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“春朝”一刻值千金

梁遇春 

(懒惰汉的懒惰想头之一）

十年来，求师访友，足迹走遍天涯，回想起来给我最大益处的却是“迟起”，因为我现在脑子里所有些聪明的想头，灵活的意思多半是早上懒洋洋地赖在床上想出来的。我真应该写几句话赞美它一番，同时还可以告诉有志的人们一点迟起艺术的门径。谈起艺术，我虽然是门外汉，不过对于迟起这门艺术倒可说是一位行家，因为我既具有明察秋毫的批评能力，又带了甘苦备尝的实践精神。我天天总是在可能范围之内，尽量地滞在床上——那是我们的神庙——看着射在被上的日光，暗笑四围人们无谓的匆忙，回味前夜的痴梦——那是比做梦还有意思的事，——细想迟起的好处，唯我独尊地躺着，东倒西倾的小房立刻变做一座快乐的皇宫。

诗人画家为着要追求自己的幻梦，实现自己的痴愿，宁可牺牲一切物质的快乐，受尽亲朋的垢骂，他们从艺术里能够得到无穷的安慰，那是他们真实的世界，外面的世界对于他们反变成一个空虚。迟起艺术家也具有同等的精神。区区虽然不是一个迟起大师，但是对于本行艺术的确有无限的热忱——艺术家的狂热。所以让我拿自己做个例子罢。当我是个小孩时候，我的生活由家庭替我安排，毫无艺术的自觉，早上六点就起来了。后来到北方念书去，北方的天气是培养迟起最好的沃土，许多同学又都是程度很高的迟起艺术专家，于是绝好的环境同朋辈的切磋使我领略到迟起的深味，我的忠于艺术的热度也一天一天地增高。暑假年假回家时期，总在全家人吃完了早饭之后，我才敢动起床的念头。老父常常对我说清晨新鲜空气的好处，母亲有时提到重温稀饭的麻烦，慈爱的祖母也屡次向我姑母说“早起三日当一工”(我的姑母老是起得很早的），我虽然万分不愿意失丢大人们的欢心，但是为着忠于艺术的缘故，居然甘心得罪老人家。后来老人家知道我是无可救药的，反动了怜惜的心肠，他们早上九点钟时候走过我的房门前还是用着足尖；人们温情地放纵我们的弱点是最容易刺动我们麻木的良心，但是我总舍不得违弃了心爱的艺术，所以还是懊悔地照样地高卧。在大学里，有几位道貌岸然的教授对于迟到学生总是白眼相待，我不幸得很，老做他们白眼的鹄的，也曾好几次下个决心早起，免得一进教室的门，就受两句冷讽，可是一年一年地过去，我足足受了四年的白眼待遇，里头的苦处是别人想不出来的。有一年寒假住在亲戚家里，他们晚饭的时间是很早的，所以一醒来，腹里就咕隆地响着，我却按下饥肠，故意想出许多有趣事情，使自己忘却了肚饿，有时饿出汗来，还是坚持着非到十时是不起来的。对于艺术我是多么忠实，情愿牺牲。枵腹做诗的爱伦波，真可说是我的同志。后来入世谋生，自然会忽略了艺术的追求。想起我个人因为迟起所受的许多说不出的苦痛，我深深相信迟起是一门艺术，因为只有艺术才会这样带累人，也只有艺术家才肯这样不变初衷地往前牺牲一切。

但是从迟起我也得到不少的安慰，总够补偿我种种的苦痛。迟起给我最大的好处是我没有一天不是很快乐地开头的。我天天起来总是心满意足的，觉得我们住的世界无日不是春天，无处不是乐园。当我神怡气舒地躺着时候，我常常记起勃浪宁的诗：“上帝在上，万物各得其所。”（鱼游水里，鸟栖树枝，我卧床上。）人生是短促的，可是若使我们有过光荣的青春，我们的一生就不能算是虚度，我们的残年很可以傍着火炉，晒着太阳在回忆里过日子。同样地一天的光阴是很短促的，可是若使我们有过光荣的早上（一半时间花在床上的早晨！）我们这一天就不能说是白丢了，我们其余时间可以用在追忆清早的幸福，我们青年时期若使是欢欣的结晶，我们的余生一定不会很凄凉的，青春的快乐是有影子留下的，那影子好似带了魔力，惨淡的老年给它一照，也呈出和蔼慈祥的光辉。我们一天里也是一样的，人们不是常说：一件事情好好地开头，就是已经成功一半了；那么赏心悦意的早晨是一天快乐的先导。迟起不单是使我天天快活地开头，还叫我们每夜高兴地结束这个日子；我们夜夜去睡时候，心里就预料到明早迟起的快乐——预料中的快乐是比当时的享受，味还长得多——这样子我们一天的始终都是给生机活泼的快乐空气围住，这个可爱的升景象却是迟起一手做成的。

