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词汇提示

1.heretics 异端

2.savaged 激烈批评

3.mugged 公开打劫

4.tormentor 折磨者

5.scapegoat 替罪羊

6.marchers 抗议游行者

7.Enlightenment 启蒙教育

8.blasphemy 亵渎

原文

Salman Rushdie: 'Life Under Threat' (2)

Out there where you are, in the rich and powerful and lucky west, has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics,drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?

The original metaphor has reasserted itself.

I'm back in the balloon, asking for the right to live.

What is my single life worth" Despair whispers in my ear: 'Not a lot.'

But I refuse to give in to despair.

I refuse to give in to despair because I've been shown love as well as hatred.

I know that many people do care, and are appalled by the crazy, upside-down logic of the post-fatwa world, in which a single novelist can be accused of having savaged or 'mugged' a whole community, becoming its tormentor (instead of it starred and feathered victim) and the scapegoat for all its discontents.

Many people do ask, for example: When a white pop-star-turned-Islamic-fanatic speaks approvingly about killing an Indian immigrant, how does the Indian immigrant end up being called the racist?

Or,again: What minority is smaller and weaker than a minority of one?

I refuse to give in to despair even though, for a thousand days and more, I've been put through a degree course in worthlessness, my own personal and specific worthlessness.

My first teachers were the mobs marching down distant boulevards, baying for my blood, and finding, soon enough, their echoes on the English streets.

I could not understand the force that makes parents hang murderous slogans around their children's necks.

I have learned to understand it.

It burns books and effigies and thinks itself holy.

But at first, as I watched the marchers, I felt them trampling on my heart.

Once again, however, I have been saved by instances of fair-mindedness, of goodness.

Every time I learn that a reader somewhere has been touched by The Satanic Verses, moved and entertained and stimulated by it, it arouses deep feelings in me.

And there are more and more such readers nowadays, my postbag tells me, readers(including Muslims) who are willing to give my burned, spurned child a fair hearing at long last.

Sometimes I think that, one day, Muslims will be ashamed of what Muslims did in these times, will find the 'Rushdie affair' as improbable as the west now finds martyr-burning.

One day they may agree that - as the European Enlightenment demonstrated- freedom of thought is precisely freedom from religious control, freedom from accusations of blasphemy.

Maybe they'll agree, too, that the row over The Satanic Verses was at bottom an argument about who should have power over the grand narrative, the Story of Islam, and that power must belong equally to everyone.

That even if my novel were incompetent, its attempt to retell the story would still be important.

That if I've failed, others must succeed, because those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change,truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

翻译

萨尔曼·拉什迪:《生命受到威胁》(2)

在你们所处的地方，在富裕、强大、幸运的西方，宗教迫害人们真的已经很久了吗，把他们当作异教徒烧死，把他们当作女巫淹死，以至于当你看到宗教迫害时，你都认不出来了?
原来的比喻再次出现了。
我又回到了气球里，要求生存的权利。
我的单身生活值多少钱?”绝望在我耳边低语:“不值多少钱。”
但我拒绝向绝望屈服。
我拒绝向绝望屈服，因为我既被爱也被恨。
我知道，很多人确实关心这个问题，并对法特瓦后世界的疯狂、颠倒的逻辑感到震惊，在这个世界上，一个小说家就可能被指控蹂躏或“抢劫”了整个社会，成为它的折磨者(而不是被涂上焦油和羽毛的受害者)，成为所有不满的替罪羊。
例如，很多人确实会问:当一个白人流行歌星出身的伊斯兰狂热分子赞许地说要杀死一名印度移民时，为什么印度移民最终会被称为种族主义者?
又或者:哪个少数群体比一个人的少数群体更小更弱?
我拒绝向绝望屈服，即使在过去的一千多天里，我已经完成了一个关于毫无价值的学位课程，我个人的和特定的毫无价值。
我的启蒙老师是那些在远处林荫大道上游行的暴徒，他们叫嚷着要我的血，很快，他们就在英国的街道上找到了回声。
我无法理解是什么力量让父母把杀人的标语挂在孩子的脖子上。
我已经学会了理解它。
它焚烧书籍和雕像，认为自己是神圣的。
但起初，当我看着游行队伍时，我感到他们在践踏我的心。
然而，我又一次被公正和善良的事例所拯救。
每当我得知某个地方的读者被《撒旦诗篇》所感动，被它所感动，被它所娱乐，被它所刺激，我的内心就会产生深深的感情。
现在有越来越多这样的读者，我的邮袋告诉我，读者(包括穆斯林)终于愿意给我那个被烧伤、被抛弃的孩子一个公平的机会。
有时我想，总有一天，穆斯林会为自己在这段时间里所做的事感到羞愧，会发现“拉什迪事件”就像西方现在认为焚烧烈士一样不可能。
有一天，他们可能会同意——正如欧洲启蒙运动所证明的那样——思想自由正是不受宗教控制的自由，不受亵渎指控的自由。
也许他们也会同意，关于《撒旦诗篇》的争论本质上是关于谁应该拥有对宏大叙事——伊斯兰故事——的权力的争论，这种权力必须平等地属于每个人。
即使我的小说不称职，它试图重述这个故事的努力仍然很重要。
如果我失败了，其他人一定会成功，因为那些没有能力掌控自己生活中的故事的人，没有能力复述、反思、解构、拿它开玩笑，也没有能力随着时代的变化而改变它的人，真的是无能为力的，因为他们无法想出新的想法。

