晨读英语美文100篇 Passage 18. The Props to Help Man Endure (II)
 音频下载[点击右键另存为][00:00.77]Passage 18. The Props to Help Man Endure (II)[00:06.79]Until he does so, he labors under a curse. [00:12.26]He writes not of love, but of lust, [00:15.11]of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, [00:19.15]of victories without hope, and most of all, without pity or compassion. [00:24.73]His grief weaves on no universal bone, leaving no scars. [00:30.31]He writes not of the heart, but of the glands. [00:33.81]Until he relearns these things, [00:36.88]he will write as though he stood among and watched the end of man. [00:41.15]I decline to accept the end of man. [00:44.43]It’s easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: [00:50.12]that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged [00:54.38]and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tireless in the last red and dying evening, [01:00.84]that even then, there will still be one more sound: [01:05.22]that of his puny and inexhaustible voice, still talking. [01:10.57]I refuse to accept this. [01:12.99]I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. [01:17.69]He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, [01:23.92]but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion,and sacrifice, and endurance. [01:32.35]The poets’, the writers’ duty is to write about these things. [01:37.50]It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, [01:41.98]by reminding him of the courage,and honor [01:45.38]and hope and compassion and pity [01:48.48]and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. [01:52.63]The poets' voice need not merely be the record of man, [01:56.79]it can be one of the props, [01:59.30]the pillars to help him endure and prevail. |
