2014 00苏北高校大学生翻译比赛原文(专业组)
第七届翻译大赛英文原文
OpticsManini NayarWhen I was seven, my friend Sol was hit by lightning and died. He was on a rooftop quietly playing marbles when this happened. Burnt to cinders, we were told by the neighbourhood gossips. He'd caught fire, we were assured, but never felt a thing. I only remember a frenzy of ambulances and long clean sirens cleaving the silence of that damp October night. Later, my father came to sit with me. This happens to one in several millions, he said, as if a knowledge of the bare statistics mitigated the horror. He was trying to help, I think. Or perhaps he believed I thought it would happen to me. Until now, Sol and I had shared everything; secrets, chocolates, friends, even a birthdate. We would marry at eighteen, we promised each other, and have six children, two cows and a heart-shaped tattoo with 'Eternally Yours' sketched on our behinds. But now Sol was somewhere else, and I was seven years old and under the covers in my bed counting spots before my eyes in the darkness.After that I cleared out my play-cupboard. Out went my collection of teddy bears and picture books. In its place was an emptiness, the oak panels reflecting their own woodshine. The space I made seemed almost holy, though mother thought my efforts a waste. An empty cupboard is no better than an empty cup, she said in an apocryphal aside. Mother always filled things up - cups, water jugs, vases, boxes, arms - as if colour and weight equalled a superior quality of life. Mother never understood that this was my dreamtime place. Here I could hide, slide the doors shut behind me, scrunch my eyes tight and breathe in another world. When I opened my eyes, the glow from the lone cupboard-bulb seemed to set the polished walls shimmering, and I could feel what Sol must have felt, dazzle and darkness. I was sharing this with him, as always. He would know, wherever he was, that I knew what he knew, saw what he had seen. But to mother I only said that I was tired of teddy bears and picture books. What she thought I couldn't tell, but she stirred the soup-pot vigorously.One in several millions, I said to myself many times, as if the key, the answer to it all, lay there. The phrase was heavy on my lips, stubbornly resistant to knowledge. Sometimes I said the words out of con- text to see if by deflection, some quirk of physics, the meaning would suddenly come to me. Thanks for the beans, mother, I said to her at lunch, you're one in millions. Mother looked at me oddly, pursed her lips and offered me more rice. At this club, when father served a clean ace to win the Retired-Wallahs Rotating Cup, I pointed out that he was one in a million. Oh, the serve was one in a million, father protested modestly. But he seemed pleased. Still, this wasn't what I was looking for, and in time the phrase slipped away from me, lost its magic urgency, became as bland as 'Pass the salt' or 'Is the bath water hot?' If Sol was one in a million, I was one among far less; a dozen, say. He was chosen. I was ordinary. He had been touched and transformed by forces I didn't understand. I was left cleaning out the cupboard. There was one way to bridge the chasm, to bring Solback to life, but I would wait to try it until the most magical of moments. I would wait until the moment was so right and shimmering that Sol would have to come back. This was my weapon that nobody knew of, not even mother, even though she had pursed her lips up at the beans. This was between Sol and me.The winter had almost guttered into spring when father was ill. One February morning, he sat in his chair, ashen as the cinders in the grate. Then, his fingers splayed out in front of him, his mouth working, he heaved and fell. It all happened suddenly, so cleanly, as if rehearsed and perfected for weeks. Again the sirens, the screech of wheels, the white coats in perpetual motion. Heart seizures weren't one in a million. But they deprived you just the same, darkness but no dazzle, and a long waiting.Now I knew there was no turning back. This was the moment. I had to do it without delay; there was no time to waste. While they carried father out, I rushed into the cupboard, scrunched my eyes tight, opened them in the shimmer and called out'Sol! Sol! Sol!' I wanted to keep my mind blank, like death must be, but father and Sol gusted in and out in confusing pictures. Leaves in a storm and I the calm axis. Here was father playing marbles on a roof. Here was Sol serving ace after ace. Here was father with two cows. Here was Sol hunched over the breakfast table. The pictures eddied and rushed. The more frantic they grew, the clearer my voice became, tolling like a bell: 'Sol! Sol! Sol!' The cupboard rang with voices, some mine, some echoes, some from what seemed another place - where Sol was, maybe. The cup- board seemed to groan and reverberate, as if shaken by lightning and thunder. Any minute now it would burst open and I would find myself in a green valley fed by limpid brooks and red with hibiscus. I would run through tall grass and wading into the waters, see Sol picking flowers. I would open my eyes and he'd be there,hibiscus-laden, laughing. Where have you been, he'd say, as if it were I who had burned, falling in ashes. I was filled to bursting with a certainty so strong it seemed a celebration almost. Sobbing, I opened my eyes. The bulb winked at the walls.I fell asleep, I think, because I awoke to a deeper darkness. It was late, much past my bedtime. Slowly I crawled out of the cupboard, my tongue furred, my feet heavy. My mind felt like lead. Then I heard my name. Mother was in her chair by the window, her body defined by a thin ray of moonlight. Your father Will be well, she said quietly, and he will be home soon. The shaft of light in which she sat so motionless was like the light that would have touched Sol if he'd been lucky; if he had been like one of us, one in a dozen, or less. This light fell in a benediction, caressing mother, slipping gently over my father in his hospital bed six streets away. I reached out and stroked my mother's arm. It was warm like bath water, her skin the texture of hibiscus.We stayed together for some time, my mother and I, invaded by small night sounds and the raspy whirr of crickets. Then I stood up and turned to return to my room.Mother looked at me quizzically. Are you all right, she asked. I told her I was fine, that I had some c!eaning up to do. Then I went to my cupboard and stacked it up again with teddy bears and picture books.Some years later we moved to Rourkela, a small mining town in the north east, near Jamshedpur. The summer I turned sixteen, I got lost in the thick woods there. They weren't that deep - about three miles at the most. All I had to do was cycle forall I was worth, and in minutes I'd be on the dirt road leading into town. But a stir in the leaves gave me pause.I dismounted and stood listening. Branches arched like claws overhead. The sky crawled on a white belly of clouds. Shadows fell in tessellated patterns of grey and black. There was a faint thrumming all around, as if the air were being strung and practised for an overture. And yet there was nothing, just a silence of moving shadows, a bulb winking at the walls. I remembered Sol, of whom I hadn't thought in years. And foolishly again I waited, not for answers but simply for an end to the terror the woods were building in me, chord by chord, like dissonant music. When the cacophony grew too much to bear, I remounted and pedalled furiously, banshees screaming past my ears, my feet assuming a clockwork of their own. The pathless ground threw up leaves and stones, swirls of dust rose and settled. The air was cool and steady as I hurled myself into the falling light.光学玛尼尼·纳雅尔谈瀛洲译在我七岁那年，我的朋友索尔被闪电击中死去了。
下文为本学期翻译竞赛的第一篇英语文章,欢迎同学们参加此竞赛,具体的
下文为本学期翻译竞赛的第一篇英语文章，欢迎同学们参加此竞赛，具体的参加办法请见本报第3期A面“2013年全国中学生英语翻译大赛启事”。
第一篇：ChildhoodChildhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.I think I have always known about my memory. I know when it is to be trusted and when some dream or fantasy entered on the life, and the dream, the need of dream, led to distortion of what happened. And so I knew early that the rampage angers of an only child were distorted nightmares of reality. But I trust absolutely what I remember about Julia.（全国中学生英语翻译大赛组委会提供）第二篇：Two DonkeysA wild Donkey once met a tame Donkey feeding on a hillside. The wild Donkey was thin and small. He spent his life out of doors, sheltering as best he could in the cold weather and eating the sparse hill grass all the year around. He sometimes had to walk miles to find fresh water and at night there was always danger from prowling wolves.The tame Donkey was sleek and fat. During the summer he fed on the rich meadow grass while in winter he was given corn and hay to eat. There was always a pail of fresh water for him to drink and at night he was shut safely in a stable.“How lucky you are,” said the wild Donkey. “I wish I could live like you.”A few days later the wild Donkey was once more foraging on the hillside. Looking down he saw the tame Donkey walking slowly along the road, carrying a heavy load of wood. As he watched, the tame Donkey paused to snatch at a thistle growing by the roadside. Immediately his driver began to shout and to beat him with a stick.“I?蒺ve changed my mind about your way of life,”thought the wild Donkey. “I see that you have to pay heavily for the corn and hay they give you.”（全国中学生英语翻译大赛组委会提供）第三篇：The Lobster and the CrabOn a stormy day, the Crab went strolling along the beach. He was surprised to see the Lobster to set sail in his boat.“Lobster,” said the Crab, “it is foolhardy to venture out on a day like this.”“Perhaps so,” said the Lobster. “but I love a squall at sea!”“I will come with you,” said the Crab. “I will not let you face such danger alone.”Soon they found themselves far from shore. Their boat was tossed and buffeted by the turbulent waters.“Crab!” shouted the Lobster above the roar of the wind. “For me, the splashing of the salt spray is thrilling! The crashing of every wave takes my breath away!”“Lobster, I think we are sinking!” cried the Crab.“This old boat is full of holes. Have courage, my friend. Remember, we are bo th creatures of the sea.”The little boat capsized and sank.“How brave we are,” said the Lobster. “What a wonderful adventure we have had!”The Crab had to admit that the day had been pleasantly out of the ordinary.（全国中学生英语翻译大赛组委会提供）。
