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2021年12月14日 星期二 晚8:00——9：00
瓦尔登湖三人行（134）直播实况录制 腾讯会议版
英语文本：
Walden [ˈwɔldən] (Issue 134)
11. Higher Laws (2)
[2] （人文）They mistake who assert that the Yankee has few amusements, because he has not so many public holidays, and men and boys do not play so many games as they do in England, for here the more primitive but solitary amusements of hunting, fishing, and the like have not yet given place to the former. （瑾玉）Almost every New England boy among my contemporaries shouldered a fowling-piece between the ages of ten and fourteen; and his hunting and fishing grounds were not limited, like the preserves of an English nobleman, but were more boundless even than those of a savage. No wonder, then, that he did not oftener stay to play on the common. （心园） But already a change is taking place, owing, not to an increased humanity, but to an increased scarcity[ˈskeəsɪtɪ] of game, for perhaps the hunter is the greatest friend of the animals hunted, not excepting the Humane[ˌhjuːˈmeɪn] Society.
[3] （古卫东） Moreover, when at the pond, I wished sometimes to add fish to my fare[feə] for variety. I have actually fished from the same kind of necessity[nəˈsesɪtɪ] that the first fishers did. Whatever humanity[hjuːˈmænɪtɪ] I might conjure[ˈkʌndʒə] up against it /was all factitious[fækˈtɪʃəs], and concerned my philosophy more than my feelings. （人文） I speak of fishing only now, for I had long felt differently about fowling, and sold my gun before I went to the woods. Not that I am less humane than others, but I did not perceive that my feelings were much affected. （瑾玉） I did not pity the fishes nor the worms. This was habit. As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology[ˌɔːnɪˈθɒlədʒɪ], and sought only new or rare birds. But I confess that I am now inclined to think that there is a finer way of studying ornithology than this. It requires so much closer attention to the habits of the birds, that, if for that reason only, I have been willing to omit the gun. （心园）Yet notwithstanding the objection on the score of humanity, I am compelled to doubt if equally valuable sports are ever substituted for these; and when some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered, yes - remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education - make them hunters, though sportsmen only at first, if possible, mighty hunters at last, so that they shall not find game large enough for them in this or any vegetable wilderness - hunters as well as fishers of men. （古卫东）Thus far I am of the opinion of Chaucer's nun, who
"yave not of the text a pulled hen
That saith that hunters ben not holy men."
（人文）There is a period in the history of the individual, as of the race, when the hunters are the "best men," as the Algonquins[ælˈɡɒŋkwɪns] called them. （瑾玉）We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected. （心园）This was my answer with respect to those youths who were bent on this pursuit, trusting that they would soon outgrow it. （合） No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure['tenjə(r)] that he does. The hare in its extremity cries like a child. I warn you, mothers, that my sympathies do not always make the usual philanthropic distinctions.
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