As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

  • -- Boris Pasternak 鲍里斯·帕斯捷尔纳克

就现代写作而言,尽管翻译它可能很容易,但很少有回报。翻译很像临摹绘画。

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Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

然而,北方的大多数常绿森林必须永远是野生动物和捕猎者的家园,这是一个落后的地区,一个伟大的毛皮公司很容易保持实际的垄断地位。

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

友谊被认为是对品格的最严峻的考验。我们认为,忠于一个血脉相连的家庭和宗族是很容易的。

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

至于虚假的希望,是不存在的。只有希望或者没有希望——没有别的。

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

很远,但看起来不像。