热爱生活 Love Your Life

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

  It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

  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.

  I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

  The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. 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. Which should be more disreputable.

  Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends, turn the old, return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

 

感到陌生的单词： 

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mean /miːn/

v. 意味着；表示……的意思，作……的解释；打算，意欲；使专门用于；导致，结果是；十分熟识；当真，说到做到；对某人重要

adj. 吝啬的，小气的；不善良的，刻薄的；要发怒的；熟练的，出色的；平均的；简陋的，破旧的；微薄的；<旧>出身卑贱的，社会地位低下的；中庸的，中等的；<美>凶狠的，好斗的

n. 中庸，折衷；平均数，中数；中间点

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shun /ʃʌn/

v.（故意）避开，躲开

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call it hard names

恶言相向

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paradise /ˈpærədaɪs/

n. （某些宗教所指的）天堂，天国；乐土（指美好的环境）；（某类活动或某类人的）乐园，完美去处；至福，极乐；（《圣经》中的）伊甸园（Paradise）

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thrilling /ˈθrɪlɪŋ/

adj. 令人激动的，惊险的，紧张的

v. 使（某人）非常兴奋，非常激动；（情感，感觉）颤抖，振动；<文>颤动，跳动（thrill 的现在分词）

thrill /θrɪl/

n. 兴奋，激动；使人兴奋的事物，令人激动的事；一阵强烈的感觉；（医）震颤；追求的快感；性快感

v. 使（某人）非常兴奋，非常激动；（情感，感觉）颤抖，振动；<文>颤动，跳动

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glorious /ˈɡlɔːriəs/

adj. 光荣的，值得称道的；辉煌的，绚丽的；极其愉快的；（天气）阳光灿烂的

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alms /ɑːmz/

n. 捐献；救济物，施舍金

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abode /əˈboʊd/

n. 住处；营业所

v. 遵守；停留；忍受（abide 的过去分词）

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melt /melt/

v. （使）熔化，融化；（逐渐）减少，消失；（使）软化，变得温柔；变成，融入

n. 融化，融合；熔化的金属，熔化物；一次的熔化量；<美>奶酪三明治

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contentedly /kənˈtentɪdli/

adv. 满足地；安心地

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misgiving /ˌmɪsˈɡɪvɪŋ/

n. 疑虑，担忧，不安

v. 使……疑虑，使担忧，使害怕（misgive 的现在分词）

misgive /mɪsˈɡɪv/

v. 使怀疑；使担心；使害怕

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disreputable /dɪsˈrepjətəbl/

adj. 声名狼藉的；肮脏的；破烂不堪的

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cultivate /ˈkʌltɪveɪt/

v. 开垦，耕作；栽培，培育；陶冶，培养；建立（友谊），结交

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poverty /ˈpɑːvərti/

n. 贫穷，贫困；<正式>贫乏，低劣；个人财产权的放弃（作为宗教誓约的一部分）

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herb /ɜːrb/

n. 药草，香草；草本植物

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sage /seɪdʒ/

n. <正式>智者，圣贤；鼠尾草（叶子用于烹饪）；浅灰绿色

adj. 睿智的，贤明的