Treasure Island by Robert Stevenson

原文

Chapter 8: Got The Ship

The pirates had a big fire on the beach, and there was a small light on the Hispaniola.

Very quietly, I put Ben Gunn's boat into the sea.

The boat moved slowly and quietly across the water.

Soon I was near the ship.

Nobody saw me.

'I can cut the ship's rope with my knife,' I thought. 'And then the wind can push the ship away from the beach.'

I listened.

There were two men on the ship.

The other pirates were all on the beach.

The men on the ship were talking loudly and angrily.

'They're going to have a fight,' I thought.

One of the men was Israel Hands.

I waited, then I cut the rope.

Slowly the ship turned round and began to move away from the beach.

The two men on the ship started to fight.

The pirates on the beach sat round their fire and sang.

They did not see the ship moving away.

I sat down in Ben Gunn's boat and fell asleep.

In the morning, I sat up and looked around.

The little boat was not far from the island and I saw that I was quite near the Hispaniola.

I looked for Israel Hands and the other pirate, but I did not see them.

I moved slowly nearer and nearer to the Hispaniola.

Then I climbed on to the ship.

The two pirates were there, on the ship.

They did not move.

One of them was dead.

Israel Hand's leg was badly hurt, but he was not dead.

I looked round the ship.

All the cupboards were open, and everything was dirty.

There were a lot of bottles on the floor.

I found some drink and gave it to Hands.

Then I took down the pirates' flag.

'The ship is ours, now,'I thought.

Israel Hands spoke.

'You can't sail the ship, Jim Hawkins,' he said. 'Give me some food. I can help you.'

'I don't want to go back to the beach,' I said. 'Help me to sail it to the North Inlet.'

'Right,' he said.

So we sailed to the north of the island.

The ship moved quietly through the water; I was happy.

The old pirate watched me carefully.

Then he smiled.'Jim, go and get me ... er ... get me something to drink,' he said. 'I'm thirsty.'

I did not like his smile.  

I went away, but I came back very quietly and watched him.

He moved slowly and took a knife from behind some rope.

Then he put the knife under his jacket and he went back to his old place.

'Ah,' I thought. 'He can move and he's got a knife. He wants to kill me. I must be careful.'

I went back to him and gave him the bottle.

We sailed on and came to the North Inlet.

Hands told me what to do and I brought the ship near the beach.

I watched the sails and the sea, but I did not watch Hands.

Suddenly I turned and saw him behind me with his knife in his hand.

I jumped away and took out my gun.

I tried to shoot at Hands but nothing happened.

The gun was wet with sea water.

I moved away quickly, but Hands followed me.

I climbed up among the sails and tried to shoot again.

Hands looked up,then he threw his knife at me.

It went into my arm.

Then I shot him and he dropped into the sea.

The pirate's knife was in my arm.

I pulled it out and climbed down on to the ship.

听前提示

一、一段对话为四句，将分成两句为一小节。

二、每小节两遍英文，最后一遍英文一边中文。

三、根据中英文意思，听不懂的可以多听几遍。

原文

Conversation 111

A:The washing machine doesn't work.

洗衣机坏了。

B:Really? When did you find out?

是吗？你什么时候发现的？

A:When I tried to wash your denim jeans last night.

