三毛《简单》翻译研究(3)
3.翻译正文
Simplicity
More than one time, we stop recalling. Everyone is just a naked baby without any worldly possessions, except for the body and soul when born on the Earth. One day he will go just as be born, completely empty. However, this is just a show. In fact, the death must have left behind something, visible or invisible, which floods this already crowed space.
Remember when we are no longer babies and the memory of past is also as far as our prolife. Looking back to our past half lifetime, we just have lived in ordinary bur are surrounded by plenty of worries. In reach of our hand, an unaccountable number of personal possessions cannot be brought with us all the way, which become part of our life. Once lacking them, life is incomplete.
Many people say that the physical form is not important, because environment is determined by one’s heart. One can see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower in a moment of meditation.
Of course, it is true. However, has your soul seen the flower, only one, in such a complicate and crowed circumstance? What I ask is that” have you ever seen just a simple gerbera”? I even don’t ask you about a rose.
Now, let us stop talking more about the sand and flower, for it is the most difficult to find the simple thing, and let us take a look at the complicate one.
Alas, I also don’t want to talk more about this.
People worship child prodigy in such times, but only children without childhood can enter that narrow door. Human beings always seem to be lacking of vigor in early youth, confused in young, frustrated in middle age when comparing your achievements with others, and still remain to be immature and stupid kids in their old. We live a rough life all along and so our lifetime goes by. Although complicate and full of pursue all our life, we tend to realize that happiness is far beyond our reach. In fact, the flower and that grain of sand are just on your windowsill. However, you are, of course, too busy to notice them. As for the complicate life, people prefer to complain about the people and destiny rather than simplify it. It is natural for heart to be enslaved by form, but does any form makes heart enslaved more free?
We refuse to give up every opportunity to make ourselves occupied by our own and sometimes even others’ business. Excessive concern is meddlesome. We feel hurt once rejected by others, but are ignorant of the fact that we deserve this snub.
We always use a beautiful pronounce to describe such life, that is profundity. Our society also has another adjective, stupid, to describe those innocent people. In their eyes, all the simple things become bad.
I happen to stay away from the home and country and have simple days as a apple head in Atlantic islands, the same as many years ago.
Here, no grand food, no pursuits of fame and fortune, no excessive sentiment, not any unbearable worrying and no arguments about right and wrong. In a word, there is no untied knot.
Perhaps some stupid one, being much stupider and even more complicate than me, will say: You are lucky, because not everyone have an Atlantic island. Oh, will you come? You must have forgotten the flower on your sill. But why cannot you see it always?
There is nothing if you don’t bring a flower. So, why are you coming here? Your flower is not here nor in the Atlantic, while it is in your heart.
It is more than the sun, air, water can a life be safely survived, and these are only the most basic parts. The desire to live is definitely simple, however we are human beings——a kind of creature being insatiably avaricious. In addressing hunger, we require to make progress and after having progress, we require more progress. With material enjoyment, and we are then eager for spiritual ascension, pursuing happiness, harmony, wealth, health, and even the eternal life. The first human beings are like the wild animals roaming on earth, struggling toughly in the natural environment only for their survival. After that, with the development of natural phenomena, they gradually formed a tribe and then set up the family. For many million years later, there pided the boundaries between country and country, and between people and people, forgetting that every of us is only a human being.
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