林语堂长年居于海外.docx

林语堂长年居于海外，书是用英文写作的，下面的中文是别人帮译的：The enjo yme nt of an idle life does n't cost any mon ey.The capacity for true enjo yme nt of idle ness is lost in the mon eyed class and can be found only among people who have a supreme con tempt for wealth. It must come from an inner richness of the soul in a man who loves the simple ways of life and who is somewhat impatie nt with the bus in ess of mak ing mon ey. There is always ple nty of life to enjoy for a man whois determined to enjoy it. If men fail to enjoy this earthly existence we have, it is because they do not love life sufficiently and allow it to be turned into a humdrumroutine existence. Laotse has been wrongly accused of being hostile to life; on the other han d, I think he taught the renun ciati on of the life of the world exactly because he loved life all too tenderly, to allow the art of living to dege nerate into a mere bus in ess of liv ing.没有金钱也能享受悠闲的生活。

有钱的人不一定能真真领略悠闲生活的乐 趣，那些轻视钱财的人才真真懂得此中的乐趣他须有丰富的心灵，有简朴生活 的爱好，对于生财之道不大在心，这样的人，才有资格享受悠闲的生活如果一 个人真的要享受人生，人生是尽够他享受的一般人不能领略这个尘世生活的乐 趣，那是因为他们不深爱人生，把生活弄得平凡、刻板，而且无聊有人说老子 是嫉恶人生的，这话绝对不对，我认为老子所以要鄙弃俗世生活，正因为他太爱 人生，不愿使生活变成“为生活而生活”参考资料：林语堂《生活的艺术》。