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In this part,you are asked to translate the following paragraph into Chinese.Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.(中国矿业大学2009研,考试科目:基础英语)The Appeal of Life Is Beautiful is perhaps not so puzzling after all. The archetypal story of a father"s sacrifice for his family has evidently proved irresistible to many spectators whose sensibilities have often been molded by such simple entertainment cliches and who seek, not the bitter historical truths of the Holocaust, but consoling evasions. Thus, the film encourages them to interpret death in the camps as a moving personal sacrifice and not as the brutal termination of a singular human being"s life. Survival is a victory. Dora comes through her ordeal with little more than a smudge on her face and a punk hairdo, and Giosue"s memories, become burnished with age. All these misguided, consoling thoughts are accepted with a sigh of relief because no one is obliged to think about how a survivor"s return to normalcy would be perpetually haunted by nightmares whose origins were all too real. Like Benigni, audiences are evidently only too willing to succumb to an unfortunate, if understandable, impulse which, in the words of the eminent critic of Holocaust literature, Lawrence Langer, desperately attempts " to redesign hope from the shards of despair. " If only life were so beautiful...

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