I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.
我發現人若大部分時間用於獨處，將有益身心。與人為伴，即使是摯友，也很快會有厭煩或虛度光陰的感覺。
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
我愛獨處，我發現沒有比獨處更好的伴侶了。
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
出國，身在熙攘人群中，要比退守陋室更讓人寂寞。
A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.
心有所想，身有所系的人總是孤身一人，不論他身處何地。獨處與否也不是由人與人之間的距離來確定。
The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervish in the desert.
在劍橋苦讀的學子雖身處蜂巢般擁擠的教室，實際上卻和沙漠中的苦行僧一樣，是在獨處。
The farmer can work alone in the field or the woods all day, hoeing or chopping, and not feel lonesome, because he is employed;
農人終日耕于田間，伐於山野，此時他雖孤單但並不寂寞，因他專心於工作；
but when he comes home at night he cannot sit down in a room alone, at the mercy of his thoughts,
但待到他日暮而息，卻未必能忍受形影相弔，空有思緒做伴的時光，
but must be where he can :see the folks,:" and recreate, and, as he thinks, remunerate himself for his day's solitude;
他必到"可以看見大伙兒"的去處去找樂子，如他所認為的那樣以補償白日裡的孤獨；
and hence he wonders how the student can sit alone in the house all night and most of the day without ennui and :the blues
因此他無法理解學子如何能竟夜終日獨坐而不心生厭倦或倍感悽涼；
but he does not realize that the student, though in the house, is still at work in his field, and chopping in his woods, as the farmer in his,
然而他沒意識到，學子雖身在學堂，但心系勞作，但是耕於心田，伐於學林，這正和農人一樣，
and in turn seeks the same recreation and society that the latter does, though it may be a more condensed form of it.
學子在尋求的無非是和他一樣的快樂與陪伴，只是形式更簡潔罷了。
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.
與人交往通常都因唾手可得而毫無價值，在頻繁的相處中，我們無暇從彼此獲取新價值。
We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.
我們每日三餐相聚，反覆讓彼此重新審視的也是依舊故我，並無新奇之處。
We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war.
為此我們要循規蹈矩，稱其為懂禮儀，講禮貌，以便在這些頻繁的接觸中相安無事，無須論戰而有辱斯文。
We meet at the post-office, and at the sociable, and about the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another,
我們相遇在郵局，邂逅在社交場所，圍坐在夜晚的爐火旁，交情甚篤，彼此幹擾著，糾纏著；
and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another. Certainly less frequency would suffice for all important and hearty communications.
實際上我認為這樣我們都或多或少失去了對彼此的尊重。對於所有重要的傾心交流，相見不必過頻。
Consider the girls in a factory---never alone, hardly in their dreams. It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.
想想工廠裡的女孩，她們雖從不落單，但也少有夢想。像這樣方圓一英裡僅一人居住，那情況會更好。
The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.
人的價值非在肌膚相親，而在心有靈犀。
I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls. Let me suggest a few comparisons, that some one may convey an idea of my situation.
我的房子裡有很多夥伴，尤其在無人造訪的清晨。我把自己和周圍事物對比一下，你或許能窺見我生活的一斑。
I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake, I pray?
比起那湖中長笑的潛鳥，還有那湖，我並不比它們孤獨多少。你看：這孤單的湖又何以為伴呢？
And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint of its waters.
然而它那一灣天藍的湖水裡有的卻是天使的純淨，而非魔鬼的憂鬱。
The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun. god is alone---but the devil, he is far from being alone;
太陽是孤獨的，雖然時而在陰鬱的天氣裡會出現兩個太陽，但其中之一為幻日；上帝是孤獨的，魔鬼才從不孤單，
he sees a great deal of company; he is legion. I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee.
他永遠不乏夥伴，因從他者甚眾。比起牧場上的一朵毛蕊花，一支蒲公英，一片豆葉，一束酢漿草，一隻牛虻或大黃蜂來，我並不孤單多少；
I am no more lonely than the Millbrook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.
比起密爾溪，風標，北極星，南風，四月春雨，正月融雪，或者新房中的第一隻蜘蛛，我也並不更加孤單。