华中师范大学08春汉译英期末考试_A卷及答案

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华中师范大学 2007–2008学年第2学期

期末考试试卷A 卷

课程名称 翻译理论与技巧B 课程编号82510031 任课教师 华先发\李亚丹\张名高\胡德香\邵毅

题 型 填空题 判断题 句子 翻译 短文翻译 多项 选择 总分

分值 10 15 30 35 10 100 得分

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一、填空题：（共10题，每题1分）

I. Blank-filling:

1. In our textbook on Chinese-English translation, the term “translation ” is

interpreted as a cross-linguistic, and cross-cultural communication in which the meaning carried by one linguistic culture is transferred to another linguistic culture. 1. Chinese is a topic-prominent language whose sentence is constructed on

thought pivot, whereas English is a subject-prominent language whose sentence is constructed on subject-predicate pivot. Therefore it is very important for us to select an appropriate subject in translating Chinese sentences into English.

2. When we express our ideas in sentences, some words will be used first, and

some later. The words used first are “theme ” and the words used later are “rheme ”. This theme-rheme structure forms the information structure of sentences.

4. In doing Chinese-English translation, due attention should be given to three kinds of cohesive devices in discourse. They are referential cohesion, structural cohesion, lexical cohesion

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二、判断题：（共10题，每题1.5分）

II. Every sentence below has two translations. Tick off the better one.

1)（一天，邻居王二嫂不小心把钥匙锁在家里了，）很多热心人都前来帮忙，但都无济于事。人们找到了他，但被他拒绝了。

A. Many warm-hearted people came to help, but without any result. People wanted him to

help, however, he refused them. B. Many warm-hearted people came, but they could do nothing for her. So they turned to him

for help, yet met with his refusal.

2）布衣蔬食

A. wear coarse clothes and eat simple food

B. wear cotton clothes and eat vegetables

3) 一个春天的傍晚，园中百花怒放，父母在园中设宴，一时宾客云集，笑语四溢。 A. One spring evening, flowers were in full bloom in the garden, my parents entertained guests in the garden. At the moment, the guests crowded and laughter could be heard here and there. B. One spring evening, with myriads of flowers in full bloom in the garden, my parents held a garden party in honor of my guests, whose arrival at once filled the place with laughing chats.

4) 这是民国六年的冬天，大北风刮得正猛，我因为生机关系，不得不一早在路上走。 A. It ’s the winter of 1917. The wind was blowing hard, but I had to walk in the street to make a living.

B. It happened during the winter of 1917. A bitter north wind was blowing but, to making a living, I had to be up and out early.

5）福华家具带给您典雅的欧陆风情。

A. Y ou will be enchanted by the unique European style of Fuhua furniture.

B. Y ou will be enchanted by the unique European amorous feelings of Fuhua furniture.

6）一座大厦如果有了白蚁，不加防治，不到十年时间，里面的地板壁板，都会蛀蚀一空。 A. The floor and the wallboard of a tall building will be eaten up by termites in less than ten years if the termites are not killed.

B. If a tall building is infested with termites and nothing is done about it, the floor and the wooden paneling inside it will have been eaten in less than ten years.

7）我们大为惊奇的是，那幢经受强烈的地震而幸存下来的唯一的建筑物竟是砖木结构的。 A. To our great surprise, the only building that survived the violent earthquake was one of brick and wood structure.

B. To our great surprise, the only building that fortunately existed after the violent earthquake was one of brick and wood structure.

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8）中央政府从不干预香港特别行政区的事务。

A. The Central Government has refrained from intervening in the affairs of the HKSAR.

B. The Central Government has never intervened in the affairs of the HKSAR.

9) 这事到了现在，还是时时记起。

A. Even now, this remains fresh in my memory.

B. Even now, I still often think about this.

10) 得病以前，我受父母宠爱，在家中横行霸道，一旦隔离，拘禁在花园山坡上一幢小房子里，我顿感打入冷宫，十分郁郁不得志起来。

A. Before I was taken ill, I had been a spoilt child of my parents, getting things my way in the family. Once isolated and confined to a small house on the slope of the garden, I suddenly found myself in disfavor and my wings clipped.

B. Before I illed, my parents spoiled me, I was very autocratic at home, but now isolated, I was custodied in a small house in the garden hill. Suddenly, I felt very cold like in the ice house, very sad.

