True Nobility——海明威,英语经典诵读

nobility 高贵；高尚；崇高
pilot 领航员, 飞行员, 引水员
shade 荫凉处, 图案的阴影
lot 签, 命运；抽签
tangled 缠结的, 紊乱的
yarn 纱, 纱线；故事, 奇谈
It is a tangled yarn. 他们的命运是一团纠缠不清的纱线
be'reavement n. 丧亲丧友之痛
blessing 神恩, 幸福；可喜的事情
blessed 受上帝恩宠的，幸运的；幸福的，快乐的
sober adj. 冷静的；清醒的
shadow 隐蔽处, 阴暗
sorrow 悲哀, 悲痛
affair 事务, 事件
intellect 智力
tell 产生效果, 产生影响
In this game every move tells.
在这个游戏中每一次移动都产生效果。
character 人品
heart 心肠, 心地
genius 天才, 天赋,
discipline 自制；修养
regulate vt. 规范, 控制
judgment 判断力，明智，见识
extravagance 奢侈, 铺张, 过度, 放纵的言行
want n. 需要；需求
humanity 人性, 人类
within adv. 内部，内心的
without adv. 外部，外在的
seriously adv. 严肃地，认真地
regret 遗憾, 悔恨, 抱歉, 歉意
to the point of 达到...的程度
repentance n. 后悔，悔悟, 悔改
be superior to 优越于
previous 以前的, 早先的



True Nobility
by Ernest Hemingway

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all. Take the lot of the happiest - it is a tangled yarn. Bereavements and blessings, one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itself makes life more loving. Men come closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life, under the shadows of sorrow and loss.
In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.
I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.
To regret one's errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.


在风平浪静的大海上，每个人都是领航员。
但只有阳光没有阴影，只有快乐没有痛苦，根本不是真正的生活。就拿最幸福的人来说，他的生活是一团缠结在一起的乱麻。痛苦与幸福交替出现，使得我们一会悲伤一会高兴。 甚至死亡本身都使得生命更加可爱。在人生清醒的时刻，在悲伤与失落的阴影之下，人们与真实的自我最为接近。
在生活和事业的种种事务之中，人品比智力的作用要大，头脑的作用远不如心地，天资也不如由判断力所控制的自制，耐心与修养。
我一直认为，开始在

内心更加认真生活的人，会在外在上开始生活得更为简朴。在这样一个奢侈放纵的年代，我希望能向世人表明，人类真正的需要是如此之少。
为自己的错误感到后悔而力求不再犯错才是真正的悔改。比别人更加优秀并不高贵，真正的高贵是优于过去的自己。