翻译专业资格一级笔译模拟试题（八）

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, 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-ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed 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 shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what-at last-I have found.

(摘自Three Passions I Have Lived For by B. Russell)

参考译文1

我一生有三个愿望，简单却极其强烈一是对爱的渴望，二是对知识的探索，三是对人类苦难的无限悲悯。这三个愿望如同疾风般，把我吹得东飘西荡，在苦痛的深海上随波逐流，直至绝望的彼岸。

我追求爱情，因为它使人心醉神迷――这种沉醉是如此的美妙，让我宁愿舍弃余生，为的是享有这片刻的欢乐;我追求爱，因为它能驱走寂寞之感――这种可怕的孤独感令人不寒而栗，使人俯视天地之边缘，望向绝望的无底深渊;终于，我找到了爱。因为在爱的和谐中，我看到了圣贤和诗人幻想中神秘天堂的缩影。这就是我所寻求的，虽然对于凡人而言，它似乎过于美好而遥不可及，但这就是我最终找到的。

参考译文2(文言文版)：

吾生三愿，纯朴却激越一曰渴望爱情，二曰求索知识，三曰悲悯吾类之无尽苦难。此三愿，如疾风，迫吾无助飘零于苦水深海之上，直达绝望之彼岸。

吾求爱，盖因其赐吾狂喜--狂喜之剧足令吾舍此生而享其片刻;吾求爱，亦因其可驱寂寞之感，吾人每生寂寞之情辙兢兢俯视天地之缘，而见绝望之无底深渊;吾求爱还因若得爱，即可窥视圣哲诗人所幻想之神秘天国。此吾过往之所求，虽曾虑其之至美而恐终不为凡人所得，然吾终求而得之。