每日英文学习：Light英文空间2期（8）

每日英文学习：Light英文空间2期（8）

2019/03/28            星期五            晴

英文版

Part 1

Among these people, some are constantly gaining,and some are constantly losing, and some are still seeking without results, but none of them can find true happiness. With those who are constantly gaining, what they gain are not the things they really want, but rather some impermanent external things and even more impermanent happy feelings. Thus, what comes in quick succession is inevitably the loss created when expectation and reality do not match. People who are constantly losing think that if only they would get something, then they would be able to achieve happiness, but they still cannot get things to go as they wish, and so they fall into a great sense of loss. People who pursue things without any results, while in the process of pursuing them , even forget what ultimately they are looking for. All they can do is follow their own footsteps from yesterday, and keep on going ahead blindly step by step, getting farther and farther away from true happiness……(page 50)

Part 2

True happiness is in fact very simple : it is the light in your mind. Perhaps you feel this to be inconceivable, but things are always this simple, aren't they? Those most beautiful tulips in the world, which you traveled all over the world looking for,are actually in full bloom in your own garden. Too bad if you never  discovered them. When you are the way I was in the past, when you"happen to lift your head, ”you will see that pure, still, poetic moonlight in your mind. Then you will slowly come out of that long dark night, and from then on, you will not be sad.  (Page 53-54)

~An excerpt from The World is a Reflection of the Mind.

Author: Xuemo, translated by J.C.Cleary

中文版

因为，为了创造滋长“快乐”的条件，很多人不得不疲于奔命地追求一些外在的东西，他们中的一些人不断地获得，一些人不断地失去，一些人还在了无结果的追逐中，但谁也找不到真正的快乐：不断获得的人得到的不是他们真正想要的东西，而是一些无常的外物与更加无常的快感，因此，接踵而来的，必然是期待与现实不符所造成的失落；不断失去的人，以为他们只有获得才能得到快乐，但偏偏又不能如愿，于是他们也陷入巨大的失落；了无结果地追逐着的人，在追逐的过程中，甚至忘记了自己到底在寻找什么，他们只能跟从自己昨天的足迹，一步又一步盲目地走下去，离真正的快乐越来越远……其实，得到未必能快乐，失去也未必不能快乐，在路上的人更加未必不能快乐。（40-41页）

真正的快乐，其实很简单，它就是你心中的光。或许你会觉得不可思议，但事情往往就是这么简单，不是吗？你走遍天涯海角去寻找的那支世界上最美丽的郁金香，原来正盛开在自家的花园里，可惜你一直没有发现。当你像过去的我那样，“偶尔抬起头”，看到心中那轮静寂而诗意的月亮，你就会慢慢走出漫长的黑夜，从此不戚戚。(43页）

摘自《世界是心的倒影》，雪漠著

讲解笔记

【1】Golden sentence:

True happiness is in fact very simple : it is the light in your mind.

真正的快乐，其实很简单，它就是你心中的光。

【2】Words:

succession /səkˈsɛʃən/ N-SING A succession of things of the same kind is a number of them that exist or happen one after the other. 一连串 例：Adams took a succession of jobs which have stood him in good stead.亚当斯做了一连串对他很有利的工作。

inevitably /ɪnˈɛvɪtəblɪ/ADV If something will inevitably happen, it is certain to happen and cannot be prevented or avoided. 必然发生地 例：Technological changes will inevitably lead to unemployment.技术变革将必然导致失业。

expectation /ˌɛkspɛkˈteɪʃən/ N-UNCOUNT Your expectations are your strong hopes or beliefs that something will happen or that you will get something that you want. 期盼 例：Their hope, and their expectation, was that she was going to be found safe and that she would be returned to her family.他们的希望和期盼是她被找到时安全无恙并被送回她家。

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pursue /pəˈsjuː/

V-T If you pursue a particular aim or result, you make efforts to achieve it, often over a long period of time. 追求; 努力实现

例：

He will pursue a trade policy that protects American workers.

他将努力实行保护美国工人的贸易政策。

inconceivable /ˌɪnkənˈsiːvəbəl/ ADJ If you describe something as inconceivable, you think it is very unlikely to happen or be true. 不可思议的 例：

Life is really so inconceivable, you are unable to confirm, where are you, run into nobody.

人生真的是如此不可思议，你无法确定，你在什么地方，遇到什么人。