英語美文名人勵(lì)志故事55:?？思{獲諾貝爾文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)時(shí)發(fā)表演講——人類的精神的故事
55. The Spirit of Man
55. 人類的精神
I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but no to my work---life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust. It will not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part of it commensurate with the purpose and significance of its origin. But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will someday stand where I am standing.
我覺得這份獎(jiǎng)賞不是授予我個(gè)人的，而是授予我的工作的_授予我一生從事關(guān)于人類精神的嘔心瀝血的工作。我從事這項(xiàng)工作，不是為名，更不是為利，而是為了從人的精神房、料中創(chuàng)造出一些從前不曾有過的東西。所以，這份獎(jiǎng)金只不過是托我保管而已。做出符合這份獎(jiǎng)賞的原意與目的，與其獎(jiǎng)金部分有相等價(jià)值的獻(xiàn)詞并不難，但我還愿意利用這個(gè)時(shí)刻，利用這個(gè)舉世矚目的講壇，向那些可能聽到我說話并已獻(xiàn)身于同一艱苦勞動(dòng)的男、女青年致敬。他們中肯定有人有一天也會(huì)站在我現(xiàn)在站著的地方。
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.
我們今天的悲劇是人們普遍存在一種生理上的恐懼，這種恐懼存在已久，以致我們已經(jīng)習(xí)慣了?，F(xiàn)在不存在精神上的問題，唯一的問題是:我什么時(shí)候會(huì)被炸得粉身碎骨?正因?yàn)槿绱?，今天從事寫作的男、女青年已?jīng)忘記了人類內(nèi)心的沖突。然而，只有接觸到這種內(nèi)心沖突才能產(chǎn)生出好作品，因?yàn)檫@是唯一值得寫、值得嘔心瀝血去寫的題材。
