四川外国语学院2008年真题(翻译与写作).doc

Sichuan International Studies University2008 Postgraduate Admission Examination Paper forTranslation and Writing翻译与写作答题要求:所有答案必须写在答题纸上，否则不给分。全卷150分，3小时完成。I. Translate the underlined parts into Chinese: (50 points) I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills(恩贡山区). The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet.In the day-time you felt that you had got high up, near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold. The geographical position, and the height of the land combined to create a landscape that had not its like in all the world. There was no fat on it and no luxuriance anywhere; it was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet, like the strong and refined essence of a continent.The colours were dry and burnt, like the colours in pottery, ,The trees had a light delicate鱼liage, the structure of which was different from that of the trees in Europe; it did not grow inbows or cupolas, but in horizontal layers, and the formation gave to the tall solitary trees alikeness to the palms, or a heroic and romantic air like fullrigged ships with their sails clewedup, and to the edge of a wood a strange appearance as if the whole wood were faintly vibrating.Upon the grass of the great plains the crooked bare old thorn-trees were scattered, and the grasswas spiced like thyme and bog-myrtle; in some places the scent was so strong, that it smartedin the nostrils. All the flowers that you found on the plains, or upon the creepers and liana inthe native forest, were diminutive like flowers of the downs,nly just in the beginning ofthe long rains a number of big, massive heavy-scented lilies sprang out on the plains. Theviews were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, andunequalled nobility. The chief feature of the landscape, and of your life in it, was the air. Looking back on asojourn in the African highlands, you are struck by your feeling of having lived for a time up in鱼e air. The sky was rarely more than pale blue or violet, with a profusion of和ghty, weightless,ever-chancing clouds towering up and sailing on it, but it has a blue vigour in it, and at a shortdistance it painted the ranges of hills and the woods a fresh deep blue. In the middle of the daythe air was alive over the land, like a flame burning; it scintillated, waved and shone likerunning water, mirrored and_ doubled all objects, and created great Fata Morgana. Up in this丛曲air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the丛ghlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be. The丛ountain of Ngong Stretches in a long ridge from North to South, and is crownedwith four noble peaks like immovable darker blue waves against the sky. It rises eight, thousand共2页第1页feet above the Sea, a过to the East two thousand feet above the surrounding country; but to theWest the drop is deeper and more precipitous,the hills fall vertically down towards theGreat Rift Valley(大裂谷) The wind in the highlands blows steadily from the North-North-east. It is the samewind that, down at the coasts of Africa and Arabia, they name the Monsoon, the East Wind,which was King Solomons favourite horse. Up here it is felt as just the resistance,of.the air, as鱼旦卫arth throws herself. forward into space. The wind runs straight ag inst鱼e NQon到lls,and the slops of the hills would be the ideal place for setting up a glider, that would be liftedupwards by the currents, over鱼e mountain top. The clouds, which were traveling with thewind, struck the side of the hill and hung round it, or were caught on, the summit qnd broke intorain. But those that took a higher course and sailed clear of the reef, dissolved to the West of it,over the burning desert of the Rift Valley. Many times I have from my house wondered to seetheir proud floating masses, as soon as they had got over the hills, vanish in the blue air and begone.1l. Translate the following passage into English: (50 points) 站在尘土漫漫的路边，自己已没了勇气继续那剩下的一半旅程。酷暑炎炎，原先的勇气与意志早已消磨殆尽。此时此刻，自己是该抽身而退还是继续向着那未知的命运而前?正不知如何是好之际，我看到一只小蚂蚁，它与自己一样，艰难地跋涉于灰尘之中。虽然前途未知，它却能一个劲儿地瞒姗而前。我为它的一举一动所吸引，于是静静地注视着它，直至走到路的另一边。多么坚毅的小蚂蚁啊!受其鼓舞，自己重又鼓起勇气，毅然走完了余下的那段路程。可以说，正是因了那只小蚂蚁的榜样作用，自己以后的人生旅程才变达如此坚定，而且没了贫穷，没了绝望，也没了离家的孤寂。III. Writing: (50 points)Write a composition on the following topic: All Is Well That Ends WellRequirement: Write an essay of about 350 words on the given topic, either agreeing or disagreeing withthe view. In the first part of your writing you should present your viewpoint in a well formed thesisstatement; in the second part, you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details;in the last part you should bring what you have written