Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly(adv.压倒性地, 不可抵抗地
) strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable(adj.无法忍受的 ) pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither(adj.附近的 ) and thither(adj.对岸的,那边的), in a wayward(adj.任性的, 倔强的, 刚愎的 ) course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.