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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
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| 0:00 | Walden What do we really need to live a good life? | 沃尔登 我们到底需要什么才能过上好日子? |
| 0:05 | Do we need a big house, a successful career, and many things to feel happy? | 我们需要一个大房子,一个成功的事业,以及很多事情来感到快乐吗? |
| 0:11 | Or can a person find a better life by having less and spending more time with nature? | 或者一个人可以通过减少和花更多的时间与自然相处来找到更好的生活? |
| 0:18 | These are some of the questions behind Walden, the famous book by Henry David Thoreau. | 这些是亨利·大卫·索罗的著名著作"瓦尔登"背后的一些问题. |
| 0:24 | The book is not a traditional novel with a complicated plot. | 该书并非传统小说,情节复杂. |
| 0:29 | It is based on Thoreau's real experience of living alone in a small cabin near Walden Pond in Massachusetts. | 它基于索罗在马萨诸塞州瓦尔登塘附近一个小小木屋里独居的真实经历. |
| 0:38 | Through his life in the woods, he watched nature, worked for his basic needs, | 在树林里 他看着大自然 为他的基本需要而工作 |
| 0:44 | met visitors, and thought deeply about society and human life. | 结识了来访者,深思社会和人的生命。 |
| 0:50 | In the middle of the 19th century, Henry David Thoreau lived in Concord, Massachusetts. | 19世纪中叶,亨利·大卫·索罗住在马萨诸塞州的康科德. |
| 0:57 | He was a writer, thinker, and naturalist. | 他是一个作家,思想家,和自然主义者. |
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| 1 | Walden What do we really need to live a good life? | 沃尔登 我们到底需要什么才能过上好日子? |
| 2 | Do we need a big house, a successful career, and many things to feel happy? | 我们需要一个大房子,一个成功的事业,以及很多事情来感到快乐吗? |
| 3 | Or can a person find a better life by having less and spending more time with nature? | 或者一个人可以通过减少和花更多的时间与自然相处来找到更好的生活? |
| 4 | These are some of the questions behind Walden, the famous book by Henry David Thoreau. | 这些是亨利·大卫·索罗的著名著作"瓦尔登"背后的一些问题. |
| 5 | The book is not a traditional novel with a complicated plot. | 该书并非传统小说,情节复杂. |
| 6 | It is based on Thoreau's real experience of living alone in a small cabin near Walden Pond in Massachusetts. | 它基于索罗在马萨诸塞州瓦尔登塘附近一个小小木屋里独居的真实经历. |
| 7 | Through his life in the woods, he watched nature, worked for his basic needs, | 在树林里 他看着大自然 为他的基本需要而工作 |
| 8 | met visitors, and thought deeply about society and human life. | 结识了来访者,深思社会和人的生命。 |
| 9 | In the middle of the 19th century, Henry David Thoreau lived in Concord, Massachusetts. | 19世纪中叶,亨利·大卫·索罗住在马萨诸塞州的康科德. |
| 10 | He was a writer, thinker, and naturalist. | 他是一个作家,思想家,和自然主义者. |
| 11 | He enjoyed walking through the woods and fields around his home. | 他喜欢走在树林和田野周围的家。 |
| 12 | He watched birds, animals, trees, and the changing seasons. | 他看着鸟类、动物、树木和季节的变化。 |
| 13 | He also spent a great deal of time thinking about the way people lived. | 他还花了很多时间思考人们的生活方式. |
| 14 | Around him, many people were busy working, earning money, building houses, buying things, | 在他周围,很多人忙着工作,赚钱,建房子,买东西, |
| 15 | and trying to become more successful. | 并试图变得更成功。 |
| 16 | Thoreau began to wonder whether people were making their lives too complicated. | 索罗开始怀疑人们的生活是否过于复杂. |
| 17 | People often worked long hours to pay for things they did not truly need. | 人们常常长时间工作来支付他们真正不需要的东西。 |
| 18 | They worried about money, social status, and the opinions of others. | 他们担心金钱、社会地位和他人的意见。 |
