Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither（到处） , in a wayward（任性的，不规则的） course, ove r a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy（狂喜，入迷） –ecstasy so great that I would often have 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 consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable（深不可测的） lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem 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 tried to apprehend（理解） the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flu. A little 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（回想，反响） in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured 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 if the chance were offered me.
相关单词：longing
longing解释：n.（for）渴望
longing例句：
Hearing the tune again sent waves of longing through her.再次听到那首曲子使她胸中充满了渴望。
His heart burned with longing for revenge.他心中燃烧着急欲复仇的怒火。
相关单词：unbearable
unbearable解释：adj.不能容忍的；忍受不住的
unbearable例句：
It is unbearable to be always on thorns.老是处于焦虑不安的情况中是受不了的。
The more he thought of it the more unbearable it became.他越想越觉得无法忍受。
相关单词：thither
thither解释：adv.向那里；adj.在那边的，对岸的
thither例句：
He wandered hither and thither looking for a playmate.他逛来逛去找玩伴。
He tramped hither and thither.他到处流浪。
相关单词：anguish
anguish解释：n.(尤指心灵上的)极度痛苦，烦恼
anguish例句：
She cried out for anguish at parting.分手时，她由于痛苦而失声大哭。
The unspeakable anguish wrung his heart.难言的痛苦折磨着他的心。
相关单词：verge
verge解释：n.边，边缘；v.接近，濒临
verge例句：
The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
She was on the verge of bursting into tears.她快要哭出来了。
相关单词：ecstasy
ecstasy解释：n.狂喜，心醉神怡，入迷
ecstasy例句：
He listened to the music with ecstasy.他听音乐听得入了神。
Speechless with ecstasy,the little boys gazed at the toys.小孩注视着那些玩具，高兴得说不出话来。
相关单词：rim
rim解释：n.(圆物的)边，轮缘；边界
rim例句：
The water was even with the rim of the basin.盆里的水与盆边平齐了。
She looked at him over the rim of her glass.她的目光越过玻璃杯的边沿看着他。
相关单词：apprehend
apprehend解释：vt.理解，领悟，逮捕，拘捕，忧虑
apprehend例句：
I apprehend no worsening of the situation.我不担心局势会恶化。
Police have not apprehended her killer.警察还未抓获谋杀她的凶手。
相关单词：reverberate
reverberate解释：v.使回响，使反响
reverberate例句：
The decision will reverberate and will jar the country.这项决定将引起反响并震撼这个国家。
Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my hear.痛苦呼喊的一遍遍的在我的心中回响。
相关单词：alleviate
alleviate解释：v.减轻，缓和，缓解(痛苦等)
alleviate例句：
The doctor gave her an injection to alleviate the pain.医生给她注射以减轻疼痛。
Nothing could alleviate his distress.什么都不能减轻他的痛苦。
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