2015-10-01*

曼德拉的花園英文版

Mandela's garden

Author : ( South Africa ) Nelson Mandela

Early 1977 , the authorities ended my field of mining limestone hard labor , so I was in the prison courtyard to do something , be able to arrange a large courtyard in the prison life in prison , is really a liberation . So I can read a book all day , write a letter , discuss issues with like-minded persons , or prepare some legal documents. The location of the prison on Robben Island , I also use the free time to develop the two hobbies : vegetables and tennis.

To spend hard time in prison , you have to find ways to find a little comfort in everyday life . Wash clothes , make clean as new ; clean sweep foyer hallway , making spotless ; pack up the room , so narrow jail cells so spacious as possible . These can be thought prison life more satisfying and fulfilling .

Almost to Robben Island in Iraq so , I will ask the authorities to allow me to open one in prison courtyard garden . This authority has been rejected, not the whole story , but eventually the authorities made ​​some concessions, I was able to reclaim the prison courtyard near the wall of a narrow garden .

Prison compound built on garbage , dried soil , rocks arisen. In order to reclaim the garden , to make room for the growth of the crop , I moved many large stones. During that time, I have kept all day digging in the ground , for some friends joking I was born a miner .

Authorities gave me a seed , I first planted tomatoes, peppers , onions, these are anti-poor , and without startling care vegetables. Beginning of the harvest little , and soon there will be improved. Harvest when the authorities began to see the garden , they did not allow me to go back on vegetables , I often give regulators provide some of the best tomatoes and onions.

I have a soft spot for farming garden , until after I was detained , have the opportunity to take care of their own garden . Back in college , when Ford Hal , I planted vegetables in the garden of a professor , which is part of the school of manual labor required . After the hard mental work , I go to the garden , immersed in intimate contact with the land , the lot. When I went to Johannesburg to study and work , have neither the time nor the place to reclaim the garden .

With the prison garden after I started growing vegetables subscribe to relevant books, learn a variety of farming techniques , learn how to use various types of fertilizers . I do not have the book discusses many of the materials needed to grow , but I can learn to practice and failure. Once, I tried to peanuts , with a different soil and fertilizer , but eventually gave up because of failure .

I was in prison vegetable garden is a rare thing to self- management . Sow seeds, observe the growth , taken care of , then harvest. Become masters of this side of heaven and earth feeling , so I appreciate the hint of the taste of freedom .

In a sense, I think the farming life in the garden implies certain aspects of the profound truth . As leaders , we must seriously take care of their own garden . They want to sow , observation, work, before the harvest , like gardeners , leaders must be held accountable for their work careers. They have good care of their work , to repel the enemy , make every effort to save everything can fight efforts to remove all obstacles to success.

I have beautiful tomatoes on a strain wrote two letters to Winnie , Winnie told me how to nurture it into a grain delicate seed strain robust plants and bear deep red fruit. But due to some mistakes in the care or lack of it , this strain of tomato gradually began to wither and die, though I did not make every effort to restore its vitality. When it finally died , I pull it out from the ground , washed his roots, to be buried in the garden of the iceberg.

I went to great lengths to give this little story about Winnie , I do not know what she read out . Writing this letter mood is very complex , and I am , I always unable to maintain a good life in a number of important feelings. Sometimes no matter how hard a person , those things are not destined to save disappearing .

Nelson Mandela's autobiography " Long Way freedom 曼德拉的菜園翻譯
曼德拉的菜園

作者:(南非)納爾遜·曼德拉

1977年初,當局結束了我野外開采石灰石的苦役,讓我在監獄內的院落裏做一些事,能夠在監獄的大院落裏安排獄中的生活,真是一種解放。我於是可以終日看看書,寫寫信,與誌同道合者探討問題,或者說準備一些法律文件。在監獄的所在地羅本島,我還利用自由的時間發展了兩大業餘嗜好:種菜和打網球。

要想度過獄中艱難的時日,你得想方設法為每天的生活尋找些許慰籍。洗洗衣服,使之潔淨如新;打掃打掃門廳走廊,使之一塵不染;收拾收拾房間,使狹窄的牢房盡可能地寬敞等等。這些都可以為獄中生活多一些滿足和充實。

幾乎到羅本島伊使,我就要求當局允許我在獄中的院落裏開辟一方菜園。對此當局多年來一直拒絕,也不說明原委,但是最終當局做出了讓步,我得以在監獄大院靠牆處開墾一片狹長的菜園。

監獄的大院建在垃圾堆上,土質幹燥,亂石叢生。為了開墾出菜園,給作物騰出生長的空間,我搬走了許許多多大石塊。那段時間,我成天都在地裏不停地挖掘,為此,一些朋友戲謔我生來就是一個礦工。

當局給我提供了種子,我首先種了西紅柿、辣椒、洋蔥,這些都是耐貧瘠,且無需驚心照料的蔬菜。剛開始收獲很少,不久就有了改善。當局看見菜園開始豐收時,便沒有反悔允許我種菜,我經常給監管人員提供一些最好的西紅柿和洋蔥。

我一直對耕種菜園情有獨鍾,直到我被關押之後,才有機會照料自己的菜園。早在福特哈爾上大學的時候,我就在一位教授的菜園裏種過菜,這也是學校對體力勞動要求的一部分。辛苦的腦力勞動之後,我就到菜園裏去,沉浸在與土地的親密接觸中,自得其樂。當我到約翰內斯堡學習和工作之後,既沒有時間也沒有地方開墾菜園了。

有了獄中的菜園之後,我開始訂閱有關種菜的書籍,學習各種耕作的技術,了解各類化肥的使用方法。我沒有書中討論到的許多種植所需的材料,但是我可以向實踐和失敗學習。有一次,我嚐試著種花生,用了不同的土壤和化肥,但最終因失敗而放棄了。

菜園是我在獄中少有的能自主管理的事情。播下種子,觀察生長,悉心照料,然後收獲。成為這一方天地的主人的感覺,讓我體會到了一絲自由的滋味。

從某種意義上說,我認為耕作菜園隱含了生活中的某些方麵的深刻道理。作為領導,就必須認真照料他們自己的菜園。他們要播種、觀察、耕耘,然後才能收獲,就像園丁一樣,領導者們必須對他們耕耘的事業負責。他們必須悉心嗬護他們的工作,全力擊退敵人,竭盡全力挽救能夠爭取的一切,努力清除影響成功的一切障礙。

我曾就一株美麗的西紅柿給溫妮寫了兩封信,告訴溫妮我是如何把它從一粒嬌嫩的種子撫育成一株健壯的植物,並結出深紅色的果實。可是由於某些失誤或者是缺少對它的照料,這株西紅柿逐漸開始枯萎和凋零,我雖盡全力也沒有恢複它的生機。當它最終死掉的時候,我把它從地裏拔出來,洗淨其根,將其埋在菜園的一角。

我以很大的篇幅將這個小故事講述給了溫妮,我不知道她從中讀出了什麽。寫這封信的心情是很複雜的,我感到,我總是無力維係好生活中許多重要的感情。一個人有時無論怎樣努力,都無法挽救那些注定要遠去的東西。

納爾遜·曼德拉自傳《自由路漫漫》



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