昨晚我想洗你的牛仔裤时就发现了。

B:Then I will call the electrician now to come and repair it.

那我马上叫电工来修理。

Conversation 112

A:Are you ready to order?

您凖备好点菜了吗？

B:Yes, I am. I will have coffee with milk, two pancakes, and scrambled eggs,please.

是的，我准备好了。请给我来一份加牛奶的咖啡、两个煎饼和一份炒鸡蛋。

A:Would you like the order to go?

您要打包带走吗?

B: I would like to order to go, thank you!

我想打包带走，谢谢！

Conversation 113

A:l'd really like to have you meet my family.

我真的很想让你见见我的家人。

B: Me too, I've heard so much about them from you.

我也是，我听你说了很多关于他们的事。

A:When is it convenient for you?

你什么时候方便？

B:Sunday afternoon is fine.

周日下午可以。

Conversation 114

A:You are not looking well at all.

你看起来不太舒服。

B: My throat is so sore I can hardly swallow.

我的喉昽很痛，几乎无法吞咽。

A:Have you seen the doctor?

你去看医生了吗？

B:Not yet.

还没有。

听前提示

一、每期提供10个单词，每个单词都会有2-3个例句，方便理解记忆。

二、每个单词和句子都会重复5遍，其中第2遍为慢速，有助于识别。

三、本材料的整体难度较低，可以用来听力磨耳朵和单词查漏补缺。

Day 64

631.

Deny

v.否认；拒绝承认；拒绝给予

He denied knowing anything about it.

他否认知道此事。

We can't deny the fact that he's honest.

我们不能否认他诚实的事实。

We shouldn't deny the existence of these problems.

我们不应该否认这些问题的存在。

632.

Department

n.部门，司，系，处

Who manages this department?

谁管理这个部门？

I would like to speak to the head of the department.

我想和部门负责人谈谈。

There is a bookstore in front of the department store.

百货商店前面有一家书店。

633.

Departure

n.背离；离开，启程

What is the departure time?

出发时间是几点？

The time of departure is still uncertain.

出发时间仍不确定。

Please fasten your seat belts and prepare for departure.

请系好安全带，为出发做好准备。

634.

Depend

v.取决于；依赖，依靠；相信，指望

Don't depend too much on others.

不要过分依赖他人。

She still depends on her parents.

她仍然依靠她的父母。

Our economy depends on agriculture.

我们的经济依赖于农业。

The future depends on what we do in the present.

未来取决于我们现在所做的。

635.

Deposit

v.放置；储蓄；寄存n.订金；押金；存款

She made a deposit of 1000 dollars last month.

她上个月存了1000美元。

I had to deposit 10% of the price of the house.

我不得不存入房价的10%。

The shop promised to keep the goods for me if I paid a deposit.

如果我交了押金，商店答应为我保留货物。

636.

Depress

v.使抑郁，使沮丧；降低；使萧条；压下

Failure didn't depress him.

失败并没有让他感到沮丧。

637.

Depressed

adj.抑郁的，沮丧的；萧条的 v.使抑郁，使沮丧

She was so depressed.

她太沮丧了。

I feel depressed whenever I think about that problem.

每当我想到这个问题时，我都会感到沮丧。

The more she thought about it, the more depressed she became.

她想得越多，她就越沮丧。

638.

Depth

n.深度；深刻；深厚，深切；深处

He was surprised by the depth of the lake.

他对湖的深度感到惊讶。

We are measuring the depth of the river.

我们正在测量河的深度。

Never test the depth of water with both feet.

切勿用双脚测试水深。

639.

Describe

v.描述，形容；形成......形状

Can you describe it?

你能描述一下吗？

Describe your ideal breakfast.

描述一下你理想的早餐。

He described exactly what happened.

他准确地描述了所发生的事情。

640.

Description

n.描述，形容，说明；类型

Can you give me a brief description of the thief?

你能给我一个关于小偷的简短描述吗？

We need a detailed description of what happened.

我们需要详细描述发生了什么。

His description was too general.

他的描述太笼统了。

词汇提示

1.balloon 热气球

2.chasm 深坑

3.qualms 顾虑

4.merits 优点

5.demerits 缺点

6.hostages 人质

7.pitched 扔

8.abyss 严厉的

9.metaphor 隐喻

原文

Salman Rushdie: 'Life Under Threat' (1)

A hot-air balloon drifts slowly over a bottomless chasm, carrying several passengers.

