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2016年广东暨南大学英语翻译考研真题

2016年广东暨南大学英语翻译考研真题I. Vocabulary & Grammar (30%)Directions: There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.1. Whenever possible, Ina ________ how well she speaks Japanese.A. shows upB. shows aroundC. shows offD. shows out2. As the director can’t come to the reception, I’m representing the company________.A. on his accountB. on his behalfC. for his partD. in his interest3. The price of the coal will vary according to how far it has to be transported and how expensive the freight ________ are.A. paymentsB. chargesC. fundsD. prices4. The ball ________ two or three times before rolling down the slope.A. swayedB. bouncedC. hoppedD. darted5. He has been transferred to the University of Maryland Medical Center and is waiting to ________ surgery.A. undergoB. unfoldC. underestimateD. undertake6. We hold these truths to be self-_______: that all men are created equal.A. essentialB. eternalC. evidentD. exquisite7. The bear clawed the hunter within _______ of his life.A. closeB. reachC. a spaceD. an inch8. The third candidate is a ________. She’s new to politics and is just beginning her campaign.A. white elephantB. dark horseC. sleeperD. big hit9. We go to the Summer Palace on foot ________.A. on purposeB. on occasionsC. on behalfD. on trial10. It was cloudy this morning, but it ________ fine.A. turned onB. turned overC. turned upD. turned out11. In his ________ to further knowledge of the universe, man has now begun to explore space.A. attemptB. expeditionC. trialD. chase12. The bus moved slowly in the thick fog. We arrived at our ________ almost two hours later.A. designationB. destinyC. destinationD. dignity13. The nuclear family ________ a self-contained, self-satisfying unit composed of father, mother and children.A. refers toB. definesC. describesD. devotes to14. Some polls show that roughly two-thirds of the general public believe that elderly Americans are ________ by social isolation and loneliness.A. reproachedB. favoredC. plaguedD. reprehended15. The Pacific island attracts shoals of tourists with its rich ________ of folk arts.A. heritageB. heredityC. heroismD. hermitage16. It is imperative that students ________ their term papers on time.A. handing inB. handed inC. hand inD. would hand in17. An old woman was badly hurt in ________ the police describe as an apparently motiveless attack.A. thatB. whichC. whatD. whatever18. ________ on a clear day, far from the city crowds, the mountains give him a sense of infinite peace.A. If walkingB. While walkingC. WalkingD. When one is walking19. After the Arab states won independence, great emphasis was laid on expanding education,with girls as well boys ________ to go to school.A. to be encouragedB. been encouragedC. being encouragedD. be encouraged20. Joan didn’t go to the party last night because she ________ the baby for her sister until 9:30.A. must have looked afterB. would have to looked afterC. had to look afterD. should have looked after21. We are going to London next month. This will be the first time I ________ there.A. have traveledB. travelC. will travelD. am traveling22. John is ________ hardworking than his sister, but he failed in the exam.A. no lessB. no moreC. not lessD. no so23. Americans eat ________ as they actually need every day.A. twice as much proteinB. twice protein as much twiceC. twice protein as muchD. protein as twice much24. Who ________ was coming to see me in my office this afternoon?A. you saidB. did you sayC. did you say thatD. you did say25. She would have been more agreeable if she had changed a little bit, ________?A. hadn’t sheB. hasn’t sheC. wouldn’t sheD. didn’t she26. ________ you ________ further problems with your printer, contact your dealer for advice.A. If; hadB. Have; hadC. Should; haveD. In case; had27. ________ we wish him prosperous, we have objections to his ways of obtaining wealth.A. Much asB. As muchC. More asD.As well as28. Among the first to come and live in North America ________, who later prospered mainly inNew England.A. had been Dutch settlersB. Dutch settlers were thereC. were Dutch settlersD. Dutch settlers had been there29. _______ there was an epidemic approaching, Mr. Smith ________ the invitation to visit that area.A. If he knew; would have declinedB. If he had known; would declineC. Had he known; would declineD. Had he known; would have declined30. In the dark they could not see anything clear, but could ________.A. hear somebody mournB. hear somebody mourningC. hear somebody mournedD. hear somebody had been mourningII. Reading Comprehension (40%)Directions: This part consists of two sections. In Section A, there are three passages followed by a total of 15 multiple-choice questions. In Section B, there is one passage followed by a total of 5 short-answer questions. Read the passages and write your answers on the Answer Sheet.Section A Multiple-Choice Questions (30%)Passage 1Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.The head of the Library of Congress is to name Donald Hall, a writer whose deceptively simple language builds on images of the New England landscape, as the nation’s 14th poet laureate today.Mr. Hall,a poet in the distinctive American tradition of Robert Frost, has also been a harsh critic of the religious right’s influence on government arts policy. And as a member of the advisory council of the National Endowment for the Arts during the administration of George H. W. Bush, he referred to those he thought were interfering with arts grants as “bullies and art bashers”.He will succeed Ted Kooser, the Nebraskan who has been the poet laureate since 2004.The announcement of Mr. Hall’s appointment is to be made by James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress. Mr. Billington said that he chose Mr. Hall because of “the sustained quality of hispoetry, the reach and the variety of things he talks about”. Like Mr. Kooser, Mr. Billington said, “Mr. Hall evokes a sense of place. ”Mr. Hall, 77, lives in a white clapboard farmhouse in Wilmot, N. H., that has been in his family for generations. He said in a telephone interview that he didn’t see the poet laureateship as a bully pulpit. “But it’s a pulpit anyway,”he said. “If I see First Amendment violations, I will speak up.’’Mr. Hall is an extremely productive writer who has published about 18 books of poetry, 20 books of prose and 12 children’s books. He has won many awards, including a national Book Critics Circle Award in 1989 for “The One Day”,a collection.In recent years much of his poetry has been preoccupied with the death of his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, in 1995.Robert Pinsky, who was poet laureate from 1997 to 2000 said he welcomed Mr. Hall’s appointment,especially in light of his previous outspokenness about politics and arts. “There is something nicely symbolic,and maybe surprising,”Mr. Pinsky said, “that they have selected someone who has taken a stand for freedom.”The position carries an award of $35,000 and $5,000 travel allowance. It usually lasts a year, though poets are sometimes reappointed.31. Donald Hall ________.A. uses simple English to express the images of the New England landscapeB. dislikes the idea of impacting government by the right side of the religionC. is the 14th poet laureate appointed by the CongressD. is a member of the advisory council of the National Endowment for the Arts32. James H. Billington ________.A. likes the poems with great depth and widthB. speaks highly of poems in simple English rather than complex onesC. prefers the poems with sustained style and expressionD. likes the poems with the knowledge of various things33. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A. Mr. Hall has published many books and magazines on poems.B. Mr. Hall is a critic of literature in the U. S.C. Mr. Hall has got many prizes for his talents in writing.D. Mr. Hall has got support from his predecessors.34. What can be inferred from the passage?A. Mr. Hall loves his wife very much.B. Mr. Hall takes the new appointment for granted.C. Mr. Hall has got great ideas from his wife.D. Mr. Hall may hold the position for another year.35. What is the best title for the passage?A. A Guard for Politics and ArtsB. A New Poet LaureateC. A Representative for FreedomD. The Winning of a PoetPassage 2Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.Most of us are taught to pay attention to what is said—the words. Words do provide us with some information, but meanings are derived from so many other sources that it would hinder our effectiveness as a partner to a relationship to rely too heavily on words alone. Words are used to describe only a small part of the many ideas we associate with any given message. Sometimes we can gain insight into some of those associations if we listen for more than words. We don’t always say what we mean or mean what we say. Sometimes our words don’t mean anything except “I’m letting off some steam. I don’t really want you to pay close attention to what I’m saying. Just pay attention to what I’m feeling.”Mostly we mean several things at once. A person wanting to purchase a house says to the current owner, “This step has to be fixed before I’ll buy.”The owner says, “It’s been like that for years.”Actually, the step hasn’t been like that for years, but the unspoken message is: “I don’t want to fix it. We put up with it. Why can’t you?”The search for a more expansive view of meaning can be developed through examining a message in terms of who said it, when it occurred, the related conditions or situation, and how it was said.When a message occurs can also reveal associated meaning. Let us assume two couples do exactly the same amount of kissing and arguing. But one couple always kisses after an argument and the other couple always argues after a kiss. The ordering of the behaviors may mean a great deal more than the frequency of the behavior. A friend’s unusually docile behavior may only be understood by noting that it was preceded by situations that required an abnormal amount of assertiveness. Some responses may be directly linked to a developing pattern of responses and defy logic. For example, a person who says “No!”to a serials of charges like “You’re dumb,”“You’re lazy,”and “You’re dishonest,”may also say “No!”and try to justify his or her response if the next statement is “And you’re good looking.”We would do well to listen for how messages are presented. The words, “If sure has been nice to have you over,”can be said with emphasis and excitement or ritualistically. The phrase can be said once or repeated