荆棘

We were stabbed by the bramble of love, tired, tired, escaped so, abandoned, also be a habit probably, coma, so doleful, acedia... actually, face up to and rather than to escape, just be desirable manner.

我们被爱情的荆棘刺伤了，倦了，累了，所以逃离了，背弃了，也或许是习惯了，麻木了，所以寂寞了，绝望了……其实，正视而非逃避，才是可取的态度。

Footprints stamped in the sand, weeds trodden down here and there, heather crushed, young branches in the brushwood bent and in the act of straightening themselves up again with the graceful deliberation of the arms of a pretty woman who stretches herself when she wakes, pointed out to him a sort of track.

沙土上这儿那儿发现有鞋印，践踏过的草丛，踩断的灌木，倒在荆棘中的嫩树枝优美地在慢慢恢复原状，好象一个刚醒过来的漂亮女人伸懒腰时的手臂，对他来说这些都是线索。

And the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he saw that the bush was on fire and was not burnt.

上主的使者从荆棘丛的火焰中显现给他；他远远看见那荆棘为火焚烧，而荆棘却没有烧毁。

"And the thorn said to the trees, If it is truly your desire to make me your king, then come and put your faith in my shade; and if not, may fire come out of the thorn, burning up the cedar s of Lebanon."

荆棘回答说，你们若诚诚实实地膏我为王，就要投在我的荫下。不然，愿火从荆棘里出来，烧灭利巴嫩的香柏树。

"And the thorn said to the trees, If it is truly your desire to make me your king, then come and put your faith in my shade; and if not, may fire come out of the thorn, burning up the cedars of Lebanon."

荆棘回答说，你们若诚诚实实地膏我为王，就要投在我的荫下。不然，愿火从荆棘里出来，烧灭利巴嫩的香柏树。

"And the angel of the Lord was seen by him in a flame of fire coming out of a thorn- tree : and he saw that the tree was on fire , but it was not burned up."

耶和华的使者从荆棘里火焰中向摩西显现。摩西观看，不料，荆棘被火烧着，却没有烧毁。本尼躺在那棵大树下，全身彷佛像是在火上烤似的

The brown desert is irregularly dotted with the little marks of the thorn bushes, the winding riverbeds are drawn up with crooked dark-green trails; those are the woods of the mighty, wide-branching Mimosa-trees, with thorns like spikes; the cactus grows here, and here is the home of the Giraffe and the Rhino.

褐色的沙漠上不规则地零星点缀着荆棘灌木丛，深绿色的河床蜿蜒其上；那些是枝叶繁茂的含羞树和间或零星的荆棘；仙人掌也生长在这里，这里就是长颈鹿和犀牛的家园。

The crown of thorns was made of real thorns, and was nailed to the sacred head.

荆棘冠冕是真荆棘编的，钉在圣灵头上。

King Jehoash of Israel sent this reply to the king of Judah: The thistle of Lebanon sent word to the cedar of Lebanon,'Give your daughter to my son in marriage,' but an animal of Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle underfoot.

以色列王耶曷阿士派人去对犹大王阿玛责雅说：黎巴嫩的荆棘派使者对黎巴嫩的香柏说：将你的女儿嫁给我的儿子为妻！然而有一只黎巴嫩的野兽经过，将这棵荆棘践踏了。

The burning bush, in which Christ appeared to Moses, revealed God.

基督曾在烧著的荆棘中向摩西显现，这荆棘显示了上帝。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。