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美丽英文(散文卷)-第18部分
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他告诉我,自己特别珍惜我们面前的那个花坛。虽然那个花坛不足20码长,宽也不足2码,但是即使有人用英国最肥沃的百亩良田来换,他也坚决不妥协。他又补充说,去年冬天,要不是他的一个愚蠢的厨娘误把一堆郁金香球茎当成了洋葱做了汤,差点要了他的命,否则,这个花坛的价钱至少是现在的两倍。他说:“厨娘做的那碗汤,花了我整整一千多英镑。”他随后又给我看了他心目中最好的郁金香。我觉得那些郁金香珍贵的原因,主要是稀有,形态也非常奇异。由此我想到,不论我们有多少财富,都没有什么可珍贵的。
我从来没有捕风捉影的嗜好,不会因为某样东西不同寻常、很稀有,便用不同的眼光看待它。我认为这是一件值得高兴的事。因此,我把春日的乡野看做是一座花园,时常去看看雏菊,看看紫罗兰,就像花匠照看自己的花坛一样。周围绽放的每一朵花儿,都是那么熟悉,我不会错过一朵水仙、一簇迎春,即使它们的凋谢我也都知道。带着这种心情,我穿过几处农田,几片草地,向家走去。我想,这是神的赏赐,他把那些最令人高兴的、最美丽的事物变得那么平凡,那么简单。
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乡间万物孕育着乐趣,谷物、干草、黄牛、牛乳,每一处农家美景,每一处乡间乐章都是那么清新自然。像我们这些长久禁锢于躁动的市井之人,应在某个夏日的清晨,步出城墙,步出林立的房屋,步出水天污浊,走入一幅幅由欢乐的花儿组成的绝美景致中,吐纳于宜人的田间村舍,定会收获一份无以言表的满足与快乐!
Tulips
Joseph Addison
I chanced to rise very early one particular morning this summer; and took a walk into the country to divert myself among the fields and meadows; while the green was new; and the flowers in their bloom。 As at this season of the year every lane is a beautiful walk; and every hedge full of nosegays; I lost myself; with a great deal of pleasure; among several thickets and bushes that were filled with a great variety of birds; and an agreeable confusion of notes; which formed the pleasantest scene in the word to one who had passed a whole winter in noise and smoke。 The freshness of the dews that lay upon everything about me; with the cool breath of the morning; which inspired the birds with so many delightful instincts; created in me the same kind of animal pleasure; and made my heart overflow with such secret emotions of joy and satisfaction as are not to be described or accounted for。 On this occasion I could not but reflect upon a beautiful simile in Milton:书 包 网 txt小说上传分享
郁金香(3)
As one who long in populous city pent;
Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air;
Forth issuing on a summer’s morn; to breathe
Among the pleasant villages and farms
Adjoin’d; from each thing met conceived delight:
The smell of grain; or tended grass; or kine;
Or dairy; each rural sight; each rural sound。
Those who are conversant in the writings of polite authors receive an additional entertainment from the country; as it revives in their memories those charming descriptions; with which such authors do frequently abound。
I was thinking of the foregoing beautiful simile in Milton; and applying it to myself; when I observed to the windward of me a black cloud; falling to the earth in long trails of rain; which made me betake myself for shelter to a house saw at a little distance from the place where I was walking。 As I sat in the porch; I heard the voices of two or three persons; who seemed very earnest in discourse。 My curiosity was raised when I heard the names of Alexander the Great and Artaxerxes; and as their talk seemed to run on ancient heroes; I concluded there could not be any secret in it; for which reason thought I might very fairly listen to what they said。
