Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience — Page 6
实际上,劳动者日复一日地根本没有闲暇去追求真正的诚信;
Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day;
他无法负担起与人保持最有男子气概的关系;
he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men;
他的劳动在市场上会被贬值。
his labor would be depreciated in the market.
他没有时间成为任何东西,只是一台机器。
He has no time to be anything but a machine.
一个人如此频繁地运用自己的知识,又怎能好好记住自己的无知——而正是这种无知是他成长所需要的?
How can he remember well his ignorance—which his growth requires—who has so often to use his knowledge?
我们应该有时免费供给他饮食衣物,用我们的补品来使他恢复元气,然后再对他作出评判。
We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him.
我们本性中最美好的品质,就像果实上的那层霜花,只有经过最细心的呵护才能得以保全。
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling.
然而我们对待自己和彼此却从未如此温柔。
Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
我们都知道,你们中有些人很贫穷,生活艰难,有时就像在喘不过气来。
Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath.
我毫不怀疑,你们中读这本书的一些人,无力支付自己实际吃过的所有饭食,或是那些正在迅速磨损或已经穿破的外套和鞋子的钱,
I have no doubt that some of you who read this book are unable to pay for all the dinners which you have actually eaten, or for the coats and shoes which are fast wearing or are already worn out,
你们是来到这一页,用借来的或偷来的时间,从债主那里偷走了一个小时。
and have come to this page to spend borrowed or stolen time, robbing your creditors of an hour.
Vocabulary
- Actually
- 事实上,用于强调真实情况
- laboring
- 从事体力劳动的,辛苦工作的
- leisure
- 闲暇,空闲时间,休闲时光
- integrity
- 正直,诚实,道德完整性
- afford
- 负担得起,有能力承担费用
- sustain
- 维持,支撑,持续保持某种状态
- manliest
- 最具男子气概的,最勇敢刚毅的
- relations
- 关系,联系,人际关系
- labor
- 劳动,工作,体力劳动
- depreciated
- 贬值的,价值降低,被低估的
- ignorance
- 无知,缺乏知识或了解
- growth
- 成长,增长,发展
- requires
- 需要,要求,必须具备
- clothe
- 给……穿衣,为人提供衣物
- gratuitously
- 免费地,无偿地,无缘无故地
- recruit
- 恢复精力,补充,招募新成员
- cordials
- 提神饮料,滋补品,温暖人心之物
- judge
- 评判,判断,做出裁定
- finest
- 最好的,最优质的,最精美的
- qualities
- 品质,特质,优良特性
- bloom
- 花朵,开花,最美好的状态
- preserved
- 保存的,保留的,被保护的
- delicate
- 精细的,柔嫩的,需小心对待的
- handling
- 处理,对待,操作方式
- Yet
- 然而,但是,表示转折的连词
- treat
- 对待,看待,款待某人
- nor
- 也不,用于否定的并列连词
- thus
- 因此,这样,以这种方式
- tenderly
- 温柔地,轻柔地,体贴地
- gasping
- 喘气,上气不接下气,渴望
- breath
- 呼吸,气息,一口气
- doubt
- 怀疑,疑问,不确定
- unable
- 不能够,无法做某事
- actually
- 实际上,事实上,真正地
- coats
- 外套,大衣,上衣
- worn
- 磨损的,穿旧的,疲惫的
- borrowed
- 借来的,借用的
- stolen
- 偷来的,被盗的,steal的过去分词
- robbing
- 抢劫,剥夺,从某人处偷取
- creditors
- 债权人,借钱给人的人
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