| 1. | You shall see rude and sturdy , experienced and wise men , keeping their castles , or teaming up their summer ' s wood , or chopping alone in the woods , men fuller of talk and rare adventure in the sun and wind and rain , than a chestnut is of meat ; who were out not only in ' 75 and 1812 , but have been out every day of their lives ; greater men than homer , or chaucer , or shakespeare , only they never got time to say so ; they never took to the way of writing 你会看到健壮朴实的人们,他们受过的教育不多,但是非常聪明,经历丰富,他们要么守着自己的屋子,要么在整理夏天砍下的木头,要么独自在森林中伐木;他们的谈话内容和稀有经历,就像板栗那样饱满;他们不仅经历过1775年的独立战争和1812年美西战争,而且每天的日常生活中也有讲不完的故事;他们比荷马、乔叟、莎士比亚更伟大,他们只是缺少说出来的机会;他们从没试过写作。 |