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[阅读翻译]喜欢翻译的朋友们不妨试试(有奖翻译)
为了活跃外语学习这一版块,我们会定期的举行有奖参与活动,以下是活动说明:
请你把下面这段英语翻译成汉语,我们会从所有的翻译中选出较为贴切的两篇(因本篇篇幅短小)各给予一个威望的奖励,有此特长的朋友们不妨试试.
The lives of most men are determined by their environment. They accept the circumstances amid which fate has thrown them not only with resignation but even with god will. They are like streetcars running contentedly on their rails and they despise the sprightly flivver that dashes in and out of the traffic and speeds so jauntily across the open country. I respect them: they are good citizens, good husbands, and good fathers, and of course somebody has to pay the taxes; but I don’t find them exciting. I am fascinated by the men, few enough in all conscience, who take life in their own hands and seem to mould it to their own liking. It may be that we have no such things as free will, but at all events we have the illusions of it. At a cross-road it does seem to us that we might go either to the right or the left and, the choice once made, it is difficult to see that the whole course of the world’s history obliged us to take the turning we did. |
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