雙語幸福散文：我為什么活著

我為什么活著

Three passions, simple but overwhe-lmingly strong, have gover-ned my life:the longing for love. the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. The.se passions,like great winds, have blown me hither and thither,in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish,reaching to the very verge of despair.

三種簡單而強烈的情感支配著我的生活：對愛的渴望、對知識的追求和對受苦之人的同情?這些情感就像大風(fēng)一樣，把我隨風(fēng)卷起，飄忽不定地越過痛苦之海，來到了絕望的邊緣。

I have sought love, first, because it brings ,eestasy-ecstasy so great that would often have sacrificed aLI the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneli-ness-that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfath omable lifeless abyss.I have sought it finallv, 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-l have found.

我追尋過愛，首先，因為它給我?guī)砹四蟮南矏?mdash;—這喜悅是如此的強烈，往往會讓我犧牲生命中其他的一切只為了體驗幾個小時愛的喜悅j其次，它排遣了寂寞——在那種可怕的寂寞之中，一個顫抖的靈魂，越過世界的邊際，進入那酷寒，深不可測而又了無生氣的無底深淵，我追求過愛，最后是因為在愛的結(jié)合中我看過圣人和詩人所希冀的天堂的微縮景象這就是我所追尋的人生的境界，這似乎對人類而言太過美好，這是我最終所發(fā)現(xiàn)的。

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

我對于知識有著同樣的渴望二我希望能了解人類的·心靈，我想知道為什么星星在夜空閃爍：我試圖去理解畢達哥拉斯學(xué)派的力量即用數(shù)字去統(tǒng)治那些不理性二在這個方面，我有點小小的成就。

Love and knowledge, so far as they w'ere possible, led upward toward the heavens. But alwavs pity brought me back to earth.Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in Famine, victims torturec! by oppressors,helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness,poverty, and pain make a moekery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

如果愛和知識是可能的，那么他們能帶我們到達天堂：但是人類的苦難又使我回到了人間。忍饑挨餓的孩子，被壓迫的人民，無助的老人成了孩子的負擔(dān)，還有滿世界的孤獨，貧困和痛苦對于人類生活的理想進行了無盡的嘲弄二我想遠離這個惡魔，但是我無能為力，所以也我痛苦著。

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

這就是我的生活。而且我覺得這樣的生活很值得：如果能再給我一個機會，我會很高興再活一次。