第十四课人类必胜范例.ppt

Unit 14 Man will Prevail I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work – life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, 我感到这份奖赏不是授予我个人而是授予我的工作的——授予我一生从事关于人类精神的呕心沥血的工作。 not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. 我从事这项工作，不是为名，更不是为利，而是为了从人的精神原料中创造出一些从前不曾有过的东西。 So this award is only mine in trust. 因此，这份奖金只不过是托我保管而已。 It will not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part of it commensurate with the purpose and significance of its origin. 要做出与这份奖赏原本的目的和意义相符，又与其奖金等价的献词并不困难， But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will some day stand where I am standing. 但我还愿意利用这个时刻，利用这个举世瞩目的讲坛，向那些可能听到我说话并已献身于同一艰苦劳动的男女青年致敬。 他们当中肯定有人有一天也会站到我现在站着的地方来。 Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. 我们今天的悲剧是人们普遍存在一种生理上的恐惧，这种恐惧存在已久，以致我们已经习惯了。 There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? 现在不存在精神上的问题，惟一的问题是：我什么时候会被炸得粉身碎骨? Because of this, the young man or woman (writing today) has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. 正因如此，今天从事写作的男女青年已经忘记了人类内心的冲突，而这本身就能构成好作品。因为这是惟一值得写、值得呕心沥血地去写的题材。 He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, 作家必须重新认识这些问题。 他必须使自己明白世间最可鄙的事情莫过于恐惧。他必须使自己永远忘却恐惧， leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, 在他的工作室里除了心底古老的真理之外，任何东西都没有容身之地。 the universal truths lacking which any