The Author's Account of Himself 作者自述 This rambling propensity strengthened with my years. 寒来暑往，年岁渐增，游兴愈浓。 Books of voyages and travels became my passion,and in devouring their contents, 我对游记类的书籍爱不...
What I Have Lived for 我为何而生 Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong,have governed my life:the longing for love, the search for knowledge,and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. 对爱情的渴望，对知识的追求，对人...
Love Your Life 热爱生活 However mean your life is, meet it and live it; 无论你的生活如何卑微，都要正视它，并活下去； do not shun it and call it hard names. 不要躲避它，也不要恶语相加。 It is not so bad as you a...
A Wet Sunday In A Country Inn 乡村客栈一个阴雨的星期天 A wet Sunday in a country inn! 乡村客栈一个阴雨的星期天! Whoever has had the luck to experience one can alone judge of my situation. 凡有幸度过这样一天的人，都能...
A summer day 夏日 One day thirty years ago Marseilles lay in the burning sun. 三十年前的一天，马赛躺在烈日之下。 A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then than at any other time before or...
Once More to the Lake 旧湖重游 Summertime, oh summertime, pattern of life indelible, 夏日，哦，夏日，生命中的印记留存不去， the fade proof lake, 那永不消失的湖泊， the woods unshatterable, 永不摧折的林木， the...
The Joys of Writing 写作的乐趣 The fortunate people in the world-the only really fortunate people in the world,in my mind, are those whose work is also their pleasure. 在我看来，世上幸运的人世上唯一真正幸运的人，是那些以工...
How should one read a book? 怎样读书？ It is simple enough to say that since books have classesfiction, biography, poetry, 说来容易: 既然书有各种各样小说、传记、诗歌 we should separate them and take from each what it is right...
Glories of the Storm 暴风雨的荣光 It begins when a feeling of stillness creeps into my consciousness.Everything has suddenly gone quiet. 起初，有一种平静的感觉悄然爬上我的心头。 Birds do not chirp. Leaves donot rustle. 世间万...
A Winter Walk 冬日漫步 The wind has gently murmured through the blinds,or puffed with feathery softness against the windows,and occasionally sighed like a summer zephyr lifting the leaves along, the livelong night. 微风缓缓地吹着百叶窗，...
First Snow 第一场雪 The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event. 第一场雪不仅是一件大事，而且是充满魔力的大事。 You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite diff...
The Poetry of Late Summer 夏末的诗意 One has the leisure of July for perceiving all the differences of the green of leaves. 七月间，人们有余暇观察树叶绿翠的千差万别。 It is no longer a difference in degrees of maturity,for a...
Summer Sunrises on the Mississippi 密西西比河上夏天的日出 One can never see too many summer sunrises on the Mississippi. 夏天，密西西比河上的日出奇美无比， They are enchanting. 令人百看不厌。 First, there is the elo...
January wind 一月的风 The January wind has a hundred voices. 一月的风儿，奏响千般号角，诉说万般风情。 It can scream, it can bellow, it can whisper, and it can sing a lullaby. 它时而尖叫，划破长空；时而怒吼，响彻...
Of Beauty 论美 Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set; 德行犹如宝石，朴素最美： and surely virtue is best in a body that is comely,though not of delicate features; 其于人也，则有德者但须形体悦目，不必面貌俊秀，...
