大学英语资料：three passions.docVIP

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（四处）, 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（欣喜若狂）—ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed （牺牲） 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 shiv