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ENGLISH TO CHINESE.(上海财经大学2007研,考试科目:基础英语)In the third place, property makes its owner feel that he ought to do something to it. Yet he isn"t sure what. A restlessness comes over him, a vague sense that he had a personality to express—the same sense which, without any vagueness, leads the artist to an act of creation. Sometimes I think I will cut down such trees as remain in the wood, at other times I want to fill up the gaps between them with new trees. Both impulses are pretentious and empty. They are not honest movements towards moneymaking or beauty. They spring from a foolish desire to express myself and from an inability to enjoy what I have got. Creation, property, enjoyment form a sinister trinity in the human mind. Creation and enjoyment are both very, very good, yet they are often unattainable without a material basis, and at such moments property pushes itself in as a substitute, saying. " Accept me instead—I"m good enough for all three. " It is not enough.