专业英语八级(翻译)模拟试卷249
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1. 作为中国最早的教育中心和科学研究中心,北京大学聚集了中国优秀的专家学者,不断开拓创新,改造发展,以培养出的高质量人才所做出的高水平科学成果深刻影响和推动着中国高等教育的航程。一百年来,以北京大学为代表的中国现代大学群,在中国走向现代化的历史中起了重要的先锋作用,形成了光荣的革命传统和优良的学术传统。
As China’s earliest education and research center, Peking University, with a large number of China’s most distinguished specialists and scholars among its faculty, has consistently engaged itself in pioneering and development endeavors. With a large amount of high-level scientific research achievements produced by talents trained there, Peking University has provided a strong impetus to the development of China’s higher education system. Over the past one hundred years, a bunch of modern Chinese universities as represented by Peking University have spearheaded China’s historical advancement towards modernization and have formed a glorious revolution and academic tradition.
解析:1.本段为描述性文字,强调北大等著名高校所取得的成就在中国教育事业的发展过程中所起的重要作用,总体上宜采用现在完成时。
2.第2句较长,应分析清楚句子成分。主语应为中国现代大学群,可译成a bunch of modern Chineseuniversities;“起先锋作用”可译成have spearheaded,形象鲜明,意思明确,也可译成have played anpioneering role in;“走向现代化的历史中”可译成historical advancement towards modernization。
2. 龙,在苗族人心目中是吉祥如意的象征。苗家姑娘最爱将龙的变形图案打制成银饰装点在头上,或刺绣在衣裙中,编织于围腰上。苗族人民制作的龙船,十分精巧、美观。龙身由一只母船和两只子船捆扎而成,叫做“子母船”。无论子船还是母船,皆为独木镂空。两米多长的龙头,用水柳木雕刻,装有一对一米多长的龙角。龙头以主色不同,分为赤龙、青龙、黄龙。中国民族自古以来从不把人看做高于一切,在哲学文艺方面的表现都反映出人在自然界中与万物占着一个比例较为恰当的地位,而非绝对统治万物的主宰。因此我们的苦闷,基本上比西方人为少为小:因为苦闷的强弱原是随欲望与野心的大小而转移的。农业社会的人比工业社会的人享受差得多,因此欲望也小得多。况中国古代素来以不滞于物,不为物役为最主要的人生哲学。并非我们没有守财奴,但比起莫里哀与巴尔扎克笔下的守财奴与野心家来,就小巫见大巫了。中国民族多数是性情中正和平、淡泊、朴实,比西方人容易满足。
In the minds of Miao people, the dragon is a symbol of good luck. Girls like best to adorn their hair with silver adornments shaped like dragons, to embroider dragons on their skirts, and to weave dragon patterns on their \\
解析:1.本段为一般性说明文字,故应采用一般现在时。
2.第1句的“吉祥如意”为中文四字词组,意指好运,可简单译为good luck。
3.第3句的“精巧”可译为exquisite或artistic,但不宜译作delicate,因为后者还含有“纤细易损,需小心照料”之意。
4.为描述方便,第4句与第5句合译。“独木镂空”可译为canoe,贴切原文的意思,英文读者易于理解。
5.第6句突出龙头长度与壮观,可以以“龙头”(dragon head)为句子主语,将“两米多长”和“装有一对一米多长的龙角”译成补语紧随其后;“装有”可译为decorated with,突出其装饰效果。
6.第7句的“分”指分类,译为classify,“主色”即主要的颜色,可译为dominant color。
7.因本段文字的描述核心为“龙”,故翻译“赤龙、青龙、黄龙”时应不惜重复dragon一词,译成red dragons,blue dragons,and yellow dragons,以保留原文的文体特征。
3.中国民族自古以来从不把人看做高于一切,在哲学文艺方面的表现都反映出人在自然界中与万物占着一个比例较为恰当的地位,而非绝对统治万物的主宰。因此我们的苦闷,基本上比西方人为少为小:因为苦闷的强弱原是随欲望与野心的大小而转移的。农业社会的人比工业社会的人享受差得多,因此欲望也小得多。况中国古代素来以不滞于物,不为物役为最主要的人生哲学。并非我们没有守财奴,但比起莫里哀与巴尔扎克笔下的守财奴与野心家来,就小巫见大巫了。中国民族多数是性情中正和平、淡泊、朴实,比西方人容易满足。
From ancient times the Chinese nation has never placed man in the paramount position in the universe. As reflected both in philosophy and in art, man has always held a well-proportioned position in relation to other objects in nature and has never acted as the absolute master over all other creatures. Thus we Chinese people in general have suffered less from mental depression than westerners, as the intensity of mental depression is generally determined by the magnitude of desires and ambition. People in agricultural societies enjoy much less material comfort than those in industrial societies, and accordingly they have much less desires. Moreover, freedom from detainment or enslavement by material possessions has always been taken as the philosophy of life throughout China’s history.
解析:1.本段为哲学思辨性文本,对古往今来中西方哲学思想进行比较分析,故宜采用现在完成时为总体时态
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