江西省第一届翻译大赛试题及答案

江西省首届英语翻译大赛

初赛试题

(2009-6-7)

一、将下列短文译成汉语（50分）:

Summer Sunrises on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

One can never see too many summer sunrises on the Mississippi. They are enchanting. First, there is the eloquence of silence; for a deep hush broods everywhere. Next, there is the haunting sense of loneliness, isolation, remoteness from the worry and bustle of the world. The dawn creeps in stealthily; the solid walls of the black forest soften to grey, and vast stretches of the river open up and reveal themselves; the water is smooth, gives off spectral little wreaths of white-mist, there is not the faintest breath of wind, nor stir of leaf; the tranquility is profound an infinitely satisfying. Then a bird pipes up, another follows, and soon the pipings develop into a jubilant riot of music. You see none of the birds, you simply move through an atmosphere of song which seems to sing itself.

When the light has become a little stronger, you have one of the fairest and softest pictures imaginable. You have the intense green of the massed and crowded foliage near by; you see it paling shade by shade in front of you; upon the next projecting cape, a mile off or more, the tint had lightened to the tender young green of spring; the cape beyond that one has almost lost color, and the furthest one, miles away under the horizon, sleeps upon the water a mere dim vapor, and hardly separable from the sky above it and about it. And all this stretch of river is a mirror, and you have shadowy reflections of the leafage and the curving shores and the receding capes pictured in it. Well, this is all beautiful; soft and rich and beautiful; and when the sun gets well up, and distributes a pink flush here and a powder of gold yonder and a purple haze where it will yield the best effect, you grant that you have something that is worth remembering.

二、将下列短文译成英语（50分）:

我们知道，衣食无忧仅仅是生活的一个方面。尤其是老年人，他们和青年人一样，也有文化的需要，娱乐的需要，尊严的需要，成就感的需要。他们要在生命的最后一个阶段活得更加

舒心，活得更有色彩。

一天，我漫步走进了一家古董店，毫无目的地浏览着各种奇奇怪怪的古玩意儿。往店堂深处走时我突然发现此店的收银员是一位老太太。我无法知道是什么原因使这位老妇人在应该颐养天年的岁数还在充当上班族，我只知道一眼看去这位老妇人是喜欢这份工作的，而且也完全能够胜任这份工作。只见她全神贯注，手指在收银机的键盘上利索地摁动着，每结完一份帐，便会抬起头来对着顾客微微一笑，没有一颗牙的嘴笑起来有点滑稽也有点天真，但相当有趣。我不由自主地在她身边停了下来。我突然发现这位老妇人坐在收银台上和这家古董店的情调是那么的和谐，说不定正是这家商店用以招徕顾客的特殊手段。我是带着许多问号离开这家商店的，因为我觉得这位老妇人和这家古董店肯定有着一段很有意思的故事，只可惜我听不到了。

参考译文：

密西西比河上夏天的日出

马克·吐温

密西西比河上夏天的日出真是百看不厌，令人神往。日出之前，万籁俱寂，静谧之趣笼罩四野，远离尘嚣的空灵之感不禁油然而生。曙色悄分，郁郁森森的树木绰约朦胧；泱泱涣涣的密西西比河依稀可辨；河面上水波不兴，白雾袅袅，萦纡迷幻；风闲而枝静，恬谧深沉，令人心旷神怡。晨光熹微，一鸟唱而百鸟和，继之，众鸟引吭，高歌一曲欢乐的颂歌。只闻其声而不见其鸟，人仿佛就悠游在天籁的妙趣之中。

等到昕昀烁夜，展现在眼前的便是一幅至柔至美的画卷：身前身后的树木枝繁叶茂，堆绿叠翠，浓黛浅消。放眼望去，一英里开外有一个河岬，河岬上的树木淡妆轻抹，仿佛春天般的娇嫩；远处的和岬则树色隐隐，微茫难辨；地平线尽头的河岬似乎枕在水面上，像一团迷蒙蒸腾的雾，融入浩渺的水天之中。广阔的河面好似一面巨大的镜子，淡淡地映照着丛集的枝叶、曲折的河岸和渐行渐远的河岬，勾勒出一幅生动的画面，轻柔婉转，超逸绵邈。太阳慢慢爬上天空，或浅红横涂，或金粉竖抹，或紫霭慢洒，奇异曼妙，难以言传。这一切，怎能不令人怀想？

