【双语美文】The Story in Emergency Room 急诊室的故事

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The Story in Emergency Room 急诊室的故事

01、The Story in Emergency Room 急诊室的故事

In her early days as an emergency room physician, Doctor Joanna Myer

treated a child who had suffered a second degree burn. After the child had

been treated and was being prepared for discharge，Doctor Myer talked to

the parents about how they should care for the child at home. Also

listening to her were a half a dozen other family members. A few hours

later, when she came to say goodbye, the family asked her to settle an

argument they’d been having over exactly what advice she had given.

“As I talked to them. I was amazed.” she said. “All of them had heard the

simple instructions I have given just a few hours before, but they have

three or four different version. The most basic details were unclear and

confusing. I was surprised, because these were intelligent people.” This

episode gave Doctor Myer her first clue to something every doctor learns

sooner or later - most people just don’t listen very well. Nowadays, she

says she repeats her instruction，and even conduct a reality check with

some patients. She asks them to tell her what they think they are supposed

to do. She also provides take-home sheets which are computer printouts

tailored to the patients’ situation. Doctor Myer’s listeners are not unusual.

When new or difficult material is presented, almost all listeners are faced

with the challenge because human speech lacks the stability and

permanence of the printed word. Oral communication is fast-moving and

impermanent.

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在乔安娜·迈尔刚成为一名急诊内科大夫时,她治疗过一位二度烧伤的儿童。在这位儿童接受治疗将要出院时，迈尔告诉其父母他们应该如何在家护理这名儿童。同时还有六位其他家庭成员也在场。数小时之后，当她对他们说可以了的时候，这家人却让她帮他们解决争论，而内容就是她刚才所给的护理建议。“我在和他们谈话时感到很吃惊。”她说道：“他们所有的人都听到了我几小时前所说的简单指示,但是他们有三到四个不同版本。最基本的细节都不清楚，而且令人费解。我很惊讶，因为他们都是聪明人。”这段小插曲首次给迈尔医生一种提示，而这是每位医生迟早会了解的——大多数人不善于倾听。

她让他们告诉她，他们应该怎么做。她也提供可带回家为病人度身定做的电脑打印单。迈尔的倾听者没有什么不同。当陈述的是新的或较难的材料时，几乎所有的倾听者都面对着挑战，因为人类的谈话缺乏打印出文字的稳定和持久。口头沟通是一闪而过，难以长久的。

02、My Companions in Solitude我孤独中的伴侣

Yes! I will steal from the world, and not a babbling tongue shall tell

where I am. Echo shall not so much as whisper my hiding place. Suffer

the imagination to permit it as a little sun-light cottage, on the side of a

romantic hill.

不错，我即将悄然离开这世界,任何饶舌鬼也说不出我在何处。即使那回声也说不出我的藏身之处。您爱怎么想就怎么想吧:或许你会把它说成是山间的小屋，那儿充满了浪漫的欢乐和金色的阳光。

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Do you think I will leave love and friendship behind me? No! They shall

be my companions in solitude, for they will sit down and rise up with me

in the amiable form of my L. We will be as merry and as innocent as our

first parents in Paradise, before the arch-fiend entered that indescribable

scene.

您以为我会把爱情和友谊抛弃吗?决不!它们是我孤独中的伴侣，因为无论我起坐行止我都会感受到我所爱的温馨。在撒旦介入那美妙的乐园生活之前，我们会像我们的祖先一样快乐和天真、无邪。

The kindest affections will have room to shoot and expand in our

retirement, and produce such fruit as madness and envy and ambition

have always killed in the bud. Let the human tempest and hurricane rage

at a distance, the desolation is beyond the horizon of peace.

我们最美好的爱情还会有不断加深和发展的余地，如此的爱，疯狂、嫉妒和非凡之想都会扼杀在萌芽之中。让人间的暴风骤雨在远方肆虐吧,让孤独把那寂静隔离在远远的地平线上。

My L has seen a polyanthus blow me friendly wall has

sheltered it from the biting wind. No planetary influence shall reach us

but that which presides and cherishes the sweetest flowers. God preserve

us!

我的L看见过夜来香在十二月开放……正好有堵墙挡住了凛冽的寒风。这儿无尘世的干扰，只有甜蜜的花香欣赏。愿上帝保佑我们!

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How delightful this prospect in idea! We will build and we will plant, in

our own way simplicity shall not be tortured by art. We will learn of

nature how to live she shall be our alchemist, to mingle all the good of

life in one salubrious draught.

意想中的前景是多么喜人!我们将自由自在地在这儿安家、耕种……朴实再不会受到奸诈的欺凌。我们将向大自然学会生活……她是我们的炼金术士，她把生活中一切美好的东西融为和谐的力量。

The gloomy family of care and distrust shall be banished from our

dwelling, guarded by the kind and tutelary deity. We will sing our choral

songs of gratitude and rejoice to the end of our pilgrimage.

我们居住的地方不再有忧虑和不信任的阴影笼罩，只有仁慈的守护神保卫我们。我们将同声歌唱，感谢神灵，欢欣鼓舞直到走完人生旅程。

Adieu,

再见了，我的L……

Return to one who languishes for your society.

回到盼您的伴侣的身边来吧，他为了与您相处而熬得憔悴。

03、Get a Thorough Understanding of Oneself 悟透自我

In all one’s lifetime it is oneself that one spends the most time being with

or dealing with. But it is precisely oneself that one has the least

understanding of.

