精美英文欣赏:人生如诗

Human Life Like a Poem

I think that, from a biological standpoint,

human life almost reads like a poem.

It has its own rhythm and beat,

its internal cycles of growth and decay.

No one can say that a life with childhood,

manhood and old age is not a beautiful arrangement;

the day has its morning, noon and sunset,

and the year has its seasons, and it is good

that it is so. There is no good or bad in life,

except what is good according to its own season.

And if we take this biological view of life

and try to live according to the seasons,

no one but a conceited¹ fool or an impossible idealist

can deny that human life can be lived like a poem.

　　——Lin Yutang

 

1 conceited   

adj.自负的，骄傲自满的

参考例句：

• He could not bear that they should be so conceited.他们这样自高自大他受不了。
• I'm not as conceited as so many people seem to think.我不像很多人认为的那么自负。