不去羡慕别人的生活
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译者: 爱尔兰UCD 赖小琪
他曾是埃及的一位政府高官，34岁就做了副市长，可谓前程一片灿烂。可惜，就在他飞黄腾达的时候，他主管的城市却发生了一场火灾，于是他被免职。那年他37岁。离官退位后，萨依特的周围依然是一些显赫的人士，富翁，高官，大财团的董事长……大家都为萨依特惋惜，认为他会非常痛苦，最少也要来找他们帮忙。谁想，他却回到乡村，过起了平民百姓的生活。
He was once a senior government official in Egypt. When he was 34, he had become a vice mayor and a rosy future was greeting to him. However, when he was up his career ladder, he was dismissed due to a severe fire that took place in the city he was in charge of. He was 37 at that time. After he resigned from his position, all his friends, including celebrities, rich men, government officials, directors of consortia, etc, felt sorry for him and thought he must feel very sorrowful and would come to them for help. But out of anyone’s expectation, he came back to the countryside and led an ordinary life.
他在自家的小菜园里种菜，施肥，捉虫，过得平淡而有滋味。没事的时候，他就走村串巷，收集一些民间陶器作为自己的爱好。生活中，他从不理会别人的富贵，更不去羡慕别人的日子。我行我素地过着自己的简朴岁月。
He planted vegetables, fertilized the soils and caught worms in his small garden, living an ordinary but satisfactory life. When he was free, he would take a stroll around the village or streets and collect some folk potteries as a hobby. He lived his own plain life happily other than to care about others’ wealth and envy their rich lives.
由于他的知识和才能，他很快就在收藏上有了很大造诣。七八年过去，他竟然收集到了几十件世界顶级的民间珍宝。前来买卖的人蜂拥而至，萨依特每卖出一件，都在上千万美元。
Thanks to his rich knowledge and excellent talents, he quickly became a elite in the field of collection. After 7 or 8 years, he had already possessed dozens of world-class folk treasures. Numerous buyers flocked to his house and ever piece of work he sold was priced at more than ten million dollars.
有人问他，你怎么会在收藏上有这么大的成就。萨依特说，因为我过得十分简单，从不盲从地去羡慕别人，清静的生活让我可以一心一意地鉴别陶器。
Some people asked him, “How could you accomplish such a great achievement in collection?” He answered calmly, “Because I live a very simple life and never envy others blindly. The tranquil life has rendered me a focused heart on identifying potteries.”
不去羡慕别人的生活，这使他不但摆脱了烦恼，也把收藏做到了罕见的顶端，成为世界级收藏大师。
Not envying others’ lives not only got him rid of troubles, but also helped him to push his collection to the top of the world, thereby making him a world-renowned collector.
22岁的美国华裔数学家王章程，毕业于美国加州大学。毕业后，他的同学多数都去了大财团、大公司，只有王章程一头扎进了加州私人研究室，一干就是10年。10年中，他的生活收入非常低廉，30岁了还买不起房子。而他的同学们已经是月收入几十万，上百万元的大老板。他们开着高档车子，住着大房子，带着漂亮的妻子。而王章程连女朋友都没有。好在他从来不羡慕别人，只对自己的事业感兴趣。虽然他的生活比别人差了几个等级，但他本人似乎全然不知。在外人看来，王章程的生活是世界上最糟的一种。
Wang Zhangcheng was a 22-year-old Chinese-American mathematician graduating from University of California. After graduation, unlike most of his classmates who went to the big consortia or companies, he plunged himself into a private lab in California and engaged in his own studies for ten years. During these ten years, he lived on a very slim salary and could not even afford a house at the age of 30, while his classmates could earn a salary of hundreds of thousands of dollars, even a million! They drove luxurious cars and lived in splendid houses with their beautiful wives. But Wang even did not have a girlfriend. Nonetheless, he did not envy others and only showed interest in his own cause. Though his life was terribly inferior to others, he did not have any realization about this. In others’ eyes, Wang’s life was less than worst!
王章程却不管这些，10年中他默默无闻，如饥似渴地做着自己的研究。在他35岁的时候，他攻克了世界上两项顶尖级数学难题，从此成果迭现，美国十几家大学先后聘请他前去任教。多少年过去，在世界数学界，他被称为数学之王。
But anyway, Wang did not care about all these and only highly focused on his studies during the past ten years. When he reached 35, he managed to solve the two top-level math problems in the world successfully. Since then, dozens of prominent universities in America competed to employ him as a lecturer. After many years of hard work, he was dubbed the King of Math in the world.
包维尔自小就十分喜欢摄影，大学毕业后，他对摄影到了痴迷的程度，无心去挣钱工作。从此包维尔过着简单的生活，从不理会自己的生活是富有还是贫穷，只要能够摄影也就够了。他穿着破裤子，吃着最简单的汉堡。在别人眼里，他是困苦贫穷的象征。而包维尔自己却过得异常快乐。
Paul was keen on photography since he was a child. After graduation from college, he was crazy about photography, so much so that he did not want to work. Therefore, he lived a very simple life, but he hardly cared about his well-being, rich or poor. What he needed was photographing. He wore ragged pants and ate the cheapest burgers. In others’ eyes, he was the symbol of poverty. However, he felt very happy every day.
在他27岁时，他的人物摄影技术开始登峰造极，成为世界公认的人物摄影大师，并为英国首相拍摄人物照，从此一发而不可收。至今为全世界一百多位总统、首相拍过人物摄影。请他摄影的世界名流更是数不胜数，排队等候一两年是常事。
At the age of 27, his photography culminated to the world level and he was acknowledged as a superb photographer. Then he was invited to take photos for the British prime minister. Since then, his career was rocketing. So far, he has taken photos for more than 100 presidents and prime ministers around the world. Moreover, numerous celebrities are still lining up for his service and it is fairly normal to wait for one or two years before they can access the service.
正因为他从来不羡慕别人的生活，才会生活在自己的天地里，才能不受外界的干扰干自己的事，也才能取得如此的成就。
As he never cared about others’ life, he could truly live his own life and worked his own cause free from disturbance from the outside world, thus achieving a huge accomplishment. |
