經典散文閲讀英譯漢
On the Fear of Death談怕死
by William Hazlitt威廉·赫茲裏特
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives me no concern- why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?克服怕死心理的最好辦法,也許是要想到人生不僅有終結,也有開端。本來我們並未生存於世間,這個事實並不使我們憂慮,那麼,我們為什麼要為了將來有一天自己會停止生存而煩惱呢?
I have no wish to have been alive a hundred years ago, or in the reign of Queen Anne? Why should I regret and lay it so much to heart that I shall not be alive a hundred years hence, in the reign of I cannot tell whom?我既然不希望自己在一百年前,或在安女王的朝代活在世上,為什麼就要為了自己在一百年後不知哪位皇帝在位的朝代,不能仍然活在世上而抱憾,而耿耿於懷呢?
To die is only to be as we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.死亡只是恢復誕生前的原狀而已;在想到誕生前的情形時,我們都毫無悔恨、遺憾、或厭惡之感.
It is rather a relief and disburdening of the mind: it seems to have been a holiday time with us then: we were not called to appear upon the stage of life, to wear robes or tatters, to laugh or cry, be hooted or applauded; we had lain perdus all this while, snug out of harm’s way; and had slept out our thousands of centuries without wanting to be waked up; at peace and free from care, in a long nonage, in a sleep deeper and calmer than that of infancy, wrapped in the softest and finest dust.我們反而會覺得輕鬆解脱:那個時候彷佛是我們所度過的'一段假期,我們還沒有被召出現在人生舞台之上,或身着華服,或衣衫襤褸,或笑,或哭,或遭叫囂反對,或受喝采讚揚;在那個時候,我們一直高卧在虛無之境,無人聞問,舒適而又安全;我們在長眠中度過了千百世紀,不希望被人喚醒,一直逍遙於一個漫長的渾渾噩噩的時期之中,享受着一場比嬰兒時代的更為深沉而平靜的睡眠,覆蔽在最輕柔最微小的塵之中,安安靜靜,無憂無慮。
And the worst that we dread is, after a short fretful , feverish being, after vain hopes, and idle fears, to sink to final repose again, and forget the trouble dream of life!然後,我們在人世度過了一段短暫、煩躁、而狂熱的生活,曾經抱着種種虛空的希望,懷着種種無意的恐懼,現在所最怕的事情,卻是再度沉入那種最後的安息,和忘記人生的煩惱的夢境!
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