介绍:
2021年7月5日现场直播录制
时间：晚9:00——10:00
英语文本：
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them. We make curious mistakes sometimes. Often the poor man is not so cold and hungry as he is dirty and ragged[ˈrægid] and gross [grəus]. It is partly his taste, and not merely his misfortune[misˈfɔːtʃən]. If you give him money, he will perhaps buy more rags [ræɡz] with it. I was wont to pity the clumsy[ˈklʌmzi] Irish laborers who cut ice on the pond, in such mean and ragged clothes, while I shivered in my more tidy and somewhat more fashionable garments, till, one bitter cold day, one who had slipped into the water/ came to my house to warm him, and I saw him strip off three pairs of pants and two pairs of stockings ere[eə] he got down to the skin, though they were dirty and ragged enough, it is true, and that he could afford to refuse the extra garments which I offered him, he had so many intra ones. This ducking was the very thing he needed. Then I began to pity myself, and I saw that it would be a greater charity to bestow[biˈstəu] on me a flannel shirt than a whole slop-shop on him. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. It is the pious[ˈpaiəs] slave-breeder devoting the proceeds of every tenth slave to buy a Sunday's liberty for the rest. Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there? You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; maybe you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it. Society recovers only a tenth part of the property then. Is this owing to the generosity of him in whose possession it is found, or to the re’missness [rɪ'mɪsnəs] of the officers of justice?
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