Name: 極簡不是冷淡：揭開「簡約的力量」背後的邏輯！ (The Power of Simplicity)
Uploaded: 2025-08-03T18:11:47.000Z
Duration: 2 min 49 s

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It can take a very long time indeed to work up the courage to be simple: to read simple books, to wear simple clothes, to have simple days, and to say simple things.

要鼓起勇氣做一個簡單的人：讀簡單的書、穿簡單的衣服、過簡單的日子、說簡單的話，確實需要很長的時間。

For a long time, all the glamour seems to lie with complexity.

長期以來，所有的魅力似乎都在於複雜性。

We're pulled towards rare and hard-to-follow ideas.

我們會被一些罕見的、難以遵循的想法所吸引。

We entertain our friends with elaborate meals.

我們用精心準備的飯菜款待朋友。

We have careers that enmesh us in cumbersome commitments.

我們的職業讓我們陷入繁瑣的承諾之中。

We fill our leisure hours with exotic hobbies. And then, at some point, we may sense and aspire to the real challenge of life.

我們用異國情調的愛好填滿閒暇時光。然後，在某一時刻，我們可能會感受到並嚮往生活的真正挑戰。

To dare to sound, to some, like an idiot.

在某些人看來，敢於把自己說得像個白痴。

To fix on certain basic truths that we've always known.

堅持我們一直都知道的一些基本真理。

To put in front of others the same sort of basic foods we like when we're alone.

把我們獨處時喜歡吃的基本食物擺在別人面前。

To have relationships solely with those who know how to be direct.

To leave our days more or less free, apart from one or two elementary pleasures like tending to a garden, having a bath, or going for a walk.

除了打理花園、洗澡或散步等一兩件基本的樂事之外，讓我們的日子或多或少自由一些。

To limit our reading to books we can understand.  And to communicate, without inhibition, all those heartfelt and essential things we know to those we are close to: that they are everything to us and that we'll miss them immensely when it's all over.

只讀我們看得懂的書。  毫無保留地向親近的人傳達我們所知道的那些發自內心的、至關重要的東西：他們是我們的一切，當一切都結束時，我們會非常想念他們。

We worry so much about sounding boring or silly if we were to show ourselves without elaboration or live according to our own less adorned inclinations.

我們非常擔心，如果我們不加修飾地展示自己，或者按照我們自己不加修飾的傾向生活，會顯得無聊或愚蠢。

We spend the major part of our lives trying, unsuccessfully, to be somebody else.  It can be the thought of death that eventually loosens us from our pretensions.

我們一生中的大部分時間都在試圖成為別人，但都沒有成功。  一想到死亡，我們最終會從自命不凡中解脫出來。

We realize, under its bracing influence, that there is no point burdening ourselves with habits, ideas, vocabularies, people, and duties that don't belong to us.

在它的影響下，我們意識到，沒有必要為不屬於我們的習慣、想法、詞彙、人和職責而給自己增加負擔。

There's no point wasting time we can ill afford on those who can't non-defensively say, "I love you." With clothes that we can't keep clean, with books we can't understand, and with crowded days heavy with panic and meaningless challenges, we finally lose our terror of coming across as a simpleton and a yokel.  We'll be properly mature, properly sophisticated even.

沒有必要把我們負擔不起的時間浪費在那些不會毫不設防地說 "我愛你 "的人身上。在我們無法保持清潔的衣服上，在我們無法理解的書本上，在充滿恐慌和毫無意義的挑戰的擁擠日子裡，我們終於不再害怕被人當成傻瓜和鄉巴佬。  我們會變得適當成熟，甚至適當老練。

We'll probably have had to go through a host of complications by the time we learn to appreciate the art of being direct, easy to follow, emotionally straightforward, predictable, unhurried, and, in the eyes of the frantic and the impressionable many, exceptionally dull.

當我們學會欣賞直截了當、通俗易懂、情感直白、可預測、不急不躁的藝術時，我們可能已經經歷了一系列複雜的過程，在瘋狂的人和易受影響的人眼中，這門藝術異常枯燥乏味。