several times. And the meanings we associate with the phrase will change accordingly. Sometimes if we say something infrequently it assumes more importance; sometimes the more we say something the less importance it assumes.36. Effective communication is rendered possible between two conversing partners, if ________.A. they use proper words to carry their ideasB. they both speak truly of their own feelingsC. they try to understand each other’s ideas beyond wordsD. they are capable of associating meaning with their words37. “I’m letting off some steam”in paragraph 1 means ________.A. I’m just calling your attentionB. I’m just kiddingC. I’m just saying the oppositeD. I’m just giving off some sound38. The house-owner’s example shows that he actually means ________.A. the step has been like that for yearsB. he doesn’t think it necessary to fix the stepC. the condition of the step is only a minor faultD. the cost involved in the fixing should be shared39. Some responses and behaviors may appear very illogical, but are justifiable if ________.A. linked to an abnormal amount of assertivenessB. seen as one’s habitual pattern of behaviorC. taken as part of an ordering sequenceD. expressed to a series of charges40. The word “ritualistically”in the last paragraph equals something done ________.A. without true intentionB. light-heartedlyC. in a way of ceremonyD. with less emphasisPassage 3Questions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage:Cellular slime molds are extraordinary life forms that exhibit features of both fungi and protozoa, although often classed for convenience with fungi. At one time they were regarded as organisms of ambiguous taxonomic status, but more recent analysis of DNA sequences has shown that slime molds should be regarded as inhabiting their own separate kingdom.Their uniqueness lies in their unusual life cycle, which alternates between a feeding stage in which the organism is essentially unicellular and a reproductive stage in which the organism adopts a multicellular structure. At the first stage they are free-living, separate amoebae, usually inhabiting the forest floor and ingesting bacteria found in rotting wood, dung, or damp soil. But their food supplies are relatively easily exhausted since the cells’movements are restricted and their food requirements rather large.When the cells become starved of nutrition, the organism initiates a new genetic program that permits the cells to eventually find a new, food-rich environment. At this point, the single-celled amoebae combine together to form what will eventually become a multicellular creature. The mechanism by which the individual members become a single entity is essentially chemical in nature. At first, a few of the amoebae start to produce periodic chemical pulses that are detected, amplified, and relayed to the surrounding members, which then move toward thepulse origin. In time, these cells form many streams of cells, which then come together to form a single hemispherical mass. This mass sticks together through the secretion of adhesion molecules.The mass now develops a tip, which elongates into a finger-like structure of about 1 or 2 millimeters in length. This structure eventually falls over to form a miniature slug, moving as a single entity orienting itself toward light. During this period the cells within the mass differentiate into two distinct kinds of cell. Some become prestalk cells, which later form into a vertical stalk, and others form prespore cells, which become the spore head.As the organism migrates, it leaves behind a track of slime rather like a garden slug. Once a favorable location has been found with a fresh source of bacteria to feed on, the migration stops and the colony metamorphoses into a fungus-like organism in a process known as “culmination.”The front cells turn into a stalk, and the back cells climb up the stalk and form a spherical-shaped head, known as the sorocarp. This final fruiting body is about 2 millimeters in height. The head develops into spores, which are dispersed into the environment and form the next generation of amoebae cells. Then the life cycle is repeated. Usually the stalk disappears once the spores have been released.The process by which the originally identical cells of the slime mold become transformed into multicellular structures composed of two different cell types—spore and stalk—is of great interest to developmental biologists since it is analogous to an important process found in higher organisms in which organs with highly specialized functions are formed from unspecialized stem cells. Early experiments showed which parts of the slime mold organism contributed to the eventual stalk and which parts to the head. Scientists stained the front part of a slug with a red dye and attached it to the back part of a different slug. The hybrid creature developed as normal. The experimenters then noted that the stalk of the fruiting body was stained red and that the spore head was unstained. Clearly, the anterior part of the organism culminated in the stalk and the posterior part in the spore head. Nowadays, experiments using DNA technology and fluorescent proteins or enzymes to label the prespore and prestalk cells have been undertaken. This more molecular approach gives more precise results than using staining dyes but has essentially backed up the results of the earlier dye studies.41. How the slime should be classified used to be _________.A. unknownB. uncertainC. controversialD. unfamiliar42. According to the passage, what is unusual about the slime molds’life cycle?A. They inhabit their own kingdom.B. They are organisms whose classification is ambiguous.C. They alternate between unicellular and multicellular structures.D. They are free-living organisms.43. All of the followings are mentioned in the text as being parts of the multicellular slug EXCEPT ________.A. the headB. the stalkC. legsD. spores44. Why does the author refer to the fungus-like organism as a fruiting body?A. Because it has become one entity.B. Because it is 2 millimeters in height.C. Because it now has a stalk and head.D. Because it has reached its reproductive stage.45. According to the passage, the recent DNA studies _________.A. give similar results to the dye studiesB. contradict the dye studiesC. are less exact than the dye studiesD. have introduced confusion about the dye study resultsSection B Short-Answer Questions (10%)Passage 4Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage:Barry Schwartz did not expect to feel inspired on a clothes-shopping trip. “I avoid buying jeans; I wear one pair until it falls apart,”says Schwartz, an American psychology professor. “The last time I had bought a pair there had been just one style. But recently I was asked if I wanted this fit or that fit, or this color or that. I intended to be out shopping for five minutes but it took an hour, and I began to feel more and more dissatisfied.”This trip made him think: did more choice always mean greater satisfaction? “I’d always believed that choice was good, and more choice was better. My experience got me thinking: how many others felt like me?”The result was a widely discussed study that challenged the idea that more is always better. Drawing on the psychology of economics, which looks at how people choose what to buy,Schwartz designed a questionnaire to show the differences between what he termed ‘maximisers’and ‘satisficers’. Broadly speaking, maximisers are keen to make the best possible choices, and often spend time researching to ensure that their purchases cannot be bettered. Satisficers are the easy-going people, delighted with items that are simply acceptable.Schwartz puts forward the view, which contrasts with what politicians and salesmen would have people believe, that the unstoppable growth in choice is in danger of ruining lives. “I’m not saying no choice is good. But the average person makes at least 200 decisions every day, and I don’t think there’s room for any more.”His study may help to explain the peculiar paradox of the wealthy West—psychologists and economists are puzzled by the fact that people have not become happier as they have become richer. In fact, the ability to demand whatever is wanted whenever it is wanted has instead led to rising expectations.The search for perfection can be found in every area of life from buying soap powder to selecting a career. Certain decisions may automatically close off other choices, and some people are then upset by the thought of what else might have been. Schwartz says, “If you make a decision and it’s disappointing, don’t worry about it, it may actually have been a good decision, just not as good as you had hoped.”One fact that governments need to think about is that people seem more inclined to buy something if there are fewer, not more, choices. If that’s true for jeans, then it is probably true for cars, schools and pension funds. “If there are few options, the world doesn’t expect you to make the perfect decision. But when there are thousands it’s hard not to think there’s a perfect one out there, and that you’ll find it if you look hard enough.”If you think that Internet shopping will help, think again:”You want to buy something and you look at three websites. How long will it take to look at one more? Two minutes? It’s only a click. Before you know it you’ve spent three hours trying to decide which £10 item to buy. It’s crazy. You’ve used another evening that you could have spent with your friends.”Schwartz, who describes himself as a natural satisficer, says that trying to stop our tendency to be maximisers will make us happier. “The most important recommendation I can give is to lower personal expectations,”he says. “But no one wants to hear this because they all believe that perfection awaits the wise decision maker. Life isn’t necessarily like that.”46. Why may some advice be rejected?47. What confuses experts according to the passage?48. What can be the emotional effect of the result of making a choice?49. How was Schwartz’s research undertaken?50. How can personality be defined in the text?III. Writing (30%)Directions: In this part you are going to write an essay of about 400-500 words within 60 minutes on the topic as follows. Write your response on the Answer Sheet.Some people think that cultural traditions will be destroyed if they are used as money-making attractions aimed at tourists. Others, however, believe that is the only way to save these traditions. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on the issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.。

