Final Examination and the reference translations

真正的高貴
True Nobility

海明威 Ernest Hemingway

在平靜的海面上，每一個人都是主宰自己的舵手。
In a calm sea, every man is a pilot to his own boat.
但是如果只有陽光而沒有陰影，只有歡樂而沒有痛苦，那就算不上是真正人生。

在生活和事業的所有事情中，才智產生的效果遠遠不如你的品格，頭腦的功能遠遠不如心靈，天賦遠不如由判斷力所約束的自制、耐性與教養。
In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as hearts, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.

內心過著嚴肅生活的人，他的外在生活也會開始變得更為簡樸。在這個奢侈浪費的時代，但願我能讓世人了解：人類真正需求的東西有多麼的稀少。
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.

不重蹈覆轍才是人們真正的悔悟。你可以比別人優秀，但並無任何高貴之處。真正的高貴在於超越以前的自我。
To regret one's errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.