沉思录(双语)[配音：梁祝]

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In the series of things those which follow are always aptly fitted to those which have gone before; for this series is not like a mere enumeration of disjointed things, which has only a necessary sequence, but it is a rational connection: and as all existing things are arranged together harmoniously, so the things which come into existence exhibit no mere succession, but a certain wonderful relationship. 在事物的系列中, 跟在后面的总是与在前面的那些恰恰配合, 因为这系列并不像一些无关联 的事物的单纯列举,仅只有必然的次序,而是一种合理的联系:正如一切存在的事物都被和 谐地安排在一起一样,新出现的事物不仅表现出继续,并且表现出某种奇妙的联系.

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Always remember the saying of Heraclitus, that the death of earth is to become water, and the death of water is to become air, and the death of air is to become fire, and reversely. And think too of him who forgets whither the way leads, and that men quarrel with that with which they are most constantly in communion, the reason which governs the universe; and the things which daily meet with seem to them strange: and consider that we ought not to act and speak as if we were asleep, for even in sleep we seem to act and speak; and that we ought not, like children who learn from their parents, simply to act and speak as we have been taught. 始终记住赫拉克利特所说:土死变水,水死变气,气死变火,然后再倒过来.也想想那忘记 -30- 了路向何处去的人,想想他们与他们最常接触的人的争吵,想想支配宇宙的理性,以及每日 发生的似乎对他们是陌生的事情; 考虑我们不应当像仿佛我们睡着一般行动和言语 (因为甚 至在睡眠时我们也有言行) 我们不应当像从父母学习的孩子一样,仅仅因为我们被教诲 ; 而这样行动和言语.

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If any god told thee that thou shalt die to-morrow, or certainly on the day after to-morrow, thou wouldst not care much whether it was on the third day or on the morrow, unless thou wast in the highest degree mean-spirited- for how small is the difference?- So think it no great thing to die after as many years as thou canst name rather than to-morrow. 如果有神告诉你, 你将明天死去, 或肯定在后天死去, 你将不会太关心是否是明天还是后天, 除非你确实是精神极其贫乏,因为这差别是多么微小啊!所以,不要把按你能提出的许多年 时间后死去而非明天死去看成什么大事.

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Think continually how many physicians are dead after often contracting their eyebrows over the sick; and how many astrologers after predicting with great pretensions the deaths of others; and how many philosophers after endless discourses on death or immortality; how many heroes after killing thousands; and how many tyrants who have used their power over men's lives with terrible insolence as if they were immortal; and how many cities are entirely dead, so to speak, Helice and Pompeii and Herculaneum, and others innumerable. Add to the reckoning all whom thou hast known, one after another. One man after burying another has been laid out dead, and another buries him: and all this in a short time. To conclude, always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are, and what was yesterday a little mucus to-morrow will be a mummy or ashes. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew. 不断地想这些事: 有多少医生在频繁地对病人皱拢眉头之后死去; 有多少占星家在提前很久 预告了别人的死亡之后也已死去; 又有多少哲学家在不断地讨论死亡或不朽之后死去; 多少 英雄在杀了成千上万人之后死去;多少暴君,仿佛他们是不死的一样,在以可怕的蛮横手段 使用他们对于人们生命的权力之后死去;又有多少城市,比如赫利斯,庞培,赫库莱尼恩以 及别的不可计数的城市被完全毁灭. 再把你知道的所有人一个接一个地加在这上面, 一个人 在埋葬了别人之后死了,另一个人又埋葬了他:所有这些都是发生在一段不长的时间里.总 之,要始终注意属人的事物是多么短暂易逝和没有价值,昨天是一点点黏液的东西,明天就 将成为木乃伊或灰尘.那么就请自然地通过这一小段时间,满意地结束你的旅行,就像一棵 橄榄成熟时掉落一样,感激产生它的自然,谢谢它生于其上的树木.

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Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. 要像峙立于不断拍打的巨浪之前的礁石,它巍然不动,驯服着它周围海浪的狂暴.

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Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future. For such a thing as this might have happened to every man; but every man would not have continued free from pain on such an occasion. Why then is that rather a misfortune than this a good fortune? And dost thou in all cases call that a man's misfortune, which is not a deviation  from man's nature? And does a thing seem to thee to be a deviation from man's nature, when it is not contrary to the will of man's nature? Well, thou knowest the will of nature. Will then this which has happened prevent thee from being just, magnanimous, temperate, prudent, secure against inconsiderate opinions and falsehood; will it prevent thee from having modesty, freedom, and everything else, by the presence of which man's nature obtains all that is its own? Remember too on every occasion which leads thee to vexation to apply this principle: not that this is a misfortune, but that to bear it nobly is good fortune. 我是不幸的,因为这事对我发生了.-不要这样,而是想我是幸福的,虽然这件事发生了, 因为我对痛苦始终保持着自由, 不为现在或将来的恐惧所压倒. 因为像这样的一种事可能对 每一个人发生, 但不是每一个人在这种场合都始终使自己免于痛苦. 那么为什么不是一件幸 事而是一个不幸对我发生呢?你在所有情况下都把那并不偏离人的本性的东西称为一个人 的不幸吗?一个事物,当它并不违反人的本性的意志时,你会把它看成对人的本性的偏离 吗?好,你知道本性的意志,那这发生的事情将阻止你做一个正直,高尚,节制,明智和不 受轻率的意见和错误影响的人吗?难道它将阻止你拥有节制, 自由和别的一切好品质吗?人 的本性正是在这些品质中获得所有属它自己的东西. 记住在任何可能使你烦恼的场合都采用 这一原则:即这并非是一个不幸,而高贵地忍受它却是一个幸运.

