Paragraph 5 But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man1 is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a ... 阅读全文
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Paragraph 4 I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and far ... 阅读全文
Paragraph 3 I would fain say something, not so much concerning the Chinese and Sandwich Islanders 1as you who read these ... 阅读全文
Paragraph 2 I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if very particular inquiries had not bee ... 阅读全文
Chapter 1 ECONOMY1第一章 经济 Paragraph 1 When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the ... 阅读全文
译注版说明《瓦尔登湖》的文字魅力，很大程度上来自梭罗的语言。一个普通的词语、一个看似平常的表达，往往承载着比字面更丰富的经验与联想。因此，本文的注释并不试图替读者总结梭罗的思想，也不预先给出某个意象的唯一解释，而是希望通过对词语、句式和语言 ... 阅读全文
《瓦尔登湖》第一章“经济篇”的第九段，十分短小，梭罗在这里完成了一个重要转折，成了理解整部《瓦尔登湖》，理解梭罗思想的关键。原文如下： The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Wha ... 阅读全文
1848年的春天，在《纽约论坛报》的主编办公室里，霍勒斯·格里利，在一大堆需要处理的投稿和商务往来的信件中，打开了一封来自康科德的私人回信。信中这样写道： My Friend Greeley,For the last five years ... 阅读全文