翻译考试优秀短文翻译：中译英21

　　然而，那片给了我许多慰藉的青草地，已经永远从我的生活里消失了。消失于一次填湖筑路，创造另一种形式的美的过程之中。那些小草被毁灭之前，一定为生存的权利抗争过吧!正如契诃夫《草原》里的小草一样：“她说她热烈地想活下去，她还年轻……她会长得更美。”

　　Yet, the meadow that had given me so much comfort has forever disappeared from my life. It disappeared when a path was constructed to the middle of the lake ― a process of creating another form of beauty. Before the extermination however, the grass must have struggled for the right to live on! Just like the grass in Chekov's "Prairie": "She said she earnestly wanted to live on, she was still young. She would be more beautiful..."

　　但是，在力量悬殊的抗争之中，扼杀生命是易如反掌的事情。闭上眼，我能看到：那些半死不活、凋萎的小草，正在悲凉恳切地诉说着……讲到他们什么罪过也不曾有过，却要无辜地被人们毁灭掉……

　　But in the struggle of great disparity in strength, it was as easy as turning one's hand over to strangle a life. Closing my eyes, I could see those half-dead, withering grass complaining with grief...that they'd never done anything wrong, yet they would be destroyed by man innocently...