Life is never just being.?
生活不僅僅是存在。
It is? becoming a relentless , flowing on.?
它是一種持續(xù)流動(dòng)的狀態(tài)冠场。
Our parents live on through us , and we will live on through our children .
The institutions we build endure , and we will endure through them .?
我們建造的機(jī)構(gòu)持續(xù)存在,我們則通過它們的持續(xù)存在而持續(xù)存在钝的。
The beauty we fashion cannot be dimmed by death .?
我們熱愛的美好不會(huì)因?yàn)樗劳龆龅?/p>
Our flesh may perish , our hands will wither ,?
But that which they created in beauty and goodness and truth lives for all time to come.
我們的肉體會(huì)消亡冬三,我們的雙手會(huì)枯萎术陶。
但是我們以美好痪寻、善意和真理創(chuàng)作的事物會(huì)永恒戰(zhàn)勝時(shí)間而存在螺句。
Don't spend and waste your life accumulating objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
不要浪費(fèi)你的時(shí)間在積累那些最終只會(huì)化為塵土的物質(zhì)上。
Pursuit not so much the material as the ideal.
For ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth.
與其追求物質(zhì)不如追求理想槽华。因?yàn)?/a>壹蔓,只有理想才賦予生活以意義,因?yàn)?/a>只有理想才具有恒久的價(jià)值猫态。
把a(bǔ)lone去掉之后,比較方便理解:不要像追求理想一樣努力地追求物質(zhì)披摄,因?yàn)槔硐氡旧碜阋宰屔幸饬x亲雪,而且理想有永恒的價(jià)值。