英语美文点亮智慧人生18：Shelley to Elizabeth Hitchhiker 雪莱致伊丽莎白•西琴勒（MP3+双语字幕）

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[00:00.00]Your letter of the 1st hath this moment reached me.	我刚才收到您1号的来信，
[00:12.86]I answer it according to our agreement,	按我们之间的约定给您回信，
[00:16.32]which shall be inviolable.	这一约定是不可违背的。
[00:18.72]Truly did you say that,	你确实说过，
[00:21.72]at our arising in the morning,	在我们早晨起来的时候，
[00:23.96]nature assumes a different aspect.	大自然总是有不同的面貌。
[00:26.96]Who could have conjectured the circumstances of my last letter?	谁能猜想到我上次写信的境况呢？
[00:31.46]Friend of my soul,this is terrible, dismaying: 	我心灵的知己，这太可怕，太令人沮丧了。
[00:36.72]it makes one's heart sink,	我的心为之一沉，
[00:39.13]it withers vital energy...	浑身的锐气消磨殆尽…
[00:41.74]Dear being, I am thine again; 	亲爱的人儿，我又是您的了，
[00:44.97]the happiness shall again predominate over this fleeting tribute to self-interest.	这幸福又将压倒我这短暂的孤芳自赏。
[00:52.12]Yet who would not feel now?	然而在这种时候，谁又不会有相同的感受呢？
[00:54.76]Oh, it were as reckless a task to endeavor to annihilate perception while sense existed,	啊，如果一息尚存而欲对其不闻不问
[01:02.56]as to blunt the sixth sense 	岂非与使第六感觉对这样一些印象
[01:04.77]to such impressions as these! ...	变得迟钝同样的不顾后果了吗？…
[01:07.75]Forgive me, dearest friend?	最亲爱的朋友，宽恕我好吗？
[01:09.98]I pour out my whole soul to you.	我把整个心都掏给您了。
[01:13.10]I write by fleeting intervals: my pen runs away with my senses.	几度举笔，笔不从心。
[01:19.39]The impassionateness of my sensations grows upon me.	但我理智的情感终于又涌现上我的心头，
[01:25.30]Your letter, too, has much affected me.	您的信也深深地影响着我。
[01:28.96]Never, with my consent,	我从不认为我们之间的交往会永远终止，
[01:31.67]shall that intercourse cease which has been the day-dawn of my existence,	您与我的交往给我带来了生命的曙光，
[01:37.31]the sun which has shed warmth on the cold drear 	是洒在我冰凉而漫长的
[01:41.48]length of the anticipated prospect of life.	人生旅途上的期待的温暖阳光。
[01:45.19]Prejudice might demand the sacrifice,	偏见可能要求人们以牺牲为代价，
[01:48.62]but she is an idol to whom we bow not.	那不过是幽灵，您我都不会向这个幽灵屈服。
[01:52.49]The world might demand it; 	世俗可能要我们做出牺牲，
[01:55.13]its opinion might require; 	舆论也会提出要求；
[01:58.14]but the cloud which flees over yon mountain 	但遥望飘过远方山岭的云彩，
[02:01.10]were as important to our happiness,	不是也乐在其中，
[02:03.89]to our usefulness.	有益于我们的身心吗？
[02:05.74]This must never be, never whilst this existence continues; 	这绝不可能，只要一息尚存，决不屈服，
[02:11.78]and when time has enrolled us in the list of the departed,	决不低头；即使时光把我们列入告别名单中，
[02:16.42]surely this friendship will survive to bear our identity to heaven.	毫无疑问，我们这般友情天国中也一同相聚。
[02:22.39]What is love, or friendship?	何谓爱情？何谓友情？
[02:25.78]Is it something material...	是一些实在的东西吗…
[02:27.91]a ball, an apple, a plaything ...	是球、苹果、玩偶…
[02:31.24]which must be taken from one to be given to another?	可以信手拈来、随意给人的实物吗？
[02:35.53]Is it capable of no extension, no communication?	是不能深化、不能交流的吗？
[02:40.77]Lord Kaimes defines love to be 	凯密斯勋爵给爱情下的定义是，
[02:44.42]a particularization of the general passion.	爱情是一般激情的特殊体现。
[02:47.53]But this is the love of sensation, of sentiment ...	但这是肉欲之爱、情欲之爱…
[02:53.53]the absurdest of absurd vanities: 	是荒谬绝伦的逢场作戏，
[02:56.50]it is the love of pleasure, not the love of happiness.	是寻欢作乐的爱，不是幸福的爱。
[03:01.40]The one is a love which is self-centered, self- interested: 	这是一种自私自利的爱，
[03:06.26]It desires its own interest; it is the parent of jealousy.	它只求利己，是嫉妒之源，
[03:11.26]Its object is the plaything which it desires to monopolize.	其目的在于垄断追求的玩物，
[03:16.89]Selfishness, monopoly, is its very soul,	其本质是私心、垄断。
[03:21.64]and to communicate to others part of this love were to destroy its essence,	这种爱的表现也是对爱的亵渎，
[03:30.72]to annihilate this chain of straw.	使脆如纤草的爱泯灭殆尽。
[03:33.55]But love, the love which we worship,...	但我们崇拜的爱，
[03:36.65]virtue, heaven, disinterestedness...	象征美德、天意和无私，
[03:40.55]in a word, friendship...	一句话，真情…
[03:42.77]which has as much to do with the senses as with yonder mountains; 	它既能感知，又与远方的山脉息息相通。
[03:47.69]that which seeks the good of all...	它追求大家的幸福…
[03:51.45]the good of its object first,	首先是对方的幸福，
[03:54.80]not because that object is a minister to its pleasures,	不是因为对方给予欢乐，
[03:58.50]not merely because it even contributes to its happiness,	有愧于心，
[04:03.26]but because it is really worthy, because it has powers, sensibilities,	因为它值得，它有力量，有情感，
[04:09.54]is capable of abstracting itself,	并能无私奉献，
[04:12.65]and loving virtue's own loveliness ...	因为美德的可爱而爱美德…
[04:15.98]Desiring the happiness of others, not from the obligation of fearing the happiness of others,	不是因为怕下地狱
[04:25.98]not from the obligation of fearing hell or desiring heaven: 	或想升天堂而为他人求得幸福，
[04:31.33]but for pure, simple, unsophisticated virtue.	而是出于纯朴无华的美德。
[04:35.29]You will soon hear again.	你不久又会收到我的信。
[04:38.80]Adieu, my dearest friend.	再见了，我最亲爱的朋友。
[04:40.10]Continue to believe that 	请你继续相信这一点：
[04:42.46]when I am insensible to your excellence,	我什么时候对阁下无动于衷，
[04:45.45]I shall cease to exist.	我便将不复存在。

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英语美文点亮智慧人生18：Shelley to Elizabeth Hitchhiker 雪莱致伊丽莎白•西琴勒（MP3+双语字幕）