第5章 沙与沫(5)
How blind is he who gives you out of his pocket that he maytake out of your heart.
Life is a procession. The slow of foot finds it too swift and hesteps out;
And the swift of foot finds it too slow and he too steps out.
If there is such a thing as sin some of us commit it backwardfollowing our forefathers" footsteps;
And some of us commit it forward by overruling our children.
真正的好人，是那个和所有大家认为坏的人在一起的人。
我们都是囚犯，不过有的是关在有窗的牢房里，有的就关在无窗的牢房里。
奇怪的是，当我们为错误辩护的时候，我们用的气力比我们扞卫正确时还大。
如果我们互相供认彼此的罪过的话，我们就会为大家并无新创而互相嘲笑。
如果我们都公开了我们的美德的话，我们也将为大家并无新创而大笑。
一个人是在人造的法律之上，直到他犯了抵触人造的惯例的罪；
在此以后，他就不在任何人之上，也不在任何人之下。
The truly good is he who is one with all those whoare deemed bad.
We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells withwindows and some without.
Strange that we all defend our wrongs with morevigor than we do our rights.
Should we all confess our sins to one another wewould all laugh at one another for our lack of originality.
Should we all reveal our virtues we would also laughfor the same cause.
An individual is above man-made laws until hecommits a crime against man-made conventions;
After that he is neither above anyone nor lower thananyone.
政府是你和我之间的协定。你和我常常是错误的。
罪恶是需要的别名，或是疾病的一种。
还有比意识到别人的过失还大的过失吗？
如果别人嘲笑你，你可以怜悯他；但是如果你嘲笑他，你决不可自恕。
如果别人伤害你，你可以忘掉它；但是如果你伤害了他，你须永远记住。
实际上别人就是最敏感的你，附托在另一个躯壳上。
Government is an agreement between you and myself. You and myselfare often wrong.
Crime is either another name of need or an aspect of a disease.
Is there a greater fault than being conscious of the other person"sfaults?
If the other person laughs at you, you can pity him; but if you laugh athim you may never forgive yourself.
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if youinjure him you will always remember.
In truth the other person is your most sensitive self given another body.
你要人们用你的翅翼飞翔而却连一根羽毛也拿不出的时候，你是多么轻率啊。
从前有人坐在我的桌上，吃我的饭，喝我的酒，走时还嘲笑我。
以后他再来要吃要喝，我不理他；天使就嘲笑我。
憎恨是一件死东西，你们有谁愿意做一座坟墓？
被杀者的光荣就是他不是凶手。
How heedless you are when you would have menfly with your wings and you cannot even give them afeather.
Once a man sat at my board and ate my breadand drank my wine and went away laughing atme.
Then he came again for bread and wine,and I spurned him;
And the angels laughed at me.
Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be atomb?
It is the honor of the murdered that he is not themurderer.
人道的保护者是在它沉默的心怀中，从不在它多言的心思里。
他们认为我疯了，因为我不肯拿我的光阴去换金钱；
我认为他们是疯了，因为他们以为我的光阴是可以估价的。
他们把最昂贵的金子、银子、象牙和黑檀排列在我们的面前，我们把心胸和气魄排列在他们面前；
而他们却自称为主人，把我们当作客人。
我宁可做人类中有梦想和有完成梦想的愿望的、最渺小的人，而不愿做一个最伟大的、无梦想、无愿望的人。
The tribune of humanity is in its silent heart, never itstalkative mind.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold;
And I deem them mad because they think my days have aprice.
They spread before us their riches of gold and silver, ofivory and ebony, and we spread before them our hearts and ourspirits;
And yet they deem themselves the hosts and us the guests.
I would not be the least among men with dreams and thedesire to fulfill them, rather than the greatest with no dreams andno desires.
