标题: [双语美文]What I Have Lived For 我为何而生 [打印本页] 作者: kobe 时间: 2016-11-20 23:33 标题: [双语美文]What I Have Lived For 我为何而生
Three passions, simple but over whelmingly 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 waywardcourse, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first,because it brings ecstasy---ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificedall 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 oneshivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union oflove I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaventhat saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it mightseem too good for human life, this is what---at last---I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wishedto know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagoreanpower by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always it brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children infamine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockeryof what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I can not, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. Ihave found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
作者: kobe 时间: 2016-11-20 23:33
Three passions, simple but over whelmingly 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 waywardcourse, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first,because it brings ecstasy---ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificedall 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 oneshivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union oflove I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaventhat saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it mightseem too good for human life, this is what---at last---I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wishedto know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagoreanpower by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always it brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children infamine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockeryof what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I can not, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. Ihave found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
