瓦尔登湖(Walden)名句名言华章(英汉对照)

Walden, or, Life in the Woods

--- by Thoreau, H.D. (1817-1862)

《瓦尔登湖》名言、名句、华章（英汉对照）Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

不必给我爱,不必给我钱,不必给我名誉,给我真理吧.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

没有比善良走了味更坏的气味了

What you pay for is pain. At such times the pain itself is the reward of Labour.

当付出的劳动换来的只是痛苦，这种时候，痛苦本身就是劳动的报酬。

We should not care too much about ourselves, so that we can give these care to others sincerely.

我们不应该对自己过分关心，这样才可以把这些关心真诚地给予其他人。

A man's opinion of himself determines his own destiny, or his final destination.

一个人对自己的看法，就决定了他自己的命运，或者说，指明了他的最终归宿。

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos (宇宙) out of Chaos ([ˈkeɪɒs] 混乱) and the realization of the Golden Age.

每一个季节，在我看来，对于我们都是各极其妙的；因此春天的来临，很像混饨初开，宇宙创始，黄金时代的再现。

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

使我们失去视觉的那种光明，对于我们是黑暗。只有我们睁开眼睛醒过来的那一天，天才亮了。天亮的日子多着呢。太阳不过是一个晓星。

I also have in my mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.

但我心目之中还有一种人，这种人看来阔绰、实际却是所有阶层中贫困得最可怕的，他们固然已积蓄了一些闲钱，却不懂得如何利用它，也不懂得如何摆脱它，因此他们给自己铸造了一副金银的镣铐。

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

每一个早晨都是一个愉快的邀请，使得我的生活跟大自然自己同样地简单，也许我可以说，同样地纯洁无暇。

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

以富于弹性的和精力充沛的思想追随着太阳步伐的人，白昼对于他便是一个永恒的黎明。

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

除了你自己的道路之外，条条路都是宿命的道路。那末，走你自己的路吧。

This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes ([ɪmˈbaɪb] 喝，饮；吸收) delight through every pore (孔隙).

这是一个愉快的傍晚，全身只有一个感觉，每一个毛孔中都浸润着喜悦。我在大自然里以奇异的自由姿态来去，成了她自己的一部分。

When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism ([ˈkætəkɪzəm] 教理问答), is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means (n. 方式，手段) of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left. But alert and healthy natures remember that the sun rose clear.

当我们用教义问答法的方式，思考着什么是人生的宗旨，什么是生活的真正的必需品与资料时，仿佛人们还曾审慎从事地选择了这种生活的共同方式，而不要任何别的方式似的。其实他们也知道，舍此而外，别无可以挑选的方式。但清醒健康的人都知道，太阳终古常新。

This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii ([ˈreɪdiaɪ] 半径，其单数形式是radius) from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate ([ˈkɒntəmpleɪt] 思考); but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. Confucius ([kən'fjuːʃəs] 孔子) said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men at length (最终) establish their lives on that basis.

我们说，只能这样子生活呵；可是从圆心可以画出多少条半径来，而生活方式就有这样的多。一切变革，都是值得思考的奇迹，每一刹那发生的事都可以是奇迹。孔子曰：“知之为知之，不知为不知，是知也。”当一个人把他想象的事实提炼为他的理论之时，我预见到，一切人最后都要在这样的基础上建筑起他们的生活来。

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable ([ˌɪndɪˈspensəbl] 必不可少的), but positive hindrances ([ˈhɪndrəns] 妨碍) to the elevation (提升) of mankind. With respect to (关于) luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre ([ˈmiːɡə]微薄的，贫乏的) life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich in inward.

大部分的奢侈品，大部分的所谓生活的舒适，非但没有必要，而且对人类进步大有妨碍。所以关于奢侈与舒适，最明智的人生活得甚至比穷人更加简单和朴素。中国、印度、波斯和希腊的古哲学家都是一个类型的人物，外表生活再穷没有，而内心生活再富不过。

Take some time to learn an ancient language when you're young—even if it's just a few words ... It is also valuable, since these words are distilled ([dɪˈstɪl] 提取；蒸馏) from the tedious ([ˈtiːdiəs] 冗长的，单调的) of the streets, and they have become the eternal inspiration and the power to lift people up.

年轻时用一些时间去学习一门古代语言——即使是只掌握一些词汇……也是有价值的，因为这些词汇是从大街小巷的烦琐中提炼出来的，它们已经变成永恒的启示和使人振作的力量。

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in。

I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is。

Its thin current slides away, but eternity ([ɪˈtɜːnəti] 永恒) remains。

时间只是我垂钓的溪。

我喝溪水，喝水时候我看到它那沙底，它多么浅啊。

它的汨汨的流水逝去了，可是永恒留了下来。（注：此段为徐迟所译）