上海外国语大学考研翻译硕士英语真题2016+答案

上海外国语大学考研翻译硕士英语真题2016+答案
2、回答问题: What aspects are ignored by many when assessing American power?
Did Britain decline after American independence in 1776?
also overlook China’s geopolitical 8.
in the Asian balance of power,
compared with America’s relations with Europe, Japan and India, which
are likely to remain more favorable.
Chinese as 10ft tall and proclaim this “the Chinese century”.
China’s size and relatively rapid economic growth will bring it closer
to the US in terms of its power resources in the next few decades. But
what is the natural life cycle of a nation.
A century is generally the limit for a human organism but countries
are social constructs. Rome did not collapse until more than three
The scenarios that could 10. decline include ones in which the

2016年扬州大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷(题后含答案及解析)

2016年扬州大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷(题后含答案及解析)

2016年扬州大学翻译硕士英语真题试卷(题后含答案及解析)题型有:1. V ocabulary 2. Reading Comprehension 3. WritingV ocabulary1.Our dreams will sometimes be______and our ethereal hopes blasted.A.smashedB.shatteredC.crushedD.squashed正确答案:B解析:本题考查动词的词义辨析。

根据空后的and our ethereal hopes blasted(并且我们飘渺的希望破灭)可判断,本空所填动词应与blasted并列,且意思相近,故shatter(使(希望、信念,信心)破灭,粉碎)为答案。

smash意为“(有意识地)打碎,打烂”,指破裂为许多支离破碎的碎片,多用指易碎事物。

crush意为“压碎,碾碎,弄皱”,指用力把东西压破或变形。

squash意为“压碎,挤压,紧压”,指某物受力被压扁或压碎,也指塞挤。

2.The attack is being seen as a deliberate attempt to______the peace talks.A.razeB.sabotageC.demolishD.disintegrate正确答案:B解析:本题考查动词的词义辨析。

根据语义推断,“攻击”应该是被看作“破坏和平对话”,故只有sabotage(阴谋破坏,蓄意破坏)符合语义,为答案。

raze意为“把(建筑或城镇)夷为平地,彻底摧毁”。

demolish意为“驳倒,推翻(某人的观点或论点);摧毁,拆毁,拆除(建筑物等)”。

disintegrate意为“崩溃,瓦解”。

3.—When were your legs injured?—It was on a Sunday last month______my father and I spent our holiday at the seaside.A.thatB.asC.whileD.when正确答案:D解析:本题考查定语从句。

2016考研英语2000翻译真题精练精讲.doc

2016考研英语2000翻译真题精练精讲.doc

2016考研英语:2000翻译真题精练精讲一、全真试题Governments throughout the world act on the assumption that the welfare of their people depends largely on the economic strength and wealth of the community.(71)Under modern conditions,this requires varying measures of centralized control and hence the help of specialized scientists such as economists and operational research experts.(72)Furthermore,it is obvious that the strength of a country’s economy is directly bound up with the efficiency of its agriculture and industry,and that this in turn rests upon the efforts of scientists and technologists of all kinds. It also means that governments are increasingly compelled to interfere in these sectors in order to step up production and ensure that it is utilized to the best advantage. For example,they may encourage research in various ways,including the setting up of their own research centers; they may alter the structure of education,or interfere in order to reduce the wastage of natural resources or tap resources hitherto unexploited; or they may cooperate directly in the growing number of international projects related to science,economics any industry,In any case,all such interventions are heavily dependent on scientific advice and also scientific and technological manpower of all kinds.(73)Owing to the remarkable development in mass communications,people everywhere are feeling new wants and are being exposed to new customs and ideas,while governments are often forced to introduce still further innovations for the reasons given above. At the same time,the normal rate of social change throughout the world is taking place at a vastly accelerated speed compared with the past. For example,(74)in the early in industrialized countries of Europe the process of industrialization—with all the far-reaching changes in social patterns that followed—was spread over nearly a century,whereas nowadays a developing nation may undergo the same process in a decade or so. All this has the effect of building up unusual pressures and tensions within the community and consequently presents serious problems for the governments concerned.(75)Additional social stresses may also occur because of the population explosion or problems arising from mass migration movements—themselves made relatively easy nowadays by modern means of transport. As a result of all these factors,governments are becoming increasingly dependent on biologists and social scientists for planning the appropriate programs and putting them into effect.二、翻译题解(71)Under modern conditions, thisrequiresvarying measures of centralized control and hence the help of specialized scientists such as economists and operational research experts.句子拆分:拆分点参考:标点符号Under modern conditions, //this requires varying measures of centralized control //and hence the help of specialized scientists such as economists and operational research experts.解析:(1)主干结构是一个带双宾语的简单句:measures of...and hence the help of...皆为require的宾语。

2016年山东大学硕士研究生入学考试《翻译英语》真题及详解

2016年山东大学硕士研究生入学考试《翻译英语》真题及详解

2016年山东大学硕士研究生入学考试《翻译英语》真题(总分:100.00,做题时间:90分钟)一、 Vocabulary(总题数:20,分数:40.00)1.He felt that the uninspiring routine of office work was too______for someone of his talent and creativity.(分数:2.00)A.prosaic √B.insatiableC.exactingD.enthralling【解析】本题考查形容词辨析。

根据空前的uninspiring routine of office work(让人提不起精神的办公室日常工作)可知,他觉得工作过于平淡乏味,故答案为prosaic(平淡无奇的,乏味的)。

insatiable意为"贪得无厌的,不能满足的";exacting意为"要求严格的,要求高的";enthralling意为"迷人的,非常有趣的"。

2.The museum arranged the fossils in______order, placing the older fossils dating from the Late Ice Age on the first floor and the more recent fossils on the second floor.(分数:2.00)A.alphabeticalB.chronological √C.randomD.arbitrary【解析】本题考查形容词辨析。

根据空后的the older…on the first floor和the more recent…on the second floor可知,博物馆是把化石按一定时间或年代顺序排列的,故答案为chronological(按时间先后顺序排列的,按年代先后顺序排列的)。

