雙語小故事，To Love and to Be Loved

To love and to be loved

愛與被愛
 

It is not enough for us to say "I love God." but I also have to love my neighbor. St.John says you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love you neighbor. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love you neighbor whom you can see, whom you touch, with whom you live? And so it is very important for us to realize that love, to be true, has to hurt. I must be willing to give whatever it takes not to harm other people and, in fact, to do good to them. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise there is not true love in me and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.

我們只說：“我愛上帝”是不夠的。我還應(yīng)該愛我的鄰居。圣約翰說如果你聲稱你愛上帝而不愛你的鄰里鄉(xiāng)親，那你就是騙子。如果你不愛一個(gè)你能見到，你能接觸并能生活在一起的鄰居，那么你怎能愛一個(gè)你看不見的上帝?所以我們應(yīng)意識(shí)到愛也會(huì)帶來痛苦，這一點(diǎn)很重要。我愿意付出我的愛，只要這愛不傷害他人，事實(shí)上反而對他人有好處。這就要求我愿意付出，直至它帶來痛苦。否則我就沒有真愛，而且我給周圍的人帶來的不是和平而是不公正。
 

Liar /?la??(r)/ n. 說謊者

Otherwise /??ð?wa?z/ adv. 否則;另外;別的方式;adj. 別的，另外的

Injustice /?n?d??st?s/ n. 不公平;冤枉;非正義

It hurt Jesus to love us. We have been created in his image for greater things, to love and to be loved. We must "put on Chirst," as Scripture tells us. and so we have created to love as he loves us. Jesus makes himself the hungry one, the naked one, the homeless one, the unwanted one, and he says, "you did it to me." On the last day he will say to those on his right, "what ever you did the least of these, you did to me," and he will say to those on his left "whatever you neglected to do for the least of these, you neglected to do it for me."

耶穌愛我們的時(shí)候也會(huì)感到痛苦。我們在它形象的影響下從事偉大的事業(yè)，去愛別人也為人所愛。我們必須像《圣經(jīng)》 所說“按基督意志行事”。我們天生就具有愛心，就像上帝愛我們一樣。耶穌將自己塑造成為一個(gè)饑餓之人，一個(gè)裸體之人，一個(gè)無家可歸之人，一個(gè)沒有人需要之人，他說：“你就這樣對我。”在最后一天，它會(huì)對他右側(cè)的人說：“你怎樣對待草民就怎樣對待我。”而他對左側(cè)的人說：“你忘記了為草民做些什么就是忘記了為我做些什么。”
 

Image /??m?d?/ n. 影像;肖像

Scripture /?skr?pt??(r)/ n. 《圣經(jīng)》

Homeless /?h??ml?s/ adj. 無家可歸的

Neglect /n??glekt/ v. 忽略;疏忽;遺漏

Least /li:st/ adj. 最小的;最少的;adv. 最少，最小;n. 最小;最少量

When he is dying on the Cross, Jesus says ,"I thirst." Jesus thirsting for our love, and this is the thirst for everyone poor and rich alike, we all thirst for the love of others, that they go out of their way to avoid harming us to do good to us. This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts.

在他即將在十字架上被處死時(shí)，耶穌說：“我渴望。”他渴望我們的愛，這是對所有人的愛的渴望，這種渴望對貧富一視同仁。我們都渴望別人的愛，渴望他們特地對我們友好，盡量不傷害我們。不惜痛苦地去施愛，這就是真愛的意義。
 

Thirst /θ?:st/ v. 口渴;渴望

Avoid /??v??d/ v. 避開，避免，預(yù)防