二、将下列短文译成英语（50分）

参考译文：

We all know that supply of provisions and clothing is only one aspect of life. This is especially true of old folks. Like young people, they have the need of cultural life, the need of recreation and amusement, the need of dignity and the need of accomplishment. They want to, in their remaining years, make their lives easier and more substantial.

One day, I strolled into an old curiosity shop where I browsed the antiques on display. As I walked further into the store, I found, to my great surprise, that the cashier behind the register turned out to be an old woman. I can never understand what has driven this old woman to join the rank of wage earners at an age when she should take life easy and enjoy the few days she had left with her. All I know is that I could tell at first sight she apparently enjoyed what she was doing, and was competent for the job. Her concentration of mind, her skillful handling of the cash register and her faint, naive yet somewhat facetious smile from behind her toothless mouth after the settlement of each account was simply amusing. Somehow I halted beside her. Only then did I discover in what perfect harmony the old woman behind the cashier's register was with the antique shop. It can very well be a trick employed to attract customers. With many questions unasked I left that store, for somehow I was convinced there must be something intriguing between this old woman and the old curiosity shop. How I wish I could hear it all!

江西省首届英语翻译大赛

决赛试题

(2009-9-26)

一、将下列短文译成汉语（50分）:

A udrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit

Although she was never an ardent follower of any formal religion, my mother’s own faith endured

throughout her life: her faith in love, her faith in the miracle of nature, and her faith in the goodness of life. She honored this second chance at life at every opportunity that presented itself and most of all at the end of her life, through her work for UNICEF.

Sometimes a near-death experience can free us of the shackles that life slowly trains us to wear. We come to realize what’s worth the sweat and what isn’t. Although she ha d no memory of her childhood near-death experience, the knowledge of it, coupled with the fertile ground of an already self-effacing nature, were the roots of the humility that graced her entire life.

I never heard her say, “I did this,” or “I’ve done that.” Toward the end of her life, throughout the UNICEF years, I would hear her say regularly, as the world listened to her, “I can do very little.” I never heard her say that she liked any of her performances. When people complimented her, she would always shy away and ultimately explain how those who surrounded her were the reason for her success.

Bessie Anderson Stanley wrote, “To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition, to know even one life has breathed easier becaus e you have lived, this is to have succeeded.”

By Ms. Stanley’s standards, my mother’s life was a success: She was graced with good choices. The first choice she made was her career. Then she chose her family. And when we, her children, were grown and had started our lives, she chose the less fortunate children of the world. She chose to give back. In that important choice lay the key to healing and understanding something that had affected her throughout her entire life: the sadness that had always been there.

Her choices healed the sadness of a little girl who didn’t know her father for most of her life and yet who yearned and longed for that warm embrace, that reassurance that you are loved and that you matter. When I look back, that is just what she gave to Luca and me: the reassurance that we were loved and that we mattered. This was the most valuable essence, the roots that live and grow forever inside you. She truly was a wonderful mother and friend.

二、将下列短文译成英语（50分）:

2008年5月12日14时28分，我国发生了震惊世界的四川汶川特大地震，受灾地区人民生命财产和经济社会发展蒙受巨大损失。面对空前惨烈的灾难，在党中央、国务院和中央军委坚强领导下，全党全军全国各族人民众志成城、迎难而上，以惊人的意志、勇气、力量，组织开展了我国历史上救援速度最快、动员范围最广、投入力量最大的抗震救灾斗争，最大限度地挽救了受灾群众生命，最大限度地减低了灾害造成的损失，夺取了抗震救灾斗争重大胜利，表现出泰山压顶不弯腰的大无畏气概，谱写了感天动地的英雄凯歌。

