渺小的人

In spite of their Unitarian proclivities and their masks of conservative broadmindedness, they were two generations behind interpretative science: their mental processes were mediaeval, while their thinking on the ultimate data of existence and of the universe struck him as the same metaphysical method that was as young as the youngest race, as old as the cave-man, and older - the same that moved the first Pleistocene ape-man to fear the dark; that moved the first hasty Hebrew savage to incarnate Eve from Adam's rib; that moved Descartes to build an idealistic system of the universe out of the projections of his own puny ego; and that moved the famous British ecclesiastic to denounce evolution in satire so scathing as to win immediate applause and leave his name a notorious scrawl on the page of history.

同时，他也感到，他们看待生命和宇宙的终极事实的方法还是形而上学的，那种看法阻地球上最年轻的种族的看法一样幼稚；也跟穴居人的看法一样古老，甚至更古老--那看法使第一个更新世的猿人害怕黑暗；使第一个匆促的希伯来野蛮人用亚当的肋骨造成了夏娃；使笛卡尔通过反射渺小的自我建立了唯心主义的宇宙体系；使那有名的英格兰传教士用尖刻的讽刺来谴责进化论，并立即博得了喝彩，从而在历史的篇章里草草留下了一个臭名。

At the same time,when you have gotten rid of possession appetite,you can avoid much inconsiderable bother and chickenshit suffering, living with more bearing.

但是，摆脱了占有欲，至少可以使人免除许多琐屑的烦恼和渺小的痛苦，活得有气度些。

Moreover, without cupidity we are free of trivial troubles and trifling pain at least and live a tolarant life.

但是，摆脱了占有欲，至少可以使人免除许多琐屑的烦恼和渺小的痛苦，活得有气度些。

In one of 'Myth' paintings, the huge stones almost occupy fully the whole surface; in contrast, the figures let down, after intense struggle, as if collapsedly, chikenlike, tiny, impotent, unreconciled and depressed, just like giving up battling with the stones. In this series of heroist mode, particularly as against with the picture surfaces in which the giantlike bodies and energy are expressed, the figures in it even look a sense of funniness – wherein we are certain that irony has been engaged in his paintings, and it can be understood as a self-irony that it is not a floppy laziness, while he indeed does not need to tighten his muscles, not to keep a zealous and single gesture for fighting, as if it seems difficult for everything to continue, and in the paintings when the heroes unpack the stones, the artist seems unpack the dream of heroes, letting alone the huge stones burning and overspreading, surrounding us, pressing us and scorching us, even running over the whole picture. It suffocates us with all these heaviness, hardness, and acuity, as registers our weak life like a paper-cut.

尹朝阳的《神话》系列里有一幅，巨大的石头几乎占满了整个画面，相比之下，画中的人经过了激烈的挣扎，松弛了下来，形将瘫软一般，渺小，无能，心有不甘而黯然神伤，俨然已经放弃了与石头的搏斗，在这个英雄主义调式的系列里，尤其是与其中表现了英雄那巨人般的体魄和能量的画面相对，这幅画中的人甚至显出了一种酸楚的滑稽感——这里，我们确知反讽已经介入了他的绘画，并且，可以理解为一种自我反讽，它并非是纨绔式的慵懒，然而，确实不再绷紧他全身的肌肉，不再保持激昂而单一的斗姿，好像一切都已经难以为继，在画中的英雄卸下了石头的同时，艺术家自己也仿佛卸下了英雄梦，任凭那巨大的石头像烈火般燃烧和蔓延，包围我们，紧紧地挤压、烤炙我们，并且溢出整个画面，它以全部的沉重、坚硬和尖锐使我们窒息，反衬出我们脆薄如剪纸般的生命。

Little as you may know of Him, it is more than enough to keep you low and humbled.......God, by our Infirmity and weakness, keeps us in continual dependence upon Him for teachings and revelation of Himself from His Word ......Let us, then, discerning once more the awful distance between the inconceivably great God and our own smallness, fill our soul with a holy and awesome fear of Him.

然而，即使对神了解如此之少，也足够让我们自抑与谦卑了……神透过人的软弱，使人不断地依靠他，寻求他的教导和圣经中所启示的他自己……让我们再一次看到伟大的神和渺小的我们之间莫大的差别，让我们灵魂深处充满对神圣洁的敬畏吧。

And men become slighter than their shadows.

而所有的人都变得比他们的影子还渺小了。

There is a great man who makes every man feel small.

有一个伟大人物使所有的人都感到渺小。

There is a great man who makes every man feel small.

曾经有一个伟大的人，他伟大得让每一个人都觉得自己渺小。

There is a great man who makes every man feel small.

有一种伟人使所有的人感到渺小。

I felt how small I was, compared with all those who are truing to cope with improtant events in their lives.

与那些在生活中试图应付重要事件的人比起来，我感到自己是多么渺小。

In her eyes, because that is the doorway toher heart * the place where love resides.

女人的漂亮必須從她的眼睛中去看，因為那是她心靈的窗戶和愛居住的地方

I will send some postcards to you.

我会向你发送一些明信片。