888英语写作与翻译20已核对部分插入

1、电子科技大学2002 年攻读学位人学试题科目名称：英语写作与翻译Part OneTranslation (I) (30%)Directions: Put the followin Answer Sheet.Passage 1o passageso Chiand write your translated veron theThe relation of a living writer to his legend maye curiously complicated. If we takethe accountt Mr. Peter Qennell has recently given us i

2、n Byron: The Years ome, it wouldseemt superfilly the poed at twenty-two only a very slight resemblance to thcturewhich the public presently began to come of him. On the contrary, he seemed to his friends aable, gay young man, an excellent drinking companion; there was, of course, the limp; andhe had

3、, as they may not have known, the consciousness of a bad heredity. Childe Harold wasmade of emotions only latent in Byron. It was a corollary of his famet the poet should beidentified with Childe Haroldhe minds of his admirers. But it was not long before in his ownimagination he became Childe Harold

4、. In attempting to say whas happened to Hemingway, Imight suggestt, for one thing, he hase the legendary Hemingway. He appears to haveturnedo a comite of all those photographs he has been sending out for years: sunburnedfrom snows, on skis; in fishing get-up, burned dark from the hot Caribbean; the

5、handsome,stalwartter crouched smiliner the carcass of some dead beast.Byrons legend is sinister and rom, Hemingways manly and low- brow. One thing iscertain. His last book is hard-boiled, which bears the meaning of indifference to suffering and,since we are what we are, which can signify a callousne

6、ss to others pain. When I sayt theyoung Hemingway was among the tenderest of mortals, I do not speak out of private knowledge,but from the evidence of his writings. He could be, as any artist musthis world, if he is to gethis work done, ruthless. He wrote courageously, but-out of pity; having been h

7、urt, and badly hurt, he could understand the pain of others. His heart was worn, as was the fashion of the times, up his sleeve and not on it.Passage 2A field of knowledge has a curve of growth and a morphology, branches and stem-abeginning, a middle and an end. Different talents are neededhe garden

8、ers at different times.Those wigreen thumb must plant, while others wisure balance climb ladders for the fruit.Take the discovery of the law of graviion for exle.there is visual observation andinstrumen ion. From ancients to Tycho Braches quadrant and his tables of years of night of measurement. The

9、n there was the rule-makers, from the Ptolemaic astronomers to Kepler, who asked how all this would look from the nearest star and searched Tychos tables for regularities, boiling the regularities down to his three laws of planetary motion. Lucretus and Copernicusanimate the mixture with their livel

10、y controversies. At one side are the auxiliaries: Archimedes onconic section, the navigators, defining the shand size of the earth; Galileo, hauling balls andabstracting from themt ingenious invention, the ideal free body. These are the shoulders ofgiants preparing for Newton!Part TwoTranslatio)(35%

11、)Directions: Translate the followinthe Answer Sheet.o passageso English and write your translated veronPassage 1汉末与友人期行，期日中，过期不至，仲功自去。去后乃至。其子元方时年七岁，在门外戏。客问元方：“尊君在否?”答曰：“待君久不至，已去。”友人便怒曰： “哉!与人期行,相委而去!”元方曰：“君与家君期日中时，过中不来，则是无信：对子骂父则是无礼。”友人惭，下车引之。元方遂入门不顾。Passage 2近来法律方面的研究表明，目击者在上对嫌疑犯的指认并非般象中的那麽可靠。记忆是十分

12、复杂的，在有关的大脑如何工作以及的能达到什么程度方面，人们普会随时间的流逝而变得模遍持有的些看法常常是错误的。无论是还是研究都表明糊。刚刚接受信息后的回忆和识别能力是最准确的，它先是迅速下降，然后逐渐减弱。拖延的时间越长，事件之后得到的信息越有可能与原始的相，从而降低其准确性。而且，目击者事后会看到、读到一些信息，然后将它融合进来，产生川某种与所经历的事情不同的东西，使他们对事件和罪犯的可靠性大大降低。对和陪审团来说，断定最终是可靠的事实还是不可靠的编造在很大程度上似乎仍然是个Part ThreeWriting (35%)。Directions: You are allowed 40 minu

13、tes to write an article of around 300 words on ONE of thegiven topics. Be suret your writing should includeeast three well-developed parts withesis sement paragraph, supporting paragraph(s) with appropriate details, and a logical of the ideas discussed.1. Preparing for the 2008 Olympiad in BeijingWh

14、at do you expect from this linguistic program of ours inA Book Report of Forrest Gump by Winston Groom?参考Translation Il-Passage 1Chen YuanA boy ofegrityChen Zhonggong, a country magistratehe last years of the Hah Dynasty, once made anappoment, wifriend to set off together on a trip at noon. But the

15、friend did not come on time.So Chen started olone. After a while, the friend arrived only to fiend Chens seven-year-old son,Yuan, playing outside the house. The friend asked Yuan, “Is your father in?” Yuanrepd, “Hed waited for you for quite a while, but you didnt come. So hes gone by himself already

16、.”“Bastard!” the man muttered angrily. How could he make an appoment and breat it just liket?Yuanretorted, You had an appoment with my father and yet youre late: this showstyoure not trustworthy. Whats more: you pour abuse on aimprudent!in front of his son: this isThe friend was ashamed to hear this

17、. he descended from his carriage, 8ending to offer hisappologies, but the boy had already turned his back on him and re-entered the house.II-Passage 2Recent legal research indicatest identification of peopy witnesses in a courtroom is not asreliable as commonly beved. Memory is complex and the commo

18、nly held perceptions abouthow our minds work and how well we remember are often wrong. Both common sense and research say memory declines over time. The regency of recall and recognition are at their bestimmediay after encoding the information, declining atraly, then gradually. The longerthe delay, the more likely it ist information obtained after the event willerfere with theoriginal memory, which reduaccuracy. Witnesses may see or read information after the event,thenegrate it