《英語朗讀者No.72》-李霞-《Love your life》
《英語朗讀者》今天給大家介紹來自陝西漢中留壩縣江口鎮中心小學李霞老師的作品--《Love your life》
李霞老師在郵件中說:田老師,很高興能夠在西安舉行的「絲路之春「和「絲路之秋」全國名師大講堂的舞台上遇到您。您詼諧幽默生動有趣的課堂給我留下了深刻的印象,真是我心目中的大師。現在每天看看公眾號的動態成了一種習慣,《英語朗讀者》這樣一個平台讓我能夠欣賞更多的美文,聆聽更多優美的聲音。一直想參與到朗讀者的活動中來,這次終於鼓起了勇氣,還希望得到田大師的指導。
非常感謝李霞老師。感謝她的關注、信任和積极參与。李老師這次選擇了亨利·大衛·梭羅的經典篇章《Love your life》。梭羅,19世紀美國最具世界影響力的作家、哲學家。他強調親近自然、學習自然、熱愛自然,追求「簡單些、再簡單些」的質樸生活,提倡短暫人生因思想豐富而臻於完美。
再次感謝李霞老師,同時也感謝正在閱讀的您。讓我們一起來聆聽李霞老師的分享吧!
(李霞老師所在校園美景1)
Love Your Life
Henry David Thoreau
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 faultfinder 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 almshouse 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. Maybe 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.
(李霞老師所在校園的臘梅)
愛你的人生
不論你的生活如何卑微,面對它活下去,不要逃避,也不要惡言咒罵。生活不像你認為的那樣壞。當你最富有的時候,倒是看似最窮。愛挑毛病的人就是在天堂里也能找到缺點。即使你生活貧窮,也要熱愛生活。因為就是在濟貧院里,你也可以有快樂、激動、榮耀的時候。反射在濟貧院窗子上的夕陽,同反射在富戶人家窗上的一樣光亮;門前的積雪也同樣在春天早早的融化。在我見過的人中,只有心緒寧靜的人才可能生活得心滿意足、心懷歡快愉快的念頭,如同在皇宮中一樣。
在我看來,城鎮中的窮人,往往過著最獨立自主的生活。也許就是因為他們很偉大,能夠毫無疑慮坦然接受現實。大多數人認為他們高高在上,不需要城鎮的資助;可是事實上他們往往並不高尚,而是用不正當的手段來謀生,理應更加聲名狼藉。像聖人般視貧窮如花園中香草來種植照料吧!不要自尋煩惱去過分追求新奇,朋友也罷,衣服也罷。 翻開故往,回歸故往。萬物未變,是我們在變。賣掉你的衣服,保留你的思想。
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