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1、What I Have Lived ForBy Bertrand RussellThree passions, simple but 1)overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and 2)unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, in a 3)wayward course, over a deep ocean of 4)anguish, reaching to th
2、e very 5)verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings 6)ecstasy-ecstasy so great that I would often have 7)sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness-that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousne
3、ss looks over the rim of the world into the cold 8)unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic 9)miniature, the 10)prefiguring vision of the heaven that 11)saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might see
4、m 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 12)apprehend the 13)Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A l
5、ittle 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 in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by 14)oppressors, helpless old people a hated
6、 burden to their pain make a 15)mockery of what human life should be. I long to 16)alleviate the evil, but I cant, 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. 我的人生追求有三种简单然而无比强烈的激情左右了我的一生：对爱的渴望，对知识的探索和对人类苦难的难以忍受的
7、怜悯。这些激情像飓风，反复地吹拂过深重的苦海，濒于绝境。 我寻找爱，首先是因为它使人心醉神迷这种陶醉是如此的美妙，使我愿意牺牲所有的余生去换取几个小时这样的欣喜。我寻找爱，还因为它解除孤独在可怕的孤独中，一颗颤抖的灵魂从世界的边缘看到冰冷、无底、死寂的深渊。最后，我寻找爱，还因为在爱的交融中，神秘而又具体而微地，我看到了圣贤和诗人们想象出的天堂的前景。这就是我所寻找的，而且，虽然对人生来说似乎过于美妙，这也是我终于找到了的。 以同样的激情我探索知识。我希望能够理解人类的心灵。我希望能够知道群星为何闪烁。我试图领悟毕达哥拉斯所景仰的数字力量，它支配着此消彼涨。仅在不大的一定程度上，我达到了此目的
8、。 爱和知识，只要有可能，通向着天堂。但是怜悯总把我带回尘世。痛苦呼喊的回声回荡在我的内心。忍饥挨饿的孩子，惨遭压迫者摧残的受害者，被儿女们视为可憎的负担的无助的老人，连同这整个充满了孤独、贫穷和痛苦的世界，使人类所应有的生活成为了笑柄。我渴望能够减少邪恶，但是我无能为力，而且我自己也在忍受折磨。 这就是我的一生。我发现它值得一过。如果再给我一次机会，我会很高兴地再活它一次。注释：1) overwhelmingly 7EuvE5welmiNli adv. 不可抵抗地2) unbearable Qn5bZErEbl a. 无法忍受的3) wayward 5weiwEd a. 任性的4) angu
9、ish 5ANwiF n. 痛苦，苦恼5) verge vE:dV n. 边缘6) ecstasy 5ekstEsi n. 入迷 7) sacrifice 5sAkrifais n. 牺牲 8) unfathomable Qn5fATEmEbl adj. 深不可测的 9) miniature 5minjEtFE n. 缩图，缩影10) prefigure 5pri:5fiE v. 预示 11) saint seint, sEnt n. 圣人12) apprehend 7Apri5hend v. 领会，理解13) Pythagorean pai7WAE5ri:En a. 毕达哥拉斯的14) op
10、pressor E5presE(r) n. 压迫者15) mockery 5mCkEri n. 嘲笑16) alleviate E5li:vieit v. 使（痛苦）易于忍受，减轻what I live for? I ever heard a sentence: The past is history, the future is a mystery, the time we have now is a gift, thats why its called the present.Now that I can not rest on the past , I must catch presen
11、t for my future. So successful career ,harmonious family and happy life are all important for me. Thats all I live for. I am trying hard for a succeed career. Good education can help me to get a better career. Everybody has their different hopes and different interests. I often make plans for myself
12、. It can help me to achieve my dream effectively. Here I talk about my present goal: When I decided to pass this examination, I know what I will face to and what is difficult for me. So I must learn more and more. I often describe my becoming five years: When I will get Master Degree, I hope I will
13、have more-knowledge and like to accept challenge and so on. Not only study knowledge but also own ability about how to learn every peoples merit and get rid of my demerit constantly. And then , I live for my family. A harmonious family is the foundation to achieve everything; A good family can give
14、me a strong support on my career. I want to make a more comfortable condition for my parents, especially when they will be old. They are often proud of me. And future I want to make a strong family for my children. Enjoy life is important for me.Good healthy, strong body,wide mode are all useful. I
15、must find the best way to adjust and balance them. I hope my whole life will be full of colorful interesting things and happiness when I will be old. To find many interesting things and to catch the new chance are challenge for me, but I like it both.Even though it is not so easy to get it. Its my answer for “ what I live for”. I believe everybody will achieve your dreams if you decide to do it .The time we have now is a gift for me. Save time to do what we want to do!What I live for? What are the goal and the pursuit of my life? Facing this problem, I have to begin to review my life and thou
