譯/薇羅妮卡

However mean your life is， meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

不論你生活得如何卑微，你都要面對(duì)它、經(jīng)營(yíng)它，不要逃避，更不要惡言相向。

It is not as bad as you are.

它并不像你想得那么壞。

It looks poorest when you are richest.

你最富有的時(shí)候，往往看似最窮。

The fault-finder will find faults in paradise.

愛(ài)找缺點(diǎn)的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺點(diǎn)。

Love your life， poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant， thrilling， glorious hours， even in a poor-house.

不管它多貧窮，你都要熱愛(ài)你的生活。甚至在福利院里生活，你也還可以有愉快、興奮、光榮的時(shí)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.

夕陽(yáng)反射在福利院的窗戶(hù)上，跟反射在富戶(hù)人家窗戶(hù)上，是一樣的明亮；在所有人的門(mén)前，積雪同樣都會(huì)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，一個(gè)從容的人，在哪里都像是在皇宮中一樣，生活得心滿(mǎn)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，城里的窮人，倒往往是過(guò)著最獨(dú)立、最不羈的生活。

May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.

也許因?yàn)樗麄円蟮貌欢啵圆艜?huì)更容易滿(mǎn)足。

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb， like sage.

視貧窮如同花園中的花朵，像圣人一樣耕植它吧！

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things， whether clothes or friends，

不要走馬觀花地用層出不窮的新事物來(lái)把自己搞得一團(tuán)糟，無(wú)論它是新的朋友還是新的衣服。

Turn the old， return to them.

找到原有的財(cái)富，回去好好經(jīng)營(yíng)它們。

Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

萬(wàn)物不變，是我們?cè)谧?。衣服可以賣(mài)掉，但要保留你的思想。