《英语翻译基础》模拟试卷

福建广播电视大学开放教育英语专业（专科）《英语翻译基础》期末模拟试题

及参考答案

2010-5-12

Part One: 对译文进行评论，10%, 共2 题，每题5 分。

1. An interpreter (translator) has to know everything of something and something of everything．

译文1：一个口译或笔译人员对一些事情要什么都懂，对所有

事情都要懂一些。

译文2：翻译人员对有些事情要无所不晓，对所有事情又要略

知一二。

译文3：翻译人员搞学问，既要精深，又要渊博。

2. He leaned back against the tree-trunk and looked up through the dusky branches as the first faint starts glimmering in a quiet sky. The dreamy, mystical eyes, deep blue under black lashes, were an inheritance from his Cornish mother.

译文1 亚瑟把背靠着树身，从阴暗的枝叶中仰望那在寂静天空微微发闪的第一批安淡的星星。他那只在黑色睫毛下显出来的深蓝色的梦一般的、神秘的眼睛，是他那个康瓦尔州的母亲给他的遗传。

译文2 他靠在木兰树上，透过浓密的枝叶仰望寂静的天空中那些刚刚闪现的星星。他那双在黑睫毛下闪烁的深蓝色、梦一样的神秘的眼睛和他那出身康瓦尔州的母亲的眼睛一模一样。

译文3 亚瑟靠着大树，抬起头，透过阴暗的树叶仰望着宁静的天空，只见处露的星星闪烁着微弱的光辉。他那黑色睫毛下的深蓝色的眼睛，像梦一样的神秘莫测，那是他那个康瓦尔州的母亲给他的遗传。

Part Two:根据对原文的理解，判断下列译文的正误，注意不要望文生义30% ，共10 题，每题 3 分。

1．General Smith and my father are on first name basis.

A.史密斯将军与我父亲都是在第一名的基础上。

B.史密斯将军与我父亲是直呼名字的知交。

2．He wanted to learn, to know, to teach.

A. 他想学习、想增长知识，也愿意把自己的知识教给别人。

B. 他渴望博学广闻，追根溯源，并好为人师。

3．It was not that he had plenty of money．

A．他并不是有很多的钱。

B．那并不是因为他有很多的钱。

4．I could do with more leisure time．

A．有更多的闲暇我就能做了。

B．要再多有一些闲暇就好了呀。

5．There is no living in the island．

A．那岛上无生物。

B．那岛上不能居住。(无生计、无生存条件)

6．He wanted to go to sea．

A．他要到海边去。

B．他要去当水手。

7．He was lost in admiration

A．他被人赞扬不止。

B．他不胜羡慕之至。

8．Don’t tell him home truth．

A．不要对他讲逆耳的事实。

B.不要对他讲家庭的事实。

9．This will go a long way in overcoming the difficulty．

A.这在突破难关时是很有帮助的。

B.要克服困难还有很长的路可走。

10．This failure was the making of him．

A. 这次失败实为他成功的基础。

B. 这次失败造就了他。

Part Three ：根据要求翻译各种题材的短句（运用表达法的转换译法）30% ，共10 题，每题 3 分。

1.It crossed Pug’s mind that Washington and Lincoln too had been oversized men.

2.He would have been well contented to have retired to some corner of the world

where the fame of it should never reach his ears.

3. A poor old woman took all the care of us she could and dressed my wound with

salve, which quickly healed it.

4.It did not occur to the citizens that brains were at the bottom of his luck.

5.It runs strangely in my head that it must have been some spirit, who, perhaps,

might be sent to forewarn us.

6.It seemed to him that he had been summoned on a haphazard impulse.

7.“ It must have been”, continued the Quaker, “ a long premeditated scheme to cheat

me.”

8.But to imagine Megan clothed in it was beyond him.

9.Plain, distinct speech was a particular concern of my father.

10.It was not proper for a person of his function to be seen at any place in his present

condition.

Part Four: 综合运用翻译技巧，翻译短文划线部分。30%, 共2 题，每题15分。

1. Down into the Deep ---Using high tech to explore the Titanic

The two-minute videotape and nine photographs, all in color and shot 12,500 ft. under the North Atlantic, were a tiny sample of the 60 hours of video and 60,000 stills gathered during the twelve day exploration. They were released at a Washington press conference conducted by Marine Geologist Robert Ballard, 44, who led the teams from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution that found the Titanic last September and revisited it this July.

Recounting the highlights of what has already become the most celebrated feat of underwater exploration. Ballard revealed some starting new information. His deep-diving craft failed to find the 300-ft.gash that, according to legend, was torn in

the Titanic’s hull when the ship plowed into the iceberg. Instead, he suggested, the collision had bulked the ship’s plates, allowing water to pour in. He also brought back evidence that the ship broke apart not when she hit bottom, as he had thought when viewing the first Titanic images last September, but as she sunk: the stem. Which settled on the bottom almost 1,800 ft. from the bow, had swiveled 180 on its way down. ( from Newsweek,1987)

2．How to Grow Old

My maternal grandmother ,after having nine children who survived，one who died in infancy,a nd many miscarriages，as soon as she became a widow devoted herself to women’s higher education．She was one of the founders of Girton College, and worked hard at opening the medical profession to women．She used to relate how she met in Italy an elderly gentleman who was looking very sad．She inquired the cause of his melancholy and he said that he had just parted from his too grand children，“Good gracious，”she exclaimed，“I have seventy two grandchildren，and if I were sad each time I parted from one of them，I should have a dismal existence!”But speaking as one of the seventy-two，I prefer her recipe . After the age of eighty she found she had some difficulty in getting sleep, so she habitually spent山e hours from midnight to 3 a.m. in reading popular science．I do not believe that she ever had time to notice that she was growing old．This，I think，is the proper recipe for remaining young．If you have wide and keen interests and activities in which you can still effective，you will have no reason to think about the merely statistical fact of the number of years you have already lived，still less of the probable brevity of your future.