| 19 | They seemed to spend so much time preparing for life that they had little time to actually live. | 他们似乎花了很多时间为生活做准备,以至于几乎没有时间实际生活. |
| 20 | Thoreau wanted to find out what would happen if he lived more simply. | 索罗想知道如果他活得更简单会怎样 |
| 21 | In 1845, when he was 28 years old, he decided to build a small cabin beside Walden Pond. | 1845年,当他28岁时,他决定建造一个小木屋,在瓦尔登塘旁. |
| 22 | The pond was about two miles from Concord. | 池塘距协和约2英里. |
| 23 | The land belonged to his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, who allowed Thoreau to use it. | 这片土地属于他的朋友拉尔夫·瓦尔多·爱默生,他允许索罗使用. |
| 24 | Thoreau did not move into the woods because he hated people. | 索罗没有搬进树林,因为他讨厌人. |
| 25 | He also did not plan to stay there forever. | 他也不打算永远呆在那里。 |
| 26 | He wanted to spend some time away from ordinary society and observe life more carefully. | 他想离开普通社会一段时间,更仔细地观察生活. |
| 27 | With simple tools and some help from his friends, | 有了简单的工具 还有他朋友的帮助 |
| 28 | he built a small wooden cabin in the woods. | 他在树林里建了一个小木屋 |
| 29 | The cabin was not large. | 船舱并不大。 |
| 30 | It had a bed, a table, a few chairs, a fireplace, and some basic things for daily life. | 它有一张床,一张桌子,几把椅子,一个壁炉,还有一些日常生活的基本东西. |
| 31 | The cabin gave him a very different kind of home. | 木屋给了他非常不同的家. |
| 32 | There were no expensive decorations. | 没有昂贵的装饰。 |
| 33 | There was no large kitchen. | 没有大厨房 |
| 34 | No crowded rooms. | 没有拥挤的房间。 |
| 35 | And no collection of unnecessary objects. | 而且没有收集不必要的物品。 |
| 36 | There was only what he needed. | 只有他需要的东西。 |
| 37 | Thoreau also kept careful track of how much money he spent building the cabin. | Thoreau还仔细追踪他花了多少钱建造小屋. |
| 38 | He wanted to know exactly what it cost to create a simple place to live. | 他想知道创造一个简单的住处要花多少钱。 |
| 39 | After the cabin was ready, he began his new life at Walden Pond. | 在小屋准备好后,他在瓦尔登塘开始了新的生活. |
| 40 | His days followed a simple rhythm. | 他的日子遵循简单的节奏. |
| 41 | He woke in the morning and listened to the sounds around him. | 他早上醒来,听到周围的声音。 |
| 42 | Sometimes he heard birds singing. | 有时他听到鸟儿唱歌. |
| 43 | Sometimes the woods were almost completely silent. | 有时树林几乎完全寂静. |
| 44 | He watched the sunlight move across the trees and water. | 他看着阳光穿过树和水 |
| 45 | He cooked simple meals, cleaned his cabin, worked in his garden, read books, | 他做简单的饭, 清理他的小屋, 在他的花园工作, 阅读书籍, |
| 46 | wrote, and walked through the surrounding woods. | 写作,走过周围的树林。 |
| 47 | He grew beans and other crops on a small piece of land. | 他在一块小土地上种植豆类和其他作物. |
| 48 | He also bought some food and supplies when necessary. | 他还在必要时购买了一些食物和用品. |
| 49 | His goal was not to completely separate himself from the outside world. | 他的目标并不是完全脱离外界. |
| 50 | Instead, he wanted to reduce his dependence on money and unnecessary possessions. | 相反,他想要减少对金钱和不必要的财物的依赖. |
| 51 | For Thoreau, working with his hands was part of the experiment. | 对于索罗来说,用双手工作是实验的一部分. |
| 52 | He wanted to understand how much work a person really needed to do in order to live. | 他想了解一个人为了生活到底需要做多少工作. |
| 53 | He also wanted to see how much time people spent working | 他还想知道人们花了多少时间工作 |
| 54 | simply because they had created expensive lifestyles for themselves. | 只是因为他们为自己创造了昂贵的生活方式。 |
| 55 | As he worked in his garden, he began to notice how closely human life was connected to nature. | 当他在自己的花园工作时,他开始注意到人类生活与自然的关系有多密切. |
