里昂夜讀英語美文[173]:人生禮頌

 

 

Tell me not in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream

請別用哀傷的詩句對我講，人生呵，無非是虛夢一場

For the soul is dead that slumbers and things are not what they seem

因為沉睡的靈魂如死一般，事物的表里并不一樣

Life is real

人生是實在的

Life is earnest

人生是熱烈的

And the grave is not its goal

人生的目標決不是墳?zāi)?/p>

Dust thou art, to dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul

你是塵土，應(yīng)歸于塵土，此話指的并不是我們的精神

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, is our destined and our way

我們的歸宿并不是快樂，也不是悲傷

But to act, that much tomorrow, find us farther than today

實干才是我們的道路，每天不斷前進，蒸蒸蒸日上

Art is long, and time is fleeting

光陰易逝，而藝海無涯

And our hearts, though stout and brave

我們的心哪——雖然勇敢堅強

Still, like muffled drums, are beating

卻像被布蒙住的銅鼓

Funeral marches to the grave

常把殯葬的哀樂擂響

 

 

 

In the world's broad field of battle

在這遼闊的世界戰(zhàn)場

In the bivouac of life

在這人生的宿營地

Be not like dumb, driven cattle

別做無言的牲畜任人驅(qū)趕

Be a hero in the strife

做一名英雄漢立馬橫槍

Trust no future, however pleasant

別相信未來，哪怕未來多么歡樂

Let the dead past bury its dead

讓死去的往昔將死亡一切埋葬

Act, act in the living present

上帝在上，我們胸懷勇氣

Heart within, and God ever head

行動吧———趁現(xiàn)在活著的好時光

Lives of great men all remind us

偉人的生平使我們想起

We can make our lives sublime, and departing leave behind us

我們能使自己的一生變得高尚！當我們辭別人間

Footprints on the sands of time

能把足跡留在時間的流沙上

Footprints that perhaps another

也許有個遭了船災(zāi)的苦難弟兄

Sailing o'er life solemn main

他曾在莊嚴的人生大海中飄航

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother

見到我們的腳印

Seeing, shall take heart again

又會滿懷信心

Let us, then, be up and doing

讓我們起來干吧

With a heart for any fate

下定決心，不管遭遇怎樣

Still achieving, still pursuing

不斷勝利，不斷追求

Learn to labour and to wait

要學(xué)會苦干和耐心等待

 

 

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