大家好，欢迎光临美丽英文听与译。本节目的宗旨是让你在享受美丽英文的同时，提高听力与翻译能力。大家都知道，听英文美文是对耳朵的抚慰，更是一种心灵的享受，而要把英语美文翻译好是要有一定艺术的，一字一句都必须细细斟酌，才能达到完美。在听与译的同时，我们也能让心灵洗一次澡，体会到美文中的一些哲理，从而过更有质量的生活。相信通过不断地练习，大家一定能够用最美的中文诠释最美的英文，从而诠释我们最美的生活。

你渴望什么样的生活呢？是井然有序，还是充满刺激？来听听文章中作者渴望的生活是怎样的吧，看看是否和你渴望的一样。

本期任务：
1、补出文中空缺单词或短语。
2、翻译划线句子。
3、讨论:你是否同意文章中作者的观点?

－William Somerset Maugham

That must be the story of 1______ couples, and the pattern of life it offers has a 2______. It reminds you of a placid rivulet, meandering smoohtly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees, till at last it falls into the vasty sea; but the sea is so calm, so silent, so infifferent, that you are troubled suddently 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 3______, the share of the great 4______, something amiss. I recognized its 5______. I saw its ordered happiness, but a 6_____ in my blood asked for a wilder course. There seemed to me something 7______ in such easy delights. In my heart was 8______ to live more 9______. I was not unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous, shoals it I could only have change-change and the exicitement of unforeseen.

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