The Confessions of St. Augustine — Page 9
即便在那时,我已有存在与生命,在我幼年将尽之时,我能寻求某些征兆,借以向他人表达我的感受。
Even then I had being and life, and (at my infancy's close) I could seek for signs whereby to make known to others my sensations.
这样的存在,除了来自你,主啊,还能从何而来?
Whence could such a being be, save from Thee, Lord?
难道有人能成为自己的造物主吗?
Shall any be his own artificer?
除了你,主啊——在你里面本质与生命合而为一——还能从别处引出什么脉流,将本质与生命注入我们吗?
or can there elsewhere be derived any vein, which may stream essence and life into us, save from thee, O Lord, in whom essence and life are one?
因为你自己至高无上,乃是本质与生命本身。
for Thou Thyself art supremely Essence and Life.
因为你至高,你不改变,在你里面今日也不终结;然而在你里面它确实终结,因为万物也都在你里面。
For Thou art most high, and art not changed, neither in Thee doth to-day come to a close; yet in Thee doth it come to a close; because all such things also are in Thee.
因为若非你托住万物,它们便无从消逝。
For they had no way to pass away, unless Thou upheldest them.
因你的岁月永不衰竭,你的岁月便是同一个今日。
And since Thy years fail not, Thy years are one to-day.
我们和我们列祖的多少年岁,已流逝于你的"今日"之中,并从其中获得了各自存在的尺度与模式;此后仍有许多年岁将相继流逝,同样领受其存在层次的模式。
How many of ours and our fathers' years have flowed away through Thy "to-day," and from it received the measure and the mould of such being as they had; and still others shall flow away, and so receive the mould of their degree of being.
但你永远如故,明日的一切、更远的一切、昨日的一切、其前的一切,你都已在今日成就。
But Thou art still the same, and all things of tomorrow, and all beyond, and all of yesterday, and all behind it, Thou hast done to-day.
即便有人不能理解这些,与我何干?
What is it to me, though any comprehend not this?
让他也欢喜赞叹说:这是什么?
Let him also rejoice and say, What thing is this?
让他就这样欢喜吧!
Let him rejoice even thus!
宁可因未能发现而发现了你,也不要因自以为发现而实未发现你,如此便已足够。
and be content rather by not discovering to discover Thee, than by discovering not to discover Thee.
Vocabulary
- Even
- 甚至;即使;平坦的
- then
- 那时;然后;当时
- had
- 有;曾经拥有(have的过去式)
- being
- 存在;生物;正在进行
- and
- 和;与;并且
- life
- 生命;生活;人生
- at
- 在;于;以(表位置或时间)
- my
- 我的
- infancy
- 婴幼儿期;早期;初期阶段
- close
- 关闭;靠近;紧密的
- could
- 能够;可能;会(can的过去式)
- seek
- 寻求;寻找;追求
- for
- 为了;对于;因为
- signs
- 迹象;信号;标志
- to
- 到;向;以便
- make
- 制造;使得;做
- known
- 已知的;公开的;使人知道
- others
- 其他人;另外的人
- sensations
- 感觉;感受;知觉
- such
- 这样的;如此的;那种
- be
- 是;存在
- save
- 救;保存;除了
- from
- 从;由;来自
- Lord
- 主人;上帝;领主
- Shall
- 应该;将会;必定(古英文)
- any
- 任何;任何一个
- his
- 他的
- own
- 自己的;拥有;承认
- or
- 或者;或;否则
- can
- 能够;可以;罐
- there
- 那里;在那儿
- elsewhere
- 别处;其他地方
- derived
- 来源于;衍生的;获得
- vein
- 血管;矿脉;风格
- which
- 哪个;哪些;该
- may
- 可能;也许;五月
- stream
- 溪流;流动;一股
- essence
- 本质;精髓;精油
- into
- 进入;内部;状态
- us
- 我们
- in
- 在;内部;以
- whom
- 谁(宾格);其中
- are
- 是(be的复数形式)
- one
- 一;一个;某个
- art
- 艺术;是(古英文be)
- Essence
- 本质;精髓;根本
- Life
- 生命;生活
- For
- 为了;因为;对于
- most
- 最;大部分;很
- high
- 高的;高度的;崇高的
- not
- 不;没有
- changed
- 改变;变化的;已改变
- neither
- 既不;两者都不
- to-day
- 今天(古英文写法)
- come
- 来;到达;发生
- yet
- 然而;还;迄今为止
- it
- 它;那个
- because
- 因为;由于
- all
- 全部;所有的
- things
- 东西;事物;事情
- also
- 也;同样地;而且
- they
- 他们;她们;它们
- no
- 不;没有;否定
- way
- 道路;方法;方式
- pass
- 通过;经过;消逝
- away
- 离开;消失;远离
- unless
- 除非;如果不;若非
- since
- 自从;由于;既然
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