第91章 光榮的荊棘路 The Thorny Road of Honor(第1/9 頁)

《光榮的荊棘路》，1856 年

the thorny Road of honor, 1856

一條榮譽的荊棘路，這是一個古老的故事。有一個射手，他確實獲得了地位和官職，但那是在經過了一生與困難的疲倦鬥爭之後。

An old story yet lives of the “thorny Road of honor,” of a marksman, who indeed attained to rank and office, but only after a lifelong and weary strife against difficulties.

誰在讀這個故事時，不曾想到自己的奮鬥，以及自己無數的 “困難” 呢？

who has not, in reading this story, thought of his own strife, and of his own numerous “difficulties?”

這個故事與現實非常相似；但它在塵世仍有其和諧的解釋，而現實往往指向生命界限之外的永恆之境。

the story is very closely akin to reality; but still it has its harmonious explanation here on earth, while reality often points beyond the confines of life to the regions of eternity.

世界歷史就像一盞魔燈，在當下黑暗的背景上，以明亮的畫面向我們展示，人類的恩人、天才的殉道者們是如何沿著榮譽的荊棘路前行的。

the history of the world is like a magic lantern that displays to us, in light pictures upon the dark ground of the present, how the benefactors of mankind, the martyrs of genius, wandered along the thorny road of honor.

來自各個時期、各個國家，這些閃耀的畫面向我們展現出來。

From all periods, and from every country, these shining pictures display themselves to us.

每一幅畫面只出現片刻，但每一幅都代表著一生，有時甚至是一個時代，及其衝突與勝利。

Each only appears for a few moments, but each represents a whole life, sometimes a whole age, with its conflicts and victories.

讓我們在這裡或那裡沉思一下殉道者的行列中的一位 —— 這個行列將不斷接納新成員，直到世界本身消逝。

Let us contemplate here and there one of the pany of martyrs — the pany which will receive new members until the world its