感謝歲月曾經來過（英漢對照）

2025年3月14日 星期五 祝福早安 天氣陰雨 氣溫7℃《感謝歲月曾經來過》 Cherry blossoms form clouds, peach flowers glow like sunset hues, and magnolias raise their pristine cups. Parks and mountain trails drown in floral waves, the air thick with fragrance. Visitors pause to capture fleeting beauty in photos.   不要在憂鬱的日子裏沉淪 Never Sink Into Blue Days Everybody has blue days. These are miserable days when you feel lousy, grumpy, lonely, and utterly exhausted. Days when you feel small and insignificant, when everything seems just out of reach. You can't rise to the occasion. Just getting started seems impossible. On blue days you can become paranoid that everyone is out to get you. This is not always such a bad thing. You feel frustrated and anxious, which can induce a nail-biting frenzy that can escalate into a triple-choco-late-mud-cake-eating frenzy in a blink of an eye! 每個人都有憂鬱的日子。那些日子真是慘透了，你覺得心裏亂糟糟的、怨氣叢生、寂寞、整個人徹底地精疲力竭。 那些日子總會讓你感到自己的渺小和微不足道，每件事情似乎都夠不着邊。你根本無法振作起來，根本沒有力氣重新開始。 在憂鬱的日子裏，你可能變成偏執狂，覺得每個人都想要喫定你。其實情況並不總是那麼糟。你感到灰心、焦慮，可能開始神經質地拼命咬指甲，然後不可救藥地陷入一眨眼喫掉三大塊巧克力蛋糕的瘋狂中！ On blue days you feel like you're floating in an ocean of sadness. You're about to burst into tears at any moment and you don't even know why. Ultimately, you feel like you're wandering through life without purpose. You're not sure how much longer you can hang on, and you feel like shouting, “Will someone please shout me! ” It doesn't take much to bring on a blue day. You might just wake up not feeling or looking your best, but finding some new wrinkles, putting on a little weight, or getting a huge pimple on your nose. You could forget your date's name or have an embarrassing photograph published. You migh t get dumped, divorced, or fired, make a fool of yourself in public, be afflicted with a demeaning nickname, or just have a plain old bad-hair day. Maybe work is a pain in the butt. You're under major pressure to fill someone else's shoes, your boss is picking on you, and everyone in the office is driving you crazy. You might have a splitting headache, or a slipped dish, or bad breath, a toothache, chronic gas, dry lips, or a nasty ingrown toenail. Whatever the reason, you're convinced that someone up there doesn't like you. Oh what to do, what to do? Well, if you're like most people, you'll hide behind a flimsy belief that everything will sort itself out. Then you'll spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder, waiting for everything to go wrong all over again. All the while becoming crusty and cynical or a pathetic, sniveling victim. Until you get so depressed that you lie down and beg the earth to swallow you up or, even worse, become addicted to Billy Joel songs. This is crazy, because you're only young once and you're never old twice. 在憂鬱的日子裏，你會覺得自己在悲傷的海里沉沉浮浮。不論在什麼時候，你總有種想哭的衝動，卻不知道爲了什麼。最後，你覺得自己猶如行屍走肉，失去生活目標。你不知道自己還可以撐多久，然後你想大喊一聲：“誰來一槍把我打死吧！” 其實一點小事就讓你一天都鬱悶難當。也許只是一覺醒來，沒有感覺到或者看到自己最棒的一面，而是發現自己又多了幾條皺紋，又重了幾斤，或是鼻子上冒出了一個大包。你可能忘記了約會對象的名字，或是有張可笑的照片被登出來。你或許被人拋棄、離了婚，或是被開除，當衆出醜，被刻薄的綽號弄得心亂如麻，或許只因爲你整天頂着一個其醜無比的髮型。 也許工作讓你痛苦得如坐鍼氈。你在強大的壓力下頂替他人的位置，你的老闆對你百般挑剔，辦公室裏的每一個人都讓你發瘋。你可能會頭疼欲裂，或重心不穩跌個正着，或口臭、牙痛、不停放屁、口乾舌燥，或是指甲長到肉裏頭了。 不管什麼原因，你確定上面有人不喜歡你。唉，該怎麼辦，到底該怎麼辦呢？嗯，你可能跟大部分人一樣，隨便找一個站不住腳的藉口躲起來，以爲事情會自行解決。結果你得花掉下半輩子的時間回頭看，等着一次又一次的重蹈覆轍。