科技英语翻译课后题.doc

第三单元 A． 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 mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.三种感情，单纯而极为强烈，支配了我的一生：对爱情的渴望，对知识的探索，以及对人类苦难忍无可忍的同情。这些激情，犹如飓风，吹得我忽东忽西，飘忽不定，越过茫茫的苦海，坠落绝望的边缘。 I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy—ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of 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.我追求爱，原因有三。首先，是因为它使我心醉神迷—爱的魔力是如此的诱人，以至于我常常宁愿牺牲一切来换取哪怕片刻的愉悦。其次，是因为可以排遣寂寞—那种可怕的孤寂使身历其中的人胆战心惊，目及世界的尽头，直至冷酷萧杀的地狱深渊。最后，是因为在爱的结合中，我看到了古今圣贤以及诗人们所梦想的天堂的神秘缩影。这正是我想所追寻的，虽然它对人类生活来说也许过于美好，但最终我还是找到它了。 With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.我曾怀着同样的激情去追求知识。我渴望了解人们的内心世界，渴望知道星星为什么发光。我还试图领悟毕达哥拉斯的学说的力量，凭借它，数字能掌控潮起潮落。我有所收获，但还不是很多。 Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a