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2021年7月13日《古大叔小木屋》（44）直播实况 自录版
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Where I Lived, and What I Lived for
Though the view from my door was still more contracted, I did not feel crowded or confined in the least. There was pasture enough for my imagination. The low shrub oak plateau [ˈplætəu] to which the opposite shore arose stretched away toward the prairies[ˈpreəri] of the West and the steppes[s'teps] of Tartary[ˈtɑːtəri] , affording ample room for all the roving families of men. "There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon[həˈraizn] " - said Damodara, when his herds required new and larger pastures ['pɑːstʃə(r)].
Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras [ˈiərə] in history which had most attracted me. Where I lived was as far off as many a region viewed nightly by astronomers. We are wont to imagine rare and delectable [diˈlektəbl] 令人愉快的places in some remote and more celestial[siˈlestjəl] corner of the system, behind the constellation of Cassiopeia's [ˌkæsiəˈpiːə] Chair, far from noise and disturbance. I discovered that my house actually had its site in such a withdrawn, but forever new and unprofaned, part of the universe. If it were worth the while to settle in those parts near to the Pleiades[ˈplaɪəˌdiːz] or the Hyades[ˈhaɪəˌdiːz], to Aldebaran [ælˈdebərən] or Altair [ælˈtɑːiə] , then I was really there, or at an equal remoteness from the life which I had left behind, dwindled[ˈdwindl] and twinkling with as fine a ray to my nearest neighbor, and to be seen only in moonless nights by him. Such was that part of creation where I had squatted, -
"There was a shepherd that did live,
And held his thoughts as high
As were the mounts whereon his flocks
Did hourly feed him by."
What should we think of the shepherd's life if his flocks always wandered to higher pastures than his thoughts?
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