英语名篇背诵: Life Is a Chess-board 人生是盘棋

英语作文    发布时间:2023-10-08  
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英语背诵名篇: Life Is a Chess-board 人生是盘棋

The chess-board is the world: the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

Excerpt From A Liberal Education and Where to Find It

By Thomas Henry Huxley


[注释]

-overlook [ˌəʊvəˈlʊk] v. 忽视 to fail to see or notice

make allowance for :考虑到……(而原谅)


[参考译文]

人生是盘棋

托马斯·亨利·赫胥黎

棋盘宛如世界:一个个棋子仿佛世间万象;游戏规则就是我们所称的自然法则。竞争对手藏于暗处,不为我们所见。我们知晓,这位对手向来处事公平,正义凛然,极富耐心。然而,我们还是吃过苦头才知道,这位对手从不忽视任何错误,也不因为我们的无知而作出一丝让步。


[作者简介]

托马斯·亨利·赫胥黎(Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825-1895),英国著名博物学家,教育改革家,达尔文进化论学说最杰出的代表。 第一个提出人类起源问题,并首次提出“不可知论”一词,著有《人在自然界中的地位》、《进化论与伦理学》等。