體育頌

2024年4月1日發(作者：都是手機惹的禍)

體 育 頌

顧拜旦（法） 詹汝琮（ 譯）

啊，體育，天神的歡娛，生命的動力！你猝然降臨在灰蒙蒙的林間空地，苦難的

人們激動不已。你像是容光煥發的使者，向暮年人微笑致意。你像高山之巔出現的晨

曦，照亮了昏暗的大地。

啊，體育，你就是美麗！你塑造的人體，變得高尚還是卑鄙，要看它是被可恥的

欲望引向墮落，還是由健康的力量悉心培育。沒有勻稱協調，便談不上什么美麗。你

的作用無與倫比，可使人體和精神和諧統一，可使人體運動富有節律，使動作變得優

美，柔中含有剛毅。

啊，體育，你就是正義！你體現了社會生活中追求不到的公平合理。任何人不可

超過速度一分一秒，逾越高度一分一厘，取得成功的關鍵，只能是體力與精神融為一

體。

啊，體育，你就是勇氣！肌肉用力的全部含義是敢于搏擊。若不為此，敏捷強健

有何用？肌肉發達有何益？我們所說的勇氣，不是冒險家押上全部賭注似的蠻干，而

是經過慎重的深思熟慮。

啊，體育，你就是榮譽！榮譽的贏得要公正無私，反之便毫無意義。有人耍弄見

不得人的詭計，以此達到欺騙同伴的目的。他內心深處卻受著恥辱的絞縊。有朝一日

被人識破，就會落得名聲掃地。

啊，體育，你就是樂趣！想起你，內心充滿歡喜，血液循環加劇，思路更加開闊，

條理愈加清晰。你可使憂傷的人散心解悶，你可使快樂的人生活更加甜蜜。

啊，體育，你就是培育人類的沃地！你通過最直接的途徑，增強民族體質，矯正

畸形軀體；防病患于未然，使運動員得到啟迪；希望后代長得茁壯有力，繼往開來，

奪取桂冠和勝利！

啊，體育，你就是進步！為了人類的日新月異，軀體和精神的改善要同時抓起。

你規定良好的生活習慣，要求人們對過度行為引起警惕。你告訴人們遵守規則，發揮

人類最大能力而又無損健康的肌體。

啊，體育，你就是和平！你在各民族間建立愉快的聯系。你在有節制、有組織、

有技藝的體力較量中產生，使全世界的青年學會相互尊重和學習，使不同民族特質成

為高尚而和平競賽的動力。

【英文原版】

ODE TO SPORT *

O Sport, pleasure of the Gods, esnce of life, you appeared suddenly in the midst of the

grey clearing which writhes with the drudgery of modern existence, like the radiant

mesnger of a past age, when mankind still smiled. And the glimmer of dawn lit up the

mountain tops and flecks of light dotted the ground in the gloomy forests.

O Sport, you are Beauty! You are the architect of that edifice which is the human body and

which can become abject or sublime according to whether it is defiled by vile passions or

improved through healthy exertion. There can be no beauty without balance and proportion,

and you are the peerless master of both, for you create harmony, you give movements

rhythm, you make strength graceful and you endow suppleness with power.

O Sport, you are Justice! The perfect equity for which men strive in vain in their social

institutions is your constant companion. No one can jump a centimeter higher than the

height he can jump, nor run a minute longer than the length he can run. The limits of his

success are determined solely by his own physical and moral strength.

O Sport, you are Audacity! The meaning of all muscular effort can be summed up in the

word ?dare?. What good are muscles, what is the point of feeling strong and agile, and why

work to improve one?s agility and strength, unless it is in order to dare? But the daring you

inspire has nothing in common with the adventurer?s recklessness in staking everything on

chance. Yours is a prudent, well-considered audacity.

O Sport, you are Honor! The laurels you bestow have no value unless they have been won

in absolute fairness and with perfect impartiality. He who, with some shameful trick,

manages to deceive his fellow competitors feels guilt to his very core and lives in fear of

the ignominious epithet which shall forever be attached to his name should his trickery be

discovered.

O Sport, you are Joy! At your behest, flesh dances and eyes smile; blood races abundantly

through the arteries. Thoughts stretch out on a brighter, clearer horizon. To the sorrowful

you can even bring salutary diversion from their distress, whilst the happy you enable fully

to savor their joie de vivre.