2011年口译笔译考试辅导：十秒钟翻译训练(17)

　　I know my children are going to encounter hardship, and I’m praying they won’t be naive. There’s always a cold wind blowing somewhere. So I’m changing my prayer. Because life is tough, whether we want it to be or not.我们已祈祷了太多的安逸，但却少有实现。

　　单词提示：

　　encounter v. 遭遇;

　　naive adj. 天真的

　　答案：

　　Too many times we pray for ease, but that’s a prayer seldom met.

　　本句节选自《Growing Roots》

　　1.前半句中祈祷某物最简练的表达就是pray for sth.

　　2.后一句中“少有”的表达，除了seldom，还可以用few,hardly,rarely来表达