迟起不仅是能够给我们这甜蜜的空气，它还能够打破我们结结实实的苦闷。人生最大的愁忧是生活的单调。悲剧是很热闹的，怪有趣的，只有那不生不死的机械式生活才是最无聊赖的。迟起真是唯一的救济方法。你若使感到生活的沉闷，那么请你多睡半点钟（最好是一点钟），你起来一定觉得许多要干的事情没有时间做了，那么是非忙不可——“忙”是进到快乐宫的金钥，尤其那自己找来的忙碌。忙是人们体力发泄最好的法子，亚里士多德不是说过人的快乐是生于能力变成效率的畅适。我常常在办公时间五分钟以前起床，那时候洗脸拭牙进早餐，都要限最快的速度完成，全变做最浪漫的举动，当牙膏四溅，脸水横飞，一手拿着头梳，对着镜子，一面吃面包时节，谁会说人生是没有趣味呢？而且当时只怕过了时间，心中充满了冒险的情绪。这些暗地晓得不碍事的冒险兴奋是顶可爱的东西，尤其是对于我们这班不敢真真履险的懦夫。我喜欢北方的狂风，因为当我们衔着黄沙往前进的时候，我们仿佛是斩将先登，冲锋陷阵的健儿，跟自然的大力肉搏，这是多么可歌可泣的壮举，同时除开耳孔鼻孔塞点沙土外，丝毫危险也没有，不管那时是怎地像煞有介事样子。冒险的嗜好哪个人没有，不过我们胆小，不愿白丢了生命，仁爱的上帝，因此给我们地蔽天的刮风，做我们安稳冒险的材料。住在江南的可怜虫，找不到这一天赐的机会，只得英雄做时势，迟些起来，自己创造机会。就是放假期间，十时半起床，早餐后抽完了烟，已经十一时过了，一想到今天打算做的事情一件也没有动手，赶紧忙着起来——天下里还有比无事空忙更有趣味的事吗？若使你因为迟起挨到人家的闲话，那最少也可以打破你日常一波不兴无声无臭的生活。我想凡是尝过生活的深味的人一定会说痛苦比单调灰色生活强得多，因为痛苦是活的，灰色的生活却是死的象征。迟起本身好似是很懒惰的，但是它能够给我们最大的活气，使我们的生活跳动生姿；世上最懒惰不过的人们是那般黎明即起，老早把事做好，坐着呆呆地打呵欠的人们。迟起所有的这许多安慰，除开艺术，我们哪里还找得出来呢？许多人现在还不明白迟起的好处，这也可以证明迟起是一种艺术，因为只有艺术人们才会这样地不去踩它。

现在春天到了，“春宵苦短日高起，”五六点钟醒来，就可以看见太阳，我们可以醉也似地躺着，一直躺了好几个钟头，静听流茑的巧啭，细看花影的慢移，这真是迟起的绝好时光。能让我们天天多躺一会儿罢，别辜负了这一刻千金的“春朝”。

《懒惰汉的懒惰想头》是当代英国小品文家Jerome K. Jerome(杰罗姆•凯•杰罗姆）的文集名字（Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow)，集里所说的都是拉闲扯散，瞎三道四的废话，可是自带有幽默的深味，好似对于人生有比一般人更微妙的认识同玩味——这或者只是因为我自己也是懒惰汉，官官相卫，猩猩惜猩猩，那么也好，就随它去罢。“春宵一刻值千金”这句老话，是谁也知道的，我觉得换一个字，就可以做我的题目。连小小二句题目，都要东抄西袭凑合成的，不肯费心机自己去做一个，这也可以见我的懒惰了。

在副题目底下加了“之一”两字，自然是指明我还要继续写些这类无聊的小品文字，但是什么时候会写第二篇，那是连上帝都不敢预言的。我是那么懒惰，有时晚上想好了意思，第二天起得太早，心中一懊悔，什么好意思都忘却了。

“春朝”一刻值千金

梁遇春

Spring Mornings Are Priceless

—By Liang Yuchun

(懒惰汉的懒惰想头之一）

(One of the Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow)

十年来，求师访友，足迹走遍天涯，回想起来给我最大益处的却是“迟起”，因为我现在脑子里所有些聪明的想头，灵活的意思多半是早上懒洋洋地赖在床上想出来的。

Ten years after consulting with scholars and visiting with friends from all over the world, I think my greatest gain during this time came from simply sleeping late. It was during those listless mornings as I dawdled in bed that my best ideas came to mind.

🎈咨询，请教 consult with sb

例句

He needed to consult with an attorney.

他需要找个律师咨询一下。

🎈 visit with sb

1）到…处访问;到…家作客

例句

I visited with him in San Francisco.

我到他在旧金山的家中作客。

2）与某人聊天；与某人闲谈

例句

Come and visit with me some time.

找个时间来跟我聊聊吧。

🎈 listless adj. 无精打采的，倦怠的

我真应该写几句话赞美它一番，同时还可以告诉有志的人们一点迟起艺术的门径。

As a result, I decided to write something to reveal the virtues of this art and to share some of my tricks with those of you with noble ideals.

🎈 noble adj. 崇高的，品质高尚的

having fine personal qualities that people admire, such as courage, honesty and care for others

崇高的理想noble ideals

伟大的领袖a noble leader

高尚的事业 a noble cause

谈起艺术，我虽然是门外汉，不过对于迟起这门艺术倒可说是一位行家，因为我既具有明察秋毫的批评能力，又带了甘苦备尝的实践精神。

On Art, I’m still a bit of a greenhorn, but on the “Art of Sleeping Late” I’m an expert! I have a keen eye for this ‘art’ and have had my share of its sweetness.

🎈 greenhorn n. 新手

a person who has little experience and can be easily tricked [近义词 tenderfoot]

🎈对……由敏锐的观察力 have a keen eye for sth

我天天总是在可能范围之内，尽量地滞在床上——那是我们的神庙——看着射在被上的日光，暗笑四围人们无谓的匆忙，回味前夜的痴梦——那是比做梦还有意思的事，——细想迟起的好处，唯我独尊地躺着，东倒西倾的小房立刻变做一座快乐的皇宫。

Each day, I lingered as long as possible in my bed—for this was my sanctuary—and I would watch the sunlight play on the quilt while secretly I ridiculed others’ pointless rush through their day and recalled my dreams from the night before, an even greater pleasure than having the dreams in the first place. Lounging about like a king and lost in these thoughts, I found my small dilapidated house immediately transformed into a palace of joy.

