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·???????????????????????????????? ? Appetite ?渴望 （Laurie Lee） （劳丽·李） ? ? One of the major pleasures in life is appetite, and one of our major duties should be to preserve it. 渴望乃生活之一大乐事，而心怀渴望则成为一项重要的任务。Appetite is the keenness of living; it is one of the senses that tells you that you are still curious to exist, that you still have an edge on your longings and want to bite [h1]? into the world and taste its multitudinous flavors and juices.渴望意味着对生活充满热情，这种感觉表明你依然希冀生活，热衷梦想，向往探索世界，历尽世间百味百态。 ? ? By appetite, of course, I don’t mean just the lust for food, but any condition of unsatisfied desire, any burning in the blood that proves you want more than you’ve got, and that you haven’t yet used up your life.当然，我所说的“渴望”不单指对食物的欲望，而指所有欲求未满的状态，及血液中燃烧的激情，这炽热的激情证明你希望收获更多，你的生命力并未耗尽。 Wilde said he felt sorry for those who never got their heart’s desire, but sorrier still for those who did.王尔德曾说过，对未能梦想成真者，他深表惋惜；而对心愿已遂者，他则倍感遗憾。 [h2]? I got mine once only, and it nearly killed me, and I’ve always preferred wanting to having since.仅有一次，我如愿以偿，但就那次把我折磨得够呛，自那以后，我总是更乐于想往，而非如愿以偿 [h3]?。 ? ? For appetite, to me, is this state of wanting, which keeps one’s expectations alive. 因为对我来说，渴望就是这种想往的状态，它总是让人满怀期待。I remember learning the lesson long ago as a child, when treats and orgies were few, and when I discovered that the greatest pitch of happiness was not in actually eating a toffee but in gazing at it beforehand.当还是小孩子时，我即对此有所感悟。那时没什么极乐之事，我发现其实最大的乐趣不在于吃太妃糖，而在于吃糖之前好好地把糖端详一阵。 True, the first bite was delicious, but once the toffee was gone one was left with nothing, neither toffee nor lust. Besides, the whole toffeeness of toffees was imperceptibly diminished by the gross act of having eaten it. 没错，第一口美不胜收，然而，糖一旦吃完，你就一无所有了。太妃糖吃完了，吃糖的欲望也随之消失殆尽了。此外，在咀嚼时，太妃糖的滋味也不知不觉地减少。No, the best was in wanting it, in sitting and looking at it, when one tasted an inexhaustible treasure-house of flavors.所以最好别吃，只消坐在那盯着糖，你就能感受到太妃糖无穷无尽的美味。 [h4]? ? ? So, for me, one of the keenest pleasures of appetite remains in