Three passions,simple 1 overwhelmingly strong,have governed my life: the longing 2 love,the search for knowledge,and unbearable pity for the 3 ( suffer) of mankind.
I have sought love,first,4 it brings ecstasy. I have sought it,next,because it relieves the terrible loneliness. I have sought it,finally,because in the union of love I have seen,in a mystic miniature (縮影) ,the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is 5 I sought,and though it might seem too good for human life,this is what―at last―I have found.
6 equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this,but not much,I have achieved.
Love and knowledge,so far as they were possible,led upward toward the heaven. But always it brought me 7 to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate (回響) in my heart. Children in famine,victims 8 (torture) by oppressors,helpless old people a hated burden to their sons,and the whole world of loneliness,poverty,and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil,but I cannot,and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living,and would gladly live it again 9 the chance 10 (offer) me.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
1. but 2. for 3. suffering 4. because 5. what
6. With 7. back 8. tortured 8. burden 9. if 10. were offered
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