Loneliness is most acutely felt with other people, for with others,even with a lover sometimes, we suffer from our differences of taste, temperament,mood. Human intercourse often demands that we soften the edge of perception, or withdraw at the very instant of personal truth for fear of hurting, or of being inappropriately present, which is to say naked, in a social situation.

　　譯文:

　　與別人呆在一起時孤獨感更為強烈,因為與他人在一起,即使是戀人,我們也會被不同的品味,不同的性格,以及不同的情緒所困擾。人際交往要求我們必須磨掉感知的棱角,在每每涉及個人私事時,我們因為怕傷害別人而避而不談,或者害怕在社交場合不合時宜,比如袒胸露腹。

　　I am lonely only when I am overtired, when I have worked too long without a break, when for the time being I feel empty and need filling up. And I am lonely sometimes when I come back home after a lecture trip, when I have seen a lot of people and talked a lot, and am full to the brim with experience that needs to be sorted out.

　　Then for a little while the house feels huge and empty, and I wonder where my self is hiding. It has to be recaptured slowly by watering the plants, perhaps, and looking again at each one as though it were a person, by feeding the two cats, by cooking a meal.

　　譯文:

　　只有在我過度勞累的時候,在我長時間不間斷地工作的時侯,考試大在我感到內心空虛,需要充實的時候,我才會感到寂寞。有時,外出演講回來,見了許多人,講了許多話,心中滿是紛亂的體驗需要整理,偶而也會覺得孤獨。

　　于是有那么一會兒,我會感到整個房子非常大,空蕩蕩的。不知此時的自我又藏匿于何處。這時,我會給花草澆澆水,挨個瞅瞅,仿佛它們是活生生的人一樣,或是喂喂兩只小貓,親手做頓飯菜,這樣自我就慢慢地重新找回。

　　Loneliness is most acutely felt with other people, for with others,even with a lover sometimes, we suffer from our differences of taste, temperament,mood. Human intercourse often demands that we soften the edge of perception, or withdraw at the very instant of personal truth for fear of hurting, or of being inappropriately present, which is to say naked, in a social situation.

　　譯文:

　　與別人呆在一起時孤獨感更為強烈,因為與他人在一起,即使是戀人,我們也會被不同的品味,不同的性格,以及不同的情緒所困擾。人際交往要求我們必須磨掉感知的棱角,在每每涉及個人私事時,我們因為怕傷害別人而避而不談,或者害怕在社交場合不合時宜,比如袒胸露腹。

　　I am lonely only when I am overtired, when I have worked too long without a break, when for the time being I feel empty and need filling up. And I am lonely sometimes when I come back home after a lecture trip, when I have seen a lot of people and talked a lot, and am full to the brim with experience that needs to be sorted out.

　　Then for a little while the house feels huge and empty, and I wonder where my self is hiding. It has to be recaptured slowly by watering the plants, perhaps, and looking again at each one as though it were a person, by feeding the two cats, by cooking a meal.

　　譯文:

　　只有在我過度勞累的時候,在我長時間不間斷地工作的時侯,考試大在我感到內心空虛,需要充實的時候,我才會感到寂寞。有時,外出演講回來,見了許多人,講了許多話,心中滿是紛亂的體驗需要整理,偶而也會覺得孤獨。

　　于是有那么一會兒,我會感到整個房子非常大,空蕩蕩的。不知此時的自我又藏匿于何處。這時,我會給花草澆澆水,挨個瞅瞅,仿佛它們是活生生的人一樣,或是喂喂兩只小貓,親手做頓飯菜,這樣自我就慢慢地重新找回。