贫富：用心体验，热爱生活

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Love Your Life
　　　　　　 　　　　　by Henry David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names%26#46;It is not so bad as you are%26#46;

mean adj%26#46; 简陋的、卑贱的　　shun v%26#46; 避开

It looks poorest when you are richest%26#46;The fault-finder will find faults in paradise%26#46; Love your life, poor as it is%26#46;

You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house%26#46; The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring%26#46; I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace%26#46;

abode n%26#46; 住所、住处　　contentedly adv%26#46; 满足地、安心地

The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any%26#46; Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving%26#46; Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means%26#46; which should be more disreputable%26#46;

misgiving n%26#46; 疑虑　　disreputable adj%26#46; 声名狼藉的

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage%26#46;Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends%26#46; Turn the old, return to them%26#46;

cultivate v%26#46; 培养　　herb n%26#46; 草本植物、香草　　sage n%26#46; 圣人、贤人

Things do not change; we change%26#46; Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts%26#46;

　　 热爱生活
　　 作者：享利-大卫-梭罗

　　不论你的生活如何卑贱，你要面对它生活，不要躲避它，更别用恶言咒骂它。它不像你那样坏。

　　你最富有的时候，倒是看似最穷。爱找缺点的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺点。

　　你要爱你的生活，尽管它贫穷。甚至在一个济贫院里，你也还有愉快、高兴、光荣的时候。夕阳反射在济贫院的窗上，像身在富户人家窗上一样光亮；在那门前，积雪同在早春融化。我只看到，一个从容的人，在哪里也像在皇宫中一样，生活得心满意足而富有愉快的思想。

　　城镇中的穷人，我看，倒往往是过着最独立不羁的生活。也许因为他们很伟大，所以受之无愧。大多数人以为他们是超然的，不靠城镇来支援他们；可是事实上他们是往往利用了不正当的手段来对付生活，他们是毫不超脱的，毋宁是不体面的。

　　视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧！不要找新的花样，无论是新的朋友或新的衣服，来麻烦你自己。找旧的，回到那里去。

　　万物不变，是我们在变。你的衣服可以卖掉，但要保留你的思想。