All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live.Sometimes it was as long as a year,sometimes as short as 24 hours.But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours.I speak,of course,of free men who have a choice,not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.
Such stories set us thinking,wondering what we should do under similar circumstances.What events,what experiences,what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings,what regrets?
我们所有人都读过一些惊心动魄的故事,其主人公只有有限的和指定的时间。有时长达一年,有时短至24小时。但我们总是想要知道,注定要离世人的会选择如何度过他最后的日子或他的最后几个小时。我说,当然,有一个选择的自由人,而不是谴责罪犯的活动范围是受严格限制的。
这样的故事让我们思考,在类似的情况下我们应该做什么。什么事件,什么经历,什么协会在最后的几个小时里我们会产生,后悔什么?
Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow.Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life.We should live each day with gentleness,vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come.There are those,of course,who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “Eat,drink,and be merry”.But most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.
In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune,but almost always his sense of values is changed.He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values.It has often been noted that those who live,or have lived,in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.
有时我认为这将是一个优秀的规则生活每一天,如果明天我们应该死去。这种态度会使人格外重视生命的价值。我们应该生活的每一天都充满温柔,活力和锋利的升值通常一当时间丢失不变的全景图时天,几个月和几年来。当然,也有一些人会采取的享乐主义的座右铭“吃喝玩乐”。但大多数人会学乖了因迫在眉睫的死亡。
保存在故事里,注定要死的主人公通常是在最后一刻由某种命运的突变,但几乎总是他的价值观被改变了。他更加珍视生命的意义及其永恒的精神价值。它常常看到那些生活或已生活在死亡的阴影之中的他们所做的每件事以芳醇甜美。
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