河南省第八届翻译竞赛试题及参考译文英语专业组
河南省第八届翻译竞赛试题及参考译文笔译类英语专业组I. Translate the Following Passage into Chinese (50 Points)：Life of SocratesSocrates was born in Athens, 469 B. C., the son of poor parents, his father being a sculptor, his mother a midwife. How he acquired an education, we do not know, but his love of knowledge evidently created opportunities in the cultured city for intellectual growth. He took up the occupation of his father, but soon felt “a divine vocation to examine himself by questioning other men.”It was his custom to engage in converse with all sorts and conditions of men and women, on the streets, in the market-place, in the gymnasia, discussing the most diverse topics: war, politics, marriage, friendship, love, housekeeping, the arts and trades, poetry, religion, science, and, particularly, moral matters.Nothing human was foreign to him. Life with all its interests became the subject of his inquiries, and only the physical side of the world left him cold; he declared that he could learn nothing from trees and stones. He was subtle and keen, quick to discover the fallacies in an argument and skillful in steering the conversation to the very heart of the matter. Though kindly and gentle in disposition, and brimming over with good humor, he delighted in exposing the quacks and humbugs of his time and pricking their empty bubbles with his wit.Socrates exemplified in his conduct the virtues which he taught: he was a man of remarkable self-control, magnanimous, noble, frugal, and capable of great endurance; and his wants were few. He gave ample proof, during his life of seventy years, of physical and moral courage in war and in the performance of his political duties. Condemned by his own people, on a false charge of atheism and of corrupting the youth, to drink the poison hemlock (399 B. C.), he died as beautifully as he lived.参考译文：苏格拉底的生平（1分）1苏格拉底于公元前469年生于雅典，父母是穷人。
苏北英语翻译大赛译文
美国父母真的那么糟糕吗？作者：杰布里姬前不久，美国的父母们有了和“虎妈”一样的焦虑。
我们是否以提高孩子的自尊的名义而过分褒奖了他们呢？不逼迫他们进行无休止的小提琴训练，不撕碎他们制作的不是那么完美的生日卡片，就会使孩子们失去到名常春藤盟校就读的机会吗？就像蔡美儿在她的畅销回忆录《虎妈的战歌》中所写，我们是不是在养育“软弱”而“享有特权”的孩子呢？然而，法国的父母们却完全没有这种忧虑。
与蔡女士的书一样，记者帕梅拉·德鲁克曼最近发行的《养育宝宝》很是畅销。
书中高度赞扬了法国父母的“智慧”——他们爱孩子，但却不像美国父母那样总是以孩子为中心。
另一本名为《爱斯基摩人如何为孩子保暖》的新书则对不同的养育方式进行了比较，其中称赞了阿根廷人在特殊情况下会让孩子熬夜，以及日本人教育孩子们彼此要一决高下的做法。
这些对外国家长养育子女方式的热捧引出一个问题：美国父母真的有那么差劲吗？显而不是。
我们当然爱自己的孩子，并希望他们能得到最好的。
问题是，我们并不确定，在我们这个充满了紧迫感、以成败论英雄的国家里什么才是最好的。
或许，美国父母会更加关注的，不是国外最新潮流，不是各种国际测试成绩排名，而是一个非常美式的想法：追求幸福。
那些刻板的美式教育方法随处可见：蹒跚学步时，父母会准备好随时冲过去，以保护孩子不会跌倒；在认知阶段，父母会担心孩子不能顺利通过皮亚杰所说的四个认知发展阶段；稍长大后，他们不会放过孩子显露天赋的任何蛛丝马迹；到了二年级，孩子做个提康德罗加城堡的木棍立体模型，父母熬夜也要帮着完善；等到了中学，就会带着他们去各种足球、小提琴、芭蕾舞或者击剑的兴趣班；进入高中，竟用网上的等级书籍来检测孩子的学习情况；到大学后，还要打电话给教授询问孩子的详细情况；而最近NPR的一个报道指出，现在竟有家长替孩子递交简历，陪孩子参加求职面试，甚至要求设立一个“带父母去上班日”。
研究人员发现，整体上，美国父母确实花了比其他发达国家的父母多得多的时间来陪他们的孩子，（如果说是法国的父亲，单从时间的分配上看,你或许会认为他们没有孩子）。
第四届语言桥杯翻译大赛参考译文
第四届语言桥杯翻译大赛参考译文第一篇：第四届语言桥杯翻译大赛参考译文第四届“语言桥”杯翻译大赛原文、参考译文、译文点评及特等奖译文一、第四届“语言桥”杯翻译大赛原文：When the Sun Stood StillRemember how time used to stretch forever? We are well into summer now here in the city.An early morning alarm gets my daughter, Morgan, up for summer school.My son, Patrick, has gone off with his uncle, and my husband and I have to go to our jobs and try to find a way to cram a vacation in somewhere.Summer wasn’t always like this.When I was growing up in a small California town called Lagunitas, a perfect stillness awaited us when we stepped out of school in June.We had no summer classes, no camps, no relatives to visit.The calendar was a blank.Every day the hills of Lagunitas pressed in and the light pressed down.It was as if the planet had come lazily to a stop so we could all hear the buzzing of the dragonflies above the creek—and the beating of our own hearts.June was far away, September a distant blur.Without school to tell us who we were—fifth-graders or sixth-graders, good students or good-offs—we were free just to be ourselves, to build forts, to moon around the neighborhood with a head full of fantastical schemes.There was time for everything.Minutes were as big as plums, hours the size of watermelons.You could spend a quarter of an hour watching the dust motes in the shaft of sunlight from the doorway and wondering if anybody else could see them.I d on’t really miss those long, slow days.What I miss is summertime, the illusion that the sun is standing still and the future is keeping its distance.Onsummer afternoons, nobody got any older.Kids didn’t have to worry about becoming adults, and adults didn’t have to worry about running out of adulthood.You could lie on your back watching clouds scud across the sky, and maybe later walk down to the store for a Popsicle.You could lose your watch and not miss it for days.These busy kids I’m raising today don’t know what summertime is.They are on city time.“My life is going too fast,” Patrick once grumbled as he got into bed.“This whole day went by just like that.I didn’t have enough fun.”He’s a city child, a child whose fun is packed into short, hurried weekends.Even in summer his hours grow shorter and begin to run together, faster and faster.It won’t be long before an hour—once an eternity—is for him, too, a walk to the grocery store, three phone calls, half a movie.Maybe that’s why we still need long school vacations—to anchor kids to the earth, keep them from rocketing too fast out of childhood.If they have enough time on their hands, they might be among the lucky ones who carry their summertime with them into adulthood.二、参考译文：夏日好时光可还记得以往时间像是永无止境地拉长了的？ADAIR LARA撰思果译夏天真正来到了我们居住的城市。
翻译竞赛英译汉参赛原文 (1)
翻译竞赛英译汉参赛原文Africa on the Silk RoadThe Dark Continent, the Birthplace of Humanity . . . Africa. All of the lands south and west of the Kingdom of Egypt have for far too long been lumped into one cultural unit by westerners, when in reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Africa is not one mysterious, impenetrable land as the legacy of the nineteenth Century European explorers suggests, it is rather an immensely varied patchwork of peoples that can be changed not only by region and country but b y nature’s way of separating people – by rivers and lakes and by mountain ranges and deserts. A river or other natural barrier may separate two groups of people who interact, but who rarely intermarry, because they perceive the people on the other side to be “different” from them.Africa played an important part in Silk Road trade from antiquity through modern times when much of the Silk Road trade was supplanted by European corporate conglomerates like the Dutch and British East India Companies who created trade monopolies to move goods around the Old World instead. But in the heyday of the Silk Road, merchants travelled to Africa to trade for rare timbers, gold, ivory, exotic animals and spices. From ports along the Mediterranean and Red Seas to those as far south asMogadishu and Kenya in the Indian Ocean, goods from all across the continent were gathered for the purposes of trade.One of Africa’s contributions to world cuisine that is still widely used today is sesame seeds. Imagine East Asian food cooked in something other than its rich sesame oil, how about the quintessential American-loved Chinese dish, General Tso’s Chicken? How ‘bout the rich, thick tahini paste enjoyed from the Levant and Middle East through South and Central Asia and the Himalayas as a flavoring for foods (hummus, halva) and stir-fries, and all of the breads topped with sesame or poppy seeds? Then think about the use of black sesame seeds from South Asian through East Asian foods and desserts. None of these cuisines would have used sesame in these ways, if it hadn’t been for the trade of sesame seeds from Africa in antiquity.Given the propensity of sesame plants to easily reseed themselves, the early African and Arab traders probably acquired seeds from native peoples who gathered wild seeds. The seeds reached Egypt, the Middle East and China by 4,000 –5,000 years ago as evidenced from archaeological investigations, tomb paintings and scrolls. Given the eager adoption of the seeds by other cultures and the small supply, the cost per pound was probably quite high and merchants likely made fortunes offthe trade.Tamarind PodsThe earliest cultivation of sesame comes from India in the Harappan period of the Indus Valley by about 3500 years ago and from then on, India began to supplant Africa as a source of the seeds in global trade. By the time of the Romans, who used the seeds along with cumin to flavor bread, the Indian and Persian Empires were the main sources of the seeds.Another ingredient still used widely today that originates in Africa is tamarind. Growing as seed pods on huge lace-leaf trees, the seeds are soaked and turned into tamarind pulp or water and used to flavor curries and chutneys in Southern and South Eastern Asia, as well as the more familiar Worcestershire and barbeque sauces in the West. Eastern Africans use Tamarind in their curries and sauces and also make a soup out of the fruits that is popular in Zimbabwe. Tamarind has been widely adopted in the New World as well as is usually blended with sugar for a sweet and sour treat wrapped in corn husk as a pulpy treat or also used as syrup to flavor sodas, sparkling waters and even ice cream.Some spices of African origin that were traded along the Silk Road have become extinct. One such example can be found in wild silphion whichwas gathered in Northern Africa and traded along the Silk Road to create one of the foundations of the wealth of Carthage and Kyrene. Cooks valued the plant because of the resin they gathered from its roots and stalk that when dried became a powder that blended the flavors of onion and garlic. It was impossible for these ancient people to cultivate, however, and a combination of overharvesting, wars and habitat loss cause the plant to become extinct by the end of the first or second centuries of the Common Era. As supplies of the resin grew harder and harder to get, it was supplanted by asafetida from Central Asia.Other spices traded along the Silk Road are used almost exclusively in African cuisines today – although their use was common until the middle of the first millennium in Europe and Asia. African pepper, Moor pepper or negro pepper is one such spice. Called kieng in the cuisines of Western Africa where it is still widely used, it has a sharp flavor that is bitter and flavorful at the same time –sort of like a combination of black pepper and nutmeg. It also adds a bit of heat to dishes for a pungent taste. Its use extends across central Africa and it is also found in Ethiopian cuisines. When smoked, as it often is in West Africa before use, this flavor deepens and becomes smoky and develops a black cardamom-like flavor. By the middle of the 16th Century, the use and trade of negro pepper in Europe, Western and Southern Asia had waned in favor of black pepper importsfrom India and chili peppers from the New World.Traditional Chinese ShipGrains of paradise, Melegueta pepper, or alligator pepper is another Silk Road Spice that has vanished from modern Asian and European food but is still used in Western and Northern Africa and is an important cash crop in some areas of Ethiopia. Native to Africa’s West Coast its use seems to have originated in or around modern Ghana and was shipped to Silk Road trade in Eastern Africa or to Mediterranean ports. Fashionable in the cuisines of early Renaissance Europe its use slowly waned until the 18th Century when it all but vanished from European markets and was supplanted by cardamom and other spices flowing out of Asia to the rest of the world.The trade of spices from Africa to the rest of the world was generally accomplished by a complex network of merchants working the ports and cities of the Silk Road. Each man had a defined, relatively bounded territory that he traded in to allow for lots of traders to make a good living moving goods and ideas around the world along local or regional. But occasionally, great explorers accomplished the movement of goods across several continents and cultures.Although not African, the Chinese Muslim explorer Zheng He deserves special mention as one of these great cultural diplomats and entrepreneurs. In the early 15th Century he led seven major sea-faring expeditions from China across Indonesia and several Indian Ocean ports to Africa. Surely, Chinese ships made regular visits to Silk Road ports from about the 12th Century on, but when Zheng came, he came leading huge armadas of ships that the world had never seen before and wouldn’t see again for several centuries. Zheng came in force, intending to display China’s greatness to the world and bring the best goods from the rest of the world back to China. Zheng came eventually to Africa where he left laden with spices for cooking and medicine, wood and ivory and hordes of animals. It may be hard for us who are now accustomed to the world coming on command to their desktops to imagine what a miracle it must have been for the citizens of Nanjing to see the parade of animals from Zheng’s cultural Ark. But try we must to imagine the wonder brought by the parade of giraffes, zebra and ostriches marching down Chinese streets so long ago –because then we can begin to imagine the importance of the Silk Road in shaping the world.。
中英互译比赛原文
中英互译比赛原文中英互译比赛原文英译汉竞赛原文：The Posteverything GenerationI never expected to gain any new insight into the nature of my generation, or the changing landscape of American colleges, in Lit Theory. Lit Theory is supposed to be the class where you sit at the back of the room with every other jaded sophomore wearing skinny jeans, thick-framed glasses, an ironic tee-shirt and over-sized retro headphones, just waiting for lecture to be over so you can light up a Turkish Gold and walk to lunch while listening to Wilco. That’s pretty much the way I spent the course, too: through structuralism, formalism, gender theory, and post-colonialism, I was far too busy shuffling through my Ipod to see what the patriarchal world order of capitalist oppression had to do with Ethan Frome. But when we began to study postmodernism, something struck a chord with me and made me sit up and look anew at the seemingly blasé college-aged literati of which I was so self-consciously one.According to my textbook, the problem with defining postmodernism is that it’s impossible. The difficulty is that it is so...post. It defines itself so negatively against what came before it –naturalism, romanticism and the wild revolution of modernism –that it’s sometimes hard to see what it actually is. It denies that anything can be explained neatly or even at all. It is parodic, detached, strange, and sometimes menacing to traditionalists who do not understand it. Although it arose in the post-war west (the term was coined in 1949), the generation that has witnessed its ascendance has yet to come up with anexplanation of what postmodern attitudes mean for the future of culture or society. The subject intrigued me because, in a class otherwise consumed by dead-letter theories, postmodernism remained an open book, tempting to the young and curious. But it also intrigued me because the question of what postmodernism –what a movement so post-everything, so reticent to define itself – is spoke to a larger question about the political and popular culture of today, of the other jaded sophomores sitting around me who had grown up in a postmodern world.In many ways, as a college-aged generation, we are also extremely post: post-Cold War, post-industrial, post-baby boom, post-9/11...at one point in his famous essay, “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,” literary critic Frederic Jameson even calls us “post-literate.” We are a generation that is riding on the tail-end of a century of war and revolution that toppled civilizations, overturned repressive social orders, and left us with more privilege and opportunity than any other society in history. Ours could be an era to accomplish anything.And yet do we take to the streets and the airwaves and say “here we are, and this is what we demand”? Do we plant our flag of youthful rebellion on the mall in Washington and say “we arenot leaving until we see change! Our eyes have been opened by our education and our conception of what is possible has been expanded by our privilege and we demand a better world because it is our right”? It would seem we do the opposite. We go to war without so much as questioning the rationale, we sign away our civil liberties, we say nothing when the Supreme Court uses Brown v. Board of Education to outlaw desegregation, andwe sit back to watch the carnage on the evening news.On campus, we sign petitions, join organizations, put our names on mailing lists, make small-money contributions, volunteer a sp are hour to tutor, and sport an entire wardrobe’s worth of Live Strong bracelets advertising our moderately priced opposition to everything from breast cancer to global warming. But what do we really stand for? Like a true postmodern generation we refuse to weave together an overarching narrative to our own political consciousness, to present a cast of inspirational or revolutionary characters on our public stage, or to define a specific philosophy. We are a story seemingly without direction or theme, structure or meaning – a generation defined negatively against what came before us. When Al Gore once said “It’s the combination of narcissism and nihilism that really defines postmodernism,” he might as well have been echoing his entire generation’s critique o f our own. We are a generation for whom even revolution seems trite, and therefore as fair a target for bland imitation as anything else. We are the generation of the Che Geuvera tee-shirt.Jameson calls it “Pastiche” –“the wearing of a linguistic mask, s peech in a dead language.” In literature, this means an author speaking in a style that is not his own – borrowing a voice and continuing to use it until the words lose all meaning and the chaos that is real life sets in. It is an imitation of an imitation, something that has been re-envisioned so many times the original model is no longer relevant or recognizable. It is mass-produced individualism, anticipated revolution. It is why postmodernism lacks cohesion, why it seems to lack purpose or direction. For us, the post-everything generation, pastiche is the use and reuse of the old clichés of social change and moraloutrage – a perfunctory rebelliousness that has culminated in the age of rapidly multiplying non-profits and relief funds. We live our lives in masks and speak our minds in a dead language – the language of a society that expects us to agitate because that’s what young people do. But how do we rebel against a generation that is expecting, anticipating, nostalgic for revolution?How do we rebel against parents that sometimes seem to want revolution more than we do? We don’t. We rebel by not rebelling. We wear the defunct masks of protest and moral outrage, but the real energy in campus activism is on the internet, with websites like . It is in the rapidly developing ability to communicate ideas and frustration in chatrooms instead of on the streets, and channel them into nationwide projects striving earnestly for moderate and peaceful change: we are the generation of Students Taking Action Now Darfur; we are the Rockthe Vote generation; the generation of letter-writing campaigns and public interest lobbies; the alternative energy generation.College as America once knew it – as an incubator of radical social change – is coming to an end. To our generation the word “radicalism” evokes images of al Qaeda, not the Weathermen. “Campus takeover” sounds more like Virginia Tech in 2007 than Columbia University in 1968. Such phrases are a dead language to us. They are vocabulary from another era that does not reflect the realities of today. However, the technological revolution, the revolution, the revolution of the organization kid, is just as real and just as profound as the revolution of the 1960’s – it is just not as visible. It is a work in progress, but it is there. Perhaps when our parents finally stop pointing out thethings that we are not, the stories that we do not write, they will see the threads of our narrative begin to come together; they will see that behind our pastiche, the post generation speaks in a language that does make sense. We are writing a revolution. We are just putting it in our own words.汉译英竞赛原文：保护古村落就是保护“根性文化”传统村落是指拥有物质形态和非物质形态文化遗产，具有较高的历史、文化、科学、艺术、社会、经济价值的村落。
江苏省首届科技翻译竞赛原文.
江苏省首届科技翻译竞赛原文1.英译汉原文：The mathematics to which our youngsters are exposed at school is, with rare exceptions, based on the classical yes-or-no, right-or-wrong type of logic. It doesn’t include one word about probability as a mode of reasoning or as a basis for comparing several alternative conclusions. Geometry, for instance, is strictly devoted to the “if-then”type of reasoning and so to the notion (idea) that any statement is either correct or incorrect.However, it has been remarked that life is an almost continuous experience of having to draw conclusions from insufficient evidence, and this is what we have to do when we make the trivial decision as to whether or not to carry an umbrella when we leave home for work. This is what a great industry has to do when it decides whether or not to put $50,000,000 into a new plant abroad. In none of these cases−and indeed, in practically no other case that you can suggest−can one proceed by saying, ‘I know that A, B, C, etc. are completely and reliably true, and therefore the inevitable conclusion is …’For there is another mode of reasoning, which does not say: ‘This statement is correct, and its opposite is completely false,’ but which says: ‘There are various alternative possibilities. No one of these is certainly correct and true, and no one certainly incorrect and false. There are varying degrees of plausibility−of probability−for all these alternatives. I can help you understand how these plausibilities compare; I can also tell you how reliable my advice is.’This is the kind of logic which is developed in the theory of probability. This theory deals with not two truth values−correct or false−but with all the intermediate truth values: almost certainly true, very probably true, possibly true, unlikely, very unlikely, etc. Being a precise quantitive theory, it does not use phrases such as those just given, but calculates for any question under study the numerical probability that it is true. If the probability has the value of 1, the answer is an unqualified ‘yes’or certainty. If it is zero (0), the answer is an unqualified ‘no’, i.e. it is false or impossible. If the probability is a half (0.5), then the chances are even that the question has an affirmative answer. If the probability is a tenth (0.1), then chances are only 1 in 10 that the answer is ‘yes’.2.汉译英原文：教育部决定组织实施高校领导赴海外培训，今年共100名左右高校领导将到日本、美国、英国、澳大利亚等地培训。
中西部翻译大赛第二届英语专业组初赛笔译题及答案
第二届英语专业组初赛笔译题姓名：学校：电话：分数：I. Choose the best translation for each of the following Chinese phrases.（每题2分，共20分）1.一举两得(A) Shoot two crows with one arrow(B) Kill two birds with one stone(C) Hit two targets with one ball2. 好高鹜远(A) Glace at the star and fall into the gutter(B) Aim at a star that stays high(C) Hitch one’s wagon to a star3.鹤立鸡群(A) A big one above others(B) A Triton among the minnows(C) A crane among a group of chickens4.囫囵吞枣(A) To bone up(B) To learn by rite(C) To neglect the full gusto of5.行行出状元(A) There are many best ways to success.(B) Everyone can reach the top of the ladder.(C) It is good to be a master in every business.6.归心似箭(A) long for home(B) desire to go home soon(C) fly home like an arrow7.沽名钓誉(A) Angle for fame(B) Purchase a reputation(C) Pursue the highlight8.身体力行(A) Experience through hard work(B) Finish with all one’s effort(C) Practice what one preaches9. 格格不入(A) Not use the same tongue(B) One grain against the other(C) A square peg in a round hole10. 班门弄斧(A) Teach cats to climb(B) Teach fish to swim(C) Teach one’s mother to cookII. This part consists of ten Chinese sentences, each followed by three different versions marked A,B and C. Choose the one which gets closest to the original. （每题2.5分，共25分）11.一切都是没有结局的开始，一切都是稍纵即逝的追寻。
苏北高校大学生翻译比赛
美国父母究竟有多糟糕？在不久之前，虎妈的的担忧引起许多美国的父母关注。
我们是否以增强自尊心为借口而过度夸奖了自己的孩子？倘若我们不强迫他们无休止的练习小提琴或者撕掉不完美的生日贺卡，我们是不是就让他们失去了去常春藤的美好未来？我们是否正如艾米乔在她最畅销的传记，“Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,”（《虎妈的战歌》）中所说的那样陪养出了“娇生惯养”和“以自我为中心”的孩子。
(意思是一个人觉得自己很特别很了不起，觉得有权利干任何想做的事情，获取任何想得到的东西)现在，却是法国人给出了解答。
和乔的书一样，记者帕拉米德鲁克曼近期发表的文章“Bringing Up Bebe”（《育儿经》）也入选了最畅销书名单。
这篇文章赞美了法国父母所谓的“智慧”，说法国父母爱他们的孩子却不像美国父母那样对待孩子。
另一本新出版的关于比较养育孩子方式的书，“How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm,”（《爱斯基摩人如何给他们的婴儿保温》），称赞了阿根廷人的美德，说他们在特殊场合才让孩子熬夜，还称赞了日本人，说他们让孩子有分歧时一定要战斗到底来争辩出个胜负。
这些对外国培养孩子方式的疯狂痴迷引发了一个问题：美国父母就真的那么糟糕吗？答案很简单：不是。
我们当然爱我们的孩子，希望把最好的给他们。
我们的问题是，在我们这个以成就论英雄的国家，我们不确定究竟什么才是最好的。
也许美国父母应该更好的关注美国化的理念：追求幸福，而不是去追求最新的国外风潮或者沉迷于每项国际测试排名之中。
这样的美国观念很普遍很典型：父母们仿佛是一架架盘旋在上空的直升机，急着防止那些刚会走路的孩子在操场上摔倒，担心他们的孩子不能根据皮亚杰的发展理论快速成长；敏锐的观察孩子是不是有天赋；熬夜帮二年级的孩子完善“提康德罗加”的冰棒棍立体画；送中学生去学足球，小提琴，芭蕾，击剑；要求查看高中生的网上评分册；呼吁并且努力劝说大学生做教授；现在，根据NPR （美国国家公共电台）上的一份最新报告显示，父母们还帮已经成年的孩子提交简历，陪他们参加面试，甚至还被要求陪他们一起工作一天。
附翻译大赛原文
附：【翻译大赛原文】At Turtle BayBy E. B. WhiteMosquitoes have arrived with the warm nights, and our bedchamber is their theater under the stars. I have been up and down all night, swinging at them with a face towel dampened at one end to give it authority. This morning I suffer from the lightheadedness that comes from no sleep—a sort of drunkenness, very good for writing because all sense of responsibility for what the words say is gone. Yesterday evening my wife showed up with a few yards of netting, and together we knelt and covered the fireplace with an illusion veil. It looks like a bride. (One of our many theories is that mosquitoes come down chimneys.) I bought a couple of adjustable screens at the hardware store on Third Avenue and they are in place in the windows; but the window sashes in this building are so old and irregular that any mosquito except one suffering from elephantiasis has no difficulty walking into the room through the space between sash and screen. (And then there is the even larger opening between upper sash and lower sash when the lower sash is raised to receive the screen—a space that hardly ever occurs to an apartment dweller but must occur to all mosquitoes.) I also bought a very old air-conditioning machine for twenty-five dollars, a great bargain, and I like this machine. It has almost no effect on the atmosphere of the room, merely chipping the edge off the heat, and it makes a loud grinding noise reminiscent of the subway, so that I can snap off the lights, close my eyes, holding the damp towel at the ready, and imagine, with the first stab, that I am riding in the underground and being pricked by pins wielded by angry girls.Another theory of mine about the Turtle Bay mosquito is that he is swept into one’s bedroom through the air conditioner, riding the cool indraft as an eagle rides a warm updraft. It is a feeble theory, but a man has to entertain theories if he is to while away the hours of sleeplessness. I wanted to buy some old-fashioned bug spray, and went to the store for that purpose, but when I asked the clerk for a Flit gun and some Flit, he gave me a queer look, as though wondering where I had been keeping myself all these years. “We got something a lot stronger than that,” he said, producing a can of stuff that contain ed chlordane and several other unmentionable chemicals. I told him I couldn’t use it because I was hypersensitive to chlordane. “Gets me right in the liver,” I said, throwing a wild glance at him.The mornings are the pleasantest times in the apartment, exhaustion having set in, the sated mosquitoes at rest on ceiling and walls, sleeping it off, the room a swirl of tortured bedclothes and abandoned garments, the vines in their full leafiness filteringthe hard light of day, the air conditioner silent at last, like the mosquitoes. From Third Avenue comes the sound of the mad builders—American cicadas, out in the noonday sun. In the garden the sparrow chants—a desultory second courtship, a subdued passion, in keeping with the great heat, love in summertime, relaxed and languorous. I shall miss this apartment when it is gone; we are quitting it come fall, to turn ourselves out to pasture. Every so often I make an attempt to simplify my life, burning my books behind me, selling the occasional chair, discarding the accumulated miscellany. I have noticed, though, that these purifications of mine—to which my wife submits with cautious grace—have usually led to even greater complexity in the long pull, and I have no doubt this one will, too, for I don’t trust myself in a situation of this sort and suspect that my first act as an old horse will be to set to work improving the pasture. I may even join a pasture-improvement society. The last time I tried to purify myself by fire, I managed to acquire a zoo in the process and am still supporting it and carrying heavy pails of water to the animals, a task that is sometimes beyond my strength.■（选自An E. B. White Reader, pp. 198-200, New York Harper & Row, 1966）。
2014全国大学生英语竞赛真题试卷(C类)_word版(含完整图片)
2014 National English Contest forCollege Students(Level C – Preliminary)(总分：150分时间：120分钟)Part I listening Comprehension (30 marks)Section A (5 marks)In this section, you will hear five short conversations. Each conversation will be read only once .After each conversation, there will be a twenty-second pause. During the pause, read the question and the three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is the best answer .Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.1.why does Carl meet the woman?A.he is going to interview her on media matters.B.They are going to start a new company together.C.He will help her cope with an interview.D.He wants to recommend a new product to her.2.what is the man worrying about most?A.he can‟t afford what the woman may recommend to him.B.The designer may charge him more than he should pay.C.There is no appropriate design for him in the Armani shopD.The woman may spend too much on new clothes.3.what is the woman suggesting by accepting that they can‟t cut the mustard?A.she does‟t have a knife so they can‟t have mustard.B.She does‟t know how to cook mustard without a recipe.C.They have to face the imperfect reality at the moment,D.The man needs to calm down or he may get hurt by a knife.4.Why did the man take up golf ?A. He enjoyed the sport when he was a child.B. He thought golf was useful in his career.C. It could help improve his health.D. It was part of his New York project.5.When did the man quit smoking this time?A.Less than two weeks ago.B.About two months ago.C.Some four years ago.D.More than ten years ago.Section B (10 marks)In this section, you will hear two long conversations. Each conversation will be read only once. At the end of each conversation, there will be a one-minute pause. During the pause, read thequestions and the three choices marked A, Band C, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.Conversation one6.Why did Jane phone Matt?A.she asked for a project record in Matt‟s company.B,she invited him to participate in a project release in her Company,C.she had some questions about an investment project.D.she wanted to place a new project advertisement through him .7. how did tane get to know Matt‟s project?A. She got a copy of the investment proposal.B.she got the information from another company.C. She was informed by one of his colleagues.D. Matt recommended the project to her before.8.when did Matt‟s company find problems of the previous deal?A.before they signed the contract.B.shortly after they started the deal.C.when they completed the project.D.soon after they paid the deposit.9.Why did the deal fall through?A.Matt‟s company changed its investment policy.B.Matt‟s company was slow in delivering the money.C.the client company broke its promise.D.the client company had financial problems.10.what is tane going to do before she makes a decision on the project?A.discuss with her partners.B.submit the proposal to emma.C.call some other investment companies.D.visit Matt‟s company in person.Conversation two11.what is Hilary Kingsley.A.A newspaper reporter.B.a TV columnist.C. A soap opera direct .D.a radio commentator.12.How did Hilary define a soap opera?A. It is a continuing story about things that happen among family members and colleagues.B. It is a fiction story that describes the life of people living on a special.C. It is a never-ending story telling about women selling soap powders.D. It is a TV series that concentrates on men coping with difficulties.13.When did soap operas get stated according to the passage?A. Since the 1920s and 1930s.B. Since the 1930s and 1940s.C.since the 1950s and 1960s.D.since 1960s and 1970s.14.why was the programme given the name “soap opera”?A.Because the first soap opera was about a women selling soap businesses.B.Because it was broadcast mainly to promote the sale of soap powders.C.Because it was broadcast mainly to promote the sale of soap factory.D.Because the first soap opera was soap operas differ from other dramas?15.In what way does Hilary think soap operas differ from other dramas?A.They always show how people deal with everyday problems.B.They have changed quite a lot since they got started.C.They have more female characters than male ones.D.They mainly focus on men‟s never-ending pursuits in career.Section C (5 marks)In this section, you will hear five short news items. After each item, which will be read only once, there will be a pause. During the pause, read the question and the three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.16.what is the main finding about carbon dioxide in roger‟s report?A.carbon dioxide is firstly found in human history.B.Carbon dioxide is an important factor in global warming.C.Carbon dioxide is found reaching a quite high level.D.Measurement of carbon dioxide is symbolic in human history.17.How did the woman survive from the disaster?A.She was in a hospital when the collapse happened.B.She found water and food before she was saved.C.She got help from a colleague who died the later on .D.She was fortunately stronger than the others.18.Why did the government drop leaflets over the town?A.To express the concern over a build-up of troops.B.To warn the rebels the preparing attack on Qusair.C.To make the people aware of the danger and leave.D.To advertise for the government to collect more money.19.How many megawatts will the solar capacity reach in morocco by 2020?A. B. C. D.20.What did the survey by the American institute of CPAs mainly find?A.Student loans are rising because of the huge amounts of borrowers.B.Student loan debtors tend to borrow more money to live happily.C.60 percent of student loan are regretful about the survey.D.Student loans may have a negative influence on the borrowers‟life.Section D (10 marks)In this section, you will hear a short passage. There are 10 missing words or phrases. Fill in the blanks with the exact words or phrases you hear. The passage will be read twice. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.Doctors often patients to take a certain kind of medicine in order to 21._________an illness. For example ,a patient may need medicine because his or her shoulder hurts. The doctor may tell the patient that there is a brand name medicine which will help him or her. This brand name medicine is made by a famous company. However,there may be also a generic type of the name medicine.Generic medicine are 22.________by some people because they are usually less expensive ,yet they have the name ingredients as brand new medicines. If the generic medicine has the same ingredients, this means that the medicine should have 23._______on the person as the brand name medicines.If the ingredients in the generic and brand name medicines are a little different ,then the generic type cannot 24. _______the same as the brand name medicine.Generic medicine are almost aways cheaper than brand name medicines. Why is this? Making any kind of medicine takes a lot of money and a lot of time.This is because a company has to pay doctors and scientists to study and illness.Then,it takes more money and more time for the company to test the medicine to 25.________it is safe and that it works.Once a company is ready to sell its product to people,the company usually sets the price of the medicine very high. The company 26._______a lot of money in order to get back all of the money that it spent making the medicine .Generic medicine makers,on the other hand,copy some kind of medicine that has already been developed and tested .For this reason,they do not have to spend as much money to develop the medicine.Generic medicines are usually not sold27.______Companies that make generic medicines must wait a certain28. ______before they can make the same medicine.But once the generic medicine is on the market,doctors are usually quick to offer it to their patients.This is because the price of medicine is very expensive.Taking a generic medicine can save a patient,or his or her 29._____,a lot of money.Generic medicines are just as good as brand name medicine.Therefore,doctors 30._____having their patients take these medicines.Part II Vocabulary and Structure (15 marks)There are 15 incomplete sentences in this section. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letteron the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.Section A Vocabulary and Grammar(10marks)31.They finally____a conclusion that the company‟s failure has been attributed to_____bad management.A.get;fullB.draw;sheerC.reach;wholeD.make;total32.----Most young people want to_____more about environment problems.--------Yes.but everyone knows about pollution problem,not many people have_____any solutions.A.look up;looked intoB.find out;come up withC.deal with;got round toD.make out;thought over33.I knew ______at the party ,but Monica knew_____people,nearly everybody in fact.A.hardly anybody;plenty ofB.rarely somebody;fewC.barely everybody;a fewD.scarcely nobody;many34.She hastened to______me that the report contained no critical comments on my department performance.A.ensureB.insureC.assureD.make sure35.______for his broken leg in the earlier part of the season,he_____in the England team to play Poland last may.A.Except ; would have playedB.But; might have beenC.Only; could not playD.If it‟s not ;was able to be36._______before we depart next Thursday, we should have a wonderful together,A.had they arrivedB.Would they arriveC.Were they arrivingD.Were they to arrive37.please remember that Jeanie hasn‟t been well recently,so please_____for her if she seems a bit slow,A.Make allowances forB.Make an observation aboutC.Provide the opportunity forD.Have your own way.38.Great as Einstein was ,many of his ideas ____today and are being modified by the seems a bit slow .A.Are to be challengedB.May be challengedC.Have been challengedD.Are challenged39.-----oh. I can speak only a few words of french ,i‟m no good at languages! --------Come on !______we know you can speak five languages!A.are you pulling my leg?B. Keep your chip up!C.Stop fishing for compliment!D.A leopard can‟t change its sports!40.------- Frances, do you think you could fix up a staff meeting for me ?-------yes,I‟ll do that. _____--------well.let‟s arranged it for Friday morning and see whether everyone else is free then.A.what‟re you going to talk aboutB. Do you think they all will come?C.At what time do you stop working?D.When were you thinking of?Section B Cultures(5 marks)41. In his famous speech, the Gettysburg Address,_____extolled virtues for the listeners(and the nation) to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that "government of the people, by the people. for the people, shall not perish from the earth."A. B. C. D.42. The Wars of the _____ were a series of dynastic wars fought between supporters of tworival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England. They were fought in several sporadic episodes between 1455 and 1485, although there was related fighting both before and after this period.A. LiliesB. RosesC. TulipsD. Mayflower43.Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories.He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608，including Hamlet ,king lear,_____,and Macbeth ,considered some of the finest works in the English language .A.merchant of VeniceB.A midsummer night's dreamC.OthelloD.The taming of the shrew44._____is awarded the 2013 Nobel prize in literature for her work as "master of the modern short story ".and the 2009 man Booker international prize for her lifetime body of work .A.Alice MunroB.Helen KellerC.J.K.RowlingD.Anne Frank45._____is a collegiate research university located in England ,united kingdom .although its exactdate of foundation is unclear ,there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096，making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world ,and the second -oldest surviving university in the world ,after the university of Bologna .A.the university of CambridgeB.the university of OxfordC.the university of walesD.the university of EdinburghPart III Cloze (10 marks)Read the following passage and fill in each blank with one word. Choose the correct word in one of the following three ways: according to the context, by using the correct form of the given word, or by using the given letters of the word. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.Birds are warm blooded animals.though their feathers help to keep them warm ,some birds such as ducks,46.( )(goose),and swans still can't endure harsh winter temperatures .for these reasons ,birdseed from cold climates fly to warmer climates 47.()the winter .this seasonal movement of birdseed is called migration .birds migrate to warmer places ,often hundreds of milestone away ,where they can have the best chance of 48.sur( ).Birds migrate naturally .certain clues form the environment cause hormone changes in the bird's body .as the days get 49.( )(short),for example ,these hormones tell the bird's body to store fat .this is because migrating Takes an 50.en( )energy .birds don't have a lot of time to eat while migrating ,so they rely on stores of fat .when bird migrate ,they fly as a group .to minimize the energy needed to fly long distances ,a group of birds51.( )(fly )together in a V-shape .the bird at the front of the "V"uses the most energy because the wind often blows 52.( )him.every so often ,the birds change positions site that each bird has a turn at the front ,and everyone gets a rest .53.Nav( )is also an important part of the journey .birds find where they are going birds using visual clues ,such as Rivers coastlines,and mountain ranges.In addition ,they use the sun and the star for guidance .54.( )(amaze),they also use the earth's invisible magnetic force for direction.this gives them a natural sense of north and south ,like a kind of internal compass . Many studies indicate that migratory birds fly along the same course every year .researchers decide to test this using "bird banding ".they first capture a migratory bird and attach a tag to its foot .this tag has an ID number on it ,55.( )is stored in a database .they then set the bird free and track its movement .bird banding has shown that many birds follow the same route year after year .Part IV Reading Comprehension (40 marks)Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by several questions. Respond to the questions using information from the passage. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.Section A (5 marks)Questions 56—60 are based on the following passage.WHERE TO GO WHAT TO GOFridayClint blackOne of the hot new artists on the country music scene ,clint black ,will perform with one of country music's legends merle haggard and up-and-comer Lorrie Morgan at red Rocks amphitheater .for ticket information ,call Ticketmaster at 290-8497.Time:7：30 p.m. tickets:$19.542nd street…42nd street' will be presented through Sunday at the Denver auditorium theatre .the comedy includes songs by Irving Berlin ,Jerome Kern ,ColePorter .call 893-4100 for tickets or for more information .Time :8 p.m.tonight and Saturday ;7 p.m.Sunday .tickets :$25-$38Bluegrass artistsHome on the Grande concert series presents top bluegrass artists including the bluegrass patriots and Peter and Joan Wernick performing at Grange hall in Niwot .for more information call 444-4537Time:8：30tonight and Saturday . tickets :$6SaturdayRiff performanceRiff will perform with ll cool j at Arnold hall theater at the u.s air force academy .call 1-719-472 for ticket information .Time:8p.m. ticket :$18，$15，$10Train ridesThe Georgetown loop historic mining and railroad park is open on weekends through may .passengers may board in either Georgetown or silver plume .the train will running daily beginning memorial day and continuing through labor day call 670-1686.Time :9：20a.m.-3:55p.m. tickets:$5-$12.5SundayMorning concertThe Azusa Pacific University Choir and Orchestra will perform at the Denver first church of the Nazarene ,3800 E.Hampden ave.the 150-member choir will perform a variety of classical and popular songs .A free continental breakfast will be offered before the concert .call 761-8370.When :8：45a.m.breakfast ,9：45a.m.concert . Tickets:free-will offering .Help for kidsColorado Kpids Care And Funplex are teaming up to help homeless children by accepting donations of baby items including clothing ,formula and diapers at Funplex ,located at south Kipling street and west coal mine avenue in Littleton .each person who brings a donation will receive a free activity pass to Funplex .for more information ,call 934-0277.Time:11a.m.-6p.m.origamiThe Boulder public library's Sunday specials program is presenting an origami workshop in the convent garden at the library ,1000canyon Blvd .participants will learn to make birds ,boats and other objects using the age-old paper folding techniques .call 441-3100.Time:3p.m tickets :freeAuto exhibitT he either annual concours d‟Elegance auto exhibit will be held in the north parking lot at university Hillsborough mall ,2700s.Colorado Blvd .Rare Porsches ,Maseratis ,jaguars and racing Carson will be featured .all proceeds benefit Denver 's united cerebral palsy association .call 355-7337 for more information .Time:9 a.m.-4p.m. Tickets :$5Questions 56—60Decide the following statements are TRUE or FALSE according to the passage .56.Only those WHO bring donations to homeless children can attend the activity at Funplex .57.if you are interested in gardening ,you won't want to mission the "bluegrass artists "Friday night in Niwot .58.if you are interested in buying a used car ,you won 't find any useful information in this page of weekend .59.in the Sunday morning concert at the Denver first church of the Nazarene ,free breakfast and performance will be provided .60.participants can watch and learn paper folding technique rather than do handset -on activities in the origami workshop .Section B (10 marks)Questions 61-65 are based on the following passage.One of the hardest things for any sportsperson to do is to know when to retire .do you retire when you are at your physical peak or do you wait until16your body (or your coach )tells you that it's time to go ?but even harder is finding the answer to the question "what am i going to do with the rest of my life ?"61( )"there 's a high risk of depression and people often find adjusting to a new way of life difficult ",says Ian Cockerill ,a sports psychologist ."for sport people ,There's an extra trauma -the loss of the glamour .that 's the hardest part ."as Eddie Araro ,the us jockey says ,"when a jockey retires ,he becomes just another little man ."62( )perhaps they just can 't stand life without the "high "of playing professional sport .Michael Jordan ,the greatest basketball player of all time ,retired three timeshare .he retired once from the Chicago bulls,made a successful comeback with the bulls,then retired again .his second comeback with an inferior team ended in failure and he retired for ever at the age of 38.Jordan said ,"there will never be anything in do that will fulfill me as much as competing did ."63( )Muhammad Alice needed the money ,but his comeback fight ,at the age of 39，against Trevor Berbick ,was one of the saddest spectacles in modern sport .after losing to Berbick ,Alice retired permanently .three years later he developed Parkinson 's disease .64( )as Jimmy greaves ,an ex-England international footballer said ,"I think that a lot of players would prefer to be shot once their career is over ."many of them spend their retirement in a continual battle against depression,alcohol ,or drugs.65( )Franz Beckenbauer is a classic example of a footballer WHO won everything with his club ,Bayern Munich .after retiring he became a successful coach with Bayern and finally president of the club .John McEnroe ,the infamous "bad boy "of tennis ,is now a highly respected and highly paid TV commentator .another good example is world famous Chinese table tennis player -Deng Yaping.after retiring at the end of the 1997season ,Deng served on the international Olympic committee's ethics and athletes commissions.she is also a member of the elite Laureus World Sportswear academy ,and a member of the Chinese people 's political consultative conference .Deng Yaping becomes deputy secretary of China communist youth league Beijing committee later .but sadly ,for most sportspeople these cases are the exceptions .\A.for some people the pain of saying goodbye never leaves them .B.others can 't resist the chance of one last "pay day ".C.however ,some famous sports persons are much easier to develop some typical psychological disease .D.but for the lucky few ,retirement can mean a successful new career .E.when you hear the final whistle you have to leave as soon as possible .F.retirement for people in general is traumatic .G.some sportspeople go on playing too long .Section C (10 marks)Questions 66—70 are based on the following passage.There are two reasons why I wanted to come to southern Germany to study .I wanted to be at the centre of Europe ,within easier reach of other countries ,and cities such as Paris and Prague .the other reason was that is was finding it very difficult to find a place to study medicinein Norway ,where there are ONL Y three medical schools .I spent my last two years at a boarding school ,where I made lots of friends and learned to look after myself and integrate with other people .I was 19 when I left ,and those two years had changed me ;I knew I could cope with student life in another country .First I had to learn German .I went Munich in September ,a month before the term started ,and spent three weeks on a language with them .nobody spoke Norwegian ,of course ,so it was a great he;[ to find that there were other students from Norway at the university .I made friend with some of them and we were able to help one another during the Firestone few weeks in a new city .after sic months in moved into my own apartment ;there is a wonderful mix of cultures and is have made many friend form different places .for three years I had a Norwegian boy friend WHO was also studying to be a doctor ,but that ended when he left .I would recommend studying abroad to anyone .you get a chance to learn another language and to understand the culture and traditions of another country .Munich is a fantastic city for students ,especially as beer is the favourite drink of student everywhere .I didn't like beer before ,but if you live in Munich ,there really is no alternative ,and now i have acquired the taste .In winter i prefer to visit cafes and talk with friends,but in summer my favourite place is the Englisher Garten ,with its lake and park and lots of barstool .the city's beer halls are generally full of students and tourists .At weekends I often go skiing in the Australian Alps with friends. we pile into a couple of Carson and rent an apartment .this all costs money ,and ,like most students ,I am living on a loan from the government ,by the time i take my final exams i shall have serious problems .I hope to get a job in a hospital near Oslo .I worked there last summer ,while earning the money to go to Nepal ,Thailand and Vietnam fore three months .we are a medical family .My mother and elder sisters are nurses ,but my father is the odd one out :he runs a hairdressing salon .Questions 66—70Answers the following question according to the passage.66.why did Marianne go to Germany to study besides her desire to be in the centre of Europe ?67.how long did Marianne live in a Germany family after she reached Munich ?68.what does Marianne want to be after her graduation ?69.what makeshift Marianne be accustomed to drinking beer ?70.how did Marianne get the money for her three months‟ travelling to other countries ? Section D (10 marks)Questions 71—75 are based on the following passage.Would you believe that your diet can make a big difference in keeping a youthful appearance ?It seems strange to think that the food we take in could result in fewer wrinkles .wouldn't it be betterto put things on our skin rather than in our mouths ?well ,according to one scientific theory ,our bodies start aging because of oxidation .this means the certain oxygen -containing molecules in our cells ,called free radicals ,have the capability to attach to and damage parts of our cells ,including our DNA .our bodies can repair this damage ,but as we get older ,these repair mechanisms start to break down ,resulting in the signs of aging .free radicals are actually reduced by our bodies ,but their numbers can also increase because of the food we eat .Besides avoiding foodstuff which could potentially produce more free radicals ,eating foodstuff which contain certain vitamins and micro -nutritious can also contribute to keep useful looking young .these vitamins help produce molecules called antioxidants ,which actually help reduce the production of free radicals .even better ,foodstuff containing antioxidant are not rare .common antioxidants,like vitamins A and E,can be found in many dark-coloured vegetables .for example ,carrots ,seaweed,spinach ,and broccoli are excellent sources of these helpful vitamins .also ,you can eat orange-coloured fruits like apricots and peaches .vitamins A and E are particularly good for helping your skin remain young -looking .these nutrients strengthen your skin and make it soft .however ,if you really want to stock up quickly on nutrients that benefit your skin ,you should eat cow's liver .one small