雙語閱讀：Love your life熱愛生活

　　亨利·戴維·梭羅(Henry David Thoreau，1817-1862)，美國作家、哲學(xué)家，超驗(yàn)主義代表人物，也是一位廢奴主義及自然主義者，有無政府主義傾向，曾任職土地勘測員。

　　However mean your life is, meet it and live it;do not shun it and call it hard names.

　　不論你的生活如何卑賤，你要面對它生活，不要躲避它，更別用惡言咒罵它。

　　It is not so bad as you are.It looks poorest when you are richest.The fault-finder will find faults in paradise.

　　它不像你那樣壞。你最富有的時(shí)候，倒是看似最窮。愛找缺點(diǎn)的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺點(diǎn)。

　　Love your life, poor as it is.You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious, honours, even in a poor-house.

　　你要愛你的生活，盡管它貧窮。

　　甚至在一個(gè)濟(jì)貧院里，你也還有愉快、高興、光榮的時(shí)候。

　　The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode;

　　夕陽反射在濟(jì)貧院的窗上，像身在富戶人家窗上一樣光亮;

　　the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.

　　在那門前，積雪同樣在早春融化。

　　I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

　　我只看到，一個(gè)從容的人，在哪里也像在皇宮中一樣，生活得心滿意足而富有愉快的思想。

　　The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.

　　城鎮(zhèn)中的窮人，我看，倒往往是過著最獨(dú)立不羈的生活。

　　Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.

　　也許因?yàn)樗麄兒軅ゴ螅允苤疅o愧。

　　Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

　　大多數(shù)人以為他們是超然的，不靠城鎮(zhèn)來支援他們;可是事實(shí)上他們是往往利用了不正當(dāng)?shù)氖侄蝸韺Ω渡?，他們是毫不超脫的，毋寧是不體面的。視貧窮如園中之花而像圣人一樣耕植它吧!

　　Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.

　　不要找新的花樣，無論是新的朋友或新的衣服，來麻煩你自己。

　　Turn the old, return to them.

　　找舊的，回到那里去。

　　Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

　　萬物不變，是我們在變。

　　你的衣服可以賣掉，但要保留你的思想。