🎈linger v.留恋，不愿离开，继续逗留

to stay somewhere for longer because you do not want to leave; to spend a long time doing sth

例句

We lingered over breakfast on the terrace.

我们在平台上慢条斯理地吃着早餐。

🎈 sanctuary n. 圣所，圣殿

a holy building or the part of it that is considered the most holy

🎈 pointless adj. 无益的，无意义的，无谓的

having no purpose; not worth doing

无谓的战争the pointless war

战争的无意义the pointlessness of war

🎈 懒洋洋地消磨时间，闲荡lounge around/about

例句

And during that same time, the Baroness had lounged about in her fancy mansion going to the best parties, creating fantastic designs, and making her name synonymous with high fashion.

而在这期间，男爵夫人却悠闲地躺在豪华的宅邸里，参加最好的宴会，设计精美的服装，使她的名字成为高级时装的代名词。

诗人画家为着要追求自己的幻梦，实现自己的痴愿，宁可牺牲一切物质的快乐，受尽亲朋的垢骂，他们从艺术里能够得到无穷的安慰，那是他们真实的世界，外面的世界对于他们反变成一个空虚。

When chasing their dreams, poets and painters choose to sacrifice their material enjoyments and tolerate abuse from their friends and relatives, because they are comforted by their art. After all, this is their real world, and the rest is simply a sham.

🎈忍受

1）tolerant

2）submit to …

例句

I’m not prepared to submit to this painful course of treatment.

我不愿意忍受此次痛苦的疗程。

3）put up with

例句

I can’t put up with their smoking any longer.

我再也无法忍受他们抽烟了。

4)bear

例句

I can’t bear to think of you living in that horrible, filthy attic.

想到你要生活在那样一间肮脏可怕的阁楼里，我受不了。

5)pocket

例句

《丑石》

我感到自己的可耻，也感到了丑石的伟大；我甚至怨恨它这么多年竟会默默地忍受着这一切。

I feel shame while I feel the greatness of the ugly stone; I have even complained about it having pocketed silently all it had experienced for so many years.

🎈sham n. 假象，虚伪，虚假

a situation, feeling, system, etc. that is not as good or true as it seems to be

假结婚sham marriages

迟起艺术家也具有同等的精神。区区虽然不是一个迟起大师，但是对于本行艺术的确有无限的热忱——艺术家的狂热。所以让我拿自己做个例子罢。

Those who pursue the “Art of Sleeping Late” are equally imbued with this spirit. Though I am not a master of this art, I can claim limitless enthusiasm for it—the fervor of a real artist.

🎈洋溢着，弥漫着…… be imbued with…

例句

吴伯箫《夜谈》

零乱的爆竹声中，那夜谈是弥漫着天伦之乐的。

In the midst of sporadic blasts of firecrackers, their talk is imbued with celestial happiness.

当我是个小孩时候，我的生活由家庭替我安排，毫无艺术的自觉，早上六点就起来了。

When I was a child, my life was all arranged by my parents and, being unaware of this “Art”, I often got up with the dawn.

🎈未意识到be unaware of

例句

吴组湘《谈癖》

他本人亦莫知其然，并且无可如何：这就应当归人怪癖一类。

The eccentric himself is unaware of its cause and cannot refrain from his odd behavior.

后来到北方念书去，北方的天气是培养迟起最好的沃土，许多同学又都是程度很高的迟起艺术专家，于是绝好的环境同朋辈的切磋使我领略到迟起的深味，我的忠于艺术的热度也一天一天地增高。

Later, I moved to study in the North where the climate was more ideal for sleeping late. In fact, many of my fellow students were highly accomplished at this, so their expertise combined with the ideal environment allowed me to savor the delights of this Art, and my devotion to it grew daily.

🎈 fellow students中fellow指“和（自己）身份、地位相同的人”，如同胞fellow Chinese

🎈 savor v. 体会，体味，享受

to enjoy a feeling or an experience thoroughly

例句

I wanted to savor every moment.

我要细心品味，一刻也不错过。

🎈对……的热爱 the devotion to sth

对教育事业的热爱the devotion to the cause of education

暑假年假回家时期，总在全家人吃完了早饭之后，我才敢动起床的念头。

Ever since then, during both winter holidays and summer vacation, I never rose from bed until all my family had eaten breakfast.

🎈 ever since和since的区别

一、指代不同

1、ever since：打…以后。

2、since：从…以来。

二、用法不同

1、ever since：since用作连词作“自从…以来〔以后或,现在〕”解时，引导时间状语从句，在主句是现在完成时的情况下，如果since从句中谓语动词用一般过去时，则表示动作或状态的完成，计时的起点是动作或状态完成的那一时刻。

2、since：since用作介词的意思是“从…以来，自从…之后”，其宾语常指过去的一个时间点，其含意通常指持续到说话时刻的动作或情况开始于什么时候。since之后常接名词、动名词作其宾语，since then意为“从那以后”。

三、侧重点不同

1、ever since：侧重于指从某个时间后一直持续。

2、since：侧重于只是陈述从某时以后。

🎈暑假summer vacation/holidays

寒假winter vacation/holidays

老父常常对我说清晨新鲜空气的好处，母亲有时提到重温稀饭的麻烦，慈爱的祖母也屡次向我姑母说“早起三日当一工”(我的姑母老是起得很早的），我虽然万分不愿意失丢大人们的欢心，但是为着忠于艺术的缘故，居然甘心得罪老人家。

My father would hold forth on the virtues of fresh morning air, my mother sometimes mentioned the trouble of re-warming porridge, and my loving grandmother frequently told my aunt, “He who rises early for three days can do an extra day’s work.”（Incidentally, my aunt always rose early.) Though I didn’t want to fall out of their favor, when forced to choose, I gave it up for the sake of my Art.

