2017翻譯資格考試筆譯高級英譯漢精選（九）

　　翻譯段落：

　　In a business society, where people run about in pursuit of personal gains at the expense of others, it is really difficult to do as you please. Ever since childhood we have been pursuing always; going to school, looking for a job, falling in love, getting married, and striving for success in career and accumulating wealth, but never have we seemed to be contented with ourselves. However, striving for success in career and seeking material profits are two different outlooks or, if you will, two intrinsically different views on what is hardship and what is happiness. But there is one thing that applies in either case, i.e. life is no plain sailing, and things go and grow independent of man’s will. One should instead of indulging in delusions of daydreaming, temper himself in life, as the saying goes, “Heaven does not let down the one that has a will.” Even so, one cannot expect to succeed in everything he undertakes. In short, anyone in pursuit of something is sure to be troubled by something else, and that is the way things are in life.

　　參考譯文：

　　生存在功利社會，奔波勞頓，勾心斗角，若想做到從心所欲，難矣哉!人自孩提時代起，求學、謀職、戀愛、成家、立業(yè)、功名、財富……幾乎無時不在 追求，而且總也不能滿足。當然事業(yè)上的進取與物欲上的貪婪，是兩種截然不同的人生觀，或可說是兩種內(nèi)涵迥異的苦樂觀。但有一點是共同的，即人生的道路并非 平坦的康莊大道，事物的發(fā)展往往不以人的意志為轉(zhuǎn)移。與其陶醉在“夢想成真”的幻覺中，莫若在實踐中多多磨礪自己，有道是“蒼天不負有心人”嘛!即或如 此，也未必事事天遂人愿。總之，有追求必有煩惱，這就是生活的實際。