请教这句英语是什么意思，怎么翻译？ Life is but a day at most, spring from night – in darkness lost

Question

这是我一个外国朋友写给我的信里的，看不懂。

Answer 1

这是一首诗中的句子，spring拼写错了，应该是sprung，是spring的过去式。
意思是： 生命是短暂的，出生于黑暗中，死于黑暗中。
下面是部分诗歌：
Thou whom chance may hither lead,
Be thou clad in russet weed,
Be thou deckt in silken stole,
Grave these maxims on thy soul: -

Life is but a day at most,
Sprung from night in darkness lost;
Hope not sunshine every hour,
Fear not clouds will always lour.
Happiness is but a name,
Make content and ease thy aim.
Ambition is a meteor-gleam;
Fame a restless airy dream;
Pleasures, insects on the wing
Round Peace, th' tend'rest flow'r of spring;
Those that sip the dew alone -
Make the butterflies thy own;
Those that would the bloom devour -
Crush the locusts, save the flower.
For the future be prepar'd:
Guard wherever thou can'st not shun.
But, thy utmost duly done,
Welcome what thou can'st not shun.
Follies past give thou to air -
Make their consequence thy care.
Keep the name of Man in mind,
And dishonour not thy kind.
Reverence with lowly heart
Him, whose wondrous work thou art;
Keep His Goodness still in view -
Thy trust, and thy example too.

Answer 2

生命最多只不过是一天罢了，从黑暗中（蹦出/跃出……飞出来的感觉）--在黑暗中消逝

Answer 3

额。。你确定原句是这样的。。。这个没办法翻译啊。。语法什么的都不通
这句话是哪里看到的？

哦。。我还真没见过这样的表达法。。应该就是上面那个人说的意思吧，不好意思，我不确定

啊啊。。原来是诗里面的，怪不得语法怪怪的，没怎么读过诗，嘻嘻

Answer 4

人生如梦，转眼就是百年啊！

（这是文学表达方法，诗句或歌词。为了合辙押韵所以颠倒了正常的语法顺序。）