英語八級翻譯練習題

　　原文：

It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours: it is they that make women beautiful or fossils interesting: and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.

　　譯文：

正是因為希望與好奇，我們才會以加倍的耐心繼續生存，考試大才會着迷於紛繁複雜、多姿多彩的人或事，早晨醒來才會以嶄新的.熱情投入新一天的工作和娛樂。希望和好奇是人觀看這絢麗迷人的世界的一雙眼睛：正是這雙眼睛使得女人美麗嫵媚，又使頑石妙趣橫生 。一個人可以傾家蕩產，淪為乞丐，可是隻要他還有這兩個“護身符”，他就仍然可能擁有無限的歡樂。