However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.
不论你的生活如何卑微，你都要面对它，生活下去；不要躲避它，更别用恶言咒骂它。
It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest.
它不像你那样坏。你最富有的时候，看似最穷困。
The fault-finder will find faults in paradise.
爱找缺点的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺点。
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.
你要热爱你的生活，尽管它贫穷。甚至在一个救济所里，你也还有愉快、高兴、光荣的时候。
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.
夕阳反射在济贫院的窗上，像射在富户人家窗上一样光亮；在那门前，积雪同在早春融化。
I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.
我只看到，一个从容的人，在哪里也像在皇宫中一样，生活得心满意足而富有愉快的思想。
The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.
城镇中的穷人，我看，倒往往是过着最独立不羁的生活。
May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.
也许因为他们很伟大，所以受之无愧。
Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means. Which should be more disreputable?
大多数人以为他们是超然的，不靠城镇来支援他们；可是事实上他们是往往利用了不正当的手段来应对生活，他们是毫不超脱的，毋宁是不体面的。
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends, turn the old, return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧！不要寻找新的花样，无论是新的朋友或新的衣服，来麻烦你自己。找旧的，回到那里去。万物不变，是我们在变。你的衣服可以卖掉，但要保留你的思想。
shun [ʃʌn]
v. 避开；回避；避免
例：Victims of the disease found themselves shunned by society.
这种疾病的受害者发现自己被社会所排斥。
thrilling [ˈθrɪlɪŋ]
adj. 令人兴奋的；令人震颤的
例：The game had a thrilling finale, with three goals scored in the last five minutes.
这场比赛有一个激动人心的结局，最后五分钟进了三个球。
glorious [ˈɡlɔːriəs]
adj. 光荣的；辉煌的
例：This is a glorious chapter in our country’s history.
这是我国历史上光辉的一章。
reflect [rɪˈflekt]
v. 反映；反射
例：The windows reflected the bright afternoon sunlight.
窗户反射着午后明亮的阳光。
abode [əˈboʊd]
n. 住处；住所
例：Consider the vulnerability of the homeless person with no fixed abode.
考虑一下无家可归、没有固定住所的人的脆弱性吧。
contentedly [kənˈtentɪdli]
adv. 心满意足地
例：The couple contentedly settled down for the winter in a small town in the Alps.
这对夫妇心满意足地在阿尔卑斯山的一个小镇上安顿下来过冬。
misgiving [ˌmɪsˈɡɪvɪŋ]
n. 疑虑；怀疑
例：I read the letter with a sense of misgiving.
我怀着疑虑读了这封信。
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