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亨利·戴维·梭罗:瓦尔登湖·摘录 85
亨利·戴维·梭罗《瓦尔登湖》· Walden · 哲学 · 健康 · 认知
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into _palaver_ wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched, through slides and dumb-waiters, as it were; in other words, the parlor is so far from the kitchen and workshop. The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly. As if only the savage dwelt near enough to Nature and Truth to borrow a trope from them. How can the scholar, who dwells away in the North West Territory or the Isle of Man, tell what is parliamentary in the kitchen?
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定位:Excerpt 85 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
白话
梭罗觉得,客厅里的语言正失去活力,退化成空谈,因为我们的生活离语言所象征的东西太远;比喻和修辞必须绕很远,穿过送菜升降机才能到达,换句话说,客厅离厨房和工坊太远了。连晚餐也常常只是晚餐的寓言。似乎只有野蛮人离自然和真理足够近,才能从中借来比喻。他反问:一个住在西北领地或马恩岛的书斋学者,怎么能说出厨房里什么是“议会式”的?这提醒我们:语言要鲜活,就得贴近真实生活和劳动,别让说话和做事脱节。
上下文
《瓦尔登湖》中“更高的法则”一章,梭罗批评文明生活中语言与真实经验脱节。
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