1、Passage 1 追忆往事The old lady had always been proud of the great rose-tree in her garden, and was fond of telling how it had grown from a cutting she had brought years before from Italy, when she was first married. She and her husband had been travelling back in their carriage from Rome ( it was before
2、 the time of railways ) and on a bad piece of road south of Siena they had broken down, and had been forced to pass the night in a little house by the road-side. The accommodation was wretched of course; she had spent a sleepless night, and rising early had stood, wrapped up, at her window, with the
3、 cool air blowing on her face, to watch the dawn. She could still, after all these years, remember the blue mountains with the bright moon above them, and how a far-off town on one of the peaks had gradually grown whiter and whiter, till the moon faded, the mountains were touched with the pink of th
4、e rising sun, and suddenly the town was lit as by an illumination, one window after another catching and reflecting the suns beam, till at last the whole little city twinkled and sparkled up in the sky like a nest of stars.译文：老太太总以自家花园里那棵高大的玫瑰树为荣.她非常喜欢告诉别人,数年前她初次结婚时从罗马带回来的枝条,是如何长成如今这般高大的.那时,她与丈夫乘马车从
5、罗马旅行归来(那时还没有火车),途经锡耶那南部的崎岖路段时,马车坏了,他们被迫就宿于路边的小屋里.住宿条件当然非常差;她一夜未能安眠,一早便起身穿好衣服,立于窗前, 感受着扑面而来的席席凉风, 等待着黎明的到来 .事隔多年, 她仍然记得那情景.明月高悬在青山群峦之上.远处山峰上的小镇逐渐明亮起来,月亮慢慢消退, 晨曦把群山涂得粉红 .突然之间,一束阳光照亮了城镇.城里的窗户相继明亮起来,反射出耀眼的光芒.最后, 整个小城宛若繁星,在天空中不停闪烁.Passage 2 探讨死亡原文：世上只有一种愿望可以实现,也仅有一种事物绝对能得到,那便是死亡.但因身处境地的不同,没人能告诉我们是否死得其所.
6、我们不停向着梦想前进,不肯稍作休息, 这形成了一幅奇异的画面:不知疲倦, 勇于冒险的先锋. 的确,我们永远不会达到目标, 甚至目的地根本就不存在;即使活上几百年, 被赋予神的力量,我们最终也不能接近目标多少.啊辛劳的双手! 啊,不知疲倦的双脚,一直不停地奔走,却不知要到何方.不久,你便会发现, 你必须登上某些显著的山头,然而在不远处, 在夕阳的照耀下,你会看到黄金国的尖顶.身处于幸福之中,你却没有觉察:旅行远比抵达要充满乐趣;真正的成功就在于奋斗. 译文： There is only one wish realisable on the earth; only one thing that c
7、an be perfectly attained: Death. And from a variety of circumstances we have no one to tell us whether it be worth attaining. A strange picture we make on our way to our chimaeras, ceaselessly marching, grudging ourselves the time for rest; indefatigable, adventurous pioneers. It is true that we sha
8、ll never reach the goal; it is even more than probable that there is no such place; and if we lived for centuries and were endowed with the powers of a god, we should find ourselves not much nearer what we wanted at the end. O toiling hands of mortals! O unwearied feet, travelling ye know not whithe
9、r! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessednes; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.P
10、assage 3 成就的里程碑原文： A young fellow recently finished the works of Thomas Carlyle, winding up, if we remember aright, with the ten note-books upon Frederick the Great. “What!“ cried the young fellow, in consternation, “is there no more Carlyle? Am I left to the daily papers?“ A more celebrated instanc