最可怜的人是把他的梦想变成金银的人。
我们都在攀登自己心愿的高峰。
如果另一个登山者偷了你的粮袋和钱包，而把粮袋装满了，钱包也加重了，你应当可怜他；
这攀登将为他的肉体增加困难， 这负担将加长他的路程。
如果在你消瘦的情况下，看到他的肉体膨胀着往上爬，帮他一步；这样做会增加你的速度。
你不能超过你的了解去判断一个人，而你的了解是多么浅薄呵。
我决不去听一个征服者对被征服的人的说教。
真正自由的人是忍耐地背起奴隶的负担的人。
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams intosilver and gold.
We are all climbing toward the summit of our hearts" desire.
Should the other climber steal your sack and your purse and wax fat onthe one and heavy on the other, you should pity him;
The climbing will be harder for his flesh, and the burden will make hisway longer.
And should you in your leanness see his flesh puffing upward, helphim a step; it will add to your swiftness.
You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and howsmall is your knowledge.
I would not listen to a conqueror preaching to the conquered.
The truly free man is he who bears the load of the bond slave patiently.
千年以前，我的邻人对我说：“我恨生命，因为它只是一件痛苦的东西。”
昨天我走过一座坟园，我看见生命在他的坟上跳舞。
自然界的竞争不过是混乱渴望着秩序。
静独是吹落我们枯枝的一阵无声的风暴；
但是它把我们活生生的根芽，更深地送进活生生的大地的活生生的心里。
A thousand years ago my neighbor said to me,"I hate life, for it is naught but a thing of pain."
And yesterday I passed by a cemetery and sawlife dancing upon his grave.
Strife in nature is but disorder longing fororder.
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down allour dead branches;
Yet it sends our living roots deeper into theliving heart of the living earth.
我曾对一条小溪谈到大海，小溪认为我只是一个幻想的夸张者；
我也曾对大海谈到小溪，大海认为我只是一个低估的诽谤者。
把蚂蚁的忙碌捧得高于蚱蜢的歌唱的眼光，是多么狭窄呵！
这个世界里的最高德行，在另一个世界也许是最低的。
深和高在直线上走到深度和高度；只有广阔能在圆周里运行。
如果不是因为我们有了重量和长度的观念，我们站在萤火光前也会同在太阳面前一样的敬畏。
一个没有想象力的科学家，好像一个拿着钝刀和旧秤的屠夫。
但既然我们不全是素食者，那么你该怎么办呢？
Once I spoke of the sea to a brook, and the brook thought me but animaginative exaggerator;
And once I spoke of a brook to the sea, and the sea thought me but adepreciative defamer.
How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above thesinging of the grasshopper.
The highest virtue here may be the least in another world.
The deep and the high go to the depth or to the height in a straight line;only the spacious can move in circles.
If it were not for our conception of weights and measures we wouldstand in awe of the firefly as we do before the sun.
A scientist without imagination is a butcher with dull knives and outwornscales.
But what would you, since we are not all vegetarians?
当你歌唱的时候，饥饿的人就用他的肚子来听。
死亡和老人的距离并不比和婴儿的距离更近；生命也是如此。
假如你必须直率地说的话，就直率得漂亮一些；要不就沉默下来，因为我们邻近有一个人快死了。
人间的葬礼也可能是天上的婚筵。
一个被忘却的真实可能死去，而在它的遗嘱里留下七千条的实情实事，作为料理丧事和建造坟墓之用。
When you sing the hungry hears youwith his stomach.
Death is not nearer to the aged thanto the new-born; neither is life.
If indeed you must be candid, becandid beautifully; otherwise keep silent,for there is a man in our neighborhoodwho is dying.
Mayhap a funeral among men is awedding feast among the angels.
A forgotten reality may die and leavein its will seven thousand actualities andfacts to be spent in its funeral and thebuilding of a tomb.
实际上我们只对自己说话，不过有时我们说得大声一点，使得别人也能听见。
显而易见的东西是：在被人简单地表现出来之前，从不被人看到的。
假如银河不在我的意识里，我怎能看到它或了解它呢？
除非我是医生群中的一个医生，他们不会相信我是一个天文学家的。
也许大海给贝壳下的定义是珍珠。
也许时间给煤炭下的定义是钻石。
荣名是热情站在阳光中的影子。