精美英文欣赏:热爱生活

Love Your Life

热爱生活

However mean your life is, meet it and live it;

无论你的生活如何卑微，都要正视它，并活下去；

do not shun¹ it and call it hard names.

不要躲避它，也不要恶语相加。

It is not so bad as you are.

你的生活不像你本人那么糟糕。

It looks poorest when you are richest.

你最富有的时候，你的生活看上去倒似最贫穷。

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.

吹毛求疵的人即便在天堂也能挑出瑕疵。

Love your life, poor as it is.

你要热爱你的生活，尽管生活一贫如洗。

You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours,even in a poorhouse.

即使身处济贫院，你也可能享受一段愉快、兴奋、美妙的时光。

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode²;

西斜的落日映照在济贫院窗户上的余晖，与照射在富贵人家豪宅上的一样光芒万丈；

the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.

门前的积雪同在早春消融。

I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly³ there,and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

在我看来，一个心态平和的人处事泰然，思想乐观，过着自得其乐的生活，住在济贫院就如同居住在皇宫里一般。

The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.

依我之见，城镇的贫民倒是往往过着最独立不羁的生活。

Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving⁴.

也许他们十分伟大，对任何事情皆可坦然受之。

Most think that they are above being supported by the town;

大多数人认为他们不屑于接受城镇的施救；

but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable.

但是实际上他们经常使用不诚实的手段来维持自己的生计，这是更为不体面的。

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage⁵.

像圣贤一样，如同栽培花园中的花草一般来培养贫困吧。

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,whether clothes or friends.

犯不着千辛万苦以求获得新东西，无论是衣服还是朋友。

Turn the old; return to them.

返璞，归真。

Things do not change; we change.

万物没有变，是我们在变。

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

衣履可鬻,所思必存。

God will see that you do not want society.

上帝会证明，你并不需要社会。

If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days,like a spider,the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.

如果我每天都躲在阁楼一角，像只蜘蛛一样，可只要我的思想指引我，世界于我还是一样的广阔无边。

1 shun   

vt.避开，回避，避免

参考例句：

• Materialists face truth,whereas idealists shun it.唯物主义者面向真理，唯心主义者则逃避真理。
• This extremist organization has shunned conventional politics.这个极端主义组织有意避开了传统政治。

2 abode   

n.住处，住所

参考例句：

• It was ten months before my father discovered his abode.父亲花了十个月的功夫，才好不容易打听到他的住处。
• Welcome to our humble abode!欢迎光临寒舍！

3 contentedly   

adv.心满意足地

参考例句：

• My father sat puffing contentedly on his pipe.父亲坐着心满意足地抽着烟斗。
• "This is brother John's writing,"said Sally,contentedly,as she opened the letter.

4 misgiving   

n.疑虑，担忧，害怕

参考例句：

• She had some misgivings about what she was about to do.她对自己即将要做的事情存有一些顾虑。
• The first words of the text filled us with misgiving.正文开头的文字让我们颇为担心。

5 sage   

n.圣人，哲人；adj.贤明的，明智的

参考例句：

• I was grateful for the old man's sage advice.我很感激那位老人贤明的忠告。
• The sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.这位哲人是百代之师。