| 56 | The seasons changed slowly around him. | 他身边的季节慢慢变了 |
| 57 | In spring, the ice on Walden Pond began to melt. | 春季,瓦登塘上的冰开始融化. |
| 58 | The water moved again, and the woods became alive with new sounds. | 水再次移动,树林随着新的声音而变得活泼. |
| 59 | Plants began to grow. | 植物开始生长. |
| 60 | Birds returned. | 鸟归来. |
| 61 | The earth seemed to wake after a long winter. | 长冬后,大地似乎醒了. |
| 62 | Thoreau paid close attention to these changes. | 索罗密切关注这些变化. |
| 63 | He watched the pond, sometimes for hours. | 他监视了池塘,有时长达数小时. |
| 64 | Its surface could look completely different depending on the weather and the time of day. | 它的表面可能视天气和时间而完全不同. |
| 65 | In the morning, the water might be calm and bright. | 清晨,水可能平静而明亮. |
| 66 | Under the afternoon sun, it could shine like glass. | 在下午的太阳下,它可以像玻璃一样闪耀. |
| 67 | On a cloudy day, it could become dark and quiet. | 在一片阴云中,它可能变得阴暗而安静。 |
| 68 | To other people, Walden Pond might simply have been a pond. | 对其他人来说,沃尔登池塘可能只是个池塘. |
| 69 | To Thoreau, it became a world of its own. | 对索罗来说,它变成了自己的世界. |
| 70 | He studied its depth and shape. | 他研究了它的深度和形状. |
| 71 | He watched the fish in the water and the animals living around the shore. | 他看着水中的鱼和岸边的动物 |
| 72 | He noticed the sounds of the wind and the movement of the seasons. | 他注意到风声和季节运动. |
| 73 | The more carefully he observed nature, the more he felt that people often moved through life | 他越仔细地观察大自然,就越觉得人们常常在生活中移动 |
| 74 | without truly seeing what was around them. | 没有真正看到周围的东西。 |
| 75 | Although Thoreau lived alone, he was not completely isolated. | 虽然索罗独自生活,但他并不完全孤立. |
| 76 | People often came to visit him at the cabin. | 人们经常来小屋看他 |
| 77 | Some were friends from Concord. | 有些是康科德的朋友。 |
| 78 | Others were travelers or people who were simply curious about the man living in the woods. | 其他人是旅行者或只是好奇住在树林里的人的人。 |
| 79 | Thoreau welcomed many of them. | 索罗欢迎他们中的许多人. |
| 80 | Sometimes several people visited at the same time. | 有时有好几个人同时来访. |
| 81 | The small cabin could become crowded, but Thoreau did not always see this as a problem. | 小木屋可能会变得拥挤,但索罗并不总认为这是个问题. |
| 82 | He enjoyed talking with people and listening to their stories. | 他喜欢与人们交谈,并倾听他们的故事. |
| 83 | He also sometimes walked back to Concord to see friends and family. | 他也时常走回康科德看朋友和家人. |
| 84 | His life at Walden was therefore not a complete escape from society. | 因此,他在瓦尔登的生平并非完全脱离社会. |
| 85 | He remained connected to the people around him. | 他与周围的人保持联系。 |
| 86 | The difference was that he now had more freedom to choose how he spent his time. | 不同的是,他现在有更多的自由去选择他如何度过时间. |
| 87 | This was important to him. | 这对他很重要 |
| 88 | He believed that a person should not simply follow the life that society tells them to follow. | 他认为,一个人不应该简单地遵循社会要求他们遵循的生活。 |
| 89 | If everyone around you is buying expensive things, that does not mean you need to buy them too. | 如果你周围的人都在买昂贵的东西 那并不意味着你也要买 |
| 90 | If everyone is working long hours, that does not automatically mean you should do the same. | 如果每个人都在工作很长的时间,那并不自动意味着你也应该这样做。 |
| 91 | If everyone believes that success means having more money, | 如果每个人都相信成功意味着拥有更多的钱, |
| 92 | you can still ask whether money is really the most important thing. | 你还可以问钱是不是最重要的东西 |
| 93 | Thoreau wanted people to think for themselves. | 索罗希望人们为自己着想. |
