loveyourlife—《热爱生活》,亨利大卫梭罗.doc

loveyourlife—《热爱生活》,亨利大卫梭罗.docHenry David Thoreau 享利 * 大 * 梭
mean 低劣 , 出身寒微
shun 避 , 故意避开
call ⋯ names 辱 某人 ; 用各种 听的
call over the names 点名
thrilling 使人感 的 ; 使人激 的
poor house 院

( 某人 )
almshouse 救 院或养老院
abode 住所
but = except; not but = only
contented 知足的， 意的； 意的，甘心情愿的
independent 独立的 ; 自治的；不愿受 束的 ; 不受控制的 ; 有主 的 misgiving 疑 , 担 , 不安
disreputable 声名狼藉 , 破 不堪
herb 草 , 香草
sage 人 , 圣人
Love Your Life
Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and
call it hard names. It is not as bad as you are. It looks poorest when
you are
richest.
The faultfinder
will find
faults
in
paradise.
Love your
life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling,
glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from
the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode;
the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but
a quiet
mind maylive as contentedly
there,
and have as cheering
thoughts,
as in
a palace.
The
town's
poor
seem to
me often
to
live
the
most
independent lives of any. Maybe they are simply great enough to receive
without
misgiving.
Most think
that
they are above being supported
by the
town; but it
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