2012年5月31日 星期四

Life is no ‘brief candle’

 尹仲容先生1949.7.17致沈怡:" .......在檢討之中  知人私其所私之風氣瀰漫中國  蓋知對人無  Cooperation對事無 Coordination   非虛言也.......最近閱Vogt 的The Road to Survival 雖屬於悲觀 然係確有見地之書......" (《尹仲容先生年譜初稿》頁100 已更正作者及書名)
沈怡是尹仲容的摯友沈雲龍編著《尹仲容先生年譜初稿》收他的"跋" 
文末引蕭伯納的:"
他忙碌得不想到死  他為生活的目的而欣賞
      生活不是殘燭 而是光亮的火炬
把握著這一煞那
       要使它盡量發光傳遞給後一代!"*
* 翻譯有點改動原文可能是
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations”.

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