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译/薇罗妮卡
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.
不论你生活得如何卑微，你都要面对它、经营它，不要逃避，更不要恶言相向。
It is not as bad as you are.
它并不像你想得那么坏。
It looks poorest when you are richest.
你最富有的时候，往往看似最穷。
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.
不管它多贫穷，你都要热爱你的生活。甚至在福利院里生活，你也还可以有愉快、兴奋、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.
夕阳反射在福利院的窗户上，跟反射在富户人家窗户上，是一样的明亮；在所有人的门前，积雪同样都会在早春融化。
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，在哪里都像是在皇宫中一样，生活得心满意足而心情愉快。
The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.
我看到，城里的穷人，倒往往是过着最独立、最不羁的生活。
May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.
也许因为他们要求得不多，所以才会更容易满足。
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.
视贫穷如同花园中的花朵，像圣人一样耕植它吧！
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends,
不要走马观花地用层出不穷的新事物来把自己搞得一团糟，无论它是新的朋友还是新的衣服。
Turn the old, return to them.
找到原有的财富，回去好好经营它们。
Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
万物不变，是我们在变。衣服可以卖掉，但要保留你的思想。
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.
不论你生活得如何卑微，你都要面对它、经营它，不要逃避，更不要恶言相向。
It is not as bad as you are.
它并不像你想得那么坏。
It looks poorest when you are richest.
你最富有的时候，往往看似最穷。
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.
不管它多贫穷，你都要热爱你的生活。甚至在福利院里生活，你也还可以有愉快、兴奋、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.
夕阳反射在福利院的窗户上，跟反射在富户人家窗户上，是一样的明亮；在所有人的门前，积雪同样都会在早春融化。
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，在哪里都像是在皇宫中一样，生活得心满意足而心情愉快。
The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.
我看到，城里的穷人，倒往往是过着最独立、最不羁的生活。
May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.
也许因为他们要求得不多，所以才会更容易满足。
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.
视贫穷如同花园中的花朵，像圣人一样耕植它吧！
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends,
不要走马观花地用层出不穷的新事物来把自己搞得一团糟，无论它是新的朋友还是新的衣服。
Turn the old, return to them.
找到原有的财富，回去好好经营它们。
Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
万物不变，是我们在变。衣服可以卖掉，但要保留你的思想。