CE: Translating

Caught the translation bug recently.. :)
Been reading a few books, some in Chinese, some in English.. I will try to translate some of the articles that I think should be shared, so that more would be able to read them..
This time, it is from Chinese to English.. Did it this morning..
Any feedback is welcomed!

這幾天“迷”上了翻譯。。
現在正在看幾本書，中英都有。。會盡力把一些我認為值得跟大家分享的好文章翻譯過來，好讓更多人可以享閱到。。
這一次是中翻英，今天早上的成果。。
歡迎批評與指教。

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不再追悔

窗外的陽光燦爛，而你的內心卻桎梏在一片懊悔的陰郁中。

你自責，要是當初你沒那麼做，就不會發生這種事。

你懊惱，假如那時你早點發現，也就不會變成這樣。

你不斷追悔，早知道會這樣，你就。。。。

“早知道：我就。。”當事情發生了，我們總習慣這麼說。我們常會嘆息過去某個時刻，為什麼不做另一個選擇，這種想法開始就是個錯誤。

你想過嗎？當你說“早知道”的時候，就表示你之前並不知道，對嗎？既然是不知道，你能怎麼樣？你能對一件根本不知道的事怎麼樣？

沒有任何事情，能在遇到或知道之前就改變，不是嗎？

沒有人是不會犯錯的，每個人，包括你、我，甚至任何偉人在內，都曾做出錯誤的判斷，人只有在往回看的時候，才知道自己錯了，正可謂“昨是而今非”。

有迷才有悟，過去的迷，正好是今天悟的契機。所以，何必自責呢？就算你真的有錯，那也是你根據自己的經驗和知識，在當時做出你認為最好的決定，這些決定，在當時看來並不是錯的。

你實在沒有必要為了過去“還不知道”的錯而痛斥自己，難道錯誤給你的打擊還不夠嗎？

我們應該停止悔恨的愚行，把精力集中在“現在的我能做什麼”，而不是“當時的我做了什麼”，若能如此，那麼你從失敗中學到的。將會比從成功中學到的更多。

取自: 何權峰的《忘了總比記得好》

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My translation of this article:

Stop feeling remorse

The sun is shining brightly outside, yet you are tormented by your inner anguish of regrets..

You blame yourself, for if you had not done "this", "that" wouldn't had happened..

You reproach yourself, for not realizing "it" earlier or else things wouldn't had turn out this way..

You kept regretting, kept thinking that if you only knew things would be so, then you would have....

"If I only knew, I would have.." We all love to say this in retrospect. We like to bemoan the choices we made at certain point of time.. Why didn't we do this instead of that? But, we shouldn't even have such a thought in the first place!

Have you thought about it before? When you said, "If I only knew..", it meant that you didn't know at that time, isn't it? Since you didn't know, what else could you have done? What could you do about something that you have no idea of?

You can't change things that you have yet to encounter or know about, can you?

No one is faultless, everyone including you and me, or even those great men, had made wrong judgment call(s) one time or another. It is only when we look back that we realized that we were wrong, it was "right then, wrong now".

We learn from our mistakes, as the mistakes of yesterday serve as the lessons for today. So why should you reproach yourself? Even if you really did make a mistake, your decisions were made based on your experience and your knowledge then, thus those decisions didn't felt wrong at that point of time.

Hence, there is no reason for you to keep blaming yourself for the things that you didn't know was wrong. Why torture yourself further? Isn't suffering the consequences of your mistakes bad enough?

We should stop this foolish obsession of feeling remorseful, and concentrate on "the thing that I can do now", instead of "the things I did then". If you could do this, then you would learn much more from your mistakes than from your successes.


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