每日英文学习：Light英文空间2期（4）

每日英文学习：Light英文空间2期（4）

2019/03/25          星期一          晴

新的一周，加油~

英文版

第一辑（四）：

  Life is a Giant Dream

选段一：

Most people are used to forgetting about the existence of change.

They can never discover that the whole World is like a dream, full of change.

We always think that scene that changes so often is permanent, and so when we get things, we are delighted, and when we lose things we are full of sorrow, and when we face the unknown, we are fraught with anxieties.

When we understand clearly that everything is like a dream or an illusion, will we still have all these cares?

选段二：

There are many misunderstandings like this in human life。This is why Buddhists think that the reason why humans suffer。if we trace it back to its root is because of ignorance. Because they are ignorant, they mistake the false for the true, and cling to illusion as reality. We take things that are clearly empty and illusory and impermanent, and view them as real, and then when they dissolve away and perish, we feel pain and suffering.

This is like clearly knowing in your mind that you cannot hold onto water, but being unwilling to face this, and instead always trying to hold onto it.

What real meaning is there in that? When you clearly understand that even life is all a great illusion, you will stop caring so much about everything.

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

Author: Xuemo, translated by J.C.Cleary

中文版

选段一：

大部分人都习惯于忘记“变化”的存在，总是不能发现，整个世界都像梦境一样变化多端。我们总以为这些多变的景致会是永恒，才会为得到而沾沾自喜，为失去而充满忧伤，为未知而惴惴不安。当我们明白一切都犹如梦幻，还会有这么多的在乎吗？(16页）

选段二：

诸如此类的误解，在人生中还有好多，所以佛家认为，人类之所以痛苦，归根结底，还是因为愚痴。因为愚痴，所以认假成真，执幻为实。把明明虚幻无常的东西看得非常实在，我们就会在它消亡时感到痛苦。这就像你明明不可能抓住掌心里的水，却不肯面对这一点，反而一直纠结于握拳的时间与方式，那又有什么真正的意义？当你明白，连生命都是一个巨大的幻觉时，对一切都会变得没那么在乎。（19页）

摘自《世界是心的倒影》，雪漠著

讲解笔记

【1】Golden Sentence:

When you clearly understand that even life is all a great illusion, you will stop caring so much about everything.

【2】Words:

fraught /frɔːt/ADJ If a situation or action is fraught with problems or risks, it is filled with them. 充满 (问题或风险) 的 例：The earliest operations employing this technique were fraught with dangers.最早采用这一技术的手术充满了危险。

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anxiety /æŋˈzaɪɪtɪ/ N-UNCOUNT Anxiety is a feeling of nervousness or worry. 焦虑 例：Her voice was full of anxiety.她的声音饱含焦虑。

scene /siːn/ N-COUNT You refer to a place as a scene when you are describing its appearance and indicating what impression it makes on you. 景象 例：It's a scene of complete devastation.那是一幅满目疮痍的景象。

ignorant /ˈɪɡnərənt/ ADJ If you describe someone as ignorant, you mean that they do not know things they should know. If someone is ignorant of a fact, they do not know it. 无知的 例：People don't like to ask questions for fear of appearing ignorant.人们不喜欢问问题，生怕显得自己无知。

dissolve:

V-T/V-I If something such as a problem or feeling dissolves or is dissolved, it becomes weaker and disappears. 使消失; 消失

例：

His new-found optimism dissolved.

他刚刚建立的乐观情绪消失了。

perish /ˈpɛrɪʃ/ V-I If people or animals perish, they die as a result of very harsh conditions or as the result of an accident. (因恶劣条件或事故) 死亡 例：Most of the butterflies perish in the first frosts of autumn.大多数蝴蝶在秋季初霜来临时死亡。

Trace something back to

Mistake sth for sth

cling /klɪŋ/ V-I If you cling to someone or something, you hold onto them tightly. 紧紧抓住 例：Another man was rescued as he clung to the riverbank.另一个男人因为紧紧抓住了河堤而被救了。

Hold onto :PHRASAL VERB If you hold on, or hold onto something, you keep your hand on it or around it, for example to prevent the thing from falling or to support yourself. 握住 例：His right arm was extended up beside his head, still holding on to a coffee cup.他的右臂向头的一侧伸开，手上还紧紧握着一只咖啡杯。

【3】Remarks:

Observing the changes is a medicine to cure the forgetfulness ,to impel us back to what is most important.

Change has the power to  shake off the shackles of cares and calculations on the results and call for a real master.

Dream is an open door where invite us to experience the world in a different way.

Dream is a way to a deeper reality.

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晚安~

世界是心的倒影，我们所能把我的唯有当下~