让我们心怀信仰

安全大抵虚幻，

世间无处寻觅。

芸芸众生，

无人有此经历。

避险难计久长，

不如现身搏击。

抑或险中求胜，抑或碌碌无为，人生非此即彼。

让我们直面改变，

行如自由之灵，

翱翔命运天际，是为不败之力。

—海伦·凯勒《让我们心怀信仰》

本诗译文作者朱敏琦，刊发于《新东方英语·中学生》杂志2011年第6期。

Let us have faith

Security is mostly a superstition.

It does not exist in nature,

Nor do the children of men

As a whole experience it.

Avoiding danger is no safer

in the long run than outright exposure.

Life is either a daringadventure,or nothing.

To keep our faces toward change and

behave like free spirits

in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

— Helen Keller “Let Us Have Faith”