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1、Walden.Notes 瓦尔登湖英文版读书笔记 Walden.Notes 瓦尔登湖英文版读书笔记 编辑整理：尊敬的读者朋友们：这里是精品文档编辑中心，本文档内容是由我和我的同事精心编辑整理后发布的，发布之前我们对文中内容进行仔细校对，但是难免会有疏漏的地方，但是任然希望（Walden.Notes 瓦尔登湖英文版读书笔记）的内容能够给您的工作和学习带来便利。同时也真诚的希望收到您的建议和反馈，这将是我们进步的源泉，前进的动力。本文可编辑可修改，如果觉得对您有帮助请收藏以便随时查阅，最后祝您生活愉快 业绩进步，以下为 Walden.Notes 瓦尔登湖英文版读书笔记的全部内容。Walden.No

2、tes 瓦尔登湖英文版读书笔记 Walden(Henry David Thoreau）Chapter 1:Economy 2013 11-5 Quote：The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind。Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others？Comment：Thoreau mentioned in the first chapter that he had weaved a kind of basket of a d

3、elicate texture，but he studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them。Maybe Thoreau thought not a successful life was pleasant，but a simple,plain and independent life was what he pursed。Many other people had eager for success，while Thoreau just wanted to know what was really essential in

4、life through his self labor.Quote：They were pleasant spring days,in which the winter of man s discontent was thawing as well as the earth，and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.Comment：I have quoted this sentence just because I think it is beautiful and that distinguishes a litera

5、ry giant from those online writers in China today。In terms of this aspect，I think nobody could compare with him in describing natural beauties because he was closest writer to the nature.Walden.Notes 瓦尔登湖英文版读书笔记 Quote:In short,I am convinced，both by faith and experience，that to maintain one s self o

6、n this earth is not a hardship but a pastime,if we will live simply and wisely:as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial。It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow，unless he sweats easier than I do.Comment:Thoreau maintaine

7、d himself solely by the labor of his hands,and he found that only by working about 6 weeks in a year could he meet all the expenses of living。So，you see，we can do a simple person,need peace and persistence.Although many people live a humble and mediocre life,they are really content and happy.Quote:E

8、ndeavor to become one of the worthiest of the world Comment:We may first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves.We know that even the prophets and redeemers had rather consoled the fears than confirmed the hopes of man，so we don t need to be an overseer of the poor but live a worthwhile life,he s

9、pent 6 weeks a year working and did what attracted him just like literature in the rest time。He didn t waste the time but devoted himself to writing and the research into nature。Chapter 2 Where I live,and what I lived for Walden.Notes 瓦尔登湖英文版读书笔记 2013 11-6 Quote：I found myself suddenly neighbor to t

10、he birds;not by having imprisoned one，but having caged myself near them.Comment：Thoreau lived in Nature,and that was his answer to where he lived。Unlike many people who raise birds in their homes，Thoreau put himself in nature and lived close to the birds.People need freedom and the same with the bir

11、ds，with all the creatures in the earth。I am jealous of Thoreau s tour of Walden.Quote：One value even of the smallest well is，that when you look into it you see that earth is not continent but insular.Comment:Thoreau wanted to tell us that we should go outside of our own world and take a look at the

12、outer world or we should sometimes treat the things around us from another angle Quote：Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity,and I may say innocence，with Nature herself.Comment：Thoreau was a sincere worshipper and he believed in getting up early.He knew that“ren

13、ew thyself completely each day;do it again，and forever Walden.Notes 瓦尔登湖英文版读书笔记 again.”A person who has a dream wont lie in,which is what our teacher has told us,and I think Thoreaus dream was to be himself，to discover his conviction and realize it.Quote:That man who does not believe that each day c

14、ontains an earlier，more sacred and auroral hour than he has yet profaned，has despaired of life,and is pursuing a descending and darkening way.Comment:All intelligences awake with the morning and we must believe that we will do better today than we did yesterday。Thoreau again convinced us of the impo

15、rtance of cherishing the present.Quote:To be awake is to be alive.Comment:Brief as it is,this sentence really expresses Thoreau s determination to stay awake。2013 11-7 Quote：I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,to front only the essential facts of life,and see if I couldn t lear

