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182 【The importance of Living】The mature Chinese is always a person who refuses to think too hard or to believe in any single idea or faith or school of philosphy whole-heartedly. When a friend of Confucius told him that he always thought three times before he acted, Confucius wittily replied, 'To think twice is quite enough.' -- By Lin Yutan

-- 一个成熟的中国人，不较真？不钻牛角尖？




下图：这种树，皮薄，但有很多层，要是女朋友的脸皮也是这样的话，该多好，省钱是肯定的，但可能不会省力。。The thinnest and slenderest bark I have ever seen – if a girl’s skin can grow like that, being of multiple and strippable layers, she is bound to save money, notwithstanding the skinning task she has to surely labor through.。

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183 【The importance of Living】When a Chinese drinks a mouthful of good soup, he gives a hearty smack. Of course, that would be bad table manners in the West. On the other hand, I strongly suspect that Western table manners, compelling us to sip our soup noiselessly and eat our food quietly with the least expression of enjoyment, are the true reason for the arrested development of the art of cuisine. Why do the Westerners talk so softly and look so miserable and decent and respectable at their meals?.. What shame is there in enjoying one's food, what shame in having a normal, healthy appetite? No, the Chinese are different. They have bad table manners, but great enjoyment of a feast. -- By Lin Yutan

-- 中国人好吃，大声砸吧着，叫唤着吃，终于吃出了艺术。。

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184 【The importance of Living】To me personally, the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average bsiness man does, for no business man who does not retire at fifty, if he can, is in my eyes a philosopher. -- By Lin Yutan

-- 商人，如果不在50岁之前退休，无法成为哲学家？

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185 【Anna Karenina】"Never mind," she thought, "only let him be here, and so long as he's here he cannot, he dare not, cease to love me." -- By Leo Tolstory Translated by C. Garnett

-- ‘只要他在这里，他不能，也不敢不爱我。。’-- 当爱开始消褪，再理性坚强的Anna 也在自我安慰。。

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186 【Little Dorrit】I am self-contained and self-reliant; your opinion is nothing to me; I have no interest in you, care nothing for you, and see and hear you with indifference. by Charles Dickens.

-- 这个人要不太伟大了，要不从来没有爱过别人，要不被别人爱得要死。。

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187【Anna Karenina】And Levin saw a new trait in this woman, who attracted him so extraordinarily. Besides wit, grace, and beauty, she had truth. She had no wish to hide from him all the bitterness of her position. As she said that she sighed, and her face suddenly taking a hard expression, looked as it were turned to stone. With that expression on her face she was more beautiful than ever; but the expression was new; it was utterly unlike that expression, radiant with happiness and creating happiness, which had been caught by the painter in her portrait. -- By Leo Tolstory Translated by C. Garnett

-- 我不得不怀疑，安娜就是托尔斯泰的‘梦中情人’。。

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188 【The importance of Living】And as the English think with their skin, so the Chinese think with their profound intestines... We Chinese know that we do think with our intestines; scholars are said to have 'a bellyful of ideas,' or 'a bellyful of sorrow,' or ' of anger,' or 'remorse', or 'chagrin,' or 'longing.' Chinese lovers separated from each other write letters to say that 'their sorrowful intestines are tied into a hundred knots,' or that at their last parting 'their intestines were broken.' -- By Lin Yutan

-- 中国人的‘痛苦肠子’。。sorrowful intestines are tied into a hundred knots.. untill broken...

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189【Anna Karenina】His despair was even intensified by the consciousness that he was utterly alone in his sorrow. In all Petersburg there was not a human being to whom he could express what he was feeling, who would feel for him, not as a high official, not as a member of society, but simply as a suffering man; indeed he had not such a one in the whole world. -- By Leo Tolstory Translated by C. Garnett

-- 他无人诉说。。生错了年代，如果是现在的话，至少可以到足迹的隐秘天空寻找一点安慰 。。。

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190【Anna Karenina】She tried to fling herself below the wheels of the first carriage as it reached her; but the red bag which she tried to drop out of her hand delayed her, and she was too late; she missed the moment. She had to wait for the next carriage. A feeling such as she had known when about to take the first plunge in bathing came upon her, and she crossed herself. That familiar gesture brought back into her soul a whole series of girlish and childish memories, and suddenly the darkness that had covered everything for her was torn apart, and life rose up before her for an instant with all its bright past joys. But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second carriage. And exactly at the moment when the space between the wheels came opposite her, she dropped the red bag, and drawing her head back into her shoulders, fell on her hands under the carriage, and lightly, as though she would rise again at once, dropped on to her knees. And at the same instant she was terror-stricken at what she was doing. "Where am I? What am I doing? What for?" She tried to get up, to drop backwards; but something huge and merciless struck her on the head and rolled her on her back. "Lord, forgive me all!" she said, feeling it impossible to struggle. A peasant muttering something was working at the iron above her. And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever. -- By Leo Tolstory Translated by C. Garnett