| 94 | One of his greatest concerns was the way people became trapped by their possessions. | 他最担心的一个问题是人们如何被他们的财物所困. |
| 95 | A person might buy a large house and then need to work for many years to pay for it. | 一个人可能购买大房子,然后需要工作多年才能支付. |
| 96 | Because of the house, the person might need a better job. | 因为房子,这个人可能需要更好的工作. |
| 97 | Because of the better job, the person might have less free time. | 因为工作做得更好,这个人可能没有那么空闲的时间. |
| 98 | Then the person might buy more things to make up for the lack of time. | 然后这个人可能会买更多的东西来弥补时间的不足. |
| 99 | The cycle could continue for years. | 周期可以持续数年。 |
| 100 | Thoreau believed that people sometimes became servants of the things they owned. | 索罗相信人们有时会成为他们拥有的东西的仆人. |
| 101 | His own cabin showed another possibility. | 他自己的小屋也展现了另一种可能性. |
| 102 | He had very little, but because he needed very little, he also had more freedom. | 他很少,但是由于他需要的很少,他也有更多的自由. |
| 103 | He could spend a morning walking beside the pond instead of sitting in an office. | 他可以在池塘边散步 而不是坐在办公室里 |
| 104 | He could stop working and watch the birds. | 他可以停止工作 看鸟。 |
| 105 | He could read, write, think, or simply sit quietly. | 他可以阅读、写作、思考或静静地坐着。 |
| 106 | For him, time was more valuable than many material possessions. | 对他来说,时间比许多物质财产更有价值。 |
| 107 | His life was not always easy. | 他的生活并不总是容易的。 |
| 108 | The weather could be cold. | 天气可能会很冷 |
| 109 | Winter at Walden Pond was especially difficult. | 沃尔登塘的冬天特别困难. |
| 110 | When the temperature dropped, the pond froze and snow covered the woods. | 当气温下降时,池塘冻死,雪覆盖了树林. |
| 111 | Thoreau had to keep his cabin warm with firewood. | 索罗只好用柴火温暖他的小屋. |
| 112 | He also had to prepare food and take care of his daily needs. | 他还必须准备食物和照顾日常需要。 |
| 113 | But the difficult conditions helped him understand the difference between real needs | 但困难的条件帮助他理解了 真正的需要之间的区别 |
| 114 | and unnecessary wants. | 和不必要的欲望。 |
| 115 | In winter, he watched the pond freeze. | 冬天,他看着池塘冻死. |
| 116 | The water that had once been moving became solid. | 曾经移动过的水变得坚固 |
| 117 | Snow covered the ground, and the trees stood quietly under the cold sky. | 白雪遮盖了地面,树静静地站在寒冷的天空下. |
| 118 | The world seemed to slow down. | 世界似乎减慢了。 |
| 119 | Thoreau continued to observe everything around him. | 索罗继续观察他周围的一切. |
| 120 | Even when nature appeared quiet, he could find movement and life. | 即使大自然显得安静,他也能找到运动和生命. |
| 121 | Animals searched for food. | 动物寻找食物。 |
| 122 | Birds moved through the trees. | 鸟儿从树上移动 |
| 123 | The wind changed the snow on the ground. | 风变地上雪. |
| 124 | He learned that nature did not need to be exciting to be interesting. | 他得知,自然不需要刺激而有趣. |
| 125 | Sometimes the smallest changes were enough. | 有时最小的变化就足够了。 |
| 126 | As time passed, Thoreau became more aware of the people living near the pond. | 随着时间的流逝,索罗更加意识到住在池塘附近的人们. |
| 127 | He saw farmers working in their fields. | 他看到农民在他们的田里干活. |
| 128 | He saw travelers passing by. | 他看见旅行者经过。 |
| 129 | Trains moved through the area, connecting Concord with other places. | 列车经过该地区,连接康科德与其他地方. |
| 130 | The railroad was a symbol of the changing world. | 铁路是变化世界的象征. |
| 131 | Modern life was moving quickly. | 现代生活进展很快。 |
| 132 | Business, transportation, industry, and new technology were changing the way people lived. | 商业、交通、工业和新技术正在改变人们的生活方式。 |
| 133 | Thoreau did not believe that every new development was bad, | 索罗不相信每一个新的发展都是不好的, |
