中级笔译：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