🎈（在某事上）喋喋不休；大发议论 hold forth (on sth)

🎈（在某人那里）失宠 out of (one’s) favor

🎈为了……for…’s sake/for the sake of

梁实秋《学问与趣味》

只是‘无所为而为’solely for its own sake

形式主义 the practice of formalities for formalities’ sake

后来老人家知道我是无可救药的，反动了怜惜的心肠，他们早上九点钟时候走过我的房门前还是用着足尖；

While at first they declared me incorrigible, they eventually let me do as I pleased, and when passing my bedroom at 9 o’clock, they walked on their tiptoes.

🎈declare常用于表明意见、看法；announce 常用于说明事实。

🎈incorrigible adj. 屡教不改的，不可改造的，不可救药的

having bad habits which cannot be changed or improved

人们温情地放纵我们的弱点是最容易刺动我们麻木的良心，但是我总舍不得违弃了心爱的艺术，所以还是懊悔地照样地高卧。

Naturally, their loving tolerance of my imperfections made me feel guilty, but for the sake of my Art I continued in my habit of sleeping late, albeit now with some remorse.

🎈连词albeit通常用在句首或者句中，表示“虽然”，后面可接形容词、可接介词短语、可接介词，用法灵活。

在大学里，有几位道貌岸然的教授对于迟到学生总是白眼相待，我不幸得很，老做他们白眼的鹄的，也曾好几次下个决心早起，免得一进教室的门，就受两句冷讽，可是一年一年地过去，我足足受了四年的白眼待遇，里头的苦处是别人想不出来的。

When I was at university, a few self-righteous professors viewed students who were late for class with scorn. Unfortunately I became a target of their arrows, so on several occasions I resolved to get up earlier so as not to be satirized again upon entering those classes. Four years went by and I received my share of abuse from them, causing a lingering unpleasantness you wouldn’t understand.

🎈 self-righteous adj. 以正人君子自居的；自以为正直的

self- （prefix）：by yourself or by itself

自我驱动的交通工具a self-propelled vehicle

自动关闭的门self-closing doors

自我清洁的炉子a self-cleaning oven

自上发条的表a self-winding watch

🎈下定决心做某事

1）resolve to do sth

2）decide to do sth/make a decision to do

3）determine to do sth/be determined to do

4）make up one’s mind to do sth

🎈one’s share of指某人应得/做的一份。

例句

巴金《朋友》

这些不要报答的慷慨的施舍，使我的生活里也有了温暖，有了幸福。

It is due to their bountiful free gifts that I also have my share of warmth and happiness in my life.

有一年寒假住在亲戚家里，他们晚饭的时间是很早的，所以一醒来，腹里就咕隆地响着，我却按下饥肠，故意想出许多有趣事情，使自己忘却了肚饿，有时饿出汗来，还是坚持着非到十时是不起来的。

One winter vacation I stayed with a relative of mine. The family often had dinner early, so I was often famished by morning. On these occasions, I would stave off hunger by imagining interesting things. Although sometimes the hunger was so overpowering that sweat oozed from my body, I still dawdled in bed until ten o’clock.

🎈 famished adj.饿扁的;饿极的

🎈by+时间表示「在……的时候」

例句

By eight o’clock he had arrived at my hotel.

到8点时，他已经到达我住的宾馆了。

🎈暂时解饿；暂缓饥饿to stave off hunger

暂时挡住（坏事）；延缓，推迟（某事物）to stave off sth

🎈ooze v. (浓液体)渗出，慢慢流出（the liquid） flows from the place slowly[常用来表示“流血”]

例句

Blood oozed out of the wound.

血从伤口慢慢流出来。

【补充】 “流”的不同表达：

手腕上的伤口还在渗血。

From the cut on his wrist the blood was still oozing.

小溪和沟渠<流水潺潺>。

The streams and ditches bubbled and chattered with rushing water.

地上<横流>着一大滩秽水。

The floor was wet with a pool of dirty water.

对于艺术我是多么忠实，情愿牺牲。枵腹做诗的爱伦波，真可说是我的同志。

How I was devoted to the Art! I was ready to make any sacrifice. Edgar Allen Poe, who often wrote poems on an empty stomach, can be counted as a congenial friend of mine.

🎈devote的三个常用表达：

1）致力于/忠于…… be devoted to sb/sth

2）献身于/致力于/专心于…… devote oneself to sb/sth

3）把……用于…… devote … to …

例句

She devoted herself to her career.

她全力倾注于自己的事业。

I could only devote two hours a day to the work.

我一天只能在这个工作上花两个小时。

🎈枵腹[xiāo fù]：饥饿。

🎈congenial adj.志同道合的；意气相投的；志趣相投的；合得来的

例句

夏丏尊《中年人的寂寞》

在小学和中学的时代容易结成真实的友谊，那时彼此尚不感到生活的压迫，入世未深，打算计较的念头也少，朋友的结成全由于志趣相近或性情适合。

Real friendship is easily formed in primary or middle school days when, being socially inexperienced and free from the burden of life, you give little thought to personal gains or losses, and make friends entirely as a result of similar tastes and interests or <congenial> disposition.

后来入世谋生，自然会忽略了艺术的追求。

Later on, after starting to fend for myself, I ignored the pursuit of the Art by necessity, but my old enthusiasm for it remained.

🎈照顾（自己），自谋生计 fend for oneself

例句

His parents agreed to pay the rent for his apartment but otherwise left him to fend for himself.

他的父母同意替他付房租，其他的则让他自己解决。

想起我个人因为迟起所受的许多说不出的苦痛，我深深相信迟起是一门艺术，因为只有艺术才会这样带累人，也只有艺术家才肯这样不变初衷地往前牺牲一切。

The untold agonies resulting from my sleeping late made me believe that it was an Art, because nothing short of Art can be so excruciating, and no one but artists will, as always, sacrifice everything for their goals.

