高中英语 双语美文阅读 Of Anger 论愤怒素材

1 OfOf AngerAnger 论愤怒论愤怒 To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics We have better oracles Be angry but sin not Let not the sun go down upon your anger Anger must be limited and confined both in race and in time We will first speak how the natural inclination and habit to be angry may be attempered and calmed Secondly how the particular motions of anger may be repressed or at least refrained from doing mischief Thirdly how to raise anger or appease anger in another 人要彻底杜绝发怒 这只有斯多葛派哲学家才敢如此说 我们有一句更好的神谕 生 气却不要犯罪 不可含怒到日落 对怒气必须从程度和时间两方面加以控制 我们来讨 论其中三点 1 怎样克制和平息发怒的天性和习惯 2 怎样抑制发怒的具体行为 或尽 量有所约束 以免造成恶果 3 怎样使别人发怒或息怒 For the first there is no other way but to meditate and ruminate well upon the effects of anger how it troubles man s life And the best time to do this is to look back upon anger when the fit is thoroughly over Seneca saith well that anger is like ruin which forsakes itself upon that it falls The scripture exhorteth us to possess our souls in patience Whosoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul Men must not turn bees anunasque in vidnereponunt 针对第一点 最好反复想想发怒的后果 它是怎样扰乱了人们的生活 反思的最佳时机 是在怒气彻底消失之后 萨涅卡说得好 愤怒犹如堕物 它将自碎于摔落之处 圣 经 劝导我们 要常存忍耐 就必保全灵魂 谁丧失了忍耐 谁就丧失了灵魂 人切不 可学那蜜蜂 在蜇伤人的同时丢掉了自己的性命 Anger is certainly a kind of baseness as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns children women old folks sick folks Only men must beware that they carry their anger rather with scorn than with fear 2 so that they may seem rather to be above the injury than below it which is a thing easily done if a man will give law to himself in it 发怒无疑是一种低贱的德性 因为像妇女儿童 老头病夫之类的人最容易受它摆布 而且 它也最容易在他们处于脆弱的时候出现 特别要注意的是 发怒之时 最好带点嘲弄的意 味 千万别夹杂着恐惧 这往往可以让自己免受伤害 这做起来并不难 只需在发怒时让 自己按上述原则行事即可 For the second point the causes and motives of anger are chiefly three First to be too sensible of hurt for no man is angry that feels not himself hurt and therefore tender and delicate persons must needs be oft angry they have so many things to trouble them which more robust natures have little sense of The next is the apprehension and construction of the injury offered to be in the circumstances thereof full of contempt For contempt is that which putteth an edge upon anger as much or more than the hurt itself And therefore when men are ingenious in picking out circumstances of contempt they do kindle their anger much Lastly opinion of the touch of a man s reputation doth multiply and sharpen anger 关于第二点 发怒的原因和动机主要有三种 首先 对伤害过于敏感 凡发怒的人无不觉 得自己受到了伤害 所以 那些脆弱而敏感的人 肯定经常生气 在性格豪爽的人看来毫 无感觉的事 却会使他们大为烦恼 其次 把受到的伤害想像成是他人对自己的极端轻蔑 轻蔑会使人怒火中烧 其效果跟伤害本身一样 甚至有过之而无不及 因此 对轻蔑过于 敏感的人 肯定会经常怒火万丈 最后 涉及个人名誉的非议 也着实使人怒不可遏 Wherein the remedy is that a man should have as Consalvo was wont to say tekan bomnscmsaarem But in all refrainings of anger it is the best remedy to win time and to make a man s self believe that the opportunity of his revenge is not yet come but that he foresees a time for it and so to still himself in the mean time and reserve it To continue anger from mischief though it take hold of a man there be two things whereof you must have special caution The one of extreme bitterness of words especially if they be 3 accurate and proper for communia maledicta are nothing so much and again that in anger a man reveal no secrets for that makes him not fit for society The other that you do not peremptorily break off in any business in a fit of anger but howsoever you show bitterness do not act anything that is not revocable 这里有一个补救方法 就像贡萨洛过去经常说的 人应当有一张 用粗绳编制的名誉保 护网 不过 在所有制怒之术中 赢得时间是最好的补救办法 要使自己相信 报仇的 时机虽未到来 但已指日可待 这样 遇怒时你就能平心静气 忍而不发 等待时机 人 在激愤时若想忍住怒火 以免惹祸 有两点务必特别注意 第一 语言切忌尖刻 特别是 针对具体的某人某事时 因为宽而泛之的谩骂 不会有伤大雅 再者 愤怒时不可揭人疮 疤 那样的话 会让人无地自容 第二 正在气头上时 切不可撇开一切不管不顾 你随 便怎么大发雷霆都行 就是别做出什么不可挽回的事来 For raising and appeasing anger in another it is done chiefly by choosing of times When men are frowardest and worst disposed to incense them Again by gathering as was touched before all that you can find out to aggravate the contempt And the two remedies are by the contraries The former to take good times when first to relate to a man an angry business for the first impression is much And the other is to sever as much as may be me construction of the injury from the point of contempt imputing it to misunderstanding fear passion or w