英文诵典美文精华必背05：We Are on a Journey 人在旅途（MP3+双语）

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[00:00.49]We Are on a Journey Henry Van Dyke (亨利・范・戴克,18521933)
[00:07.55]Wherever you are,and whoever you may be, 无论你现在身处何方,也无论你是何等人物，
[00:11.60]there is one thing in which you and I are just alike, at this moment. 此时此刻，以及我们生命中的任一瞬间，你我之间都有一点相同之处。
[00:17.99]and in all the moments of our existence.We are not at rest; we are on a journey.那就是，我们并未停歇，而仍在旅途。
[00:25.95]Our life is not a mere fact; it is a movement, a tendency, a steady,ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal. 我们的人生并不仅仅是一种存在的事实,而是一种运动，一种趋势，一种坚定不移而没有停息地朝向某个看不见的目标前行的过程。
[00:35.58]We are gaining something, or losing something, every day. 每一天，我们都有所得,也有所失。
[00:40.53]Even when our position and our character seem to remain precisely the same,they are changing. For the mere advance of time is a change. 即使我们的地位和品性看似与原来无异，但实际上它们正在改变，因为时间的推移本身就是一种改变。
[00:51.85]It is not the same thing to have a bare field in January and in July.同一片荒野，在一月和七月是不同的，
[00:57.28]The season makes the difference. The limitations that are childlike in the child are childish in the man. 季节造成了这种差异。智能上的不足，在孩子身上被视为天真无邪，而对于成人来说则是一种幼稚的表现。
[01:06.18]Everything that we do is a step in one direction or another. 我们所做的每件事都是朝着某一个方向迈出的一步。
[01:10.42]Even the failure to do something is in itself a deed. It sets us forward or backward. 甚至无为，其本身也是一种作为，它使我们前进或后退。
[01:18.11]The action of the negative pole of a magnetic needle is just as real as the action of the positive pole.To decline is to accept the other alternative.一根磁针的磁极作用，无论正负都是一样的真实。拒绝也是一种接受，只不过是另外一种选择罢了。
[01:31.98]Are you richer today than you were yesterday? No? Then you are a little poorer.你今天比昨天富有吗？没有，那说明你变穷了点。 
[01:39.98]Are you better today than you were yesterday? NO? Then you are a little wores.你今天比昨天过得好吗？没有，那么你的情况变糟了一点。 
[01:47.74]Are you nearer to your port today than you were yesterday? 你今天比昨天更接近你的港口了吗？
[01:52.04]Yes,you must be a little nearer to some port or other; 是的，那么你一定距某个港口更近了。
[01:57.00]for since your ship was first launched upon the sea of life you have never been still for a single moment; 因为，自从你驶入人生之海，你的航船至今尚未停歇片刻。
[02:04.97]the sea is too deep, you could not find an anchorage if you would;there can be no pause until you come into port.这片海洋太深了，纵使你想找到一个抛锚停泊之处也难以求得。因此，在驶入港口之前，你无法稍作歇息。
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英文诵典美文精华必背05：We Are on a Journey 人在旅途（MP3+双语）