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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unb

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问题 Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy—ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness—that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what—at last—I have found.
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答案 我一生有三个愿望，简单却极其强烈：一是对爱的渴望，二是对知识的探索，三是对人类苦难的无限悲悯。这三个愿望如同疾风般，把我吹得东飘西荡，在苦痛的深海上随波逐流，直至绝望的彼岸。 我追求爱情，因为它使人心醉神迷一一这种沉醉是如此的美妙，让我宁愿舍弃余生，为的是享有这片刻的欢乐；我追求爱，因为它能驱走寂寞之感——这种可怕的孤独感令人不寒而栗，使人俯视天地之边缘，望向绝望的无底深渊；终于，我找到了爱。因为在爱的和谐中，我看到了圣贤和诗人幻想中神秘天堂的缩影。这就是我所寻求的，虽然对于凡人而言，它似乎过于美好而遥不可及，但这就是我最终找到的。
解析 1．第一段第一句的结构并不难，以Three passions为主语，是典型的英语无人称句，宜转译为汉语的人称句。overwhelmingly意为“压倒性地，不可抵抗地”，强调愿望的强烈程度，可引申为“极其地”。
2．第一段第二句中hither and thither指“到处，四面八方”，wayward指“随意的”，都是形容这三个愿望对作者的强大影响力；verge本义为“边缘”，此处可引申为“彼岸”。
3．第二段第一句中的ecstasy意为“狂喜，欣喜若狂”。
4．第二段中有三个长句子，分别使用了first，next，finally三个衔接词，而汉语则依靠隐性的逻辑进行衔接，因此这三个词可译出，也可省略不译。
5．第二段第一句中I would often have sacrificed…是虚拟句，可译为“我宁舍此生换其片刻”；afew hours本义为“几个小时”，引申为“片刻”。
6．第二段第二句中relieves本义为“解除，减轻；使……免于”，此处可引申为“驱除”；thatterrible loneliness in which…采用断句法，可将该定语从句转译为一个完整的句子；shiveringconsciousness中的consciousness指“意识”，在句中不必直译出来；unfathomable意为“深不可测的”。
7．第二段第三句中in the union of love，可进行词性转换，将介词词组译为动词词组“若得到爱”。miniature可译为“缩影”。
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