經典美文：人類將取勝

所有事物中最卑劣的便是恐懼;他必須告誡自己，永遠忘記它;在他的工場不應有任何其他東西，除了古老的真理和心靈的真實。下面是本站小編爲大家帶來英語經典美文：人類將取勝，希望大家喜歡!

I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, butto my work，a life’s work in the agony and sweat ofthe human spirit, not for glory and least of all forprofit,but to create out of the materials of the humanspirit something which did not exist thisaward is only mine in trust. It will not be diffcult to finda dedication for the money part of it commensuratewith the purpose and significance of its Iwould like to do the same with the acclaim too,

by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and womenalready dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will someday stand here whereI am standing.

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we caneven bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I beblown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems ofthe human heart in conflictwith itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worthwriting about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again.

He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forgetitforever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart,the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed，love and honor andpity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labors under a curse. He writesnot of love but of lust, ofdefeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories whthout hopeand, worst of all, without pityor griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving noscars. He writes not of the heart but ofthe glands.

Until he relearns these things, he will write as though he stood among and watched the end of man. Idecline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because hewill endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthlessrock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one moresound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man willnot merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal,not because he alone among creatures has aninexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrfice andendurance.

The poet’s, the writer’s duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endureby lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassionand pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet’s voice need not merely bethe record of man,it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

美文翻譯：

我覺得，這個獎不是授給我這個人，而是授給我的創作——那沉浸於人類心靈的煎熬與勞苦之中的畢生勞作——它既不爲名譽，亦不爲利潤，只是爲了創造出前所未有的人類精神的樣本。因而，這個獎只是由我暫時保管罷了。要爲這筆獎金找一個與它設置的目的和意義相稱的用途並非難事，然而我卻想以同樣的方式利用這個讚美——我要把這個時刻當作一個巔峯，使自己能被那些已經獻身於同樣的心靈煎熬與勞苦的青年男女們聽見，未來的某一天他們中的一個將會站在我今天所站的地方。

我們今天的悲劇，是一種全面的普遍的肉體的恐懼，這種恐懼持續已久以至我們甚至能夠忍受它。不再有心靈的問題了，剩下的只有一個疑問：我何時會被毀滅?因此當今從事寫作的青年男女已經忘記人的內心衝突的問題，而惟有它才能產生好的作品，因爲只有它才值得我們去寫，值得我們爲之忍受煎熬與勞苦。

對此他必須重新學習。他必須告誡自己，所有事物中最卑劣的便是恐懼;他必須告誡自己，永遠忘記它;在他的工場不應有任何其他東西，除了古老的真理和心靈的真實——沒了這普遍的真理，任何文學作品都是短命的，僵死的——這就是愛、榮譽、憐憫、自尊、同情和犧牲。在他這樣做之前，他將在詛咒下勞作。他描寫的不是愛情而是性慾。他寫的失敗中沒有人失去任何有價值的東西，他寫的成功裏沒有希望——更糟的是——沒有憐憫與同情。他的悲哀因缺乏普世價值的骨骼而留不下傷痕。他描繪的不是人的心靈，而是他的腺體。

除非他學會了這些事情，否則，他將如同置身於末日爲注視末日的來臨而寫。我拒絕接受人類末日的說法。僅僅因爲人能夠忍受就說他是不朽的，這也太輕鬆了。說什麼即便當那末日的鐘聲敲響，並從那默默地懸墜於垂死的黃昏與夕陽的殘紅裏的最後的無價值的岩石上飄零消逝之時，世界上還會有一種聲音——即人的微弱卻永不衰竭的聲音——在不停地訴說。我拒絕接受這個。我深信，人不僅會忍耐，他還將蓬勃發展。他是不朽的，不是因爲生物中唯有他的聲音永不衰竭，而是因爲他有靈魂，有能同情能犧牲能忍耐的心靈。

詩人和作家的責任，就在於描寫這些事物。他的特權，就在於通過昇華人的心靈，通過喚醒人的勇氣、榮譽、希望、尊嚴、同情、憐憫和犧牲這些記錄了人的往昔光榮的精神，來幫助人忍耐。詩人的聲音，不必僅僅成爲人的記錄，更能成爲幫助他忍耐與成功的一種支柱和棟樑。