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2007-04-14The Imperfectionist
DAN HO likes to get rid of things. For the past eight years he has committed himself to a project of aggressive divestment, letting go of houses, sofas, refectory tables, electric mixers, Georg Jensen silverware and a collection of ceramics. Earlier this year, a failed marriage behind him, Mr. Ho, 40, decided to reduce the sum of his possessions and eventually winnowed them down to about 55. Motivated neither by debt nor by environmentalism but simply by a compulsion to unburden himself, he moved from a 1,200-square-foot house in Portland, Me., to a rented apartment one-quarter the size in Greenwich Village, where he now lives with two roommates (one of them a retired judge who sells purses), 47 items of clothing and a backpack, suitcase, television, computer, bath towel, single set of sheets, toothbrush and bottle of witch hazel.
Get rid of:摆脱，除去
Aggressive: fast growing,rapidly
Divestment: to sell off or dispose of
Refectory:食堂
Silverware: 银器
Ceramic: 陶瓷
Winnow: to sort or select
Compulsion: the state of compelled
Witch hazel: 巫术榛木
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