一个年轻人看到日落，无法理解也无法表达它在内心激起的情感，便得出结论：这必定是通往彼端某个世界的门户。
A young man sees a sunset and, unable to understand or to express the emotion that it rouses in him, concludes that it must be the gateway to a world that lies beyond.
在强烈审美体验的片刻，我们任何人都很难拒绝这样的暗示：我们正在捕捉到一道从另一个存在领域照耀而来的光——那是一个不同的领域，而且，正因为这种体验令人极度震撼，在某种意义上也是更为崇高的领域。
It is difficult for any of us in moments of intense aesthetic experience to resist the suggestion that we are catching a glimpse of a light that shines down to us from a different realm of existence, different and, because the experience is intensely moving, in some way higher.
而且，尽管那些光芒令人目眩神迷，它们却依然传递着一丝美丽与宁静的气息——那是比我们所知晓或想象的更为深远的美与宁静。也超越了我们所能描述的范围；因为语言是为传达这个世界的含义而创造的，不能轻易被套用于另一个世界。
And, though the gleams blind and dazzle, yet do they convey a hint of beauty and serenity greater than we have known or imagined. Greater too than we can describe; for language, which was invented to convey the meanings of this world cannot readily be fitted to the uses of another.
一切伟大的艺术都拥有这种暗示彼端世界的力量——这是不可否认的。
That all great art has this power of suggesting a world beyond is undeniable.
在某些心境下，自然也分享这种力量。
In some moods, nature shares it.
六月里没有一片天空蓝得不令人遥想一片更蓝的天；没有一场日落美得不唤起对更大美丽的憧憬——那憧憬在被完整感知之前便已消逝，而在消逝之际，留下了一种难以名状的渴望与惆怅。
There is no sky in June so blue that it does not point forward to a bluer, no sunset so beautiful that it does not waken the vision of a greater beauty, a vision which passes before it is fully glimpsed, and in passing leaves an indefinable longing and regret.
但是，如果这个世界不仅仅是一个低劣的玩笑，生命不仅仅是在星辰清冷光辉之中的一道俗陋的炫光，存在不仅仅是在神秘面前发出的一声空洞的嘲笑；如果那些对某种"背后之物"与"彼端之物"的预感，并非消化不良催生的恶意幽默，也非魔鬼派来嘲弄、逼疯我们的奇想——如果，一言以蔽之，美是有所指的，那么我们却不能去寻求解读这个意义。
But, if this world is not merely a bad joke, life a vulgar flare amid the cool radiance of the stars, and existence an empty laugh braying across the mysteries; if these intimations of a something behind and beyond are not evil humour born of indigestion, or whimsies sent by the devil to mock and madden us, if, in a word beauty means something yet we must not seek to interpret the meaning.
若我们隐约感知到那不可言说之物，试图将其言说便是不智之举；我们也不应试图为那无法把握之物赋予意义。
If we glimpse the unutterable, it is unwise to try to utter it, nor should we seek to invest with significance that which we cannot grasp.
用人类的意义框架来衡量美，美是无意义的。
Beauty in terms of our human meanings is meaningless.