| 134 | but he worried that people were becoming too busy to ask where all this progress was taking them. | 但是他担心人们太忙 无法问这些进展是怎样的 |
| 135 | A faster train could save time, but what did people do with the time they saved? | 更快的列车可以节省时间,但人们所节省的时间又如何? |
| 136 | A machine could make work easier, but did people use their extra time to enjoy life, | 机器可以让工作更容易, 但人们有没有利用 额外的时间享受生活, |
| 137 | or did they simply find more work to do? | 还是他们只是找更多的工作做? |
| 138 | These questions stayed with him. | 这些问题留在他身边。 |
| 139 | Thoreau also believed that people should pay attention to the present moment. | 索罗也认为人们应该关注目前的时刻. |
| 140 | Many people lived either in the past or in the future. | 许多人生活在过去或未来。 |
| 141 | They worried about what had already happened, | 他们担心已经发生的事 |
| 142 | or they spent all their energy preparing for what might happen next. | 或者他们用所有精力来准备 接下来会发生什么 |
| 143 | Thoreau wanted to live more fully in the present. | 索罗想更充分地生活在现在 |
| 144 | At Walden Pond, he had the chance to practice this idea every day. | 在瓦尔登塘,他每天都有机会练习这个想法. |
| 145 | He watched the sunrise. | 他看着日出。 |
| 146 | He listened to the rain. | 他听了雨声 |
| 147 | He walked through the woods. | 他穿过树林 |
| 148 | He observed animals. | 他观察动物。 |
| 149 | He worked in the soil. | 他在土壤里工作过 |
| 150 | He watched the pond change with the seasons. | 他看着池塘随季节而变化. |
| 151 | These ordinary experiences became meaningful because he gave them his full attention. | 这些普通的经验变得有意义,因为他给予了他们充分的关注. |
| 152 | One day, while living near the pond, Thoreau saw a loon on the water. | 一天,在住在池塘附近时,索罗看到水上有一个龙. |
| 153 | The bird moved quickly across the pond and disappeared into the distance. | 这只鸟迅速穿越池塘,消失在远处. |
| 154 | Thoreau followed its movement with his eyes. | 索罗用眼睛跟着它移动. |
| 155 | The loon became difficult to catch, almost like a small mystery moving across the water. | 猪笼草变得难以捕捉, 几乎像一个小谜 移动过水面。 |
| 156 | Experiences like this reminded him that nature could never be completely controlled. | 这样的经验提醒他,自然永远无法完全控制. |
| 157 | The woods were not a machine. | 树林不是机器 |
| 158 | They were alive, changing every day. | 他们活着,每天都在变 |
| 159 | This helped Thoreau understand that human beings were also part of nature, | 这帮助索罗理解人类也是自然的一部分, |
| 160 | even when they tried to separate themselves from it. | 即便他们试图与它分离。 |
| 161 | He did not want people to become completely wild or abandon society. | 他不希望人们变得完全野生或放弃社会. |
| 162 | Instead, he wanted them to remember that life was larger than work, money, and possessions. | 相反,他希望他们记住,生活比工作、金钱和财产还要大。 |
| 163 | During his time at Walden, Thoreau also thought about loneliness. | 在瓦尔登期间,索罗也考虑过孤独. |
| 164 | Living alone gave him freedom, but it did not mean that he never felt alone. | 独自生活给了他自由,但这并不意味着他从未感到孤独. |
| 165 | Yet he discovered that being alone was not always the same as being lonely. | 然而,他发现,独自一人并不总是与孤独一样。 |
| 166 | A person could be surrounded by hundreds of people and still feel empty. | 一个人可能被数百人包围,仍然感觉空虚. |
| 167 | Another person could sit alone beside a pond and feel connected to the world. | 另一个人可以独自坐在池塘边 感觉与世界有关 |
| 168 | For Thoreau, nature provided that connection. | 对索罗来说,大自然提供了这种联系。 |
| 169 | The trees, birds, water, sky, and changing seasons became companions in their own way. | 树木,鸟类,水,天空,以及变化中的季节都以自己的方式成为同伴. |
