高考英语美文赏析：生命的意义

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The meaning of life

生命的意义

John Boynton Priestley



Life is never just being. It is becoming a relentless, flowing on. Our parents live on through us, and we will live on through our children. The institutions we build endure, and we will endure through them. The beauty we fashion cannot be dimmed by death. Our flesh may perish, our hands will wither, but that which they create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. 生活，从来就远非静止的存在，而是不断变化，甚至无情流逝的。父母的生命在我们身上延续，我们的生命在子女身上延续。我们建立起制度，制度历久不灭，而我们的精神也寓于制度其中，经久长存。我们创造美好，这美好也不会随生命的消逝而有些微的黯淡。肉身会毁灭，双手会枯老，但是我们一手建立的真善美，历久弥新。



Don't spend and waste your lives accumulating objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. Pursue not so much the material as the ideal, for ideas alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth.

不要将生命浪费在苦心囤积那些最终只能化作尘与土的东西上。追求理想而不要被外物所累，因为只有理想才赋予生命以意义并具有历久不衰的价值。



Add love to a house and you have a home. Add righteousness to a city and you have a community. Add truth to a pile of red brick and you have a school. Add religion to the humblest of edifices and you have a sanctuary. Add justice to the far-flung round of human endeavor and you have civilization. Put them all together, exalt them above their present imperfections, add to them the vision of humankind redeemed, forever free of need and strife and you have a future lighted with the radiant colors of hope.

给予一座房子以爱，你便拥有了一个家；给予一座城市以正义，你便建立起了一个社区。将真理加诸于一堆红砖之上，你会拥有一所学校；哪怕是最简陋破败的房屋，若以宗教加持，你将会建造起一座教堂。给源远流长的人类历史进程一个公正的评价，你便不难觅得其中蕴含的人类文明。将这一切归为一处，怀揣着救赎，追求恒久自由和不息奋斗的愿景，力求至臻，你便会拥有一个瑰丽灿烂的美好未来。

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