偶看新闻清风拂杨柳:生命的五份礼物之一
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In the morning of life came a good fairy with her basket, and said:
“Here are gifts. Take one, leave the others. And be 1)wary, choose wisely; oh, choose wisely! For only one of them is valuable.”
The gifts were five: Fame, Love, Riches, Pleasure, Death. The youth said, eagerly:
“There is no need to consider”; and he chose Pleasure.
He went out into the world and sought out the pleasures that youth delights in. But each in its turn was 2)short-lived and disappointing, 3)vain and empty; and each, departing, 4)mocked him. In the end he said: “These years I have wasted. If I could but choose again, I would choose wisely.”
在生命之初，一位仙女带着篮子走来，对一位年轻人说道：
“这里有几份礼物，你可以从中选一份，留下其它的。你要小心，做一个明智的选择；啊，你要明智地进行选择！因为这里面只有一份礼物是珍贵的。”
一共有五份礼物：名声、爱情、财富、快乐，还有死亡。年轻人迫不及待地说：
“没有必要多想。”他选了快乐。
此后他就开始步入世界，追逐年轻人所喜爱的快乐。然而每一种快乐都是如此短暂，令人感到空虚和失望。而当每一种快乐弃他而去时，还要把他嘲弄一番。最后，年轻人感叹道：“这些年我都浪费了。如果我可以再选一次，我一定会做个明智的选择。”
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“Four of the gifts remain. Choose once more; and oh, remember -- time is flying, and only one of them is precious.”
The man considered long, then chose Love; and did not mark the tears that rose in the fairy’s eyes.
After many, many years the man sat by a 5)coffin, in an empty home. And he 6)communed with himself, saying: “One by one they have gone away and left me; and now she lies here, the dearest and the last. 7)Desolation after desolation has swept over me; but each hour of happiness the 8)treacherous trader, Love, sold me I have paid a thousand hours of grief! Out of my heart of hearts I 9)curse him!”
这时仙女又出现了，她说：
“这里还有四份礼物。再选一次吧。噢，记住—时间飞逝，而其中只有一件是珍贵的。”
他思考了很久，最终选择了爱情；他没有注意到仙女眼里泛起的泪光。
许多许多年之后，这个人坐在一口棺材旁边，屋子里空荡荡的。他自言自语道：“他们一个一个地走了，只剩下我。现在，她就躺在这儿，我最亲爱的人儿，我最后的亲人。孤独一次又一次把我包围。都是因为爱情这个阴险狡诈的商人，他出售给我的每个甜蜜的小时，我现在都要用数千个小时的悲伤来偿还！我从心底里诅咒他！”