【正确答案】Several years ago, after I finished reading Leo Tolstoy's Resurrection with tears in my eyes, I wrote on its title page, "Life itself is a tragedy." However, that is not how things are, for life is not a tragedy, but a "struggle". What do we live for? Or why do we live this life at all? The answer given by Romain Roland is "to conquer life". I think he is right.

【答案解析】 原文一共七句话，翻译时根据结构做了一些调整。第一句是主从复合句，“我流着眼泪读完”英译时将状语“流着眼泪”(with tears in my eyes)置于句尾，这符合英语的表达习惯。译文将原文第二句和第三句合并为一句，并用了直译法。“我们生来做什么”意即“我们为什么要生活着”，所以译为“what do we live for”。“为的是来征服它”译为“to conquer it”，该句是省略句，即“we live this life to conquer it”。