英语精美短文

The life I desired

我所追求的生活

威廉.萨姆塞特.毛姆/William Somerset Maugham




That must be the story of innumerable couples, and the pattern of life of life it offers has a homely grace. It reminds you of a placid rivulet, meandering smoothly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees, till at last it falls into the vastly sea; but the sea is so calm, so silent, so indifferent, that you are troubled suddenly by a vague uneasiness. Perhaps it is only by a kink in my nature, strong in me even in those days, that I felt in such an existence, the share of the great majority, something amiss. I recognized its social value. I saw its ordered happiness, but a fever in my blood asked for a wilder course. There seemed to me something alarming in such easy delights. In my heart was desire to live more dangerously. I was not unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous, shoals it I could only have change-change and the excitement of unforeseen.




这一定是世间无数对夫妻的生活写照，这种生活模式给人一种天伦之美。它使人想起一条平静的溪流，蜿蜒畅游过绿茵的草场，浓荫遮蔽，最后注入烟波浩渺的汪洋大海；但是大海太过平静，太过沉默，太过不动声色，你会突然感到莫名的不安。也许这只是我自己的一种怪诞想法，在那样的时代，这想法对我影响很深：我觉得这像大多数人一样的生活，似乎欠缺了一点儿什么。我承认这种生活有社会价值，我也看到了它那井然有序的幸福，但我血液里的冲动却渴望一种更桀骜不驯的旅程．这样的安逸中好像有一种叫我惊惧不安的东西．我的心渴望一种更加惊险的生活。只要生活中还能有变迁———以及不可知的刺激，我愿意踏上怪石嶙峋的山崖，奔赴暗礁满布的海滩。


Virtue 美德

G.Herbert/赫伯特




Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright! 甜美的白昼，如此凉爽、安宁、明媚！

The bridal of the earth and sky- 天地间完美的匹配-----

The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; 今宵的露珠儿将为你的消逝而落泪；

For thou must die. 因为你必须离去。

Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave, 美丽的玫瑰，色泽红润艳丽，

Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, 令匆匆而过的人拭目而视，

Thy root is ever in its grave, 你的根永远扎在坟墓里，

And thou must die. 而你必须消逝。

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, 美妙的春天，充满了美好的日子和芳香的玫瑰，

A box where sweets compacted lie, 如一支芬芳满溢的盒子，

My music shows ye have your closes, 我的音乐表明你们也有终止，

And all must die, 万物都得消逝。

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, 唯有美好而正直的心灵，

Like season’s timber, never gives; 犹如干燥备用的木料，永不走样；

But though the whole world turn to coal, 纵然整个世界变为灰烬，

Then chiefly lives. 它依然流光溢彩。