-- 只供欣赏，不要把死太当一回事。。

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191 【Little Dorrit】'And because she was very weak; indeed was so weak that when she began to laugh she couldn't stop herself -- which was a great pity -' -- by Charles Dickens

-- 可能脸部肌肉太弱，无法收放自如？一笑，就收不回来，失去了弹性？

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192 【Little Dorrit】In the country, the rain would have developed a thousand fresh scents, and every drop would have had its bright association with some beautiful form of growth or life. In the city, it developed only foul stale smells, and was a sickly, lukewarm, dirt-stained, wretched additon to the gutters. -- by Charles Dickens


-- 同样的雨，下到乡村和下到城市，景象大不一样。

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193 【The importance of Living】Miserable indeed is a world in which we have knowledge without understanding, criticism without appreciation, beauty without love, truth without passion, righteousness without mercy, and courtesy without a warm heart! -- By Lin Yutan


-- 知识，理解；批评，欣赏；美丽，爱；真理，热情；正确，同情；礼貌，热心。。好像翻译的不够好，凑合着了。。

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194 【Little Dorrit】The rain fell heavily on roof, and pattered on the ground, and dripped among the evergreens, and the leafless branches of the trees. The rain fell heavily, drearily. It was a night of tears.  -- by Charles Dickens

-- 下着大雨。

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195 【Little Dorrit】While the street was empty and silent, Little Dorrit was not afraid; but when she heard a footstep at a distance, or saw a moving shadow among the street lamps, she was startled, and whispered, 'Maggy, I see some one, come away!' Maggy would then wake up more or less fretfully, and they would wander about a little, and come back again. -- by Charles Dickens

-- 露宿街头的经历 （有机会真想试一试。。）

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196【Anna Karenina】"In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble-organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me." -- By Leo Tolstory Translated by C. Garnett

-- 有趣的生命解释。。

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197 【Little Dorrit】To review his life, was like descending a green tree in fruit and flower, and seeing all the branches wither and drop off one by one, as he came down towards them. -- by Charles Dickens

-- 审视他的人生，就象从一颗有着绿叶和鲜花的树上走下，看着所有的枝干渐渐枯萎，一根一根的掉在地上，看到的是满地的残枝败叶。

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198【Anna Karenina】"My love keeps growing more passionate and egoistic, while his is waning and waning, and that's why we're drifting apart." She went on musing. "And there's no help for it. He is everything for me, and I want him more and more to give himself up to me entirely. And he wants more and more to get away from me. We walked to meet each other up to the time of our love, and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions. And there's no altering that. He tells me I'm insanely jealous, and I have told myself that I am insanely jealous; but it's not true. I'm not jealous, but I'm unsatisfied. But…" she opened her lips, and shifted her place in the carriage in the excitement, aroused by the thought that suddenly struck her. "If I could be anything but a mistress, passionately caring for nothing but his caresses; but I can't and I don't care to be anything else. And by that desire I rouse aversion in him, and he rouses fury in me, and it cannot be different. Don't I know that he wouldn't deceive me, that he has no schemes about Princess Sorokina, that he's not in love with Kitty, that he won't desert me! I know all that, but it makes it no better for me. If without loving me, from duty he'll be good and kind to me, without what I want, that's a thousand times worse than unkindness! That's—hell! And that's just how it is. For a long while now he hasn't loved me. And where love ends, hate begins. I don't know these streets at all. Hills it seems, and still houses, and houses …. And in the houses always people and people…. How many of them, no end, and all hating each other! Come, let me try and think what I want, to make me happy. -- By Leo Tolstory Translated by C. Garnett

-- 看安娜在爱情产生危机时的心理活动，可以看出安娜的爱情完美主义，同时也可以看出她对现实的分析非常非常的理性，对自己到底需要什么很清楚。‘宁为玉碎不为瓦全’？

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199 【Little Dorrit】And ah, how beaming she looked, and how glad! How she caressed the dog, and how the dog knew her! How expressive that heightedend color in her face, that fluttered manner, her downcast eyes, her irresolute happiness! -- by Charles Dickens

