英语四六级翻译速记

CET-6 歌谣和神话

远在文字出现之前，歌谣跟口头流传的神话就已大量产生。中国的文学正是开始于此。不过，歌谣本是人们在生活中随兴而发的东西，上古时代也没有保存和记载它们的方式，因此也就很快湮灭，不留痕迹。如今，我们只能从一些古书中推断它们的存在。古书中记载了一些年代非常久远的歌谣，但是大多出于后人的伪托，能够断定出处的歌谣要到《诗经》里才能看见。从这点来看，古代神话对中国文学的影响更为显著。

翻译词汇：

歌谣 ballad

随兴而发 improvise 痕迹 trace

推断 deduce 年代非常久远的 time-honored 伪托 derivative

《诗经》 The Book of Songs

译文：

Long before the emergence of the written word, ballads and myths, passed around by word of mouth, were widely popular. Chinese literature finds its origins in these traditions. However, ballads were what people improvised out of daily life, and due to lack of means to record and preserve them in ancient times, they quickly disappeared without leaving much of a trace. Today, we can only deduce their existence from ancient books, which recorded some time-honored ballads, though most of these are believed to be derivatives of later generations. Ballads in The Book of Songs are the earliest writings that can be dated. From this point of view, ancient mythology has had a greater influence on Chinese literature.

CET-4 中秋节

每年的农历八月十五为中秋节，是月亮在一年中最圆、最亮的一天。中秋节的历史非常悠久。自古以来，历代皇帝都遵循着春季祭日、秋季祭月的传统。到唐代，中秋节开始作为固定节日;宋朝时，这一节日更为盛行。至明清，中秋节已成为一个与春节、清明节和端午节并列的重大节日。在中秋节这天，人们会在月下观赏祭拜，寄托个人情怀。

The Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the8th lunar month, when the moon is the fullest andbrightest of the whole year. This festival has a verylong history. In ancient China, emperors followed thetradition of offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and to the moon in autumn. By the TangDynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival had been fixed as a holiday, which became even grander inthe Song Dynasty. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, it grew to be a major festival of Chinatogether with the Spring Festival, the Qingming Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. On this day,people enjoy the full, bright moon, worship it and express their thoughts and feelings in themoonlight.

1.最圆:可直译为roundest,但译为fullest为最佳，月亮最圆的时候，即为满月。

2.遵循着…传统:常用follow the tradition来表达。

3.祭:指祭祀，sacrifice不仅有牺牲的意思，还可以表示祭品，因此祭日、祭月、祭祖都可以用offer sacrifices tothe sun/moon/ancestor 表达。

4.到唐代，中秋节…这一节日更为盛行:这两句话主语都为“中秋节”，故可以用连接词which将两句话连接起来，从而避免重复。

5.寄托个人情怀:按照汉语的语义，“寄托”表达的意境比较深刻，翻译时，可理解为“表达”，即express; “情怀”可译为thoughts and feelings。

CET-6 低碳生活

低碳生活(low-carbon life)倡导人们在生活中减少二氧化碳的排放，是一种低能量、低消耗和低开支的生活方式。它要求人们以更健康、更安全和更自然的方式进行人与自然的活动。如今，这股风潮逐渐在中国一些大城市兴起，不知不觉地改变着人们的生活。为了实行低碳生活，人们需要改变一些生活细节，如节约用电、不使用塑料袋和一次性产品、乘坐公共交通工具(Public transport)等。低碳生活节能环保，大大有利于减缓全球气候变暖和环境恶化的速度。

As a lifestyle with low energy, low consumption and low expenditure, low-carbon life advocates that people should reduce the emission of carbon dioxide in daily life. It requires that the activities between man and nature should be conducted in a healthier, safer and more natural manner. Nowadays, the fashion prevails gradually in some large cities of China, altering people's life before they realize it. To practice low-carbon life, people should change some details of their life, for example, saving electricity, not using plastic bags and disposable products, as well as taking public transport and so on. Being energy efficient and environment friendly, the low-carbon life contributes tremendously to slowing down the speed of global warming and environment deterioration.

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