英语美文｜We Are on a Journey 人在旅途（朗读+文字版下载）

by Henry Van Dyke

Wherever you are, and whoever you

maybe, there is one thing in which you and I are just alike at this moment, and in all the moments of our existence. We

are not at rest; we are on a journey, our life is a movement, a tendency, a

steady, ceaseless progress towards an

unseen goal.

无论你在何处，无论你是何人，此刻，而且在我们生命的每时每刻，你与我有一点是类似的。我们不是在休息，我们在旅途中。生命是一种运动，一种趋势，一个稳步、持续的通往一个未知目标的过程。

We are gaining something, or losing something, everyday. Even when our position and our character seem to remain precisely the same, they are changing. For the mere advance of time lis a change. It is not the same thing to have a bare field in January and in July, the season makes the difference. The

limitations that are childlike in the child

are childish in the man.

每天，我们都在获得，或失去。尽管我们的地位和性格看起来好像一点都没变，但是它们在变化。因为时光的流逝本身是一种变化。在一月和七月拥有一片贫瘠的土地是不同的，是季节本身带来了变化。孩童时可爱的缺点到了成人时便成了幼稚。

Everything that we do is a step in one direction or another,even the failure to do something is in itself a deed. It sets us forward or backward. The action of the negative pole of a magnetic needle is just as real as the action of the positive pole. To decline is to accept-the other alternative.

我们做的每件事都是迈向一个或另外一个方向，甚至"什么都没做"本身也是一种行为，它让我们前进或倒退。一棵磁针的阴极的作用与阳极是一样的。拒绝即接受-接受反面。

Are you nearer to your port today than you were yesterday? Yes,--you must be a little nearer to some port or other;

for since your ship was first lunched upon the sea of life, you have never been still for a single moment; the sea

is too deep,you could not find an anchorage if you would.There can be no pause until you come into port. 你今天比昨天更加接近你的目标了吗?是的，你肯定是离一个或另一个码头或更近一些了。因为自从你的小船从生命的海洋上启航时，你没有哪一刻是停止的。大海是这样深，你想抛锚时找不到地方。在你驶入码头之前，你不可能停留。

Life is a long journey, with problems to solve, lessons to learn, but most of all, experiences to enjoy.