A leak develops; the balloon starts losing height.

Good grief! The wounded balloon can bear just one passenger to safety; the many must be sacrificed to save the one!

But who should live, who should die? And who could make such a choice?

In point of fact, debating societies everywhere regularly make such choices without qualms, for of course what I've described is the given situation of that evergreen favorite, the Balloon Debate, in which, as the speakers argue over the relative merits and demerits of the well-known figures they have placed in disaster's mouth, the assembled company blithely accepts the faintly unpleasant idea that a human being's right to life is increased or diminished by his or her virtues or vices -that we may be born equal but thereafter our lives weigh differently in the scales.

It's only make-believe, after all.

And while it may not be very nice, it does reflect how people actually think.

I have now spent over a thousand days in just such a balloon; but, alas, this isn't a game.

For most of these thousand days, my fellow-travelers included the Western hostages in Lebanon, and the British businessmen imprisoned in Iran and Iraq, Roger Cooper and lan Richter.

And I had to accept, and did accept, that for most of my countrymen and countrywomen,my plight counted for less than the others'.

In any choice between us, I'd have been the first to be pitched out of the basket and into the abyss.

'Our lives teach us who we are,' I wrote at the end of my essay 'In Food Faith'.

Some of the lessons have been harsh, and difficult to learn.

Trapped inside a metaphor, I've often felt the need to redescribe it, to change the terms.

This isn't so much a balloon, I've wanted to say, as a bubble, within which I'm simultaneously exposed and sealed off.

The bubble floats above and through the world, depriving me of reality, reducing me to an abstraction.

For many people, I've ceased to be a human being.

I've become an issue, a bother, an 'affair'.

Bullet-proofed bubbles, like this one, are reality-proof, too.

Those who travel in them, like those who wear Tolkien's rings of invisibility, become wraith-like if they're not careful.

They get lost.

In this phantom space a man may become the bubble that encases him, and the none day - pop! - he's gone forever.

It's ridiculous - isn't it? - to have to say, but I am a human being, unjustly accused, unjustly embubbled.

Or is it I who am being ridiculous, as I call out from my bubble, I'm still trapped inhere, folks; somebody, please, get me out?

翻译

萨尔曼·拉什迪:《生命受到威胁》(1)

一个热气球载着几名乘客在一个无底的深渊上缓缓漂流。
泄漏发生了;气球开始失去高度。
好悲伤!受伤的气球只能载一名乘客到安全地带;为了救一个人，必须牺牲很多人!
但谁该活，谁该死?谁能做出这样的选择呢?
事实上，世界各地的辩论协会经常毫无疑问地做出这样的选择，因为我所描述的当然是常青树最受欢迎的气球辩论的特定情况，在这种情况下，演讲者争论他们放在灾难口中的知名人物的相对优点和缺点，聚集在一起的人们愉快地接受了一个有点令人不快的观点，即一个人的生存权是由他或她的美德或恶习而增加或减少的——我们可能生来平等，但此后我们的生活在天平上的分量就不同了。
毕竟，这只是幻想。
虽然这可能不太好，但它确实反映了人们的真实想法。
我在这样一个气球里已经度过了一千多天了;但是，唉，这不是一场游戏。
在这一千天的大部分时间里，我的同伴包括黎巴嫩的西方人质，以及被关押在伊朗和伊拉克的英国商人罗杰·库珀和伊恩·里希特。
我不得不承认，而且确实承认，对于我的大多数同胞来说，我的困境比其他人的要小。
在我们之间的任何一个选择中，我都会是第一个被扔出篮筐扔进深渊的人。
“我们的生活教会我们我们是谁，”我在我的文章《食物信仰》(In Food Faith)的结尾写道。
有些教训是残酷的，而且很难学到。
困在一个比喻里，我经常觉得有必要重新描述它，改变术语。
我想说，与其说这是一个气球，不如说是一个泡泡，我在里面既暴露又被封闭。
泡沫漂浮在世界的上空，使我脱离了现实，使我成为一个抽象的人。
对很多人来说，我已经不再是一个人了。
我成了一个问题，一个麻烦，一个“外遇”。
防弹泡沫，就像这个一样，也是不受现实影响的。
那些穿着它们旅行的人，就像那些戴着托尔金的隐形戒指的人一样，如果不小心，就会变成幽灵。
他们迷路了。
在这个虚幻的空间里，一个人可能会变成包裹着他的泡沫，然后一天也不会破裂!-他永远消失了。
这很荒谬，不是吗?——不得不说，但我是一个人，受到不公正的指责，受到不公正的指责。
或者是我太可笑了，当我从我的泡泡里喊出来的时候，我仍然被困在这里，伙计们;谁来救我出去?

