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亨利·福特:我的生活与工作·补录 376

亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导

There was no sadness in John Burroughs's death. When the grain lies brown and ripe under the harvest sun, and the harvesters are busy binding it into sheaves, there is no sadness for the grain. It has ripened and has fulfilled its term, and so had John Burroughs. With him it was full ripeness and harvest, not decay. He worked almost to the end. His plans ran beyond the end. They buried him amid the scenes he loved, and it was his eighty-fourth birthday. Those scenes will be preserved as he loved them.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7213
定位:Additional excerpt 376 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

福特认为伯勒斯的死没有悲伤。就像谷粒在收获的阳光下成熟变黄,收割者忙着捆扎,谷粒并不悲伤;它已成熟,完成了使命。伯勒斯也是如此,他是圆满的成熟与收获,不是衰败。他工作到几乎最后一刻,计划甚至延伸到身后。人们把他安葬在他热爱的地方,那天正是他八十四岁生日。那些风景将按他喜爱的方式保存下来。这告诉我们:看待生命终点,可以聚焦于是否充分活过、完成使命,而非只看到失去。

上下文

福特悼念约翰·伯勒斯,以谷物成熟为喻,表达对圆满一生的达观。

今日一问

你希望自己的一生在终点时被看作“成熟收获”还是“未竟遗憾”?今天能做什么?

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