How to translate these sentence into Chinese? much appreciation!

1、Yet it is forbidden to know for what purpose this universe was intended, to what end it was set a-going, or why I am here, or even what I had preferably do while here.（Why “was”is used here?）

2、but material things have nothing to do with that life which moves in me.(What is “that life which moves in me ?)

3、It is all a muddling through, somehow, without any recognizable goal in view, and there is no explanation of the scuffle tendered or anywhere procurable.(What does “the scuffle tendered or anywhere procurable”mean”?

4、And tenderness, too—but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?

5、Their lives and their interests are no longer the same as ours, and when we meet it is with conscious reservations and much manufactured talk.(What is “conscious reservation”?)