17.语篇翻译.ppt

It seems as if a great deal were attainable in a world where there are so many marriages and decisive battles, and where we all, at certain hours of the day, and with great gusto and despatch, stow a portion of victuals finally and irretrievably into the bag which contains us. And it would seem also, on a hasty view, that the attainment of as much as possible was the one goal of man’s contentious life. 例3：El Dorado (Robert L. Stevenson ) 【译文】人在这个世界上好像真可以大有作为，因为世间有那么多联姻婚嫁，决战厮杀，因为我们每日都按时急匆匆、乐滋滋地将一份食物一去不复返地塞人我们自己的皮囊。乍一看，在这个你争我斗的人生里，人活着的唯一目的仿佛真是获取利益，多多益善。 不断延伸的地平线 （罗伯特 L. 斯蒂文森） And yet, as regards the spirit, this is but a semblance. We live in an ascending scale where we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. There is always a new horizon for onward-looking men and although we dwell on a small planet, immersed in petty business and not enduring beyond a brief period of years, we are so constituted that our hopes are inaccessible, like stars, and the term of hoping is prolonged until the term of life. 【续】可是从精神方面解读人生，此种观点却只触及皮相。正是因为我们不停地追求进取，我们才感到生活幸福，一件事完成后，另一件随之而来，如此永无止境。对于朝前看的人，眼前永远有新的地平线。虽然我们生活在一个小小的星球上，为尘世中的琐事日夜奔忙，加之生命又极其短暂，可是造化使我们永远无法企及希望，恰如天上的繁星，无法摘取；希望和生命似同枝连理，希望会延伸至生命的最后一刻。 To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have. An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. To have many of these is to be spiritually rich. 【续】真正的幸福是启程时的欣喜，而非抵达处的欢乐；真正的幸福源于想有而没有的渴望，而非来自一切到手的满足。渴望是一个永恒的喜悦，一笔如地产般稳固的财产，一份取之不尽的财富，正是心中怀有渴望，我们才年复一年参与令人欣喜的世事。 Life is only a very dull and ill-directed theatre unless we have some interests in the piece; and to those who have neither art nor science, the world is a mere arrangement of colors, or a rough footway where they may very well break their shins. It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man