自由的英語文章

　　自由就是約束人們的一個圓圈，下面就是小編給大家整理的，希望大家喜歡。

　　一：有自律才有真正的自由

　　One windyspring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly theirkites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies likebeautiful birds darting and dancing. As the strong winds gusted against thekites, a string kept them in check.

　　Instead of blowing away with the wind, theyarose against it to achieve great heights. They shook and pulled, but therestraining string and the cumbersome tail kept them in tow, facing upward andagainst the wind. As the kites struggled and trembled against the string, theyseemed to say, “Let me go! Let me go! I want to befree!” They soared beautifully even as they fought therestriction of the string. Finally, one of the kites succeeded in breakingloose. “Free at last,” itseemed to say. “Free to fly with the wind.”

　　Yet freedom from restraint simply put it atthe mercy of an unsympathetic breeze. It fluttered ungracefully to the groundand landed in a tangled mass of weeds and string against a dead bush. “Free at last” free to lie powerless in thedirt, to be blown helplessly along the ground, and to lodge lifeless againstthe first obstruction.

　　How much like kites we sometimes are. TheHeaven gives us adversity and restrictions, rules to follow from which we cangrow and gain strength. Restraint is a necessary counterpart to the winds ofopposition. Some of us tug at the rules so hard that we never soar to reach theheights we might have obtained. We keep part of the commandment and never risehigh enough to get our tails off the ground.

　　Let us each rise to the great heights,recognizing that some of the restraints that we may chafe under are actuallythe steadying force that helps us ascend and achieve.

　　二：Is man free?***人是自由的嗎?***

　　A man comes to a master to ask how much man is independent, free. Is he totally free, or is there a limitation? Is there something like fate, kismet, destiny, God who makes a limitation beyond which you cannot be free?

　　一個人來到一位大師面前向其請教人到底有多獨立，多自由。他是完全自由的還是受一定的限制呢?是不是有諸如天數、天命、定數和神的存在令人不自由呢?

　　The master said, “Stand up.”

　　大師說：“站起來。”

　　The man must have felt this was a stupid kind of answer, “I am asking a simple question and he is asking me to stand up.” But he stood. And the master said, “Now, raise one of your legs up.”

　　這個人一定覺得這是一個蠢透了的答案，“我問他一個簡單的問題他卻叫我站起來。”但是他還是站了起來。大師說：“現在，抬起一條腿。”

　　The man, by this time must have been thinking he had come to a madman; what has this to do with freedom, independence? But now that he has come... and the master was so respected; not to follow him would be disrespectful, and there was no harm. So he lifted one of his legs from the earth, one foot was in the air and he was standing on one foot.

　　到這時，這個人一定認為他來到了一個瘋子面前，這和自由、獨立有什麼關係嗎?但是既然已經來了„„而且這位大師如此地受人尊敬，不按照他的意思做會很無禮，況且這又沒什麼害處。所以，他從地上抬起了一條腿，一隻腳懸在空中，另一隻腳獨立著。

　　And then the master said, “That’s perfectly good. Just one more thing, now take the left foot up also.”

　　然後這位大師說：“非常好。還有，現在把左腳也抬起來。”

　　“That is impossible!” the man said, “You are asking something impossible. I have taken my right foot up. Now I cannot take my left foot up.”

　　“那不可能!”這個人說，“你在要求不可能辦到的事。我已經抬起了右腳，現在我不可能再把左腳抬起來。”

　　The master said, “But you were free. In the beginning you could have taken the left foot up. There was no binding order. You were completely free to choose whether to take the left foot up or the right foot up. I had not said anything about it; you just decided. You took the right foot up.

　　大師說：“但是你是自由的。開始你可以抬起左腳，沒有任何的限制。你完全有自由去決定是抬左腳還是右腳，關於這點我沒有做任何要求，完全由你決定。但你抬起了右腳。

　　“You made it impossible for the left foot to be lifted up. Don’t bother about fate, kismet, God. Just think of simple things.”

　　“是你令自己不可能抬起左腳的，不要煩心命運、定數和神啊，想些簡單的事情。”

　　三：自由思想與心靈的作用

　　At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion, when the National Anthem was played.This time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else. This is organized major league baseball, and I am standing here with all the others; and everything that takes place includes me.

　　1947年的世界職業棒球大賽開賽那天，當美國國歌奏響的那一刻，我產生了一種全新的情感。這一次，國歌是為我而奏，就像為其他人奏一樣。我終於能和其他人一樣，站在職業棒球大聯盟球賽的賽場上，成為這一切的一部分。

　　About a year later, I went to Atlanta, Georgia, to play in an exhibition game. On the field, for the first time in Atlanta, there were Negroes and whites. Other Negroes, besides me. And I thought: What I have always believed has come to be.

　　大約一年以後，我參加了在喬治亞州首府亞特蘭大舉辦的一次棒球表演賽。這是亞特蘭大的賽場上第一次同時出現白人和黑人運動員。除我之外，還有其他黑人選手。那一刻，我一直堅守的信念終於實現了。

　　And what is it that I have always believed? First, that imperfections are human. But that wherever human beings were given room to breathe and time to think, those imperfections would disappear, no matter how slowly. I do not believe that we have found or even approached perfection. That is not necessarily in the scheme of human events. Handicaps, stumbling blocks, prejudices — all of these are imperfect. Yet, they have to be reckoned with because they are in the scheme of human events.

　　我一直堅守的信念是什麼呢?首先，我知道人類不可避免會有缺陷。但只要人類有一息尚存，只要人類還能思考，這些缺陷一定會逐漸消失，無論過程會多麼漫長。我 並不認為我們已經到達或正在接近完美無缺的境界。完美無缺的境界並非人類社會不可或缺的一部分。有些缺陷，例如殘疾、障礙和偏見，在人類社會中都存在，也 就需要我們勇敢地去面對。

　　Whatever obstacles I found made me fight all the harder. But it would have been impossible for me to fight at all, except that I was sustained by the personal and deep-rooted belief that my fight had a chance. It had a chance because it took place in a free society. Not once was I forced to face and fight an immovable object. Not once was the situation so cast-iron rigid that I had no chance at all. Free minds and human hearts were at work all around me; and so there was the probability of improvement. I look at my children now, and know that I must still prepare them to meet obstacles and prejudices.

　　我一路上遇到的阻礙都促使我更加努力地去抗爭、去奮鬥。然而，如果不是我內心深處堅信我的奮鬥有希望，我就根本無法堅持。我的奮鬥有希望，因為這是一個自 由的社會。在這裡，我不止一次遇到過無法逾越的障礙，也不止一次經歷過令人絕望的境況。但那時，思想與心靈的自由便能起作用，讓我擺脫困境。如今我看著自 己的孩子們，我知道我仍需要他們準備面對困難與歧視。

　　But I can tell them, too, that they will never face some of these prejudices because other people have gone before them. And to myself I can say that, because progress is unalterable, many of today's dogmas will have vanished by the time they grow into adults. I can say to my children: There is a chance for you. No guarantee, but a chance.And this chance has come to be, because there is nothing static with free people. There is no Middle Ages logic so strong that it can stop the human tide from flowing forward. I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe — and with every fiber in me — that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us ***no matter how slowly*** the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps find the greatness of tomorrow.

　　然而，我可以告訴他們，正因為前人的努力奮鬥，他們今後不必再經受我們現在承受的某些偏見。我也告訴自己，社會進步是必然的，當我的孩子們長大成人時，現 在社會上的許多教條一定會消失。因此，我可以告訴我的孩子們：你們有希望——我不敢保證什麼，但肯定有希望。有自由思想的人決不會停滯不前，所以你們有希 望。再也沒有中世紀強大荒謬的邏輯能阻擋人類歷史的潮流滾滾向前。我並不認為從事任何職業的任何人都能排除一切障礙獲得成功——這樣的完美不現實。但我的 確有一條堅定不疑的信念——我現在所做到的一切是因為我們能夠拋開從前的教條***無論多麼緩慢***，能探尋當下的真理，也許還能發現未來的美好。

　　I believe in the human race. I believe in the warm heart. I believe in man's integrity. I believe in the goodness of a free society. And I believe that the society can remain good only as long as we are willing to fight for it — and to fight against whatever imperfections may exist.My fight was against the barriers that kept Negroes out of baseball. This was the area where I found imperfection, and where I was best able to fight. And I fought because I knew it was not doomed to be a losing fight. It couldn't be a losing fight-not when it took place in a free society. And in the largest sense, I believe that what I did was done for me — that it was my faith in God that sustained me in my fight. And that what was done for me must and will be done for others.

　　我相信人類。我相信熱誠的心。我相信人們的正直與誠實。我相信自由社會中的美德。我相信只要我們願意為之奮鬥，願意與所存在的缺陷抗爭到底，這個社會就能永遠美好。棒球比賽將黑人拒之門外就是人類社會的一種缺陷。既然我有這個能力，我就要和這種現象抗爭到底。我抗爭，因為我知道這場戰鬥並非註定以失敗告終。這場戰鬥不會失敗——在一個自由社會中這場戰鬥不可能失敗。大而言之，我所做到的一切都市上蒼的眷顧——正是我對上帝的信仰支撐著我，給我抗爭的勇氣。我相信被眷顧的不僅僅是我一個人，而應是、也將是我們所有人。

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