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抱着生命过海洋 有这样一则希腊神话， 爱上了西比尔，并且告诉她，不管多少年，只要她手里 有尘土，她就能活下去。随着时光流逝，西比尔日渐憔悴，终成空躯，却依然求死不得。 孩子们问吊在瓶中的西比尔：“你要什么？”她回答说：“我要死。” In a Greek myth, Apollo fell in love with Sibyl and said she could live as long as soil was in her hand. As time flitted by, Sibyl grew emaciated / pined away and became a corpse at last (Flying time rendered her emaciated and reduced her to corpse), when death still wasn’t allowed. When her children inquired about her want as she was suspended in a bottle, she said “Death”. 我认为死并非是上帝对我们的一种惩罚，倒是命运 钟爱人类的标志。正如我们需 要睡眠一样，我们需要 。正是 的 背景衬托出了生命的光彩。 I consider death not a divine / God’s punishment, but an emblem of Destiny’s love for human. We need death, much as we need sleep. It’s the darkness of death that gives luster to life. 试想，如果生命是无限的，我们还会觉得 可贵吗？如果生命像空气、沙粒一样取 之不尽，用之不竭，她岂不是会像空气、沙粒一样无甚价值可言了吗？如果明天是无限的，那我 们今天为什么要辛劳呢？一切都等到明天再说吧。假如这样等下去，我们能做成什么事呢？ 直到最后，我们一个个都成了瓶中的西比尔，那时也许才觉出死的可贵，生的可怕。 Imagine if life is endless, will we cherish it? If there’s an unlimited supply of life like air and sand, it will be of little value like them. Numerous tomorrows will justify postponing our missions, with nothing done in . Till the last, each one of us has become a bottled Sibyl for whom death is valuable and life is formidable (押韵). 正因为有 ，我们才这么珍惜生命。我们每个人都应成为优秀的舵手，驾驶自己的 生命之舟轻快地航行。优秀的舵手 对付痛苦，而现实中的许多人却因痛苦而导致海水 没顶，过早 。痛苦应成为我们生命之舟上的压舱物，正因为有了它的存在，我们 的船才得以稳健地前行。优秀的舵手还会摆脱 的 ，他们看淡尘世的物欲、烦恼， 追求真理，他们一生光明磊落，表里如一。他们惜时如金，勤勤恳恳，度过丰富而有效的 人生。 It is death that makes us cherish life. Each and every one of us shall be excellent at steering the ship of life on its light journey. A great steerer shall handle pain well, while in fact many have their ship capsized by towering seawater when drenched in pain. Death is advanced fo