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《瓦尔登湖》之 “简朴生活”
作者: 【美】梭罗
梭罗在距离康科德两英里的瓦尔登湖畔隐居两年,体验简朴和亲近自然的生活,修建小木屋,耕地种粮食,读书,思考,写作,自由,清醒,洒脱,好不快哉,本书就诞生于这座森林中最特别的小木屋。
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《瓦尔登湖》之“简朴生活”
Chapter Economy, in book Walden
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>>> When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present, I am a sojourner in civilized life again. / 在撰写下面这些篇章,或者其中大部分章节的时候,我独自住在森林中我亲手盖的小房子里,这片森林位于马萨诸塞州康科德镇的瓦尔登湖畔,所有的邻居都在一英里之外,我完全靠自己双手劳动维持生计。我在那里生活了两年又两个月。如今,我又是文明生活中的过客了。
>>> I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools: for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. / 我看到的年轻人,我的同乡们,他们的不幸就是继承了农场、房屋、谷仓、牛群和农具;因为这些物事都是得之容易去之难。
>>> Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living be laid for a foundation; now, a taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors, where there is no house and no housekeeper. / 在用美丽的物件装饰我们的房子之前,必须先把墙壁清理干净,我们的生活也必须清理干净,还必须以美丽的家政和美丽的生活作为基础;不过,对美好事物的品味大都是在户外培养出来的,而那里既没有房子,又没有房主。
>>> And when the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him./一个农夫拥有了自己的房子以后,他不是因此变得更加富有,而是更加贫穷,因为房子占有了他。
>>> The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisue, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful. / 学生们处心积虑地逃避所有人需要从事的任何劳动,从而获得令人艳羡的闲适和休闲,得到的只不过是卑鄙和无益的闲适,失去的却是经验,而唯有经验,才能使闲适变成丰富的收获。
>>> But I would have each one be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father's or his mother's or his neighbor's instead. The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do. / 我希望每个人都仔细找到和追求他自己的道路,而不是他父亲、他母亲或他邻居的道路。年轻人可以去建筑或种植或航海,只要不妨碍他去做他想做的事情就好。
步客小悟
生活可以多简单?
一张床、一张小桌子、三把椅子、一面直径三英寸的镜子、一把火钳和一副铁的柴架、一个水壶、一个长柄平底锅、一个煎锅,一把长柄勺、一个脸盆、两副刀叉、三个盘子、一个杯子、一把汤勺、一个油罐、一个糖罐,还有一盖涂日本漆的灯。以上就是梭罗的全部家当,再加上他自建的小木屋,从清晨到日暮,从冬天到夏天,梭罗在大自然的怀抱中清醒的思考着,拥抱孤独,体验时光的流逝,体会人生的意义。
在这个快节奏的时代,人们总是拥挤忙碌,生活都被消耗在了琐碎之中,学习工作买房买车结婚生子,大部分人都是按照这样的既定的轨道行走,有时候走累了,不妨歇一歇,停下来思考一下,有必要让自己的生活变得这么复杂吗?是不是只顾着赶路却忘了好好享受生活的乐趣?是不是行路的时候被物欲横流的社会影响?是不是黎明对你来说并不是希望,而是扼杀你美梦的杀手?是不是好久没有静下心来读一本书,而是成了手机的奴隶?
如果是,推荐读一读《瓦尔登湖》,为生活,做减法;为思想,做加法。
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