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为你读英语美文 · 第416期

主播:永清

封面:广州医护人员冒雨为大家做核酸检测

Every community is made of people. Some people we know well and some we will never meet. Some we trust, love, value. Some we doubt, ignore or have never noticed before.

每个社会都是由人组成的。有些人我们很熟悉,有些人我们永远不会遇见。有些人是我们信任,珍爱,重视的;有些人是我们怀疑,忽视,或从未注意过的。

Some come into the light in times of crisis. Some never make it out of the shadow. Some have mysterious roles that few dare dream up, while some have duties so essential they become invisible.

有些人在危机时刻进入我们的视野,有些人却永远没能踏出阴影。有些人扮演者大多数人不敢想象的神秘角色,而有些人的责任举足轻重,以至仿若无形。

People. Not machines, not robots, not passports. Not colors, not numbers. People. Fraud, concerned, endangered, imperfect, unfinished. People. And all of us are tied to each other, visibly or not, by our dependence.

人,不是机械,不是机器人,不是护照。不是肤色,不是数据。人,有弱点,会担忧,受威胁,不完美,未完成。人,我们所有人,不论彼此是否察觉,都相互依存,彼此相连。

We may forget about some professions, because of their routine functions. But even life-saving actions, we will always overlook something or someone. But we cannot ignore that each and every one of us is somebody's someone.

我们也许会因为习以为常,而忘记一些职业。即使在救死扶伤的行动中,我们也总会忽视某些人和某些事。但我们不能忘记,我们每个人都是另一个人重要的“他/她”。

Behind every suit, every mask, every meal, every checkout, every delivery, every service, every step, every sentence, every headline, every statistic is somebody absent, someone needed.

在每套制服,每副面具,每一餐食,每次退房,每次送货,每次服务,每次行动,每一句话,每个标题,每份数据的背后,都总有人缺席,有人被需要。

A needed mother, father, daughter, son or brother, sister or niece, cousin, grandmother, grandfather, nephew. Somebody's someone. Someone’s somebody.

他们是被需要的母亲,父亲,女儿,儿子或兄弟,姐妹或侄女表亲,祖母祖父,侄子。某个人的他/她,他/她的某个人。

So, we must try try to remember, relate, repair, reform, remind. Today, yesterday, tomorrow in extremes and in routines. If they are present for you, they're absent for someone else. And if they stop breathing, they would be missed.

因此,我们必须努力,努力去铭记,去讲述,补救,改革,警醒。今天,昨天,明天,不论是在绝境之日还是每天日常。如果有人为你出现,那必定他会在别人身旁缺席。如果他们停止了呼吸,必会被人思念。

Don't take them for granted!

不要将他们的付出当做理所当然!

