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1、When Henry David Thoreau （1817-1862） set out for the Walden woods in Massachusetts on Independence Day, 1845, the United States was still a young nation. The book that he published in 1854, Walden, is based upon his experiences as a youth. 1845年美国独立日那天，亨利戴维梭罗出发前往位于马萨诸塞州的瓦尔登湖畔的树林，那时美国还是一个年轻的国家。1854年出

2、版的瓦尔登湖，便是他基于自己年轻时的经历所著。The young dont yet know how to live. They must experience the world and reflect upon their experiences in order to gain knowledge. The same is true of a nation. The books status as a classic shows that what Thoreau had to say echoed in the souls of other Americans. 年轻人还不懂得如何生活

3、。为了获取知识，他们必须感受这个世界并反思自身经历。一个国家也是如此。这本书的经典之处就在于梭罗书中所言在其他美国人的心中产生了共鸣。And its not just his fellow countrymen who relate to the story Walden is read all over the world. If it can be enjoyed by non-Americans, this is because Thoreau set out to find what the basic principles of life are, no matter where w

4、ere from. We may not agree with his answers, but we identify with his quest for meaning. This is probably why Walden is still loved by so many people, even 200 years after Thoreaus birth, the anniversary of which will fall on July 12 this year. 不仅仅是他的同胞和这个故事息息相关 瓦尔登湖在世界各地都广泛流传。如果美国之外的读者也喜爱这本书，那是因为梭罗

5、是从寻找人生真谛出发的，不管我们于何处。我们或许并不赞同他的答案，但我们和他对于生活意义的追求是一致的。这或许便是瓦尔登湖在梭罗诞生200年后依然深受喜爱的原因。今年的7月12日，梭罗将迎来诞辰200周年。Thoreau looked around him and saw the beginnings of industrialism and found it ugly. He disliked the factories and he disliked what they produced. He objected to consumerism, suspectingthat it took

6、 people away from their real concerns. Men and women lived lives of “quiet desperation” because modern life was leading them astray. 梭罗环视周遭，目睹了工业主义的开端并发现了其丑恶之处。他并不喜欢工厂，也不喜欢它们生产的东西。他回绝消费主义，疑心它会将人们带离他们真正关心的事情。男男女女都生活在“寂静的绝望”之中，因为现代生活将他们引入歧途。In Walden, he would find what he hoped was really “essential”

7、. As he writes near the beginning of the book, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” This is the major theme of the book. H

8、e hoped nature could be his guide and his teacher. 在瓦尔登湖一书中，他发现自己所希望之事确实十分“根本”。正如他在该书开篇所写“我到林中去，因为我希望慎重地生活，只面对生活的根本领实，看看我是否学得到生活要教育我的东西，免得到了临终之时，才发现我根本就没有生活过。”这是该书的重要主题。他希望自然能够成为他的向导和老师。We should not think that Thoreau was simply withdrawing from the world. He didnt go to Walden only to stare into t

9、he surface of lakes and observe wildlife. He went there because he was disgusted by modern civilization. Ironically, some of the people that Thoreau met around Walden wanted the opposite to him. If he wanted to escape from civilization, they wanted to get out of nature and leave it for a more exciti

10、ng existence in the town. 我们不该认为梭罗只是在逃避现实世界。他前往瓦尔登湖，不仅仅是为了凝视湖面，观察野生动物。他去那儿是因为他对现代文明感到厌烦。挖苦的是，梭罗在瓦尔登湖周围遇到的一些人和他的想法恰恰相反。如果说，梭罗想要的是逃离文明社会，那么这些人想要的便是逃离自然，前往城镇过上更刺激的生活。Thoreau was greatly influenced by ancient Greece and Rome. And in a sense, the philosophy of the book he wrote is very classical. Socrate

11、s once said that the “unexamined life is not worth living”, but what was Thoreau doing in his cabin in the woods if not examining life? Not only was he examining his own, but the life of America and its people in general. 梭罗深受古希腊与古罗马的影响。在某种意义上，他书中的哲学十分经典。苏格拉底曾说：“未经审视的人生不值得一过，”而梭罗在林中的小木屋里所做的如果不是审视人生，

12、那又会是什么呢？他不光审视了自己的人生，还审视了美国和美国人民群众的人生。Walden is the American writer Henry. David. Thoreaus creation of a collection of essays, the book recorded in Thoreau Walden when living and feeling what one sees and hears. This book consists of 18 essays, economic, Thoreau recorded the munication between farmer

