greentownUnit 13 Friendship 课文翻译

2021年1月22日发(作者：sparrow)
Unit 13

Friendship

FRIENDSHIP
Ralph Waldo Emerson


1.


We
have
a
great
deal
more
kindness
than
is
ever
spoken.
Maugre
all
the
selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an
element
of
love
like
a
fine
ether.
How
many
persons
we
meet
in
houses,
whom
we
scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor, and who honor us! How many we see in the street,
or
sit
with
in
church,
whom,
though
silently,
we
warmly
rejoice
to
be
with!
Read
the
language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth.

2.


The
effect
of
the
indulgence
of
this
human
affection
is
a
certain
cordial
exhilaration.
In
poetry,
and
in
common
speech,
the
emotions
of
benevolence
and
complacency which are felt towards others are likened to the material effects
of fire; so
swift, or much more swift, more active, more cheering, are these fine inward irradiations.
From the highest degree of passionate love, to the lowest degree of goodwill, they make
the sweetness of life.

3.


Our
intellectual
and
active
powers
increase
with
our
affection.
The
scholar
sits
down to write, and all his years of meditation do not furnish him with one good thought
or happy expression; but it is necessary to write a letter to a friend
—
and forthwith troops
of gentle thoughts invest themselves, on every hand, with chosen words.

4.


See,
in
any
house
where
virtue
and
self-respect
abide,
the
palpitation
which
the
approach of a stranger causes. A commended stranger is expected and announced, and an
uneasiness
betwixt
pleasure
and
pain
invades
all
the
hearts
of
a
household.
His
arrival
almost brings fear to the good hearts that would welcome him. The house is dusted, all
things fly into their places, the old coat is exchanged for the new, and they must get up a
dinner if they can. Of a commended stranger, only the good report is told by others, only
the
good
and
new
is
heard
by
us.
He
stands
to
us
for
humanity.
He
is
what
we
wish.
Having imagined and invested him, we ask how we should stand related in conversation
and action with such a man, and are uneasy with fear. The same idea exalts conversation
with him. We talk better than we are wont. We have the nimblest fancy, a richer memory,
and our dumb devil has taken leave for the time. For long hours we can continue a series
of sincere, graceful, rich communications, drawn from the oldest secretest experience, so