雙語美文《人生如孤島》
How wonderful are islands! Islands in space, like this one I have come to, ringed about by miles of water, linked by on bridges, no cables, no telephones.
An lsland from the world and the world's life. Islands is time, like this short vacation of mine.
The past and the future are cut off: only the present remains.
One lives like a child or a saint in the immediacy of here and now.
Every day, every act, is an island, washed by time and space, and has an island's completion.
People, too, become like islands in such an atmosphere, self-contained, whole and serene; respecting other people's solitude, not intruding on their shores, standing back in revernce before the miracle of another individual.
"No man is an island," said John Donne. I feel we are all islands--in a common sea.
We are all, in the last analysis, alone.
And this basic state of solitude is not something we have any choice about.
It is , as the poet Rilke says, "not something that one can take or leave".
We are solitary. We may delude ourselves and act as though this were not so, yes, even to begin by assuming it."Naturally," he goes on to say,"we will turn giddy."
We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail, there is still the radio or television to fill up the void.
Women, who used to complain of loneliness, need never be alone any more.
We can do our housework with soap-opera heroes at our side. Even day-dreaming was more creative than this; it demanded something of oneself and it fed the inner life.
Now instead of planting our solitude with our dream bolssoms, we choke the space with continuous music, chatter and companionship to which we do not even listen.
It is simply there to fill the vacuum. When the noise stops there is no inner music to take its place. We must relearn to be alone.
島嶼是多么奇妙啊!它處在一望無際之中，四周海水圍繞， 沒有橋梁相通，沒有電纜相連，更無電話可打。
我來的小島就是 這樣一個地方，它遠離塵世，不見喧囂。小島是時間的孤島，就 像我的這次短期假期。
在這里，過去和未來都被隔斷，只有現時 依然存在。
一個人，或是像個孩子：或是像個圣人，現在便實 實在在地在這里活著。
每一天、每一個動作其實都是一個小島，經受著時間和空間的沖刷，像小島一樣完美。
人在這種環境下也變成了小島，獨立自主，完整安詳，尊重他人的孤獨，不踐踏他 人的海岸半步，畢恭畢敬地在他人的奇跡面前靠后站。
“沒有人 會是小島。”約翰?多恩說過。我卻認為每個人都是公共海域的 小島。
歸根結底，我們都是孤獨的。
這種孤獨的基本狀態由不得 我們選擇。
奧地利詩人里爾克曾經說道：“由不得我們帶走或是 放棄。”
雖然身心孤獨，但是我們都欺騙自己，假裝事實并非如 此。里爾克還說，“我們很自然就會弄得頭暈目眩。”
今天的人們都非常害怕孤獨，所以極力避免它。當與家人 和朋友相處或是看電影都無法消除孤獨的時候，我們就用聽廣播 和看電視來填補空白。
女人們曾經埋怨孤獨，現在想孤獨也辦不 到。
她們可以一邊做家務一邊看肥皂劇。做白日夢都顯得更有創 造力，它需要人們具有一些東西，而且能夠豐富內心生活。
我們本該用白曰夢的似錦繁花來種下一片孤獨，但卻用連續不斷的音 樂、喋喋不休、吵嚷的同伴來把孤獨的空間堵死。
這其實僅僅是一個填補空缺的問題，一旦暄鬧消失，便不再有內心的音樂來填補空缺。我們要重新學會孤獨。
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