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for whom the bell tolls
[丧钟为谁而鸣]
     这个短语不太好解释，它出自英语文学中最优美的段落之一——约翰·多恩（John Donne）的《突变引起的诚念》（Devotions upon Emergent Occasions）：
     Who casts not up his eys to the sun when it rises? but who takes off his eye from a comet when that breaks out? Who bends not his ear to any bell which upon any occasion rings? but who can remove it from that bell which is passing a piece of himself out of the world? No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of they friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
     当太阳升起谁不仰望？但是彗星划过时人们不也同样注目？当钟声响起时谁能不侧耳倾听？但是伴随一个人灵魂离世的钟声不是也同样无法抹去？没有人是孤岛，独自存在，每个人都是大陆的一小块，是主体的一部分。如果海洋冲刷掉了一小块泥土，欧洲大陆也要受损伤，更不用说冲毁了岬角，你朋友的庄园，或你自己的领地。任何人的死都会是我的损失，因为我是人类的一份子，所以不用去问丧钟为谁而鸣，丧钟为你而鸣。