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译／甄春亮
下夜班回家，我要经过一条长长的没有路灯的小巷。虽然怕，也只得提心吊胆地走下去。后来，巷口有了一家小小的杂货亭。再到夜深时，经过巷口，杂货亭虽然早已关门，灯却是亮着，明晃晃的，一直到巷尾，也还有隐约的光亮。
又一次经过时，我问杂货亭的主人，怎么你老是忘了关灯?那个只有一只手的男人抬起头来，对我憨然一笑说：“没有路灯呀。”默然良久。我发现他的生意格外好。
曾听人讲过一个盲人的故事。这个盲人晚上出门，总是要提着一盏灯。别人不解地问他：“你又看不见，何必提着灯呢?”盲人答：“黑夜里满世界的人不都和我一样是盲人吗?所以我晚上出门总是提着这个灯笼。”问的人似乎明白了什么：“原来你是为别人照路呀。”盲人却说：“这本是我的初衷，后来我逐渐明白这也是为了我自己。我是一个盲人，我提了这盏灯既为别人照亮了路，也让别人能看见我而不去撞到我。”
那个总是让灯亮着的小老板，那个在夜里提着灯的盲人，他们的心中必定点着一盏永不熄灭的灯。这是一盏心灯，照亮了自己，也照亮了别人。心中点灯，这个世界便不会有黑暗。
When I was off night duty, I had to walk through along dark lane with a thrill of terror before I got home. Later on a one-arm man runs a small grocery at the entranceto the lane. Even though the shop is closed late at nightwhen I pass it, the light still shines, its faint glow reachingas far as the end of the lane.
Passing the shop one day, I asked the owner why he al-ways forgot to turn off the light. He raised his head and saidwith a simple smile, “Because we do not have street-lighting.”I kept silent for a while, l found he had a booming business.
Someone tells me a story. A blind man goes out with alantern at night. A puzzled man asks him, “Why do you takethe trouble to carry a lantern since you are unable to see any-thing?” He replies, “Isn’t anyone as blind as I in the pitch-dark night? That’s why I go out with it at night.”“Oh, I seeyou carry the lantern to show others the way”, says the puzzledman who seems to be enlightened. However he says,“That ismy original intention but I come to understand I do this also forthyself. I am blind. With the lantern I lighten the street for oth-ers, who notice me and will not bump into me.”
There must be a never-gone-out light in the heart of thegrocery owner as well as the blind-man. It illuminates the wayfor others as well as for themselves. The world is never dark if there is a light in everyone’s heart.
下夜班回家，我要经过一条长长的没有路灯的小巷。虽然怕，也只得提心吊胆地走下去。后来，巷口有了一家小小的杂货亭。再到夜深时，经过巷口，杂货亭虽然早已关门，灯却是亮着，明晃晃的，一直到巷尾，也还有隐约的光亮。
又一次经过时，我问杂货亭的主人，怎么你老是忘了关灯?那个只有一只手的男人抬起头来，对我憨然一笑说：“没有路灯呀。”默然良久。我发现他的生意格外好。
曾听人讲过一个盲人的故事。这个盲人晚上出门，总是要提着一盏灯。别人不解地问他：“你又看不见，何必提着灯呢?”盲人答：“黑夜里满世界的人不都和我一样是盲人吗?所以我晚上出门总是提着这个灯笼。”问的人似乎明白了什么：“原来你是为别人照路呀。”盲人却说：“这本是我的初衷，后来我逐渐明白这也是为了我自己。我是一个盲人，我提了这盏灯既为别人照亮了路，也让别人能看见我而不去撞到我。”
那个总是让灯亮着的小老板，那个在夜里提着灯的盲人，他们的心中必定点着一盏永不熄灭的灯。这是一盏心灯，照亮了自己，也照亮了别人。心中点灯，这个世界便不会有黑暗。
When I was off night duty, I had to walk through along dark lane with a thrill of terror before I got home. Later on a one-arm man runs a small grocery at the entranceto the lane. Even though the shop is closed late at nightwhen I pass it, the light still shines, its faint glow reachingas far as the end of the lane.
Passing the shop one day, I asked the owner why he al-ways forgot to turn off the light. He raised his head and saidwith a simple smile, “Because we do not have street-lighting.”I kept silent for a while, l found he had a booming business.
Someone tells me a story. A blind man goes out with alantern at night. A puzzled man asks him, “Why do you takethe trouble to carry a lantern since you are unable to see any-thing?” He replies, “Isn’t anyone as blind as I in the pitch-dark night? That’s why I go out with it at night.”“Oh, I seeyou carry the lantern to show others the way”, says the puzzledman who seems to be enlightened. However he says,“That ismy original intention but I come to understand I do this also forthyself. I am blind. With the lantern I lighten the street for oth-ers, who notice me and will not bump into me.”
There must be a never-gone-out light in the heart of thegrocery owner as well as the blind-man. It illuminates the wayfor others as well as for themselves. The world is never dark if there is a light in everyone’s heart.