-- 情人眼里出西施，一个爱护小狗的动作就让他感叹成这样。。





下图：这小的（精子），匆匆赶来，精力充沛，受烂泥的委托，蓬勃向上；这大的（卵子）等候多时，花也开了，腰也折了，心烦意燥。。见到他，惊喜交加，以泪洗面，然赌气转身。。可惜，他们最终未能结合，何故？（此乃足迹新年第一大哑谜）。。。。。。谜底：你不问，我可不答；你不语，我当自言；你吝啬，我小气；你八卦，我酒星；你故作沉思，我邪眼以对；你装模作样，我手舞足蹈；你拿错了瓶子，我吃错了药；你嘴角生病，我发了神经；你上半身不大，我下半身不粗；你抖动那皮毛，我活动着筋骨；你占不了便宜，我发不了财；你清醒着，我醉着；你那里天晴，我这里下雨；你在阴里悠着，我在稀泥躺着；你同情着，我自恋着；你笑着，我傻着；你高端，我低就；你是时间，我是空间；你是树，我是根；你是花，我是叶；你是人，我不是鬼；你愤怒，我哀求；你是太阳，我是月亮；你是阳光，我是黑影 。。呵呵， 打住打住，谜底下回分解。。

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200 【Little Women】Long, quiet days she spent, not lonely nor idle, for her little world was peopled with imaginary friends, and she was by nature a busy bee. -- by Louisa May Alcott

-- 网上TX们的真实写照？

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201 【Little Women】Meg's high-heeled slippers were very tight and hurt her, though she would not own it, and Jo's nineteen hairpins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable, but, dear me, let us be elegant or die. -- by Louisa May Alcott

-- 宁为优雅而死？

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202 【Little Dorrit】As Clennam followed, she said to him, with the same external composure and in the same level voice, but with a smile that is only seen on cruel faces: a very faint smile, lifting the nostril, scarcely touching the lips, and not breaking away gradually, but instantly dismissed when done with: "..." -- by Charles Dickens

-- 大家想象一下她的笑是哪一种笑？冷笑？

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203 【Little Women】'Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.  Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life become a beautiful success, in spite of poverty.' -- by Louisa May Alcott

-- 这里最好不要用  success (我讨厌这个词), 用 experience ...

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astina

life will become a beautiful journey

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原帖由 astina 于 2011-12-16 11:40 发表
life will become a beautiful journey

journey 目的性太强，你不觉得？

astina

不这么认为。journey就是强调过程而已

。。。这样年轻的岁月充满欢愉，年老也无所遗憾。生命成为一个美丽的旅程，无论贫穷还是富有。

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原帖由 astina 于 2011-12-16 11:52 发表
不这么认为。journey就是强调过程而已

。。。这样年轻的岁月充满欢愉，年老也无所遗憾。生命成为一个美丽的旅程，无论贫穷还是富有。

很完美的解释。。可能我太咬文嚼字 （journey总是有一个目的，好像一定要到底哪个地方，从一地点到另一个地点 -- 目的地，生命应该有一个目的地吗？可以不可以没有目的地的，漫无目的的随心体验，走到哪儿算哪儿？）

astina

生命的目的是死亡，不过不在这个帖子讨论的范畴

其实作者用success也没错，每个人都可以诠释自己心中的成功

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原帖由 astina 于 2011-12-16 12:10 发表
生命的目的是死亡，不过不在这个帖子讨论的范畴

其实作者用success也没错，每个人都可以诠释自己心中的成功

可能我理解成功，爱用‘中国思维’，这个词给人太多的‘欲望和邪念’，心灵不够纯净。大体上，成功是人类社会设计的一个游戏规则，它让每个可怜的人为之奋斗，最后从成功或不成功的量化标准中衡量生命个体的‘价值’和‘意义’。当然，也可以把它理解成游戏规则以外的‘成功’，那种完全以内心的快乐平和为准则的成功，不过有些勉强，稍微不小心，就容易陷入游戏圈套。简单的说，成功就是一个社会概念，而生命的意义我理解的更多的是个体的。

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204 【Little Women】
"I am glad of that!" exclaimed Meg.  "I should think every young man would want to go (to war), though it is hard for the mothers and sisters who stay at home," she added sorrowfully.

"I have neither, and very few friends to care whether I live or die," said Mr. Brooke rather bitterly as he absently put the dead rose in the hole he had made and covered it up, like a little grave. -- by Louisa May Alcott

-- 看到一个类似于‘黛玉葬花’的例子，不过这是一个男孩（从下面两段看他同黛玉可能有点像--我没看过红楼梦）。

Mr. Brooke was a grave, silent young man, with handsome brown eyes and a pleasant voice.  Meg liked his quiet manners and considered him a walking encyclopedia of useful knowledge.  He never talked to her much, but he looked at her a good deal, and she felt sure that he did not regard her with aversion.  

Lying on the grass at the feet of the two young ladies, Mr.Brooke obediently began the story, with the handsome brown eyes steadily fixed upon the sunshiny river.