All Things Bright and Beautiful――让内心和世界相遇.docVIP

All Things Bright and Beautiful――让内心和世界相遇吉米James Alfred Wight），1916年出生于英格兰东北部的森德兰镇。23岁从格拉斯哥兽医学院毕业后，怀特开始在英格兰约克郡的瑟斯克镇行医。之后他忙于成家立业，生儿育女，在二战期间还在英国皇家空军服过兵役，直到50岁时才在妻子的鼓励下开始自己的创作生涯。为了避开为自己的兽医诊所打广告的嫌疑，他采用了吉米James Herriot）这一笔名。1970年，怀特出版了《若它们开口能言》（If Only They Could Talk），1972年出版了《不该发生在兽医身上的故事》（It Shouldnt Happen to a Vet），但是反响平平，直到这两本书的合集《万物既伟大又渺小》（All Creatures Great and Small）在美国出版发行，他才收获了巨大的成功。几十年来，他的系列书籍行销英美，被改编成电影和电视剧，并影响了后世的兽医文学。1995年，怀特在瑟斯克镇附近的家中去世，结束了长达50余年乡村兽医的一生。《万物有灵且美》（All Things Bright and Beautiful）是继《万物既伟大又渺小》之后怀特的第二本合集。 Excerpts1） Probably the most dramatic occurrence in the history of veterinary2） practice was the disappearance of the draught horse3）. It is an almost incredible fact that this glory and mainstay of the profession just melted quietly away within a few years. And I was one of those who were there to see it happen. When I first came to Darrowby the tractor had already begun to take over， but tradition dies hard in the agricultural world and there were still a lot of horses around. And now， in less than three years the stream had dwindled， not exactly to a trickle but certainly to the stage where the final dry-up was in sight. This meant， in a way， a lessening of the pressures on the veterinary surgeon because there is no doubt that horse work was the roughest and most arduous4） part of our life. So that today， as I looked at the three-year-old gelding5） it occurred to me that this sort of thing wasnt happening as often as it did. He had a long tear in his flank6） where he had caught himself on barbed wire7） and it gaped8） open whenever he moved. There was no getting away from the fact that it had to be stitched. The horse was tied by the head in his stall， his right side against the tall wooden partition9）. One of the farm men， a hefty10） six footer， took a tight hold of the head collar and leaned back against the manger11） as I puffed some iodoform12） into the wound. The horse didnt seem to mind， which was a comfort because he