《非洲的青山》英文版

"Now it is pleasant to hunt something that you want very much over a long period of time , being outwitted, out-maneuvered, and failing at the end of each day, but having the hunt and knowing every time you are out that, sooner or later, your luck will change and that you will get the chance that you are seeking."

Hemmingway, The Green Hills of Africa, 1935.

Some hunting website uses this paragraph as an ad, but actually, my favorate part is the following sentence:

"But it is not pleasant to have a time limit by which you must get your kudu （一种羚羊）or perhaps never get it, nor even see one. It is not the way hunting should be... The way to hunt is for as long as you live against as long as there is such ans such an animal; just as the way to paint is as long is there is you and colors and canvas, and to write as long as you canive and there is pencil and paper or ink or any machine to do it with, or anything you care to write about, a