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However mean your life is, meet it and live it.
不管你的生活如何卑微，你都要正視它，生活下去。
do not shirk it and call it hard names is not so bad as you are.
不要逃避，也不要惡語相加。你的生活不像你自己想象的那么糟糕。
It looks poorest when you are richest.
當(dāng)你最富有的時候，生活看上去反倒是最貧窮的。
The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.
故意挑毛病的人即使在天堂也能挑出瑕疵。
Love your life, poor as it is.
雖然生活清貧，但你要對生活付出熱情。
You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.
即便身處貧民院，你也可能會分享到一段快樂、激動、燦爛的時光。
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode；
西下的落日灑在貧民院窗戶上的光芒，與照在富人家豪宅上的一樣光彩奪目；
the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.
到了早舂的時候，門前的積雪同樣會融化。
I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.
我唯一能看到的是：一個心態(tài)平靜的人在那里可以心滿意足地生活，懷著樂觀向上的思想，仿佛居住在皇宮里一般。
The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.
在我看來，城鎮(zhèn)貧民的牛活反倒常常是最獨(dú)立的。
Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.
也許他們很偉大，可以坦然地對待世間的事情。
Most think that they are above being supported by the town；
大部分人對于城鎮(zhèn)的恩惠不屑一顧，
but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable.
可在現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中，他們維持生活的手段反而經(jīng)常是不誠實(shí)的，這讓他們更為聲名狼藉。
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.
像圣賢一樣，如同培育花園中的花草一樣來培育貧困吧。
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.
沒必要不辭辛苦地去獲取新東西，不管是衣服還是朋友，
Turn the old；return to them. Things do not change；we change.
讓舊的翻新，回到它們的懷抱。世間萬物不會變化,變的是我們。
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
賣掉衣服時，你要保留自己的思想。
God will see that you do not want society.
上帝會見證， 你并不想融入社會。
If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider,
如果我整天被局限在閣樓的角落，如同一只細(xì)蛛。
the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.
可只要我還有自己的思想，那么世界還是原來那樣大。