16、n what it had to teach，and not，when I came to die,discover that I had not lived.Comment：Walden.Notes 瓦尔登湖英文版读书笔记 Thoreau used the word deliberately to show that he did not want to waste any and second in life。He has said he wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life。Thoreau spent 4 hour

17、s a day strolling and to keep vigorous and another 4 hours reading all kinds of books。He endeavored to be a worthy man。Quote：If we are really dying,let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities；if we are alive,let us go about business。Comment:Be it life or death,we only crav

18、e reality.I thought Thoreau had told us not worry about the death because what mattered was what we had done before our death。When we are alive，we should make the greatest use of every minute。Chapter 3 Reading Quote My residence was more favorable,not only to thought,but to serious reading，than a un

19、iversity。Comment:I cant believe Thoreaus saying that his cabin would be better than a university because his cabin was unable to compare with a university in the collection of books.Contrary to people s thinking,Thoreau wasnt caged in the cabin and he always went to the towns and connected with his

20、friends so that he had more than ever come within the influence of those books which circulated around the world.The only reason I think is that the peace and Walden.Notes 瓦尔登湖英文版读书笔记 solitude made Thoreau buried in his reading.Quote:Reading is a noble intellectual exercise.Comment:That s Thoreau s

21、attitude towards reading.Chapter4 Sound Quote:I love a broad margin to my life.Comment:I guess Thoreau preferred a leisure life to a busy one and then he could arrange the time according to his own will，putting the toil of earning his living behind himself。He loved reading and doing research into Na

22、ture.Quote:They were not time subtracted from my life,but so much over and above my usual allowance。I realized what the Orientals mean by contemplation and the forsaking of works.Comment：Sometimes when we forsake the work at hand and lose ourselves in deep thought,we will find we achieve more than w

23、e get through the mechanical work。Thoreau was sure to benefit from the contemplation。Quote：A man must find his occasions in himself.The natural day is very calm,and Walden.Notes 瓦尔登湖英文版读书笔记 will hardly reprove his indolence。Comment：Quote:If they could be naturalized without being domesticated,it wou

24、ld soon become the most famous sound in our woods.Comment:Thoreau advocated that all the animals should not be domesticated and the nature is their real home.It indicated Thoreau s conviction of freedom，not only concerning humanity but also all the creatures in the earth.Quote:I heard a fresh and te

25、nder bough suddenly fall like a fan to the ground,when there was not a breath of air stirring,broken off by its own weight.Comment：This description is so vividly that I seemingly see the scenery with my own eyes。2013-11-10 Chapter 5 Solitude Quote：There can be no very black melancholy to him who liv

26、es in the midst of Nature and has his scenes still while I enjoy the friendship of the seasons I trust that nothing can make life a burden to me。Comment：Walden.Notes 瓦尔登湖英文版读书笔记 Thoreau believed that the nature was the most fabulous and when we live in the midst of the nature we would live life up.T

27、hose tough labors at first faded in the face of the sweet nature,and he loved it.Quote：I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows。Comment:Society is commonly too

28、cheap，Thoreau wrote like this in his book。Maybe someone wonders how the students can sit alone in the house all night and most of the day without ennui and“the blues”and how Thoreau lived alone near the Walden Pond for 2 years and 2 months。Actually,a man thinking or working is always alone and the r

29、eal diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervish n the desert.We friends meet at very short interval,not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.Thoreau thought the communication of hearts mattered more than the society。2013 11-13 Chap

30、ter6 Visitors Quote:I had withdrawn so far within the great ocean of solitude,into which the rivers of society empty，that for the most part,so far as my needs were Walden.Notes 瓦尔登湖英文版读书笔记 concerned,only the finest sediment was deposited around me.Comment:When Thoreau lived in the woods,he had more

31、visitors than at any other period in his life。His company was winnowed by the mere distance from town，fewer coming for trivial business。And Thoreau thought they might be his true friends.Quote：He suggested that there might be men of genius in the lowest grades of life，however permanently humble and

32、illiterate,who take their own view always,or do not pretend to see at all;who are as bottomless even as Walden Pond was thought to be,thought to be，though they may be dark and muddy.Comment：His interesting visitor had a deep discussion with Thoreau,and his thinking was primitive and immersed his ani

33、mal life。He was expert at arithmetic,which he supposed to contain the abstract of the world.He particularly reverenced the writer and the preacher although he himself was almost illiterate。Thoreau believed he lived in the lowest grades of life,he was really a genius。Chapter7 The Bean Field Quote:Bre