考研英语一2016年真题的全文翻译

考研英语一2016年真题的全文翻译

2016年考研英语一试题翻译SectionⅠ在柬埔寨,选择配偶对于年轻男性来说是件很复杂的事。

这不仅可能需要男女双方的父母朋友参与,同时也可能需要媒人的撮合。

年轻的成年男子可以自己确定一个合适的配偶,然后请求父母安排与对方家人商讨婚事,或者男方的父母为孩子挑好配偶,在此过程中,孩子几乎没有话语权。

在理论上,女方可以拒绝父母为其选择的配偶。

结婚对象选定之后,双方家庭就会开始调查了解对方,以确保自己的孩子嫁人或迎娶的是一户好人家。

传统婚礼持续的时间长且丰富多彩。

以前,婚礼仪式会持续三天,但到了20世纪80年代时,更为常见的是持续一天半。

佛教僧侣主持简短的讲道仪式,并念诵祝福的祷告文。

婚礼上的活动有仪式性的剪发,将在圣水中浸湿的棉线缠绕在新人的手腕上,以及婚姻幸福并受尊重的夫妇围成一圈,传递蜡烛为新人的结合祈福。

新婚夫妇按照传统会搬进女方父母家中与他们同住长达一年,直到他们能在附近建造一座新房子为止。

(在柬埔寨)离婚是合法且容易实现的,但并不普遍。

离过婚的人会遭受一些非议。

离婚时,夫妻双方的婚前财产仍归自己所有,而共同拥有的财产则会平均分配。

离异者可以再婚,但性别歧视在此时却会显现出来:离异的男性无需等待一定的时间就可以再婚,但女性则必须等待10个月才可以再婚。

SectionⅡText 1以全球时尚创新者身份为荣的法国判定其时尚业已不再拥有定义女性形体美的绝对权。

其立法机关上周初步通过了一项法规,规定雇用超瘦T台模特将会被定为犯罪。

议会还同意取缔那些通过宣传极端节食来“教唆过瘦身材”的网站。

这些措施有几个振奋人心的动机。

这些措施表明美不应该以最终损害健康为代价的外表来定义。

这是一个开端。

对超瘦模特的禁令似乎不仅仅是为了保护模特使其避免(为追求瘦而将自己)饿死——一些模特已死于饥饿。

这项禁令告知时尚业必须为其传递给女性(尤其是十几岁的女孩)的信号承担责任,这种信号涉及她们必须用以决定其个体价值的社会标尺。

2016考研英语二真题阅读翻译

2016考研英语二真题阅读翻译

2016考研英语二真题阅读翻译在每年考研英语考试中,阅读理解试题在整个试卷中占很大比重,其重要程度不言而喻。

下面就是店铺给大家整理的2016考研英语二真题阅读翻译,希望对你有用!考研英语阅读原文Biologists estimate that as many as 2 million lesser prairie chickens — a kind of bird living on stretching grasslands — once lent red to the often gray landscape of the midwestern and southwestern United States.But just some 22,000 birds remain today, occupying about 16% of the species' historic range.The crash was a major reason the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service(USFWS) decided to formally list the bird as threatened."The lesser prairie chicken is in a desperate situation," said USFWS Director Daniel Ashe.Some environmentalists, however, were disappointed.They had pushed the agency to designate the bird as "endangered," a status that gives federal officials greater regulatory power to crack down on threats.But Ashe and others argued that the "threatened" tag gave the federal government flexibility to try out new, potentially less confrontational conservations approaches.In particular, they called for forging closer collaborations with western state governments, which are often uneasy with federal action and with the private landowners who control an estimated 95% of the prairie chicken's habitat.Under the plan, for example, the agency said it would not prosecute landowner or businesses that unintentionally kill, harm, or disturb the bird, as long as they had signed a range—widemanagement plan to restore prairie chicken habitat.Negotiated by USFWS and the states, the plan requires individuals and businesses that damage habitat as part of their operations to pay into a fund to replace every acre destroyed with 2 new acres of suitable habitat.The fund will also be used to compensate landowners who set aside habitat, USFWS also set an interim goal of restoring prairie chicken populations to an annual average of 67,000 birds over the next 10 years.And it gives the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA), a coalition of state agencies, the job of monitoring progress.Overall, the idea is to let "states" remain in the driver's seat for managing the species," Ashe said.Not everyone buys the win-win rhetoric.Some Congress members are trying to block the plan,and at least a dozen industry groups, four states, and three environmental groups are challenging it in federal court.Not surprisingly, industry groups and states generally argue it goes too far; environmentalists say it doesn't go far enough."The federal government is giving responsibility for managing the bird to the same industries that are pushing it to extinction," says biologist Jay Lininger.考研英语阅读翻译生物学家估计美国中西部和西南部的广袤草原上曾生活着多达200万只的小草原松鸡,这些红色的小草原松鸡为灰蒙蒙的草原风貌增添了几分红艳。

2016考研英语真题阅读翻译

2016考研英语真题阅读翻译

2016考研英语真题阅读翻译随着考研考试临近,考生在这段强化冲刺期,要加强对英语阅读真题进行研究。

下面就是店铺给大家整理的2016考研英语真题阅读翻译,希望对你有用!考研英语阅读原文It's true that high-school coding classes aren't essential for learning computer science in college.Students without experience can catch up after a few introductory courses, said Tom Cortina, the assistant dean at Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science.However, Cortina said, early exposure is beneficial.When younger kids learn computer science, they learn that it's not just a confusing, endless string of letters and numbers —but a tool to build apps, or create artwork, or test hypotheses.It's not as hard for them to transform their thought processes as it is for older students.Breaking down problems into bite-sized chunks and using code to solve them becomes normal.Giving more children this training could increase the number of people interested in the field and help fill the jobs gap, Cortina said.Students also benefit from learning something about coding before they get to college, where introductory computer-science classes are packed to the brim, which can drive the less-experienced or-determined students away.The Flatiron School, where people pay to learn programming, started as one of the many coding bootcamps that's become popular for adults looking for a career change.The high-schoolers get the same curriculum, but "we try togear lessons toward things they're interested in," said Victoria Friedman, an instructor.For instance, one of the apps the students are developing suggests movies based on your mood.The students in the Flatiron class probably won't drop out of high school and build the next Facebook.Programming languages have a quick turnover, so the "Ruby on Rails" language they learned may not even be relevant by the time they enter the job market.But the skills they learn — how to think logically through a problem and organize the results —apply to any coding language, said Deborah Seehorn, an education consultant for the state of North Carolina.Indeed, the Flatiron students might not go into IT at all.But creating a future army of coders is not the sole purpose of the classes.These kids are going to be surrounded by computers — in their pockets, in their offices, in their homes —for the rest of their lives.The younger they learn how computers think, how to coax the machine into producing what they want — the earlier they learn that they have the power to do that — the better.考研英语阅读翻译诚然,高中的编程课对于大学学习计算机科学课程来说并不是必需的。

2016年山东大学硕士研究生入学考试《翻译英语》真题及详解

2016年山东大学硕士研究生入学考试《翻译英语》真题及详解

2016年山东大学硕士研究生入学考试《翻译英语》真题(总分:100.00,做题时间:90分钟)一、 Vocabulary(总题数:20,分数:40.00)1.He felt that the uninspiring routine of office work was too______for someone of his talent and creativity.(分数:2.00)A.prosaic √B.insatiableC.exactingD.enthralling【解析】本题考查形容词辨析。

根据空前的uninspiring routine of office work(让人提不起精神的办公室日常工作)可知,他觉得工作过于平淡乏味,故答案为prosaic(平淡无奇的,乏味的)。

insatiable意为"贪得无厌的,不能满足的";exacting意为"要求严格的,要求高的";enthralling意为"迷人的,非常有趣的"。

2.The museum arranged the fossils in______order, placing the older fossils dating from the Late Ice Age on the first floor and the more recent fossils on the second floor.(分数:2.00)A.alphabeticalB.chronological √C.randomD.arbitrary【解析】本题考查形容词辨析。

根据空后的the older…on the first floor和the more recent…on the second floor可知,博物馆是把化石按一定时间或年代顺序排列的,故答案为chronological(按时间先后顺序排列的,按年代先后顺序排列的)。

2016年北京外国语大学英语学院翻译硕士英语学院英语笔译考研真题

2016年北京外国语大学英语学院翻译硕士英语学院英语笔译考研真题

翻译练习一,句子练习(中英互译)习题二,段落翻译(中译英)习题:解答:三,段落翻译(英译中)习题:练习解析一句子练习(中英互译)二,段落翻译(中译英)三,段落翻译(英译中)育明教育:提高暑假复习效率的三个万能定律一、鲶鱼效应:一个"竞争"的复习环境很久以前,挪威人从深海捕捞的沙丁鱼,总是还没到达海岸都已经口吐白沫。

然而,有一条渔船却总能带着活鱼上岸。

这是为什么呢?后来,人们才发现原来那条渔船在沙丁鱼槽里放进了鲶鱼。

鲶鱼是沙丁鱼的天敌,鲶鱼不断地追逐沙丁鱼,沙丁鱼拼命游动,激发了其内部的活力,从而活了下来。

这就是"鲶鱼效应"。

"鲶鱼效应"告诉我们:竞争可以激发人们内在的活力。

对于考研的人来说,一个人闷头复习,经常会出现疲倦、无聊等反应。

而这对于复习来说,都是致命的大敌,将会严重影响复习的效率。

那么如果刺激自己,激活自己的内在活力呢?让我们在复习当中引进一条"鲶鱼"吧。

我们复习时,可以找一个复习伙伴。

当然,这个伙伴最好是学习比较努力、学习成绩和自己差不多或者比自己略好的人。

有个这样一个复习伙伴,就可以形成互相竞争、追赶帮带的形势,对自己学习效率的提高无疑是有一定帮助的。

如果找不到这样的复习伙伴呢?也不要紧。

有一位两个月考上研究生的女生说,她在复习的两个月内,作息制度完全按照邻居一位要参加中考的中学生的来。

大家都知道,我们在中考或者高考的时候,那种作息时间是相当规律并且严格的,并且复习的努力程度也是大学生所远远不能比的。

找到了这样一个"鲶鱼",对自己复习的促进效果是显而易见的。

二、酒与污水定律:一个"干净"的复习环境酒与污水定律是指把一匙酒倒进一桶污水,得到的是一桶污水;如果把一匙污水倒进一桶酒,得到的还是一桶污水。

在任何组织里,几乎都存在几个难弄的人物,他们就像果箱里的烂苹果,如果不及时处理,它会迅速传染,把果箱里其他苹果也弄烂。

[考研类试卷]2016年北京第二外国语学院英语翻译基础真题试卷.doc

[考研类试卷]2016年北京第二外国语学院英语翻译基础真题试卷.doc

[考研类试卷]2016年北京第二外国语学院英语翻译基础真题试卷.doc[考研类试卷]2016年北京第二外国语学院英语翻译基础真题试卷英译汉1 black art2 bank holiday3 squatter settlement4 strip the citizenship5 lottery industry6 Intellectual Property Rights7 the Hanging Monastery8 UAV9 WWF10 GATT11 FBI12 OPEC13 NASA14 Fool's haste is no speed.15 A close mouth catches no flies.汉译英16 日本茶道17 证券交易委员会18 医疗改革19 劳动密集型经济20 新闻自由21 世界反法西斯战争22 豆腐渣工程23 中国人民解放军24 科学发展观25 加快经济结构调整26 国家外汇管理局27 中国特色社会主义道路28 中国科学院29 国民生产总值30 非物质文化遗产英译汉31 Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, "Love me, love my dog." But there is more wisdom in this: "Love me, love my book." The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man's life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters.Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive but what is really good.Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us intothe presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.The great and good do not die, even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which on still listens.汉译英32 中国经济同亚太和世界经济的相互联系、相互依存不断加深。

