阅读一周精选：经典阅读21
阅读一周精选：经典阅读21Notes:在我之上，其大无比的社会大厦耸然屹立。在我看来唯一的出路就是不断向上。我很早就决心爬上这座大厦。高高之上，男人们穿的是黑制服白衬衫，女士们身着漂亮的晚礼服；而且有好东西可以吃，有吃不完的好东西。我深知，在我之上，是坦荡的灵魂，纯洁高尚的思想，还有令人神往的精神生活。我知晓这些是因为我读过“海滨书社”的小说，除了恶棍与投机者之外，其中描写的男女想的都是美好的思想，说的都是优美的语言，做的都是光荣的事。简言之，我承认太阳的升起，同样地我承认在我之上一切都是美好的、高尚的、优雅的；一切都是给生活带来体面和尊严的；一切都是使生活值得活下去的；一切都是对人们的辛劳和苦难予以酬报的。生活值得活下去-----杰克 伦敦我出身于工人阶级。很早的时候我就有了热忱，抱负和理想；而满足这些成了我童年的问题。我的环境粗俗简陋而又野蛮。我没有眼界，有的只是向上看。我处在社会的最底层 。底层的生活一无所有
Life worth living
By Jack London
I was born in the working class. Early I discovered enthusiasm ambition and ideals;and to satisfy these became the problems of my child-life.My environment was crude and rough and raw.I had no out-look but an up-look rather.My place in the society was at the bottom.Here life offered nothing but sordidness and wretchedness both of the flesh and the spirit;for here flesh and spirit were alike starved and tormented.
Above me towered the colossal edifice of society and to my mind the only way out was up .Into this edifice I early resolved to climb.Up above men wore black clothes and boiled shirts and women dressed in beautiful gowns.Also there were good things to eat and there was plenty to eat.This much for the flesh.Then there were the things of the spirit.Up above me I knew unselfishness of the spirit clean and noble thinking keen intellectual living.I knew all this because I read “Seaside Library” novels in which with the exception of the villains and adventurers all men and women thought beautiful thoughts spoke a beautiful tongue and performed glorious deeds .In short as I accepted the rising of the sun I accepted that up above me was all that was fine and noble and gracious all that gave decency and dignity to life all that made life worth living and that remunerated one for his travail and misery.
生活值得活下去
-----杰克 伦敦
我出身于工人阶级。很早的时候我就有了热忱，抱负和理想；而满足这些成了我童年的问题。我的环境粗俗简陋而又野蛮。我没有眼界，有的只是向上看。我处在社会的最底层 。底层的生活一无所有，有的只是灵与肉的肮脏和悲惨，因为在底层，灵与肉同样的饥渴和饱受折磨。
在我之上，其大无比的社会大厦耸然屹立。在我看来唯一的出路就是不断向上。我很早就决心爬上这座大厦。高高之上，男人们穿的是黑制服白衬衫，女士们身着漂亮的晚礼服；而且有好东西可以吃，有吃不完的好东西。我深知，在我之上，是坦荡的灵魂，纯洁高尚的思想，还有令人神往的精神生活。我知晓这些是因为我读过“海滨书社”的小说，除了恶棍与投机者之外，其中描写的男女想的都是美好的思想，说的都是优美的语言，做的都是光荣的事。简言之，我承认太阳的升起，同样地我承认在我之上一切都是美好的、高尚的、优雅的；一切都是给生活带来体面和尊严的；一切都是使生活值得活下去的；一切都是对人们的辛劳和苦难予以酬报的。
Notes:
Sordidness =meanness 肮脏；污秽
Wretchedness 不幸；悲惨
Tormented 备受折磨的
Colossal 巨大的
Edifice 宏伟的建筑；大厦
Villain 恶棍
Remunerate =reward 酬劳
Travail = labour 阵痛；煎熬；艰辛