感谢不知姓名的作者和译者。

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永清:毕业于西安外国语大学

制作,编辑:永清

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为你读英语美文 · 第399期
主播:永清
坐标:云南 · 蒙自
《桃花庵歌》
作者:唐伯虎
桃花坞里桃花庵,桃花庵里桃花仙;
桃花仙人种桃树,又摘桃花换酒钱。
酒醒只在花前坐,酒醉还来花下眠;
半醒半醉日复日,花落花开年复年。
但愿老死花酒间,不愿鞠躬车马前;
车尘马足富者趣,酒盏花枝贫者缘。
若将富贵比贫者,一在平地一在天;
若将贫贱比车马,你得驱驰我得闲。
别人笑我太疯癫,我笑他人看不穿;
不见五陵豪杰墓,无花无酒锄作田!
Song of Peach Blossom Cottage
译者:佚名
In the Peach Blossom Land there is a peach blossom plot;
A peach blossom lover lives in Peach Blossom Cot.
The peach blossom lover plants peach trees in days fine;
He sells his peach blossoms for money to buy wine.
When he is not drunk, he would sit before the flowers;
He would lie beneath them to spend his drunken hours.
From day to day half-drunk, half-sober he’d appear;
The peach flowers blossom and fall from year to year.
I would grow old and die among flowers and wine.
Rather than bow before the steed and carriage fine.
The rich may love their dust-raising carriages and bowers;
The poor only enjoy their cups of wine and flowers.
If you compare the poor with the rich low and high,
You’ll find the one on earth, the other in the sky.
If you compare the poor with the carriage and steed,
The poor have leisure while the rich gallop with speed.
Others may pity me so foolish and so mad;
I laugh at them for those who can’t see through are sad.
Can you find where the tombs of gallant heroes stand?
Without flowers or wine they turn into ploughland.
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永清:出生在云南蒙自,毕业于西安外国语大学
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为你读英语美文 · 第393期 圣诞特辑 |你相信圣诞老人的存在吗?
主播:严喆
地点:德国
同行的朋友你好,我是严喆,好久不见,你们都还好吗?
谢谢你一如既往收听本期的节目,为你读英语美文的圣诞特辑。像往年一样,我依然用声音和故事为你在这个寒冬送上一份和圣诞有关的温暖,无论你所处何方,愿我们都可以坦然面对生活,收获最平凡的感动。
马上2020年就将过去,回顾这一年,想必我们都感触良多,不妨停下我们一直匆忙的脚步,静下心想想那些容易被我们忽视的人和事。那些最最平凡的,才值得我们去记得,去感恩。这一年,谢谢有你我的陪伴。
本期节目背景是在小女孩写给报社编辑询问圣诞老人是否存在时编辑的回信,编辑用简约但唯美的语言向小读者解释到,不要怀疑圣诞老人是否真的存在,只要心中有爱和信仰,圣诞老人的温暖就一直都在。
A little over 120 years ago, in 1897 a young girl from the upper west side of Manhattan wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Sun, one of New York City’s newspapers at the time.
She wrote:
120多年前,1897年,曼哈顿上西区的一个小女孩给当时纽约市报之一的《纽约太阳报》的编辑写了一封信。
她写道:
Dear Editor—
亲爱的主编—
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
我8岁了。我的一些小朋友说没有圣诞老人。但我爸爸说,"如果《太阳报》说有的话,那就有。”请告诉我,真的有圣诞老人吗?
Virginia O’Hanlon
115, west ninety fifth street, New York
弗吉尼亚·奥汉隆
纽约市西九十五街115号
Now that letter wound up on the desk of a newspaper man named Frank Church. This is what he replied and printed in the paper that year:
现在,这封信躺在一为叫弗兰克·丘奇的报社编辑桌子上。以下是他的回复,刊在了当年的报纸上:
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except that which they see. They think nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
维吉尼亚,你的小朋友们都错了。他们正处在怀疑万物的年纪。除非亲眼所见,否则他们不会相信。他们认为没什么是他们的小脑袋理解不了的。所有的思想,弗吉尼亚,无论是大人还是孩子,都很小。在我们浩瀚的宇宙中,和无边无际的世界相比,用掌握宇宙真理的智慧来衡量的话,我们仅仅是一只昆虫,一只蚂蚁。
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would the world be if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
是的,维吉尼亚,有圣诞老人。只要爱、慷慨和奉献存在,他就存在。你要知道爱,慷慨和奉献比比皆是,它们给你生活带来最动人的美丽和快乐。唉!如果没有圣诞老人, 世界会有多沉闷呀!就像如果没有弗吉尼亚,世界会多么沉闷一样。没有孩子般的信仰,没有诗歌,没有浪漫,也就没有圣诞老人存在的空间了。除了意义和目之所及,我们连快乐都没有了。童年让这个世界充满的永恒之光,也将熄灭。
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see him coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
若不相信圣诞老人,那你还不如也不相信精灵。你可能会让你爸爸在圣诞节前夕雇人到所有的烟囱里去抓圣诞老人,但即使你没有看到他下来,那又证明了什么呢?没有人见过圣诞老人,但这不代表他不存在啊!世界上最真实的东西往往是那些孩子和大人们都看不见的东西。你见过精灵在草坪上跳舞吗?当然没有, 但这不能证明他们不存在。没有人能看到或想象世上所有看不见的奇迹。
You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
你撕开宝宝的咯咯声,看看是什么让里面发出声音,但有一个面纱覆盖着看不见的世界,这个世界连最强壮的人,甚至连所有曾经活着的最强壮的人的力量都无法撕裂。只有信仰、诗歌、爱情、浪漫,才能掀开这道帘布,欣赏和想象到至美和无上的荣光。这些都是真的吗?啊,维吉尼亚,在这个世界里,没有什么比这些更真实和持久。
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
没有圣诞老人!谢天谢地!他永远存在。一千年后,弗吉尼亚,不,10倍,一万年后,他仍将使我们童心荡漾。
翻译:永清,严喆
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严喆:现居德国进修博士学位
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