人生哲理美文18:On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth 有感于青春常在
有感于青春常在
No young man believes he will ever die. It was a saying of my brother’s, and a fine one.
年轻人不相信自己会死。这是我哥哥的话，可算得一句妙语。
There is a feeling of eternity in youth, which makes us amend for everything. To be young is to be as one of the immortal Gods. One half of time indeed is flown — the other half remains in store for us with all its countless treasures, for there is no line drawn, and we see no limit to our hopes and wishes. We make the coming age our own.
青春有一种永生之感——它能弥补一切。人在青年时代好像一尊永生的神明。诚然，生命的一半已经消逝，但蕴藏着不尽财富的另一半还有所保留，我们对它也抱着无穷的 希望和幻想。未来的时代完全属于我们。
So, in the commencement of life, we set no bounds to our inclinations, nor to the unrestricted opportunities of gratifying them. We have as yet found no obstacle, no disposition to flag; and it seems that we can go on so forever.
在这生活的开端，我们听任自己的志趣驰骋，放手给它们一切满足的机会。到此为止， 我们还没有碰上过什么障碍，也没有感觉到什么疲惫，因此觉得还可以一直这样向前走 去，直到永远。
We look round in a new world, full of life, and motion, and ceaseless progress; and feel in ourselves all the vigor and spirit to keep pace with it. Our short-lives connexion with existence we fondly flatterourselves is an indissoluble and lasting union — a honeymoon that knows neither coldness, jar, nor separation. As infants smile and sleep, we are rocked in the cradle of our wayward fancies, and lulled into security by the roar of the universe around us — we quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the more — objects press around us, filling the mind with their magnitude and with the strong of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
我们看到四周一派新天地——生机盎然，变动不居，日新月异;我们觉得自己活力充 盈,精神饱满。我们一厢情愿，痴心妄想，竟把自己在世上的暂时栖身，当做千古不变、万 事长存的结合,好像没有冷淡、争执、离别的蜜月。像婴儿带着微笑入睡，我们躺在用自己 编织成的摇篮里，让大千世界的万籁之声催哄我们安然入梦;我们急切切、兴冲冲地畅饮 生命之杯，怎么也不会饮干，反而好像永远是满满欲溢;森罗万象纷至沓来，各种欲望随之 而生，使我们腾不出工夫想死亡。
