《四季隨筆》節(jié)選 - 冬 24

《四季隨筆》是吉辛的散文代表作。其中對隱士賴克羅夫特醉心于書籍、自然景色與回憶過去生活的描述，其實是吉辛的自述，作者以此來抒發(fā)自己的情感，因而本書是一部富有自傳色彩的小品文集。

吉辛窮困的一生，對文學名著的愛好與追求，以及對大自然恬靜生活的向往，在書中均有充分的反映。本書分為春、夏、秋、冬四個部分，文筆優(yōu)美，行文流暢，是英國文學中小品文的珍品之一。

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Time is money—says the vulgarest known to any age or people. Turn it round about, and you get a precious truth—money is time. I think of it on these dark, mist-blinded mornings, as I come down to find a glorious fire crackling and leaping in my study. Suppose I were so poor that I could not afford that heartsome blaze, how different the whole day would be! Have I not lost many and many a day of my life for lack of the material comfort which was necessary to put my mind in tune? Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman. Money is time, and, heaven be thanked, there needs so little of it for this sort of purchase. He who has overmuch is wont to be as badly off in regard to the true use of money, as he who has not enough. What are we doing all our lives but purchasing, or trying to purchase, time? And most of us, having grasped it with one hand, throw it away with the other.

時間就是金錢——這句最俗的話是所有時代所有人都耳熟能詳?shù)?。把它倒過來，你就得到了一個寶貴的真理——金錢就是時間。我是在黑暗的霧氣漫天的早晨想到這句話的，當時我下樓來，看到書房里爐火燒得正歡，噼啪作響。想想吧，如果我很窮，根本沒錢來享受這樣歡快的爐火，我這一整天將會是另一番景象！物質(zhì)上的舒適是我思想正常運作的必要條件，而我不正是因為物質(zhì)上的匱乏，失去了生命中的許多時光嗎？金錢就是時間。有了錢，我可以購買到可以愉快支配的時間，否則，這時間怎么都不能說是我的。不，那樣我會成為時間悲慘的奴隸。金錢就是時間，感謝老天，這宗買賣只需要很少的一點錢。太有錢的人和錢不夠的人，在對金錢的真正使用上，往往是一樣地糟糕。我們的一生不就是在購買或者試圖購買時間嗎？而我們中大多數(shù)人，都是一只手抓住它，另一只手又將它扔掉了。