晨讀英語(yǔ)美文：人在旅途

　　We Are on a Journey人在旅途

　　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. 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 is 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.

　　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.

　　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.

　　無(wú)論你在何處，無(wú)論你是何人，此刻，而且在我們生命的每時(shí)每刻，你與我有一點(diǎn)是類似的。我們不是在休息，我們?cè)诼猛局小Ｉ且环N運(yùn)動(dòng)，一種趨勢(shì)，一個(gè)穩(wěn)步、持續(xù)的通往一個(gè)未知目標(biāo)的過(guò)程。每天，我們都在獲得，或失去。盡管我們的地位和性格看起來(lái)好像一點(diǎn)都沒(méi)變，但是它們?cè)谧兓?。因?yàn)闀r(shí)光的流逝本身是一種變化。在一月和七月?lián)碛幸黄汃さ耐恋厥遣煌模羌竟?jié)本身帶來(lái)了變化。孩童時(shí)可愛(ài)的缺點(diǎn)到了成人時(shí)便成了幼稚。

　　我們做的每件事都是邁向一個(gè)或另外一個(gè)方向，甚至“什么都沒(méi)做”本身也是一種行為，它讓我們前進(jìn)或倒退。一棵磁針的陰極的作用與陽(yáng)極是一樣的。拒絕即接受??接受反面。

　　你今天比昨天更加接近你的目標(biāo)了嗎?是的，你肯定是離一個(gè)或另一個(gè)碼頭或更近一些了。因?yàn)樽詮哪愕男〈瑥纳暮Ｑ笊蠁⒑綍r(shí)，你沒(méi)有哪一刻是停止的。大海是這樣深，你想拋錨時(shí)找不到地方。在你駛?cè)氪a頭之前，你不可能停留。