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1、生活的道路双语散文 当目标在望时，他与世长辞，因而也就幸免了达到目标后的心酸与苦痛。接下来，我给大家打算了生活的道路双语散文,欢迎大家参考与借鉴。 生活的道路双语散文 William S. Maugham 威廉·S.毛姆 The lives of most men are determined by their environment. They accept the circumstancesamid which fate has thrown them not only with resignation but even with good will. They arelik

2、e streetcars running contentedly on their rails and they despise the sprightly flivver thatdashes in and out of the traffic and speeds so jauntily across the open country. I respectthem;they are good citizens, good husbands, and good fathers, and of course somebody hasto pay the taxes; but I do not

3、find them exciting. I am fascinated by the men, few enough in allconscience, who take life in their own hands and seem to mould it to their own liking. It may bethat we have no such thing as free will, but at all events we have the illusion ofit. At acrossroad it does seem to us that we might go eit

4、her to the right or the left and, the choiceonce made, it is difficult to see that the whole course of the world's history obliged us to takethe turning we did. 对于大多数人来说，生活是由环境确定的。他们在命运的拨弄面前，不仅逆来顺受，甚至还能随遇而安。这些人如同街上的有轨电车，满意于在自己的轨道上运行;而对于那些时常出没于车水马龙间和欢快地奔驰在旷野上的廉价小汽车却不屑一顾。我敬重这些人;他们是遵守法律的公民、尽职的丈夫、慈爱

5、的父亲。当然，总得有人缴纳种.种税款;可是，我并不觉得他们使人激昂。另有些人把生活驾驭在自己手里，好像在根据自己的意愿创建生活，尽管这样的人寥若晨星，他们却深深地吸引了我。自由意志这玩意儿对我们来说或许纯属子虚乌有;但不管怎么说，它的确存在于我们的幻想之中。每逢站在十字路口，我们似乎能在左右两条道路中任选其一，可一旦选定之后，却又很难相识到那实际是世界历史的整个进程左右了我们的转折点。 I never met a more interesting man than Mayhew. He was a lawyerin Detroit. He was an able anda successful

6、 one. By the time he was thirty-five he had a large and a lucrative praaice, he hadamassed a competence, and he stood on the threshold of a distinguished career. He had ana cute brain, anattractive personality, and uprightness. There was no reason why he shouldnot become, financially or politically,

7、 a power in the land. One evening he was sitting in his clubwith a group of friends and they were perhaps a little worse (or the better) for liquor. One ofthem had recently come from Italy and he told them of a house he had seen at Capri, a houseon the hill, overlooking the Bay of Naples, with a lar

8、ge and shady garden. He described to themthe beauty of the most beautifulisland in the Mediterranean. 我从未见到过比梅休更有意思的人了。他是底特律的一名律师，为人能干，事业上也很胜利。35岁时就门庭若市，收入可观，累累胜诉，声名昭着，前程似锦。他头脑敏捷，性格招?喜爱，为人又很正直，在这个国家里不变得有钱或有势才怪呢。一天晚上，他与一些挚友在俱乐部聚会。喝了酒之后，他们或许有点醉意(或更醒悟)了，其中一人刚从意大利回来，跟大家谈起了在卡普里岛看到的一幢房子。那是一幢坐落在小山上的房屋，还有个绿

9、叶成荫的大花园。从屋里望出去，那不勒斯湾尽收眼底。他娓娓好听地把地中海这个最美的岛屿夸了一番。 "It sounds fine," said Mayhew. "Is that house for sale?" “听起来倒真不错!”梅休说，“那房子卖不卖?” "Everything is for sale in Italy." “在意大利什么东西都卖。” "Let's send'em a cable and make an offer for it." “我们打个电报，出个价把那房子买下来。” &qu

10、ot;What in heaven's name would you do with a house in Capri?" “天哪!你买卡普里的一所房子干什么用啊?” "Live in it," said Mayhew. “住呗!”梅休说。 He sent for a cable form, wrote it out, and dispatched it. In a few hours the reply came back.The offer was accepted. 他叫人取来一张电报单，填好后就发了出去。没过几小时，回电来了，买卖成交。 Mayhe

11、w was no hypocrite and he made no secret of the fact that he would never have done sowild a thing if he had been sober, but when he was he did not regret it. He was neither animpulsive nor an emotional man, but a very honest and sincere one. He would never havecontinued from bravado in a course that

12、 he had come to the conclusion was unwise. Hemade up his mind to do exactly as he had said. He did not care for wealth and he had enoughmoney on which to live in Italy. He thought he could do more with life than spend it oncomposing the trivial quarrels of unimportant people. 梅休肯定不是伪君子。他毫不隐讳地承认，假如当时