Treasure Island by Robert Stevenson

原文

Chapter 7: Jim's Story II

'Your friends are in the house now,' said Ben Gunn.

'I must go to them,'I said. 'Are you coming with me?

'No,' said Ben. 'But you know where to find me. Come tomorrow afternoon.'

I looked at the Hispaniola, out on the sea, and saw the pirates' flag.

'They have the ship now,' I thought.

The pirates on the beach made a big fire.

They started to drink and to talk loudly.

I waited for a time,then went to the house.

I told Dr Livesey about my meeting with Ben Gunn up on the hill.

'Tell me about this man,' said the doctor. 'Is he going to help us?'

'Yes, I think he is,' I said.

'There are fifteen pirates now,' said the doctor. 'And there are six of us. Seven, with Ben Gunn.'

I was very tired and I slept well that night.

The next morning one of our men said: 'Look! Someone's coming! A man with a white flag.'

'Don't shoot!' said the man. 'It's me. John Silver.'

'What do you want?' asked Captain Smollett.

'Captain Silver wants to talk to you,' said Long John.

'Captain Silver now?Come on, then,' said Captain Smollett.

Long John came slowly up the hill to the house.

We all watched him.

'Yes?' asked the captain.

'One of our men is dead,' said Silver. 'You killed him in the night.'

The captain said nothing.

'We didn't kill that man,' I thought. 'Ben Gunn killed him. Now there are only fourteen pirates.'

'We want that treasure,' Silver said. 'And you've got a map, right?'

'Perhaps,' said the captain.

'I know you've got it,' said Silver. 'Give us the map. Then you can leave the island with us, or,if you like, you can stay here.'

'Is that all?' asked Captain Smollett. 'Now, listen to me, Silver. You can't find the treasure and you can't sail the ship. We aren't going to help you find the treasure, so you can go now. I have nothing more to say to you.'

'Then we're going to fight you,' said Silver angrily, and he went away, walking slowly down the hill.

It was a hot day.

We waited for a longtime and then the pirates started shooting again.

Suddenly some of the pirates ran out of the trees up to the house.

'Get them!' said the captain.

We all fought hard.

We killed three of the pirates and the others ran away.

But when we got back inside the house, we found that Joyce was dead.

Hunter and the captain were hurt, too.

'Five pirates are dead,'said the doctor.

'Good,' said the captain. 'Now they have nine men and we have five.'

The pirates went back to the beach.

Everything was quiet.

Later that day Hunter died.

The doctor left the house.

'He's going to meet Ben Gunn,' I thought.

It was very hot inside the house and I did not like waiting.

So I took some food and a gun and went to look for Ben Gunn's boat.

After about an hour I found it.

It was very small and light.

'I can take this boat and go out to the Hispaniola at night,' I thought.

I sat down and waited.

Night came, and it was very dark.

听前提示

一、一段对话为四句，将分成两句为一小节。

二、每小节两遍英文，最后一遍英文一边中文。

三、根据中英文意思，听不懂的可以多听几遍。

原文

Conversation 106

A: I heard you went to Vancouver last summer, Tim.

蒂姆，我听说你去年夏天去了温哥华。

B:Yes, I did. I visited Vancouver with my wife on July 22.

是的。我和我的妻子在7月22日去了温哥华。

A:How long did you stay there?

你们在那里呆了多久？

B: We stayed there for a week and had a great time.

我们在那里呆了一个星期，玩得很开心。

Conversation 107

A:When is it convenient for you?

你什么时候方便？

B: I am free for the next few hours.

接下来的几个小时我都有空。

A:Can we get started now?

那我们现在可以开始了吗？

B:Yes, that would be great.

可以，那太好了。

Conversation 108

A: Do you like traveling?

你喜欢旅游吗？

B:Yes, I do. I am particularly addicted to places with beaches.

是的，我喜欢旅游。我特别喜欢有海滩的地方。

A: I also love going to the beach and walking along the boardwalk.

我也喜欢去海边，沿着木板道散步。

B: We can go to the beach together next time.

