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Earthbound 尘世缘 The situation then is this: man wants to live, but he still must live upon this earth. All questions of living in heaven must be brushed aside. 事实即如此：人类欲生存，则只能依赖这凡尘，故应放弃想生活在天堂的所有幻想。 Let not the spirit take wings and soar to the abode of the gods and forget the earth. Are we not mortals, condemned to die? 不要让灵魂插上翅膀飞往众神的居所而离弃了这尘世。难道我们不是未能长生的凡人吗？ The span of life vouchsafed us, threescore and ten, is short enough, if the spirit gets too haughty and wants to live forever, but on the other hand, it is also long enough, if the spirit is a little humble. 神赐予我们70年的生命，有人奢求长生，那么在他眼中生命转瞬即逝；而有人谦恭知足，对他而言生命已是婉转流长。 One can learn such a lot and enjoy such a lot in seventy years, and three generations is a long, long time to see human follies and acquire human wisdom. 70载光阴，我们可阅历无数、享受无数，而跨越三代使我们洞悉人类的愚陋获致其智慧。 Anyone who is wise and has lived long enough to witness the changes of three generations should be perfectly satisfied to rise from his seat and go away saying, “It was a good show” when the curtain falls. 历经三代风尘起落，目睹世间沧桑流变，当大幕落下时，智者从容离座，欣然曰：“一幕好剧。” （将原句中的定语转译为原因状语） For we are of the earth, earth-born and earthbound. 因我们是这凡尘的子民，生于斯、系于斯。 There is nothing to be unhappy about the fact that we are, as it were, delivered upon this beautiful earth as its transient guests. 即使我们只是这美丽星球的匆匆过客，也无须因之不悦。 Even if it were a dark dungeon, we still would have to make the best of it; it would be ungrateful of us not to do so when we have, instead of a dungeon, such a beautiful earth to live on for a good part of a century. 纵然它如幽暗的地狱，我们也将倾力令其善美。况它并非地狱，却是一片锦绣。若我们一生中未能更臻其善，确是有愧于这个世界。 Sometimes we get too ambitious and disdain the humble and yet generous earth. Yet a sentiment for this Mother Earth, a feeling of true affection and attachment, one must have for this temporary abode of our body and spirit, if we are to have a sense of spiritual harmony. 有时我们不免奢求过多，而无视地球母亲的谦逊与大度。若想得到心灵的淡定平和，我们应对地球母亲---我们肉体与灵魂的短暂家园---心存关爱与眷恋。 此次翻译作业中较为突出的问题是：句子的语序受原文影响，不符合译入语的规范，如下两