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作者想让你阅读的声明
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A Statement the Author Would Like to Have You Read
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F.M.威尔科克斯写道：“她一生的故事就是这场运动的故事，两者的经历是同步的”。（RH 1913.2.27）{1BIO 9.1}
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The story of her life,” wrote F. M. Wilcox, “is the story of this movement. The two are identified in experience.”—The Review and Herald, February 27, 1913.?{1BIO 9.1}
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《评论与通讯》的编辑威尔科克斯刚刚到怀爱伦的家拜访了她。作为一位经验丰富的布道家、教会领袖和资深的教会大型报刊编辑，威尔科克斯长老是站在一个特别的位置上作这番评价的。这本传记证实了他的观察是准确的。{1BIO 9.2}
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Review and Herald?editor Wilcox had just visited Ellen White in her Elmshaven home. Being a seasoned evangelist, a church executive, and now editor of the general church paper, he was in a unique position to make such an appraisal. This biography attests to the accuracy of his observation.?{1BIO 9.2}
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怀爱伦从1827年到1915年的这一生，是忙碌而富有成果的一生！直到怀亚瑟撰写的六卷怀爱伦传记出版后，她的生平事迹才被完整地记录传世。的确，这些年来，传记小品和几本书已经出版。1851年6月出版的一本只有64页的小冊子，是这类书籍中最早的一本。这些书还包括那本480页的《怀爱伦自传》，是她1915年逝世时匆匆而就的。由于篇幅有限，不可能写得很详尽。{1BIO 9.3}
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It was a very full and fruitful life that Ellen White lived from 1827 to 1915. It produces a story not so fully told as now in this six-volume biography,?Ellen G. White. True, biographical sketches and several books have been published down through the years. These began with the seven pages devoted to her experience printed in July, 1851, in her first book, a diminutive volume of sixty-four pages. They include the 480-page?Life Sketches, hurried into the field on her death in 1915. It had to be limited in detail.?{1BIO 9.3}
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1950年夏天，怀爱伦著作托管委员会的董事会意识到需要一本准确的传记为教会提供信息和指导，就授权出版这样一本传记。此后不久，委员会请《评论与通讯》编辑F. D.尼科尔准备文稿。基础工作是在托管委员会办公室里开始的。在怀爱伦著作托管委员会行政干事怀亚瑟的协助下，尼科尔正准备开始写作，他突然死于夹层动脉瘤。1966年10月，董事会请怀亚瑟来承担这项任务。他在职责许可的条件下开始了这项工作。1978年，他要求安排别人来担任他的干事职务。{1BIO 9.4}
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In the Summer of 1950 the board of trustees of the Ellen G. White estate, recognizing the need of a definitive biography for the information and the edification of the church, authorized the production of such a biography. Shortly thereafter the board asked F. D. Nichol, the editor of the?Review, to prepare the manuscript. Groundwork was begun in the offices of the White Estate. As nichol was about to take up the writing itself, with the assistance of Arthur L. White, the secretary of the Ellen G. White Estate, he died suddenly from a dissecting aneurysm. The board of trustees then, in?October, 1966, asked arthur White to undertake the task. A beginning was made as his responsibilities as secretary of the White Estate allowed. That he might give full time to the biography, in 1978 he asked that another be called to fill his office.?{1BIO 9.4}
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怀亚瑟开始写作时，面临着一系列的决定:要写成什么样的传记呢?阅读的对象是谁呢?怀爱伦在美国、欧洲和澳大利亚积极传道活动超过25000天，需要用多少篇幅在撰写呢?她的生平如何分卷呢? {1BIO 10.1}
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As white began writing he faced a number of decisions: what kind of biography would it be? For whom would it be written? How many pages would be devoted to treating the more than 25,000 days of Ellen White’s active ministry in the United States, Europe, and Australia? How would her life story be divided in the projected volumes??{1BIO 10.1}
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这位新选任的作者将她的生平和传道工作很自然地分为六个阶段: {1BIO 10.2}
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The newly chosen author saw her life and ministry divided rather naturally into six eras:?{1BIO 10.2}
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1，早年经历（ 1827 -1862年）
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The early years—1827-1862
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2，进步之年（1863-1875年）
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the progressive years—1863-1875
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3，孤独日子（1876 -1891年）
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the lonely years—1876-1891
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4，澳洲岁月（1891-1900年）
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the Australian years—1891-1900
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5，榆园前期（1900-1905年
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the early elmshaven years—1900-1905
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6，榆园后期(1905-1915年)
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the later elmshaven years—1905-1915
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他选择从榆园岁月开始，有三个原因:{1BIO 10.3}
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For three reasons, he chose to begin the writing with the elmshaven years:?{1BIO 10.3}
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其他已出版的著作大多是自传式的，对怀爱伦的早年生活描写得相当详细，而对她晚年的描写则相比較粗略。在《生平概略》中，有三分之一，也就是160页，写的是她人生的头几年和积极工作的十年，而她人生的主要部分，60年的旅行和传道，則压缩在320页里。{1BIO 10.4}
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Other published works, mostly autobiographical, treat Ellen White’s early life in considerable detail, while the later years are handled rather sketchily. In?Life Sketches?one third of the volume, or 160 pages, is devoted to the first years of her life and a decade of active ministry, while the major part of her life, sixty years of travels and ministry, are crowded into 320 pages.?{1BIO 10.4}
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第二，在写作的时候，一些认识怀爱伦的人还活着，他们可以接受采访，以获得有趣的信息。{1BIO 10.5}
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Second, there were, at the time the writing was undertaken, a number of persons living who knew Ellen White and who could be interviewed, to obtain interesting information.?{1BIO 10.5}
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最后，紧随着她1900年从澳大利亚回到美国后出现的议题，对目前的教会有特别的益处和关联。{1BIO 10.6}
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Finally, the issues that followed quickly after her return from Australia to the United States in 1900 had a particular interest and relevance to the church at present.?{1BIO 10.6}