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中英双语阅读444:A Psalm of Life 人生颂

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A Psalm of Life 

人生颂

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

朗费罗

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

"Life is but an empty dream! "

for the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem.

“人生不过是一场幻梦!”

灵魂睡着了,就等于死了,

事物的真相与外表不同。


Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;

"Dust thou art, to dust returnest, "

Was not spoken of the soul.

人生是真切的!人生是实在的!

它的归宿绝不是荒坟;

“你本是尘土,必归于尘土,

这是指躯壳,不是指灵魂。


Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,

Is our destined end or way;

But to act, that each to-morrow

Find us farther than to-day.

我们命定的目标和道路

不是享乐,也不是受苦;

而是行动,在每个明天

都超越今天,跨出新步。


Art is long , and Time is fleeting,

And our hearts, though stout and brave,

Still, like muffled drums, are beating

Funeral marches to the grave.

智艺无穷,时光飞逝;

这颗心,纵然勇敢坚强,

也只如鼙鼓,闷声擂动着,

一下又一下,向坟地送丧。


In the world's broad field of battle,

In the bivouac of Life,

Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

Be a hero in the strife!

世界是一片辽阔的战场,

人生是到处扎寨安营;

莫学那听人驱策的哑畜,

做一个威武善战的英雄!


Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Act, -act in the living Present!

Heart within, and God o'erhead!

别指靠将来,不管它多可爱!

把已逝的过去永久掩埋!

行动吧──趁着活生生的现在!

胸中有赤心,头上有真宰!


Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime,

And , departing , leave behind us

Footprints on the sands of time;

伟人的生平启示我们:

我们能够生活得高尚,

而当告别人世的时候,

留下脚印在时间的沙上。


Footprints, that perhaps another,

Sailing o'er life's solemn main,

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother ,

Seeing, shall take heart again.

也许我们有一个弟兄

航行在庄严的人生大海,

遇险沉了船,绝望的时刻,

会看到这脚印而振作起来。


Let us , then, be up and doing,

With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

Learn to labour and to wait.

那么,让我们起来干吧,

对任何命运要敢于担载;

不断地进取,不断地追求,

要善于劳动,善于等待。

从今天开始,和我一起坚持吧,留言打卡
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