🎈此处nothing short of意同nothing but

缺少，除非 short of

例句

Short of a miracle, we’re certain to lose.

除非发生奇迹，否则我们输定了。

但是从迟起我也得到不少的安慰，总够补偿我种种的苦痛。

Still, I derived an abundance of pleasures from sleeping late, which could amply make up for the agonies I had suffered.

🎈 (从…中)得到，获得 derive sth from sth

例句

夏丏尊《中年人的寂寞》

我在这上面无意识地会感到一种温暖的慰藉。

From that I unknowingly derive some sort of warm solace.

🎈大量的…… an abundance of

🎈补偿，弥补 make up (to sb) for sth

例句

How can I make up for the way I’ve treated you?

我这样对你，该怎么向你表示歉意呢？

I’ll make it up to you, I promise.

我保证我一定会补偿你的。

迟起给我最大的好处是我没有一天不是很快乐地开头的。我天天起来总是心满意足的，觉得我们住的世界无日不是春天，无处不是乐园。

The prime benefit I obtained was that I did not start a single day without feeling happy. Instead, each morning as I started my day I found our world to be a living paradise.

🎈prime adj. 主要的，首要的，最为重要的

main; most important; basic [only before noun]

之间见过的prime相关表达

全盛时期 in one’s prime/heyday（郁达夫《故乡的秋》）

年富力强、风华正茂in the prime of life（胡适《不要抛弃学问》）

血气旺盛的年轻人 prime-time adults（丰子恺《渐》）

黄金时段prime time

黄金时间的电视节目 prime-time television

当我神怡气舒地躺着时候，我常常记起勃浪宁的诗：“上帝在上，万物各得其所。”（鱼游水里，鸟栖树枝，我卧床上。）

While relaxing peacefully on bed, I often remembered Robert Browning’s poem: “God’s in His Heaven; All’s right with the world.”（Fishes swim in the water, birds perch on the trees, and I lie on my bed.)

🎈“勃浪宁”应指“罗伯特·勃朗宁”，是一名英国诗人，剧作家，主要作品有《戏剧抒情诗》（Dramatic Lyrics），《环与书》（The Ring and the Book），诗剧《巴拉塞尔士》（Paracelsus）。与丁尼生齐名，是维多利亚时代两大诗人之一。勃朗宁对英国诗歌的最大贡献，是发展和完善了戏剧独白诗（Dramatic monologue）这样一种独特的诗歌形式，并且用它鲜明而生动地塑造了各种不同类型的人物性格，深刻而复杂地展示了人的内在心理。他以精细入微的心理探索而独步诗坛，对英美20世纪诗歌产生了重要影响。

人生是短促的，可是若使我们有过光荣的青春，我们的一生就不能算是虚度，我们的残年很可以傍着火炉，晒着太阳在回忆里过日子。

Life is short, yet if we have a glorious youth, then our life cannot be said to have been wasted. So, in our later years we can park ourselves by the fireside to bask in our personal Indian summer, recalling past glories.

🎈晚年，残年 later years/declining years/late life/old age

🎈（在某处）坐下，站着 park oneself +adv./prep.

例句

She parked herself on the edge of the bed.

她坐在床沿上。

🎈秋老虎，小阳春 Indian summer

英义

a period of dry warm weather in the autumn/fall

印第安夏(Indian summer)也叫秋老虎，是我国民间指立秋(8月8日左右)以后的短期回暖天气，一般发生在8、9月之交，持续日数约7-15天。这种天气出现的原因是南退后的副热带高压又再度控制江淮及附近地区，形成连日晴朗、日射强烈，重新出现暑热天气，人们感到炎热难受，故称“秋老虎”。

另, Indian summer还可以表示晚年幸福，如：I had to take my holiday late but fortunately we had an Indian summer and the weather was splendid.我只得晚些休假，不过幸运的是那次的天气不错，深秋初冬风和日丽。

同样地一天的光阴是很短促的，可是若使我们有过光荣的早上（一半时间花在床上的早晨！）我们这一天就不能说是白丢了，我们其余时间可以用在追忆清早的幸福，

Similarly, days are short, but if we can have a glorious morning, the day cannot be said to have been wasted. In our afternoons and evenings, we can recall the joys of the early morning.

🎈 recall the joys of the early morning也可改写为call up the joys of the early morning。recall 和call sth up均指“回忆某事（to bring something back to your mind）”

我们青年时期若使是欢欣的结晶，我们的余生一定不会很凄凉的，青春的快乐是有影子留下的，那影子好似带了魔力，惨淡的老年给它一照，也呈出和蔼慈祥的光辉。

If our youth can be the manifestation of our joy, our remaining years cannot be dreary; youthful happiness often leaves behind a shadow, one that seems to possess the magical power to make our dismal old age sparkle with kindness and joviality.

🎈魔力magical power

🎈dismal adj. 忧郁的，凄凉的，惨淡的，阴沉的

causing or showing sadness

悲惨的状况，凄凉的环境，阴沉的天气

dismal conditions/surroundings/weather

我们一天里也是一样的，人们不是常说：一件事情好好地开头，就是已经成功一半了；那么赏心悦意的早晨是一天快乐的先导。

The same is true of a day. As the Chinese saying goes, a good beginning is half of success. So, an enjoyable morning is often the herald of a cheerful day.

🎈…也是如此/同理 The same is true…

🎈好的开始是成功的一半A good beginning is half of success.