2016考研英语(一)真题及答案详细解析

2016考研英语(一)真题及答案详细解析

Section ⅠUse of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark [A], [B], [C] or [D] on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)In Cambodia, the choice of a spouse is a complex one for the young male. It may involve not only his parents and his friends, __1__those of the young woman, but also a matchmaker. A young man can __2__ a likely spouse on his own and then ask his parents to __3__the marriage negotiations, or the young man’s parents may take the choice of a spouse, giving the child little to say in the selection. __4__, a girl may veto the spouse her parents have chosen. __5__ a spouse has been selected, each family investigates the other to make sure its child is marrying __6__ a good family.The traditional wedding is a long and colorful affair. Formerly it lasted three days, __7__1980s it more commonly lasted a day and a half. Buddhist priests offer a short sermon and __8__ prayers of blessing. Par--ts of the ceremony involve ritual hair cutting,__9__cotton threads soaked in holy water around the bride's and groom's wrists, and __10__a candle around a circle of happily married and respected couples to bless the __11__. Newlyweds traditionally move in with the wife's parents and may__12__ with them up to a year, __13__they can build a new house nearby.Divorce is legal and easy to __14__, but not common. Divorced persons are __15__ with some disapproval. Each spouse retains ___16___ property he or she __17__ into the marriage, and jointly-acquired property is __18__ equally. Divorced persons may remarry, but a gender prejudice __19__up. The divorced male doesn't have a waiting period before he can remarry __20__the woman must wait ten months.1. A. by way of B. with regard to C. on behalf of D. as well as2. A. decide on B. provide for C. compete with D. adapt to3. A. close B. arrange C. renew D. postpone4. A. In theory B. Above all C. In time D. For example5. A. Unless B. Less C. After D. Although6. A. into B. within C. from D. through7. A. or B. since C. but D. so8. A. test B. copy C. recite D. create9. A. folding B. piling C. wrapping D. tying10. A. passing B. lighting C. hiding D. serving11. A. association B. meeting C. collection D. union12. A. deal B. part C. grow D. live13. A. whereas B. until C. for D. if14. A. avoid B. follow C. challenge D. obtain15. A. isolated B. persuaded C. viewed D. exposed16. A. wherever B. whatever C. whenever D. however17. A. changed B. brought C. shaped D. pushed18. A. invested B. divided C. donated D. withdrawn19. A. warms B. clears C. shows D. breaks20. A. while B. so that C. once D. in that1.[标准答案] [D]as well as[考点分析] 本题考察逻辑关系[选项分析] 因为考察逻辑关系,所以需要我们先对填空前后的原文信息做定位分析:文章身处大环境not only…..but also之中,这是一个明显的并列关系,表示“不仅……而且……”该空与前一句“his parents and his friends”也是并列关系,表示“与他本人以及伴侣的父母朋友相关”所以答案只能是D. as well as.A. by way of通过B. with regard to 关于C. on behalf of 代表2.[标准答案] [A] decide on[考点分析] 上下文语义[选项分析] 根据该句的主语a young man与宾语a likely spouse的关系,答案只能是A. decide on 决定。

2016考研英语一翻译部分参考答案和评析

2016考研英语一翻译部分参考答案和评析

2016考研英语一翻译部分参考答案上海新东方无忧考研薛海滨46. We don’t have to learn how to be mentally healthy; it is built into us in the same way that our bodies know how to heal a cut or mend a broken bone.我们无需学习如何保持心理健康;这种能力与生俱来,正如我们身体上的伤口会自动愈合、骨折会自动修复一样。

47. Our mental health doesn’t really go anywhere; like the sun behind a cloud, it can be temporarily hidden from view, but it is fully capable of being restored in an instant.健康的心理其实不会离我们远去;就像太阳有时只是躲到云层后面,我们暂时看不见而已,但刹那间又会阳光普照。

48. Mental health allows us to view others with sympathy if they are having troubles, with kindness if they are in pain, and with unconditional love no matter who they are.健康的心理会让我们对陷入麻烦的人报以同情,对遭遇困苦的人予以友爱。

无论对方是谁,我们都能给予无条件的爱。

49. Although mental health is the cure-all for living our lives, it is perfectly ordinary as you will see that it has been there to direct you through all your difficult decisions.虽然心理健康是生活中的万能良药,但其极为普通,因为你会发现,它总是陪在你身边,指引你度过难关,做出抉择。

