中国人民大学英汉互译、英文写作2001真题及答案

中国人民大学2001年研究生入学考试试题

招生专业：英语语言文学

考试科目：英汉互译英文写作

考试时间：1月14日下午

考题编号：440

Part I Directions: Translate the following passages into Chinese (33%) and write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.

Passage One

The cooperative principle alone cannot fully explain how people talk. It explains how conversational implicature is given rise to but it does not tell us why people are often so indirect in conveying what they want to say. This is where the politeness principle comes in. In the most general terms, the politeness principle can be formulated as “maximize (other things being equal) the expression of polite beliefs,” or, in its negative form, “minimize (other things being equal) the expression of impolite beliefs.”

There are some situations where politeness can take a back seat. For example, when the speaker and the hearer are engaged in a collaborative activity and the exchange of. information is equally important to both of them, politeness would be given less consideration and the language they use tends to be direct and straightforward.

Passage Two

The essays in this collection are composed entirely in this vein. Within the general field of the understanding of language, of the more recent philosophic and linguistic ways of approaching the meaning of meaning, they try to set out certain “frontier” topics. The word “frontier” has two relevant senses. The topics discussed are at the forward edge of current thought and scholarship. They are not yet clearly or fully understood. And what needs to be done is to formulate questions about them in as sharp and fruitful a way as possible. Thus, there are papers in this book on the relations, reflected or obscured in literature, and on the virtually unexplored subject of the history and formal structure of inward speech, of the language-stream we direct towards ourselves. “Frontier” also aims to suggest that these essays locate their analyses and examples at those points where different disciplines and areas of study meet The essay on difficulty deals with considerations which are simultaneously philosophical and literary. The initial comment on the current status of texts touches on political and sociological motifs In several of these papers，there are attempts to clarify somewhat the intricate overlaps between linguistics，poetics and techniques of decipherment developed in psychoanalysis

Part II. Translate the following into English (33%)

1．我一向没有对于任何问题作高深研究的野心，因之所买的书范围较广，各方面差不多都有一点。最多的是各国文学名著的译本，与本国古来的诗文集，别的门类只是些概论等类的入门书而已。我不喜欢向别人或图书馆借书。借来的书，在我好像过不来瘾似的，非得是自己买的才满足。这也可谓是一种占有的欲望。

2．我虽爱买书，而对于书却不甚爱惜。读书的时候，常在书上把我所认为要紧的地方标出。线装书大概用笔加圈，洋装书竟用红铅笔划粗粗的线。经我看过的书，统体干净的很少。

3．《红楼梦》问世二百年以来，通过汉文原文和各种译文读过此书的人，不知有多少