下次我们可以一起去海边。

Conversation 109

A: Do you have anything to drink?

你有喝的吗？

B:Yes, I do. What would you like to drink?

是的，我们有喝的。你想喝点什么呢?

A:Chilled water or lemonade.

冷水或柠檬水。

B:Lemonade is much better. Enjoy.

柠檬水比较好。请享用。

Conversation 110

A:What's your present job?

你现在做什么工作？

B: I am a Social Media Marketing Strategist at ABC company.

我是ABC公司的社交媒体营销策略师。

A:Nice! that sounds interesting.

太棒了！听起来很有趣。

B:Yes, it's a very exciting job!

是的，这份工作挺令人兴奋的。

听前提示

一、每期提供10个单词，每个单词都会有2-3个例句，方便理解记忆。

二、每个单词和句子都会重复5遍，其中第2遍为慢速，有助于识别。

三、本材料的整体难度较低，可以用来听力磨耳朵和单词查漏补缺。

Day 63

621.

Delay

v.推迟，延期；延误，耽搁n.延期，推迟

He was irritated by her delay.

他对她的拖延感到恼火。

We apologize for the delay.

对于延迟，我们深表歉意。

I was delayed by a traffic jam.

我被交通堵塞耽搁了。

622.

Deliberate

adj.故意的，蓄意的；从容的v.仔细考虑，认真商讨

He told deliberate lies.

他故意撒谎。

Do you think it was deliberate?

你认为这是故意的吗？

623.

Deliberately

adv.故意地；从容不迫地，小心翼翼地

I didn't do it deliberately.

我不是故意这样做的。

She deliberately exposed him to danger.

她故意将他置于危险之中。

She deliberately ignored me on the street.

她在街上故意不理我。

624.

Delicate

adj.柔和的，清淡的；虚弱的；微妙的，棘手的

She put me in a delicate situation.

她让我陷入了微妙的境地。

The negotiations are at a very delicate stage.

谈判正处于非常微妙的阶段。

That's a delicate problem.

这是一个微妙的问题。

625.

Delight

n.高兴；乐事v.使高兴

The gifts will delight the children.

这些礼物会让孩子们高兴。

I'd be delighted if you could join us for dinner.

如果你能和我们一起吃晚饭，我会很高兴的。

626.

Deliver

v.投递，运送；履行；交付，移交；接生

We can deliver it this evening.

我们今晚可以送达。

Can you deliver it to my house?

你能把它送到我家吗？

He delivered a very long speech yesterday.

他昨天发表了一个很长的演讲。

627.

Delivery

n.递送，投递；递送物；分娩，生产 adj.运送的

One-Day delivery will cost an additional 9.99 dollars.

一日送达将额外花费9.99美元。

How long do I have to wait for delivery?

我还要等多久才能送达？

Do you charge for delivery?

你们收取运费吗？

628.

Demand

v.强烈要求；需要，需求n.需求，需求量

I demand an explanation.

我要求解释。

Will you meet our demands?

你能满足我们的要求吗？

I demand to know what's happening.

我要求知道发生了什么。

629.

Demonstrate

v.证明；示范，演示；表露；游行，示威

The salesman demonstrated how to use it.

推销员演示如何使用它。

The teacher demonstrated the idea with an experiment.

老师用实验证明了这个想法。

630.

Dentist

n.牙科医生；牙医诊所

I have a dentist appointment at 2:30 P.M.

我在下午2：30预约牙医。

I'd like to be a dentist in the future.

我将来想当牙医。

词汇提示

1.fanciful 空想

2.integrity 完整性

3.obliterate 消灭

4.alter 祭坛

5.cathedrals 大教堂

原文

Robert Runcie: 'After the Falklands War' (2)

Man without God finds it difficult to achieve this revolution inside himself.

But talk of peace and reconciliation is just fanciful and theoretical unless we are prepared to undergo such a revolution.

Many of the reports I have heard about the troops engaged in this war refer to moments when soldiers have been brought face to face with what is fundamental in life and have found new sources of strength and compassion even in the midst of conflict.

Ironically,it has sometimes been those spectators who remained at home, whether supporters or opponents of the conflict, who continue to be most violent in their attitudes and untouched in their deepest selves.

Man without God is less than man.

In meeting God, a man is shown his failures and his lack of integrity, but he is also given strength to turn more and more of his life and actions into love and compassion for other men like himself.

