雙語(yǔ)閱讀:對(duì)青春常在的感想
以下是學(xué)習(xí)啦小編整理的哲理類英語(yǔ)美文欣賞:對(duì)青春常在的感想 , 希望對(duì)你有所啟發(fā)。
No young man believes he shall ever die. It was asaying of my brother's, and a fine one. There is a feeling of Eternity in youth, which makes usamend for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortal Gods. One half of timeindeed is flown the other half remains in store for us with all its countless treasures; for there isno line drawn, and we see no limit to our hopes and wishes. We make the coming age our own.
年輕人不相信自己會(huì)死。這是我哥哥的話,可算得一句妙語(yǔ)。青春有一種永生之感--它能彌補(bǔ)一切。人在青年時(shí)代好像一尊永生的神明。誠(chéng)然,生命的一半已經(jīng)消失,但蘊(yùn)藏著不盡財(cái)富的另一半還有所保留,我們對(duì)它也抱著無(wú)窮的希望和幻想。未來(lái)的時(shí)代完全屬于我們。
The vast, the unbounded prospect lies before us.
無(wú)限遼闊的遠(yuǎn)景在我們面前展現(xiàn)。
Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regardnot. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them we "bear a charmed life", whichlaughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain oureager gaze forward.
死亡,老年,不過(guò)是空話,毫無(wú)意義;我們聽(tīng)了,只當(dāng)耳邊風(fēng),全不放在心上。這些事,別人也許經(jīng)歷過(guò),或者可能要承受,但是我們自己,“在靈符護(hù)佑下度日”,對(duì)于諸如此類脆弱的念頭,統(tǒng)統(tǒng)付之輕蔑的一笑。像是剛剛走上愉快的旅程,極目遠(yuǎn)眺
Bidding the lovely scenes at distance hail!
向遠(yuǎn)方的美景歡呼!
And see no end to the landscape, new objects presenting themselves as we advance; so, inthe commencement of life, we set no bounds to our inclinations, nor to the unrestrictedopportunities of gratifying them. We have as yet found no obstacle, no disposition to flag;and it seems that we can go on so forever. We look round in a new world, full of life, andmotion, and ceaseless progress; and feel in ourselves all the vigour and spirit to keep pace withit, and do not foresee from any present symptoms how we shall be left behind in the naturalcourse of things, decline into old age, and drop into the grave. It is the simplicity, and as itwere abstractedness to our feelings in youth, that (so to speak) identifies us with nature, and(our experience being slight and our passions strong) deludes us into a belief of being immortallike it. Our short-lives connection with existence we fondly flatter ourselves, is an indissolubleand lasting union-a honeymoon that knows neither coldness, jar, nor separation. As infantssmile and sleep, we are rocked in the cradle of our wayward fancies, and lulled into security bythe roar of the universe around us-we quaff the cup of life with eager haste without drainingit, instead of which it only overflows the more-objects press around us, filling the mind withtheir magnitude and with the strong of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no roomfor the thoughts of death.
此時(shí),但覺(jué)好風(fēng)光應(yīng)接不暇,而且,前程更有美不勝收的新鮮景致。在這生活的開(kāi)端,我們聽(tīng)任自己的志趣馳聘,放手給它們一切滿足的機(jī)會(huì)。到此時(shí)為止,我們還 沒(méi)有碰上過(guò)什么障礙,也沒(méi)有感覺(jué)到什么疲憊,因此覺(jué)得還可以一直這樣向前走去,直到永遠(yuǎn)。我們看到四周一派新天地--生機(jī)盎然,變動(dòng)不居,日新月異;我們 覺(jué)得自己活力充盈,精神飽滿,可與宇宙并駕齊驅(qū)。而且,眼前也無(wú)任何跡象可以證明,在大自然的發(fā)展過(guò)程中,我們自己也會(huì)落伍,衰老,進(jìn)入墳?zāi)?。由于年輕人 天真單純,可以說(shuō)是茫然無(wú)知,因而將自己跟大自然劃上等號(hào);并且,由于經(jīng)驗(yàn)少而感情盛,誤以為自己也能和大自然一樣永世長(zhǎng)存。我們一廂情愿,癡心妄想,竟 把自己在世上的暫時(shí)棲身,當(dāng)作千古不變、萬(wàn)世長(zhǎng)存的結(jié)合,好像沒(méi)有冷淡、爭(zhēng)執(zhí)、離別的蜜月。像嬰兒帶著微笑入睡,我們躺在用自己編織成的搖籃里,讓大千世 界的萬(wàn)籟之聲催哄我們安然入夢(mèng);我們急切切,興沖沖地暢飲生命之杯,怎么也不會(huì)飲干,反而好像永遠(yuǎn)是滿滿欲溢的;森羅萬(wàn)象紛至沓來(lái),各種欲望隨之而生,使 我們騰不出工夫去想死亡。