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三、句子翻译：（共10题，每题3分）

III. Put the following sentences into English:

1．我接着便有许多话，想要连珠一般涌出……但又觉得被什么挡着似的，单在脑

里面回旋，吐不出口外去。

2．大红花一朵朵全被拉长了，这时是泼剌奔进的红锦带。带织入狗中，狗织入白

云中。白云织入村女中…

3．花园里面是人间的乐园，有的是吃不了的大米白面，穿不完的绫罗绸缎，花不

完的金银财宝。

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4．客人一走进大门，扑鼻的是一阵幽香，入目的是绿蜡似的叶子和红霞或白雪

似的花朵……。

5．学习的敌人是自己的满足，要认真学习一点东西，必须从不自满开始。

6．南京的风俗：但凡新媳妇进门，三日就要到厨下收拾一样菜，发个利市。这

菜一定是鱼，取“富贵有余”的意思。

7．一眼望去，疏疏的林，淡淡的月，衬着蔚蓝的天，颇像荒江野渡光景；……

8．液体的形状总是随着容器的变化而变化，因为液体没有自己的固定形状。换言

之，无论你把它放在什么样的容器中，它的形状总是和容器内壁的形状完全一样。

9． 如果说白天广州像座翡翠城，那么当太阳沉没，广州就成了一颗夜明珠，灯

光如海，千街闪烁。

10．幸亏这些青年妇女， 白洋淀长大的，她们小船摇得飞快。小船活像开了水皮

的一条打跳的梭鱼。

得分 评阅人 四、短文翻译：（共1题，每题35分）

IV . Passage translation:

奥林匹克圣火已经来到北京，这宣告有史以来首次在中国举办的奥运会即将拉开帷幕。 奥林匹克圣火与火炬的会合是奥林匹克运动最著名和最有力的标志。它不仅向世人宣告奥运会的到来，更向世界发出和平的信息。

从今天开始，这火炬将承载着圣火传遍全球，无论它传递到哪里，都将播撒对北京奥运会的期盼和兴奋。

奥运火炬将跨越五洲，抵达地球上21个城市，传遍中国境内113个城市和省区。无论它经过哪里，无论是哪个民族、文化或信仰的人们，都会为此停下脚步，感受奥运火炬承载的和平讯息，领悟进取、友谊和尊重的奥林匹克信念。

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五、多项选择：（共5空，每空2分）

V . Compare the following Chinese source text and the English tra nslation and then

choose the one you think best from among the three choices marked A, B and C which can complete the sentence:

接朋友的来信，尤其是远自海外犹带着异国风云的航空信，的确是人生一大快事，如果无须回信的话。① 回信，是读信之乐的一大代价。② 久不回信，屡不回信，接信之乐必然就相对减少，以至于无。这时，友情便暂告中断了，直到有一天在赎罪的心情下，你毅然回起信来。③ 蹉跎了这么久，接信之乐早变成欠信之苦，我便是这么一位累犯的罪人，交游千百，几乎每一位朋友都数得出我的前科来的。英国诗人奥登曾说，④他常常搁下重要的信件不回，躲在家里看他的侦探小说。王尔德有一次对韩黎说：“我认得不少人，满怀光明的远景来到伦敦，但是几个月后就整个崩溃了，因为他们有回信的习惯。”显然王尔德认为，要过好日子，就得戒除回信的恶习。⑤可见怕回信的人，原不止我一个。

To get letters from friends, especially airmail letters from overseas that bear the stamp of exotic climes, is unquestionably one of life ’s greatest pleasures, provided that they do not call for a reply. ① ____________________ ② ____________________, in which case friendship is prematurely broken off, until the day in sack cloth and ashes you summon up the willpower to put pen to paper again. ③ __________________: practically every one of the friends I have made in my comings and goings can recite from my crime sheet. British poet W. H. Auden ④ ___________________; while Oscar Wilde remarked to Henley: “I have known lots of men coming to London full of bright prospects but seen in complete wrecks in a few months through a habit of answering letters.” Clearly Wilde ’s view was that to enjoy life one should renounce the bad habit of answering letters. ⑤_______________________.

① A. Answering letters is a heavy price to pay for reading letters.

B. Answering letters is a heavy price to pay for the enjoyment of reading letters.

C. Answering letters is a heavy burden to pay for the enjoyment of reading letters.

② A. The inevitable consequence of tardiness or infrequency in answering letters is a

corresponding reduction in, and ultimate cessation of the pleasure of receiving letters,

B. If letters are not answered for a long time, or for quite often, the pleasure of receiving

the letters will be reduced to some extent, or even to nothing,

C. If you don ’t answer letters for many times and for a long time, the inevitable

consequence of receiving letters will be reduced,

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③ A. Wasting time for so long, the pleasure of receiving letters has turned into the

misery of owing letters, and I am the old lad in this respect.

B. Through this wasting the pleasure of receiving letters has turned to the misery

of owning letters, and I am the old lag in this respect.

C. Through this dilly-dallying the pleasure of receiving letters has turned to the

misery of owing letters, and I am the old lag in this respect.

④ A. once said that he was in the habit of not answering letters, instead curling up

with a detective novel at home.

B. once said that he often put aside important letters, preferring to hide at home

reading detective novels.

C. once admitted that he was in the habit of shelving important letters, preferring

instead to curl up with a detective novel.

⑤ A. So I am not the only one to be faint-heated in answering letters.

B.So I am not the only one to be faint-hearted in the regard.

C. So I am not the only one to be afraid of answering letters.

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