考研英语一历年翻译真题及答案

考研英语一历年翻译真题及答案

考研英语一历年翻译真题:(2016-1994)(此资料由小七i整理,请不要外传,仅用于考研学习借鉴,如有错误地方,请自行参考其他资料。

)【每年的题目单独编译成页是为了便于打印后直接在上面进行书写】翻译主题分析:1994年:天才、技术与科学发展的关系 1995年:标准化教育与心理评估(364词)1996年:科学发展的动力(331词) 1997年:动物的权利(417词)1998年:宇宙起源(376词) 1999年:史学研究方法(326词)2000年:科学家与政府(381词) 2001年:计算机与未来生活展望(405词)2002年:行为科学发展的困难 2003年:人类学简介(371词)2004年:语言与思维(357词) 2005年:电视媒体2006年:美国的知识分子 2007年:法学研究的意义2008年:达尔文的思想观点 2009年:正规教育的地位2010年:经济与生态 2011年:能动意识的作用2012年:普遍性真理 2013年:人类状况2014年:贝多芬的一生 2015年:历史学方面2016年:心理健康46) We don't have to learn how to be mentally healthy, it is built into us in the same way that our bodies know how to heal a cut or mend, a broken bone. 47) Our mental health doesn't go anywhere; like the sun behind a cloud, it can be temporarily hidden from view, but it is fully capable of being restored in an instant.48) Mental health allows us to view others with sympathy if they are having troubles, with kindness if they are in pain, and with unconditional love no matter who they are.49) Although mental health is the cure-all for living our lives, it is perfecting ordinary as you will see that it has been there to direct you through all your difficult decisions.50) As you will come to see, knowing that mental health is always available and knowing to trust it allow us to slow down to the moment and live life happily.46) This movement, driven by powerful and diverse motivations, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.47) The United States is the product of two principal forces-the immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs, and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits. 48) But, the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused significant changes.49) The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after thefifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorations of North America.50) The virgin forest with its richness and variety of trees was a real treasure-house which extended from Maine all the way down to Georgia in the south. Here was abundant fuel and lumber.46) It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words, all we can do is articulate our reactions to it, and not grasp music itself.47)By all accounts he was a freethinking person, and a courageous one, and I find courage an essential quality for the understanding, let alone the performance, of his works.48) Beethoven’s habit of increasing the volume with an extreme intensity and then abruptly following it with a sudden soft passage was only rarely used by composers before him.49) Especially significant was his view of freedom, which, for him, was associated with the rights and responsibilities of the individual: he advocated freedom of thought and of personal expression.50)One could interpret much of the work of Beethoven by saying that suffering is inevitable, but the courage to fight it renders life worth living.46) Yet when one looks at the photographs of the garden created by the homeless, it strikes one that , for all their diversity of styles, these gardens speak of various other fundamental urges, beyond that of decoration and creative expression.47) A sacred place of peace, however crude it may be, is a distinctly human need, as opposed to shelter, which is a distinctly animal need.48)The gardens of the homeless which are in effect homeless gardens introduce from into an urban environment where it either didn’t exist or was not discernible as such. In so doing they give composure to a segment of the inarticulate environment in which they take their stand.49) Most of us give into a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological conditions, until one day we find ourselves in garden and feel the expression vanish as if by magic.50) It is this implicit or explicit reference to nature that fully justifies the use of word garden though in a “liberated” sense, to describe these synthetic constructions.46) In physics, one approach takes this impulse for unification to its extreme, and seeks a theory of everything—a single generative equation for all we see.47) Here, Darwinism seems to offer justification for it all humans share common origins it seems reasonable to suppose that cultural diversity could also be traced to more constrained beginnings.48) To filter out what is unique from what is shared might enable us to understand how complex cultural behavior arose and what guides it in evolutionary or cognitive terms.49) The second, by Joshua Greenberg, takes a more empirical approach to universality identifying traits (particularly in word order) shared by many language which are considered to represent biases that result from cognitive constraints.50) Chomsky’s grammar should show patterns of language change that are independent of the family tree or the pathway tracked through it.46)Allen’s contribution was to take an assumption we all share-that because we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts-and reveal its erroneous nature.47) While we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone, in reality we are continually faced with a question: “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that?”48) This seems a justification for neglect of those in need, and a rationalization of exploitation, of the superiority of those at the top and the inferiority of those at the bottom.49) Circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us and if we feel that we have been “wronged” then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation.50)The upside is the possibilities contained in knowing that everything is up to us; where before we were experts in the array of limitations, now we become authorities of what is possible.46) Scientists jumped to the rescue with some distinctly shaky evidence to the effect that insects would eat us up if birds failed to control them. the evidence had to be economic in order to be valid.47) But we have at least drawn near the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of intrinsic right, regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us.48) Time was when biologists somewhat over worded the evidence that these creatures preserve the health of game by killing the physically weak, or that they prey only on "worthless" species.49) In Europe, where forestry is ecologically more advanced, the non-commercial tree species are recognized as members of native forest community, to be preserved as such, within reason.50) It tends to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate, many elements in the land community that lack commercial value, but that are essential to its healthy functioning.46) It may be said that the measure of the worth of any social institution is its effect in enlarging and improving experience; but this effect is not a part of its original motive.47) Only gradually was the by-product of the institution noted, and only more gradually still was this effect considered as a directive factor in the conduct of the institution.48) While it is easy to ignore in our contact with them the effect of our acts upon their disposition, it is not so easy as in dealing with adults.49) Since our chief business with them is to enable them to share in a common life we cannot help considering whether or no we are forming the powers which will secure this ability.50) We are thus led to distinguish, within the broad educational process which we have been so far considering, a more formal kind of education -- that of direct tuition or schooling.46)He believes that this very difficulty may have had the compensating advantage of forcing him to think long and intently about every sentence, and thus enabling him to detect errors in reasoning and in his own observations.47) He asserted, also, that his power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought was very limited, for which reason he felt certain that he never could have succeeded with mathematics.48)On the other hand, he did not accept as well founded the charge made by some of his critics that, while he was a good observer, he had no power of reasoning.49) He adds humbly that perhaps he was "superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them carefully."50)Darwin was convinced that the loss of these tastes was not only a loss of happiness, but might possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character.46) Traditionally, legal learning has been viewed in such institutions as the special preserve of lawyers rather than a necessary part of the intellectual equipment of an educated person.47) On the other, it links these concepts to everyday realities in a manner which is parallel to the links journalists forge on a daily basis as they cover and comment on the news.48) But the idea that the journalist must understand the law more profoundly than an ordinary citizen rests on an understanding of the established conventions and special responsibilities of the news media.49) In fact, it is difficult to see how journalists who do not have a clear preps of the basic features of the Canadian Constitution can do a competent job on political stories.50) While comment and reaction from lawyers may enhance stories, it is preferable for journalists to rely on their own notions of significance and make their own judgments.46) I shall define him as an individual who has elected as his primary duty and pleasure in life the activity of thinking in Socratic(苏格拉底) way about moral problems.47) His function is analogous to that of a judge, who must accept the obligation of revealing in as obvious a matter as possible the course of reasoning which led him to his decision.48) I have excluded him because, while his accomplishments may contribute to the solution of moral problems, he has not been charged with the task of approaching any but the factual aspects of those problems.49)But his primary task is not to think about the moral code, which governs his activity, any more than a businessman is expected to dedicate his energies to an exploration of rules of conduct in business.50)They may teach very well and more than earn their salaries, but most of them make little or no independent reflections on human problems which involve moral judgment.46) Television is one of the means by which these feelings are created and conveyed-and perhaps never before has it served to much to connect different peoples and nations as is the recent events in Europe.47) In Europe, as elsewhere multi-media groups have been increasingly successful groups which bring together television, radio newspapers, magazines and publishing houses that work in relation to one another.48) This alone demonstrates that the television business is not an easy world to survive in a fact underlined by statistics that show that out of eighty European television networks no less than 50% took a loss in 1989.49) Crea ting a “European identity” that respects the different cultures and traditions which go to make up the connecting fabric of the Old continent is no easy task and demands a strategic choice - that of producing programs in Europe for Europe.50)In dealing with a challenge on such a scale, it is no exaggeration to say “Unity we stand, divided we fall” -and if I had to choose a slogan it would be “Unity in our diversity.”61) The Greeks assumed that the structure of language had some connection with the process of thought, which took root in Europe long before people realized how diverse languages could be.62) We are obliged to them because some of these languages have since vanished, as the peoples who spoke them died out or became assimilated and lost their native languages.63) The newly described languages were often so strikingly different from the well studied languages of Europe and Southeast Asia that some scholars even accused Boas and Sapir of fabricating their data Native American languages are indeed different, so much so in fact that Navajo could be used by the US military as a code during World War II to send secret messages.64) Being interested in the relationship of language and thought, Whorf developed the idea that the structure of language determines the structure of habitual thought in a society.65) Whorf came to believe in a sort of linguistic determinism which, in its strongest form, states that language imprisons the mind, and that the grammatical patterns in a language can produce far-reaching consequences for the culture of a society.61) Furthermore, humans have the ability to modify the environment in which they live, thus subjecting all other life forms to their own peculiar ideas and fancies.62) Social science is that branch of intellectual enquiry which seeks to study humans and their endeavors in the same reasoned, orderly, systematic, and dispassioned manner that natural scientists use for the study of natural phenomena.63) The emphasis on data gathered first-hand, combined with a cross-cultural perspective brought to the analysis of cultures past and present, makes this study a unique and distinctly important social science.64) Tylor defined culture as “...that complex whole which includes belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.”65) Thus, the anthropological concept of “culture,” like the concept of “set” in mathematics, is an abstract concept which makes possible immense amounts of concrete research and understanding.61) One difficulty is that almost all of what is called behavioral science continues to trace behavior to states of mind, feelings, traits of character, human nature, and so on.62) The behavioral sciences have been slow to change partly because the explanatory items often seem to be directly observed and partly because other kinds of explanations have been hard to find.63) The role of natural selection in evolution was formulated only a little more than a hundred years ago, and the selective role of the environment in shaping and maintaining the behavior of the individual is only beginning to be recognized and studied.64) They are the possessions of the autonomous (self-governing) man of traditional theory, and they are essential to practices in which a person is held responsible for his conduct and given credit for his achievements. 65) Until these issues are resolved, a technology of behavior will continue to be rejected, and with it possibly the only way to solve our problems.71) There will be television chat shows hosted by robots, and cars with pollution monitors that will disable them when they offend.72) Children will play with dolls equipped with personality chips, computers with in-built personalities will be regarded as workmates rather than tools, relaxation will be in front of smell-television, and digital age will have arrived.73) Pearson has pieced together the work of hundreds of researchers around the world to produce a unique millennium technology calendar that gives the latest dates when we can expect hundreds of key breakthroughs and discoveries to take place.74) But that, Pearson points out, is only the start of man-machine integration: “It will be the beginning of the long process of integration that will ultimately lead to a fully electronic human before the end of the next century."75) And home appliances will also become so smart that controlling and operating them will result in the breakout of a new psychological disorder--kitchen rage.71)There will be television chat shows hosted by robots and cars with pollution monitors that will disable them when they offend.72) Children will play with dolls equipped with personality chips computers with in-built personalities will be regarded as workmates rather than tools relaxation will be in front of smell-television and digital age will have arrived.73)Owing to the remarkable development in mass-communications,people everywhere are feeling new wants and are being exposed to new customs and ideas,while governments are often forced to introduce still further innovations for the reasons given above.74) But that, Pearson points out, is only the start of man-machine integration:“It will be the beginning of the long process of integration that will ultimately lead to a fully electronic human before the end of the next century.”75) And home appliances will also become so smart that controlling and operating them will result in the breakout of a new psychological disorder kitchen rage.71) While there are almost as many definitions of history as there are historians,modern practice most closely conforms to one that sees history as the attempt to recreate and explain the significant events of the past.72) Interest in historical methods has arisen less through external challenge to the validity of history as an intellectual discipline and more from internal quarrels among historians themselves.73) During this transfer,traditional historical methods were augmented by additional methodologies designed to interpret the new forms of evidence in the historical study.74) There is no agreement whether methodology refers to the concepts peculiar to historical work in general or to the research techniques appropriate to the various branches of historical inquiry.75) It applies equally to traditional historians who view history as only the external and internal criticism of sources. And to social science historians who equate their activity with specific techniques.71) But even more important,it was the farthest that scientists had been able to look into the past,for what they were seeing were the patterns and structures that existed 15 billion years ago.72) The existence of the giant clouds was virtually required for the Big Bang,first put forward in the 1920s,to maintain its reign as the dominant explanation of the cosmos.73) Astrophysicists working with ground-based detectors at the South Pole and balloon-borne instruments are closing in on such structures,and may report their findings soon.74) If the small hot spots look as expected,that will be a triumph for yet another scientific idea,a refinement of the Big Bang called the inflationary universe theory.75) Odd though it sounds,cosmic inflation is a scientifically plausible consequence of some respected ideas in elementary-particle physics,and many astrophysicists have been convinced for the better part of a decade that it is true.71) Actually,it isn’t,because it assumes that there is an agreed account of human rights,which is something the world does not have.72) Some philosophers argue that rights exist only within a social contract,as part of an exchange of duties and entitlements.73) It leads the discussion to extremes at the outset: it invites you to think that animals should be treated either with the consideration humans extend to other humans,or with no consideration at all.74) Arguing from the view that humans are different from animals in every relevant respect,extremists of this kind think that animals lie outside the area of moral choice.75) When that happens,it is not a mistake: it is mankind’s instinct for moral reasoning in action,an instinct that should be encouraged rather than laughed at.71) Some of these causes are completely reasonable results of social needs. Others are reasonable consequences of particular advances in science being to some extent self-accelerating.72 )This trend began during the Second World War,when several governments came to the conclusion that the specific demands that a government wants to make of its scientific establishment cannot generally be foreseen in detail. 73) This seems mostly effectively done by supporting a certain amount of research not related to immediate goals but of possible consequence in the future.74) However,the world is so made that elegant systems are in principle unable to deal with some of the world more fascinating and delightful aspects.75) New forms of thought as well as new subjects for thought must arise in the future as they have in the past,giving rise to new standards of elegance.1995年考研英语(一)翻译真题71) The target is wrong,for in attacking the tests,critics divert attention from the fault that lies with ill-informed or incompetent users.72) How well the predictions will be validated by later performance depends upon the amount,reliability,and appropriateness of the information used and on the skill and wisdom with which it is interpreted.73) Whether to use tests,other kinds of information,or both in a particular situation depends,therefore,upon the evidence from experience concerning comparative validity and upon such factors as cost and availability.74) In general,the tests work most effectively when the qualities to be measured can be most precisely defined and least effectively when what is to be measured or predicated can not be well defined.75) For example,they do not compensate for gross social inequality,and thus do not tell how able an underprivileged youngster might have been had he grown up under more favorable circumstances.1994年考研英语(一)翻译真题71) Science moves forward,they say,not so much through the insights of great men of genius as because of more ordinary things like improved techniques and tools.72)“In short”,a leader of the new school contends,“the scientific revolution,as we call it,was largely the improvement and invention and use of a series of instruments that expanded the reach of science in innumerable directions.”73) Over the years,tools and technology themselves as a source of fundamental innovation have largely been ignored by historians and philosophers of science. 74) Galileo’s greatest glory was that in 1609 he was the first person to turn the newly invented telescope on the heavens to prove that the planets revolve around the sun rather than around the Earth.75) Whether the Government should increase the financing of pure science at the expense of technology or vice versa(反之)often depends on the issue of which is seen as the driving for。

