《英语二》,第14课

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14

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Text A

Man Will Prevail

I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's

work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for

profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not

exist before. So this award is only mine in trust. It will not be difficult to find a

dedication for the money part of it commensurate with the purpose and significance of

its origin. But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment

as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already

dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will

some day stand here where I am standing.

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by

now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only

the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman

writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself

which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth

the agony and the sweat.

He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is

to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his

workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal

truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed -- love and honor and pity

and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labors under a curse. He

writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of

victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion. His griefs grieve

on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands.

Until he relearns these things, he will write as though he stood among and

watched the end of man. I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say

that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of

doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last

red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his

puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will

not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among

creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of

compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write

about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by

reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity

and sacrifice which has been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be

the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and

prevail.

Text B

The New Frontier

Unit14Text A

Man Will Prevail

人类必胜

I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work

–

life

’

s work in the

agony and sweat of the human spirit,

我感到这份奖赏不是授予我个人而是授予我的工作的—

—授予我一生从事关于人类精神的呕心沥血的工作。

not for glory and least of all for profit, but

to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before.

我从事这

项工作，

不是为名，

更不是为利，

而是为了从人的精神原料中创造出一些从前不曾有过的东< /p>

西。

So this award is only mine in trust.

因此，

这份 奖金只不过是托我保管而已。

It will not be

difficult

to

find

a

dedication

for

the

money

part

of

it

commensurate

with

the

purpose

and

significance of its origin.

要做出与这份奖赏原本的目的和意义相符，又与其奖金等价的献词

并不困难，

I

would

like

to

do

the

same

with

the

acclaim

too,

by

using

this

moment

as

a

pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the

same anguish and travail,

但我还愿意利用这个时刻，利用这个举世瞩目的讲坛，向那些可能

听到我说话并已献 身于同一艰苦劳动的男女青年致敬。

among whom is already that one who

will some day stand where I am standing.

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we

can even bear it.

我们今天的悲剧是人们 普遍存在一种生理上的恐惧，

这种恐惧存在已久，

以