13、头脑醒悟的话，他决不至于做出如此轻率的事。但此刻他醒悟了，也决不反悔。他不是个一冲动就鲁莽从事的人，也不多愁善感。他为人非常正直、恳切。无论干什么，只要意识到所干的并不明智，他就立刻会停下来，从不会因一时逞能而一味蛮干下去。他决心不折不扣地履行自己的诺言。 He had no definite plan. He merely wanted to get away from a life that had given him allit hadto offer. I suppose his friends thought him crazy; some must have done all th

14、ey could todissuade him. He arranged his affairs, packed up his ffirniture, and started. 梅休并不在乎钱财，他有的是钱，足够在意大利花的。他想使生活过得更有价值，不愿再把这大好年华奢侈在调停芸芸众生因区区小事引起的吵闹中。他没有明确的计赳。他只是想抛弃这已不能再使他满足的生活。我想他的挚友们肯定以为他疯了。有些人确定是费尽唇舌劝他千万别这么做。可是他支配好手头的事务，把家具装了箱，毅然上路了。 Capri is a gaunt rock of austere outline, bathed in a dee

15、p blue sea; but its vineyards, greenand smiling, give it a soft and easy grace. It is friendly,remote, and debonair. I find it strangethat Mayhew should have settled on this lovely island, for I never knew a man more insensibleto beauty I do not know what he sought there: happiness, freedom, or mere

16、ly leisure; I knowwhat he found. In this place which appeals so extravagantly to the senses he lived a life entirelyof the spirit. For the island is rich with historic associations and over it broods always theenigmatic memory of Tiberius the Emperor. From his windows which overlooked the Bay ofNapl

17、es, with the noble shape of Vesuvius changing colour with the changing light, Mayhew saw ahundred places that recalled the Romans and the Greeks. The past began to haunt him. All thathe saw for the first time, for he had never been abroad before, excited his fancy; and in his soulstirred the creativ

18、e imagination. He was a man of energy. Presently he made up his mind towrite a history. For some time he looked about for a subject, and at last decided on the secondcentury of the Roman Empire. It was little known and it seemed to him to offer problemsanalogous with those of our own day. 卡普里岛是一块外形突

19、兀的荒芜的岩石，沐浴在深蓝色的海洋里。但是它的葱绿的葡萄园仿佛在向人微笑，使这个海岛增加了几分令人舒爽的温顺安静的姿色。卡普里岛远离尘嚣，却景色宜人，生气盎然。我真感到惊奇，梅休竟会找这么一个可爱的海岛定居，因为我实在不信任还有谁会比他对美更麻木不仁的了。我不知道他到那儿去想追求什么，是寻华蜜，求自由，或者只是为了优游岁月;但我知道他找到了什么。在这个岛上，人的感官本会受到剧烈的刺激，而他却过上了纯精神的生活。因为这个岛上尽是能够勾起你联想的历史遗迹，总叫你想到提比略大帝的神奇故事。他站在窗前就能俯视那不勒斯湾。每当日移光变，维苏威火山的雄姿也随之变换色泽。此时，他凭窗远望，看到上百处残踪遗迹

20、，因而联想起罗马和希腊的盛衰。他起先不停地思索起古代社会来。过去他从未到过国外，现在第一次开了眼界，什么都使他神驰遐想。脑海中创建性的想象联翩浮来。他是个精力充足的人，立即就确定要笔耕史学。他花了一些时间找寻题目，最终选定了罗马帝国的其次世纪。这个题目很少为人所知。梅休认为帝国当时存在的问题与当今社会的状况颇有巧合之处。 He began to collect books and soon he had an immense library. His legal training had taughthim to read quickly. He settled down to work. A

21、t first hehad been accustomed to foregather inthe evening with the painters, writers,and such like who met in the little tavern near the Piazza,but presently hewithdrew himself, for his absorption in his studies became more pressing. Hehad been accustomed to bathe in that bland sea and to take long

22、walks among the pleasantvineyards, butlittle by little, grudging the time, he ceased to do so. He worked harder than hehad ever worked in Detroit. He would start at noon and work all through the night till thewhistle of the steamer that goes every morning from Capri to Naples told him that it was fi

23、veo'clockand time to go to bed. His subject opened out before him, vaster and more significant,and he imagined a work that would put him forever beside the great historians of the past. Asthe years went by he was to be found seldom in the ways of men. He could be tempted to comeout of his house

