TheSorrowsofYoungWerther少年维特的烦恼(7)

我知道你会怎么回答;因为我准备承认他们是最幸福的,谁，喜欢孩子,娱乐自己和他们的玩具,衣服,给他们的娃娃穿衣脱衣,聚精会神地看橱柜,妈妈已经锁定了她甜蜜的事情,而且,当他们终于得到一个美味的食物,它贪婪地吃,惊叫,“更多!”这些人当然是幸福的;但也有些人是令人羡慕的对象，他们把自己微不足道的工作，有时甚至是他们的激情，用浮夸的头衔，在人类面前表现为为自己的福利和荣耀而取得的巨大成就。但人谦卑地承认这一切的虚荣,他观察与快乐繁荣的公民将自己的小花园转换成一个天堂,以及耐心甚至穷人追求他疲惫的方式在他的负担,以及所有希望同样看太阳的光一段时间,——是的,这样的人在和平,并创建自己的内心世界;他也很高兴，因为他是一个男人。而且，不管他的活动范围多么有限，他心里仍然怀有自由的甜蜜感觉，他知道，只要他愿意，随时都可以离开监狱。

"When I was younger," she observed, "I loved nothing so much as romances. Nothing could equal my delight when, on some holiday, I could settle down quietly in a corner, and enter with my whole heart and soul into the joys or sorrows of some fictitious Leonora. I do not deny that they even possess some charms for me yet. But I read so seldom, that I prefer books suited exactly to my taste. And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life, -- and the friends who are about me, whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence, -- which, without being absolutely paradise, is, on the whole, a source of indescribable happiness."