少量多餐学英语
——学步集(十九)
文/文冤阁大学士
Chapter 5 The last things (3)
1. the purified self
注意:
呼应前页Purgatory与purgation。
2. transitional
注意:
谓人生无常,不能须臾恒定,必有所迁徙。与下文a moment in our everlasting development呼应。
3. you cannot do other than want to
注意:
即what you can do is only want to attain eternal life。
4. the world of the senses
注意:
即前文的the sensuous world,与the spiritual world相对。
5. bodiless
注意:
与前文[destroy] yourself, the obstacle呼应。肉身即阻碍,必除之而后可期得永生。与下文embodied [existence]相对。
6. contemplate
注意:
重音在第一音节。该动词强调专注思虑,但这思虑未必有结论、决定。consider则强调为求一结论、决定而思虑。
7. What is depressing[. . .] as we are.
注意:
time既构成eternity,而eternity有incomprehensible justification,则time必亦有incomprehensible justification。人在time中,则人因此有consequent justification。
8. this can be reclaimed
注意:
this指the sensory world as the evil element in the spiritual world,reclaim指“改过”,与下文redeem呼应。
9. acquitted or vindicated
注意:
acquit是宣告无罪,vindicate是证明清白。
10. mouthful
嘴里所含的食物
注意:
与前文feed呼应。