英語(yǔ)美文:事業(yè)即人 Causes Are People

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　　Causes Are People

　　事業(yè)即人

　　by Susan Parker Cobbs

　　蘇珊·科布斯

　　IT HAS NOT been easy for me to meet this assignment. In the first place, I am not a very articulate person, and then one has so many beliefs, changing and fragmented and transitory beliefs---besides the ones most central to our lives. I have tried hard to pull out and put into words my most central beliefs.

　　完成這一任務(wù)對(duì)我并非易事。首先，我是個(gè)不善言辭的人，其次，除了生活中最主要的信仰之外，一個(gè)人還有如此多的信仰，變化的、零星的和短暫的信仰。

　　I hope that what I say won’t sound either too simple or too pious.

　　我努力將最主要的信仰說(shuō)出來(lái)，并希望我的話聽(tīng)起來(lái)不會(huì)太簡(jiǎn)單，或虔誠(chéng)過(guò)度。

　　I know that it is my deep and fixed conviction that man has within him the force of good and the power to translate force into life.

　　我知道我毫不動(dòng)搖地深信人心中有一種善的力量，并且能在生活中行善。

　　For me, this means that a pattern of life that makes personal relationships more important. A pattern that makes more beautiful and attractive the personal virtues: courage, humility, selflessness and love.

　　在我看來(lái)，這意味著一種使人際關(guān)系更為重要的生活方式，一種使人們的美德，即勇氣、謙恭、無(wú)私和愛(ài)更美麗、更吸引人的方式。

　　I used to smile at my mother because the tears came so readily to her eyes when she heard or read of some incident that called out these virtues. I don’t smile any more because I find I have become more and more responsive in the same inconvenient way to the same kind of story.

　　我過(guò)去常常笑話母親一聽(tīng)說(shuō)或讀到反映這些美德的某件事時(shí)眼淚就奪眶而出，如今我不再笑話她了，因?yàn)槲野l(fā)現(xiàn)自己對(duì)同類(lèi)事件的反應(yīng)越來(lái)越強(qiáng)烈，表達(dá)方式同樣不合時(shí)宜。

　　And so I believe that I both can and must work to achieve the good that is in me. The words of Socrates keep coming back to me: “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

　　因此，我相信我能夠也必須行動(dòng)起來(lái)表現(xiàn)善良的心地。我常常想起蘇格拉底的話:“未經(jīng)審視的生活是不值得過(guò)的。”

　　By examination we can discover what is our good and we can realize that knowledge of good means its achievement. I know that such self-examination has never been easy---Plato maintained that it was soul’s central search. It seems to me peculiarly difficult now. In a period of such rapid material expansion and such wide spread conflicts, black and white have become gray and will not easily separate.

　　通過(guò)審視，我們能夠發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的善良是什么，能夠認(rèn)識(shí)到懂得了善良就意味著它的成就。我知道這樣的自省決非容易，柏拉圖認(rèn)為這是靈魂永世的追求，在我看來(lái)現(xiàn)在自省尤為不易，因?yàn)樵谶@樣一個(gè)物欲急劇膨脹、沖突四起的時(shí)期，黑白已經(jīng)混淆，不易辨別了。

　　There is a belief which follows this. If I have the potential of the good life within me and compulsion to express it, then it is a power and compulsion common to all men. What I must have for myself to conduct my search, all men must have: freedom of choice, faith in the power and the beneficent qualities of truth.

　　由此產(chǎn)生另一種信仰，如果我內(nèi)心具備行善一生的潛力并有表現(xiàn)它的沖動(dòng)，那么這種潛力和沖動(dòng)人皆有之。我在追求時(shí)自身必須具備的條件人人皆須擁有：能自由選擇，相信這種潛力，相信真理能造福于人類(lèi)。

　　What frightens me most today is the denial of these rights, because this can only come from the denial of what seems to me the essential nature of man. For if my conviction holds, man is more important than anything he has created and our great task is to bring back again into a subordinate position the monstrous superstructures of our society.

　　今天最讓我害怕的是否認(rèn)這些權(quán)利，因?yàn)榉裾J(rèn)這些權(quán)利只能源自否認(rèn)我所理解的基本人性。如果我的信念站得住腳，人就比他創(chuàng)造的任何東西都重要，我們的偉大職責(zé)就是將社會(huì)龐大的上層建筑重置于附屬地位。

　　I hope this way of reducing our problems to the human equation is not simple an evasion of them. I don’t believe it is. For most of us it is the area in which we can work : the human area---with ourselves, with the people we touch, and through these two by vicarious understanding, with mankind. I believe this is the safest starting point.

　　我希望以這種方式將我們的問(wèn)題歸結(jié)為人類(lèi)共同的問(wèn)題不是在逃避它們。我不認(rèn)為這是一種逃避，因?yàn)閷?duì)我們大多數(shù)人而言，它是我們唯一可以活動(dòng)的領(lǐng)域：人類(lèi)的領(lǐng)域—與我們自己合作，與我們接觸的人合作，并通過(guò)了解這兩者與整個(gè)人類(lèi)合作，我相信這是最可靠的起點(diǎn)。

　　I watch young people these days wrestling with our mighty problems. They are much more concerned with them and involved in them than my generation of students ever was.

　　這些日子我看見(jiàn)年輕人努力解決我們存在的重大問(wèn)題，他們比我們那一代的學(xué)生更關(guān)注這些問(wèn)題，更積極地參與。他們深刻地意識(shí)到“平等”和“公正”兩詞的內(nèi)涵。

　　They are deeply aware of the words “quality” and “justice” In their great desire to right wrong they are prone to forget that causes are people, that nothing matters more than people. They need to add to their crusades the warmer and more affecting virtues of compassion and love. And here again come those personal virtues that bring tears to the eyes.

　　他們熱望匡正人世，卻容易忘記事業(yè)即人，沒(méi)有什么比人更重要。他們需要在這些運(yùn)動(dòng)中注人同情和愛(ài)等更感人的品德。這里再次出現(xiàn)了那些讓人淚眼模糊的美德。

　　One further word, I believe that the power of good within us is real and comes there from a source outside and beyond ourselves. Otherwise, I could not put my trust so firmly in it.

　　還有一句話，我相信我們善心的力量是真實(shí)的，它來(lái)自我們身外，否則我無(wú)法如此堅(jiān)定地信仰它。