一封不知名读者的来信【4月26日下午】
(2011-04-26 17:23:16)
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敬爱的毛老师:您好!
现在我陷入了深深地苦闷之中,似乎对我来说,现实和理想存在巨大差距,我想说换语言学专业,可是有时看到翻译书又有些不忍心舍弃翻译专业。我真的看不完七本书,真的真的,我看书的速度非常慢,半天只能看几页。之前犹豫了好久,百感交集之中,终于鼓起勇气,自不量力给您写信。真心希望您能给我一些指导和帮助。可能我仅仅是众多个想成为您学生中的一个。我强烈的信念告诉我,试一试。
您书中引用的youth
一文和我们老师给的版本有个别词不一致,可能两种讲法都行。(以下是我们老师给的版本,红字部分为书上的。)
YOUTH
Samuel Ullman ()
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a
matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of
the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it
is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over
timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of
ease.(Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over
timidity of the appetite ,of the craving for adventure over the
love of ease.) This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of
20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by
deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles
the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the
spirit back to dust.
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure
of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite for(of) what’s next and
the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my
heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages
of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the
Infinite, so long as you are young.(so long are you young)
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with
snows(sorrow)of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are
grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch
waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.
青春王佐良译
青春不是年华,而是心境;青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝,而是深沉的意志,恢宏的想 象,炙热的恋情;青春是生命的深泉在涌流。
青春气贯长虹,勇锐盖过怯弱,进取压倒苟安。如此锐气,二十后生而有之,六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加,并非垂老,理想丢弃,方堕暮年。
岁月悠悠,衰微只及肌肤;热忱抛却,颓废必致灵魂。忧烦,惶恐,丧失自信,定使心灵扭曲,意气如灰。
无论年届花甲,拟或二八芳龄,心中皆有生命之欢乐,奇迹之诱惑,孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天线,只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号,你就青春永驻,风华常存。
一旦天线下降,锐气便被冰雪覆盖,玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生,即使年方二十,实已垂垂老矣;然则只要树起天线,捕捉乐观信号,你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。