英汉笔译期末试题
考试科目：英汉笔译考试时间：90分钟
使用班级：英语1121/1121 考试形式：■闭卷□开卷
加PARTI TRANSLATIONMPROVEMEND%)
Directions: There maybe one or more errors or inappropriate treatment in eac h of the
following TRANSLATEVERSIONSPIease underline it (or them) andthe n correct it (or
them) in the corresponding space provided on the ANSWERHEE T. (4 points for each
save as specified otherwise)
1. His retort was delivered with a strong note of vinegar.
原译：他的反驳是带着强烈的醋意发出的。
改译：__________________________________________________ 。
2. Lincoln was a good speaker and student of political philosophy.
原译：林肯是一个杰出的演说家，又是一个政治哲学系的学生。
改译：__________________________________________________ 。
3. Thenewfather wore a proud smile.
原译：那位新父亲面带得意笑容。
改译：__________________________________________________ 。
4. A translator has to know everything of something and something of everything.
原译：翻译人员对一些事情要什么都懂，对什么事情都要懂得一些。
改译：__________________________________________________
5. Being in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.
原译：在公司里工作，即使是最好的公司，也会很快就让人厌倦和消耗精力。改译：。
PARTI SENTENCES TRANSLATION%)
Directi ons: Tran slate the followi ng senten ces. Employ the tran slati on skill suggested in the brackets where appropriate. (4 points for each save as spec ified otherwise)
1.Such is war: to the victor, the spoils; to the defeated, the costs. (Amplificatio n)
2」n fact, the abuse of drugs has becomeone of Americas most serious social p roblems.(Co nv ersio n)
3.0ne must makepainstaking effort before one could succeed in mastering afo reign Ianguage. (Omission)
4. Don't shed crocodile tears to me; you knowyou are really glad that they're met with misfortune. (Domestication )
5. The wealth he had boasted for years turned out to be the emperor's newcloth es. (Foreignization )
PART 皿PASSAGE
TRANSLATI
Directi ons: Tran slate the the followi ng passage into Chin ese.
The Pleasure of Read ing
Benn ett Cerf
All the wisdoms of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind for cen turies, are easily and cheaply available to all of us with in the covers of books----but we must know how to avail ourselves of this treasure and how to get the most from it. The most unfortun ate people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books.
I ammost interested in people, in meet them and finding out about them.
Some of the most remarkable people I've met existed only in a writer's imagination, then on the pages of his book, and then, again, in my
imagination. I've found in books new friends, new societies, new words.
If I aminterested in people, others are interested not so muchin who"
as in hoW. Who in the books includes everybody from scienee fiction superma n two hun dred cen turies in the future all the way back to the first figures in history. How covers everything from the ingenious explanations of Sherlock Holmes to the discoveries of scienee and ways of teaching manner to childre n.
Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which meansthat it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness makeyou a good reader. Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mi nd work. Your own imagi nati on works along with the author ' or even goes beyond his. Your experienee, compared with his, brings you to the sameor different conclusions, and your ideas develop, as you understand
his.
Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate, together they all add up to someth ing; they are conn ected with each other and with other cities. The same ideas, or related on es, tur n up in differe nt places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature, but with differe nt soluti ons accord ing to differe nt writi ngs at differe nt times. Books in flue nce each other; they link the past, the prese nt and the future and have their own gen erati on s, like families.
Wherever you start read ing you connect yourself with one of the families of the ideas, and, in the long run, you not only find out about the world and the people in it; you find out about yourself, too.
Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on books somebody tells you you ought” to read, you probably won 'have fun. But if you put dow n the book you don 'like and try ano ther till you find one
that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost
