梭罗语录

『壹』 美国作家思想家梭罗的语录

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1. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
一个人的富有程度与他所能单独处理事务的数目成正比。

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.

对单个北美知更鸟发生兴趣，要比对一个城镇里完整、枯燥的动物志和植物志发生兴趣，更有价值。

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.
一本真正的好书，读过后应有教益。我要很快将它放下，开始按它的提示生活。开始于阅读，应完成于行动。

4. After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
因第一次罪而羞愧后，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。同样的故事哄他们上床，并在早上叫醒他们。

6. An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
清晨散步带来一天祝福。

7. An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
一般说来。邋里邋遢者就是懒汉。

8. Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
任何白痴能制定规则，而任何白痴就会在意。

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.
如同一个脚印在地上踏不出一条路，单一想法也不会在脑中形成一条思路。要在地上留下一条深路，我们就要来回走。要在脑中留下深痕，我们必须反复思考将用于支配我们生活的想法。

10. As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
看来，你可以消磨时间而不损害永恒。

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.
当你简化生活，宇宙的定律就会更简单；孤独则不孤独，贫困则不贫困，虚弱则不虚弱。

12. Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
忠于你的工作，你的言语和你的朋友。

13. Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
印刷术发现前，一世纪等于一千年。

14. Being is the great explainer.
存在是最伟大的解释者。

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

16. Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
书籍是珍贵的财富，是国家民族和世世代代合适的遗产。

17. Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
不服从乃自由之真基础。服从者定为奴。

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

19. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
勿让欲得新物之念烦扰，或衣或友…售衣，而坚持己之思想。

20. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
勿雇用为金钱而工作者，应雇用喜欢此工作者。
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，无需担心。其本该在此。补上地基即可。

22. Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
做他人无法为你所做之事。勿做他事。

23. Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
做自己所爱之事。了解自己的骨头；啃骨头，埋掉，挖出来，还要啃。

24. Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
梦想乃品质之试金石。

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.
对每一种生物来说都是生胜于死，无论是人类、驼鹿、松树，充分理解这一点的人就会保护生命而不是毁灭生命。

26. Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
每一代人都嘲笑旧风尚，而虔诚地追求新时尚。

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?
每个人都有影子；不只是身影，还有有缺陷的混合的灵魂之影。这是他的悲伤。让他随意转身，影子与太阳正好相反；中午影子短，傍晚影子长。难道你没有见过吗？

28. Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
每一个民族都有适合自己环境的神。

29. Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
信仰在她的报酬里，保持了很多怀疑，如果我不能怀疑，我不该相信。

30. Faith never makes a confession.
信念从不忏悔。
31.Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
书籍仅能向我们展示我们自己，而每当书籍为我们这样做时，我们就把它们放在一边。

32. Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
朋友…他们珍爱相互的希望。他们善对相互的梦想。

33. Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
前院不是建来走入的，而是，至多，穿过，你可以从后面进入。

34. Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
一般说来，怒号的荒野不会怒号：那是怒号的旅游者的想像。

35. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
大胆向你梦想的方向前进。按你的想像生活。

36. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
善良是唯一永不失败的投资。

37. Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
天堂，既在足下，又在头顶之上。

38. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
唔宁可独坐南瓜，亦不与人同挤天鹅绒垫。

39. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
青年欲学习生活，何不即刻投身生活之实验？

40. How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
未起身生活，却坐而写作者，徒劳耳。
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.
对不起，我认为，激怒一个人，你才会得到最有效的批评。严肃的真理与苦涩为伴。

42. How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
压根就敢为虚弱者，岂能虚弱？

43. I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
我的房里有三把椅子；一把给孤独，两把给友谊，三把给社会。

44. I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
我屋里宾朋满座，特别是早晨无人拜访时。

45. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
我总感遗憾的是，我不如出生那天聪明。

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，如希腊人般真诚。

47. I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
我已找到那个空洞，我曾以为其结实可靠而依赖之。

48. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
我爱独处，从未找到与独处同样友好的同伴。

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.
如果一个人不能与同伴同步，也许是因为他听到了不同的鼓点。那就让他迈向他听到的音乐，无论近远。

50. I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
我置一纸于枕下，失眠时，于黑暗中书写。