大学英语三级翻译模拟试题集

大学英语三级翻译模拟试题集Model Test 1Time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a book-lover or merely there to buy a book as a present.不管你是书籍爱好者，还是只是为了给朋友买一本书作为礼物而光顾书店，在书店里度过的时光总是令人心怡的。

You may even have entered the shop just to find shelter from a sudden shower. Whatever the reason, you can soon become absorbed in some book or other,不管因为什么，你总会很快沉浸于某本书。

and usually it is only much later that you realize you have spent far too much time there and must dash off to keep some forgotten appointment without buying a book, of course.This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think, the main attraction of a bookshop.我想书店的主要魅力就在于能够给我们一个逃离现实生活的机会。

There are not many places where it is possible to do this. A music shop is very much like a bookshop. You can wander round such places to your heart’s content. However, you have to be careful not to be attracted by the variety of books in a bookshop.然而，你必须格外小心，不要被书店里品种繁多的书所诱惑。

It is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of the latest best-selling novel and perhaps a book about brass rubbing (拓印) ----- something which had only vaguely interested you up until then. This volume on the subject, however, happened to be so well illustrated and the part of the text you read proved so interesting that you just had to buy it. This sort of thing can be very dangerous. Apart from running up a huge account, you can waste a great deal of time wandering from section to section.除了让你大掏腰包之外，你还可能会浪费大量的时间在书店里逛。

1．我们都想当然地以为他会来参加这个晚会，但结果直到晚会结束他都没出现。

We all took it for granted that he would take part in the party, but he didn’t turn up till the end.2．遗憾的是班上没有一个人能够解出这道难题。

Unfortunately, no one in the class can work out the difficult problem.3．即便是智力平庸的学生，通过努力学习也可以成为优等生。

Even a student of average intelligence can become a top student by working hard. 4．你应该放弃一些业余爱好，以便能花更多的时间在学习上。

You are supposed to give up some of your hobbies so that you can spend more time on your study.5．你是感冒了还是怎么了？你应该早点去看医生。

have you caught a cold or something? You should have gone to the doctor earlier.Model Test 2About 10 men in every hundred suffer from color blindness in some way; women are luckier as only about one in 200 is affected in this manner. There are different forms of color blindness. A man may not be able to see deep red.He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shades of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shades of green ----- a strange world indeed.In certain occupations color blindness can be dangerous and candidates are tested most carefully.For example, when fighting at night, soldiers use lights of flares to signal to each other. A green light may mean “Advance” and a red light many mean “Danger! Keep back!”You can see what will happen if somebody thinks that red is green! Color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called “cones” (视锥细胞). These help to see in a bright light and to tell the difference between colors. There are also millions of “rods” (杆状细胞) but these are used for seeing when it is nearly dark. They show us shape but not color. Wait until it is dark tonight, then go outside. Look round you and try to see what colors you can recognize.Birds and animals which hunt at night have eyes which contain few or no cones at all, so they cannot see colors. As far as we know, bats and adult owls (猫头鹰) cannot see colors at all but only light and dark shapes. Similarly cats and dogs cannot seecolors as well as we can.Insects can se ultra violet rays which are invisible to us, and some of them can even see X-rays. The wings of a moth may seem gray and dull to us, but to insects they may appear beautiful, showing colors which we cannot see. Scientists know that there are other colors around us which insects can see but which we cannot see. Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes like blue, but do not like yellow. A red light will not attract insects but a blue lamp will.1．他25岁时从父亲手里接管了公司，结果证明他比他父亲更成功。

2．众所周知，我们的问题至少部分地是由于没能相互交流而引起的。

3．约翰宣称他在找到一份满意的工作之前绝不结婚。

4．警察开始调查这起交通事故，并试图查明谁应该对此负责。

5．有人提议将这个会议推迟到下个星期。

大学英语三级翻译模拟试题集Model Test 3Women in Britain are without doubt better off today than they used to be. At the beginning of the 19th century women seemed to have had almost no rights at all. They could not vote, or even sign contracts. Their marriages were arranged by their parents, and once they were married they could not own property. Most of the time they were kept at home, and even when they were allowed to work, they were never given responsible jobs.It is strange to think that, as far as we know, most women were happy with this situation.Today the position is quite different. Women can now vote, and choose their own husbands. In 1970 a law was passé to give them an equal share of property in the case of divorce, and in the same year the Equal Pay Act gave them the right to equal pay with men for work of equal value.Yet despite these changes, there is no doubt that there are still great differences in status between men and women. Many employers seem to ignore the Equal Pay Act, and the average working woman is likely to earn only about half what a man earns for the same job. Most women who do work still do unskilled jobs while only a small proportion of the country’s workers are in fact women.There is also great inequality in education. Only a quarter of all university students are women. And at present boys’ schools are undoubtedly much better than girl s’ schools.1．一旦你许下承诺，你就应该坚持到底，不管这会有多么困难。