一次雷雨中的醒悟Discovery in a Thunderstorm

　　Dr. Nelson Glueck 內爾松.格盧克博士

　　Many years ago I was on a bicycle trip through some exceedingly picturesque countryside. Suddenly, dark clouds piled up overhead and rain began to fall, but strange to relate, several hundred yards ahead of me the sun shone brilliantly. Pedaling, however, as rapidly as I could, I found it impossible to get into the clear. The clouds with their rain kept advancing faster than I could race forward. I continued this unequal contest for an exhausting half hour, before realizing that I could not win my way to the bright area ahead of me.

　　多年前，我曾騎著自行車從一片風景如畫的郊野中穿過。本文向您介紹有關《一次雷雨中的醒悟》的內容突然，烏云密布，大雨滂沱，然而令人驚奇的是，在前方幾百碼的地方卻是陽光燦爛。我蹬著車使勁往前沖，卻發現怎么也到不了那片陽光普照之地。烏云夾著大雨比我沖得還快。半小時后，精疲力盡的我停止了這場不公平的抗爭，意識到自己根本無法到達那片晴朗的天地。

　　Then it dawned upon me that I was wasting my strength in unimportant hurry, while paying no attention whatsoever to the landscape for the sake of which I was making the trip.

　　頓時，我豁然開朗，我在毫不重要的事情上疲于奔波，卻不曾欣賞途中的景致，忘記了自己旅行的目的。

　　The storm could not last forever and the discomfort was not unendurable. Indeed, there was much to look at which might otherwise have escaped me. As I gazed about with sharpened appreciation, I saw colors and lines and contours that would have appeared differently under brilliant light. The rain mists which now crowned the wooded hills and the fresh clearness of the different greens were entrancing. My annoyance at the rain was gone and my eagerness to escape it vanished. It had provided me with a new view and helped me understand that the sources of beauty and satisfaction may be found close at hand within the range of one’s own sensibilities.

　　暴風雨不會永不停息，任何不適也并非難以容忍。的確，我差點錯過了途中許多美好的景致。我滿懷感激地凝望著眼前的景色，此刻所見的色彩、線條和輪廓比起陽光下別有一番風味。樹木繁茂的山上，煙雨朦朧；別樣的綠樹清新明朗，令人神迷。大雨帶給我的煩惱頓時消散，想要逃離的欲望也不復存在。相反，它帶給我一種全新的視覺景觀，讓我懂得美與滿足就源自于我們身邊，只要細心發現便能唾手可得。

　　It made me think, then and later, about other matters to which this incident was related. It helped me realize that there is no sense in my attempting ever to flee from circumstances and conditions which cannot be avoided but which I might bravely meet and frequently mend and often turn to good account. I know that half the battle is won if I can face trouble with courage, disappointment with spirit, and triumph with humility. It has become ever clearer to me that danger is far from disaster, that defeat may be the forerunner of final victory, and that, in the last analysis, all achievement is perilously fragile unless based on enduring principles of moral conduct.

　　這次經歷從此也引導著我去思考相關的事物。它讓我明白，對于無法避免的環境與條件，企圖逃避毫無意義，但我可以勇敢面對它們，并常常對其進行修整與改善。我知道，只要勇敢地面對困難、失望而不沮喪，成功而不驕傲，那我們的人生之戰便取得了一半的勝利。我也更清楚地意識到，危險遠非災難，而失敗也許就是最終勝利的先行者。因此，歸根結底，一切成就如果不經受道德準則的考驗，就會脆弱不堪，危機重重。

　　I have learned that trying to find a carefree world somewhere far off involves me in an endless chase in the course of which the opportunity for happiness and the happiness of attainment are all too I often lost in the chase itself. It has become apparent to me that I cannot wipe out the pains of existence by denying them, blaming them largely or completely on others, or running away from them.

　　我已經明白，當自己無休止地追尋，試圖在遙遠之地尋找一個無憂無慮的世界時，也常常會在追尋中錯過獲得幸福與成就的機會。顯然，拒絕承認生存的痛苦，將它們多數或全部歸咎于他人，或者逃避，都