“下一个问题同样令人厌恶,”格里菲斯说,“‘在困难的时候,我是祈祷还是冥想呢’我从来不干这种事,我看不出来那些题跟我适不适合当军人有任何关系。”
"The next question was equally shocking," Griffith says. " 'In difficult times, I pray or meditate.'
死亡是令人厌恶的,而我们不能——确实不应该——尝试使其成为愉快的事,或用伪善的陈词滥调对其加以解释。
Death is ugly, and we cannot-indeed, should not-try to make it palatable or explain it away with pious platitudes.
抓住死去的东西不放会比我们所能意识到的耗费更高的精神代价。适时,死去的事物做了废物和死去的东西一样的事——它令人厌恶。
Hanging onto dead stuff has a higher psychic cost than most of us realize; in time, dead stuff does what trash and dead things do - it stinks.
虽然我希望那令人厌恶的味道一天内就会被儿子遗忘,但我确实希望他能记住一件事:他的妈妈竭尽全力了。
While the taste of that nasty concoction will hopefully fade from my son's mind one day, I do hope he does remember one thing.
虽然我希望那令人厌恶的味道一天内就会被儿子遗忘,但我确实希望他能记住一件事:他的妈妈竭尽全力了。
While the taste of that nasty concoction will hopefully fade from my son's mind one day, I do hope he does remember one thing.
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