英文賞析:真正的高貴(海明威)

True Nobility

In a calm sea every man is a pilot

But all sunshine without shade

all pleasure without pain

is not life at all

Take the lot of the happiest

-it is a tangled yarn

Bereavements and blessings

one following another

make us sad and blessed by turns

Even death itself makes life more loving

Men come closest to their true seives in the sober moments of life

under the shadows of sorrow and loss

In the affairs of life or of business

it is not intellect that tells so much as character

not brains so much as heart

not genius so much as self-control

patience

and discipline

regulated by judgment

I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more serio

-usly within begins to live more simply without

In an age of extravagance and waste

I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are

To regret one's errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man

The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self

真正的高貴(海明威)

在風平浪靜的海面上

每一個人都可以成為領航員

但是假如只有陽光而沒有陰影

只有歡樂而沒有痛苦

那就全然不是人生

就拿最幸福的人來説吧

——他們的命運是一團糾纏的紗線

喪親之痛和神恩賜福此起彼伏

讓我們悲歡交替

甚至連死亡本身都讓人生更為可愛

人們在生命的莊嚴時刻

在哀傷和喪親的陰影之下

最接近真實的自我

在生活或事業的各種事務之中

才智的效用遠不如性格

頭腦的效用遠不如心性

天資遠不如由判斷力所約束的自制、耐心與教養

我一向認為

內心開始生活得更為嚴謹的人

他外在的生活會開始變得更為簡樸

在一個奢侈浪費的時代

但願我能夠向世人表明：

人類真正的`需求是多麼的稀少

反思自己的過錯

以至於不重蹈覆轍才是真正的悔悟

比他人優越並無任何高貴之處

真正的高貴在於超越過去的自我