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It is a vulgar, but still a useful help towards contempt of death, to pass in review those who have tenaciously stuck to life. What more then have they gained than those who have died early? Certainly they lie in their tombs somewhere at last, Cadicianus, Fabius, Julianus, Lepidus, or any one else like them, who have carried out many to be buried, and then were carried out themselves. Altogether the interval is small between birth and death; and consider with how much trouble, and in company with what sort of people and in what a feeble body this interval is laboriously passed. Do not then consider life a thing of any value. For look to the immensity of time behind thee, and to the time which is before thee, another boundless space. In this infinity then what is the difference between him who lives three days and him who lives three generations? 通过重温那些紧紧抓住生命的人, 对于蔑视死亡来说是一个通俗却仍不失为有用的帮助. 他 们比那些早死的人获得了更多的东西吗?他们肯定最终仍得躺在什么地方的坟墓里. 克迪斯 亚卢斯,费比厄斯,朱利安卢斯,莱皮德斯或任何类似于他们的人,他们埋葬了许多人,然 后是自己被埋葬. 总之, 生与死之间的距离是很短的, 仔细想一下吧, 生命是带着多少苦恼, 伴随着什么样的人, 寄寓于多么软弱的身体而艰难地走过这一距离的, 那么就不要把寿命看 做是一件很有价值的东西,看一看在你之后的无限时间,再看看在你之前的无限时间,在这 种无限面前,活三于和活三代之间有什么差别呢?

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Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display. 总是走直路,直路是自然的,相应地说和做一切符合健全理性的事情.因为这样一个使一个 人摆脱苦恼,战争及所有的诡计和炫耀.

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Book Five IN THE morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present- I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and -32- for which I was brought into the world? Or have I been made for this, to lie in the bed-clothes and keep myself warm?- But this is more pleasant.- Dost thou exist then to take thy pleasure, and not at all for action or exertion? Dost thou not see the little plants, the little birds, the ants, the spiders, the bees working together to put in order their several parts of the universe? And art thou unwilling to do the work of a human being, and dost thou not make haste to do that which is according to thy nature?- But it is necessary to take rest also.- It is necessary: however nature has fixed bounds to this too: she has fixed bounds both to eating and drinking, and yet thou goest beyond these bounds, beyond what is sufficient; yet in thy acts it is not so, but thou stoppest short of what thou canst do. So thou lovest not thyself, for if thou didst, thou wouldst love thy nature and her will. But those who love their several arts exhaust themselves in working at them unwashed and without food; but thou valuest thy own own nature less than the turner values the turning art, or the dancer the dancing art, or the lover of money values his money, or the vainglorious man his little glory. And such men, when they have a violent affection to a thing, choose neither to eat nor to sleep rather than to perfect the things which they care for. But are the acts which concern society more vile in thy eyes and less worthy of thy labour? 早晨当你不情愿地起床时, 让这一思想出现-我正起来去做一个人的工作. 如果我是要去做 我因此而存在, 因此而被带入这一世界的工作, 那么我有什么不满意呢?难道我是为了躲在 温暖的被子里睡眠而生的吗?-但这是较愉快的. -那你的存在是为了获取快乐, 而全然不 是为了行动和尽力吗?你没有看到小小的植物,小鸟,蚂蚁,蜘蛛,蜜蜂都在一起工作,从 而有条不紊地尽它们在宇宙中的职分吗?你不愿做一个人的工作, 不赶快做那合乎你本性的 事吗?-但休息也是必要的.-休息是必要的,但自然也为这确定了界限,她为吃喝规定了 界限,但你还是越过了这些限制,超出了足够的范围;而你的行动却不是这样,在还没有做 你能做的之前就停止了. 所有你不爱你自己, 因为, 如果你爱, 你就将爱你的本性及其意志. 那些热爱他们各自的技艺的人都在工作中忙得精疲力尽,他们没有洗浴,没有食物;而你对 你的本性的尊重却甚至还不如杂耍艺人尊重杂耍技艺, 舞蹈家尊重舞蹈技艺, 聚财者尊重他 的金钱,或者虚荣者尊重他小小的光荣.这些人,当他们对一件事怀有一种强烈的爱好时, 宁肯不吃不睡也要完善他们所关心的事情. 而在你的眼里, 难道有益于社会的行为是讨厌的, 竟不值得你劳作吗?

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How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility. 这是多么容易啊:抵制和清除一切令人苦恼或不适当的印象,迅速进入完全的宁静.