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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”

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Answer 1

这段文章翻译下来就是下面的了。。

【送礼涉及互惠的期望，但西方世界，我们的智者避免这样一个事实：我们的论文约无私的言论，但对如何更好它是向比受。光荣的，高尚的事，我们要告诉自己，是给它，忘记它，期望在所有没有回报，甚至没有表示感谢。为了给自由，自发地，像她的丰富的天然资源。只要我们不自欺欺人，以为我们不希望任何东西，当我们都这样做，有没有感觉对未确认的未确认的期望，一种失望的危险，引起市民的冷嘲热讽。
- 摘自安东尼勃兰特的文章说：“礼品馈赠，”】

Answer 2

赠与礼物包含了对收到礼物的期待，但是我们这些西方国家的聪明人避开这个事实：我们用华丽的词藻把它包起来，说是出于无私奉献，出于给与比接受更好。送出礼物，并忘记它，不指望任何报答或感恩，是我们想做的最光荣的、高尚的事。

Answer 3

送礼涉及互惠的期望，但西方世界，我们的智者避免这样一个事实：我们的论文约无私的言论，但对如何更好它是向比受。光荣的，高尚的事，我们要告诉自己，是给它，忘记它，期望在所有没有回报，甚至没有表示感谢。为了让自由，
自发，喜欢她的丰富性。只要我们不自欺欺人，以为我们不希望任何东西，当我们都这样做，有没有感觉对未确认的未确认的期望，一种失望的危险，引起市民的冷嘲热讽。
-摘自安东尼勃兰特的文章说：“礼品馈赠，”

Answer 4

The Last Pope Author:  Luis Miguel Rocha

Why does a man run? What makes him run? He puts one leg in front of the other, the right foot follows the left. Some people seek glory. Others want to win a race or just lose a few pounds. But they always run for the same reason: they run for their lives.
Or at least that was what drove this man, his black cassock dissolving into the darkness of the place, running as fast as he could down the long interior staircase in the Secret Archives of the Vatican, a not-so-secret housing for supposedly secret documents. Those three imposing Vatican halls, and the buildings behind the Apostolic Palace教皇宫, held documents of critical importance to the history of this small state and of the entire world. Only His Holiness, the pope, could examine them and decide who else could have access. The staff always said that any researcher could consult the Archives, but in Rome, and everywhere else on the planet, it was well known that not everybody was admitted, and those who were could not look at everything. There were many hidden niches in the Secret Archives' fifty-three miles of shelves.
The clergyman dashed through a secret passageway, holding some papers yellowed with age. A sudden noise, distinct from his own steps, alarmed him. Had it come from upstairs? Downstairs? He froze, perspiration streaming down his face, but all he could hear was the accelerated rhythm of his own breathing. He ran toward his quarters in Vatican City—or Vatican country, rather—because that was what it really was, with its own rules, laws, beliefs, and political system.
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