Thursday
各位書友,今天我們一起閱讀《Walden》1-10頁。Walden is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, and voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance, published in 1854.
重點語句
1. Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meager life than the poor.
大部分的奢侈品,大部分的所謂生活的舒適,非但沒有必要,而且對人類進步大有妨礙。所以關(guān)于奢侈與舒適,最明智的人生活得甚至比窮人更加簡單和樸素。
2. Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
大多數(shù)人,即使是在這個比較自由的國土上的人們,也僅僅因為無知和錯誤,滿載著虛構(gòu)的憂慮,忙不完的粗活,卻不能采集生命的美果。
3. It is very evident what mean and sneaking lives many of you live, for my sight has been whetted by experience; always on the limits, trying to get into business and trying to get out of debt, a very ancient slough, called by the Latins aes alienum, another's brass, for some of their coins were made of brass; still living, and dying, and buried by this other's brass;
你們這許多人過的是何等低卑、躲來躲去的生活啊,這很明顯,因為我的眼力已經(jīng)在閱歷的磨刀石上磨利了;你們時常進退維谷,想要著手做些生意來償清債務(wù),而這是一個十分古老的泥淖中,即拉丁文的所謂aes alienum——別人的銅幣,古時候有些錢幣用銅來鑄造的;就在別人的銅錢中,你們活著,死去,最后葬掉了。
4. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
正是一個人怎么看待自己,決定了此人的命運,指向了他的歸宿。
5. Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
孔夫曾說:“知之為知之,不知為不知,是知也?!?/p>
重點詞匯
1. transcendentalist
n.[哲]先驗論者;超越主義者
adj.[哲]先驗論者的;超越論者的
2. circumstances
n.情況;境遇;事項;詳細情節(jié)
(名詞circumstance的復(fù)數(shù)形式)
3. misfortune
n.不幸;災(zāi)禍
4. resignation
n.辭職;辭呈;順從
5. wisdom
n.智慧;明智;才智;聰明;至理名言
He attributes his wisdom to his teachers.
他認為他的智慧來自于老師。
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—共讀書籍簡介—
《瓦爾登湖》是美國作家梭羅獨居瓦爾登湖畔的記錄,描繪了他兩年多時間里的所見、所聞和所思,記錄了他在簡單生活中深入思考與重塑自我的心路歷程。文筆寧靜恬淡,不流于表淺,而是有著博物學(xué)家的精確,引人深思。該書崇尚簡樸生活,彰顯大自然的風(fēng)光,語言生動,意境深邃。出版于1854年。
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