24、only by agame o' chess or the chance of an argument. He loved to set hisbrain against another's. He was widely read now, not only in history, but in philosophy andscience; and he was a skilful controversialist, quick, logical, and incisive. 他起先收集有关着作，不久就有了大量藏书。搞法律时受的训练教会了他如何快速阅读。他着手工作了。起初，他惯

25、于在黄昏时分到市场旁边的一个小酒店和聚在那里的画家、作家等文人墨客共同消磨一段时间，但不久他就深居简出了，因为探讨工作日趋惊慌，使他抽不出时间。一起先他也常到温柔的海水中去洗澡，时常在可爱的葡萄园之间漫步。但由于舍不得时间，慢慢地他不再洗澡，也不漫步了。他干得要比在底特律卖力得多，经常是正午起先工作，彻夜不眠，待到汽笛一鸣，才恍然意识到已是早晨五点，从卡普里到那不勒斯的船只刚要起锚出航，该是睡觉的时候了。他的主题在他面前绽开了，涉及的内容越来越广泛，意义越来越重大。他在遐想，一旦巨着完成，他将跻身于历代宏大的史学家之列，永垂史册。时间一年年过去，人们很少看到他与外界来往，只有一场棋赛或是一次辩

26、论，才能诱使他走出家门。他就是爱与人斗智。现在他已博览群书，不仅读历史，还读哲学与科学。他能争善辩，思路灵敏，说理逻辑严密，批判尖锐辛辣。 But he had good-humour and kindliness; though he took a very human pleasure in victory, hedid not exult in it to your mortification. 但他心地是和善的。当然，每逢成功他也免不了满腔欢欣与欢乐，这是人之常情。不过他并不沾沾自喜，而让别人下不了台。 When first he came to the island he was a

27、 big, brawny.fellow, with thick black hair and a blackbeard, of a powerful physique; but gradually his skin became pale and waxy; he grew thin andfrail. It was an odd contradiction in the most logical of men that, though a convinced andimpetuous materialist,he despised the body; he looked upon it as

28、 a vile instrument which hecould force to do the spirit's bidding. Neither illness nor lassitude prevented him from going onwith his work. For fourteen years he toiled uluemittingly. He made thousands and thousands ofnotes. He sorted and classified them. Hehad his subjea at his finger ends, and

29、at last was readyto begin. He sat down to write. He died. 当他初到海岛时，个子高大牢固，一头浓密的黑发和一把黑胡须，是一个身强力壮的人。但慢慢地他的皮肤日见苍白，人也瘦弱了。尽管他是一个坚决不移的、甚至近于偏激的唯物论者，却不把肉体放在眼里。这在一位最讲究逻辑的人身上，可真是自相冲突得叫人不行思议。他把肉体视为微乎其微的工具，认为他可以驱使肉体去完成精神给予的使命。病魔和疲惫都不能使他停止工作。整整14年，他埋头苦干，锲而不舍，做了千万条注释，又把这些注释分门别类整理有序。对于自己的主题，他了如指掌，最终万事俱备，他坐下来去写那煌煌巨着

30、。然而他死了。 The body that he, the materialist, had treated so contumeliously took its revenge on him. 这位唯物论者曾极度蔑视肉体，如今肉体对他进行了报复。 That vast accumulation of knowledge is lost for ever. Vain was that ambition,surely not anignoble one, to set his name beside those of -Gibbon and Mommsen . His memory is trea

31、suredin the hearts of a few friends, fewer,alas! as the years pass on, and to the world he isunknown in death as he was in life. 那长年累月积累起来的学问也随着他的死而化为乌有。他曾想与吉本和蒙森齐名。这雄心无疑是高尚的，然而如今只是一场空。几个挚友还怀念着他，可叹的是，随着岁月的消逝，记得他的人也越来越少。在这个大干世界上，他死后静默无闻，如同他生前一样。 And yet to me his life was a success. The pattern is go

32、od and complete. Hedid what he wanted,and he died when his goal was in sight and never knew the bitterness of an end achieved. 然而，在我看来，他的一生是胜利的。他的生活道路是完备的。因为他干了他想干的事。当目标在望时，他与世长辞，因而也就幸免了达到目标后的心酸与苦痛。本文来源：网络收集与整理，如有侵权，请联系作者删除，谢谢！第14页 共14页第 14 页 共 14 页第 14 页 共 14 页第 14 页 共 14 页第 14 页 共 14 页第 14 页 共 14 页第 14 页 共 14 页第 14 页 共 14 页第 14 页 共 14 页第 14 页 共 14 页第 14 页 共 14 页