最後你會變成一個易怒的、憤世嫉俗的，或者一個可憐兮兮的、哭哭啼啼的受害者。最終你絕望地躺在地上，祈求地球將你吞沒，或是沉迷在比利·喬的藍調音樂中不能自拔。 這的確很蠢，因爲你只能年輕一次，而且絕對不可能老兩次。 六英尺的恐懼 Six Inches'Fear A man walking in the night slipped from a rock. Afraid that he would fall down thousands of feet, because he knew that place was a very deep valley, he took hold of a branch that was hanging over the rock. In the night all he could see was a bottomless abyss. He shouted, his own shout reflected back—there was nobody to hear. You can imagine that man and his whole night of scare. Every moment there was death, his hands were becoming cold, he was losing his grip...and as the sun came out he looked down and he laughed. There was no abyss. Just six inches down there was a rock. He could have rested the whole night, slept well—the rock was big enough—but the whole night was a nightmare. Fear is only six inches deep. Now it is up to you whether you want to go on cling to the branch and turn your life into a nightmare, or whether you would love to leave the branch and stand on your feet. 一個人在趕夜路時，突然從岩石上跌了下去，他嚇得趕緊抓住了岩石上的樹枝，因爲他知道這一帶有個深谷，一不小心就會跌入上千英尺的深淵。一整晚上，他唯一能看到的就是深不見底的峽谷。他大呼救命，但只聽到了自己的迴音——沒有人能聽到他呼救。 你可以想象一下他的處境和整晚的恐懼。死神隨時都有可能降臨。他的手開始發涼，漸漸地抓不住了……當太陽昇起的時候，他朝下看了看，笑了。下面壓根就沒有什麼深淵。在他下方六英尺的地方有一塊大石頭。岩石那麼大，他本可以在那兒休息一個晚上，美美地睡上一覺，但昨晚他卻在夢魘中度過。 恐懼只是六英尺的距離而已。接下來，到了你作決定的時候了：你是想要繼續抓着樹枝過夢魘一般的生活，還是更喜歡把手從樹枝上鬆開，雙腳着地？ 我們都是地球的乘客 Riders on the Earth Together Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries. This can be such a moment. Forces now are converging that make possible, for the first time, the hope that many of man's deepest wishes can at last be realized... As the Apollo astronauts flew over the moon's gray surface on Christmas Eve, they spoke to us of the beauty of earth—and in that voice so clear across the lunar distance, we heard them invoke God's blessing on its goodness. In that moment, their view from the moon moved poet Archibald MacLeish to write:“To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold—brothers who know now they are truly brothers.”... Our destiny offers, not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness—and, “Riders on the earth together”, let us go forward, firm in our faith, steadfast in our purpose, cautious of the dangers; but sustained by our confidence in the will of God and the promise of man. 歷史上的每一刻都是飛逝的時光，珍貴而獨特。但是，某些時刻作爲起點而不同尋常，在那些時刻裏，決定數十年或幾個世紀的方向得以確定。現在就可能是這樣一個時刻。 目前各種力量正會聚在一起，使我們第一次可能期望人類的許多夙願最終得以實現…… “阿波羅”號的宇航員在聖誕夜飛躍月球灰色的表面時，向我們說起地球的美麗——在那穿越了月球的距離還如此清晰的聲音中，我們聽到他們祈求上帝賜福人間。 那一刻，他們從月球上表達的心願促使詩人阿奇博爾德·麥克利什寫下：“要真實地看清地球，那小小的、藍色的、美麗的、漂浮在永恆寂靜中的地球，就得把我們自己都看做是地球的乘客，是在永遠寒冷的宇宙中，依靠光明的摯愛的兄弟——這羣兄弟如今懂得他們是真正的兄弟。” 命運賜予我們的不是絕望的苦酒，而是機會的美餐。所以讓我們抓住它，不是害怕地，而是高興地——“地球的乘客們”，讓我們前進吧，堅定信念、堅定目標、提防危險，以我們對上帝意志和人類希望的信念爲支柱。 放飛你的心情 Setting Your Heart Free In the spring of life, In the flower of youth, Everything is bright and new. In the summer of life, Time of growth and change, Each day brings new dreams to pursue. In the autumn of life, There's a settling down— Contentment and sureness in what we do. In the winter of life, Comes peace and wisdom, Time to relax and reminisce, too... But with the passing of these seasons, Life is still not done, not through, For there is yet another season. When each spirit is renewed. And it is in this calm fifth season, In this hopeful second spring, 在生命的春天 在青春的花季 一切都明媚新奇 在生命的夏季 成熟和轉變的時機 每天，追求新的夢想 在生命的秋季 努力有了成果—— 感到安全而滿意 在生命的冬天 迎來了寧靜與智慧 到了放鬆和追憶的時機—— 然而隨着這些季節的逝去 生命還不完整，還要繼續 因爲還有另一個季節 當春日輪迴 就到了平靜的第五季 充滿希望的第二個春天 A time of cleansing and rebirth, A time of new awakening; Each person's life will come full circle, Even as the seasons do; To start another, different life, Much better than the one we knew. 