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  3. 美国《幸福》杂志曾在征答栏中刊登过这么一个题目：假如让你重新选择，你做什么：一位军界要人的回答是去乡间开一个杂货铺；一位劳动部长是想做一家饮料公司的经理……其间也有一般百姓的回答。想做总统的，想做外交官的，想做面包师的，应有尽有。但是，很少有人想做现在的自

美国《幸福》杂志曾在征答栏中刊登过这么一个题目：假如让你重新选择，你做什么：一位军界要人的回答是去乡间开一个杂货铺；一位劳动部长是想做一家饮料公司的经理……其间也有一般百姓的回答。想做总统的，想做外交官的，想做面包师的，应有尽有。但是，很少有人想做现在的自

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问题     美国《幸福》杂志曾在征答栏中刊登过这么一个题目：假如让你重新选择，你做什么：一位军界要人的回答是去乡间开一个杂货铺；一位劳动部长是想做一家饮料公司的经理……其间也有一般百姓的回答。想做总统的，想做外交官的，想做面包师的，应有尽有。但是，很少有人想做现在的自己。
    人有时非常矛盾。本来活得好好的，各方面的环境都不错，然而当事者却常常心存厌倦。对人类这种因生命的平淡和缺少激情而苦恼的心态，有时是不能用不知足来解释的。
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答案 The U. S. Fortune magazine once posed to its readers such a question in a questionnaire; "If you were to choose again, what would you like to be?" "I’d like to run a grocery store in the countryside," a high-ranking officer in the military responded. The Minister of Labor preferred to become the manager of a beverage company...People in other trades answered the same question in various ways. Some wished to run for President, others wanted to be diplomats, and still others cherished the idea of working in a bakery. Whatever they set their minds on, few people were willing to remain what they are now. People are now and then in a dilemma. They lead a fairly good life and their circumstances as good as can be, but from time to time they grow tired of all these. Sometimes it can hardly attribute this mentality, arising from the monotony of one’s life and lack of passion, to insatiability on the part of humans.
解析 1．第一段第一句“刊登过这么一个题目”，其实就是向读者提出一个问题，可以译为posed to its readers such a question。“征答栏”相当于问卷调查，故译为questionnaire。
2．“假如让你重新选择”可译为对现在的虚拟语气if you were to choose again。
3．“要人”其实就是“居高位者”，级别我们一般用rank来表示，这里的“军届要人”指的是较高级别的军官，军官用officer表示，故译为a high-ranking officer，简洁准确。
4．“一般百姓”在这里是相对于前面的高官而言，即“其他行业的人”，故译为people in other trades，为突出劳动部长和军界要人的比较，所以采用了preferred to。
5．“想做……，想做……”是并列结构，可采用不同的动词，以避免重复和呆板，故译为wished to，wanted to be，cherished the idea of和set their minds on。
6．第一段最后一句中“很少有人想做现在的自己”实际上省略了条件“再给一次选择机会”。翻泽的时候最好把虚拟的成分补充完整，故译为none was willing to remain what they are should a new choice arise，该虚拟句省略if更显简洁。
7．第二段第二句中“各方面的环境都不错”，不太容易翻译。可以稍微夸张一下，译为circumstances as good as can he.
8．最后一句主语太长，可以把主语提前，把原文繁杂的定语处理成为一个分词结构，使得句子更加通顺，结构明晰，故译为…mentality，arising from life’s monotony and lack of passion…。
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