人生一条河

最近看一本书，有一段觉得很有意思，就顺便抄下来和大家分享：

人生好比一条河，开始是峡谷细流，接着是激流涌进，冲过巨石，飞下悬崖。 后来河面渐宽，两岸后撤，河水平缓，最后汇入大海，与海水浑然一体，毫无痛苦地结束其个体的存在。

原文：

An individual human existence should be like a river - small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately and over waterfalls. Gradually, the river grows wider, the banks receded, the waters flow quietly and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea and painlessly lose their individual being.

(Bertrand Russell, How to Grow Old)

取自 “新译学论稿” －萧立明著