這是清新和再生的時機 新覺醒的時機 生命都開始輪迴 即使季節也不例外 開始另一段全新的生活 比原來的要好上百倍 Do You Have a Confident Jar 你有一隻自信的罐子嗎 人的生命應當像河流，開始是涓涓細流，受兩岸的限制而十分狹窄，爾後奔騰咆哮，翻過危巖，飛越瀑布，河面漸漸開闊，河岸也隨之向兩邊隱去。 人生物語 A Lesson in Life Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there, they serve some sort of purpose, to teach you a lesson or help figure out who you are or who you want to become. You never know who these people may be—your roommate, neighbor, professor, long lost friend, lover or even a complete stranger. When you lock eyes with them, you know that very moment that they will affect your life in some profound way. And sometimes things happen to you and at the time they may seem horrible, painful and unfair, but in reflection you realize that without overcoming those obstacles, you would have never realized your potential, strength, will power or heart. Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer stupidity—all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, if they are events, illnesses or relationships, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere. Safe and comfortable but dull and utterly pointless. The people you meet who affect your life and the successes and downfalls you experience—they are the ones who create who you are. Even the bad experiences can be learned from. Those lessons are the hardest and probably the most important ones. 有時，有些人一闖入你的生活你便知道他們本就想這麼做，其中有着一定的目的——或給你一個教訓，或幫助你明白你是誰或你要成爲誰。你永遠也不知道這些人會是誰，是你的舍友、鄰居、教授、久違的朋友、愛人，甚或是一個完全陌生的人。當你與他們四目相對，你便知道他們會以某種深遠的方式影響你的生活。 有時，一些事情發生了，它們看上去是那麼可怕、痛苦和不公。但細想一下你就會明白，如果沒有去努力克服這些難題，你將永遠也不會知道自己的潛能、力量、意志力和內心。任何事情的發生都是有原因的，沒有一件事是偶然發生的或是因某種好運或噩運發生的。疾病、傷害、愛、真正的偉大的消逝和完全的愚蠢——所有這一切的發生都是對你的精神極限的考驗。不管這考驗是一些事件、疾病或是某種關係，沒有了它們，生活都將只剩下陽光大道，安穩、舒適，但卻單調、沒有意義，不會通往任何地方。 你遇到的那些影響你的生活的人和你所經歷的成功或失敗，都會讓你看清自己。即使是不好的經歷，也能讓你從中得到教訓。這些教訓是最嚴酷的，但也可能是最重要的。 If someone hurts you, betrays you or breaks your heart, forgive them for they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to whom you open your heart to. If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but because they are teaching you how to love and how to open your heart and eyes to things you would have never seen or felt without them. Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again. Talk to people you have never talked to before, and actually listen. Let yourself fall in love, break free and set your sights high. Hold your head up because you have every right to. Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself, for if you don't believe in yourself, no one else will believe in you either. You can make of your life anything you wish. Create your own life and then go out and live it. “People are like tea bags—you have to put them in hot water before you know how strong they are.”

A good book to read when you almost lost yourself.

感謝歲月曾經來過 感恩生活 重在體味

非常棒的閱讀方式，充滿智慧的格言式的文章！令人愉悅。

充滿正能量，溫和的，如春風拂面般的意境，