03《英译汉》试卷1

《English-Chinese Translation》试卷

（答题时间：120 分钟）

（Dec，2003）

班级________ 姓名_________ 成绩_______ 任课教师________

1．Answer the Following Questions in Chinese. (15%)

1) 亚历山大•泰特勒的翻译三原则是什么？

2）严复的翻译代表作有哪些（至少答出三本）？

3）文化有哪些特点？它与翻译是怎样的关系？

4）什么是直译，什么是意译？简述它们之间的关系。

5）什么是翻译？纽马克提出什么翻译方法？

2. Translate the Following Sentences into Chinese. (20%)

1)All my hot words could not bring one tinge of color to those ivory cheeks

or one gleam of emotion to those abstracted eyes.

2)Once it was thought that nighttime dreams interfered with our needed rest.

But then researchers tried interrupting the dreams of sleepers and learned that sleepers who aren't allowed to dream lose the benefits of rest.

3)There was frost on the stubble fields, faint wood smoke in the air, mingled

with the odors of ripe apples, drying corn shocks, crushed walnut hulls(胡桃壳).

4)Left to herself, she would buy only the cheaper cuts of meat, and there was

never enough food in the refrigerator.

5)His income derived from illicit activities-bookmaking, gambling,

shylocking(放高利贷), and questionable union activities.

6)–They were not at all like the poetry women generally write, I thought

them condensed and terse, vigorous and genuine.

7)But he knew, too, that the boy---a young man now, though always "the

boy" to Helmer（人名, 海默）---had courage and skill and a great will to live.

8)You can mass-produce …incredible quantities of facts and figures. You

cannot mass-produce knowledge, which is created by individual minds, drawing on individual experience, separating the significant from the irrelevant.

9)Two parties to the agreement pledge to implement it to the letter.

10Chairman Mao is an activist, a prime mover, an originator and master of strategy achieved by alternating surprise, tension and easement.

3. Translate the Following Paragraphs or Passages into Chinese. (65%)

1)In spite of the difficulties of predicting future trends in world trade, we can specify factors that will be important. Although feeding the world's population will be a major problem, the world is probably not headed for disaster. First, the world's arable acreage can be expanded greatly. Second, the distribution of food and the yield of food per acre can be improved. Third, population growth can be controlled. Historical evidence shows that birth and death rates level off as countries move into the industrial stage. If population growth continues at its present pace, the future balance between food demand and supply may become dependent on new dietary patterns. Reduced consumption of meat, increased use of new high-protein food made from soybeans, and development of ocean resources for food are some alternatives that must be considered. Growth of trade will depend greatly on availability of energy sources. There may still be a trillion barrels of recoverable oil in the Middle East. But the oil crisis of 1974 has led to renewed interest in coal and to a search for alternative sources of energy. Solar, geothermal, and nuclear energy will play a large role in the years to come.

2) The young moon lies on her back tonight as is her habit in the tropics, and as, I think, is suitable if not seemly for a virgin. Not a star but might not shoot down and accept the invitation to become her lover. When all my fellow-passengers have finally dispersed to bed, I creep up again to the deserted deck and slip into the swimming pool and float, no longer what people believe me to be, a middle-aged journalist taking a holiday on an oceangoing liner, but a liberated being, bathed in mythological waters, an