2016年北外高翻英汉互译考研真题回忆版

2016年北外高翻英汉互译考研真题回忆版

2016年北外高翻英汉互译考研真题回忆版将第3-5段翻译成中文。

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Corporate boards and the critical oversight function they play have come to the fore over the last year. You don\'t need to look any further than the scandal roiling ExxonMobil to understand the high stakes at play.Exxon is facing a moment of truth with potentially huge financial ripples. Using internal company documents, Inside Climate News and The Los Angeles Times recently reported that Exxon deliberately misled the public about climate change research, even though its own scientists began warning the company about the dangers of warming global temperatures in 1977. Within days, the New York Attorney General confirmed that it has been investigating whether Exxon misled investors in a manner that violated state securities laws.Exxon presents a perfect case for examining how building sustainability into board governance can help prevent and manage risk. In the case of Exxon, climate risk is a sustainability issue that has been raised by investors through shareholder resolutions for well over a decade. So it\'s logical to ask how much did Exxon\'s board know about the company\'s research on climate change, and did any of the board members have the expertise necessary to question it? Did the company\'s research factor into board conversations on performance, risk and opportunity? And, importantly, did the board engage with stakeholders to inform its views?Investors are increasingly focused on the decisions made by corporate boards on corporate strategy and the extent to which it incorporates sustainability risks and opportunities. In 2013, a group of over 75 institutional investors collectively managing more than $3.5 trillion in assets sent letters to 45 of the world\'s largest fossil fuel companies, including Exxon, urging them to address the risks posed by climate change, including carbon asset risk.(Carbon asset risk is the potential of fossil fuel reserves being unusable - \'stranded,\' in Wall Street parlance - as the global economy transitions to low-carbon energy sources. Those risks are especially severe for fossil fuel companies if carbon-reducing efforts are successful in preventing Earth\'s temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.)Board oversight and intervention have had a major impact on how companies respond. For example, only three of the fossil fuel companies initially targeted have endorsed the use of a 2 degree scenario analysis in their business planning: BHP Billiton, Statoil and ConocoPhillips. In each of these cases, the decision to move forward with the analysis was initiated from the board rather than from management. But this type of proactive approach remains the exception ratherthan the rule.Corporate boards need to move from being reactive on sustainability issues, to proactively and systematically thinking about how environmental and social challenges factor into corporate strategies and performance. Ceres recently published a report, \"View from the Top: How Corporate Boards can Engage on Sustainability Performance\", outlining specific recommendations for proactive board engagement. Based on interviews with dozens of board members, senior corporate leaders and governance experts, the report underscores that informed oversight is critical to good governance. Among the report\'s key recommendations:(1) Where a sustainability issue is material to the company, the board should include directors with expertise on key issues in question. Investors are especially focused on having companies recruit \"climate competent\" and \"sustainability competent\" directors. Companies like Prudential Financial, for example, identify \"expertise in corporate responsibility/sustainability\" as a board qualification. Directors and management should assess the qualifications and expertise of current directors and map this against the company\'s sustainability priorities. Now is an ideal time for Exxon to re-consider shareholder calls for board members with climate expertise.(2) Boards run substantial risks when they operate as isolated entities. Engaging with external stakeholders, including investors, on sustainability priorities can mitigate those risks by giving directors a clearer view of the landscape of risks facing the company -- a view that is sometimes obscured when board directors rely solely on the perspective of company executives. The boards of three European oil and gas majors, Shell, BP and Statoil, embraced this approach and actually endorsed shareholder resolutions on climate change in 2015. Board engagement with shareholders led to a mutual understanding that better assessing climate risk would create long-term value. Nonetheless, companies like Exxon and Chevron continue to fight tooth and nail against any shareholder engagements that raise climate concerns, and requests to meet with board members are often rebuffed by management.The research indicates that Exxon\'s board would be better served by hearing directly from the shareholders that have been warning about climate and carbon asset risks. The reality is that sustainability is good business. Research, including from Harvard Business School, Morgan Stanley, and others consistently show that companies that embrace sustainability outperform their peers on a variety of crucial financial metrics. It\'s time for boards to embrace this reality.将第5-10段翻译成中文。

2016考研英语(一)真题及参考答案--翻译

2016考研英语(一)真题及参考答案--翻译

2016考研英语(一)真题及参考答案--翻译Part CDirections:Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)Mental health is our birthright. (46) we dont have to learn how to be mentally healthy, it is built into us in the same way that our bodies know how to heal a cut or mend, a broken bone. Mental health cant be learned, only reawakened. It is like immune system of the body, which under stress or through lack of nutrition or exercise can be weakened, but which never leaves us. When we dont understand the value of mental health and we dont know how to gain access to it, mental health will remain hidden from us. (47) Our mental health doesnt go anywhere; like the sun behind a cloud, it can be temporarily hidden from view, but it is fully capable of being restored in an instant.Mental health is the seed that contains self-esteem confidence in ourselves and an ability to trust in our common sense. It allows us to have perspective on our lives-the ability to not take ourselves too seriously, to laugh at ourselves, to see the bigger picture, and to see that things willwork out. Its a form of innate or unlearned optimism. (48) Mental health allows us to view others with sympathy if they are having troubles, with kindness if they are in pain, and with unconditional love no matter who they are. Mental health is the source of creativity for solving problems, resolving conflict, making our surroundings more beautiful, managing our home life, or coming up with a creative business idea or invention to make our lives easier. It gives us patience for ourselves. And toward others as well as patience while driving, catching a fish, working on our car, or raising a child. It allows us to see the beauty that surrounds us each moment in nature, in culture, in the flow of our daily lives.(49)Although mental health is the cure-all for living our lives, it is perfecting ordinary as you will see that it has been there to direct you through all your difficult decisions. It has been available even in the most mundane of life situations to show you right from wrong, good from bad, friend from foe. Mental health has commonly been called conscience, instinct, wisdom, common sense, or the inner voice, we think of it simply as a health and helpful flow of intelligent thought. (50) As you will come to see, knowing that mental health is always available and knowing to trust it allow us to slow down to the moment and live life happily.【参考译文】46. 我们不必一定去学习如何做到心理健康,这种能力植根于我们自身,就像我们的身体知道如何愈合伤口,如何修复断骨。

