The relatively rare in europe and north America.

在歐洲和北美洲相對罕見。

The firefly is a common sight in japan, where it is known as the hotaru.

螢火蟲在日本是一種常見的景象，在那裡它被稱為hotaru。

Hotaru is are at their most plentiful in june and july and can be seen in groups around rivers and lakes.

Hotaru在6月和7月是最多的，可以在河流和湖泊周圍看到它們成群結隊。

The glittering light of the hotaru is deemed to be so enchanting.

hotaru的閃亮光芒被認為是如此迷人。

The Japanese hold firefly festivals or Hotaru matt suri to watch their dance, something even odder has happened to the firefly in japan.

日本人舉行螢火蟲節或Hotaru matt suri來觀看他們的舞蹈，在日本，螢火蟲發生了更奇怪的事情。

It has become philosophical zen buddhist poets and philosophers.

它已經成為哲學上的禪宗佛教詩人和哲學家。

The two terms are largely interchangeable in japan have over the centuries noted the affinity between the firefly and a central concept.

這兩個詞在很大程度上可以互換，在日本，幾個世紀以來，人們注意到螢火蟲和一箇中心概念之間的親和力。

In zen, the brevity of life, Zen does not think of our transience as tragic.

在禪宗中，生命的短暫性，禪宗不認為我們的短暫性是悲劇性的。

Rather it is by accommodating ourselves gracefully to our own evanescence that we can reach enlightenment and harmony with nature's necessities.

相反，正是通過優雅地適應我們自己的消亡，我們才能達到開悟，並與自然的需要和諧相處。

For zen, the firefly is the perfect symbol of transience, positively interpreted.

對於禪宗來說，螢火蟲是短暫性的完美象徵，被積極地詮釋。

Its season is very brief.

它的季節是非常短暫的。

It lights up only in high summer and its light is intermittent and flickering fireflies are both fragile and astonishingly beautiful when seen in large numbers in a pine forest or a meadow at night.

它只有在盛夏時節才會亮起，而且其光線是斷斷續續的，在夜晚的松樹林或草地上看到大量的螢火蟲時，既脆弱又驚人地美麗。

They are a metaphor for our own poignant lives the move of locating important philosophical themes in the natural world is one that zen makes again and again, for example, in relation to bamboo evocative of resilience water, a symbol of patients strength capable of wearing down stone and cherry blossom, an emblem of modest rapture, Zen repeatedly hangs its ideology onto things that could seem at first very minor because it wants to make use of what is most ordinarily on our site, to keep us tethered to its grand, pathetic truths.

它們是我們自己悽美生活的隱喻。將重要的哲學主題定位在自然界是禪宗一次又一次做出的舉動，例如，在與竹子的關係中，它喚起了有彈性的水，象徵著病人的力量能夠磨滅石頭，以及櫻花，象徵著謙遜的狂喜，禪宗反覆將其意識形態掛在那些最初看起來非常小的東西上，因為它想利用我們現場最普通的東西，使我們與它宏大而可憐的真理緊密相連。

The great 17th century poet, Matsuo basho pushes aside our day to day vanity and egoistic ambitions in the hope that we might become via his focus on a small, short lived creature, appropriately attentive to our own fin itude falling from a blade of grass to fly off a firefly.

17世紀偉大的詩人松尾芭蕉將我們日常的虛榮心和自我的野心推到一邊，希望我們可以通過他對一個小的、短命的生物的關注，適當地關注我們自己從一片草上掉下來的螢火蟲。

For zen buddhism, the firefly is the ideal carrier on its slender wings of reminders of the need for dignified resignation in the face of the mighty nous and mystery of the natural order koybasi esa.

對禪宗來說，螢火蟲是理想的載體，它用纖細的翅膀提醒人們在面對自然秩序的強大智慧和神祕性時需要有尊嚴的順從，koybasi esa。

An 18th century buddhist priest, as well as Haiku Master wrote 230 poems on fireflies.

一位18世紀的佛教牧師，以及俳句大師寫了230首關於螢火蟲的詩。

In one of the most celebrated of these, he captures a moment where time is momentarily stilled so that its passage can more viscerally be felt.

在其中最著名的一幅作品中，他捕捉到了一個時間瞬間靜止的時刻，從而可以更直觀地感受到它的流逝。

The fireflies are sparkling, and even the mouth of a frog hangs wide open.

螢火蟲閃閃發光，甚至連青蛙的嘴都張得大大的。

It's a tiny moment of satori or enlightenment.

這是一個微小的satori或開悟的時刻。

The frog is as wonder struck as the poet at the piercing light of the brave, doomed fireflies, Much as we should fairly be amazed, frightened, grateful and ultimately joyous to have been allocated a few brief moments in which to behold and try to make sense of our own existence in an always largely unfathomable, 13.8 billion year old universe.

青蛙和詩人一樣，對勇敢的、註定要滅亡的螢火蟲的刺眼光芒感到驚奇，我們也應該感到驚訝、恐懼、感激，並最終感到高興，因為我們被分配了幾個短暫的時刻，可以看到並試圖理解我們自己在一個總是基本上深不可測的、138億年的宇宙中的存在。

How to survive the modern world is a guide to coping with the present.

如何在現代世界中生存》是一本應對當下的指南。

It explores why some key features of modern life, including capitalism, advertising mass media and the rise of individualism, can have harmful effects on our psychological health.

它探討了為什麼現代生活的一些關鍵特徵，包括資本主義、廣告大眾傳媒和個人主義的崛起，會對我們的心理健康產生有害影響。