It is necessary to the continuance of life on this planet that more and more people make this discovery.

We have been the choice.

Man possesses the power to obliterate himself, sacrificing the whole race on the altar of some God-substitute, or he can choose life in partnership with God the Father of all.

I believe that there is evidence that more and more people are waking up to the realization that this crucial decision peers us in the face here and now.

Cathedrals and churches are always places into which we bring human experiences - birth, marriage,death, our flickering communion with God, our fragile relationships with each other, so that they may be deepened and directed by the spirit of Christ.

Today we bring our mixture of thanksgiving, sorrows and aspirations for a better ordering of this world.

Pray God that he may purify, enlarge and redirect these in the ways of his kingdom of love and peace.

Amen.

翻译

罗伯特·朗西:《马岛战争之后》(2)

没有上帝的人很难实现自己内心的革命。
但是，除非我们准备经历这样一场革命，否则谈论和平与和解只是幻想和理论。
我听到的许多关于参加这场战争的部队的报道都提到了士兵们面对生活中最基本的东西，甚至在冲突中也找到了新的力量和同情心的源泉的时刻。
具有讽刺意味的是，有时正是那些留在家里的旁观者，无论是冲突的支持者还是反对者，他们的态度仍然是最暴力的，而他们内心最深处的自我却没有受到影响。
没有上帝的人不如人。
在与上帝的会面中，一个人会看到他的失败和缺乏正直，但他也会得到力量，把越来越多的生活和行为转化为对像自己一样的其他人的爱和同情。
为了这个星球上生命的继续，越来越多的人进行这一发现是必要的。
我们一直是选择。
人拥有毁灭自己的能力，可以把全人类牺牲在某个神的替代者的祭坛上，或者他可以选择与万有之父神为伴的生活。
我相信，有证据表明，越来越多的人开始意识到，这个至关重要的决定现在就摆在我们面前。
大教堂和教堂总是我们把人类的经历——出生、结婚、死亡、我们与上帝的短暂交流、我们彼此之间脆弱的关系——带进去的地方，这样它们就可以被基督的精神深化和引导。
今天，我们带着感恩、悲伤和对世界更美好秩序的渴望来到这里。
求神洁净、扩大、引导这些人进入祂爱与和平的国度。
阿们。

Treasure Island by Robert Stevenson

原文

Chapter 6: Dr Livesey's Story

At half-past one in the afternoon two, small boats went from the ship to the island.

We looked for Jim Hawkins on the Hispaniola, but he was not there.

We waited on the ship.

There were six pirates with us.

Then Hunter and I took a boat and went to the island.

I wanted to see the house on the island.

The house was strong and it was in a good place.

'We can stay here,' I thought. 'There's water, and we can bring food and guns from the ship.'

Then I heard the pirates fighting in the trees.

'They're killing someone,' I thought. 'Perhaps Jim Hawkins is dead.'

Hunter and I went back to the Hispaniola.

I told the captain about the house, and we started to put food into the small boat.

The pirates on the ship did not hear us.

Joyce and I carried the food from the beach to the house.

Joyce stayed in the house with his gun and I went back to the ship.

We put more food and our guns into the small boat and dropped all the other guns into the sea.

Then Mr. Trelawney's men Redruth and Hunter, Mr. Trelawney, the captain and I left the ship.

There were five of us in a small boat and we moved very slowly.

Then we saw the pirates on the Hispaniola.

They had the big gun on the ship.

'They're going to shoot at us,' somebody said.

We tried to go faster.

Mr. Trelawney shot at the men on the ship.

He hit one of them.

Then the pirates on the island ran out of the trees.

They began to run along the beach.

'Quickly!' said the captain. 'They're going to catch us. Leave the boat.'

We heard the big gun on the Hispaniola behind us; we jumped on to the beach and ran.

Most of our food and our guns went down into the sea with the small boat.

We heard the pirates running along the beach behind us, but we ran quickly through the trees to the house.

We arrived at the house and turned to shoot at the pirates.

We hit one of the pirates, and the other men ran away.

Then one of the pirates turned and shot Redruth through the head.

Captain Smollett said sadly: 'Now there are only five of us and we have food for ten days. What are we going to do?'

Suddenly we heard somebody outside.

'Dr Livesey,' said Jim Hawkins, 'it's me, Jim. I'm here.'

So then there were six of us.