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“我有毅力,而他们通通没有”

序:此文写于今年四月某天,是《李敖语妙天下》某集观后的一点感受,当时只写了一半多因后来有事就放入后台草稿之中,沉睡良久,今又观之,想到《语妙》停播已有好几个月了,一时唏嘘,竟不知再添加些什么,干脆发出来吧。

正文:

以前李敖大师在《李敖有话说》中就谈过自己三十年前也曾是一天两包的老烟枪,后来某天突然一下说戒就戒了。做为过来人,我就纳闷了,总得有个什么事吧,真的无缘无故就戒了?昨天在《李敖语妙天下》中由好友臧英年(戒烟大使)又提到了自己以前戒烟的事情,这次额外透露了影响他当时戒烟的一个故事,就是美国五星上将艾森豪威尔戒烟的故事。

大师的版本是:艾森豪听从医生建议后决定戒了烟,某天有人问他,看着周围这些人能吞云吐雾极尽享乐而你却不能,有何感受?艾森豪冷笑道:我有毅力,而这些人通通没有。

好铿锵有力的一句话,这次我也来发挥一下大师一贯提倡的上穷碧落下黄泉,动手动脚找东西的精神,找找看最原始英文版故事是如何。

互联网是很容易就能搜到的,各版本基本都是这段文字:

In March 1949, Eisenhower’s physician advised he cut his smoking from four packs to one pack of cigarettes per day. Eisenhower decided that counting his cigarettes was worse than not smoking at all. Frequently asked how he quit; he replied, all he did was put smoking out of his mind. “It helped,” he would add with a grin, “to develop a scornful attitude toward those weaklings who did not have the will power to break their enslavement. I nursed to the utmost…my ability to sneer.” His motto was “peace through understanding.”

其主旨和李敖大师讲述的版本大致相同,在这段英文中艾的回答是,我将嘲笑那些没有毅力的瘾君子。而让人佩服的是艾森豪曾是一天四包的超级大烟枪。没点本事是不可能成就牛人的。

艾森豪死于1969年3月的心脏病发作,整好就是戒烟后的20年,终年79岁。

3 Comments

  1. yoyoliyang Comments @ 11:13:22 on 2009-08-20

    我说大哥,嫩发了关于戒烟的blog有n篇了,试问一下:嫩到底戒没戒烟呢?

  2. dark Trackbacks @ 12:20:30 on 2009-08-20

    报告沙发,已经戒断两年了。戒烟的事,要天天讲,年年讲,放松不得啊。

  3. mori rámar Comments @ 21:19:18 on 2011-09-07

    沒摸過這樣的東西,想請教一下博主,戒2年了還能有這麼大癮,還要時不時加加砝碼才能控制住嗎?