老火炕英语阅读：致加西亚的信

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A Message to Garcia致加西亚的信
In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my
memory like Mars at perihelion.

在所有与古巴有关的亊情中，有一个人常常令我无法忘怀。

When war broke out between Spain and the United States, it was very
necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the Insurgents. Garcia was
somewhere in the mountain fastnesses of Cuba - no one knew where. No mail or
telegraph message could reach him. The President must secure his cooperation,
and quickly. What to do?

美西战争爆发以后,美国必须马上与反抗军首领加西亚将 军取得联系。加西亚将军隐藏
在古巴辽阔的崇山峻岭中——没 有人知道确切的地点，因而无法送信或电报给他。但是，
美国总 统必须要尽快与他建立合作关系。怎么办呢？

Some said to the President,
find Garcia for you, if anybody can.


有人对总统推荐说有一个名字叫罗文的人，假如有人能 找到加西亚将军，那个人一定
就是他。”

Rowan was sent for and given a letter to be delivered to Garcia. How the
by the name of Rowantook the letter, sealed it up in an oilskin pouch,
strapped it over his heart, in four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba from
an open boat, disappeared into the jungle, and in three weeks came out on the
other side of the Island, having traversed a hostile country on foot and delivered his
letter to Garcia - are things I have no special desire now to tell in detail. The point
that I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia;
Rowan took the letter and did not ask,

于是,他们将罗文找来，交给他一封信——写给加西亚的 信。关于那个“名字叫罗文的
人”如何拿了信，将它装进一个油 纸袋里并打封，吊在胸口藏好，如何用4天的时间乘坐
一条敞口 船连夜抵达古巴海岸，而后消失在丛林之中，如何在3个星期之 后出现在古巴
岛的另一端，其间徒步穿越一个危机四伏的国家， 将信交到加西亚手上——这些都不是我
现在想要详细讲述的。 我希望强调的重点是：美国总统麦金莱将一封写给加西亚的信 交给
了罗文，而罗文接过信后，并没有问“他在哪里？”

By the Eternal! There is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze
and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book learning young

men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae
which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their
energies: do the thing -

像罗文这样的人,我们应该为他塑造不朽的青铜雕像，将其 放在美国每一所大学里。年
轻人所需要的不仅仅是学习书本上 的知识，也不仅仅是聆听他人的种种教诲,更需要的是对
于一种 责任的忠诚,能够立即采取行动，全心全意去完成任务——“把信送给加西亚”。

General Garcia is dead now, but there are other Garcias. No man who has
endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed, but has
been well nigh appalled at times by the imbecility of the average man - the inability
or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it.

加西亚将军已不在人世，但是现在还有其他的“加西亚” o 没有人能经营好这样的一
家企业——虽然需要众多人手，但时 常几乎让人惊骇的是，其中大部分人庸庸碌碌——他
们要么能 力不足,要么根本不愿意全心全意去工作。

Slipshod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy indifference, and half hearted
work seem the rule; and no man succeeds, unless by hook or crook or threat he
forces or bribes other men to assist him; or mayhap, God in His goodness performs
a miracle, and sends him an Angel of Light for an assistant.


懒懒散散、漠不关心、马马虎虎和心不在焉的工作态度，对 于许多人来说似乎已成常
态。除非苦口婆心、威逼利诱地强迫 他们做事，或者,请善意的上帝创造奇迹，并派一名光
芒天使相 助，否则，这些人将一事无成。

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