古大叔小木屋（85）第六章 访客（1）腾讯会议版

2021年9月6日腾讯会议版《古大叔小木屋》实况录制 时间：晚9:00——10:00 文本 Walden [ˈwɔldən] (Issue 85) 6. Visitors(1) I THINK THAT I LOVE SOCIETY as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten[ˈfaːsn] myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter[frɪˈkwentə] of the bar-room, if my business called me thither[ˈðɪðə]. [2] I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized[ɪ'kɒnəmaɪzt] the room by standing up. It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with their bodies, at once under my roof, and yet we often parted without being aware that we had come very near to one another.// Many of our houses, both public and private, with their almost innumerable apartments, their huge halls and their cellars for the storage of wines[waɪns] and other munitions[mjuːˈnɪʃəns] of peace, appear to be extravagantly[ɪkˈstrævəɡəntlɪ] large for their inhabitants. They are so vast and magnificent that the latter seem to be only vermin[ˈvɜːmɪn] which infest them. I am surprised when the herald[ˈherəld] blows his summons before some Tremont or Astor or Middlesex House, to see come creeping out over the piazza[pɪˈætsə] for all inhabitants a ridiculous mouse[maʊs], which soon again slinks into some hole in the pavement. 我想我也同样最热爱社会，而且时刻准备着像水蛭[zhì]一样有机会就吸附到遇到的任何血液充盈的人身上。我天性不属于隐士，而且可以耐心端坐成为酒吧最顽强的常客，如果我的事务召我到那里。 在我的屋子有三把椅子，一把为了孤独，两把为了友谊，三把为了社会。当访客来得人数出乎预料的众多，那就只有那第三把椅子款待所有人，不过他们通常为了省地方而站着。看到这一幕景象真令我惊奇，看到这么一个小小的屋子竟然容纳这么多伟大的男人和妇女。我曾经有一次拥有二十五或三十个灵魂，连同他们的身体，一下子都在我的屋顶下，但是当我们分别的时候也没有感觉到曾经靠得太近。///我们的许多房子，不管是公共的还是私人的，那里的小房间几乎多得数不过来，它们巨大的厅堂和用来储藏酒及/其他/和平时期军火的地下室，依我看来对于它们的居住者过于庞大。它们是如此辽阔和宏伟/以至于后者显得像老鼠跳蚤之类的小虫在它们里面寄生。我吃惊地听说那皇家传令官吹起了自己的号角，在某个特里蒙特或爱思特或米德尔塞克斯旅馆前，看到一只可笑的耗子爬过来，通过了连拱廊代表着所有里面的居民，很快又溜入便道的某个洞里。 《瓦尔登湖》——至性、至情、至境的文字。“意义过于巨大，耳朵听到不够。为了说它，我们得重生一次。”