我们按照以人为本、尊重自然、统筹兼顾、科学重建的原则，科学制定灾后恢复重建规划，迅速出台一系列支援灾区的政策措施，积极开展对口支援，迅速组织开展灾后恢复重建工作。在中央大力支持、灾区广大干部群众艰苦奋斗、全国人民大力支援下，城乡居民住房重建、学校医院等公共服务设施重建、基础设施恢复重建、产业重建和结构调整、历史文化保护、生态修复等方面均取得显著成绩，灾后恢复重建取得重要阶段性成果，灾区人民正大踏步走向新生活。这一切，为夺取抗震救灾斗争全面胜利奠定了坚实基础。

参考译文：

奥黛丽·赫本——一个优雅高尚的人

母亲虽从未笃信过任何正统的宗教，但她自有其终生不渝的信仰：她相信爱，相信自然的神奇，相信生活的美好。一旦有机会降临，她总会珍视这二度生活的机遇；这一点特别表现在她垂暮之年还在为联合国儿童基金会工作。

尽管生活的磨砺慢慢使我们如同披枷戴锁，但有时一次濒死的经历就足以让我们从这些枷锁中解脱出来。我们逐渐认识到什么东西值得孜孜以求，什么不值。虽然她不记得童年濒死的经历，但对于濒死的认识，一旦种植在她那天性谦让的肥沃的土地上，便扎下了谦卑的根须，这根须美化了她整个人生。

我从未听她说“这是我做的”或“那是我干的。”在为联合国儿童基金会工作的那些年里，直到她生命的尽头，正如大家所听到的，我时常听她说：“我能做的太少。”我从未听她说过她对自己的任何表演或工作表现感到满意。当人们赞美她时，她总是避之惟恐不速；最终，她会解释说，她的成功其实全仗她周围人的努力。

贝茜·安德森·斯坦利写道，“若能笑口常开，若能赢得文化人的尊敬和孩子的喜爱，若能赢得诚实的批评家的赞赏并承受虚朋假友的背叛，若能欣赏美，若能发现他人的长处，若能使世界变好一点（不管是使某个孩子健康、修整某一片花园、还是改良社会状况），甚至若能得知因为你的存在而使某一个人呼吸得更舒畅，这都是成功。”按斯坦利女士的标准，我母亲的一生就是成功的一生：良好的抉择使她受益匪浅。她所做的第一个选择是她的职业，然后她选择了她的家庭。当她的孩子们已长大成人，并开始自己的生活后，她又选择了世上不幸的孩子。她选择了奉献。她的整个生活曾深受创伤——积久的创伤——的影响，而她这个重要的选择正是理解和愈合这创伤的灵丹妙药。

她的选择抚平了一个小女孩心灵的伤痕。这个小女孩在大半生中不知道自己的父亲是谁，尽管她渴望温暖的拥抱，渴望确切地知道自己被爱，确切地知道自己的价值。当我回顾过去，发现母亲给鲁卡和我的正是这种东西：我们确信自己被爱，确信自己的价值。这就是最重要的精华所在，是永远生长发育在你身心内的根源。她，确实是一个了不起的母亲，一个了不起的朋友。

二、将下列短文译成英语（50分）

参考译文：

At 14:28 on 12 May 2008, a massive earthquake struck Wenchuan of Sichuan Province. It was an earthquake that shocked the world. It caused heavy casualties and property damage, and inflicted enormous losses on local economic and social development. In the face of the unprecedented natural disaster, the whole Party, armed forces and people of all ethnic groups in China rallied behind the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee, the State Council and the Central Military Commission, and worked as one to fight the disaster with great determination, courage and strength. We launched a rescue and relief operation which was faster in response and mobilized more personnel and resources than ever before in China's history. We made the utmost effort to save lives and minimize the damage, and achieved major success in the fight against the disaster, demonstrating the indomitable and unyielding spirit of the Chinese people and writing a touching and heroic chapter in the history of our nation.

