Day 7: Can You Hear the Language of Nature?
Wednesday
各位书友,今天我们一起阅读《Walden》168-195页。 Walden is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, and voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance, published in 1854.
Question
Can you hear the language of nature?
你能听到大自然的声音吗?
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Key Sentences
重点句子
1. There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands. I love a broad margin to my life.
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有时候,我不能把眼前的美好的时间牺牲在任何工作中,无论是脑的或手的工作。我爱给我的生命留有更多余地。
2. In my front yard grew the strawberry, blackberry, and life-everlasting, johnswort and goldenrod, shrub oaks and sand cherry, blueberry and groundnut. Near the end of May, the sand cherry (Cerasuspumila) adorned the sides of the path with its delicate flowers arranged in umbels cylindrically about its short stems, which last, in the fall, weighed down with good-sized and handsome cherries, fell over in wreaths like rays on every side.
在我前面的院子里,生长着草莓,黑莓,还有长生草,狗尾草,黄花紫菀,矮橡树和野樱桃树,越橘和落花生。五月尾,野樱桃(学名Cerasuspumila)在小路两侧装点了精细的花朵,短短的花梗周围是形成伞状的花丛,到秋天里就挂起了大大的漂亮的野樱桃,一球球地垂下,像朝四面射去的光芒。
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3. Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success.
商业是出乎意料地自信的,庄重的,灵敏的,进取的,而且不知疲劳的。它的一些方式都很自然,许多幻想的事业和感伤的试验都不能跟它相提并论,因此它有独到的成功。
4. All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.
一切声响,在最大可能的距程之外听到时,会产生同样的效果,成为宇宙七弦琴弦的微颤,这就好像极目远望时,最远的山脊,由于横亘在中的大气的缘故,会染上同样的微蓝色彩。
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5. Who would not be early to rise, and rise earlier and earlier every successive day of his life, till he became unspeakably healthy, wealthy, and wise?
谁不会起得更早,一天天地更早,直到他健康、富足、聪明到了无法形容的程度呢?
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Key Words
重点词汇
healthy
adj.健康的
A healthy shoot should form a strong graft.
健康的嫩枝可以长成强壮的接穗。
wealthy
adj.富有的
n.富人
She's an attractive woman, and wealthy to boot.
她是个很有魅力的女人,而且很富有。
wise
adj.聪明的;有智慧的;明智的;有见识的
Learned men are not necessarily wise.
博学者未必都是聪明的。
rise
vi.上升;升起;增加;起床;反抗;复活
n.上升;增加;斜坡;小山
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
太阳从东方升起,在西方落下。
ridge
n.脊;山脊;山脉;隆起部
v.(使)成山脊
Riding on the ridge of the bridge, the proud bride shouts loudly to the cloud.
骄傲的新娘骑在桥脊上对着云大声喊。
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—共读书籍简介—
《瓦尔登湖》是美国作家梭罗独居瓦尔登湖畔的记录,描绘了他两年多时间里的所见、所闻和所思,记录了他在简单生活中深入思考与重塑自我的心路历程。文笔宁静恬淡,不流于表浅,而是有着博物学家的精确,引人深思。该书崇尚简朴生活,彰显大自然的风光,语言生动,意境深邃。出版于1854年。
