Three passions, simple but extremely strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me here and there in a wild course, 越过深深的苦海，到达了绝望的边缘。

答案：over a deep ocean of sorrow, reaching to the very edge of despair.
本句节选自《What I Have Lived For》