雙語閱讀：放愛一條生路

以下是本站小編整理的哲理類英語美文欣賞：放愛一條生路 ， 希望對你有所啓發。

The other day as I talked with a friend I recalled a story that I heard this summer. Acompassionate person, seeing a butterfly struggling to free itself from its cocoon, andwanting to help, very gently loosened the filaments to form an opening.

前幾天和一位朋友閒聊時，我想起今年夏天聽到的一個故事：有個人很富有同情心，看到一隻蝴蝶拼命掙扎想衝破繭的束縛，就幫了個忙，輕輕地解開繭絲使其露出一個缺口。

The butterfly was freed, emerged from the cocoon, and fluttered about but could not the compassionate person did not know was that only through the birth struggle canthe wings grow strong enough for flight. Its shortened life was spent on the ground; it neverknew freedom, never really lived.

蝴蝶得到解放，從繭中出來振翅欲飛，然而卻飛不起來。這位富有同情心的人所不知道的是，只有經過掙扎破繭而出，翅膀才能變得強壯，可以飛翔。這隻蝴蝶短暫的生命只能在地上度過了，它從未嘗過自由的滋味，沒有真正享受過生活。

I call it learning to love with an open hand. It is a learning which has come slowly to me and hasbeen wrought in the fires of pain and in the waters of patience. I am learning that I must freethe one I love, for if I clutch or cling, try to control, I lose what I try to hold.

我把它叫做學會放愛一條生路。這個教訓經歷了痛苦的鍛造和耐心的洗禮，我才逐漸認識到。我學會了必須給所愛的人自由，如果我抓得太緊、緊握不放、設法控制，結果可能會失去他們。

If I try to change someone I love because I feel I know how that person should be, I rob him orher of a precious right, the right to take responsibility for one's own life and choices and wayof being. Whenever I impose my wish or want or try to exert power over another, I rob him orher of the full realization of growth and maturation. I limit and prevent by my act ofpossession, no matter how kind my intention.

如果我試圖改變所愛的人，僅僅因爲我覺得他/她應該這樣，就等於是掠奪了他/她的一項珍貴的權利，即他/她對自己生命的責任權和生活方式的選擇權。無論何時我把自己的意志和權力強加給別人，都會導致他/她無法完全成長和成熟。無論我的意圖多麼善良，我的控制行爲還是限制和阻礙了他們。

I can limit and injure by the kindest acts of protection or concern. Over extended it can say tothe other person more eloquently than words, "You are unable to care for yourself; I must takecare of you because you are mine. I am responsible for you."

即使保護或關心這種最善意的行爲也會限制和傷害別人。“你無法照顧自己，我必須照顧你，因爲你是我的，我要對你負責。”對別人說這麼動人的語言遠遠超越了你的權力。

As I learn and practice more and more, I can say to the one I love: "I love you, I value you, Irespect you and I trust that you have the strength to become all that it is possible for you tobecome — if I don't get in your way. I love you so much that I can set you free to walk besideme in joy and in sadness.

隨着我學習和鍛鍊的增多，現在我會這樣告訴我愛的人：我愛你、珍惜你、尊重你，我相信你有足夠的實力發展成爲你想要成爲的人——如果我不阻礙你的話。我是那麼愛你，所以我給你自由，和我共享歡樂與悲傷。

I will share your tears but I will not ask you not to cry. I will respond to your needs. I will careand comfort you, but I will not hold you up when you can walk alone. I will stand ready to bewith you in your grief and loneliness but I will not take it away from you. I will strive to listen toyour meaning as well as your word, but I shall not always agree.

我會和你一起流淚，但我不會要求你停止哭泣。我會滿足你的需要，關心你、安慰你，但在你能夠獨立行走時我不會阻擋你。我會時刻準備好，在你悲傷和孤獨時站到你身邊，但我不會把你的悲傷和孤獨帶走。我會盡力理解你的話語及其中涵義，但不會總是贊同。

Sometimes I will be angry and when I am, I will try to tell you openly so that I need not hate ourdifferences or feel estranged. I can not always be with you or hear what you say for there aretimes when I must listen to myself and care for myself, and when that happens I will be ashonest with you as I can be.

有時我會生氣，當我生氣時，我會盡量坦率地告訴你，這樣我就不會對我們之間的分歧懷恨於心，產生疏遠的感覺。我無法時刻與你在一起，或者聽你訴說，因爲有時我需要傾聽自己，關心自己，當這些發生時，我會盡量告訴你。

I am learning to say this, whether it be in words or in my way of being with others and myself,to those I love and for whom I care. And this I call loving with an open hand.

對於那些我所愛和所關心的人，我正在學習這樣表達，無論是用語言，還是用我對待他人及自己的方式，我把這種方式叫做放愛一條生路。

I cannot always keep my hands off the cocoon, but I am getting better at it!

我不會總把雙手從繭的身旁移開，但我正在逐漸進步!