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这是对一篇散文做的翻译。翻译散文一般要做到风格前后的一致，能够秉承原文作者的风格，传达其中的精神意义，这一点是十分重要的。要做到这一点，译者必须对作家有一定的了解，包括作家所处的年代，时代背景，以及作家所主张代表的思想。这些对一篇成功恰当的翻译是很重要的。在这里，就有必要去了解Emerson这个人的背景，以及他一贯的思想主张。 Introduction to the Author Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882),is an American writer and poet. Emerson is representative figure of establish the spirit of American culture. Works Poems (1847) Representative Men (1850) English Traits (1856) The Conduct of Life (1860) May Day and Other Poems (1867) Society and Solitude (1870) Letters and Social Aims (1876) Introduction to the Author American essayist, philosopher and poet Platonist 柏拉图主义者 Transcendentalist 先验论者 Le Naturalisme 自然主义者 Antitheist 无神论者 Abolitionism 废除主义者 Point of View One major element of his philosophy is his firm belief in the transcendence of the “oversoul”. He regards nature as the purest, and the most sanctifying moral influence on man, and advocates a direct intuition of a spiritual and immanent God in nature. If man depends upon himself, cultivates himself and brings out the divine in himself, he can hope to become better and even perfect. This is what Emerson means by “the infinitude of man”. Beauty by Emerson(选段) There is still another aspect under which the beauty of the world may be viewed, namely, as it become s an object of the intellect. Beside the relation of things to virtue, they have a relation to thought. The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one, generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other. Therefore does beauty, which, in relation to actions, as we have seen, comes unsought, and comes beca