lives作品赏析

2021年1月21日发(作者：special是什么意思)
1. Emerson
Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at
the
conviction
that
envy
is
ignorance;
that
imitation
is
suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as
his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no
kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his
toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to
till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and
none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does
he know until he
has
tried.
Not
for
nothing
one
face, one
character, one
fact,
makes
much impression on him,
and
another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without
preestablished harmony. The eye was placed where one ray
should fall, that it might testify
of that particular ray.
We but
half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea
which each of
us
represents.
It
may
be
safely
trusted
as
proportionate
and
of
good
issues,
so
it
be
faithfully
imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by
cowards. A man is
relieved
and gay when he
has put
his
heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said
or
done
otherwise,
shall
give
him
no
peace.
It
is
a
deliverance
which
does
not
deliver.
In
the
attempt
his
genius deserts
him;
no
muse
befriends;
no invention,
no
hope.

Trust
thyself:
every
heart
vibrates
to
that
iron
string.
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you,
the
society
of
your
contemporaries,
the
connection
of
events.
Great
men
have
always
done
so,
and
confided
themselves
childlike
to
the
genius of
their
age,
betraying
their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated
at their heart, working through their hands, predominating
in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in
the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not
minors
and
invalids
in
a
protected
corner,
not
cowards
fleeing
before
a
revolution,
but
guides,
redeemers,
and
benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on
Chaos and the Dark.

2. A Psalm of Life
Herry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tell me not in mournful numbers,

请别用哀伤的诗句对我讲；

Life is but an empty dream!
人生呵，无非是虚梦一场！

For the soul is dead that slumbers

因为沉睡的灵魂如死一般，

And things are not what they seem.

事物的表里并不一样。

Life is real! Life is earnest!
人生是实在的！人生是热烈的！

And the grave is not its goal;
人生的目标决不是坟墓；

Dust thou art , to dust returnest,
你是尘土，应归于尘土。

Was not spoken of the soul.
此话指的并不是我们的精神。

Not enjoyment , and not sorrow,

我们的归宿并不是快乐，

Is our destined and our way;
也不是悲伤，

But to act,
实干

That much to-morrow.
才是我们的道路，

Find us farther than to-day.
每天不断前进，蒸蒸蒸日上。

Art is long , and time is fleeting.

光阴易逝，而艺海无涯，

And our hearts , though stout and brave.

我们的心哪
——
虽然勇敢坚强，

Still , like muffled drums , are beating
却像被布蒙住的铜鼓，

Funeral marches to the grave
。

常把殡葬的哀乐擂响。

In the world’s broad field of battle,

在这人生的宿营地，

In the bivouac of Life,
在这辽阔的世界战场，

Be not like dumb,driven cattle!
别做无言的牲畜任人驱赶，

Be a hero in the strife!
做一名英雄汉立马横枪！

Trust no ’er pleasant!

别相信未来，哪怕未来多么欢乐！

Let the dead Past bury its dead!
让死去的往昔将死亡一切埋葬！

Act,act in the living Present!
上帝在上，我们胸怀勇气，

Let us,then,be up and doing,
让我们起来干吧，

With a heart for any fate;
下定决心，不管遭遇怎样；

Still achieving,still pursuing
不断胜利，不断追求，

Learn to labour and to wait.
要学会苦干和耐心等待。


3. Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening


Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.


He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.