短篇英语美文赏析：我追求的生活

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　　Life Desired
        　　That must be the story of innumerable couples, and the pattern of life of
life it offers has a homely grace. It reminds you of a placid rivulet,
meandering smoothly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees, till at
last it falls into the vastly sea; but the sea is so calm, so silent, so
indifferent, that you are troubled suddenly by a vague uneasiness. Perhaps it is
only by a kink in my nature, strong in me even in those days, that I felt in
such an existence, the share of the great majority, something amiss. I
recognized its social value. I saw its ordered happiness, but a fever in my
blood asked for a wilder course. There seemed to me something alarming in such
easy delights. In my heart was desire to live more dangerously. I was not
unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous, shoals it I could only have
change-change and the excitement of unforeseen.
        　　这一定是世间无数对夫妻的生活写照，这种生活模式给人一种天伦之美。它使人想起一条平静的溪流，蜿蜒畅游过绿茵的草场，浓荫遮蔽，最后注入烟波浩渺的汪洋大海;但是大海太过平静，太过沉默，太过不动声色，你会突然感到莫名的不安。也许这只是我自己的一种怪诞想法，在那样的时代，这想法对我影响很深：我觉得这像大多数人一样的生活，似乎欠缺了一点儿什么。我承认这种生活有社会价值，我也看到了它那井然有序的幸福，但我血液里的冲动却渴望一种更桀骜不驯的旅程.这样的安逸中好像有一种叫我惊惧不安的东西.我的心渴望一种更加惊险的生活。只要生活中还能有变迁———以及不可知的刺激，我愿意踏上怪石嶙峋的山崖，奔赴暗礁满布的海滩。