「我们唯一拥有的是当下」

独霸上海的妖怪 · 公众号 · · 2024-10-20 19:49

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「活在当下」是一句需要时常念叨、时常提醒自己的咒语。

这一期双语阅读专栏，分享给大家一篇纳瓦尔的短文《我们唯一拥有的是当下》。

THE PRESENT IS ALL WE HAVE
我们唯一拥有的是当下

作者 | Naval

原著 | 《纳瓦尔宝典》

译者| 赵灿

There is actually nothing but this moment. No one has ever gone back in time, and no one has ever been able to successfully predict the future in any way that matters. Literally, the only thing that exists is this exact point where you are in space at the exact time you happen to be here.

我们唯一拥有的是当下。除了当下，一切都是不存在的。没有人能够回到过去，也没有人能够以任何有意义的方式成功地预测未来。唯一存在的就是此时此地，就是你恰好存在的这个时刻和在宇宙空间里的这个位置。

not hing but only 只有，只是
happen to do sth if you happen to do something, you do it by chance 碰巧做某事，凑巧做某事

Like all great profound truths, it’s all paradoxes . Any two points are infinitely different. Any moment is perfectly unique. Each moment itself slips by so quickly you can’t grab it.

就像所有伟大而深刻的真理一样，这些都是悖论。任何两个点都是无限不同的。任何时刻都是独一无二的。每一刻都转瞬即逝，时光是抓不住的。

paradox [ˈpærədɒks] n.[C] a statement that seems impossible because it contains two opposing ideas that are both true 悖论，似非而是的说法
infinitely [ˈɪnfɪnətli] adv. extremely; with no limit 极其，无限地
slip by adv. if time slips away, past etc, it passes quickly 飞逝，过得飞快

You’re dying and being reborn at every moment. It’s up to you whether to forget or remember that.
你每时每刻都在死亡和重生。是遗忘还是牢记，取决于你自己。

be up to sb used to say that someone can decide about something 由某人决定

" Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now, and we will never be here again.”
只因在劫难逃，万物更显美好。你永远不会比此刻更美，我们也永远不会重回此地。

—Homer, The Iliad
荷马，伊利亚特

doomed adj. Someone or something that is doomed is certain to fail or be destroyed. 注定要失败的，注定要毁灭的

I don’t even remember what I said two minutes ago. At best, the past is some fictional little memory tape in my head. As far as I’m concerned, my past is dead. It’s gone. All death really means is that there are no more future moments.

我甚至不记得两分钟前我说了什么。过去最多只是我脑海中一些虚幻的记忆片段。在我看来，我的过去早已死去，消失不见。死亡唯一的真正含义就是不再有未来的时刻。