In the aftermath of the earthquake, we made scientific plans for rehabilitation and reconstruction, promptly introduced a host of policies and measures to support the quake-hit areas, energetically organized one-to-one assistance programs, and swiftly launched rehabilitation and reconstruction work in accordance with the principles of putting people first, respecting nature, making coordinated plans and carrying out reconstruction in a scientific way. Thanks to the strong support of the CPC Central Committee, the strenuous efforts of the local officials and people and generous assistance from the rest of the country, notable progress has been made in the reconstruction of urban and rural homes, schools, hospitals and other public service facilities, the rehabilitation and reconstruction of infrastructure, the rebuilding and restructuring of industries, the preservation of places of historical and cultural interest, as well as in ecological rehabilitation. With these major preliminary successes, the people in the quake-hit areas are now marching toward a new life. All this has laid a solid foundation for the complete success of our relief and reconstruction endeavor.

江西省首届英语翻译大赛决赛特等奖（第一名）获奖作品选登

原文：

Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit

Although she was never an ardent follower of any formal religion, my mother’s own faith endured throughout her life: her faith in love, her faith in the miracle of nature, and her faith in the goodness of life. She honored this second chance at life at every opportunity that presented itself and most of all at the end of her life, through her work for UNICEF.

Sometimes a near-death experience can free us of the shackles that life slowly trains us to wear. We come to realize what’s worth the sweat and what isn’t. Although she had no memory of her childhood near-death experience, the knowledge of it, coupled with the fertile ground of an already self-effacing nature, were the roots of the humility that graced her entire life.

I never heard her say, “I did this,”or “I’ve done that.”Toward the end of her life, throughout the UNICEF years, I would hear her say regularly, as the world listened to her, “I can do very little.”I never heard her say that she liked any of her performances. When people complimented her, she would always shy away and ultimately explain how those who surrounded her were the reason for her success.

译文：

奥黛丽·赫本——一位拥有高尚灵魂的使者

尽管我的母亲赫本从来不是任何正式宗教的虔诚教徒，但她的一生始终坚持着自己的信仰：她信仰爱，信仰大自然的神迹，信仰人生的美好。她珍视上天赐予她的第二次生命，并抓住所有机会予以回报，这尤其体现在她晚年还为联合国儿童基金会积极地付出。

生活的磨砺使人们渐渐套上了精神的枷锁，有时，只有一次濒死的经历才能将我们从这些枷锁中解脱出来，让我们悟出什么值得为之辛苦奋斗、什么不值得。虽然我母亲对童年时濒临死亡的经历记忆不深，但她对这种经历的认识，再加上她谦让淡泊的天性，谦逊的种子就此生根发芽，造就了她一生的绚烂。

她从来不会表功，说“这是我做的”、“那是我干的”。在她晚年服务于联合国儿童基金会的时候，我时常听到她说的正如世人所知的一样，即“我能做的太少”。她从来不曾提及对自己的表演或业绩感到满意和欣喜。人们赞美她，她会羞怯地回避，并解释说，她的成功要归功于身边的人。

贝茜·安德森·斯坦利曾写道：“能笑口常开；能赢得智者的尊重、孩子的青睐；能博得正直评论家的赏识；能承受虚情假意朋友的背叛；能欣赏美、发现他人的优点；能留给世界些许美好，哪怕只是一个治愈健康的孩子、一小片花园、一个改善的社会条件；能因为你的存在让另一个生命更畅快地呼吸……这些都是成功。”

按照斯坦利女士的标准，我母亲无疑是成功的，她的生命因为其明智的选择而熠熠生辉。她做出的第一个选择是她的事业。然后是家庭。当她的孩子，也就是我们长大独立后，她又选择了世界上那些不幸的孩子。她选择了回报世界。无处不在的悲伤影响了她的一生，而这个重要选择则是她治愈、理解这种悲伤的关键。

她的选择抚慰了一个小女孩受伤的心。这个小女孩从小被父亲遗弃、但又渴望温暖的拥抱和那种被爱、被关怀的慰藉。追忆往昔，这也正是母亲赋予卢卡和我的：一种让我们觉得自己拥有爱、值得被爱的慰藉。这正是根植和成长在你内心最宝贵的精华。她的确是一位了不起的母亲和朋友。