11、e is that of Alexander, who wept bitterly because he had no more worlds to subdue. And when Gibbon had finished the DECLINE AND FALL, he had only a few moments of joy; and it was with a “sober melancholy“ that he parted from his labours. 译文： 最近，一位年轻人读完了托马斯*卡莱尔的著作。如果我没记错的话，关于腓特列大帝的笔记他记了整整十本。 “什么？”这个年
12、轻人惊恐地叫道：“没有卡莱尔的书可读了？那我只能看看日报了？” 最有名的例子是亚历山大，他因为已没有国家供他征服而号啕大哭。当吉本完成罗马帝国衰亡史 ，也只不过高兴了一时，然后带着清醒而又抑郁的心情，他向往日的劳动成果挥手作别。Passage 4 进取的幸福原文： 正是因为不停地追求进取，我们才感到生活幸福。一件事完成后，另一件随之而来，如此连绵不绝，永无止境。对于往前看的人来说，眼前总有一番新天地。虽然我们蜗居于这颗小行星上，整日忙于锁事且生命短暂，但我们生来就有不尽的希望，如天上繁星，遥不可及。只要生命犹在，希望便会不止。真正的幸福在于怎样开始，而不是如何结束，在于我们的希翼，而并非拥有。
13、译文： We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. There is always a new horizon for onward-looking men, and although we dwell on a small planet, immersed in petty business and not enduring beyond a brief period of years, we are so constituted
14、that our hopes are inaccessible, like stars, and the term of hoping is prolonged until the term of life. To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have.Passage 5 渴望原文： 渴望是永远的乐趣，一笔如地产般真实稳固的财富，用之不尽，取之不竭。每年我们都会因为拥有渴望而充满活力。一个人如有许多希望，精神便会富足。
15、人生只不过是一场单调乏味且编导拙劣的戏，除非我们对这戏有些兴趣;对于既没有艺术细胞也没有科学细胞的人来说，这个世界只不过是各种颜色的堆积，或者是一条崎岖小路，一不小心就会摔伤小腿。 译文： An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. To have many of these is t
16、o be spiritually rich. Life is only a very dull and ill-directed theatre unless we have some interests in the piece; and to those who have neither art nor science, the world is a mere arrangement of colours, or a rough footway where they may very well break their shins.Passage 6 眼睛原文： It is in virtu
17、e of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the m
18、ost enchanted colours: it is they that make women beautiful or fossils interesting: and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure. 译文： 正是因为希望与好奇，我们才会以加倍的耐心继续生存，才会着迷于纷繁复杂、多姿多彩的人或事，早晨醒来才会以崭新的热情投入新一天的工作和娱乐。希望
19、和好奇是人观看这绚丽迷人的世界的一双眼睛：正是这双眼睛使得女人美丽妩媚，又使顽石妙趣横生 。一个人可以倾家荡产，沦为乞丐，可是只要他还有这两个“护身符” ，他就仍然可能拥有无限的欢乐。Passage 7 婚姻的旅程当你步入婚姻的殿堂,你可能认为已经爬到了山顶, 剩下的只是悠闲地沿着平缓的山坡下山.然而, 这只是恋爱的结束, 婚姻的开始 .拥有一颗骄傲而又叛逆的心,坠入爱河与赢得爱情都是难事;但维持爱情也很重要,夫妻都应相敬如宾, 互相关爱. 当真爱起始于圣坛之时, 夫妻之间便开始了一场智慧与慷慨的竞争,一场为了一个不可能实现的理想而持续一生的奋斗. 不可能实现? 啊,当然不可能,因为他们不是一
20、个人 ,而是两个呀. 译文： Again, when you have married your wife, you would think you were got upon a hilltop, and might begin to go downward by an easy slope. But you have only ended courting to begin marriage. Falling in love and winning love are often difficult tasks to overbearing and rebellious spirits; b
21、ut to keep in love is also a business of some importance, to which both man and wife must bring kindness and goodwill. The true love story commences at the altar, when there lies before the married pair a most beautiful contest of wisdom and generosity, and a life-long struggle towards an unattainab
