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名篇背诵: 在探索中成长

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美丽总会稍纵即逝,从外到内,给人留下无尽的感伤。对美的需求是人类最崇高的善举,是人类灵魂最伟大的天赋。

Growing in the Middle Ground
Anne Phipps



I believe that my beliefs are changing. Nothing is positive. Perhaps I’m in a stage of metamorphosis, which will one day have me emerging complete, sure of everything. Perhaps, I shall spend my life searching.

Until this winter, I believed in outward things, in beauty as I found it in nature and art. Beauty past—swift and sure—from the outside to the inside, bringing intense emotion. I felt a formless faith when I rode through summerwoods, when I heard the counterpoint of breaking waves, when I held a flower in my hand.

There was the same inspiration from art, here and there in flashes; in seeing for the first time the delicacy of a green jade vase, or the rich beauty of a rug; in hearing a passage of music played almost perfectly; in watching Markov dance Giselle; most of all, in reading. Other people’s creations, their sensitivity to emotion, color, sound, their feeling for form, instructed me. The necessity for beauty, I found to be the highest good, the human soul’s greatest gift. But there were moments when I wasn’t sure. There was an emptiness inside, which beauty could not fill.

This winter, I came to college. The questions put to me changed. Lists of facts—and who dragged whom how many times around the walls of what—lost importance. Instead, I was asked eternal question: what is beauty, what is truth, what is God? I talked about faith with other students. I read St. Augustine and Tolstoy. I wondered if I hadn’t been worshipping around the edges. Nature and art were the edges, and inner faith was the center. I discovered—really discovered—that I had a soul.

Just sitting in the sun one day, I realized the shattering meaning of St. Augustine’s statement that, “The sun and the moon, all the wonders of nature, are not God’s first works but second to spiritual works.” I had, up till then, perceived spiritual beauty only through the outward. It had come into me. Now I am groping towards an inner, spiritual consciousness that will be able to go out from me. I am lost in the middle ground. I’m learning.


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emptiness ['emptinis]

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n. 空虚,空白

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consciousness ['kɔnʃəsnis]

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n. 意识,知觉,自觉,觉悟

联想记忆
emerging [i'mə:dʒ]

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vi. 浮现,(由某种状态)脱出,(事实)显现出来

 
sensitivity [.sensi'tiviti]

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n. 敏感,多愁善感,感受性

 
necessity [ni'sesiti]

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n. 需要,必需品,必然

 
spiritual ['spiritjuəl]

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adj. 精神的,心灵的,与上帝有关的
n.

联想记忆
rug [rʌg]

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n. 毯子,地毯,旅行毯

 
metamorphosis [.metə'mɔ:fəsis]

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n. 锐变,变质,变形

联想记忆
inspiration [.inspə'reiʃən]

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n. 灵感,吸入,鼓舞人心(的东西)

联想记忆
swift [swift]

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adj. 快的,迅速的
n. 雨燕,线轴

 

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