2016考研英语(二)翻译真题及答案

2016考研英语(二)翻译真题及答案

2016考研英语(二)翻译真题及答案46. Directions:Translate the following text into Chinese. Your translation should be written on the ANSWER SHEET. (15 points)The supermarket is designed to lure customers into spending as much time as possible within its doors. The reason for this is simple:The longer you stay in the store, the more stuff you'll see, and the more stuff you see, the more you'll buy. And supermarkets contain a lot of stuff. The average supermarket, according to the Food Marketing Institute, carries some 44,00 different items, and many carry tens of thousands more. The sheer volume of available choice is enough to send shoppers into a state of information overload. According to brain-scan experiments, the demands of so much decision-making quickly become too much for us. After about 40 minutes of shopping, most people stop struggling to be rationally selective, and instead begin shopping emotionally - which is the point at which we accumulate the 50 percent of stuff in our cart that we never intended buying.超市设计的目的就是为了使消费者花尽可能多的时间在店内逛。

2016专八真题翻译题及答案详解

2016专八真题翻译题及答案详解

2016年专八翻译题及答案详解“流逝”表现了南国人对时间最早的感觉.子在川上曰:“逝者如斯夫。

”他们发现无论是潺潺小溪,还是浩荡大河,都一去不复返,流逝之际青年变成了老翁而绿草转眼就枯黄,很自然有错阴的紧迫感。

流逝也许是缓慢的,但无论如何缓慢,对流逝的恐惧使人们必须用“流逝”这个词来时时警戒后人,必须急匆匆地行动,给这个词灌注一种紧张感。

【参考译文1】They have found that the flowing water, either a murmuring stream or a mighty river, passes quickly and never returns。

With the passage of time,the young become the old and the green grass turns yellow。

People naturally have a sense of urgency to value every bit of time。

As time goes by, no matter how slowly it elapses,people always use the word “liushi” to warn the later generations for fear of time’s flowing away. They tell their descendants to treasure every single minute and make a hurried action,which adds a sense of tension to the word.【参考译文2】They find that either a murmuring stream or a mighty river has gone forever and that the passage of time turns a young man into an old one, and yellows of the grass, which sends a massage of how time flies. Maybe the passing of time is slow. But no matter how slow it is,it mak es people so fearful that they use “passage” to warn the later generations to rush. And the use of “passage” also infuses a sense of tension into the word。

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我们之前说过,复习考研英语要注重真题,在记忆词汇和练习阅读理解、翻译题的时候要结合真题做搭配记忆,并辅以相应的练习,下面我们就以真题为例,从中摘取出容易出现的考点,不妨参考下尚考考研为大家从真题里摘取易考的考点。

The Tang Dynasty was the peak of Chinese classicalpoetry and many distinguished poets and poetryappeared during this period of less than 300years.Up till now,over 50,000 poems and 2,000poets of the Tang Dynasty have been well-knownamong people.The best-known poets during the Tang Dynasty are Li Bai and Du Fu. Beingindependent and full of talent,Li Bai created a great many poems to praise the wonderfulmountains and brilliant rivers.Du Fu's rough experiences when he was young made him knowbetter about the darkness society and the people's sufferings.The most popular Tang poemscollection might be the 300 Tang Poems compiled by the scholar Sun Zhu of the QingDynasty.Tang poetry has had an ongoing influence on world literature and modern poetry.
参考翻译
唐代是中国古典诗歌的鼎盛时期,在不到300年的时间里,产生了许多著名的诗人和诗作。

时至今日,有超过5万首唐诗和2000多位唐代诗人为人们所熟知。

其中,唐代最著名的诗人是李白和杜甫。

李白生性无拘无束,才华横溢,他创作了大量赞美祖国大好河山的诗篇。

杜甫年轻时坎坷的生活经历,使他更好地了解了社会的黑暗和人民的困苦。

最流行的唐诗作品集或许是由清朝的学者孙洙编著的《唐诗三百首》(300 Tang Poems)。

唐诗一直在影响着世界文学和现代诗歌。

1.鼎盛时期:可译为peak,原意为“顶峰,顶点”。

2.无拘无束:可译为independent,它有“不愿受约束的,向往自由的”之意。

3.才华横溢:可译为full of talent.
4.大好河山:即“美好的山河”,可译为wonderfulmountains and brilliant rivers.
5.社会的黑暗和人民的困苦:可译为the darkness of society and the people's sufferings.
6.一直在影响着…:可译为have an ongoing influence on…
The Four Treasures of the Study,is a general name ofthe traditional writing tools of Chinese calligraphy,including writing brush,ink,paper and inkstone.The name of Wenfang refers to a scholar's study.Besides these four treasures,tools used in the studyalso include brush pots,brush rack,ink box,wrist-rest,brush washer and inkpad,all of whichare necessities of the study. Classical products of the Four Treasures of the Study made byfamous producers during the Tang and Song Dynasties,when styles of writing were veryprosperous,were highly praised by later scholars.The invention and development of China'straditional culture and art are closely related to the Four Treasures of the Study.And to someextent,the Four Treasures of the Study represents an important element of traditionalChinese culture.
参考翻译
文房四宝(Four Treasures of the Study)是中国书法传统书写工具的统称,包括笔、墨、纸、砚(inkstone)。

“文房”指的是学者的书房。

除了这四宝,书房里的工具还有笔筒、笔架、墨盒、腕托、笔洗、墨块(inkpad),
这些都是书房必备品。

唐宋是书法的繁荣时期,当时著名的生厂商制造的经典文房四宝被后世学者高度赞扬。

中国传统文化及艺术的发明和发展与文房四宝密切相关。

在某种程度上,文房四宝代表了中国传统文化的重要元素。

1.“文房”指的是:其中“指的是”译为refer to.“文房”用汉语拼音Wenfang表示即可。

2.除了…还有:此处可用besides或in addition to表达,而不用except,因为except表示“除去不计,不包括…在内”。

3.经典:可译为classical.classical products意为“经典产品”。

4.和…密切相关:可译为be closely related to…
5.在某种程度上:可译为短语to some extent或in some degree.
In many tombs of the Tang Dynasty,people found avariety of Tang tri-colored glazed statues,the mostpopular ones of which were horses and ladies.Mainly they had the three-color glaze—yellow,green and brown,hence they got thename.Tang tri-colored glazed pottery were usually used as burial objects. Tang people wereopen-minded and glad to accept exotic cultures from countries all over the world.Foreigntraders,missionaries,diplomats and artists traveled thousands of miles along the Silk Road tovisit Tang's capital city,Chang'an.The trace of melting of multiple cultures can be found inTang tri-colored glazed pottery. They were mostly produced in Xi'an,Luoyang andYangzhou,which were important cities along the Silk Road.
参考翻译
人们在多个唐朝坟墓中发现了各种唐三彩塑像(Tang tri-colored glazed statues),其中最著名的是马和女子。

由于主要有三种颜色:黄、绿、棕,唐三彩因此得名。

唐三彩瓷器常被用作陪葬品(burial objects)。

唐代人民思想开放,乐于接受世界各国的文化。

外国商人、传教士、外交家、艺术家不远千里,沿着丝绸之路(the Silk Road)来到唐朝都城长安。

唐三彩瓷器有融各种文化于一体的痕迹,多产于丝绸之路的几个重要城市:西安、洛阳和扬州。

1.各种:可译为a variety of,还可以用various kinds of表达。

2.其中最著名的是…:可用定语从句表达,译为the mostpopular ones of which were…
3.被用作…:可译为be used as…
4.乐于接受世界各国的文化:可译为be glad to acceptexotic cultures from countries over the world.。

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