今日心血來潮翻閱了多年前的搜狐博客，發現了幾篇英文文章。大學期間，有一段時間有寫英文日記的習慣，雖然堅持的時間不長，但是也留下了幾篇當時自認為尚可的作品。
為了完成課堂演講任務，我寫下了這幾段英文。之所以選擇這個話題，因為一句已經不記得出處的話，“生存是一堵墻，生活是墻上的一片窗”。
To human being, surviving can't be conceived identical with living. All creatures have their rights to survive. When the first cry breaks the stillness, surviving is on the way. But living only comes when one is concious of his existence, when one has the ability to decide the way he will follow and when one realizes that to live is not just to survive.
Actually, living is much more complex and has more profundities. Living is the window in the wall built by surviving. Without the window, we can't have access to the past processes obrichf our expeditions and the pleasant landscapes. Either the sunshine will not reach our hearts.
However, we can't deny the importance of surviving. Surviving is the premise of living, as the wall is the basis of the window. So, we must survive first.
Then it comes the question of how to survive. As the wall consists of bricks, we must be equipped with capabilities to make ourselves upstanding against the furious and constant impact from the enviornments. That requires diligence and great courage as well as tolerance of the difficulties.
Once we have our walls constructed, we can open the window and get wide sight. Then we will find that the wonderful things don't make the whole life. There are also bittersweet memories, and even grief to deep for words. But we can't close the window refusing all the bad things just to gain the sense of security. Because things always come in pairs. The shine and the storm, the pleasure and the pain. When we refuse the storm, the sunshine will not show up. When we remember the pleasure, the pain follows. Maybe that is the essence of life.
Complain? But that doesn't make a difference. We know that every coin has its downside. So we must put up with the rain to look forward to the rainbow. And all the toughness we have encountered teach us to be tough. As a proverb puts, 'no pain, no gain'. With the belife, we can face the life positively.
At the end, some words for all of us, strive to survive, and survive to live.
以現在的眼光讀來，語句思維都簡單得讓人汗顏。但是更讓人汗顏的是，時隔多年，有些單詞我都已經不認識了。
現在試著以將其中的一部分翻譯成中文。
“生活”，是這堵名為“生存”的墻上的一扇窗。沒有了這扇窗，我們無法看到美好的風景，陽光也無法照射到我們的內心。
當然我們無法否認生存的重要性。生存是生活的基礎，正如墻是窗戶的基礎。所以，我們先要生存，然后才能有生活。
當我們的墻建好之后，我們打開窗戶，對面這個世界。很快我們就會發現，這個世界上并不僅僅有美好的事物。但是我們不能為了阻擋那些負面的東西，不能為了尋求所謂的安全感而緊閉那扇窗。
每一枚硬幣都有兩面。所以我們必須忍耐風雨，然后期待彩虹。經歷的所有苦難，教會了我們堅強。正如一句諺語所言，“沒有痛苦，則沒有收獲”。
