帮覆灭记(15)

李燕铭:习近平视察东部战区 要求军队敢于打仗 东部战区政委敏感时刻换人 新任政委军旅经历非同寻常 习近平疑直接参与指挥环台军演 中情局局长:勿低估习近平对台湾野心 美国空军上将:习已召集台湾战争委员会 习强化军权内防政变对外备战(38) 习连任后高层人事大洗牌(108) 习连任后图谋武统台湾(23)

习近平亲信慎海雄女儿上海被杀 中南海谣言预言_523

【独家重磅】李燕铭:曾庆红出卖李克强 与习交易团灭团派 阻击陈敏尔晋升暗中布局丁薛祥接班 习近平重用蔡奇何立峰钳制新上海帮五常委 部署长期执政严防政变 习近平连任与中共末日(132) 习连任后高层人事大洗牌(103) 团派团灭内幕(27) 中南海政变与反政变(78) 习近平李克强明争暗斗内幕(101)

令计划子并非“祼体玩车震”?法拉利车祸曝出新内情 神秘人物见证死亡细节:令公子的衣服和大人物的派头 中南海不可告人的秘密(82)

中共落马高官背景揭秘(32) 江泽民曾庆红老巢官员密集被查 中国联通上海分公司原副总经理邓玄被查自曝过往不堪 上海市宝山区区长高奕奕落马 江西九江市原副市长彭敏主动投案 北京市两纪检高官落马 河北省纪委副书记陈玉祥落马 东风公司高管密集落马原副总经理童东城被查

李燕铭:北戴河会秘密召开 习近平维持打虎高压态势 六高官三天密集落马 敏感地河北省公安高官投案 辽宁省原公安厅长李文喜被捕

李燕铭:习近平剑指江泽民外甥与李克强?习深度清洗薄熙来与徐才厚“瓦房店帮” 大连徐长元家族涉黑案金额高达上百亿元房产2714套

全球重大危机频发(29) 俄空中现不明物圣彼得堡机场紧急关闭 中国新疆与土耳其印尼同日发生5级以上地震 四川甘孜州泸定县发生4.8级地震成都震感强烈 巴布亚纽几内亚发生6.5级强震 意大利海域移民船沉没至少58人丧生