thoreau

Thoreau's main goal was to maintain his own moral virtue and his freedom to act on the truth as he saw it.

梭罗的主要目标是维护自己的道德原则和按照自己心目中的真理行事的自由。

That's a phrase from Thoreau we would invoke at the beginning of every meeting.

那句话摘自梭罗的诗句每次聚会我们都要先读它

Henry David Thoreau wrote, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet, desperation. " I never want to be a part of that group. How about you?

亨利，大卫，梭罗说过“大多数的人生活很平静，甚至是绝望。”我永远不想成为他们中的一员，你呢？

Today people continue to be inspired by his writing and his actions. Do you think Thoreau was a failure?

直到今日，人们还是会因为梭罗的作品与他的作为而有所启发。你觉得梭罗的一生是不是失败的呢？

Thoreau withheld the tax as a protest against slavery and the war with Mexico, which he did not support.

梭罗不愿意缴税的原因，是为了对他不愿意支持的奴隶制度与墨西哥战争表示抗议。

Thoreau usually saved himself by writing of what he knew: namely nature and his own character.

梭罗没有这个毛病，因为他写他熟悉的东西：自然和自己的性格。

Maybe it's this kind of frustration that caused Henry Thoreau to remark, "the mass of men live lives of quiet desperation. "

也许正因为这类可望不可即的烦恼，梭罗才会感慨，“大多数人的生活充满隐秘的绝望”。

Thoreau had his own firm sense of that balance: save on the petty in order to spend on the essential.

梭罗自己的坚定平衡信念是：小事省一省，大事有保证。

Thoreau: "The next time the novelist rings the bell, I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down. "

梭罗：“下一次，小说家拉响鸣钟时，即便他说是教堂起火我也不会移动一寸。”

Yet Thoreau himself was able to spend only two years in he cabin the built beside Walden Pond.

而梭罗本人也只是在瓦尔登湖畔自己造的小屋里度过两年时光。

Henry David Thoreau ? Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

学会忽略，是通向内在平静的一条大路–

Thoreau did various jobs for the Emerson family. including taking care of the children.

索洛替埃默森家做各种零活，包括照料小孩。

Thoreau was sincerity itself, and might fortify the convictions of prophets in the ethical laws by his holy living.

梭罗就是诚实本身，他也许是通过自己圣洁的生活在捍卫先知们的伦理信仰。

Inside, Thoreau had a desk, a table, three chairs, and a mirror, all of which he had made himself.

在小屋里面，索洛有一张书桌，一张餐桌，三把椅子和一面镜子，所有这些东西都是他亲手制成的。

Such was Thoreau's situation. It called for resistance to various pressures, but none was heavy enough to cause serious discomfort.

这就是梭罗的处境，他不得不抵抗各种压力，但是压力再重，他也没有感到局促不安。

Harvard Debater B: My opponent is right about one thing. Thoreau was a Harvard grad, and, like many of us, a bit self-righteous.

哈佛辩手乙：对方辩友有一件事说对了：梭罗确实是哈佛毕业生，而且他也像我们大多数人一样，有点自以为是。

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation (Henry David Thoreau).

男人们在沉静的绝望中生活（亨利大卫梭罗）。

Thoreau was also one of the first American supporters of Darwin's theory of evolution.

梭罗还是达尔文进化论的首位美国支持者。

Thoreau died, however, before he could publish his detailed observations of local wildflowers and wildfowl .

可惜他未能在死前将他对当地野花和野禽的观察公诸于世。

Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately . . . and suck all the marrow out of life.

梭罗：为了有计划地生活…并且吸取一切生活的菁华。