Like many people, as he grew older Michel de Montaigne paid close attention to the workings of his body.

像许多人一样，随着年纪增长，米歇尔·德·蒙田密切关注起自己身体的运转。

It was Montaigne who popularised the essay genre.

是蒙田使散文体裁流行起来。

In 1570, after sitting in Bordeaux's parliament for 15 years, Montaigne retired to his chateau.

1570年，在波尔多议会任职15年后，蒙田回到了自己的庄园。

Montaigne strove to see the world from other perspectives.

蒙田努力从其他角度看世界。

For his time, Montaigne's determination to consider other viewpoints was unusual.

蒙田探讨其他观点的决心在他那个时代是不同寻常的。

These are not the typical musings of a renowned thinker, but Montaigne's " Essays" are not typical works of philosophy.

这些都不是典型的思想家的沉思，不过蒙田的《随笔》也不是典型的哲学著作。

It was such love as Michelangelo had known, and Montaigne, and Winckelmann, and Shakespeare himself.

这是米开朗基罗、蒙田、温克尔曼和莎士比亚本人所知道的那种爱。

The name derives from the French verb essayer, " to try" , and Montaigne viewed his chapters as attempts to understand a topic.

散文这个名字来源于法语动词essayer，即“尝试”，蒙田认为他的文章是在尝试理解一个主题。

After the first editions were published, Montaigne edited them extensively, often adding entire paragraphs -- which sometimes completely contradicted his original points.

第一版出版后，蒙田对其进行了大量的编辑修改，经常添加整个段落——内容有时与他最初的观点完全相反。