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wǒ xīnli yǒu měng hǔ zài xì xiù qiángwēi ”。rénshēng yuán shì zhànchǎng ，yǒu měng hǔ cáinéng zài nìliú lǐ lìdìng jiǎogēn ，zài nìfēng lǐ bǎwò fāngxiàng ，zuò bàofēngyǔ zhōng de hǎiyàn ，zuò bù gǎi yánsè de gūxīng 。

"In me the tiger sniffs the rose". Life is a battleground, and having a fierce tiger in one's heart is the only way you can get a firm footing against the flow of the stream, and orient oneself in the wind, like a swallow in the storm, or a lone star that never changes its color.

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在人性的国度里，一只真正的猛虎应该能充分地欣赏蔷薇，而一朵真正的蔷薇也应该能充分地尊敬猛虎；微蔷薇，猛虎变成了菲力斯旦（Philistine）；微猛虎，蔷薇变成了懦夫。

zài rénxìng de guódù lǐ ，yī zhī zhēnzhèng de měng hǔ yīnggāi néng chōngfèn de xīnshǎng qiángwēi ，ér yī duǒ zhēnzhèng de qiángwēi yě yīnggāi néng chōngfèn de zūnjìng měng hǔ ；wēi qiángwēi ，měng hǔ biànchéng le Fēilìsīdàn （Philistine ）；wēi měng hǔ ，qiángwēi biànchéng le nuòfū 。

In the human realm, a real tiger should be able to properly appreciate a rose, and a real rose should also be able to fully respect a tiger; without the rose, the tiger is a Philistine; without the tiger, the rose is a coward.

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同时人生又是幽谷，有蔷薇才能烛隐显幽，体贴入微；有蔷薇才能看到苍蝇控脚，蜘蛛吐丝，才能听到暮色潜动，春草萌芽，才能做到“一沙一世界，一花一天国”。

tóngshí rénshēng yòu shì yōugǔ ，yǒu qiángwēi cáinéng zhúyǐnxiǎnyōu ，tǐtiērùwēi ；yǒu qiángwēi cáinéng kàndào cāngying kòngjiǎo ，zhīzhū tǔ sī ，cáinéng tīngdào mùsè qiándòng ，chūncǎo méngyá ，cáinéng zuò dào “yī shā yī shìjiè ，yī huā yī tiānguó ”。

At the same time, life is like a deep valley, only a rose can serve as a flickering candle in the darkness, in all its attentiveness; only with a rose can you see the fly's legs and the spider spitting silk, Only then can you here the movement of the twilight, and the sprouting of the spring grass, only then is it possible "To see a World in a Grain of Sand. And a Heaven in a Wild Flower."

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一个人到了这种境界，他能动也能静，能屈也能伸，能微笑也能痛哭，能像廿世纪人一样的复杂，也能像亚当夏娃一样的纯真，一句话，他心里已有猛虎在细嗅蔷薇。

yī gè rén dào le zhèzhǒng jìngjiè ，tā néng dòng yě néng jìng ，néng qū yě néng shēn ，néng wēixiào yě néng tòngkū ，néng xiàng niàn shìjì rén yīyàng de fùzá ，yě néng xiàng Yàdāng Xiàwá yīyàng de chúnzhēn ，yījùhuà ，tā xīnli yǐ yǒu měng hǔ zài xì xiù qiángwēi 。

A person, once they reach this state of being, can be active and passive, they can yield and extend, they can smile and can feel pain, they can be as complex as a twentieth century man and as pure as Adam and Eve, in one sentence, in them, the tiger sniffs the rose.

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但是平时为什么我们提起一个人，就觉得他是阳刚，而提起另一个人，又觉得他是阴柔呢？这是因为各人心里的猛虎和蔷薇所成的形势不同。

dànshì píngshí wèishénme wǒmen tíqǐ yī ge rén ，jiù juéde tā shì yánggāng ，ér tíqǐ lìng yīgerén ，yòu juéde tā shì yīnróu ne ？zhè shì yīnwèi gè rén xīnli de měng hǔ hé qiángwēi suǒ chéng de xíngshì bùtóng 。

But why do we, when mentioning a particular person, think that they are masculine, and when mentioning another person, think that he's feminine? This is because the tiger and the rose in everyone's heart take different forms.

