激情晨讀英語(yǔ)美文 第八章 月色撩人:自然

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:]聽力課堂 m.360newlife.cn [00:05.01]Nature [00:06.10]By Ralph Waldo Emerson [00:07.64]To speak truly, [00:09.50]few adult persons can see nature. [00:11.47]Most persons do not see the sun. [00:13.98]At least they have a very superficial seeing. [00:16.93]The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, [00:19.89]but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. [00:22.84]The lover of nature is he [00:24.91]whose inward and outward senses [00:26.67]are still truly adjusted to each other; [00:28.64]who has retained the spirit of infancy [00:30.82]even into the era of manhood. [00:33.23]His intercourse with heaven and earth [00:35.53]becomes part of his daily food. [00:37.06]In the presence of nature, [00:39.13]a wild delight runs through the man, [00:41.10]in spite of real sorrows. [00:42.85]Nature says, he is my creature, [00:45.70]and in spite of all his impertinent grieves, [00:48.00]he shall be glad with me. [00:49.63]Not the sun or the summer alone, [00:51.93]but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight; [00:55.32]for every hour and change corresponds to [00:58.38]and authorizes a different state of the mind, [01:00.46]from breathless noon to grimmest midnight. [01:03.85]Nature is a setting [01:06.03]that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. [01:08.77]In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. [01:13.80]Crossing a bare common, [01:15.77]in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, [01:19.60]without having in my thoughts [01:21.35]any occurrence of special good fortune, [01:23.64]I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. [01:25.94]I am glad to the brink of fear. [01:28.46]In the woods too, a man casts off his years, [01:32.39]as the snake his slough, [01:33.92]and at what period so ever of life, [01:36.33]is always a child. [01:38.08]In the woods is perpetual youth. [01:40.71]Within these plantations of God, [01:43.22]a decorum and sanctity reign, [01:45.52]a perennial festival is dressed, [01:47.71]and the guest sees not [01:49.78]how he should tire of them in a thousand years. [01:51.64]In the woods, we return to reason and faith. [01:55.57]There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, [01:58.64]— no disgrace, [02:00.58]no calamity(leaving me my eyes), [02:02.88]which nature cannot repair. [02:04.51]Standing on the bare ground, — [02:06.92]my head bathed by the blithe air, [02:09.00]and uplifted into infinite space, — [02:11.08]all mean egotism vanishes. [02:13.81]I become a transparent eyeball; [02:15.89]I am nothing; I see all; [02:18.29]the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; [02:21.79]I am part or particle of God. [02:23.54]The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental: [02:27.37]to be brothers, to be acquaintances, master or servant, [02:31.53]is then a trifle and a disturbance. [02:33.93]I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. [02:37.21]In the wilderness, [02:39.29]I find something more dear and connate [02:41.15]than in streets or villages. [02:43.01]In the tranquil landscape, [02:44.87]and especially in the distant line of the horizon, [02:47.71]man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.

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