A Freeman’s Worship.ppt

A Freeman’s Worship一个自由人的信仰 By Bertrand Russell 伯特兰·罗素 The life of Man, viewed outwardly, is but a small thing in comparison with the forces of Nature. 从外表看来，人的生命与自然的力量相比是微不足道的。 The slave is doomed to worship Time and Fate and Death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. 奴隶注定要崇拜时间、命运和死亡。因为他内心没有比这些更伟大的思想，因为他所思所想的一切都无它们所吞噬。 But, great as they are, to think of them greatly, to feel their passionless splendor, is greater still. 但是它们虽然伟大，我们若能尊敬它们，体认它们无情的壮丽，就比它们更伟大。 And such thought makes us free men; 这些思想使我们成为自由人； we no longer bow before the inevitable in Oriental subjection, but we absorb it, and make it a part of ourselves. 我们不再东方式地听天由命，屈服在无法逃避的威力前。我们承受它们，使它们成为我们生活的一部分 To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things --this is emancipation, and this is the free mans worship. And this liberation is effected by a contemplation of Fate; for Fate itself is subdued by the mind which leaves nothing to be purged by the purifying fire of Time. 放弃为私人利益的奋斗，不对片刻的欲望孜孜以求。充满激情地追求永恒的事物--这就是解放；这就是自由人的信仰。这种解放是对命运深思熟虑后产生的，而被时间精炼之火净化得毫无杂质的意识决定着命运本身。 United with his fellow-men by the strongest of all ties, the tie of a common doom, the free man finds that a new vision is with him always, shedding over every daily task the light of love. 自由人以一切联系中最强的一种联系与他的同类团结起来，这种联系就是共同的命运，他保持着一种新的视野，让爱之光洒满一切日常事务 The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. 人的生命是黑暗中的长途跋涉，被隐形的敌人所包围，为困倦和痛苦所折磨，朝向一个难以到达而且不能久留的目标前进。 One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish from our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. 在前进途中，我们的同伴一个一个地从我们眼前消失，被全能的死亡悄悄下令携走了。 Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. 我们帮助他们的时间非常短暂，而正是这短暂的时间决定了他们的悲喜祸福。 Be it o