第91章 光荣的荆棘路 The Thorny Road of Honor (第1/9页)

《光荣的荆棘路》，1856 年

the thorny Road of honor, 1856

一条荣誉的荆棘路，这是一个古老的故事。有一个射手，他确实获得了地位和官职，但那是在经过了一生与困难的疲倦斗争之后。

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.

谁在读这个故事时，不曾想到自己的奋斗，以及自己无数的 “困难” 呢？

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

这个故事与现实非常相似；但它在尘世仍有其和谐的解释，而现实往往指向生命界限之外的永恒之境。

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.

世界历史就像一盏魔灯，在当下黑暗的背景上，以明亮的画面向我们展示，人类的恩人、天才的殉道者们是如何沿着荣誉的荆棘路前行的。

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.

来自各个时期、各个国家，这些闪耀的画面向我们展现出来。

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

每一幅画面只出现片刻，但每一幅都代表着一生，有时甚至是一个时代，及其冲突与胜利。

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

让我们在这里或那里沉思一下殉道者的行列中的一位 —— 这个行列将不断接纳新成员，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