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查一路《若水人生》英文版

作者:stephen    文章来源:方向标英语网    点击数:    更新时间:2010-4-18 【我来说两句

Life is Like Water

He used to be a mischievous boy, often up to tricks like pinching the hair of the girl in front of him with his pencil-box, putting a frog in the teacher's chalk box and making the whole classroom resound with the twitters of a nestling hid in his desk drawer.

His father had to resort to such severe punishment as hanging him by the hands and flogging him with a strong belt, which only drove him further to defiance.

To reach the limit, he smashed all the window panes of the classroom.

He was consequently summoned to the teacher's office. On the way he was trying to steel himself for the teacher's impending reproaches; he knew he would not be spared this time.

The teacher kept himself seated in serenity, a steaming teacup in hand. All of a sudden the teacher amiably bade him sit down, which was totally out of his expectation. He was caught off guard, disturbed and somewhat confused. "What do you think the water is like in my cup?" the teacher broke the silence. He felt surprised at the question and after a moment answered, "It's like the cup." "That's right." The teacher nodded, and asked him what shape the water had in the basin. He said it was shaped after the basin. Again the teacher made him look at the water in a plastic bucket. He was perplexed, "Why, it's like the bucket." He couldn't figure out what shapes water did take.

Then the teacher took him to a small dirty pond near the school, which was filled with drifting rubbish and overpowering foul smells. Pointing at the pond, the teacher said, "This is also water; would you allow yourself to identify with it? You see, life can be of various shapes, just like water can take the shape of a cup, a basin, a plastic bucket or a dirty pond."

On the way back the boy felt the first prick of conscience in his life that winter day. Touching his head affectionately, and pointing to the distance, the teacher remarked, "You are a smart boy, Yilu, I hope you will take the shape of the sea in future."

Yes indeed, only when you join the sea and become one with it, can you gain the sea's richness and broadness. Several decades have elapsed without me, the once mischievous boy, joining the sea or acquiring its greatness; however, the teacher's remarks often startle me out of my sleep, warning me against getting lost for good in the dirty pond. If life must be shaped by its container, I'd rather mine take the shape of a cup, a basin or even a plastic bucket; lacking the width and depth of the sea, plain and common as it is, my life is at least simple, upright, transparent and useful.

(朱柏桐 译)

他曾是一个顽劣的孩子。用文具盒夹住前排女生的头发,在老师粉笔盒里放一只青蛙,让课桌抽屉里雏鸟的叫声响彻整个教室。

父亲吊起他的双手,用粗粗的皮带抽打他。重重的体罚只会加重他的叛逆。

最后一次,他打碎了全教室的玻璃。

他被叫到老师办公室。走在去办公室的路上,他做好了种种应付老师的心理准备。他想,老师这次一定不会轻易饶他的。

老师安详地坐着,手中的茶杯冒着热气。意外地,老师叫他坐下,和颜悦色地。这让他猝不及防。他有些惶恐,也有些不明就里。老师说话了:“你说这水里的杯子像什么?”他感到意外,想了想,说:“像杯子。”

老师点点头,对!你再看看面盆里的水像什么,他说,像面盆!再看看塑料桶里。他迷茫了:“像塑料桶啊?”他弄不明白,到底水像什么呢?

跟着老师,他走到了学校不远处的一小块烂泥塘边。烂泥塘水面漂浮着各种垃圾,散发出熏人的恶臭。老师指着塘里的水说,这里也是水,你愿意做这里的水吗?人有不同的状态,进入了不同的状态,就如同水进了杯子、面盆、塑料桶和烂泥塘。

那个冬日,走在回校的路上。这孩子的心里第一次产生了自责。老师亲切地抚着他的头,指着远方跟他说:“一路同学,你很聪明,我希望你将来能流进大海!”

流进大海,人生的形状就像大海,人就成了大海,获得了大海的丰富和博大。几十年过去了。我没有流进浩渺无垠的大海。可是,想起老师的话,我常常从梦中惊醒。不能流进烂泥塘而万劫不复。如果人生像水一样注定要流进一个容器,我愿意像杯子、像面盆、哪怕是塑料桶。即便没有大海的宽阔和深沉,即便平庸。但是,活得简单、干净、透明、实用。 

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