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广西第二届翻译大赛初赛 Love Your Life ( 热爱你的生活 ) However mean you life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you think. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults in paradise. Love you life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of a shabby house as brightly as from a rich man’s mansion; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts as in palace. The town’s poor seems to me often to live the most independent lives of any. Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old, return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. I think you will be distressed to know that my wife and I have been not a little disturbed by your IV set which is kept on to a very late hour each evening. If it is possible for it to be toned sown a little, especially after ten o’clock at night, you would be showing us a great kindness. In view of the fact that I have to leave the house before seven o’clock in the morning, we are obliged to retire early to bed. I am sorry to raise the matter and I trust you will not consider me fussy or unneighborly in making the request. 无论科学发展得多快，海洋的形成仍是一个有待科学家解决的迷。 舆论如此强大，以致影响了法律、教育、习惯、商业行为，甚至政府的决策。 大多数的故事都是出于作者的想象，极少数是基于事实的。 事实上， 一个人成年与否不能只看外表，还需要更多，如成熟的思想和丰富的人生阅历。 5. 城市展现着社会最美好的一面：教育、机会、娱乐等等，但也包含着社会最 面：暴力、种族冲贫穷。  恶劣的一 翻译答案 不论你的生活如何卑贱， 你要面对它生活， 不要躲避它， 更别用恶言咒 骂它。它不像你那样坏。你最富有的时候，倒是看似最穷。爱找缺点的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺点。你要爱你的生活，尽管它贫穷。甚至在一个