英語(yǔ)美文朗讀 第329期 We Are on a Journey
人在旅途
Wherever you are, and whoever you may be, there is one thing in which you and I are just alike at this moment, and in all the moments of our existence. We are not at rest, we are on a journey. Our life is a movement, a tendency, a steady, ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal.
無(wú)論你身在何處，也無(wú)論你是何人，此時(shí)此刻，有一件事于你我而言都是相同的，而且只要我們活著，這個(gè)共同點(diǎn)就存在。那就是，我們并非停留不前，而是人在旅途。我們的生命是一種運(yùn)動(dòng)，一種趨勢(shì)，是向一個(gè)看不見(jiàn)的目標(biāo)無(wú)休止地奮進(jìn)。
We are gaining something, or losing something, or losing something, everyday. Even when our position and our character seem to remain precisely the same, they are changing. For the mere advance of time is a change. It is not the same thing to have a bare field in January and in July. The season makes the difference. The limitations that are childlike in the child are childish in the man.
每天，我們都有所得，也有所失。即便我們的位置和角色看似與原來(lái)無(wú)異，但實(shí)際上也是時(shí)時(shí)變化的。因?yàn)闀r(shí)間的推移本身就是一種變化。對(duì)于同一片荒地來(lái)說(shuō)，在一月和七月是截然不同的，季節(jié)造成了這種差異。能力的局限在孩子身上被視為天真爛漫，而在大人身上則是幼稚的的表現(xiàn)。
Everything that we do is a step in one direction or another. Even the failure to do something is in itself a deed. it sets us forward or backward. the action of the negative pole of a magnetic needle is just as real as the action of the positive pole. To decline is to accept--the other alternative.
我們所做的每件事情都是朝著某個(gè)方向邁進(jìn)了一步。即使是失敗本身，也是有所得的，失敗可以催人奮進(jìn)，也可以讓人一蹶不振。磁針負(fù)極的作用與正極的作用都是一樣真實(shí)的。 拒絕也是一種接受，只不過(guò)是另一種選擇罷了。
Are you richer today than you were yesterday? No? then you are a little poorer. Are you better today than you were yesterday? No? Then you are a little worse. Are you nearer to your port today than you were yesterday? yes, you must be a little nearer to some port or other for since your ship was first launched upon the sea of life, you have never been still for a single moment, the sea is too deep, you could not find an anchorage if you would, there can be no pause until you come into port.
你比昨天更富有了嗎？沒(méi)有？那么你就是更窮了。你比昨天過(guò)的更好了嗎？沒(méi)有？那你就是變更成差了。你今天比昨天更接近你的港口了么？是的，你肯定離某個(gè)港口更近了。因?yàn)樽詮哪愕暮酱瑥纳暮Ｑ笊蠁⒑降哪且豢涕_始，你沒(méi)有哪一刻是靜止的。大海如此深邃，即便你想停泊，也找不到地方；只有當(dāng)你駛?cè)胱约旱母劭冢悴拍芡Ｖ瓜聛?lái)。
