Three-passions-三种激情【罗素】.pdf

Three passions Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. The three passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. 三种激情虽然简单，却异常强烈，它们统治着我的生命，那便是：对爱的渴望，对知识 的追求，以及对人类苦难的难以承受的同情。这三种激情像变化莫测的狂风任意地把我 刮来刮去，把我刮入痛苦的深海，到了绝望的边缘。 I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy-ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifelessabyss.I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what at last I have found. 我曾经寻找爱，首先是因为它能使我欣喜若狂——这种喜悦之情如此强烈，使我常常宁 愿为这几个小时的愉悦而牺牲生命中的其他一切。我寻求爱，其次是因为爱能解除孤独 ——在这种可怕的孤独中，一颗颤抖的良心在世界的边缘，注视着下面冰凉、毫无生气、 望不 底的深渊。我寻求爱还因为在爱的融合中，我能以某种神秘的图像看到曾被圣人和诗人 想象过的天堂里未来的景象。这就是我所追求的东西，虽然这似乎对于人类的生命来说 过于完美，但这确实是我最终发现的东西。 With equal passion I have sougnt knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above theflux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. 我怀着同样的激情去寻找知识，我曾渴望着理解人心，我曾渴望知道为何星星会闪烁， 我还企图弄懂毕达哥拉斯所谓的用数字控制变化的力量，但在这方面，我只知道一点点。 Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helopless old people a hated burden to their sons,and the whole world of honeliness,poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil,