20130616英专8级预测题翻译Tests 6-9

TEM Grade 8
Test Paper 6
PART V TRANSLATION (60MIN)
SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH
Translate the following underlined part of the text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
乡下老家前面的空地，租给人家种桃花心木的树苗。

树苗种下来后，植树人总是隔几天才来浇水。

他来的天数并没有规则，有时三天，有时五天，有时十几天来一次。

浇水的量也不一定，有时浇得多，有时浇得少。

桃花心木有时就莫名地枯萎了，所以，他来的时候总会带几株树苗补种。

我起先以为他太懒，隔那么久才为树浇水。

但是，懒的人又怎么知道有几颗树枯萎呢？他说：“种树是百年基业，所以树木自己要学会在土地里找水源。

我浇水只是模仿老天下雨，老天下雨是算不准。

如果无法在这种不确定中汲水生长，树苗很自然就枯萎了。

但是，只要在不确定中找到水源，拼命扎根的树，长成百年的大树就不成问题了。

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SECTTON B ENGLISH TO CHINESE
Translate the following undefined part of the text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
I was slow to understand the deep grievances of women. This was because, as a boy, I had envied them. Before college, the only people I had ever known who were interested in art or music or literature, the only ones who read books, the only ones who ever seemed to enjoy a sense of ease and grace were the mothers and daughters. Like the menfolk, they fretted about money, they scrimped and made-do. But, when the pay stopped coming in, they were not the omens who had failed. Nor did they have to go to war, and that seemed to me a blessed fact. By comparison with the narrow, ironclad days of fathers, there was an expansiveness, I thought, in the days of mothers. They went to see neighbors, to shop in town, to run errands at school, at the library, at church. No doubt, had I looked harder at their lives, I would have envied them less. It was not my fate to become a woman, so it was easier for me to see the graces. Few of them held jobs out-side the home, and those who did filled thankless roles as clerks and waitresses. I didn’t see, then, what a prison a house could be, since houses seemed to me brighter, handsomer places than any factory. I did not realize—because such things were never spoken of—how often women suffered from men’s bullying.
Test Paper 7
PART V TRANSLATION (60MIN)
SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH
Translate the following underlined part of the text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
为了看日出，我常常早起。

那时天还没有大亮，周围非常清静，船上只有机器的响声。

天空还是一片浅蓝，颜色很浅。

转眼间天边出现了一道红霞，慢慢地在扩大它的范围，加强它的亮光。

我知道太阳要从天边升起来了，便目不转眼地望着那里。

果然过了一会儿，在那个地方出现了太阳的小半边脸，红是真红，却没有亮光。

这个太阳好像负着重荷似地一步一
步、慢慢地努力上升，到了最后，终于冲破了云霞，完全跳出了海面，颜色红得非常可爱。

SECTTON B ENGLISH TO CHINESE
Translate the following undefined part of the text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
One day in the dead of winter, I looked out my back window and saw a chicken. It was jet-black with a crimson wattle, and it seemed unaware that it was in New York City. In classic barnyard fashion, it was scratching, pecking and clucking.
I shrugged off the apparition. Birds come and go. Usually they’re pigeons, not chickens, but like other birds, this one had wings and it would probably use them. Or so I thought.
The protagonist of this story is known simply as the chicken. How it came to a small backyard here, remains a matter of conjecture. The chicken made its first appearance next door, at the home of a multitude of cabdrivers from Bangladesh. My wife, Nancy, and I figured they had bought the chicken and were fattening it for a feast. That hypothesis fell into doubt when the chicken hopped the fence and began pacing the perimeter of our yard with a proprietary air.
Eating it was out of the question. As a restaurant critic’ and an animal lover, I subscribe to a policy of complete hypocrisy. Serve fish or fowl to me, but don’t ask me to watch the killing. Once I meet it, I don’t want to eat it.
Nancy and I next theorized that the chicken had escaped from a live-poultry market about four blocks away and was on the run. Our hearts went out to the brave little refugee. We had to save it.
Test Paper 8
PART V TRANSLATION (60MIN)
SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH
Translate the following underlined part of the text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
我一直以为大学校长是高瞻远瞩、指导学术与教育大方向的决策人，而不是管馒头稀饭的保姆，但这也暂且不提。

这一类型的教育者的用心，毋庸置疑，当然是善意的。

问题是，我们论“事”的时候，用心如何根本不重要，重要的是实际的后果，而教育的后果何其严重！在这种过度呵护的幼稚教育下成长的大学生，遇事时，除了“眼泪旺旺”之外，又能做什么呢？
教育者或许会说：这些学生如果进大学以前，就已经学好自治自律的话，我就不必要如此提之携之，喂之哺之；就是因为基础教育没教好，所以我办大学的人不得不教。

虽然是亡羊补牢，总比不教好。

SECTTON B ENGLISH TO CHINESE
Translate the following undefined part of the text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
Having established the (social) nature of man and
the consequent, necessity for social existence, Adams proceeded to analyze the nature of society. All men have one common nature and from that may be inferred equal rights and duties. “But equal ranks and equal property can never be inferred from it, any more than e qual understanding, agility, vigor or beauty. Equal laws are all that ever can be derived from, human e-quality.” In every state God has implanted inequalities which no legislator can erase. No two objects are perfectly alike; no two creatures are perfectly equal. “The people in all nations are naturally divided into two sorts, the gentlemen and the simple men, a word which is here chosen to signify the common people.” The factors which cause this division of society are essentially threefold-inequality of wealth, inequality of birth, and inequality of merit.By virtue of these factors are the few; separated from the many, the natural aristocracy from the common people. The basis of a natural aristocracy rests upon the possession of influence.“By aristocracy,I understand all those men who can command, influence or procure more than an average of votes; by an aristocrat, every man who can and will influence one man to vote besides himself.”
Test Paper 9
PART V TRANSLATION (60MIN)
SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH
Translate the following underlined part of the text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
她还清楚地记得，1941年，她刚刚在耀华中学上了半年高中，因交不起学费而中途辍学。

妈妈卖掉最后一件首饰，送她到上海去自谋生路。

上海，这个灯红酒绿的花花世界，对于一个初上舞台的青年女演员，处处都是陷阱。

她几次回到天津，想找个安定的职业，但迫于自己和朋友们的生计，又不得不重返舞台。

往来于京沪道上，她目睹大雪封道时，躺在雪地上被鞭打的同胞。

日本宪兵在隆冬腊月，拿水龙浇散抢着登车的难民。

她在茫茫的生活大海中浮沉，寻找着新的生路。

在苦闷彷徨之中，党向她伸出了手，她投身于党所领导的进步文化事业。

从演《丽人行》开始，她的生活道路发生了转折。

SECTTON B ENGLISH TO CHINESE
Translate the following undefined part of the text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
In the new millennium I want to see disabled people acquiring the same degree of control over their lives that other people have. To be disabled is to be no less human than anyone else, but far too often disabled people still have their lives ruled by others.No able-bodied person would put up with it.
Access to intellectual opportunities and jobs as well as buildings and public transport need to be regarded as rights, not gifts society is generous enough to bestow on disabled people. Institutions are generally willing to adapt their buildings, but only when a disabled person needs them-and afterwards you hear grumbles that the money was wasted because "you never see" a disabled person
using the new facilities.
The record is appalling. Even the recent Disability Discrimination ACT fails to cover areas like education and transport, areas that are absolutely crucial if full citizen’s rights are to be extended to the disabled.Until recently people with disabilities were not legally allowed to use the London Underground.Now there are a few stops, but still not remotely enough.。