34、ad may not always nourish us;but it always does us good,it even takes stiffness out of our joints,and makes us supple and buoyant,when we knew Walden.Notes 瓦尔登湖英文版读书笔记 not what ailed us,to recognize any generosity in man or Nature,to share any unmixed and heroic joy。Comment：Thoreau mentioned many vi

35、rtues in the context such as truth or justice，sincerity，simplicity，faith，and innocence。If we meet a man that we are sure to see the qualities Thoreau named,we should really be fed and cheered。And we need these virtues in our society just as our body needs the bread。We have to admit that the qualitie

36、s won t bring us utility,but we can hardly imagine a society without those.Quote：The true husbandman will cease from anxiety，as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not，and finish his labor with every day,relinquishing all claims to the produce of his

37、fields，and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but his last fruits also.Comment：A true husbandman enjoys the course of farming more than harvest。And we people should learn to enjoy the scenes in our lives。Quote：We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity。We should never cheat and insul

38、t and banish one another by our meanness，if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness。We should meet thus in haste.Most Walden.Notes 瓦尔登湖英文版读书笔记 men I do not meet at all,for they seem not to have time;they are busy about their beans。Comment:Though I don t know how Thoreau can link sinc

39、erity with bean-planting，I really think this sentence is critical.2013-11-16 Chapter 8 The Ponds Quote:Many a forenoon have I stolen away,preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day；for I was rich,if not in money,in sunny hours and summer days,and spent them lavishly。Comment：It sounds s

40、o extravagant for Thoreau to waste the most valued part of the day but actually as Thoreau himself mentioned in the first chapter:he could work for only 6 weeks and that met all his expenses of lives.Thus,he was able to enjoy the natural views and compose his articles。I think that is the reason why

41、he said he was rich.Quote:Nevertheless,of all the characters I have known，perhaps Walden wears the best，and best preserves its purity.Many men have been likened to it，but few deserve that honor。Comment:In Thoreau s opinion，the pond is much purer than a person who is even Walden.Notes 瓦尔登湖英文版读书笔记 of

42、high virtue because Walden preserves its purity while people changes with the surroundings do。So,Thoreau said nobody deserved that honor that he could have been likened to the Walden,but I think maybe Thoreau himself deserved it because he had immersed himself in the research into pure nature,which

43、sounds unimaginable to people both at that time and now.Quote:It has not acquired one permanently wrinkle after all its ripples.Comment：This sentence indicates that the Walden avoided being changed though experiencing so much great challenges.The woodchoppers have cut down the trees along the Walden

44、，and the Irish have built its sites by it，and the railway has infringed on its border，but the Walden preserves its purity.It is itself unchanged！We cannot even imagine how greatly a man will change after his rights are violated or he is put under a circumstance where everybody wants to change.Chapte

45、r 9 Higher Laws Quote:I found in myself,and still find，an instinct toward a higher,or，as it is named，spiritual life，as do most of men,and another toward a primitive rank and savage one，and I reverence them both。I love the wild not less than the good。Comment:I think Thoreau believes that the humanity

46、 is primitively wild，so the Walden.Notes 瓦尔登湖英文版读书笔记 wildness and adventure in fishing attracted him.Fishing is only one part of the simple life，but that is also one of the closest acquaintances with Nature.Namely,I guess what Thoreau called higher law is the pursuit of the primitive life.Quote:We a

47、re conscious of an animal in us,which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers.Comment:That is,we never follow our genius until our instinct misleads us to a wrong road and ther e s still something evil in our genius if we are not willing to listen to the purest advice of our heart.Quote:

48、Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man s features，any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.Comment：Any extreme virtue can greatly change a man，so what will you be like depends on whether to chase nobleness or meanness.Conclusion Quote：It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a

49、 particular route,and make a beaten track for ourselves。Comment:Walden.Notes 瓦尔登湖英文版读书笔记 That is，the fact that we are quickly accustomed to a new environment is common.We humanity is adaptable creatures,but we are used to changing the surroundings rather than ourselves，which has both pros and cons。I

50、n Thoreau s opinion,the surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of the men;and so with the paths which the mind travels。Maybe Thoreau wanted to tell us the adaption of humanity was of great advantages because we might feel proud when we got old and recalled our whole lives。Quote:If