| 170 | He also believed that reading could connect a person with people from different times | 他还认为阅读可以将一个人与来自不同时代的人联系起来. |
| 171 | and places. | 和地点。 |
| 172 | Inside his small cabin, he read books by great writers and thinkers. | 在他的小屋里,他阅读了伟大的作家和思想家的书籍. |
| 173 | The physical world around him was simple, but his mind could travel far beyond the woods. | 他周围的物理世界很简单,但他的心灵可以远行于树林之外. |
| 174 | This was another reason he valued a simple life. | 这是他珍视简单生活的另一个原因。 |
| 175 | When he removed unnecessary distractions, he had more time to read and think. | 当他移除不必要的分心时,他有更多的时间阅读和思考. |
| 176 | As the months passed, Thoreau continued his experiment. | 随着几个月的流逝,索罗继续了他的实验. |
| 177 | He worked when he needed to work. | 他需要工作的时候工作 |
| 178 | He rested when he needed to rest. | 他需要休息的时候休息 |
| 179 | He grew food, bought some supplies, received visitors, walked to town, | 他种植食物,买一些用品, 接待访客,走进城市, |
| 180 | and continued observing nature. | 继续观察 |
| 181 | He did not become completely independent from society. | 他并没有完全独立于社会。 |
| 182 | Instead, he learned how much he actually needed from society. | 相反,他得知了从社会上他实际上需要多少. |
| 183 | He discovered that living simply did not mean having nothing. | 他发现生活并不意味着一无所有。 |
| 184 | It meant understanding what was enough. | 它意味着理解什么是足够的。 |
| 185 | Eventually, another spring arrived. | 最终又来了个春天 |
| 186 | The ice on Walden Pond began to break apart. | 沃尔登塘上的冰块开始破裂. |
| 187 | Water appeared again beneath the frozen surface. | 水又出现在冰冻的表面之下。 |
| 188 | The woods slowly changed color. | 树林慢慢变了颜色 |
| 189 | New plants grew, and birds returned. | 新植物生长 鸟儿们回来了 |
| 190 | The cycle of nature continued. | 大自然的循环仍在继续。 |
| 191 | Thoreau had now spent about two years and two months living at Walden Pond. | 索罗现在在瓦尔登塘生活了大约两年两个月。 |
| 192 | In September 1847, he left the cabin. | 1847年9月,他离开小屋. |
| 193 | His experiment had come to an end. | 他的实验已经结束了 |
| 194 | He did not leave because he had failed. | 他没有离开,因为他失败了。 |
| 195 | He had simply learned what he wanted to learn. | 他只知道自己想学什么 |
| 196 | He returned to ordinary life in Concord, but his experience at Walden remained with him. | 他回到了康科德的平凡生活,但他在瓦尔登的经历仍然留在他身边. |
| 197 | Later, he wrote about his time there. | 后来,他写了自己在那里的时间. |
| 198 | 该书成为了Walden. | |
| 199 | A work about simple living, nature, independence, work, and the way people choose to spend their | 一部关于简单生活、自然、独立、工作和人们选择的 |
| 200 | lives. | 活着 |
| 201 | Thoreau discovered that a simple cabin could give him something a large house could not. | 索罗发现,一个简单的小屋可以给他一些大房子不能给他的东西. |
| 202 | Time to think. | 该思考了 |
| 203 | A quiet pond could teach him something that a busy city could not. | 一个安静的池塘可以教他一些 忙碌的城市不能教的东西 |
| 204 | How to pay attention. | 如何是当心处. |
| 205 | And living with fewer things could give him something money could not easily | 和较少的东西生活 会给他一些钱 不容易 |
| 206 | buy. | 买 |
| 207 | Freedom. | 自由权。 |
| 208 | Sometimes, a simpler life can give us more time to notice the world, | 有时,一个简单的生活 可以给我们更多的时间 关注世界, |
| 209 | understand ourselves, and live with greater freedom. | 了解我们自己, 并生活在更大的自由。 |
| 210 | And that may be what Thoreau wanted | 这可能是索罗想要的 |
| 211 | us to discover beside Walden Pond. | 我们发现在瓦登池塘旁。 |
| 212 | Thank you for watching. | 谢谢你的观看。 |
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