湖北省翻译大赛历届试题
湖北省第十三届外语翻译大赛英语专业组初赛试题
I. Choo the one best translation of the Chine phras ：（每题2分，计20分）
(1) 弱肉强食
A. the weak is the meat of the strong
B. the weak are the prey of the strong
C. the jungle principal
D. the weak is the mercy of the strong
(2) 如鸟兽散
凉拌猪皮
A. flee helter skelter
B. as if birds and beasts disappearing
C. flying away as birds
D. running away as animals
(3) 深文周纳
A. well verd in literature and art
B. try to help innocent people out of trouble
C. to enjoy great learning and popularity
D. convict sb by deliberately misinterpreting the law
(4) 首鼠两端
A. take both for granted乐字取名
B. catch the first mou coming along
C. there being two sides to everything
D．shilly-shally
(5) 师直为壮
A.an army fighting for a just cau has high morale
B.an honest teacher is always eloquent in speech
C. a great master is always speak out his mind
D.strong physique is associated with moral life
(6) 文不加点
A. article with no definite argument
B. have a facile pen
C. without the u of any punctuation
D. plain style without and flourish
喝中药能不能喝酒
(7) 殊深轸念高谈阔论造句
荤菜有哪些A. fall a prey to
B. be sympathetic about
C. express deep solicitude for
D. become bosom friends
(8) 余勇可贾
A. valor to encourage others
B. with strength yet to spare
C. energy left over for future u
D. great deeds for prai
(9) 纵横捭阖
A. criss-crossing the vast country
教师礼仪B. a wide stretch of beautiful field
C. maneuver among various political groupings
D. arch up and down for a bosom friend
(10) 责有攸归
A. duty is well placed
B. obligation should be obrved
C. blame goes to its destiny
D. responsibility rests where it belongs
II. Choo the best version among the four given.（每题2分，计40分）11．她是一个坚强的女人，在体格上、在精神上都是如此，我每天都从她
身上吸取精神食粮。
A. She was a touch woman, physically and spiritually. Not a day pasd that I
didn’t feed off the bread of her spirit.
B. In physique as well as in spirit, she is a strong and firm lady, everyday I
absorb from her spiritual nutrition.
C. I get strength from her everyday, since she is a strong-willed woman, both
in body and in mind.
D. She has got very strong will-power, and everyday I can benefit from her
spiritual food as far as mind and constitution are concerned.
12．他相识不久就想动手动脚。
A. Before the acquaintance got to a certain point, he wants to be physically
involved.
B. He even wanted to get in posssion before the relationship is ripe.
梅毒三期症状C. Before long, he started to show his true colors.
D. He wanted to get physical early in a relationship.
13．科技的发展似乎对纸张的使用没有太大的影响，正如医学的进步也不能铲除病毒。
A. The development of science doesn’t em to have great influence on the
u of paper, just as the advances of medicine can not get rid of virus all together.
B. Paper ems to be as immune to technology as virus are to medical
science.
C. Paper is not very much affected by the development of technology; the
same is true with the fact that progress in medical rearch cannot exterminate germs.
D. The advances in science ems to have no function in affecting the u of
paper, as the improvement in medicine and pharmacology are not able to wipe out virus.
14. 那年中有好几次，我将我所受到的挫折以及失落感发泄到孩子们身
上。
A. Many times in that year, I vented out on my kids all the frustrations I
experienced.
B. On many an occasion that year I lost tempers and scolded my children for
my own tbacks.
C. I gave vent to my own lost feelings that year and wreaked my kids for my own headaches.
D. There were quite a few times that year when I took my frustrations out on the children.
15. 这是个未知的领域：如何成为宇航员？无准则可遵循，无先例可参照。
A. This is an unknown world: how to become astronauts? No rules to follow, and no precedents to be ud as references.
B. That’s a field unknown to us: we have no experience in the past and there are no t rules for us to obey.
C. That is an unfamiliar area for rearch: how to train astronauts? We have no regulations and principles to follow, and we have no successful examples for reference.
D. This was uncharted territory --- there were literally no guidelines or precedents on how to become an astronaut.
未来不可期16. 这棵树在秋天身披金灿灿的树叶，显得格外美丽。
A. This tree is so outstandingly magnificent in full, covered with such a golden foliage
B. Clad in golden glory, the tree is incredibly beautiful in autumn.
C. So beautiful is the tree just becau it is covered in such effulgent leaves.
