亲爱的妹妹，关于你，说心里话，是出乎我意料的。
因为我原来对你不抱什么大的希望。我想你一生能有个温暖的家庭，生儿育女，有吃有穿，不要象姐姐那样牺惶和屈辱就行了。现在我越来越看出，实际上你的天资比我和大哥都高。你一定能考上大学的！而且我从你的来信中，看出你已经对人生在较高的层次上有了觉悟。这使我非常激动！我感到，人的一生总应有个觉悟时期（当然也有人终生不悟）。但这个觉悟时期的早晚，对我们的一生将起决定性的作用。实际上就是说我们应该做什么人，选择什么样的人生道路。
我们出身于贫困的农民家庭——永远不要鄙薄我们的出身，它给我们带来的好处将一生受用不尽；但我们一定又要从我们出身的局限中解脱出来，从意识上彻底背叛农民的狭隘性，追求更高的生活意义。
要知道，对于我们这样出身农民家庭的人来说，要做到这一点是多么不容易啊！
首先要自强自立，勇敢地面对我们不熟悉的世界。不要怕苦难！如果能深刻理解苦难，苦难就会给人带来崇高感。亲爱的妹妹，我多么希望你的一生充满欢乐。可是，如果生活需要你忍受痛苦，你一定要咬紧牙关坚持下去，有位了不起的人说过：痛苦难道是白忍受的吗？它应该使我们伟大！
另外，我不知在什么地方看过一则消息，对我们很有启发：有位美国总统的女儿为了不让父亲供养她上学，自己便利用课余时间到饭馆里为人家洗碟子赚钱……妹妹，二哥这样说，不是逼着让你也去自己谋生！相信我每月的十块钱一定准时寄给你！真想和你在一块好好谈谈……有时间就来信，并希望能把字写大些，不妨出出格嘛……
孙少平写给孙兰香的信—选自>
英文译文(赖小琪):
My dear sister,
To be honest, I feel quite surprised at the progress you have made so far!
I used not to harbor any great expectation on your future development, only thinking that it would be my great comfort to see you have a warm family with your kids without worrying about livelihood. Of course, I did not hope to see you live a worrisome and insulted life like your older sister. However, now I have realized that your talent is far superior to mine and our older brother’s and I am sure that you would get admitted to university eventually! From your letter, I can learn that you have had a more insightful perspective on life, which makes me very excited! To my mind, I think everyone would encounter a period in their lives during which they would suddenly reflect on themselves and come up with their own ideas on how to live the rest of their lives (of course, actually not everyone would have this period). The time for the coming of this period is quite crucial because it has a significant impact on our future development. It is actually a time when we begin contemplating upon what career we would like to undertake and what we would like to be in the future.
We were born in a poor farming family. However, we shall never feel ashamed with our born identity, because it has actually brought to us loads of benefits that we would enjoy during the rest of our lives. However, meantime, we should know to get rid of the limitations of our identity, abandon the short-sightedness most farmers are born with, and pursue a better life of greater significance.
You must know how difficult it will be for us who were born in a farming family!
First of all, we should get iron-willed and independent, and confront the unfamiliar world before us bravely without fearing any hardships! If we can have a right perspective on hardships, they can endow us with nobility and confidence. My dear sister, how much I wish you could live a happy life! Nevertheless, if you are doomed to suffer in your life, you should go all out to bear all pains and persist in moving forward! A famous man has ever said, “Are the pains we have suffered useless? No, they should make us stronger!”
Besides, I have learnt a piece of news somewhere before that is quite enlightening to us: the daughter of a US president, in order not to rely on her father’s financial support for her education, washed dishes in a restaurant in her spare time to make money. My dear sister, I am telling you this story not to compel you to make a living by yourself! Please trust me that I would send you 10 yuan promptly every month! I am really looking forward to having a good conversation with you. So please write to me once you have time and you are expected to use large font in your letter.
译后记:
如果说>里有无数让我难忘的人物和事情, 那么孙少平写给他妹妹兰香的信, 无疑是最让我印象深刻的, 也是最令我动容的. 昨天我把整本书看完了, 可是我仍然会忍不住一遍又一遍地翻回那一页, 仔细品读信里的每一句话, 每一个字. 特别是那句 “我们出身于贫困的农民家庭——永远不要鄙薄我们的出身，它给我们带来的好处将一生受用不尽；但我们一定又要从我们出身的局限中解脱出来，从意识上彻底背叛农民的狭隘性，追求更高的生活意义”, 真的令我感慨良多. 我也是出身于农民的家庭, 我也曾经抱怨过自己的生活和学习条件不如大城市里的人. 但是, 如今我回顾自己二十多年来的生命历程, 我的感想也是和孙少平一样的: 感谢上苍让我生长在农村, 让我感受到了许多城里长大的孩子所不能感受到的东西, 也让我的内心变得更加的坚强!
但是, 正如孙少平所说的, 在农村长大的孩子, 一定要懂得克服农民本身的局限性. 这种局限性体现在满足于眼前的生活, 不思进取, 宁愿用苦力来安稳度过一生. 越苦的生活应该越让我们意识到, 我们应该更加努力地拼搏与奋斗, 来争取更加美好开阔的生活! 我们不能鼠目寸光, 把视野仅仅局限在眼前, 而应该放宽我们的眼界, 环视全国乃至全世界. 只有这样, 我们才有挣脱命运的牢笼, 获得属于我们的辉煌与灿烂!
是的, 我们所受的任何一个痛苦, 都不会是白受的, 因为只要它无法打倒我们, 都会让我们变得更加强大. 我想, 任何读过>或者是读过孙少平这封信的读者, 内心已经变得比原来强大很多了! 今晚得知一位朋友的雅思考得不太理想, 他感到相当的失落. 我其实知道这是每一个基础不太好的学生都必须要承受的痛楚, 我也不知道该如何安慰他. 在此我想借用孙少平的信来鼓励他, 希望他可以再接再厉! 另外一个朋友, 或者说我的 “后辈”更为恰当, 也是正在经受着人生中的一大考验. 至于是什么事情, 我在此不便多说. 我只想在这里对他说, 有些事情我采取不闻不问的态度, 不是因为我真的这么忍心, 而是想让他快点在历炼中成长起来. 我的某些做法或许会让他很不解, 而且我也难以向他解释, 因为涉及到某些历史事件, 不是三言两语可以说得出的, 所以我只想对他说, 请相信我的判断和决定.
关于孙少平的经历, 在此我就不多说了, 希望各位有空不妨看看>, 多点了解这个人物的经历和思想, 还有很多别的令我们动容的人物和事件, 我想, 你会终生受用的. 时间有限, 暂且搁笔. 此篇就当作是我对>的观后感吧! 感谢作者路遥写出如此伟大励志的作品! 作者的名字让我想起了一句话: 路漫漫其修远兮, 吾将上下而求索! 让我们一起为我们的未来而奋斗吧! |