13、s and farmers, learned that the hard life in the exchanges, not hard and criticized the peasants lived a luxurious life of the rich. In the species bean, Thoreau recorded the process of growing beans, gained the harvest through his own planting, and experienced the joy of labor and harvest from this

14、 process. In so many essays, what impressed me most is brute neighbors, the author describes himself in some animal see Walden when living. They left a footprint of the life in Walden, brings vitality to open peaceful Walden, also from experience to people with self harmony and warm enthusiasm. show

15、s the beauty of nature to us, in fact, the book of creation, the United States is in agriculture era to the industrial age stage, the rapid development of economy, industrialization to stimulate people to pursue wealth, for money in the exploitation of natural resources fling caution to the winds to

16、 destroy nature. Follow all kinds of environmental problems, the natural ecological environment has been seriously polluted, Thoreau want to appeal to people to protect nature through his admiration of nature in the pond. In fact, not only in the last century, now industrialization still brought man

17、y environmental pollution, we also know that some factories secretly discharge of sewage and waste gas, make clear and clean water to bee stinking, dark. The rivers of many rivers are still drifting through the white belly of the fish. Although many laws now prohibit enterprises from dumping waste w

18、ater and sewage, the punishment is not enough to make enterprises feel scared, but they still go their own way. There are some businesses in order to meet some people desire to capture the state protected wild animal to sell, once when the pangolin is an animal so mon, is now difficult to find trace

19、s of them in the mountains, most of them are delicious dishes on the table. Now children even think that pangolin is only the animal in the book. In order to seek economic development and develop natural resources, the forest coverage rate is being smaller and smaller, and the clarity of rivers is b

20、eing lower and lower. Not only to humans, but also to many of the river water for the survival of the animals lost their place to live. But how can man live in harmony with nature? Only when we protect nature can man and nature bee more harmonious. Walden is a masterpiece written by Henry David Thor

21、eau （1817-1862）， who was born in Concord, Massachusetts. The age he lived had witnessed the flourish of capitalism as well as the prosperity of industrialization and urbanization. During the 19th century, the American economy developed at so fast rate that most people were bound up in pursuing the m

22、aterial satisfaction , while ingored the spiritual life to a great extent. But Thoreau was quite different from other people, he disdained the modern civilization and attached more importance to the spirit than the material. He thought many people of his time lived in a non-human-like modern society

23、 and many modern appliances, such as trains and telegraphs, had done harm to peoples harmonious life peace and also broken the relationship between human and nature. In order to prove that without the modern instruments , people can also live a happy life, in 1845, he moved into a cabin on the shore

24、 of Walden Pond and live there alone for two years to get close to the nature .Walden, is the famous book mainly talks about his life and thoughts during those days living in the woods . Thoreau was so happy with the life living near the lake of Walden that he felt it a sweet grace to have the natur

25、e aompany and even the sounds of rain and the sights around his house were full of sincere friendship. In his eyes, the nature was an intimate friend of him and all things in the nature were lively and vivacious. And all kinds of animals in the wood, such as field mouses, robins and wild rabbits wer

26、e amicably treated and regarded as his adorable panions. He even thought that plants were also had the right to live equal with human beings. Just because of this, he even blamed himself for hitting chestnut trees with stones. From many words or sentences, we can easily feel Thoreaus deep love and c

27、are towards nature. Besides, Thoreau was a pioneering nature lover, who called on people to stop destorying nature but protect it by setting himself an example to others. The consciousness of the environmental protection is being more and more important in our modern society, while the whole world i

28、s trapped in some serious ecological crisises resulting from hunting and killing animals, cutting down trees and polluting the rivers for pursuit of human beings own interests. We all have the mon sense that the number of wildlife is decreasing, the area of lake is shrinking, and the water is not cl

29、ear any more. Whats worse, environment problems such as globe warming, climate change and air and water pollution are deteriorating during the mercial process . So its high time that we should realize we never be the dominator of the whole world conquring nature, but should spare no efforts to impro

30、ve the environment right away. That is, we should ply with the natural laws, make reasonable utilization of natural resources and keep the harmonious development between the society and the environment. Only in this way will we has an opportunity to embrace a bright future and achieve a sustainable

31、society . In the book, Walden, Thoreau not only advocated the protection of nature, but also encourage people to prehend and return to nature. He told us using his own experience that by living a simple life close to nature, we human beings will find out the true value of life and significance of ex

32、istence. After reading the book, what impressed me most is the description of the fascinating scenery around the Walden pound, especially these sentences: A lake is the landscapes most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earths eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. The fluviatile trees next the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the