Day 16: What Kind of Experiences Were Valuable in Your Life?
Friday
各位书友，今天我们一起阅读《Walden》270-285页。 Walden is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, and voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance, published in 1854.
Question
What kind of experiences were valuable in your life?
生活中，你有哪些特别珍贵的记忆？
欢迎各位书友留言，文字语音都可以，中文英文均不限。您的每一条留言对于我们都很重要，英语共读编辑团队在后台等您来！
Key Sentences（重点句子）
1. The water is so transparent that the bottom can easily be discerned at the depth of twenty-five or thirty feet.
水是这样的透明，二十五至三十英尺下面的水底都可以很清楚地看到。
2. Paddling over it, you may see, many feet beneath the surface, the schools of perch and shiners, perhaps only an inch long, yet the former easily distinguished by their transverse bars, and you think that they must be ascetic fish that find a subsistence there.
赤脚踏水时，你看到在水面下许多英尺的地方有成群的鲈鱼和银鱼，大约只一英寸长，连前者的横行的花纹也能看得清清楚楚，你会觉得这种鱼也是不愿意沾染红尘，才到这里来生存的。
3. The shore is composed of a belt of smooth rounded white stones like paving-stones, excepting one or two short sand beaches, and is so steep that in many places a single leap will carry you into water over your head; and were it not for its remarkable transparency, that would be the last to be seen of its bottom till it rose on the opposite side.
湖岸是由一长溜像铺路石那样的光滑的圆圆的白石组成的；除一两处小小的沙滩之外，它陡立着，纵身一跃便可以跳到一个人深的水中；要不是水波明净得出奇，你决不可能看到这个湖的底部，除非是它又在对岸升起。
4. Yet perchance the first who came to this well have left some trace of their footsteps.
第一个到这个湖边来的人们可能留下过他们的足迹。
5. The ornamented grounds of villas which will one day be built here may still preserve some trace of this.
但愿到了将来，人们在这里建造一些别墅的装饰庭园时，还能保留这一残迹。
Key Words（重点词汇）
preserve
v.保护；保存；保持
n.禁猎区；蜜饯
It is highly important to preserve the environment.
保护自然环境至关重要。
ornament
n.装饰；装饰物
vt.装饰
The palace was rich in ornament.
宫廷装饰琳琅满目。
paddle
n.桨；划桨；明轮翼
v.划桨；戏水；抚弄
Children love to paddle at the beach.
孩子们喜欢在海滩嬉水。
transparent
adj.透明的；明显的；清晰的
It was transparent that her pride was hurt.
很显然，她的自尊心受到了伤害。
extend
v.延伸；延长；伸展；扩展；提供；使竭尽全力
Theoretically, a line can extend into infinity.
从理论上来说直线可以无限地延伸。
10月书单
如果你爱动脑，请一定跟紧10月Wilson 《无人生还》的脚步，感知最经典最扑朔迷离的推理情节。
《无人生还》
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
领读达人：Wilson
主播：Wilson
11月书单
如果你想通过意志力改变一生，请一定锁定11月孟飞大哥的《自控力》
《自控力》
The Willpower Instinct
Kelly McGonigal
领读达人：苏星奇
主播：孟飞
12月书单
如果你爱生活，有激情，并立志成为生活中的强者，12月，熊叔会带你玩转《饥饿游戏》
《饥饿游戏》1
The Hunger Games 1
Suzanne Collins
领读达人：Lean
主播：熊叔
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—共读书籍简介—
《瓦尔登湖》是美国作家梭罗独居瓦尔登湖畔的记录，描绘了他两年多时间里的所见、所闻和所思，记录了他在简单生活中深入思考与重塑自我的心路历程。文笔宁静恬淡，不流于表浅，而是有着博物学家的精确，引人深思。该书崇尚简朴生活，彰显大自然的风光，语言生动，意境深邃。出版于1854年。