piece of cooked cow 'sliver contains twice a much vitamin A as half a cup of cooked carrots .More recently ,green tea has also been tentatively added to the list of youth -promoting substances .although research about green tea 's effects on our bodies is at an Early stage ,scientists certainly believe that it is good for useful .scientists ,however ,are still cautious about predicting its capability to keep useful looking youthful .but from recent experiments ,itsantioxidant properties seem to be able to repair cell damage already sustained as well as prevent damage in the future .In fact ,green tea workshop even better if you apply it directly to your skin as an ingredient in facial cream ."You are what you eat /"this old proverb certainly seems to be TRUE there more we find out about how our body works .think about that the next time you sit down at the table .Question 71-75Complete the summary with words from the passage, changing the form where necessary, with only one word for each blank.people use cosmetic surgery ,facial 71_____and cosmetics to look younger .maybe the best way to fight wrinkles is really just to eat foodstuff with the right vitamins and nutrients in them .some foodstuff we eat have the capability of 72_____our cells in that these foods can increase harmful molecules in our bodies called free radicals .but if we take in foods with vitamins A and E,for example ,we can 73_____the production of free radicals in our bodies .other foods that seem to have healthy 74_____of antioxidant include cow's liver and green tea .moreover ,green tea is proved to be more helpful in repairing sustained damage and even preventing future damage if it is75_____properly and directly .Part V Translation (10 marks)Translate the following sentences into English, using the hints given in brackets. Remember to write the answer on the answer sheet.76.distance learning is a formal educational process that breaks the traditional mode of classroom teaching .there are two key differences between traditional education and distance learning .distance learning adds flexibility and availability ,regardless of time ,place ,regardless pace of learning .here an instructor teaches ,and somewhere else a student learns ,regardless of barriers of time or place .distance learning reaches out to non -traditional students WHO must fit their studies around workplace ,family responsibilities ,and geographical barriers ,etc .Section B (10 marks)Translate the following sentences into English by using the hints gives in brackets. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.77.体育运动可以防止发胖，增强体质，使我们保持身体健康。
第十四届翻译大赛试题及答案
省第十四届外语翻译大赛英语大学组笔译试卷（决赛）1.选词用字：（每小题2分，30分）A.英译汉：从A、B、C三个选项中选出最恰当的词语或词组填空。
1 ・原文：I told my wife a white lie saying that she looked fabulous in her new clothes. 译文：我对太太撒了个____________ ,称赞她穿上新衣好看极了。
A.口色的谎言B.不会造成伤害的谎言C.善意的小谎2.原文：Dr. Lee is a ven r famous scientist but literature is all Greek to him.译文：博士是位著名的科学家，_____________________ OA •但文学对他来说就像希腊语一样B.但对文学却一窍不通C.但对文学却没有一点兴趣3.原文：Alex is the black sheep of the family.译文：亚力克斯是______________ oA.不肖之子B・家里的黑羊C.家里的害群之马4.原文：Jack has had five Jobs within three years! A rolling stone gathers no moss.译文：杰克在三年换了五份工作！• _______________________ cA.这样浮游不定，难成大器B.真是水往高处流啊C.这样便不会对同一工作产生厌倦或惰性了5.原文：English is going to the dogs.译文：________________________ oA・越来越多的英国人开始养狗B.英语变得更加生机勃勃C.英语开始衰败倒退了B.汉译英：从下列词组中选择一个恰当的词组完成翻译句子填空（注意：选项多于句子；只需在答题卡上填写正确词组的编号）。
a・ A Chinese puzzle; b・ Achilles's heel; c. add salt to the wound; d・ bite off more than one can chew; e. born in the purple; f. build castles in Spain: g. catch somebody red-handed: h・ cry wolf; i. face the music; j. go west; k・ hot potato; 1. make bricks without straw; in・ inilk the bull; n. take the bull by the horns; o. the apple of one's eye1.原文：他生于贵族之家，所以自幼所受的教育，有异于常人。
翻译是一场盛大的爱恋
翻译是一场盛大的爱恋——我的英语学习之路编者按2014年广西翻译大赛结束，我校又有多名学生获奖。
我们邀请了获得非英语专业组全区特等奖的苏楠同学写了一篇英语学习心得体会。
苏楠同学是2012级七年制临床医学3班的学生，刚刚结束了2013级辅修英语专业的课程学习。
在第一届辅修英语专业学生中，苏楠同学不仅翻译课程的学习成绩名列前茅，在口语、语音、文学等课程的学习中也是公认的“学霸”。
希望苏楠同学的心得体会能给全校同学提供一些经验，促进大家的英语学习。
广西医科大学外国语学院从小学到高中，我一直都不是班上或年级里英语最好的同学，一直都坐在台下听别人侃侃而谈。
我不敢说我有什么独门秘籍值得拿出来分享，只能写写自己在大学学习英语时的感受与方法，与大家交流。
感受篇我的感受主要有两点。
第一点，同时也是最重要的一点：需求是第一生产力。
需求有多大，英语才会学多好。
学英语的需求可以有很多种。
有一种需求叫做“我要过四、六级/专四、专八/GRE/雅思托福/…”，或者“我要写毕业论文/翻译论文摘要/发SCI”，而另一种需求叫“这部剧/这篇小说/这则新闻没有汉译但是好想看”或“这款游戏没汉化但是好想玩”，再或者“我只是希望能和他/她聊聊天”。
很显然前一种需求是单纯的、被动的，后一种则更灵活、更主动。
那么与其等待被动的需求逼迫自己去啃英语，不如把英语和自己的兴趣点结合起来。
且不论追逐兴趣比死刷真题开心多少倍，单从结果来看，“实际用上英语”和“通过英语考试”区别还是很大的。
虽说通过考试才是硬道理，但我们的问题是如何学英语，不是如何过六级。
如果可以把英语用得得心应手，还担心什么考试？至于如何找到自己的主动需求，如何结合英语和自己的兴趣，这要因人而异。
以我为例，我是从初中喜欢上一支球队开始的。
想看到它的第一手消息，于是拼命刷球队官网和各大国外体育新闻站；想让球员感受到自己的支持；学着写fan mail、学着寄国际信件（然后激动无比地收到了回复）；想和更多人分享对球队的爱，于是试着翻译新闻采访。
届翻译大赛英译汉范文及中文译文
英译汉原文：Are We There Yet?America’s recovery will be much slower than that from most recessions; but the government can help a bit.“WHITHER goest thou, America?” That question, posed by Jack Kerouac on behalf of the Beat generation half a century ago, is the biggest uncertainty hanging over the world economy. And it reflects the foremost worry for American voters, who go to the polls for the congressional mid-term elections on November 2nd with the country’s unemployment rate stubbornly stuck at nearly one in ten. They should prepare themselves for a long, hard ride. The most wrenching recession since the 1930s ended a year ago. But the recovery—none too powerful to begin with—slowed sharply earlier this year. GDP grew by a feeble 1.6% at an annual pace in the second quarter, and seems to have been stuck somewhere similar since. The housing market slumped after temporary tax incentives to buy a home expired. So few private jobs were being created that unemployment looked more likely to rise than fall. Fears grew over the summer that if this deceleration continued, America’s economy would slip back into recession. Fortunately, those worries now seem exaggerated. Part of the weakness of second-quarter GDP was probably because of a temporary surge in imports from China. The latest statistics, from reasonably good retail sales in August to falling claims for unemployment benefits, point to an economy that, though still weak, is not slumping further. And history suggests that although nascent recoveries often wobble for a quarter or two, they rarely relapse into recession. For now, it is most likely that America’s economy will crawl along with growth at perhaps 2.5%: above stall speed, but far too slow to make much difference to the jobless rate. Why, given that Am erica usually rebounds from recession, are the prospects so bleak? That’s because most past recessions have been caused by tight monetary policy. When policy is loosened, demand rebounds. This recession was the result of a financial crisis. Recoveries after financial crises are normally weak and slow as banking systems are repaired and balance-sheets rebuilt. Typically, this period of debt reduction lasts around seven years, which means America would emerge from it in 2014. By some measures, households are reducing their debt burdens unusually fast, but even optimistic seers do not think the process is much more than half over.Battling on the busAmerica’s biggest problem is that its politicians have yet to acknowledge that the economy is in for such a long, slow haul, let alone prepare for the consequences. A few brave officials are beginning to sound warnings that the jobless rate is likely to “stay high”. But the political debate is more about assigning blame for the recession than about suggesting imaginative ways to give more oomph to the recovery. Republicans argue that Barack Obama’s shift towards “big government” explains the economy’s weakness, and that high unemployment is proof that fiscal stimulus was a bad idea. In fact, most of the growth in government to date has been temporary and unavoidable; the longer-run growth in government is more modest, and reflects the policies of both Mr Obama and his predecessor. And the notion that high joblessness “proves” that stimulus failed is simply wrong. Th e mechanicsof a financial bust suggest that without a fiscal boost the recession would have been much worse. Democrats have their own class-warfare version of the blame game, in which Wall Street’s excesses caused the problem and higher taxes on high-earners are part of the solution. That is why Mr. Obama’s legislative priority before the mid-terms is to ensure that the Bush tax cuts expire at the end of this year for households earning more than $250,000 but are extended for everyone else. This takes an unnecessary risk with the short-term recovery. America’s experience in 1937 and Japan’s in 1997 are powerful evidence that ill-timed tax rises can tip weak economies back into recession. Higher taxes at the top, along with the waning of fiscal stimulus and belt-tightening by the states, will make a weak growth rate weaker still. Less noticed is that Mr. Obama’s fiscal plan will also worsen the medium-term budget mess, by making tax cuts for the middle class permanent.Ways to overhaul the engineIn an ideal world America would commit itself now to the medium-term tax reforms and spending cuts needed to get a grip on the budget, while leaving room to keep fiscal policy loose for the moment. But in febrile, partisan Washington that is a pipe-dream. Today’s goals can only be more modest: to nurture the weak economy, minimize uncertainty and prepare the ground for tomorrow’s fiscal debate. To that end, Congress ought to extend all the Bush tax cuts until 2013. Then they should all expire—prompting a serious fiscal overhaul, at a time when the economy is stronger.A broader set of policies could help to work off the hangover faster. One priority is to encourage more write-downs of mortgage debt. Almost a quarter of all Americans with mortgages owe more than their houses are worth. Until that changes the vicious cycle of rising foreclosures and falling prices will continue. There are plenty of ideas on offer, from changing the bankruptcy law so that judges can restructure mortgage debt to empowering special trustees to write down loans. They all have drawbacks, but a fetid pool of underwater mortgages will, much like Japan’s loans to zombie firms, corrode the financial system and harm the recovery. Cleaning up the housing market would help cut America’s unemployment rate, by making it easier for people to move to where jobs are. But more must be done to stop high joblessness becoming entrenched. Payroll-tax cuts and credits to reduce the cost of hiring would help. (The health-care reform, alas, does the opposite, at least for small businesses.) Politicians will also have to think harder about training schemes, because some workers lack the skills that new jobs require. Americans are used to great distances. The sooner they, and their politicians, accept that the road to recovery will be a long one, the faster they will get there.译文：我们到达目的地了吗？与大多数衰退之后的复苏相比，这次美国经济的复苏会慢得多。
2014.2015辽宁翻译专项
翻译专项一2014大连市1.艾尔斯岩（Ayers Rock）长3600米，高348米。
_________________________________________________2.摄影比赛你过奖了吗？______________________________________________3.妈妈让我每天自己整理房间。
_________________________________________4.孔子是中国古代伟大的思想家，今天我们依然受他思想的影响。
Confucius is known as a great thinker in ancient China.________________________________ 5.对外国人来说，如果他们以前没用过筷子，用起来就会很难。
