I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating (散伙). I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so [1] ______________ as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our [2] _________. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that [3] ________ between a man and his fellows. The really dit student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as [4] _______ as a dervish (托钵僧) in the desert. The farmer can work alone in the field or the woods all day, hoeing or chopping, and not feel [5] ________, because he is employed; but when he comes home at night he cannot sit down in a room alone, at the [6] ______ of his thoughts, but must be where he can “see the folks,” and recreate, and as he thinks, remunerate (酬劳) himself for his day’s solitude; and hence he wonders how the student can sit alone in the house all night and most of the day without ennui (厌倦) and “the [7]_________”; but he does not realize that the student, though in the house, is still at work in his field and [8]__________ in his woods, as the farmer in his, and in turn seeks the same[9] __________ and society that the latter does, though it may be a more [10] __________ form of it. 5.mp3: