没有人是与世隔绝的孤岛，
每个人都是大地的一部分；
如果海流冲走一团泥土，
大陆就失去了一块，
如同失去一个海岬，
如同朋友或自己失去家园：
任何人的死都让我受损，因为我与人类息息相关；
因此，别去打听钟声为谁鸣响，
它为你鸣响。
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 thy 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.
引自： 《丧钟为谁而鸣》（林和生译，新星出版社，2009年）