Henry David Thoreau美国超验主义作家梭罗简介及《瓦尔登湖》赏析英文.ppt

Inde genus durum sumus, experiensque laborum, Et documenta damus qua simus origine nati. From thence our kind hard-hearted is, enduring pain and care, Approving that our bodies of a stony nature are. (Economy:5) 从此人类成为坚韧之物，历尽千辛万苦，以证明我们的身体本是岩石。 Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. (Economy:8) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. (Economy:9) What old people say you cannot do you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a-going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe with the speed of birds... Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned any thing of absolute value by living. Practically, the old have no very important advice to give the young, their own experience has been so partial, and their lives have been such miserable failures.(Economy:10) But man’s capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried…“be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone?”(Economy:12) With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. (Economy:19) The life which men praise and regard as su