专业八级翻译练习1.doc

翻译练习11. Life is meant to be lived after all, not just survived. Whether in music or in literature, painting or architecture, art is that gives soul to our otherwise routine existence. In fact, art should be around us, not in museums. It should be reflected in our landscape and our buildings. It is far more important for us to let our kids, our future, know that art is neither frivolous nor superfluous. We need to show them that art is more than pleasant pictures or soothing music. Art is innovation at its most basic level. Art is conception and inspiration. Most importantly, art is about discovery, not mistakes. In a world where we concentrate on what is right and wrong, what is correct and incorrect, the world of art is a place where judgment is suspended and great discoveries are made because of it.艺术就其本质来说是创意活动，是概念的构思和灵感的体现。最重要的是艺术与对错无关，其目的在于发现和探索我们生活的世界。我们向来关心什么是对什么是错，什么是正确什么是不正确，但在艺术领域里，我们无须做出任何判断，却能获得重大的发现。2 Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich mans abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. The towns poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that they are above being supported by the town, but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old, return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. 尽管生活贫穷，你也要热爱生活。即便是在济贫院里，你也还有愉快、激动、光荣的时候。夕阳反射在济贫院的窗上，像射在富人宅第上一样光亮；在济贫院门前，积雪一样在早春融化。我只看到，一个心绪宁静的的人就算住在济贫院，生活起来也会心满意足，思想愉悦，如同生活在皇宫中一样。在我看来，城镇中的穷人往往是过着最无拘无束的生活，他们伟大也许正在于他们接受馈赠而无所疑虑。大多数人认为自己超凡脱俗，不需要城镇的资助，然而情况往往是，他们谋生靠的是不正当的手段，这毋宁是更不体面的。视贫穷如园中之花，像圣人一样去培植它吧！不要为新的花样而自寻烦恼衣服也好，朋友也好。翻开故往，回归故往。万物未变，我们在变。你的衣服可以卖掉，但你的思想一定要保留。3. Chinese Americans retain many aspects of their ancient culture, even after having lived here for several generations. For example, their family ties continue to be remarkably strong (encompassing grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, and others). Members of the family lend each other moral support and also practical help when necessary. From a very young age children are imbued with the old values and attitudes, including respect for their elders and feeling of responsibilities to the family. This helps to explain why there is so little juvenile delinquency among them. The high regard for education which is deeply imbedded in Chinese culture, and the willingness to work very hard to gain advancement are other noteworthy characteristics of theirs. This explains why so many descendents of uneducated laborers have succeeded in becoming doctors, lawyers, and other professionals. (Many of the most outstanding Chinese American scholars, scientists, and artists are more recent arrivals, who come from Chinas former upper class and who represent its high cultural traditions.) 4. If it were a country, California would be one with more people than Canada and an economy the size of Chinas. Its scientists shoot, with their rockets, for the moon; its films spread Hollywoods culture around the globe; its athletes break world records; even its wines now rank with the best of Frances. Somehow, it is always at the cutting edge, be it in the flower-power days of the 1960s or the dotcom boom of the 1990s. As Kevin Starr points out in his history of the state, California has long been “one of the prisms through which the American people, for better and for worse, could glimpse their future”. Mr. Starr is too good a historian to offer any pat explanation; instead, he concentrates on the extraordinary array of people and events that have led from the mythical land of Queen Calafia, through the rule of Spain and Mexico, and on to the governorship of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Moreover, he does so with such elegance and humor that his book is a joy to read.5. 有时候，在工作中重要的倒是能否处理好人际关系而不是有多大的才能。人际关系就是一种善于听取别人意见，体察别人的需要，虚心接受批评的能力。善于处理人际关系的人敢于承认错误，敢于承担自己的责任，这是对待错误的一种成熟和负责任的态度。这就是为什么许多平平庸庸的公司雇员在大调整中保住了位置，而有才能的人反而下岗。6 由小学到中学，所修习的无非是一些普通的基本知识。就是大学四年，所授课业也还是相当粗浅的学识。世人常称大学为“最高学府”，这名称易滋误解，好像过此以上即无学问可言。大学的研究所才是初步研究学问的所在，在这里做学问也只能算是初涉藩篱，注重的是研究学问的方法与实习。学无止境，一生的时间都嫌太短，所以古人皓首穷经，头发白了还在继续研究，不过在这样的研究中确是有浓厚的趣味。