After several parallels between great men; which appeared to me altogether groundless and chimerical; I was surprised to hear one say; that he valued the Black Prince more than the Duke of Venoms。 How the Duke of Vendosme should bee a rival of Black Prince; I couldn’t conceive; and was more startled when I heard a second affirm; with great vehemence; that if the Emperor of Germany was not going off; he should like him better than either of them。 He added; that though the season was so changeable; the Duke of Marlborough was in blooming beauty。 I was wondering to myself from whence they had received this odd intelligence: especially when I heard them mention the names of several other great generals; as the Prince of Hess and the King of Sweden; who; they said; were both running away。 To which they added; what I entirely agreed with them in; that the Crown of France was very weak; but that the Marshal Villars still kept his colors。 At last; one of them told the pany; if they would go along with him; he would show them a chimney…sweeper and a painted lady in the same bed; which he was sure would very much please them。 The shower which had driven them as well as myself into the house; was now over; and as they were passing by me into the garden; I asked them to let me be one of their pany。
The gentleman of the house told me; if I delighted in flowers; it would be worth my while; for that he believed he could show me such a blow of tulips as was not to be matched in the whole country。
I accepted the offer; and immediately found that they had been talking in terms of gardening; and that the kings and generals they had mentioned were only so many tulips; to which the gardeners; according to their usual custom; had given such high titles and appellations of honor。。 最好的txt下载网
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I was very much pleased and astonished at the glorious show of these gay vegetables; that arose in great profusion on all the banks about us。 Sometimes I considered every leaf as an elaborate piece of tissue; in which the threads and fibers were woven together into different configurations; which gave a different coloring to the light as it glanced on the several parts of the surface。 Sometimes I considered the whole bed of tulips; according to the notion of the greatest mathematician and philosopher that ever lived; as a multitude of optic instruments; designed for the separating light into all those various colors of which it is posed。
I was awakened out these my philosophical speculations; by observing the pany often seemed to laugh at me。 I accidentally praised a tulip as one of the finest ever saw; upon which they told me; it was a mon Fool’s Coat。 Upon that I praised another; which it seems was but another kind of Fool’s Coat。
I had the same fate with two or three more; for which reason I desired the owner of the garden to let me know which were the finest of the flower; for that I was so unskillful in the art; that I thought the most beautiful were the most valuable; and that those which had the gayest colours were the most beautiful。 The gentleman smiled at my ignorance。 He seemed a very plain honest man; and a person of good sense; had not his head been touched with that distemper which Hippocrates calls the Tulippomania; in so much that he would talk very rationally on any subject in the world but a tulip。
He told me; that he valued the bed of flowers which lay before us; and was not above twenty yards in length and two in breadth; more than he would the best hundred acres of land in England; and added; that it would have been worth twice the money it is; if a foolish cook; maid of his had not almost ruined him in the last winter; by mistaking a handful of tulip roots for a heap of onions; and “by that means;” says he; “made me a dish of pottage that cost me above thousand pounds sterling。” He then showed me what he thought the finest of his tulips; which I found received all their value from their rarity; and oddness; and put me in mind of our great fortunes; which are not always the greatest beauties。
