精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上【2001年8级测试英译汉】Possession for its own sake or in competition with the rest of the neighborhood would have been Thoreaus idea of the low levels1. The active discipline of heightening ones perception of what is enduring in nature would have been his idea of the high2. What he saved from the low was time and effort he could spend on the high. Thoreau certainly disapproved of starvation, but he would put into feeding himself only as much effort as would keep him functioning
