汉译英练习“盼望”

小孩盼过年，大人盼开春。儿时，对于大人的盼是不能理解的，但过年，对我来说，可是一年的大盼头了。过年，不但好玩，且有肉吃，那气氛是迷人的：年一过,又盼日子快些流，好流来又一个春节。

Children look forward to the arrival of lunar New Year, adults look forward to the coming of spring. When I was a child, I couldn’t understand why adults have hope for spring. But New Year's Day was a big day to me, for it meant substantial meals and a lot of fun, which the phenomenon was really fascinating. As soon as the festival passed by, I wished time can fly faster so that another spring festival would come. 在盼中，日子真的流得飞快，转眼上了小学，继而初中，然后高中，最后大学；盼的欲望更加强烈，盼的内容也越渐丰富了：盼有好成绩毕业，盼有一份好工作，盼事业有成，盼挣钱替父母分优，盼有一个好爱人……不知不觉，天天踩着盼的石阶而上，自己竟成了一个大男人，一个挣钱养家糊口的忙碌人了。 In the expectation, days come and go very fast. I finished primary school, went to junior and senior middle school, and finally finished my college study. My desires became greater and the range of desires became wider: I hoped for a good grades when graduation, I hoped for an ideal job, I hoped for a successful career, I hoped for more earnings to share my parents' cares and burdens, I hoped for a lover...Climbing up the steps of hope, I had become a mature man even before I was aware of it, a busy man earn money to bring home the bread. 生活开始变得复杂。然而，无论自己是否变得庸俗，变得伟大，盼头依然天天有：盼信件，盼稿件被采用，盼发奖金，盼某事有满意结果，盼一次聚会、一次旅行……人就在盼中找到了依托。

Life began to become complex. Whether I have turned more vulgar or greater, I always have hope: I hope for the arrival of a letter, publication of an article, the day of bonus-distributing, a satisfied result of something, a gathering of friends, a wonderful trip... We find prop in such expectations.

没有盼头的日子是苍白不可想象的。人，得天天有点什么盼头，生活才不至于暗淡。有了盼头，会觉得太阳每天都是新的。不管是望梅止渴，还是画饼充饥，它都会激励你不停手中的桨，去追逐哪怕一星微小的火光。

The life without hope is unimaginably pale. People have to look forward to something, or life would be dismal; even the sun is new when it rises everyday if you have hope. No matter it is something as looking at plums to quench thirst（imagined satisfaction）, or as drawing cakes to allay hunger (feed on illusions), it still urges you on in pursuit of that little sparkle without letup.

土地去掉水分，就成了沙漠；人没有了盼，还剩什么?小盼头支撑人的一天，大盼头支撑人的一生。人，是绝不能没有盼头的。

Deprived of moisture content, soil turns into desert. Deprived of hope, what is there left to aperson? A small hope sustains a person for a day, a great one for a lifetime.

Human beings cannot do without something to look forward to.