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《Me Before You》一部催泪爱情小说，译为《遇见你之前》，作者是Jojo Moyes，出版于2012年1月5日。之后作者又写了《After You》（你离开之后）、《Still Me》（依然是我），构成爱情三部曲。今天看完了三部曲中的第一部《Me Before You》。 故事中的男主角Will年轻有为，热爱冒险，过着精彩的人生，尽情体验着人世间所有美好的事情，一场意外事故让他四肢瘫痪，生活中时时刻刻需要依靠他人，无助无力，无法面对这种生活，只想结束自己的生命。 女主角Louisa富有创造力、有一些被埋没的才华，没有什么野心，找工作屡遭拒绝后，机缘巧合成为男主角的看护人，无意听到男主角答应他母亲再多活六个月后终结生命，女主角开始制定各种计划，试图改变男主角Will的想法。 随着男女主角的相互了解，两个人彼此相爱，可是男主角并没有因此放弃结束生命的念头，在过完与母亲约定好的六个月美好时光后，男主角在瑞士一家协助自杀的组织Dignitas实施了安乐死，留给女主角Louisa一笔可观的遗产，让她继续教育、尽情体验人生。 故事最后涉及到了安乐死，一条活生生的生命选择提前终结，总会让人感到压抑万分。故事中周围的人对安乐死同样看法不一，有一心想让儿女好好活着强烈反对安乐死的女主角母亲，还有想让爱人好好活下去努力试图去改变病人想法的女主角，尊重病患自己选择的有男主角护理者Nathan，还有女主角的父亲。 男主角Will做出这样的决定时对他母亲说了这些话，“I don’t want to live like this, Mother. This is not the life I chose. There is no prospect of my recovery, hence it is a perfectly reasonable request to ask to end it in a manner I see fit. ”四肢瘫痪、时时与病痛作斗争并不是他想要的生活，既然康复无望，提前终结似乎也是合理的要求。 男主角护理者Nathan说“I want him to live if he wants to live. If he doesn’t, then by forcing him to carry on, you, me – no matter how much we love him – we become just another shitty bunch of people taking away his choices.”尊重他人决定，无论周围人多么爱他，都没有剥夺他人自己做出决定的权利。 还有女主角父亲所说的一段话“I’m just thinking of what I know about Will Traynor, what I know about men like him. And I’ll say one thing to you. I’m not sure anyone in the world was ever going to persuade that man once he’d set his mind to something. He’s who he is. You can’t make people change who they are.”要表达的意思同样是尊重他人的选择。 一个人是否可以拥有选择自己生死的权利，这是个难以回答的问题，涉及到道德、人权、法律等，从人性道德上看大多数忍都难以接受这种做法，从法律上容易构成故意杀人罪，从人权方面看似乎应该尊重病人的选择，To be, or not to be, that is a question。 这部小说还是一部励志小说，女主角26岁，不知道自己想要什么，安于现状、毫无野心，本可能一直呆在一个地方，与相处多年的男朋友Patrick结婚生子，平凡女孩过着再平凡不过的人生。 I was twenty-six years old and I wasn’t really sure what I was. Up until I lost my job I hadn’t even given it any thought. I supposed I would probably marry Patrick, knock out a few kids, live a few streets away from where I had always lived. Apart from an exotic taste in clothes, and the fact that I’m a bit short, there’s not a lot separating me from anyone you might pass in the street. You probably wouldn’t look at me twice. An ordinary girl, leading an ordinary life. It actually suited me fine. 直到她失去了工作，找到一份看护人工作，去面试时，男主角母亲问她是否有工作志向及追求的梦想？“Do you have aspirations for a career? Would this be a stepping stone to something else? Do you have a professional dream that you wish to pursue?”，女主角回答的是，她还没有思考过这个问题，只是想找到一份工作。“ I haven’t really thought that far. Since I lost my job. I just want to work again.” 然后女主角遇到了男主角Will，受男主角Will影响，她开始做一些以前没有做过的事，开始频繁使用电脑、看外文电影、读以前没读过的书、参加音乐会、出国旅行、潜水……，然后女主角的人生态度发生了翻天覆地的变化，且看男主角如何一步步改变女主角的人生轨迹。 男主角Will鼓励女主角去音乐会时，女主角认为那不是她所喜欢的it’s not her cup of tea，Will说，“你都没有做过，你怎么知道你不喜欢，又怎么知道你属于哪种人？” “How do you know? You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?” 结果参加音乐会带给女主角一次奇妙无比的体验，这是她听过最美好的声音，思想放飞，思考一些从来没有思想过的事情，“I had thought I might be bored. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.And it made my imagination do unexpected things; as I sat there, I found myself thinking of things I hadn’t thought of for years, old emotions washing over me, new thoughts and ideas being pulled from me as if my perception itself were being stretched out of shape. It was almost too much, but I didn’t want it to stop. I wanted to sit there forever. I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went. ” Will推荐女主角一些她从来没有看过的书时，女主角再次认为这些书不是她的类型，Will告诉女主角要挑战自己“Challenge yourself a bit.”，女主角让男主角停止告诉自己做什么，她也许只想看电视，也许就想读一本书，也许太累了什么都不想做，“I wish you’d stop telling me what to do. What if I like watching television? What if I don’t want to do much else other than read a book?What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t need to fill my days with frenetic activity?” 接下来Will说了下面这些经典励志的话，一起看看积极进取的Will本应该继续的精彩人生吧，看看Will所说的事情有没有哪些值得我们去做。 “one day you might wish you had,”he said, quietly. “Do you know what I would do if I were you?’I’d be doing night school. I’d be training as a seamstress or a fashion designer or whatever it is that taps into what you really love.I’d be finding out what I could do that didn’t cost much – keep-fit classes, swimming, volunteering, whatever. I’d be teaching myself music or going for long walks with somebody else’s dog, or –” “Well, there wasn’t much time left after work, but I tried to do something every day. I did rock climbing at an indoor centre, and squash, and I went to concerts, and tried new restaurants -” “And I tried to learn new languages for places I thought I might visit one day. And I saw my friends – or people I thought were my friends ... ” And I planned trips. I looked for places I’d never been, things that would frighten me or push me to my limit. I swam the Channel once. I went paragliding. I walked up mountains and skied down them again. I know a lot of these need money, but a lot of them don’t. I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen.’ 这是一部励志小说，一点也不夸张，小说中也随处可见“Knowledge is power知识就是力量,”“You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible生命只有一次，应尽可能活得精彩”这种励志文字。 女主角也对Will改变了自己的人生给予了肯定，男主角鼓励女主角要有所成就、去旅行、有野心，改变了女主角看待事情的方式，女主角自己认为过去短短六个月做的事情远远多于27年所做的事情。 “Who do you think got me to apply to college? Who do you think encouraged me to make something of myself, to travel places, to have ambitions? Who changed the way I think about everything? About myself even? Will did. I’ve done more, lived more, in the last six months than in the last twenty-seven years of my life. So if he wants me to go to Switzerland, then yes, I’m going to go. Whatever the outcome.’ 最后Will留给女主角一封信，再次鼓励女主角跳出自己的舒适区comfort zone，体验不同的人生，做个无畏者，勇敢面对人生，突破自己，别轻言放弃。To live boldly. Push yourself. Don’t settle. Clark, I can practically hear you starting to hyperventilate from here. Don’t start panicking, or trying to give it away – it’s not enough for you to sit on your arse for the rest of your life. But it should buy you your freedom, both from that claustrophobic little town we both call home, and from the kind of choices you have so far felt you had to make. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone. But I hope you feel a bit exhilarated too. Your face when you came back from diving that time told me everything; there is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do. I’m not really telling you to jump off tall buildings, or swim with whales or anything (although I would secretly love to think you were), but to live boldly. Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. 小说中比较励志的另一个人物就是女主角Louisa的妹妹Treena，单亲妈妈，追求梦想，重返大学学习，当女主角问她重返学校的情况时，她说“It’s the best. I can’t tell you, Lou, the joy of just using my brain again. I feel like there’s been this big chunk of me missing for ages ... and it’s like I’ve found it again. ” 小说中Treena还说过下面这些励志的话： “I’m really desperate to use my brain again. Doing the flowers is doing my head in. I want to learn. I want to improve myself. And I’m sick of my hands always being freezing cold from the water.” “ I really need to do this, Lou. I want more for Thomas, more for both of us. The only way I’ll get anywhere is by going back to college. I haven’t got a Patrick. I’m not sure I’ll ever have a Patrick, given that nobody’s been remotely interested since I had Thomas. I need to do the best I can by myself.” 以至于女主角总会感到被妹妹落在了后面。 She looked a bit like a different person. It was weird. Just a few weeks away from home could rub the familiarity right off someone. I felt like she was on the path to being someone I wasn’t quite sure of. I felt, weirdly, as if I were being left behind. 另一个角色Camilla，一位法官，男主角Will的母亲，与儿子的关系一直比较紧张，十分关心儿子的身体健康，热爱着自己的工作。 “I raised two chilren, I kept my career, helped out at the school, the PTA, and joined the bench once the children didn’t need me any more.I loved my job. I did it because I believe in order, in a moral code. I believe that there is a right and a wrong, unfashionable as that view might be.” 小说中处处出现各种励志经典语录，让人感觉到追求进步拒绝过于安逸的生活很重要，做自己喜欢的事情很重要，有自己的梦想很重要，挑战自我勇敢面对生活很重要。 一个人可以完全改变另一个人的人生，一本书也完全可以影响到另一个人的人生态度，就比如这本书让我想尽情体验享受人生，让我也想去做很多事情，不想浑浑噩噩过一生，这本书确实值得一读。 东北的冬天来了，对于特别怕冷的我来说，本来想安慰自己，冬天来了，春天还会远么？可是如果生活在仿佛一年中有一半时间在冬天的东北😂，冬天来了，春天却依旧遥远。 不过终有一天，春天还会到来，就像小说中所说，Spring arrived overnight, as if winter, like some unwanted guest, had abruptly shrugged its way into its coat and vanished, without saying goodbye.冬天就像不受欢迎的客人，都没有说再见，就灰溜溜的消失了，然后一夜之间春天来了。 总之，喜欢这本书，也许接下来某个时间会去读作者Jojo Moyes这套爱情三部曲中的另外两本书《After You》和《Still Me》。《Me Before You》这部小说被拍成了电影，还没来得及看，先把电影资源分享给大家，一起观看啦😄 链接：https://pan.baidu.com/s/1uoTi3U-E7ptxj9Ko_gaPQg 提取码：so9v 复制这段内容后打开百度网盘手机App，操作更方便哦 |
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