翻译篇章

英译汉

1

I found it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. Being in company,

even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I have never

found a companion that was as friendly as solitude. We are for the most part lonelier

when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our homes. A man thinking or

working

is

always alone. Solitude is

not

measured by miles of space that intervene

between a man and his fellowmen. The really diligent student in one of the crowded

rooms of a college is as a hermit in the desert. The farmer can work alone in the fields

or

the

woods

all

day,

weeding

or

chopping,

and

not

feel

lonesome,

because

he

is

employed. But when he comes home at night, he cannot be alone. He must be where

he

can

see

“the

folks”,

and

he

thinks,

repay

himself

for

his

day’s

solitude.

So

he

wonders

how

the

student

can

sit

alone

in

the

house

all

night

and

most

of

the

day

without boredom and the “blues”. But he does not realize that the student, although in

his house, is still at work in his field, and chopping in his woods. as the farmer in his,

and in turn seeks the same recreation and society that the latter does, though it may be

a more condensed form of it.

我发现人若大部分时间用于独处，将有益身心 。与人为伴，即使是挚友，也

很快会有厌烦或虚度光阴的感觉。我爱独处，我发现没有比 独处更好的伴侣了。

出国，身在熙攘人群中，要比退守陋室更让人寂寞。心有所想，身有 所系的人总

是孤身一人，

不论他身处何地。

独处与否也不是由人与人之间的距离来确定。

在

剑桥苦读的 学子虽身处蜂巢般拥挤的教室，

实际上却和沙漠中的苦行僧一样，

是

在独处。家人终日耕于田间，伐于山野，此时他虽孤单但并不寂寞，因他专心于

工作；但待到他日暮而息，却未必能忍受形影相吊，空有思绪做伴的时光，他必

到

“

可以看见大伙儿

”

的去处去找乐子，如他所认为的那样以补偿白日里的孤独；

因此他无 法理解学子如何能竟夜终日独坐而不心生厌倦或倍感凄凉；

然而他没意

< br>识到，学子虽身在学堂，但心系劳作，但是耕于心田，伐于学林，这正和农人一

样 ，学子在寻求的无非是和他一样的快乐与陪伴，只是形式更简洁罢了。

英译汉

2

Most of us, when young, had the experience of a sweetheart being taken from

us

by

somebody

more

attractive

and

more

appealing.

At

the

time,

we

may

have

resented this intruder ---but as we grew older, we recognized that the sweetheart had

never been ours to begin with. It was not the intruder that “caused” the break, but the

lack of a real relationship. On the surface, many marriages seem to break up because

of a “third party.” This is, however, a psychological illusion. The other woman or the

other man merely serves as a pretext for dissolving a marriage that had already lost its

essential integrity. Nothing is more futile and more self- defeating than the bitterness

of spurned love, the vengeful feeling that someone else has “come between” oneself

and a beloved. This is always a distortion of reality, for people are not the captives or

victims of others, they are free agents, working out their own destinies for good or for

ill.

Love is not a commodity; the real thing cannot be bought, sold, traded or stolen.

It

is

an

act

of

the

will,

a

turning

of

emotions,

and

a

change

in

the

climate

of

the

personality. When a

husband or wife is

“stolen” by another person, that husband or

wife

was

already

ripe

for

the

stealing,

or

was

already

predisposed

toward

a

new

partner.

The

“love

bandit”

was

only

taking

what

was

waiting

to

be

taken,

or

what

wanted to be taken… We tend to

treat persons like goods. We ever speak of children

“belonging”

to

their

parents.

But

nobody

“belongs”

to

anyone

else;

each

person

belongs

to

himself,

and to

God.

Children

are

entrusted

to

their

parents,

and

if

their

parents do not treat them properly, the

state has a right to remove from their parents’

trusteeship.

‘

爱情并不是商品；真情实意不可能 买到，卖掉，交换，或者偷走。爱情是志

愿的行动，是感情的转向，是个性发挥上的变化 。当丈夫或妻子被另一个人

“

偷

走

”

时，那个丈夫或妻子就已经具备了偷走的条件，事先已经准备接受 新的伴侣

了。这位

“

爱匪

”

不过是取走等人取走、盼人取走的东西。我们往往待人如物。我