22、le ideal. Unattainable? Ay, surely unattainable, from the very fact that they are two instead of one.Passage 8 独自生活原文：The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life The other day an acquaintanceof mine, a gregarious and charming man, told me he had found himself unexpectedly alone in New York for an hour or
23、two between appointments. He went to the Whitney and spent the “empty“ time looking at things in solitary bliss. For him it proved to be a shock nearly as great as falling in love to discover that he could enjoy himself so much alone. 译文： 独自生活的报偿 前些日子，我的一个熟人，一位热爱交际并很受欢迎的男士告诉我，他在纽约的两个约会之间偶然有一两个小时的空闲，
24、他便去了惠特尼博物馆，四处浏览着展品，无比幸福的度过了那些时光。发现自已独自一人，也能如此的幸福，他感觉像坠入爱河那般震惊Passage 9 我的生活状态原文：只有在我过度劳累的时候，在我长时间不间断地工作的时侯，在我感到内心空虚，需要充实的时候，我才会感到寂寞。有时，外出演讲回来，见了许多人,讲了许多话，心中满是纷乱的体验需要整理，偶而也会觉得孤独。 于是有那么一会儿，我会感到整个房子非常大，空荡荡的。不知此时的自我又藏匿于何处。这时，我会给花草浇浇水，挨个瞅瞅，仿佛它们是活生生的人一样，或是喂喂两只小猫，亲手做顿饭菜，这样自我就慢慢地重新找回。 译文： I am lonely only w
25、hen I am overtired, when I have worked too long without a break, when for the time being I feel empty and need filling up. And I am lonely sometimes when I come back home after a lecture trip, when I have seen a lot of people and talked a lot, and am full to the brim with experience that needs to be
26、 sorted out. Then for a little while the house feels huge and empty, and I wonder where my self is hiding. It has to be recaptured slowly by watering the plants, perhaps, and looking again at each one as though it were a person, by feeding the two cats, by cooking a meal. Passage 10 El Dorado原文： El
27、Dorado It seems as if a great deal were attainable in a world where there are so many marriages and decisive battles, and where we all, at certain hours of the day, and with great gusto and despatch, stow a portion of victuals finally and irretrievably into the bag which contains us. And it would se
28、em also, on a hasty view, that the attainment of as much as possible was the one goal of mans contentious life. And yet, as regards the spirit, this is but a semblance. 译文： 黄金囸 在这充满联姻婚嫁、决战厮杀的世界里，每天特定时刻，我们都欣然而又迅速地把一份食物一去不返地吞入包裹我们的皮囊。这个世界看上去似乎有很多东西都是可以得到的。猛然看来，尽可能地获取也成为纷繁人生的唯一目标。然而，对于精神世界来说，这只不过是表面现象。
29、Passage 11 寻觅我的爱情原文： “The lady lived across the valley there beyond that hill. I was a young man then, for it was many years ago. I used to ride over to see her; it was a long way, but I rode fast, for young men, as no doubt the Signora knows, are impatient. But the lady was not kind, she would keep
30、 me waiting, oh, for hours; and one day when I had waited very long I grew very angry, and as I walked up and down in the garden where she had told me she would see me, I broke one of her roses, broke a branch from it ; and when I saw what I had done, I hid it inside my coat so ; and when I came hom
31、e I planted it, and the Signora sees how it has grown. If the Signora admires it, I must give her a cutting to plant also in her garden; I am told the English have beautiful gardens that are green, and not burnt with the sun like ours.“ 译文： 那位小姐住在山后峡谷的对面.那是好多年以前了,当时我还年轻,常常骑马去看她.路虽然很长, 但是我骑得很快 .夫人一定知
