小故事

Beethoven-Pure Joy
完美的快乐
I must live almost alone like one who has been banished, I can mix with society only as much as true necessity demands. If I approach near to people a hot terror seizes upon me and I fear being exposed to the danger that my condition might be noticed. Thus it has been during the late six months which I have spent in the country...what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair, a little more of that and I would have ended my life-it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed to me impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me... Oh Providence-grant me at last but one day of pure joy-it is so long since real joy echoed in my heart...
我必须像个被放逐的人那样，过一种近乎独处的生活。我与社会的接触仅限于满足一些完全是最基本的需要。我一旦接近其他人，就有一种强烈的恐惧感。我深怕陷入一种危险，即人们可能发觉我的处境。最近我住在乡下的半年，就是这种状态……当我身边站着的人听到远处长笛吹奏的乐声，我却什么也听不见。或是有人听到一个牧羊人在唱歌，而我还是什么也听不到，这对我是多么大的羞辱啊。这样的事情把我逼到了几乎绝望的境地。要是再遇到一些，我恐惧早就结束自己的生命了——然而，正是我的艺术挽救了我。啊，我好像只有把内心的东西都倾泻出来之后，才可能离开这个世界。哦，上帝——无论如何赐给我哪怕一天的完美的快乐吧——我已经很久没有感受真正的快乐在我心中回荡了……

重点讲解

重点讲解：
1. mix with
交际；交往；结交；
eg. In my job, I mix with all sorts of people.
我在工作中常和各种人打交道。
eg. He did not easily mix with others, with the result that on most social occasions he was the old man out.
他不善于同他人相处，因而在多数社交场合中他总是落落寡合的。
2. seize upon
对…大为关注；抓住（有用的事物）；
eg. Newspapers seized on the results as proof that global warming wasn't really happening...
各报纸纷纷以此结果为证据来证明全球变暖并没有真正发生。
eg. In sum, he has to be very proactive and seize on any available opportunity to win.
总之，他的一切行动必须很有预见性，任何胜出机会他都必须把握。
3. be exposed to
使暴露于（险境）；使遭受（危险或不快）；
eg. We are exposed to the most calamitous accidents.
我们遭受着极大的灾难。
eg. Poor John was exposed to the wind and rain.
可怜的约翰处于风雨交加之中。
4. in the distance
远处；远方；
eg. We suddenly saw her in the distance.
我们突然看见她在远处。
eg. The wail of the bagpipe could be heard in the distance.
远远地能听到风笛的呜咽。
5. hold back
阻挡；阻止；
eg. Jake wanted to wake up, but sleep held him back.
杰克想要醒来，但睡意使他又沉入梦乡。
eg. Poor education systems and rigid immigration rules hold back the supply of skilled labor.
质量低劣的教育体系和僵化的移民法规阻碍了熟练劳动力的供给。
6. bring forth
提出，出示，展示；
eg. These efforts will surely bring forth good fruit.
这些努力必将产生良好的结果。
eg. She could bring forth the serenity from any place.
她能在任何地方展示这种极致的平静之美。