🎈 herald

1)v. 预告;预示…的来临

2)n. 预兆

是……的预兆 herald sth或be the herald of sth

迟起不单是使我天天快活地开头，还叫我们每夜高兴地结束这个日子；我们夜夜去睡时候，心里就预料到明早迟起的快乐——预料中的快乐是比当时的享受，味还长得多——这样子我们一天的始终都是给生机活泼的快乐空气围住，这个可爱的升景象却是迟起一手做成的。

To me, sleeping late is not only the beginning of a happy day but also the ending of a delightful night and as I go to bed in the night, I am already beginning to anticipate the joy of sleeping late the next morning. Since anticipation is often sweeter than reality, I am surrounded by this happy, lively atmosphere all day long. Who could have thought that this joyful, peaceful vision is simply the result of sleeping late?

🎈整天，全天，成天all day long

例句

It irks me to stay at home all day long.

一天到晚呆在家里使我感到厌烦。

迟起不仅是能够给我们这甜蜜的空气，它还能够打破我们结结实实的苦闷。

As well, sleeping late can dispel our suffocating depression.

🎈sleeping late表示「睡过头，迟起，睡懒觉」，而「睡得晚」的准确说法应该是 go to sleep/bed late

人生最大的愁忧是生活的单调。悲剧是很热闹的，怪有趣的，只有那不生不死的机械式生活才是最无聊赖的。

Monotony of life seems to be the supreme affliction faced by men. Tragedy can be interesting and boisterous; the mechanical life is boring and monotonous.

🎈monotony n.[U] 单调乏味，无变化，一成不变

boring lack of variety

monotonous adj. 单调乏味的；一成不变的

单调乏味的声音/饮食/日常事务a monotonous voice/diet/routine

单调乏味的工作monotonous work

例句

She watches television to relieve the monotony of everyday life.

她天天靠看电视来解闷儿。

迟起真是唯一的救济方法。你若使感到生活的沉闷，那么请你多睡半点钟（最好是一点钟），你起来一定觉得许多要干的事情没有时间做了，那么是非忙不可——“忙”是进到快乐宫的金钥，尤其那自己找来的忙碌。

Nothing short of sleeping late can be the remedy for this. So, if you feel utterly bored, you should sleep for an extra half hour or even a solid hour before rising. Of course, when you get up, you may not find sufficient time to do all you should. So, you must simply keep busy at them, for this is the golden key to the palace of happiness.

🎈 solid adj. 不停息的，不间断的without a pause; continuous

例句

The essay represents a solid week’s work.

这篇文章是用整整一星期写出来的。

忙是人们体力发泄最好的法子，亚里士多德不是说过人的快乐是生于能力变成效率的畅适。

Getting busy is the best way to let off steam, which can be seen in Aristotle’s remarks—happiness is found in the ease and comfort of turning capabilities into efficiencies.

🎈发泄 let off

释放精力，发泄怒气，宣泄感情 let off steam

例句

He let off steam by yelling at a clerk.

他对一个职员大喊大叫, 借以发泄怒气。

He lets off steam by going to the gym after work.

他下班后去体育馆锻炼，以舒缓压力。

🎈亚里士多德Aristotle：古代先哲，古希腊人，世界古代史上伟大的哲学家、科学家和教育家之一，堪称希腊哲学的集大成者；是柏拉图的学生，亚历山大的老师。

我常常在办公时间五分钟以前起床，那时候洗脸拭牙进早餐，都要限最快的速度完成，全变做最浪漫的举动，当牙膏四溅，脸水横飞，一手拿着头梳，对着镜子，一面吃面包时节，谁会说人生是没有趣味呢？

Often I would not get up until five minutes before the start of work. So I had to wash my face, brush my teeth, and eat my breakfast at a fantastic speed. Just imagine how romantic all these acts were! When toothpaste splashed about and water sprayed all over and, standing in front of the mirror, I combed my hair while eating my bread, who could say that my life was not interesting?

🎈洗脸wash one’s face

刷牙brush one’s teeth

梳头 comb one’s hair

而且当时只怕过了时间，心中充满了冒险的情绪。

As well, I was afraid of being late, so this too put me in an adventurous mood.

🎈副词too在句子里的位置一般是主语和谓语之间，或者放在句末。

这些暗地晓得不碍事的冒险兴奋是顶可爱的东西，尤其是对于我们这班不敢真真履险的懦夫。

These minor adventures which I secretly knew would not result in any inconvenience and the excitement they caused were most adorable, particularly for cowards like us who never had the heart to run any risk in the real sense.

🎈These minor adventures which I secretly knew would not result in any inconvenience and the excitement they caused were most adorable中which (I secretly knew) would not result in any inconvenience and the excitement they caused是修饰adventures的定语从句，其中they caused又相当于(that) they caused，修饰inconvenience and the excitement。

🎈冒 … 的危险；冒险（做某事）

run the risk (of sth/of doing sth) /run risks

例句

Consequently, you run the risk of making yourself feel uncomfortable.

到头来，你只可能让自己不开心。

我喜欢北方的狂风，因为当我们衔着黄沙往前进的时候，我们仿佛是斩将先登，冲锋陷阵的健儿，跟自然的大力肉搏，这是多么可歌可泣的壮举，同时除开耳孔鼻孔塞点沙土外，丝毫危险也没有，不管那时是怎地像煞有介事样子。

I loved braving the raging wind from the North because when marching against the yellow sand that stung our faces, we felt like warriors making a charge on the battlefield, determined to vanquish our enemies. Wrestling with the fury of the elements was a real heroic deed and, except for the sand that got into our nostrils and eyes, we were exposed to no danger, regardless of how hard we tried to pretend the opposite.

🎈stung是sting的过去式。

🎈冲锋陷阵make a charge

charge n.突然猛冲；猛攻；冲锋

a sudden rush or violent attack, for example by soldiers, wild animals or players in some sports

例句

He led the charge down the field.