_____________________________________________________二2014抚顺1. 学生们考试前没有太多空闲时间。
_____________ too much free time for students before exams.2. 在周末我经常和朋友闲逛而不是上网。
I often hang out with my friends ___________ surfing the Internet on weekends.3. 当你处于困难时，你将向谁寻求帮助？Who will you _________ when you are in trouble.4. 青少年习惯于和朋友们分享他们的想法。
Teenagers ___________ sharing their ideas with friends.5人们以前更关注食品安全。
People __________________ food safety than before.1.到你做决定的时候了。
________________________________________2.今天是多么特别的一天啊!______________________________________3.现在汉语被全世界越来越多的人学习。
第三届翻译大赛试题及答案
第三届翻译大赛试题及答案Nature and ArtNature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music.But the artist is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful—as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from the chaos glorious harmony.To say to the painter, that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player, that he may sit on the piano…The dignity of the snow-capped mountain is lost in distinctness, but the joy of the tourist is to recognize the traveller on the top. The desire to see, for the sake of seeing, is, with the mass, alone the one to be gratified, hence the delight in detail.And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us—then the wayfarer hastens home; the working man and the cultured one, the wise man and the one of pleasure, cease to understand, as they have ceased to see, and Nature, who, for once, has sung in tune, sings her exquisite song to the artist alone, her son and her master—her son in that loves her, her master in that he knows her.To him her secrets are unfolded, to him her lessons have become gradually clear. He looks at her flower, not with the enlarging lens, that may gather facts for the botanist, but with the light of the one who sees in her choice selection of brilliant tones and delicate tints, suggestions of future harmonies.He does not confine himself to purposeless copying, without thought, each blade of grass, as commended by the inconsequent, but, in the long curve of the narrow leaf, corrected by the straight tall stem, he learns how grace is wedded to dignity. How strength enhances sweetness, that elegance shall be the result.In the citron wing of the pale butterfly, with its dainty spots of orange, he sees before him the stately halls of fair gold, with their slender saffron pillars, and is taught how the delicate drawing high upon the walls shall be traced in tender tones of orpiment, and repeated by the base in notes of graver hue.In all that is dainty and lovable he finds hints for his own combinations, and thus is Nature ever his resource and always at his service, and to him is naught refused.Through his brain, as through the last alembic, is distilled the refined essence of that thought which began with the Gods, and which they left him to carry out.Set apart by them to complete their works, he produces that wondrous thing called the masterpiece, which surpasses in perfection all that they have contrived in what is called Nature; and the Gods stand by and marvel, and perceive how far away more beautiful is the Venus of Melos than was their own Eve.自然与艺术就色彩和形状而论，大自然包含所有图画的元素，就像键盘包含所有音乐的音符一样。
2014年方重翻译竞赛-英译汉
A Way of LifeFellow students: 同学们：Every man has a philosophy of life in thought, in word, or in deed, workedout in himself unconsciously. 每个人都有他的生活哲学，无论是在思想，言语还是在行为中，而且这哲学会不自觉地在他身上发挥着作用。
In possession of the very best, he may not know of its existence; with the very worst he may pride himself as a paragon. 心怀上佳的哲思，他可能不会知晓它的存在；心存至陋之哲理，他却可能自诩为楷模。
As it grows with the growth it cannot be taught to the young in formal lectures.它随着人的成长而增加，非正式的演讲所能授予年轻人。
What have bright eyes, red blood, quick breath and taut muscles to do with philosophy? 明眸，鲜血，急促的呼吸，紧实的肌肉,这些与哲学何干？Did not the great Stagirite say that young men were unfit students of it? 难道伟大的斯塔利亚人不曾讲过，年轻人是它不合格的学生？– they will hear as though they heard not, and to no profit. 他们会充耳不闻,了无裨益。
Why then should I trouble you?那我又为何来烦扰你？Because I have a message that may be helpful. 因为我有一言，或可助你。
2014年翻译大赛活动细则
2013-2014-2翻译大赛活动细则一．活动主旨：为鼓励学生学习英语的兴趣，激发学习潜能，以收英语教育之效，特举办此比赛。
二．说明：本竞赛为加强学生翻译能力。
三．活动对象：大学二年级学生四．活动时间：每学年第二学期五．活动方法：初赛：初赛时间：3月17日-3月23日初赛要求：比赛内容为笔译---英译汉，由大学英语教研室统一命题（详见附件二，本次只要求学生翻译指定内容的前三段，并作为一次作业要求学生上交。
学生课下可以查阅相关工具书，每位任课教师批改后每一个课头选拔一名学生参加决赛。
并与3月23日将参加决赛的学生报名表（详见附件一）电子档发至lff@决赛：要求参赛选手在规定时间、地点参加决赛，决赛内容为笔译---英译汉。
考生可以携带英文词典参加考试，不得携带手机，电子词典。
决赛时间：3月25日下午2:30-3:30（如有变动，另行通知）决赛地点：待定六．参赛奖励：本次比赛设置特等奖2名，一等奖4名，二等奖8名，三等奖16名，优秀奖若干名。
七．补充说明；本次翻译大赛的初赛题目选用第二十六届“韩素音青年翻译奖”竞赛的题目，感兴趣的同学同时也可以参加这个全国性的比赛。
（此竞赛文件，另行发放）。
附件一：决赛报名表：翻译大赛决赛报名表附件二：2013-2014-2翻译大赛初赛题目How the News Got Less MeanThe most read article of all time on BuzzFeed contains no photographs of celebrity nip slips and no inflammatory ranting. It’s a series of photos called “21 pictures that will restore your faith in humanity,” which has pulled in nearly 14 million visits so far. At Upworthy too, hope is the major draw. “This kid just died. What he left behind is wondtacular,” an Upworthy post about a terminally ill teen singer, earned 15 million views this summer and has raised more than $300,000 for cancer research.The recipe for attracting visitors to stories online is changing. Bloggers have traditionally turned to sarcasm and snark to draw attention. But the success of sites like BuzzFeed and Upworthy, whose philosophies embrace the viral nature of upbeat stories, hints that the Web craves positivity.The reason: social media. Researchers are discovering that people want to create positive images of themselves online by sharing upbeat stories. And with more people turning to Facebook and Twitter to find out what’s happening in the world, news stories may need to cheer up in order to court an audience. If social is the future of media, then optimistic stories might be media’s future.When we started, the prevailing wisdom was that snark ruled the Internet,” says Eli Pariser, a co-founder of Upworthy. “And we just had a r eally different sense of what works.”You don’t want to be that guy at the party who’s crazy and angry and ranting in the corner —it’s the same for Twitter or Facebook,” he says. “Part of what we’re trying to do with Upworthy is give people the tools to express a conscientious, thoughtful and positive identity in social media.”And the science appears to support Pariser’s philosophy. In a recent study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, researchers found that “up votes,” showing that a visitor liked a comment or story, begat more up votes on comments on the site, but “down votes” did not do the same. In fact, a single up vote increased the likelihood that someone else would like a comment by 32%, whereas a down vote had no effect. People don’t w ant to support thecranky commenter, the critic or the troll. Nor do they want to be that negative personality online.In another study published in 2012, Jonah Berger, author of Contagious: Why Things Catch On and professor of marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, monitored the most e-mailed stories produced by the New York Times for six months and found that positive stories were more likely to make the list than negative ones.What we share [or like] is almost like the car we drive or the clothes we wear,” he says. “It says something about us to other people. So people would much rather be seen as a Positive Polly than a Debbie Downer.”It’s not always that simple: Berger says that though positive pieces drew more traffic than negative ones, within the categories of positive and negative stories, those articles that elicited more emotion always led to more shares.Take two negative emotions, for example: anger and sadness,” Berger says. “Both of those emotions would make the re ader feel bad. But anger, a high arousal emotion, leads to more sharing, whereas sadness, a low arousal emotion, doesn’t. The same is true ofthe positive side: excitement and humor increase sharing, whereas contentment decreases sharing.”And while some popular BuzzFeed posts —like the recent “Is this the most embarrassing interview Fox News has ever done?” —might do their best to elicit shares through anger, both BuzzFeed and Upworthy recognize that their main success lies in creating positive viral material.“It’s not that people don’t share negative stories,” says Jack Shepherd, editorial director at BuzzFeed. “It just means that there’s a higher potential for positive stories to do well.”Upworthy’s mission is to highlight serious issues but in a hopeful way, encouraging readers to donate money, join organizations and take action. The strategy seems to be working: barely two years after its launch date (in March 2012), the site now boasts 30 million unique visitors per month, according to Upworthy. The site’s average monthly unique visitors grew to 14 million people over its first six quarters — to put that in perspective, the Huffington Post had only about 2 million visitors in its first six quarters online.But Upworthy measures the success of a story not just by hits. The creators of the site only consider a post a success if it’s alsoshared frequently on social media. “We are interested in content that people want to share partly for pragmatic reasons,” Pariser says. “If you don’t have a good theory about how to appear in Facebook and Twitter, then you may disappear.”Nobody has mastered the ability to make a story go viral like BuzzFeed. The site, which began in 2006 as a lab to figure out what people share online, has used what it’s learned to draw 60 million monthly unique visitors, according to BuzzFeed. (Most of that traffic comes from social-networking sites, driving readers toward BuzzFeed’s mix of cute animal photos and hard news.) By comparison the New York Times website, one of the most popular newspaper sites on the Web, courts only 29 million unique visitors each month, according to the Times.BuzzFeed editors have found that people do still read negative or critical stories, they just aren’t the posts they share with their friends. And those shareable posts are the ones that newsrooms increasingly prize.“Anecd otally, I can tell you people are just as likely to click on negative stories as they are to click on positive ones,” says Shepherd. “But they’re more likely to share positive stories. What you’reinterested in is different from what you want your friends to see what you’re interested in.”So as newsrooms re-evaluate how they can draw readers and elicit more shares on Twitter and Facebook, they may look to BuzzFeed’s and Upworthy’s happiness model for direction.“I think that the Web is only becoming more social,” Shepherd says. “We’re at a point where readers are your publishers. If news sites aren’t thinking about what it would mean for someone to share a story on social media, that could be detrimental.”。
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“2014苏北高校汉英翻译大赛”比赛原文（专业组用）
经典阅读
经典是什么，经典就是永不过时的东西，它是人类按照自己的根本利益共同选择下来的文明成果，是建立正确的价值观和人生观的文化基础。
经典阅读，会在潜移默化中让人习得珍贵的思维方式和价值观念，尤其是在童年、少年和青年时期。
比如读四大名著，孩子首先会为故事所吸引，而这些故事本身，都深深镌刻着中国人在漫长历史过程中总结出来的思维模式和价值观念。
故事的演进，会帮助孩子们辨别正邪、建立是非观念，也使他们从中感受到扶危济困、除暴安良的快乐和坚忍不拔的精神，燃起追求正义的热情等等，而这些，都是生活的精神原动力。
如果说小说主要作用于人的思维方式，诗词则直接作用于人的情感模式。
比如小儿皆可诵的《春晓》：“春眠不觉晓，处处闻啼鸟。
夜来风雨声，花落知多少。
”春光美好，生命美好，不能因贪睡而错过，对春光的珍爱与对生命的珍惜已拆解不开，春光与生命，时代与生活是如此让人爱恋，以致使人们不愿放弃片刻的光阴；诗中即使含有一丝丝的伤感，也立刻在这种青春的情绪中蒸腾为对生活与生命的深情感受。
爱读这些诗的孩子，一定是热爱生活的。
打个比方，经典阅读带来的思维模式和情感模式，就像是我们大脑的最佳操作系统。
越早安装越好，任何时候安装都不算晚。
有了这个操作系统，我们就能更从容地面对海量的信息，摆脱喧哗和浮躁，消除恐惧和焦虑，在令人眼花缭乱的世界里沉静下来，知道哪些是要选择的，哪些是可以忽略的，世界因此会变得更加真实和有意义。