Love Your Life热爱生活

By Henry David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it

不论你的生活如何卑微，你都得面对与度过

do not shun it and call it hard names

不要逃避，更不要抱怨

it is not so bad as you are

生活不像你认为的那般坏

It looks poorest when you are richest

当你富甲天下之时，生活却显得贫瘠乏味

The fault finder will find faults in paradise

即使在天堂，爱找缺点的人也能找到缺点。

Love your life, poor as it is

即使生活贫穷，你也该热爱生活

You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house

因为就是在贫济院，你也有自己快乐激动与光荣的岁月

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man’s abode

夕阳照在贫济院窗上的反光与照在富人家的一样耀目

The snow melts before its door as early in the spring.

其门前的积雪也同样在早春融化

I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there

我只是看到，一个心绪宁静的人就算居住在贫济院，生活起来也会心满意足。

And have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

思想愉悦，如同生活在皇宫中一样。

The town`s poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.

在我看来，城镇中的贫民大凡过着最为无拘无束的生活。

Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.

或许他们只是超乎寻常，不然岂会毫无疑惧地接受这一切。

Most think that they are above being supported by the town.

大多数人认为自己超凡脱俗而无须依赖城镇的资助