self-reliance-中英對照(修改翻譯版).docx

There is a time in every mans education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.每個人在受教導進程中，總有一天會認識到：妒忌是無知，模擬是自殺。不論好歹，每個人都必需接收屬于他的那一份，遼闊的世界里固然充斥了珍饈美味，但是只有從給予他往耕耘的那一片土地里，通過辛苦勞動收獲的谷物才富有養(yǎng)分。Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.信任你自己吧：每顆心都隨著那弦跳動，接受上蒼為你找到的地位同代人組成的社會和世網(wǎng)。巨大的人物總是像孩子似地將自己托付給時期的精力，表露他們所感知到的上帝正在他們內(nèi)心引起騷動，正假他們之手在運作，并駕馭著他們?nèi)可硇摹hoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, But these impulses may be from below, not from above. I replied, They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devils child, I will live then from the Devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.任何名副實在的真正的人，都必須是不落俗套的人。任何采集圣地棕擱葉的人，都不應該拘泥于名義上的善，而應當挖掘善之本身。除了我們心靈的真摯之外，其它的一切回根結蒂都不是神圣的。擺脫自己，皈依自我，也就必定得到眾人的認可。記得，當我還很小的時候，有位頗受人尊敬的師長。他習慣不厭其煩地向我灌輸宗教的古老教條。有一回，我禁不住回了他一句。聽到我說，如果我完整靠內(nèi)心的指導來生活，那么我拿那些神圣的傳統(tǒng)干嘛呢；我的這位朋友提出說：“可是，內(nèi)心的激動可能是低下的，而不是高貴的?！蔽掖饛驼f：“在我看來，卻不是如此。不過，倘若我是魔鬼的孩子，那么我就要照魔鬼的指導來生活?！背吮拘缘姆▌t之外，在我看來，沒有任何法則是神圣的。好與壞，只不過是個名聲而已，不費吹灰之力，便可以將它從這人身上移到那人身上。唯一準確的，是服從自身構造的事物；唯一過錯的，是逆自身構造的事物。What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.我必須做的是一切與我有關的事，而不是別人想要我做的事。這條法則，在現(xiàn)實生活和精力生涯中都是同樣艱難艱苦的，它是巨大與卑賤的全部差別。它將變得更加艱難，假如你總是碰到一些自認為比你自己更理解什么是你的義務的人。依照世人的觀念在這世界上生活是件輕易的事；依照你自己的觀念，離群索居也不難；但若置身在眾人之間，卻能盡善盡美地怕然堅持著個人獨立性，卻只有巨人才干辦得到。For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.It is easy enough for a firm man who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and prudent, for they are timid as being very vulnerable themselves. But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added, when the ignorant and the poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.眾人用不快來鞭笞不落俗套的人對于一位剛強的探諳世事的人來說，容忍有教養(yǎng)的名流們的惱怒不是件難事。他們的惱怒是正直得體，謹嚴慎重的。由于他們本身就非常輕易招來責難，所以他們膽小怕事。但是，若引起他們那女性特有的惱怒，其憤慨便有所升級；倘若無知和貧窮的人們被教唆，倘若處于社會底層的非理性的蠻橫力氣被慫勇狂吼發(fā)難，那就須要養(yǎng)成寬宏大批和宗教的習慣，像神一樣把它當作無關緊要的瑣事。The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.另一個使我們不敢自負的膽怯是我們想要隨眾順俗。這是我們對自己過往的所作所為的敬畏之情，因為在別人眼里能夠藉以評判我們行動軌跡的根據(jù)，除了我們的所作所為之外別無他物，而我們又不愿意使他們掃興。A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speaks what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said to-day. Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.笨拙地保持隨眾隨俗是心胸狹窄的幽靈的表示，是低級的政客，哲學家和神學家們