他带头沿着球场冲杀过去。

🎈英雄人物a heroic figure

英雄事迹a heroic deed

英雄故事/颂诗 a heroic story/poem

英雄事迹/神话故事heroic deeds/myths

冒险的嗜好哪个人没有，不过我们胆小，不愿白丢了生命，仁爱的上帝，因此给我们地蔽天的刮风，做我们安稳冒险的材料。

Everyone has a sense of adventure! The trouble is that we are cowards unwilling to risk our lives for nothing. Luckily, our benevolent God has created us a howling wind and clouds of dust, in which we can venture without running any risk.

🎈…感 a sense of

如：责任感a sense of responsibility

感激a sense of gratitude

成就感 a sense of accomplishment

幽默感a sense of humour

自卑感 a sense of inferiority

🎈问题是……The trouble is…

例句

But the trouble is it’s an expensive hobby, isn’t it?

但问题是它是一个很花钱的爱好，不是吗？

🎈 benevolent adj. 当权者仁慈的，慈爱的，乐善好施的

(especially of people in authority 尤指当权者) kind, helpful and generous

对于存在仁慈的神的笃信

belief in the existence of a benevolent god

住在江南的可怜虫，找不到这一天赐的机会，只得英雄做时势，迟些起来，自己创造机会。

However, the poor folks living south of the Yangtze River are denied such Godsend, so like heroes creating their own myth, we sleep late to make our own opportunities.

🎈folk和people一般可以换用。但某些情况下，folk不是指人群、人们，而指亲人（父母、乡亲）在强调有这层亲缘关系的时候是不可以换的，比如说 my old folks一般是说我的老爸老妈…换了就不对了。

🎈godsend n.[Sing] 天赐之物；意外的好运；及时雨

例句

This new benefit has come as a godsend for low-income families.

这项新的救济金是低收入家庭的及时雨。

就是放假期间，十时半起床，早餐后抽完了烟，已经十一时过了，一想到今天打算做的事情一件也没有动手，赶紧忙着起来——天下里还有比无事空忙更有趣味的事吗？

Even during my holidays, I would not get up until half past ten and, after breakfast and a smoke, the clock had already struck eleven. When realizing that I had not accomplished a single thing, I hurriedly set to my tasks. Can there be anything more interesting than making much ado about nothing?

🎈 strike可表示(钟表)敲，鸣，报时

例句

The clock struck nine.

钟敲了 9 下。

🎈无事空忙，小题大做，庸人自扰

make much ado about nothing

例句

The whole controversy is for too much ado about nothing.

这场争论完全是无事生非。

若使你因为迟起挨到人家的闲话，那最少也可以打破你日常一波不兴无声无臭的生活。

Even if you are reproached for sleeping late, who cares? At least it breaks the grip of silence that holds a nondescript life together.

🎈 nondescript adj.无特征的，平庸的，毫无个性的

having no interesting or unusual features or qualities

我想凡是尝过生活的深味的人一定会说痛苦比单调灰色生活强得多，因为痛苦是活的，灰色的生活却是死的象征。

To my way of thinking, those who have wrestled with life will say that the difficult path they have chosen is superior to the gray, monotonous existence, for at least the former teems with life, while the latter symbolizes death.

🎈 我认为，依我看，依我之见

1）to my way of thinking

2）in my opinion /view

3）from my perspective

4）from my viewpoint

5）from my standpoint

6）from my point of view

7）according to me

8）As far as I am concerned/ As far as I know

🎈全力对付，努力克服，和……扭打wrestle with

例句

Politicians wrestled with it and each other throughout the weekend.

整个周末，政治家一直在处理这份备忘录，同时也在互相指责。

🎈优于…be superior to …

差于…be inferior to …

比…年长，资历深be senior to …

比…年幼，资历浅be junior to …

早于…be prior to …

晚于…be posterior to …

迟起本身好似是很懒惰的，但是它能够给我们最大的活气，使我们的生活跳动生姿；世上最懒惰不过的人们是那般黎明即起，老早把事做好，坐着呆呆地打呵欠的人们。

By its very nature, sleeping late implies indolence, but it can also furnish us with a lively atmosphere and bring color and enchantment into our lives. The laziest people in the world are those who rise at dawn to get everything done and then sit yawning as if in a trance the rest of the day.

🎈就其本质而言 By its very nature

🎈给某人提供某物furnish sb with sth

例句

She furnished him with the facts surrounding the case.

她向他提供了与案件有关的真实情况。

🎈trance n. 出神，发呆

a state in which you are thinking so much about sth that you do not notice what is happening around you(近义词daze)

迟起所有的这许多安慰，除开艺术，我们哪里还找得出来呢？许多人现在还不明白迟起的好处，这也可以证明迟起是一种艺术，因为只有艺术人们才会这样地不去踩它。

Where else but in Art can we find the comforts of sleeping late? Many have not realized its virtues, and this is further evidence that sleeping late is an Art, because Art alone can be ignored like this.

🎈 alone adv.仅仅，只

例句

You alone should determine what is right for you. used after a noun or pronoun to emphasize one particular thing

（用于名词或代词后以加强语气）

只有你自己才能决定什么适合你。

现在春天到了，“春宵苦短日高起，”五六点钟醒来，就可以看见太阳，我们可以醉也似地躺着，一直躺了好几个钟头，静听流茑的巧啭，细看花影的慢移，这真是迟起的绝好时光。

Now spring is in the air. The night is bitterly short and the sun rises much too early. When we wake up at five or six, the sun is already in view. We lay languidly on the bed as if in a daze and for a couple of hours listen quietly to the orioles chirping and study the flower shadows flickering outside. What a fabulous time for sleeping late!

