英語專業八級翻譯輔導範文

In a calm sea every man is a pilot. But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all. Take the lot of the happiest - it is a tangled avements and blessings, one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itself makes life more loving. Men come closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life, under the shadows of sorrow and loss. In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment. I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are. To regret one‘s errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

參考譯文: 在風平浪靜的大海上,每個人都是領航員. 但只有陽光沒有陰影,只有快樂沒有痛苦,根本不是真正的生活.就拿最幸福的人來説,他的生活也是一團纏結在一起的亂麻.痛苦與幸福交替出現,使得我們一會悲傷一會高興. 甚至死亡本身都使得生命更加可愛.在人生清醒的`時刻,在悲傷與失落的陰影之下,人們與真實的自我最為接近. 在生活和事業的種種事務之中,性格的作用比智力要大,頭腦的作用遠不如情感,天資也不如由判斷力控制的自制,耐心與修養. 我一直認為,開始在內心更加嚴肅地生活的人,也會在外在上開始生活得更為樸素.在一個奢侈浪費的年代,我希望能向世人表明,人類真正的需要是如此之少.

真正的悔改,是為自己的錯誤感到後悔而力求不再重犯.比別人更加優秀並不高貴.真正的高貴是優於過去的自己.