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I enjoy life \\\\because I am endlessly interested in people and their growth. My interest leads me continually to widen my knowledge of people, \\\\and this in turn compels me to believe \\\\that the normal human heart is born good. That is, it’s born sensitive and feeling, \\\\eager to be approved and to approve, \\\\hungry for simple happiness \\\\and the chance to live. It neither wishes to be killed, \\\\nor to kill. If through circumstances, \\\\it is overcome by evil,\\\\ it never becomes entirely evil. There remain in it elements of good, however recessive, \\\\which continue to hold the possibility of restoration.
I believe in human beings \\\\but my faith is without sentimentality. I know \\\\that in environments of uncertainty, fear, and hunger,\\\\ the human being is dwarfed and shaped without his being aware of it, \\\\just as the plant struggling under a stone \\\\does not know its own condition. Only when the stone is removed \\\\can it spring up freely into the light. But the power to spring up is inherent, and only death puts an end to it.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it \\\\that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, \\\\then this one has been enough to make it worth being born, \\\\myself a human being.
我热爱生活让，因为我对人和对人类的发展有不尽的兴趣。我的兴趣使我不停地了解更多的人，并且这反过来又使我相信人之初，性本善。也就是说人生来就善解人意，有同情心，热切希望被人认可同时也认可他人，渴望简简单单的幸福和生存的机会。人类不希望自己被杀戮，也不希望去杀戮他人。即使人因环境而被邪恶所胜，人也不会完全成为邪恶。无论人如何退化变质，因人心中总是有光明的一面，所以人有总会弃恶从善的。
我相信人类，但我的信念不是多愁善感。我知道，在不知未来，恐惧，饥饿的环境中，人类变得渺小同时也被塑造,但自己却没有意识到这些，正如石头下的植物不知道自己在石头之下一样。只有拨开了石头，植物才能在阳光下如雨后春笋般的自由生长。但是，如雨后春笋般蓬勃生长的力量是固有的，只有死亡才能夺去这种力量。
我想，除了对人类的信念外，无需别的的信念 。如同古时的孔子一样，我深深地痴情于神奇的大地和大地上的生活，不可能再去想象天堂和天使。今生我活得充实。如果没有来生，今生也足以值得我为它而生，不枉为人。
Notes ：1“endlessly interested ”原意为“对.....无穷地感兴趣，”但是再三考虑直译不符合汉语说话习惯，汉语一般说对....有不尽的兴趣。因此最后转换词性把副词转化为形容词，把
其译为对人和人类的发展有不尽的兴趣。
2 “growth”愿意是成长，但考虑到其定语是人类感觉译为发展更好些。
3“widen my knowledge of people”扩大我的人类知识，听起来不顺，把其意译为“了解更多的人”。
4“the normal human heart is born good”开始把它译为常人的心生来是好的。最后经查考这是三字经的话“人之初，性本善。”
5“sensitive and feeling”：敏感的，有感觉的，结合上下文把其译为“善解人意，富有同情心的”更贴切。
6“it is overcome by evil”人心被邪恶克服，想起我们汉语常说的为...所胜，因此就套用这个句式译为“为邪恶所胜”既体忠实于原文的被动结构，又合乎汉语表达习惯。
7“restoration”复辟，恢复，结合上文所说的为邪恶所胜，现在又恢复，把其理解为弃恶从善。
8“in environments of uncertainty”这里的uncertainty最难翻译，因其原意为不确定性，再三斟酌把其译为：对明天的不去的性，不知未来。
9“spring up”涌现，像泉水一样喷出这里是说“plant”，所以把其译为“雨后春笋”跟能表现出stone被remove后生长的趋势。
10“I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it \\\\that ”这是个so.....that的句型，第一遍翻译时映入眼帘的是“如此.....以致于.......”但是这是地道的英语腔，太异化了，最后就抛弃了这种原文的句型，把其译为：....深深地痴情于神奇的大地和大地上的生活，不可能再去想象.......”。