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2021年1月14日发(作者：吉福)
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Solitude

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the
time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome
and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the
companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for
the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than
when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is
always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not
measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man
and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the
crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a
dervish in the desert. The farmer can work alone in the field
or the woods all day, hoeing or chopping, and not feel
lonesome, because he is employed; but when he comes home at
night he cannot sit down in a room alone, at the mercy of his
thoughts, but must be where he can ：see the folks,：” and
recreate, and, as he thinks, remunerate himself for his
day’s solitude; and hence he wonders how the student can sit
alone in the house all night and most of the day without
ennui and ：the blues：; but he does not realize that the
student, though in the house, is still at work in his field,
and chopping in his woods, as the farmer in his, and in turn
seeks the same recreation and society that the latter does,
though it may be a more condensed form of it.

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short
intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for
each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each
other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. We
have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette
and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and
that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post-office,
and at the sociable, and about the fireside every night; we
live thick and are in each other’s way, and stumble over one
another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one
another. Certainly less frequency would suffice for all
important and hearty communications. Consider the girls in a
factory---never alone, hardly in their dreams. It would be
better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as
where I live. The value of a man is not in his skin, that we
should touch him.

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in
the morning, when nobody calls. Let me suggest a few
comparisons, that some one may convey an idea of my situation.
I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so
loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that
lonely lake, I pray?

And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels
in it, in the azure tint of its waters. The sun is alone,
except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be
two, but one is a mock sun. god is alone---but the devil, he
is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he
is legion. I am no more lonely than a single mullein or
dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a
horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the
Millbrook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south
wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first
spider in a new house.

译文：

独处

我发现人若绝大部分时间用于独处，将有益身心。与人为伴，即
使是挚友，也很快会有厌烦 或虚度光阴的感觉。我爱独处，我发现没
有比独处更好的伴侣了。出国，身在熙攘人群中，要比退守陋室 更让
人寂寞。心有所想，身有所系的人总是孤身一人，不论他身处何地。
独处与否也不是由人与 人之间的距离来确定。在剑桥苦读的学子虽身
处蜂巢般拥挤的教室，实际上却和沙漠中的苦行僧一样，是 在独处。
家人终日耕于田间，伐于山野，此时他虽孤单但并不寂寞，因他专心
于工作；但待到他 日暮而息，却未必能忍受形影相吊，空有思绪做伴
的时光，他必到“能够看见大伙儿”的去处去找乐子， 如他所认为的
那样以补偿白日里的孤独；所以他无法理解学子如何能竟夜终日独坐
而不心生厌倦 或倍感凄凉；不过他没意识到，学子虽身在学堂，但心
系劳作，但是耕于心田，伐于学林，这正和农人一 样，学子在寻求的
无非是和他一样的快乐与陪伴，仅仅形式更简洁罢了。

与人交 往通常都因唾手可得而毫无价值，在频繁的相处中，我们
无暇从彼此获取新价值。我们每日三餐相聚，反 复让彼此重新审视的
也是依旧故我，并无新奇之处。为此我们要循规蹈矩，称其为懂礼仪，
讲礼 貌，以便在这些频繁的接触中相安无事，无须论战而有辱斯文。
我们相遇在邮局，邂逅在社交场所，围坐 在夜晚的炉火旁，交情甚笃，
彼此干扰着，纠缠着；实际上我认为这样我们都或多或少失去了对彼
此的尊重。对于所有重要的倾心交流，相见不频。想想工厂里的女孩，
她们虽从不落单，但也少有梦想 。像这样方圆一英里仅一人居住，那
情况会更好。人的价值非在肌肤相亲，而在心有灵犀。

我的房子里有很多伙伴，尤其在无人造访的清晨。我把自己和周
围事物对比一下，你或许能 窥见我生活的一斑。比起那湖中长笑的潜
鸟，还有那湖，我并不比它们孤独多少。你看：这孤单的湖又何 以为
伴呢？不过它那一湾天蓝的湖水里有的却是天使的纯净，而非魔鬼的
忧郁。太阳是孤独的， 虽然时而在阴郁的天气里会出现两个太阳，但
其中之一为幻日；上帝是孤独的 – 魔鬼才从不孤单，他 永远不乏伙
伴，因从他都甚众。比起牧场上的一朵毛蕊花，一支蒲公英，一片豆
叶，一束酢浆草 ，一只牛虻或大黄蜂来，我并不孤单多少；比想密尔
溪，风标，北极星，南风，四月春雨，正月融雪，或 者新房中的第一
只蜘蛛，我也并不更加孤单。