时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:英语名著名段背诵精华


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Three Passions


Three passions, simple but overwhelming strong, have governed my life: the longing 1 for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable 2 pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither 3, in a wayward course ,over a deep ocean of anguish 4, reaching to the very verge 5 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 6 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.


With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend 7 the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux 8. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.


Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate 9 in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate 10 the evil, but I can’t, and I too suffer.


This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.


Unbearable无法忍受的;hither and thither到处;wayward人性的;anguish痛苦,苦恼;verge边缘;ecstasy入迷;unfathomable莫测高深的;abyss深渊;miniature缩影,缩图;prefigure预示,设想;reverberate反响;oppressor压迫者;mockery嘲笑;alleviate减轻;



n.(for)渴望
  • Hearing the tune again sent waves of longing through her.再次听到那首曲子使她胸中充满了渴望。
  • His heart burned with longing for revenge.他心中燃烧着急欲复仇的怒火。
adj.不能容忍的;忍受不住的
  • It is unbearable to be always on thorns.老是处于焦虑不安的情况中是受不了的。
  • The more he thought of it the more unbearable it became.他越想越觉得无法忍受。
adv.向那里;adj.在那边的,对岸的
  • He wandered hither and thither looking for a playmate.他逛来逛去找玩伴。
  • He tramped hither and thither.他到处流浪。
n.(尤指心灵上的)极度痛苦,烦恼
  • She cried out for anguish at parting.分手时,她由于痛苦而失声大哭。
  • The unspeakable anguish wrung his heart.难言的痛苦折磨着他的心。
n.边,边缘;v.接近,濒临
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • She was on the verge of bursting into tears.她快要哭出来了。
n.(圆物的)边,轮缘;边界
  • The water was even with the rim of the basin.盆里的水与盆边平齐了。
  • She looked at him over the rim of her glass.她的目光越过玻璃杯的边沿看着他。
vt.理解,领悟,逮捕,拘捕,忧虑
  • I apprehend no worsening of the situation.我不担心局势会恶化。
  • Police have not apprehended her killer.警察还未抓获谋杀她的凶手。
n.流动;不断的改变
  • The market is in a constant state of flux.市场行情在不断变化。
  • In most reactors,there is a significant flux of fast neutrons.在大部分反应堆中都有一定强度的快中子流。
v.使回响,使反响
  • The decision will reverberate and will jar the country.这项决定将引起反响并震撼这个国家。
  • Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my hear.痛苦呼喊的一遍遍的在我的心中回响。
v.减轻,缓和,缓解(痛苦等)
  • The doctor gave her an injection to alleviate the pain.医生给她注射以减轻疼痛。
  • Nothing could alleviate his distress.什么都不能减轻他的痛苦。
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ambulyx kuangtungensis
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back order
beresfords
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chromosome break
conepatuss
continuous image
decrew
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Guiglo, Dép.de
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hybrid repeating coil
hyphenated techniques of instruments
idiomorphic-granular
indexed organization
infrared color index
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interference distance
interrupt reassignment
isomerism
Juan Ponce de Leon
Kondo's tests
library extension service
living suture
local concentration
loop film
lullabied
medium-range
medium-voltage network
Minilla, Embalse de la
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narrow railway
non-acid food
non-associative automorphism
non-Euclidean metric
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one - trick pony
organic vapour
phloxin b
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plexus trigonalis
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sectorscanindicator
seita
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SR-C
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stonyhurst
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subdifferential stability
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tabil
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Tiran
trachycarpous
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