福建广播电视大学开放教育英语专业《英语翻译基础》期末考试

模拟试题参考答案

2010-5-12 Part One: 对译文进行评论，10%, 共2 题，每题5 分。

1、评论参考：

译文1 ：虽形似，但文字功夫不足。

译文2：用了“无所不晓”和“略知一二”，口语化却不失雅，宜于

口语场合。

译文3：译文3的结构已脱于原形，但显得凝炼而神似，可称雅俗共赏。其中“something of everything ’在很大程度上有译外功的份量。

2、评论参考：

任何文学作品都离不开节奏，优秀的文学作品总是通过语句的长短、语气的轻重缓急来表现出人物思想感情的变化和发展。文学作品的翻译应讲究语言节奏的美感。

我们无论讲话或是朗读，往往会在独立意义完成时自觉或不自觉地停顿，把意义相邻的字或句天然地读在一起，不易随便前后移动。

另外，我们朗读文章时有先抑而后扬的倾向。

在围绕原文start 和eyes 的表达上，译文1 和译文2 均超过了一口气所朗读的限度，译的很死板；译文3 运用了一些翻译技巧，显得生动活拨，节奏明朗。

Part Two:根据对原文的理解，判断下列译文的正误，注意不要望文生义30% ，共10 题，每题 3 分。

1．B. 2 . A 3．B. 4. B. 5. B 6. B 7. B 8. A. 9. A 10. A

Part Three ：根据要求翻译各种题材的短句（运用表达法的转换译法）30% ，共10 题，每题 3 分。

1．帕格心里忽然闪过一个念头：华盛顿和林肯也都是个子高的非凡的。

2．他恨不得躲到天涯海角去，最好永远听不到这番壮举给他带来的盛誉。3．一位穷苦的老妇人竭力照应我们，用药膏替我敷上伤口，我很快就痊愈了。4．这些当地的居民都没有想到，他善于运用脑筋，才是他的财运亨通的根由。5．我总觉得他必然是个什么妖怪，特意来警告我们。

6．他觉得他是在偶然一时冲动下被招回的。

7．那个贵格会教徒接着说：“他们一定老早就达好主意要骗我了。”

8．可是他实在不能想象梅根会穿这件衣服。

9．我父亲特别讲究说话时语言要朴实、明了。

10．他那样职务的人，以目前的那副模样无论在哪里出现也不相宜。

Part Four: 综合运用翻译技巧翻译短文。30%, 共2 题，每题15分。

1、深入海底—用先进技术探测泰坦尼克号轮

在北大西洋12500英尺深处所摄两分钟像象带和九张照片都是彩色的，它们仅仅是12 天探测期间拍下的60 小时录像带和60 000 张景物照中的一小部分。这些录像带和照片是44 岁的海洋地质学家罗伯特。巴拉德在华盛顿一次记者招待会上公布的。巴拉德领导的伍兹霍尔海洋研究所探测队于去年9月发现泰坦尼克号，并于今年7月重访了该船。

在描述这次家喻户晓的水下探测伟大事件中的一些精彩之处时，巴拉德透露了一些新的惊人的消息。他的潜水船没有找到泰坦尼克号船壳上那300 英尺长的裂缝。据说，这条裂缝是泰坦尼克号撞冰山时在船壳上划的。相反，巴拉德认

为与冰山的碰撞造成船体钢板扭曲变形，让海水涌了进来。他带回的证据还表明，船不是在撞到海底时而是在下沉途中断裂的：船尾在下沉时旋转180 度，它躺在海底离船头几乎有1800 英才远。在去年9 月第一次看到泰坦尼克号的图象时，他还以为船是撞到海底才断裂的。（1987年《新闻周刊》）

2、如何活得长寿

我外祖母有9个孩子活了下来，有一个孩子很小就死了，她还流产过多次。丈夫一死，她就致力于女子高等教育。她是戈登学院的创办人之一。曾竭力使医学专业对妇女开放。她常对人说，她在意大利碰到过一位愁容满面的老先生，就问他为什么闷闷不乐，他说两个小孙孙刚刚离开他。“我的天哪!”我外祖母就说，“我的孙子孙女有72个，要是每离开一个都要难过，我的生活可就太痛苦了。但是我作为72人中的一员，倒是赞成她的办法的。她过了80以后，常睡不着觉，所以从午夜到凌晨3点总要读些科普读物。我相信她从来没有工夫去注意自己是不是在日益衰老。我认为，要想永葆青春，这是最好的办法。你要是有广泛的爱好和强烈的兴趣，而且还有能力参加一些活动，你就没有理由去考虑自己已经活了多少岁这样的具体数字，更没有理由去考虑自己的余年大概是很有限的了。