英汉互译原理在专业英语八级翻译考试中的应用
【2001年
8级测试英译汉】
Directions: Translate the underline part of the following text into Chine.
Posssion for its own sake or in competition with the rest of the neighborhood would have
been Thoreau’s idea of the low levels. The active discipline of heightening one’s perception of
what is enduring in nature would have been his idea of the high. What he saved from the low was成市
time and effort he could spend on the high. Thoreau certainly disapproved of starvation, but he
would put into feeding himlf only as much effort as would keep him functioning for more
important efforts.
把单元格一分为二Effort is the gist of it. There is no happiness except as we take on life-engaging difficulties.
Short of the impossible, as Yeats put it, the satisfaction we get from a lifetime depends on how
high we choo our difficulties. Robert Frost was thinking in something like the same terms when
he spoke of “The pleasure of taking pains”. The mortal flaw in the advertid version of happiness
is in the fact that it purports to be effortless.
We demand difficulty even in our games. We demand it becau without difficulty there can
be no game. A game is a way of making something hard of the fun of it. The rules of the game are
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an arbitrary imposition of difficulty. When someone ruins the fun, he always does so by refusing
to play by the rules. It is easier to win at chess if you are free, at your pleasure, to change the
wholly arbitrary rules, but the fun is in winning within the rules. No difficulty, no fun.
【2002年
8级测试英译汉】
物理学专业The word “winner” and “lor” have many meanings. When we refer to a person as a winner,
we do not mean one who makes someone el lo. To us, a winner is one who responds authentically by being credible, trustworthy, responsive, and genuine, both as an individual and as
a member of a society.
Winners do not dedicate their lives to a concept of what they imagine they should be; rather,
they are themlves and as such do not u their energy putting on a performance, maintaining
pretence, and manipulating others. They are aware that there is a difference between being loving
and acting loving, between being stupid and acting stupid, between being knowledgeable and
acting knowledgeable. Winners do not need to hide behind a mask.
Winners are not afraid to do their own thinking and to u their own knowledge. They can
parate facts from opinions and don’t pretend to have all the answers. They listen to others,
evaluate what they say, but come to their own conclusions. Although winners can admire and
respect other people, they are not totally defined, demolished, bound, or awed by them.
Winners do not play“helpless”, nor do they play the blaming game. Instead, they assume
responsibility for their own lives.
【2003年 8级测试英译汉】
In his classic novel,“The Pioneers”, James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land developer,
take his cousin on a tour of the city he is building. He describes the broad streets, rows of hous,
a bustling metropolis. But his cousin looks around bewildered. All she es is a forest. “Where are
the beauties and improvements which you were to show me?” She asks. He’s astonished she can’t
e them. “Where! Why everywhere,” he replies. For though they are not yet built on earth, he has
built them in his mind, and they are as concrete to him as if they were already constructed and
finished.
Cooper was illustrating a distinctly American trait, future-mindedness; the ability to e the
prent from the vantage point of the future; the freedom to feel unencumbered by the past and
more emotionally attached to things to come. As Albert Einstein once said, “Life for the American
is always becoming, never being. ”
【2004年 8级测试英译汉】
For me the most interesting thing about a solitary life, and mine has been that for the last
twenty years, is that it becomes increasingly rewarding. When I can wake up and watch the sun
ri over the ocean, as I do most days, and know that I have an entire day ahead, uninterrupted, in
which to write a few pages, take a walk with my dog, read and listen to music, I am flooded with
伯西来happiness.
I am lonely only when I am overtired, when I have worked too long without a break, when
for the time being I feel empty and need filling up. And I am lonely sometimes when I come back
home after a lecture trip, when I have en a lot of people and talked a lot, and
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with experience that needs to be sorted out.
Then for a little while the hou feels huge and empty, and I wonder where my lf is hiding.
It has to be recaptured slowly by watering the plants and, perhaps, by looking again at each one as
though it were a person.
It takes a while, as I watch the surf blowing up in fountains, but the moment comes when the
world falls away, and the lf emerges again from the deep unconsciousness, bring back all I have
recently experienced to be explored and slowly understood.
【2005年 8级测试英译汉】
It is simple enough to say that since books have class — fiction, biography, poetry — we
should parate them and take from each what it is right that each should give us. Yet few people
ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and
divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be fal, of biography
that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all
such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Do not dictate to your
author: try to become him. Be his fellow-worker and accomplice. If you hang back, and rerve
and criticize at first, you are preventing yourlf from getting the fullest possible value from what
you read. But if you open your mind as widely as possible, then signs and hints of almost
imperceptible fineness, from the twist and turn of the first ntences, will bring you into the
prence of a human being unlike any other. Steep yourlf in this, acquaint yourlf with this, and
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soon you will find that your author is giving you, or attempting to give you, something far more
definite.
【2006年国王变色龙
8级测试英译汉】
On May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill, the newly appointed British Prime Minister, gave his first
speech to Parliament. He was preparing the people for a long battle against Nazi aggression, at a
time when England’s survival was still in doubt.
I say to the Hou as I said to Ministers who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer
but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have
before us many, many months of struggle and suffering.
You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, a and air. War with all our might
and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never
surpasd in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word, it is victory. Victory at all costs—victory in
