Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience — Page 5
那些没有遗产的人,不必承受这些多余的inherited负担,却发现光是驯服和耕耘自己这几立方英尺的血肉之躯,便已耗尽心力。
The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.
然而人们是在一种错误之中劳作的。人身上最好的部分,很快便被犁入土中化作堆肥。
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.
受一种表面上叫做"必要性"的命运所驱使,他们忙于——正如一本古书所言——积攒那些会被虫蛀锈蚀、被盗贼挖墙偷窃的财富。
By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal.
这是一种愚人的生活,如果他们不能提早醒悟,等走到尽头时便会明白这一点。
It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.
据说丢卡利翁和皮拉是通过将石头从头顶抛向身后来创造人类的:
It is said that Deucalion and Pyrrha created men by throwing stones over their heads behind them:—
因此我们这一族是坚硬的,是经历劳苦的,我们以自己的出身为证。
Inde genus durum sumus, experiensque laborum, Et documenta damus quâ simus origine nati.
或者,如雷利以其铿锵的方式所作的诗句:
Or, as Raleigh rhymes it in his sonorous way,—
「由此,我们这一族心肠坚硬,忍受痛苦与忧愁,证明我们的躯体本是石头的本性。」
"From thence our kind hard-hearted is, enduring pain and care, Approving that our bodies of a stony nature are."
这便是盲目服从一个荒谬神谕的结果——把石头从头顶抛向身后,却不去看它们落在何处。
So much for a blind obedience to a blundering oracle, throwing the stones over their heads behind them, and not seeing where they fell.
大多数人,即便是在这个相对自由的国度,也因为纯粹的无知与错误,深陷于生活中那些人为制造的忧虑和粗重繁琐的劳作之中,以至于生活中那些更精微的果实,他们根本无从采摘。
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
他们的双手,因过度劳作而太过笨拙,颤抖得无法做到这一点。
Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that.
Vocabulary
- The
- 定冠词,表示特定的人或物
- who
- 关系代词,指代人
- struggle
- 努力克服困难,奋力抵抗
- with
- 表示伴随、方式或材料的介词
- no
- 表示否定,没有
- such
- 这样的,这种类型的
- unnecessary
- 不必要的,不需要的
- inherited
- 继承的,遗传的
- find
- 发现,找到
- it
- 代词,指代事物
- labor
- 劳动,努力工作
- enough
- 足够的,充分的
- to
- 不定式标记或介词
- subdue
- 征服,控制,使温顺
- and
- 并列连词,和
- cultivate
- 耕种,培养,发展
- few
- 很少的,少数的
- cubic
- 立方的,立方体形的
- feet
- 脚,英尺长度单位
- of
- 表示所有格、成分的介词
- flesh
- 肉体,身体
- But
- 但是,然而
- men
- 男人,人类
- under
- 在下面,处于状态下
- mistake
- 错误,弄错
- better
- 更好的,改善
- part
- 部分,角色
- the
- 定冠词,表示特定的人或物
- man
- 男人,人
- is
- 是,存在
- soon
- 很快,不久
- plowed
- 犁地,深入耕作
- into
- 进入,变成
- soil
- 土壤,污染
- for
- 为了,因为
- compost
- 堆肥,肥料
- By
- 被,由,通过
- seeming
- 表面上的,看起来
- fate
- 命运,宿命
- commonly
- 通常地,常常
- called
- 称为,叫做
- necessity
- 必要性,需要
- they
- 他们,那些人
- are
- 是
- employed
- 受雇,被使用
- as
- 作为,因为
- says
- 说,讲述
- in
- 在里面,在期间
- an
- 不定冠词
- old
- 古老的,年长的
- book
- 书,书籍
- laying
- 放置,产卵
- up
- 向上,贮存
- treasures
- 财宝,珍品
- which
- 关系代词,指物
- moth
- 蛾,虫
- rust
- 生锈,铁锈
- will
- 将会,意愿
- corrupt
- 腐烂,腐蚀
- thieves
- 小偷,盗贼
- break
- 打破,破裂
- through
- 穿过,通过
- steal
- 偷窃,盗取
- It
- 它,代词
- fool
- 傻瓜,愚蠢
- life
- 生活,生命
- when
- 当时候,何时
- get
- 得到,变得
- end
- 结束,末端
- if
- 如果,是否
- not
- 不,否定
- before
- 在前,之前
- said
- 说,被说过
- that
- 那个,指示代词
- created
- 创造,创建
- by
- 由,被
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