7 当汽车在望不到边的高原上奔驰，扑入你的视野的，是黄绿错综的一条大毯子黄的，那是土，未开垦的处女土，几十万年前由伟大的自然力所堆积成功的黄土高原的外壳；绿的呢，是人类劳力战胜自然的成果，是麦田，和风吹送，翻起了一轮一轮的绿波这时你会真心佩服昔人所造的两个字“麦浪”，若不是妙手偶得，便确是经过锤炼的语言的精华。8. 在整顿和规范市场经济秩序中，依法严惩了假冒伪劣食品、药品等严重危害人民生命健康的犯罪活动，以及偷税骗税、金融诈骗、走私和传销等严重犯罪活动，维护了人民群众的合法权益。加大了查办和预防职务犯罪的力度，集中力量对贪污受贿犯罪的大案要案深挖严查，严厉惩处。对充当黑恶势力后台和“保护伞”的国家工作人员职务犯罪，进行了严厉查处。9泰山的每个季节都有独特的魅力。春天，绿茵茵的山坡上，争奇斗艳的花朵到处可见。夏天，泰山的雷暴雨堪称奇观。秋天，枫树叶漫山遍野，蔚蓝色的河水穿流而行。冬天，雪盖群峰松披霜，景观素雅悲壮，别有一番情趣。喜逢艳阳日，极目远眺，重峦叠嶂，尽收眼帘。但遇天阴时，环顾四周，苍茫大地，尽入云海。泰山的日出与日落，闻名遐迩。 参考答案1 生命要活得精彩，而不单单是为了生存。不论是音乐、文学、绘画或建筑，任何形式的艺术都可以为我们原本单调的生活注入新的生命。艺术应该融入我们的生活，而不应该只陈列在博物馆里。艺术应该在我们的自然景观和建筑物中表现出来。 更重要的是让我们的孩子，也就是我们的未来，了解艺术不是毫无意义或者根本不必要的。我们必须让他们明白，艺术不只是漂亮的图片或者舒缓的音乐。 艺术就其本质来说是创意活动，是概念的构思和灵感的体现。最重要的是艺术与对错无关，其目的在于发现和探索我们生活的世界。我们向来关心什么是对什么是错，什么是正确什么是不正确，但在艺术领域里，我们无须做出任何判断，却能获得重大的发现。2 尽管生活贫穷，你也要热爱生活。即便是在济贫院里，你也还有愉快、激动、光荣的时候。夕阳反射在济贫院的窗上，像射在富人宅第上一样光亮；在济贫院门前，积雪一样在早春融化。我只看到，一个心绪宁静的的人就算住在济贫院，生活起来也会心满意足，思想愉悦，如同生活在皇宫中一样。在我看来，城镇中的穷人往往是过着最无拘无束的生活，他们伟大也许正在于他们接受馈赠而无所疑虑。大多数人认为自己超凡脱俗，不需要城镇的资助，然而情况往往是，他们谋生靠的是不正当的手段，这毋宁是更不体面的。视贫穷如园中之花，像圣人一样去培植它吧！不要为新的花样而自寻烦恼衣服也好，朋友也好。翻开故往，回归故往。万物未变，我们在变。你的衣服可以卖掉，但你的思想一定要保留。3 华裔美国人保留了他们传统文化中的很多特点，即使是在美国生活了很多年以后。比方说，他们的家庭关系还是非常紧密（包括祖父母、叔伯、姑姨、堂兄妹，还有其他人）。家庭成员相互给予精神鼓励，必要时相互给予实际帮助。孩子们从小耳濡目染传统道德观念，学习尊重长辈，培养家庭责任感。华人少年犯罪率较低，原因或许就在于此。 中国人其他的显著特征还有：高度重视教育这一点深植于其传统文化，以及为了进步愿意拼命工作。未受过教育的华工，他们的后代多数成功地成了医生、律师及其他专业人士，原因就在于此。（许多最杰出的美籍华人学者、科学家和艺术家多是新移民，他们来自中国昔日的上层社会，代表了中国的高等文化传统。）4 如果加利福尼亚是一个国家，那么它将是一个人口超过加拿大、经济规模与中国相当的强国。它的科学家们将火箭发射到了月球，它的电影将好来坞文化传播到全世界，它的运动健儿打破了世界记录，甚至它出产的美酒现在都可以与法国的顶级佳酿齐驾并驱了。不知何故，加州总是处在风口浪尖，不管是在20世纪60年代的“嬉皮士运动”中，还是在90年代的互联网经济热潮里。正如凯文斯塔在他为加州撰写的历史中指出的那样，长期以来，“加州一直像一个棱镜，透过它，美国人可以瞥见自己的未来，无论好坏。” 作为优秀的历史学家，斯塔先生对这一说法不会急于做出解释，相反，他将笔墨集中在那些特别的历史时间和人物的叙述和描写上：从黑人女王加利菲娅管辖下的这块神奇土地开始，到西班牙和墨西哥人的统治，再到今天阿诺德施瓦辛格治理下的州政府。5. Sometimes it is interpersonal skills rather than professional skills that really count in your career. Interpersonal skills are nothing but the ability to be a good listener, to be sensitive toward others needs, and to take criticism well. People with skills in social relations admit their mistakes, and take their share of blame, which is a mature and responsible way to handle an error. Thats why many mediocre employees survive violent corporate upheavals while people of great talent are being laid off.6. Primary and secondary schools will impart to you only some rudiments of knowledge. Even what you learn during the four years of university will be something quite superficial too. A university has often been misleadingly referred to as “the highest seat of learning”, which sounds as if there were no more learning to speak of beyond it. The research institute of a university, however, is the place for preliminary, scholarship. But even there you get only the first taste of learning and the emphasis is on research methodology and practice. Art is long, life is short. That is why some of our ancients continued to study classics into their old age. They were, of course, motivated by an enormous interest in their studies.7. As your truck bowls along the seemingly endless plateau a big yellow-green patchwork rug flashes into view. The yellow is virgin soil heaped up millions of years ago by great natural forces to form the crust of this loess steppe. The green, the result of mens toil to conquer nature, is wheat fields blown by the breeze into green waves- showing the aptness of the old phrase “a sea of wheat”. If not coined by a genius, it at least represents a fine example that demonstrates how well our language has been refined.8. In the process of the on-going nationwide campaign launched to consolidate the market order, punishments have been meted out in accordance with laws against crimes that do harm to peoples lives and health, including production and sale of counterfeit and substandard foods and medicines, and other crimes such as tax evasion and defraud, financial swindling, smuggling and pyramid selling. This has effectively protected the peoples legitimate rights and interests. Work has been intensified to investigate and prevent on-job crimes,