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第1章 Love Your Life热爱你的生活

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

Love Your Life

Henry David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it ;do not shunshun vt.避开, 避免 it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The faultfinder will find faults in paradiseparadise n.天堂 .

不管的生活怎样穷困潦倒,你都要去面对,不要逃避,也不要骂它。

热爱你的生活

享利·大卫·梭罗

不管你的生活怎样穷困潦倒,你都要去面对,不要逃避,也不要骂它。它没你想得那样糟。你最富裕的时候,也许正是你看似最贫穷的时候。爱找缺点的人在天堂里也会找到缺点。

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrillingthrilling adj.毛骨悚然的, 颤动的, 发抖的 , gloriousglorious adj.光荣的, 显赫的 hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man’s abodeabode n.住所, 住处 ; the snow meltsmelt v.(使)融化, (使)熔化, 使软化, 使感动 before its door as early in the spring.

I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedlycontentedly adv.满足地, 安心地 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. May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgivingmisgiving 疑惧, 疑虑 .

要热爱你的生活,即使是处在贫穷之中。甚至是在一个救济院里,你也会有快乐、兴奋、荣耀的时候。夕阳的余晖反射在济贫院的窗上,这光辉同反射在富人家窗上一样明亮;在门前积雪也将同在早春融化。

我只知道,一个心态平和的人,住在任何地方都会感到满足、愉快,就如同生活在皇宫一样。城镇里的穷人,倒往往是过着最独立不羁的生活。也许他们足够坦然,毫无承受地疑虑一切。

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 disreputabledisreputable adj.声名狼藉的, 破烂不堪的 .

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends, turn the old, return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

大多数人认为他们是超凡脱俗,不用靠城镇来养活自己;但情况往往是,他们采取不正当的手段作为谋生之计,这些让他们更加声败名裂。

像圣人一样视贫穷如园中之花去呵护它吧!无论是衣服还是朋友,返璞归真吧,回到那里去。万物并没有改变,是我们自己在变。你可以卖掉你的衣服,但要保留你的思想。

热爱生活,感恩生活,我们的生命才更有价值。一个人为什么而活着,就是源于生活的丰富。有些人常常为生活所困,囿于生活的紧箍咒而不能自拔。我们生活就是因为上帝给了我们生命,这生命存于现实中就是我们的生活状态。一个人的贫与富,并不在于物质,而在于精神。任何时候我们都不能在精神上打败自己,不要放弃生活的权利,不要放弃生命的恩赐。