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英文人生名篇 - 第五篇: The life I desired / 我所追求的生活 --- 威廉. 萨姆塞特. 毛姆 /William Somerset Maugham

That must be the story of innumerable couples, and the pattern of lifeof life it offers has a homely grace.
这一定是世间无数对夫妻的生活写照,这种生活模式给人一种天伦之美。

It eminds you of a placid rivulet, meandering smoohtly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees, till at last it falls into the vasty sea;
它使人想起一条平静的溪流,蜿蜒畅游过绿茵的草场,浓荫遮蔽,最后注入烟波浩渺的汪洋大海;

but the sea is so calm, so silent, so infifferent, that you are troubled uddently by a vague uneasiness.
但是大海太过平静,太过沉默,太过不动声色,你会突然感到莫名的不安。

Perhaps it is only by a kink in my nature, strong in me even in those ays, that i felt in such an existence, the share of the great majority, something amiss.
也许这只是我自己的一种怪诞想法,在那样的时代,这想法对我影响很深; 我觉得这像大多数人一样的生活,似乎欠缺了一点儿什么。

I recognized its social alue. I saw its ordered happiness, but a fever in my blood asked for a wilder course.
我承认这种生活有社会价值,我也看到了它那井然有序的幸福,但我血液里的冲动却渴望一种更桀骜不驯的旅程.

There seemed to me omething alarming in such easy delights. In my heart was desire to live more dangerously.
这样的安逸中好像有一种叫我惊惧不安的东西.我的心渴望一种更加惊险的生活。

I was not unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous, shoals it I could only have change-change and the xicitement of unforeseen.
只要生活中还能有变迁———以及不可知的刺激,我意踏上怪石嶙峋的山崖,奔赴暗礁满布的海滩。