【英語天天讀】自然

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre （['mɔ:gə]   prep. 不管）all his impertinent （[imˈpə:tnənt]a.無禮的；不相幹的）griefs, he shall be glad with me. Not the sun or the summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute （[ˈtribju:t]n.頌詞，稱贊）of delight; for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind, from breathless noon to grimmest （[grim]a.讨厭的）midnight. Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial （[ˈkɔ:diəl]a.熱情友好的，熱誠的）of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a man casts off （甩開）his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum （[diˈkɔ:rəm]n.禮節，禮貌）and sanctity （[ˈsæŋktiti]n.神聖；聖潔；尊嚴）reign, a perennial （[pəˈreniəl]a.終年的；長久的）festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, -- no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, -- my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, -- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to be acquaintances, -- master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate （['kɔneit]   adj. 天賦的, 先天的, 合著的）than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.

說實話，成年人很少能看到本質。大多數人看不到太陽。至少他們有一個非常膚淺的視覺。太陽隻能照亮成年人的眼睛，卻照進了孩子的眼睛和心靈。熱愛大自然的人縱然步入成年。與天地交流，是他的精神食糧。大自然的存在，本身就是一個奇迹。自然說，他是我的孩子，他和諸多的痛苦，他與我都很高興。不光是太陽和夏天，每一個時辰和季節奉獻自己的喜悅;每小時變化對應着不同的心理狀态，從無聲的正午到可怕的午夜。自然是一個設定，同樣适合上演喜劇或悲劇

我覺得不會降臨于我的生活，——沒有恥辱，沒有不幸，(留下我我的眼睛)，自然無法修複。站在空地上，我的頭腦沐浴在快樂的空氣，并上升到無限的空間，都意味着自我消失。我變成一個透明的眼球;我什麼都不是;我看見一切;宇宙的氣流流通我;我是上帝的一部分或粒子。密友的名字聽起來陌生和意外：是兄弟，是熟人，-船長或仆人。我熱愛着浩大而不朽的美。在曠野中，我發現一些更可愛和自然比在街道、村。在甯靜的風景，尤其在遙遠的地平線上，人們終于看到了與自然一樣美麗的。