I have often looked upon it as a piece of happiness; that I have never fallen into any of these fantastical tastes; nor esteemed anything the more for its being the unmon and hard to be met with。 For this reason I look upon the whole country in springtime as a spacious garden; and make as many visits to a spot of daisies or a bank of violets; as a florist does to his borders or parterres。 There is not a bush in blossom within a mile of me; which I am not acquainted with; nor scarce a daffodil of cowslip that withers away in my neighborhood without my missing it; I walked home in this temper of mind through several fields and meadows wit hand unspeakable pleasure; not without reflecting on the bounty of Providence which has made the most pleasing and most beautiful objects the most ordinary and most mon。
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自 然(1)
'美国'拉尔夫·瓦尔多·爱默生
一个想要追求孤独的人,不但要离开自己的卧室,还要离开社会。在我阅读和写作之时,尽管无人相伴,可我没有觉得孤独。然而,假如有谁用尽心思追求孤独,那就让他抬头凝望星空吧。那来自天国的光芒,能在他和他生活的天地之间分出一条界线。你也许会认为,如此的构想简直太棒了:在空旷辽阔的大地之上,人们抬头仰视星空,仿佛从中领悟到某种崇高的永恒。从城市的街道看过去,那种场面的确令人肃然起敬!假设天上的星星一千年才出现一次,可想而知它们会对这上苍的显圣是何等崇敬,又该是如何仔细地将它收藏进记忆里好流芳百世啊!只可惜,这些美的使者夜夜都会带着劝诫式的微笑降临,将光辉普照整个宇宙。
星星使我们产生的敬畏之心,不是因为它常常高悬于空中,而是因为它的可望而不可即。然而,只要拥有一颗包容的心,你就会发现世间万物和人类其实都是心灵相通的。自然从不把它吝啬的一面显露出来,顶尖聪明之人也不会强求打开它全部的奥秘,而会保留好奇之心去探寻它所有的完美之处。在智者看来,自然永远不会是一个玩物。鲜花、动物、山脉——折射出他的纯真童年——也是他最高智慧的体现。当我们以这种方式来谈论自然时,头脑中自然会产生一种清晰而又极富诗意的画面,这种画面是世间万物在我们的印象中留下的印迹的总和。也正是在这种印象的指引下,才会有伐木工手中的是木头、而诗人笔下却是大树的区别。今天早上我所看到的那一片令人陶醉的景色,毫无疑问它是由二三十个农场组成的。米勒占有这一块土地,洛克是那一片田野的主人,树林外面的那一片则归曼宁所有……可是,他们谁都不能拥有整片风景。远处有一块土地,谁也不能将其划在自己的名下,唯有那个又能看见土地又看得见风景的人,才是它真正的主人,而诗人正符合这样的要求。这个地方是农场主所有财产中最值钱的一部分,但按照他们的担保契约却并不是这样。坦率地讲,现在没有多少成年人能真正看得见自然了。大多数人都不看太阳,至少,只是肤浅地看。对成人而言,太阳只照亮了他们的眼睛,对孩子来说,太阳却照进了他们的眼睛与心灵。一个自然爱好者,他外在的知觉和内心的感触是和谐的,甚至在他成年以后,依然拥有一颗童心。在他看来,与天地的接触,是日常生活中不可分割的一部分,只要身处大自然中,不管生活中遭遇多大的悲痛,内心总会产生巨大的快乐。大自然说,他是我的杰作,不管他有多少没有原由的悲伤,他都会同我一起快乐。自然赋予我们的不仅仅是阳光、夏日、四季的变换,她每时每刻都在给予我们快乐与欣喜。这是因为,每一刻、每一个变化,不管是压抑的中午还是黑暗的午夜,都意味着一种别样的心情。在自然的舞台上,不仅能上演喜剧,也能烘托悲剧。
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文章写作者远离人类的喧嚣,走进大自然寻找快乐的感觉以及由此而发的丰富联想。作者置身于自然的纯洁、清新、甜美之中,抛开了尘世的纷繁、虚荣、虚伪和偏见,进入理想的境界。还开创了他透视万物眼球的理论,成为美国超现实主义的代表。在艺术上作者采用内心独白的表述,语言亲切自然,感情真挚。作者引领着读者用心与自然对话,感受自然赋予人类的一切。文章情景交融,充满诗情画意,给人精神上美的享受。
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To go into solitude; a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society。 I am not solitary whilst I read and write; though nobody is with me。 But if a man would be alone; let him look at the stars。 The rays that e from those heavenly worlds; will separate between him and what he touches。 One might think the atmosphere was made transparent1 with this design; to give man; in the heavenly bodies; the perpetual2 presence of the sublime。 Seen in the streets of cities; how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years; how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night e out these envoys of beauty; and light the universe with their admonishing smile。
自 然(2)
The stars awaken a certain reverence; because though always present; they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression; when the mind is open to their influence。 Nature never wears a mean appearance。 Neither does the wisest man extort her secret; and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection。 Nature never became a toy to a wise sp
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