32、道, 年轻人都没有耐心 .而且,那位小姐非常不友好, 总是让我等, 一等就是好几个小时. 有一天,等了很久她也没来,我非常生气,在我们约定见面的花园里走来走去.一气之下便折了她的一棵玫瑰,只是从上面折了一根枝条下来.当我意识到自己做的事情之后, 立马把它藏在了外套里.在回家之后, 我便把它栽了起来.夫人都已看到了,它长成了现在这个样子.如果夫人喜欢,我一定送你一枝栽在花园里.我听说英国的花园非常漂亮,总是绿幽幽的, 不像我们这里的园子, 都快被太阳烤焦了.Passage 12 敞开的笼子原文： 敞开的笼子 这两只鸟儿原先都是野生的，我在鸟市上买了它们，我把它们请到笼子里。它们的愤怒是显而易见的
33、，不太爱吃东西，也不叫，只是在笼子里不停地飞，冲撞着笼子。 一年以后，它们对这个人工环境已经习惯，它们在笼子里歌唱着显得很高兴。每天早晨六点钟，就能听见它们的歌声，它们用歌声叫醒我，和我的全家。 有一天，单位里的同事告诉我，这种鸟儿还可以放到笼子外来养，它们不会离开笼子很远，到了晚上，会自己回到笼里。回到家我打开笼子，看见那两只鸟儿并不往外飞，它们围着笼门飞来飞去，跳跃着，好像在试探这敞开是不是真实，或者在考虑这是不是一个更大的危险。 当它们最终确认，这确实是一种自由时，才小心翼翼地从笼子里蹦了出来。然而它们却没有飞远，我发现，这鸟好像已经不太会飞，它们飞的高度不超过一尺。它们更擅长的是蹦，它
34、们的翅磅不过是在帮助它们蹦得远一些，离开笼子不久，它们就又回到笼子上。它们站在笼顶上，抬起翅膀啄着羽毛，它们的自由和不自由，原来不过是几厘米的距离。 还没有等到傍晚，它们就又自愿回到笼子了，它们在笼子里吃着食，喝着水，互相啄着羽毛快乐地嬉戏着。它们对那个敞开的笼门看也不看，在这个有吃、有喝、有快乐的环境里，敞开的笼门又算得了什么呢？ 参考译文： The wide open cage The two birds were originally wild. I bought them on the market and invited them into the cage. Their rage
35、was obvious-they had no appetite and did not chirp at all , just flapping their wings and trying to rush out of the cage. A year latter, having accustomed to the artificial environment, they sang happliy in the cage. Their singing could be heard at 6 oclock every morning,which woke me and my family
36、up. One day, my colleague told me that this kind of birds could be kept outside of the cage and they would not leave far away. He said they would come back into the cage by themselves in the evening. I opened the cage when I was back home ,but the birds didnt fly out immediately. They flew back and
37、forth near the door of the cage and jumped as if to make sure whether it was true ,or to find out if it was a bigger danger. Only when they confirmed finally that they were really free, did they jump out with care. However,they didnt fly far away. I found that the birds seems to have almost lost the
38、ir ability to fly. They flew only within the height of one chi. What they were better at was jumping. Their wings only helped them jump a litte farther. They would return to the cage soon after they left it. Standing on the top of the cage ,they pecked their feathers with their wings unfolded. For t
39、hem ,the distance between freedom and constraint was actually only a few sentimeters They came back into the cage voluntarily even before the evening. They ate and drank in the cage, pecked feather for each other and froliced happily,without a look at the wild open door. Compared with the food ,drin
40、k and cosy environment, the wide open door is meaningless to them.Passage 13 论平静的心原文： “On my head pour only the sweet waters of serenity. Give me the gift of the Untroubled Mind.“ Once, as a young man full of exuberant fancy, I undertook to draw up a catalogue of the acknowledged “goods” of life. As
