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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. 1 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——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。 或： 吾生三愿，纯朴却激越：一日渴望爱情，二日求索知识，三日悲悯吾类之无尽苦难。此三愿，如疾风，迫吾无助飘零于苦水深海之上，直达绝望之彼岸。 吾求爱，盖因其赐吾狂喜——狂喜之剧足令吾舍此生而享其片刻；吾求爱，亦因其可驱寂寞之感，吾每生寂寞之情辄兢兢俯视天地之缘，而见绝望之无底深渊；吾求爱还因若得爱，即可窥视圣哲诗人所幻想之神秘天国。此吾过往之所求，虽曾虑其之至美而恐终不为凡人所得，然吾终求而得之。
解析 I．第一段第一句的结构并不难，以three passions为主语，是个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．第二句中hither and thither指“到处，四面八方”，wayward指“随意的”，都是形容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．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”。a few hours本义为“几个小时”，引申为“片刻”。
6。第二句中relieve原意为“解除，减轻；使……免于”，此处可引申为“驱除”。that terrible loneliness in which…采用断句法，可将定语从句转译为一个完整的句子。shivering consciousness中的consciousness指“意识”，在句中不必直译出来。unfathomable意为“深不可测的”。
7．第三句中in the union of love，可进行词类转换。将介词词组译为动词词组“若得到爱”。
8．miniature可译为“缩影”。
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