Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience — Page 13
某些人那种不断的焦虑与紧张,几乎是一种无药可医的病症。
The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well nigh incurable form of disease.
我们被迫夸大自己所做工作的重要性;然而,有多少事情并非出自我们之手!
We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us!
或者,倘若我们生了病,又当如何?
or, what if we had been taken sick?
我们是何等谨慎警觉!下定决心,只要能够避免,就绝不凭信心度日;整日提心吊胆,到了夜晚,我们不情愿地祷告,将自己托付于种种不确定之中。
How vigilant we are! determined not to live by faith if we can avoid it; all the day long on the alert, at night we unwillingly say our prayers and commit ourselves to uncertainties.
我们就这样被迫彻底而真诚地活着,敬畏自己的生命,否认改变的可能性。
So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change.
我们说,这是唯一的路;然而,从同一个圆心出发,能画出多少条半径,便有多少条路。
This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre.
一切变化,细想起来都是奇迹;但这奇迹每时每刻都在发生。
All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
孔子说:"知之为知之,不知为不知,是知也。"
Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
当一个人将某个想象中的事实转化为理性所能理解的事实时,我预见所有的人终将在这一基础上建立自己的生活。
When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men at length establish their lives on that basis.
让我们来思考片刻:我所提及的那些烦恼与焦虑,究竟大多数是为了什么,以及我们究竟需要烦恼到何种程度,或者说,至少需要多么谨慎。
Let us consider for a moment what most of the trouble and anxiety which I have referred to is about, and how much it is necessary that we be troubled, or, at least, careful.
Vocabulary
- incessant
- 不断的,持续不停的,无休止的
- anxiety
- 焦虑,担忧,不安的情绪状态
- strain
- 压力,过度劳累,使劲用力
- well
- 好地,充分地,健康的状态
- nigh
- 接近,靠近,几乎(古语/诗语)
- incurable
- 无法治愈的,不能医治的疾病
- form
- 形成,形式,组织结构或样式
- disease
- 疾病,病症,身体或心理的不适
- made
- 制造,创造,使成为某种状态
- exaggerate
- 夸大,言过其实,过度描述事实
- importance
- 重要性,重要程度,具有价值意义
- work
- 工作,劳动,使用力量完成任务
- do
- 做,执行,完成动作或行为
- yet
- 仍然,然而,到目前为止还没有
- much
- 很多,大量,程度或数量很大
- done
- 完成,做完,过去分词形式
- taken
- 拿取,采取,动词take的过去分词
- sick
- 生病,患病,感到恶心的状态
- vigilant
- 警觉的,小心谨慎的,保持警惕
- determined
- 坚定的,有决心的,已确定的
- live
- 生活,居住,保持生命状态
- faith
- 信念,信仰,对某事的信任
- avoid
- 避免,躲避,不去接触或参与
- day
- 白天,一天,二十四小时的时间
- long
- 长的,长期的,时间跨度很大
- alert
- 警戒,警惕,时刻保持注意
- night
- 夜晚,夜间,太阳下山后的时间
- unwillingly
- 不情愿地,勉强地,不太想要
- say
- 说,讲,用言语表达观点
- prayers
- 祈祷,祷告,向神明献上的请求
- commit
- 委托,承诺,投入或献身于
- uncertainties
- 不确定性,未知因素,不明确的事物
- thoroughly
- 彻底地,完全地,非常仔细地
- sincerely
- 真诚地,诚恳地,发自真心地
- compelled
- 被迫,强制,被驱使必须做某事
- reverencing
- 尊敬,崇敬,表示深深的敬畏
- life
- 生活,人生,具有生命力的状态
- denying
- 否认,拒绝,不承认某事实
- possibility
- 可能性,可能发生的事或机会
- change
- 改变,变化,从一种状态到另一种
- only
- 唯一,仅有的,只不过或单单
- way
- 方式,方法,路径或方向
- many
- 许多,很多,数量很大的东西
- ways
- 方式,方法,多种途径或路线
- drawn
- 画,拉,被吸引或从某处取出
- radii
- 半径,从中心到圆周的距离
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