🎈可感觉到in the air

例句

There’s romance in the air.

有种浪漫的气氛。

悬而未决up in the air

例句

Our travel plans are still up in the air.

我们的旅行计划尚未落实。

🎈出神，发呆 in a trance/daze

🎈study v. 审视，端详，细看

look at sth or watch sth very carefully

例句

Debbie studied her friend’s face for a moment.

黛比仔细端详了一会她朋友的脸。

能让我们天天多躺一会儿罢，别辜负了这一刻千金的“春朝”。

So, let’s sleep a few more hours each day and live up to these priceless spring mornings!

🎈符合、不辜负(他人的期望) live up to

例句

He failed to live up to his parents’ expectations.

他辜负了父母的期望。

《懒惰汉的懒惰想头》是当代英国小品文家Jerome K. Jerome(杰罗姆•凯•杰罗姆）的文集名字（Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow)，集里所说的都是拉闲扯散，瞎三道四的废话，可是自带有幽默的深味，好似对于人生有比一般人更微妙的认识同玩味——这或者只是因为我自己也是懒惰汉，官官相卫，猩猩惜猩猩，那么也好，就随它去罢。

The essay Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, written by the contemporary British essayist Jerome K. Jerome, rambled wildly about the trifles of life, but in a humorous style. It seems that the author was more sensitive and thoughtful about life than other writers. This is probably because I am a lazy bone as well. If I am accused of defending him like a bureaucrat shielding his fellow officer, I don’t mind. Let’s let it go at that.

🎈contemporary n.同时代的人；当代的人

counterpart n.与自己身份地位相当的人

🎈东拉西扯（某话题）ramble (on) about sb/sth

例句

What is she rambling on about now?

她在东拉西扯些什么呀？

🎈懒家伙，懒骨头，懒汉 a lazy bone

🎈指控某人…… accuse sb of sth

例句

She accused him of lying.

她指责他说谎。

“春宵一刻值千金”这句老话，是谁也知道的，我觉得换一个字，就可以做我的题目。

The Chinese saying “Spring Nights are Priceless” has been around for generations. If night is replaced with morning, this new saying could be used as a title for my essay. Did you notice?

🎈存在 be around

现存的最聪慧的艺术家the most intelligent artists around today

连小小二句题目，都要东抄西袭凑合成的，不肯费心机自己去做一个，这也可以见我的懒惰了。

Even my title and subtitle are a ‘cut and paste’ job. I don’t even bother to think up my own. This too proves my indolence!

🎈前缀sub-表示“次、亚”，如：subsonic亚音速的，subtropics亚热带的，subtitle副标题，subordinate下属等。

🎈想出，发明think sth up或think up sth

例句

Can’t you think up a better excuse than that?

难道你就想不出一个比这更好的借口？

🎈费心做某事bother to do sth

例句

《维护团结的人》

……不跟他一般见识。

… So you needn’t bother to reason with him.

在副题目底下加了“之一”两字，自然是指明我还要继续写些这类无聊的小品文字，但是什么时候会写第二篇，那是连上帝都不敢预言的。我是那么懒惰，有时晚上想好了意思，第二天起得太早，心中一懊悔，什么好意思都忘却了。

The addition of “One” to “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Man” in the subtitle apparently shows that whenever I’m bored I will continue to write essays of this sort, but who knows when I will write my second? Even God dare not predict it. Sometimes at night I work out in my mind a draft for an essay, but then clean forget all the mental notes because I get up too early—that is exasperation!

🎈想出，得到(解决方法) work out

例句

It took me some time to work out what was causing this…

我花了一些时间才弄清此事的起因。

🎈（把……忘得）一干二净 clean forget all (about sth)

🎈exasperation n.恼火，恼怒，惹人恼怒的事

🎈重点表达

咨询，请教 consult with sb

到…处访问;到…家作客visit with sb

对……由敏锐的观察力 have a keen eye for sth

洋溢着，弥漫着…… be imbued with…

未意识到be unaware of

对……的热爱 the devotion to sth

暑假summer vacation/holidays

寒假winter vacation/holidays

（在某事上）喋喋不休；大发议论 hold forth (on sth)

（在某人那里）失宠 out of (one’s) favor

为了……for…’s sake/for the sake of

某人应得/做的一份one’s share of

暂时解饿；暂缓饥饿to stave off hunger

(从…中)得到，获得 derive sth from sth

大量的…… an abundance of

补偿，弥补 make up (to sb) for sth

晚年，残年 later years/declining years/late life/old age

（在某处）坐下，站着 park oneself +adv./prep.

秋老虎，小阳春 Indian summer

魔力magical power

好的开始是成功的一半A good beginning is half of success.

是……的预兆 herald sth或be the herald of sth

整天，全天，成天all day long

释放精力；发泄怒气；宣泄感情let off steam

洗脸wash one’s face

刷牙brush one’s teeth

梳头 comb one’s hair

冒 … 的危险；冒险（做某事）run the risk (of sth/of doing sth) /run risks

冲锋陷阵make a charge

英雄事迹a heroic deed

问题是……The trouble is…

无事空忙，小题大做，庸人自扰make much ado about nothing

全力对付；努力克服；和……扭打wrestle with

优于…be superior to …

就其本质而言 By its very nature

给某人提供某物furnish sb with sth

可感觉到in the air

出神，发呆 in a trance/daze

符合、不辜负(他人的期望) live up to

东拉西扯（某话题）ramble (on) about sb/sth

懒家伙，懒骨头，懒汉 a lazy bone

指控某人…… accuse sb of sth

存在 be around

想出；发明think sth up或think up sth

费心做某事bother to do sth

想出，得到(解决方法) work out

（把……忘得）一干二净 clean forget all (about sth)

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