41、 other men sometimes tabulate lists of properties they own or would like to own, I set down my inventory of earthly desirables: health, love, beauty, talent, power, riches, and fametogether with several minor ingredients of what I considered mans perfect portion. When my inventory was completed I pr
42、oudly showed it to a wise elder who had been the mentor and spiritual model of my youth. Perhaps I was trying to impress him with my precocious wisdom and the large universality of my interests. Anyway, I handed him the list. “This,” I told him confidently, “is the sum of mortal goods. Could a man p
43、ossess them all, he would be as a god.” At the corners of my friends old eyes, I saw wrinkles of amusement gathering in a patient net. “An excellent list,” he said, pondering it thoughtfully. “Well digested in content and set down in not-unreasonable order. But it appears, my young friend, that you
44、have omitted the most important element of all. You have forgotten the one ingredient lacking which each possession becomes a hideous torment, and your list as a whole an intolerable burden.” “And what,” I asked, peppering my voice with truculence, “is that missing ingredient?” With a pencil stub he
45、 crossed out my entire schedule. Then, having demolished my adolescent dream structure at a single stroke, he wrote down three syllables: peace of mind. “This is the gift that God reserves for His special protgs,” he said. “Talent and beauty He gives to many. Wealth is commonplace, fame not rare. Bu
46、t peace of mindthat is His final guerdon of approval, the fondest sign of His love. He bestows it charily. Most men are never blessed with it; others wait all their livesyes, far into advanced agefor this gift to descend upon them.” 译文： 论平静的心境 “仅把平静的甘露撒于我顶。赐予我安宁的心境。 ” 当我还是一个富于幻想的青年时，我曾试图把生活之中公认的“幸福”
47、一一列出来。就像一些人有时把自己拥有的或者想要拥有的东西列成表单，我把世人最想得到的事物列成清单：健康，爱情，美丽，才能，权利。 当清单完成以后，我不无骄傲地把它拿给一位睿智的老者看。他是我年少时的导师与精神楷模。或许，我想用我早熟的智慧与广博的兴趣给他留下深刻的印象。总之，我把列表递到了他手里。我满是自信地说， “这是人类幸福的总和。如果一个人能拥有这些，他便如神仙那般了。 ” 我看到好友衰老的眼角，愉悦的皱纹耐心地结成网状。 “这是一份出色的表格”他满是思考地说， “分类良好，顺序合理。但是，我年轻的朋友，你把最重要的东西给漏掉了。没有了它，其他的所得便成了一种恐怖的折磨，你的整个列表也就
48、成为难以忍受的负担。 ” “那么，我漏掉了什么？”我有点不服气的问到。他用铅笔头划掉了我的整个表格，一笔粉碎了我年轻的梦想,然后写下三个单词：平静的心境。 “这是上帝为他特殊子民所保留的礼物” ，他说“才能与美丽，他赐给了许多人。财富也普通平凡，名望也不稀有。只有平静的心境，是他给予的最终奖赏，是他最钟情的爱的像征。他小心翼翼的给予，大部分人无福享受，有些人则等了一生-是的，直到老年，才等到这份赐予降临。Passage 14 历史的道路原文： 历史的道路，不全是平坦的，有时走到艰难险阻的境界，这是全靠雄健的精神才能够冲过去的。 一条浩浩荡荡的长江大河，有时流到很宽阔的境界，平原无际，一泻万里。
49、有时流到很逼狭的境界，两岸丛山叠岭，绝壁断崖，江河流于其间，回环曲折，极其险峻。民族生命的进程，其经历亦复如是。 人类在历史上的生活正如旅行一样。旅途上的征人所经过的地方，有时是坦荡平原，有时是崎岖险路。老于旅途的人，走到平坦的地方，固是高高兴兴地向前走，走到崎岖的境界，愈是奇趣横生，觉得在此奇绝壮绝的境界，愈能感到一种冒险的美趣。 中华民族现在所逢的史路，是一段崎岖险阻的道路。在这一段道路上，实在亦有一种奇绝壮绝的景致，使我们经过这段道路的人，感到一种壮美的趣味。但这种壮美的趣味，没有雄健的精神是不能够感觉到的。 我们的扬子江、黄河，可以代表我们的民族精神，扬子江及黄河遇见沙漠、遇见山峡都是浩浩荡荡地往前流过去，以成其浊流滚滚、一泻万里的魄势。目前的艰难境界，哪能阻抑我们民族生命的前进?我们应该拿出雄健的精神，高唱着进行的曲调，在这悲壮歌声中，走过这崎岖险阻的道路。要知在艰难的国运中建造国家，亦是人生最有趣味的事。 参考译文： National Crisis vs Heroic Nation The course of history is never smooth. It is sometimes beset with difficulties and obstacles and nothing
