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A line from Walden hangs over one of my desks: I love a broad margin to my life.
瓦爾登湖中的一句話掛在我書桌的上方："我熱愛寬廣的生活"。
Sitting here at this sidewalk cafe with Mary,
和瑪麗坐在街邊的咖啡館里，
deliberately taking time off from writing and teaching duties,
故意從寫作以及教書中逃脫出來，
I am making a broad margin to my life.
我的生活變得更為開闊。
The margin will be broader when we part, and I am alone.
分離時，生活的邊界會更寬廣，而我又只身一人。
Thoreau swam, then sat in the doorway of his "Shelter", "large box", "dwelling-house,"
梭羅游完泳，坐在他的“庇護地”，“大盒子”，“棲息住所”的門廊邊，
alone all the summer morning, rapt in the sunlight and the trees and the stillness.
整個夏天的早晨都是如此，專注地沐浴在陽光，樹木和寂靜之中。
Birds flitted through the house.
鳥兒從旁邊掠過。
Until by the sun falling in at my west window,
直到太陽東斜，照射到我西邊的窗戶，
or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant highway,
或者遠處高速公路上傳來一些旅途者馬車的聲響，
I was reminded of the lapse of time."
我才會想起時光從縫隙中流失。"
I have a casita of my own, built instead of a garage after the big fire.
我自己有間小屋，由大火后的車庫改裝而來。
Its width is the same as Thoreau's (10 feet), its length a yard longer.
寬度和梭羅的小屋一樣（10英尺），不過長了一碼。
He had a loft; I have a skylight. I want to be a painter.
他有一間閣樓，我有天窗，我想做一名畫家。
Sometimes, I hear the freeway, now and again the train, and the campanile.
有時，我聽見快車道上的聲音，時不時地還有火車和鐘樓的聲響。
Thoreau heard the band playing military music;
梭羅聽見樂隊在演奏軍樂，
his neighbours were going to war against Mexico.
他的鄰居將要向墨西哥宣戰(zhàn)。