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人生在世，相处最多、打交道最多的就是自己，但是人最不了解的也恰恰是自己。

When you are going upwards in life you tend to overestimate yourself. It

seems that everything you seek for is within your reach; luck and

opportunities will come your way and you are overjoyed that they

constitute part of your worth. When you are going downhill you tend to

underestimate yourself, mistaking difficulties and adversities for your

own incompetence. It’s likely that you think it wise for yourself to know

our place and stay aloof from worldly wearing a mask of cowardice,

behind which the flow of sap in your life will be retarded.

人生走上坡路时，往往把自己估计过高，似乎一切所求的东西都能唾手可得，甚至把运气和机遇也看做自己身价的一部分而喜出望外。人在不得志时，又往往把自己估计过低,把困难和不利也看做自己的无能，以至把安分守己、与世无争误认为有自知之明，而实际上往往被怯懦的面具窒息了自己鲜活的生命。

To get a thorough understanding of oneself is to gain a correct view of

oneself and be a sober realist-aware of both one’s strength and shortage.

You may look forward hopefully to the future but be sure not to expect

too much, for ideals can never be fully realized. You may be courageous

to meet challenges but it should be clear to you where to direct your

efforts.

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悟透自己，就是正确认识自己，也就是说要做一个冷静的现实主义者，既知道自己的优势，也知道自己的不足。我们可以憧憬人生，但期望值不能过高。因为在现实中，理想总是会打折扣的，我们要经得起挑战。

To get a thorough understanding of oneself needs self-appreciation.

Whether you like yourself to a towering tree or a blade of grass, whether

you think you are a high mountain or a small stone, you represent a state

of nature that has its own reason of existence. If you earnestly admire

yourself you’ll have a real sense of self-appreciation, which will give you

confidence. As soon as you gain full confidence in yourself you’ll be

enabled to fight and overcome any adversity.

要悟透自己就要欣赏自己。无论你是一棵参天大树,还是一棵小草，无论你成为一座巍蛾的高山，还是一块小小的石头，都是一种天然，都有自己存在的价值。只要你认真地欣赏自己，你就会拥有一个真正的自我。只有自我欣赏才会有信心，一旦拥有了信心也就拥有了抵御一切逆境的动力。

To get a thorough understanding of oneself is to get a full control of one’s

life. Then one will find one’s life full of color and flavor.

悟透了自己，才能把握住自己，你的生活才会有滋有味!

04、On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth 有感于青春常在

No young man believes he will ever die. It was a saying of my brother’s,

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and a fine one.

年轻人不相信自己会死。这是我哥哥的话，可算得一句妙语。

There is a feeling of eternity in youth, which makes us amend for

everything. To be young is to be as one of the immortal Gods. One half of

time indeed is flown — the other half remains in store for us with all its

countless treasures, for there is no line drawn, and we see no limit to our

hopes and wishes. We make the coming age our own.

青春有一种永生之感——它能弥补一切。人在青年时代好像一尊永生的神明。诚然，生命的一半已经消逝，但蕴藏着不尽财富的另一半还有所保留，我们对它也抱着无穷的希望和幻想。未来的时代完全属于我们。

So, in the commencement of life, we set no bounds to our inclinations,

nor to the unrestricted opportunities of gratifying them. We have as yet

found no obstacle, no disposition to flag; and it seems that we can go on

so forever.

在这生活的开端，我们听任自己的志趣驰骋，放手给它们一切满足的机会。到此为止，我们还没有碰上过什么障碍，也没有感觉到什么疲惫，因此觉得还可以一直这样向前走去，直到永远。

We look round in a new world, full of life, and motion, and ceaseless

progress; and feel in ourselves all the vigor and spirit to keep pace with it.

Our short-lives connexion with existence we fondly flatter ourselves is an

indissoluble and lasting union — a honeymoon that knows neither

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coldness, jar, nor separation. As infants smile and sleep, we are rocked in

the cradle of our wayward fancies, and lulled into security by the roar of

the universe around us — we quaff the cup of life with eager haste

without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the more —

objects press around us, filling the mind with their magnitude and with

the strong of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the

thoughts of death.

我们看到四周一派新天地——生机盎然，变动不居，日新月异;我们觉得自己活力充盈,精神饱满。我们一厢情愿，痴心妄想，竟把自己在世上的暂时栖身，当做千古不变、万事长存的结合,好像没有冷淡、争执、离别的蜜月。像婴儿带着微笑入睡，我们躺在用自己编织成的摇篮里，让大千世界的万籁之声催哄我们安然入梦;我们急切切、兴冲冲地畅饮生命之杯，怎么也不会饮干，反而好像永远是满满欲溢;森罗万象纷至沓来，各种欲望随之而生，使我们腾不出工夫想死亡。

05、The Real Meaning of Peace 宁静的真谛

There once was a king who offered a prize to the artist who would paint

the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The king looked at all the

pictures. But there were only two he really liked, and he had to choose

between them. One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect

mirror for peaceful towering mountains all around it. Overhead was a

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blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it

was a perfect picture of peace.

从前有个国王，悬赏能画出最好的静态画的画家。很多画家都试过了。国王看了所有的作品，但他真正喜欢的只有两幅。一幅画中是一片宁静的湖泊，四周群山环绕，而湖泊就是一面完美的镜子。蓝色的天空中白云飘，每个看到这幅画的人都认为这真是一幅表现宁静的完美作品。

The other picture had mountains, too. But these were rugged and bare.

Above was an angry sky, from which rain fell and in which lightning