译本对比
《沉思录》原文为古希腊文，现存英译不下数十种。本站收录两种最常被引用的公版译本（Long 1862、Chrystal 1902）与本站新译，逐则并排。以下是三组示例——同一段原文，不同时代译者的理解差异。
卷一 · 第 1 则
| 文本 | 内容 |
|---|---|
| 本站新译 | 从祖父维鲁斯那里，我学到了良好的品性，以及克制自己的脾气。 |
| Long · 1862 | From my grandfather Verus [I learned] good morals and the government of my temper. |
| Chrystal · 1902 | I learned from my grandfather, Verus, to use good manners, and to put restraint on anger. |
卷一开篇，短短一句，三种语言的语序与用词选择各不相同。Long 用「good morals and the government of my temper」，Chrystal 用「good manners, and to put restraint on anger」——希腊文原文中「τὸ ἦθος」兼指习性、品格与举止，不同译者各取一面。 在阅读器中查看 →
卷二 · 第 1 则
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| 本站新译 | 清晨伊始，就对自己说：我将遇见爱管闲事的人、忘恩负义的人、傲慢的人、欺诈的人、嫉妒的人、孤僻的人。这一切之所以发生在他们身上，是因为他们不认识何为善、何为恶。而我，既然已经看清善的本性——它是美的，也看清恶的本性——它是丑的，还看清了犯错之人的本性——他与我同源，不是同血同种意义上的同源，而是共享理智、共享神性之一分意义上的同源——那么，我就既不可能被他们中任何人所伤害（因为没有人能强加给我丑恶之物），也不可能对我的同胞发怒、憎恨他。因为我们生来就是为了合作，如同脚、如同手、如同眼睑、如同上下两排牙齿。彼此对立行事，就违背本性；而恼怒和转身离去，就是彼此对立行事。 |
| Long · 1862 | Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. But I who have seen the nature of the good that it is beautiful, and of the bad that it is ugly, and the nature of him who does wrong, that it is akin to me, not [only] of the same blood or seed, but that it participates in [the same] intelligence and [the same] portion of the divinity, I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him. For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another, then, is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away. |
| Chrystal · 1902 | Say this to yourself in the morning: Today I shall have to do with meddlers, with the ungrateful, with the insolent, with the crafty, with the envious and the selfish. All these vices have beset them, because they know not what is good and what is evil. But I have considered the nature of the good, and found it beautiful: I have beheld the nature of the bad, and found it ugly. I also understand the nature of the evil-doer, and know that he is my brother, not because he shares with me the same blood or the same seed, but because he is a partaker of the same mind and of the same portion of immortality. I therefore cannot be hurt by any of these, since none of them can involve me in any baseness. I cannot be angry with my brother, or sever myself from him, for we are made by nature for mutual assistance, like the feet, the hands, the eyelids, the upper and lower rows of teeth. It is against nature for men to oppose each other; and what else is anger and aversion? |
全书最著名的清晨箴言。同一个希腊词 περίεργοι，Long 译为「busybody」（好管闲事者），Chrystal 译为「meddlers」（爱插手的人）——两种处理都各自成立，对照阅读能看见词义的多层褶皱。 在阅读器中查看 →
卷二 · 第 17 则
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| 本站新译 | 人的生命：时间是刀尖上的一点，实体是川流，知觉是蒙昧，整个身体的构造易腐，灵魂是旋涡，命运难以卜知，名声是无判断力的东西。一句话概括：一切属于肉体的都是河流，一切属于灵魂的都是梦幻与烟雾；生命是战争、是异乡的寄居；身后的名声是遗忘。那么，什么能护送一个人走完此生？只有一样东西：哲学。而哲学就在于：使人内心的神性保持不受暴力、不受伤害，超越痛苦与快乐；不做任何无目的之事，不虚伪、不欺瞒；不因他人做或不做某事而感到需要；此外，接受一切发生之事、一切分派之事，把它当作来自「那里」——无论那是什么地方——从那里他自己也来自；最终，以愉快的心情等待死亡：死亡不过是构成一切生命体的元素的解体而已。如果元素本身在相互不断转化中毫发无损，人又为何对元素的变化与解体心怀畏惧？因为这是合于本性的，而合于本性的东西没有恶。 |
| Long · 1862 | Of human life the time is a point, and the substance is in a flux, and the perception dull, and the composition of the whole body subject to putrefaction, and the soul a whirl, and fortune hard to divine, and fame a thing devoid of judgment. And, to say all in a word, everything which belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream and vapor, and life is a warfare and a stranger’s sojourn, and after—fame is oblivion. What then is that which is able to conduct a man? One thing, and only one, philosophy. But this consists in keeping the daemon within a man free from violence and unharmed, superior to pains and pleasures, doing nothing without a purpose, nor yet falsely and with hypocrisy, not feeling the need of another man’s doing or not doing anything; and besides, accepting all that happens, and all that is allotted, as coming from thence, wherever it is, from whence he himself came; and, finally, waiting for death with a cheerful mind, as being nothing else than a dissolution of the elements of which every living being is compounded. But if there is no harm to the elements themselves in each continually changing into another, why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature. This in Carnuntum. |
| Chrystal · 1902 | The duration of man's life is but an instant; his substance is fleeting, his senses dull; the structure of his body corruptible; the soul but a vortex. We cannot reckon with fortune, or lay our account with fame. In fine, the life of the body is but a river, and the life of the soul a misty dream. Existence is a warfare, and a journey in a strange land; and the end of fame is to be forgotten. What then avails to guide us? One thing, and one alone--Philosophy. And this consists in keeping the divinity within inviolate and intact; victorious over pain and pleasure; free from temerity, free from falsehood, free from hypocrisy; independent of what others do or fail to do; submissive to hap and lot, which come from the same source as we; and, above all, with equanimity awaiting death, as nothing else than a resolution of the elements of which every being compounded. And, if in their successive interchanges no harm befall the elements, why should one suspect any in the change and dissolution of the whole? It is natural, and nothing natural can be evil. AT CARNUNTUM. END OF THE SECOND BOOK. |
卷二收束，也是全书被引用最多的段落之一：生命是战争、是异乡的寄居……Chrystal 全段以「The duration of man's life is but an instant」起句，Long 作「the time is a point」，繁简之别，同样精准。 在阅读器中查看 →
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