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英语翻译Gift-giving involves the expectation of reciprocity,but

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英语翻译
Gift-giving involves the expectation of reciprocity,but we wise men of the Western world avoid this fact:we paper it over with rhetoric about selflessness,about how much better it is to give than to receive.The honorable,the noble thing to do,we like to tell ourselves,is to give it and forget it,to expect nothing at all in return,not even gratitude.To give freely,spontaneously,like nature in her abundance.As long as we don’t deceive ourselves and imagine we don’t want anything back—when we all do—there’s no danger of feeling the kind of unacknowledged disappointment over unacknowledged expectations that turn people cynical.
-- Excerpted from Anthony Brandt’s essay “The Gift of Gift-giving”
就是这么一篇文章,如果翻得好可以再加到100分
英语翻译Gift-giving involves the expectation of reciprocity,but
送礼包涵了互惠的期望,但是我们西方世界的明智人士却避开了这个事实:我们长篇大论的讲送礼是无私的,讲送出比接受要好上多少.我们告诉自己,给出是一件多么光荣、高尚的事,给出去就不再想给出去(的东西),也不期待能得到回报,哪怕回报只是一份感恩的心意.(我们)自由的给、自发的给,就像自然给我们的丰富财产.只要当我们所有人我们没自欺并且没想象我们要什么回报,就不会有让人们愤世嫉俗的不被承认的失落感.
摘自《送礼的天赋》(安东尼·布兰迪)