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有人的心原是虎穴，穴口的几朵蔷薇免不了猛虎的践踏；有人的心原是花园，园中的猛虎不免给那一片香潮醉倒。所以前者气质近于阳刚，而后者气质近于阴柔。

yǒurén de xīn yuán shì hǔ xué ，xué kǒu de jǐ duǒ qiángwēi miǎnbuliǎo měng hǔ de jiàntà ；yǒurén de xīn yuán shì huāyuán ，yuán zhōng de měng hǔ bù miǎn gěi nà yī piàn xiāng cháo zuìdǎo 。suǒyǐ qiánzhě qìzhì jìn yú yánggāng ，ér hǒuzhě qìzhì jìn yú yīnróu 。

Some people's hearts start out as tiger lairs, with the roses at the mouth of the tiger's lair inevitably being trampled by the tiger; some people's hearts start out as gardens, and the tiger in the garden is inevitably intoxicated by the fragrance. So the nature of the former is closer to masculine, and the nature of the latter is closer to feminine.

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然而踏碎了的蔷薇犹能盛开，醉倒了的猛虎有时醒来。所以霸王有时悲歌，弱女有时杀贼；梅村，子山晚作悲凉，萨松在第一次大战后出版了低调的“心旅”。

ránér tà suì le de qiángwēi yóu néng shèngkāi ，zuì dǎo le de měng hǔ yǒushí xǐnglái 。suǒyǐ bàwáng yǒushí bēigē ，ruò nǚ yǒushí shā zéi ；Méicūn ，Zǐshān wǎn zuò bēiliáng ，Sàsōng zài dìyīcì dàzhàn hòu chūbǎn le dīdiào de “xīnlǚ ”。

However, the trampled rose can still bloom, and the intoxicated tiger will wake at times. Just as the hegemon will sing dirges at times and young girls may kill thieves at times; The late works of Wu Weiye and Yu Xin are sorrowful, for example, and Sassoon published the very downbeat 'The Heart's Journey' after World War I.

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英国当代诗人西格夫里·萨松（Siegfried Sassoon）曾写过一行不朽的警句：“In me the tiger sniffe the rose”勉强把它译成中文，便是：“我心里有猛虎在细嗅蔷薇。”

Yīngguó dāngdài shīrén Xīgéfūlǐ ·Sàsōng （Siegfried Sassoon ）céng xiě guò yìháng bùxiǔ de jǐngjù ：“In me the tiger sniffe the rose ”miǎnqiǎng bǎ tā yìchéng Zhōngwén ，biàn shì ：“wǒ xīnli yǒu měng hǔ zài xì xiù qiángwēi 。”

The modern British poet Siegfried Sassoon once wrote an immortal line of warning "In me the tiger sniffs the rose", for which, if you forced me to translate it into Chinese, I would use the phrase "我心里有猛虎在细嗅蔷薇" (There's a fierce tiger in my heart carefully sniffing at a rose).

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假使卢梭当日所画的不是雄狮逼视着梦中的浪子，而是猛虎在细嗅含苞的蔷薇，我相信，这幅画同样会成为杰作。惜乎卢梭逝世，而萨松尚未成名。

jiǎshǐ Lú Suō dāngrì suǒ huà de bùshì xióngshī bīshì zhe mèng zhōng de làngzǐ ，érshì měng hǔ zài xì xiù hánbāo de qiángwēi ，wǒ xiāngxìn ，zhè fú huà tóngyàng huì chéngwéi jiézuò 。xíhū Lú Suō shìshì ，ér Sà Sōng shàngwèi chéngmíng 。

If Rousseau had depicted a tiger carefully smelling a budding rose instead of a lion staring intently at a sleeping vagrant, I believe this piece would still have been seen as a masterpiece. Unfortunately Rousseau has passed away, and Sassoon never really became famous.

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只有原诗才算恰到好处，因为猛虎象征人性的一方面，蔷薇象征人性的另一面，而“细嗅”刚刚象征着两者的关系，两者的调和与统一。

zhǐyǒu yuán shī cái suàn qiàdàohǎochù ，yīnwèi měng hǔ xiàngzhēng rénxìng de yīfāngmiàn ，qiángwēi xiàngzhēng rénxìng de lìng yīmiàn ，ér “xì xiù ”gānggāng xiàngzhēng zhe liǎng zhě de guānxi ，liǎng zhě de tiáohé yǔ tǒngyī 。

It's only the original poem that really gets it just right, because the fierce tiger symbolizes one aspect of humanity, the rose represents the other, and the act of sniffing represents the link between these two, the harmony between them and their unity.

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