51
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
你的偶像消散在尘埃中,证明神的尘埃比你的偶像更伟大。
译者按:
偶像有散时,尘埃永流传。
52
Man does not reveal himself in his history, he struggles up through it.
大丈夫不以他的过往彰显自己,而是从过往中奋起。
译者按:
好汉不提当年勇。
53
While the glass lamp rebukes the earthen for calling it cousin, the moon rises, and the glass lamp, with a bland smile, callsher, ”My dear, dear sister.”
琉璃灯因陶灯叫它表兄而生气。
当明月升起,琉璃灯笑脸相迎:“我亲爱的,亲爱的姐姐。”
54
Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near. The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
如海鸥邂逅波涛,我们相逢,靠近。
海鸥高飞,波涛远去,我们相忘于江湖。
译者按:
此处用了庄子的“相忘于江湖”,直接按字面意思,也很贴近。
55
My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.
白昼已尽,我如岸边疲倦的归帆,聆听着晚潮的舞曲。
56
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
天赋生命,唯有奉献,方可得到。
57
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
我们越谦卑,越伟大。
58
The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.
麻雀为孔雀背负尾翎而担忧。
59
Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
永恒之声唱到:“不要害怕刹那。”
60
The hurricane seeks the shortest road by the no-road, and suddenly ends it ssearch in the Nowhere.
飓风在无路中寻找最短之路,突然在虚无之境终止了它的追寻。