英文诵典美文精华必背01：What I Have Lived for 我为何而生（MP3+双语）

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[00:02.88]What I Have Lived for 伯特兰・罗素（Bertrand Russell，1872-1970）
[00:07.95]Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life:the longing for love, the search for knowledge,and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. 对爱情的渴望，对知识的探求和对人类苦难不可遏制的同情，是支配我一生的单纯而难以抗拒的三种情感。
[00:23.41]These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.这些情感如阵阵飓风，随意地把我吹得飘来荡去，有时吹过深沉痛苦的海洋，直抵绝望的边缘。
[00:40.08]I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy.我曾经追求过爱情，首先是因为爱情可以给我带来狂喜,
[00:45.00]ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours of this joy.这种狂喜竟如强烈，以至于我常常会为了体验几小时爱的欢娱，而宁愿牺牲生命中的其他一切。
[00:57.17]I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness.我曾经追求过爱情，其次是因为爱情可以摆脱孤寂
[01:01.96]that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. 置身于那可怕的孤独之中，那令人战栗的感觉，有时会掠过世界的边缘，把人带到寒气袭人且没有生命的无底深渊。
[01:14.20]I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen,in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. 我曾经追求过爱情，还因为在爱的结合中，我看到了古今圣贤以及诗人们梦想中天堂的神秘缩影。
[01:29.71]This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what - at last - I have found.这也正是我所追寻的人生境界。虽然它对一般的人类生活也许太美好了，但这正是我透过爱情最终所找到的。
[01:42.88]With equal passion I have sought knowledge. 我曾以同样的感情追求知识。
[01:46.53]I have wished to understand the hearts of men. 我一直渴望去了解人类的心灵，
[01:50.80]I have wished to know why the stars shine. 也渴望知道星星为什么会发光，
[01:54.65]And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds away above the flux. 同时我还想理解毕达哥拉斯的力量，通过它的力量，数驾驭了万物的变化。
[02:01.75]A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.我学到了一点点知识，但仅是皮毛而已。
[02:07.78]Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible,led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. 爱情与知识，总是可以把我引领到天堂的境界。可对于人类苦难的同情经常把我带回现实世界。
[02:20.34]Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, 那些痛苦的呼唤经常在我内心深处回响激荡。嗷嗷待哺的孩童，压迫者折磨之下的受害者，
[02:31.61]helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. 给子女造成重负的孤苦无依的老人，以及那充满孤独、贫穷和痛苦的世界，是对人类所应该拥有的生活的无视和嘲弄。
[02:46.41]I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.我常渴望能尽自己的微薄之力去减轻这不必要的痛苦，但是却无能为力，而我也因此受着痛苦的煎熬。
[02:54.38]This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me. 这就是我的生活，我觉得是值得活的。如果有谁再给我一次生活的机会，我将欣然接受这难得的赐予。
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