梭羅語錄

『壹』 美國作家思想家梭羅的語錄

這是我過去轉的別人的 忘記他的原始網址了 ，分享一下就好，要尊重別人的勞動成果 呵呵
1. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
一個人的富有程度與他所能單獨處理事務的數目成正比。

2. A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

對單個北美知更鳥發生興趣，要比對一個城鎮里完整、枯燥的動物志和植物志發生興趣，更有價值。

3. A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
一本真正的好書，讀過後應有教益。我要很快將它放下，開始按它的提示生活。開始於閱讀，應完成於行動。

4. After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
因第一次罪而羞愧後，冷漠即生。

5. All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
人人都是孩子——同一家的孩子。同樣的故事哄他們上床，並在早上叫醒他們。

6. An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
清晨散步帶來一天祝福。

7. An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
一般說來。邋裡邋遢者就是懶漢。

8. Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
任何白痴能制定規則，而任何白痴就會在意。

9. As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
如同一個腳印在地上踏不出一條路，單一想法也不會在腦中形成一條思路。要在地上留下一條深路，我們就要來回走。要在腦中留下深痕，我們必須反復思考將用於支配我們生活的想法。

10. As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
看來，你可以消磨時間而不損害永恆。

11. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
當你簡化生活，宇宙的定律就會更簡單；孤獨則不孤獨，貧困則不貧困，虛弱則不虛弱。

12. Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
忠於你的工作，你的言語和你的朋友。

13. Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
印刷術發現前，一世紀等於一千年。

14. Being is the great explainer.
存在是最偉大的解釋者。

15. Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
謹防那些需要一套新衣服的企業。

16. Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
書籍是珍貴的財富，是國家民族和世世代代合適的遺產。

17. Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
不服從乃自由之真基礎。服從者定為奴。

18. Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
勿信任任何需要新衣服的企業。

19. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
勿讓欲得新物之念煩擾，或衣或友…售衣，而堅持己之思想。

20. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
勿僱用為金錢而工作者，應僱用喜歡此工作者。
21. Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
如你已建空中城堡，無需擔心。其本該在此。補上地基即可。

22. Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
做他人無法為你所做之事。勿做他事。

23. Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
做自己所愛之事。了解自己的骨頭；啃骨頭，埋掉，挖出來，還要啃。

24. Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
夢想乃品質之試金石。

25. Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
對每一種生物來說都是生勝於死，無論是人類、駝鹿、松樹，充分理解這一點的人就會保護生命而不是毀滅生命。

26. Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
每一代人都嘲笑舊風尚，而虔誠地追求新時尚。

27. Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
每個人都有影子；不只是身影，還有有缺陷的混合的靈魂之影。這是他的悲傷。讓他隨意轉身，影子與太陽正好相反；中午影子短，傍晚影子長。難道你沒有見過嗎？

28. Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
每一個民族都有適合自己環境的神。

29. Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
信仰在她的報酬里，保持了很多懷疑，如果我不能懷疑，我不該相信。

30. Faith never makes a confession.
信念從不懺悔。
31.Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
書籍僅能向我們展示我們自己，而每當書籍為我們這樣做時，我們就把它們放在一邊。

32. Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
朋友…他們珍愛相互的希望。他們善對相互的夢想。

33. Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
前院不是建來走入的，而是，至多，穿過，你可以從後面進入。

34. Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
一般說來，怒號的荒野不會怒號：那是怒號的旅遊者的想像。

35. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
大膽向你夢想的方向前進。按你的想像生活。

36. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
善良是唯一永不失敗的投資。

37. Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
天堂，既在足下，又在頭頂之上。

38. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
唔寧可獨坐南瓜，亦不與人同擠天鵝絨墊。

39. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
青年欲學習生活，何不即刻投身生活之實驗？

40. How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
未起身生活，卻坐而寫作者，徒勞耳。
41. I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
對不起，我認為，激怒一個人，你才會得到最有效的批評。嚴肅的真理與苦澀為伴。

42. How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
壓根就敢為虛弱者，豈能虛弱？

43. I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
我的房裡有三把椅子；一把給孤獨，兩把給友誼，三把給社會。

44. I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
我屋裡賓朋滿座，特別是早晨無人拜訪時。

45. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
我總感遺憾的是，我不如出生那天聰明。

46. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
我一直是黎明女神的崇拜者，如希臘人般真誠。

47. I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
我已找到那個空洞，我曾以為其結實可靠而依賴之。

48. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
我愛獨處，從未找到與獨處同樣友好的同伴。

49. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
如果一個人不能與同伴同步，也許是因為他聽到了不同的鼓點。那就讓他邁向他聽到的音樂，無論近遠。

50. I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
我置一紙於枕下，失眠時，於黑暗中書寫。