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每日英語:人格的力量
2013-02-18 15:52
來源:恆星英語
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A Straight Wall Is Hard to Build (2)
如果所有人——也包括我自己——都更新或重鑄自己的人格,這應該是有益於人類的。這也許僅僅是抹去粗糙的邊緣或丟棄固有的模式,從而顯露出不平整,有時則需要拿走支撐物,完全靠自己站立。不論何種情況,只要我們有人樹立榜樣,其他人就會效仿,結果就應該是好的。對此我深信不疑。
A Straight Wall Is Hard to Build
by Lou R. Crandall
人格的力量
盧.R.克蘭德爾
I am using this example to illustrate human character, which to me is the most important single power in the world today. The young people of toady are in reality foundations of structures yet to be built. It is obvious that the design of these human structures is the combined efforts of many human architects. Boys and girls are influenced first by their parents, then by their friends and finally by business associates. During this period of construction, the human character is revised and changed until at maturity a fairly well-fixed form of character is found.
我以此例來說明人格,在我看來它是當今世界上最重要的唯一的力量。今天的年輕人實際上是世界待建結構的根基。顯而易見,設計這些人格結構需要眾多人類建築師的共同努力。孩子們的成長,先後要受到父母、朋友和事業夥伴的影響。在這一成長過程中,人格一直在改變,直到在成熟期定型。
There are few human straight walls and fewer human monumental shafts. Such men and women are personalities of great beauty and are so rare that history records their being and holds them up as examples for the future. The Biblical characters are for me the closest examples of human perfection. They were unselfish, steadfast in their faith and unstinting in their help to others.
人類中堪稱牆一般筆直挺立的人少有,像紀念柱一樣矗立的人更少,這樣的人是美的化身,世所罕見,歷史記錄他們的存在,奉之為後世的楷模。《聖經》中的人物在我心中是最接近完人的範例,他們無私,信仰堅定,幫助他人,不遺餘力。
Today in this world of turmoil and trouble we could use more of such people, but they do not just happen along. I believe that they are the result of concentrated effort on the part of parents and associates, and the more we build with character the better the world will become. This may sound like a dreamer's hope and a theoretical goal which can never be reached. I do not think so.
在今天這個混亂不安的世界,我們可以多用這樣的人,但他們並非從天而降。我相信他們是父母、同伴傾力鍛造的結果。我們越重視人格的建構,世界會越美好。這聽起來像痴人說夢,是永遠無法實現的理論目標,我卻不這麼想。
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