晨讀英語美文100篇六級The Props to Help Man Endure (I)

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:] [00:03.19]Passage 17. The Props to Help Man Endure (I) [00:09.86]I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work, [00:17.63]a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit. [00:21.79]Not for glory and least of all, for profit, [00:25.29]but to create out of the material of the human spirit something which did not exist before. [00:33.06]So this award is only mine in trust. [00:36.23]It would not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part of it, [00:41.16]commensurate for the purpose and significance of its origin. [00:45.86]But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too [00:49.80]by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to [00:54.83]by the young men and woman,already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, [01:00.85]among whom is already that one who will someday stand here where I am standing. [01:07.53]Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now [01:15.51]that we can even bear it. [01:17.37]There’re no longer problems of the spirit, there’s only the question; [01:22.52]“When will I be blown up?” [01:24.81]Because of this, the young man or woman writing today [01:28.86]has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself, [01:33.34]which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, [01:38.38]worth the agony and the sweat. [01:41.00]He must learn them again, he must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid, [01:47.68]and teaching himself that,forget it forever, [01:51.18]leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart. [01:57.42]The old universal truths, lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed: [02:03.43]love and honor and pity and pride, [02:05.84]and compassion and sacrifice.

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