2015考研英语翻译部分
2015年考研英语二真题解析和翻译(大师兄版)
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2015考研英语一阅读理解逐句翻译
2015 Text 1Paragraph 11、King Juan Carlos of Spain once insisted ‚kings don`t abdicate, they die in their sleep.‛ But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down. 西班牙国王胡安•卡洛斯曾说‚国王不会退位，他们逝世于睡眠中‛。
但是最近几次欧洲大选中，丑闻盛行、共和党人大受欢迎迫使胡安•卡洛斯收回之前的言论，并被迫退位。
1.1 abdicate英/'æbdɪkeɪt/ 美/'æbdɪket/vt. 退位；放弃vi. 退位；放弃1.2 scandal英/'skænd(ə)l/ 美/'skændl/n. 丑闻；流言蜚语；诽谤；公愤2、So, does the Spanish crisis suggest that monarchy is seeing its last days? Does that mean the writing is on the wall for all European royals, with their magnificent uniforms and majestic lifestyle? 如此说来，西班牙的危机是否表明君主制已到穷途末路？是否意味着欧洲皇室以及他们锦衣玉食的生活走向末路已无可更改？2.1 monarchy英 /'mɒnəkɪ/ 美/'mɑnɚki/n. 君主政体；君主国；君主政治2.2 the writing is on the wall某事将失败的不祥预兆2.3 royal英/'rɒɪəl/ 美/'rɔɪəl/n. 王室；王室成员adj. 皇家的；盛大的；女王的；高贵的；第一流的2.4 magnificent英/mæg'nɪfɪs(ə)nt/ 美/mæg'nɪfəsnt/adj. 高尚的；壮丽的；华丽的；宏伟的2.5 majestic英 /mə'dʒestɪk/ 美/mə'dʒɛstɪk/adj. 庄严的；宏伟的Paragraph 21、The Spanish case provides arguments both for and against monarchy. 西班牙的事例既提供了支持君主制的论据，也提供了反对君主制的论据。
考研英语二2015到2017原文逐句翻译12篇
2017.2.1Every Saturday morning, at 9 am, more than 50,000 runners set off to run 5 km around their local park. 每周六上午九点，五万多名跑步者在他们附近的公园跑五公里。
The Parkrun phenomenon began with a dozen friends and has inspired 400 events in the UK and more abroad. “Parkrun”这一现象最初由十几个朋友发起，如今在英国却已引发四百个类似活动，在国外就更多了。
Events are free, staffed by thousands of volunteers. 活动是免费的，还招募了大量的自愿者。
Runners range from four years old to grandparents; their times range from Andrew Baddeley's world record 13 minutes 48 seconds up to an hour. 跑步者从四岁到祖父母辈都有，他们的用时区间从安德鲁·巴德利创造的世界记录13分钟48秒到一个小时不等。
Parkrun is succeeding where London's Olympic "legacy" is failing. “Parkrun”在伦敦奥运会“遗产”失败之处取得了成效。
Ten years ago on Monday, it was announced that the Games of the 30th Olympiad would be in London. 十年前的一个周一宣布，第三十届奥林匹克运动会将在伦敦举行。
Planning documents pledged that the great legacy of the Games would be to level a nation of sport lovers away from their couches. 计划文件承诺、奥运会的伟大遗产将会让一个国家的体育爱好者离开他们的沙发。
2015考研英语二翻译真题（文字版）
2015考研英语二翻译真题（文字版）2015年考研顺利结束了，大家今年能否顺利通过呢?今天考研英语频道在第一时间为大家整理出2015考研英语二翻译真题（文字版），快来对照真题及答案吧!预祝大家顺利通过考研大关，走向自己人生的新高峰!如果大家喜欢本网站可以Ctrl+D收藏本网站哦!我们会持续为大家更新考研资讯!2015考研英语二翻译真题（文字版）Section III Translation46. Directions:Translate the following text from English into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET 2. (15 points)Think about driving a route that’s very familiar. It could be your commute to work, a trip into town or the way home. Whichever it is, you know every twist and turn like the back of your hand. On these sorts of trips it’s easy to zone out from the actual driving and pay little attention to the passing scenery. The consequence is that you perceive that the trip has taken less time than it actually has.This is the well-travelled road effect: people tend to underestimate the time it takes to travel a familiar route.The effect is caused by the way we allocate our attention. When we travel down a well-known route, because we don’t have to concentrate much, time seems to flow more quickly. And afterwards, when we come to think back on it, we can’t remember the journey well because we didn’t pay much attention to it. So we assume it was shorter.推荐阅读:。
2015考研英语真题译文
2015考研英语真题译文2015考研英语真题译文在备考考研英语的过程中，很多考生都会参考历年的真题来进行练习和复习。
其中，2015年的考研英语真题是备考的重要参考资料之一。
本文将对2015年考研英语真题的译文进行分析和探讨，帮助考生更好地理解和应对考试。
首先，我们来看一道阅读理解题的译文。
题目为：The Earth's climate has always been changing, but recently it has been changing at an alarming rate.（地球的气候一直在变化，但最近的变化速度令人担忧。
）这道题目涉及到了环境问题，是考研英语中常见的话题之一。
译文中，“at an alarming rate”被翻译为“速度令人担忧”。
这个翻译较为准确，能够传达出原文的意思。
然而，译文中的“but recently”被直译为“但最近”，这样的翻译可能会让读者感到不够流畅。
可以考虑将其翻译为“然而，最近的变化却更加引人注目”以增强表达的连贯性。
接下来，我们来看一道完形填空题的译文。
题目为：The concept of "smart cities" is becoming increasingly popular, as cities around the world are embracing new technologies to improve the quality of life for their residents.（“智慧城市”这一概念越来越受欢迎，全球各地的城市都在采用新技术，提高居民的生活质量。
）这道题目涉及到了科技和城市发展的话题。
译文中，“embracing new technologies”被翻译为“采用新技术”，这个翻译准确地传达出了原文的意思。
然而，译文中的“improve the quality of life for their residents”被翻译为“提高居民的生活质量”，这个翻译虽然准确，但是稍显笨拙。
考研英语二翻译真题及参考译文2010-2015
2010-2015年考研英语二翻译参考Deng Lan2015年1）Think about driving a route // that’s very familiar. // It could be your commute to work, // a trip into town or // the way home.// Whichever it is, // you know every twist and turn //like the back of your hand.想象一下，你正开车行驶/驰骋在一条你非常熟悉的路线上，可能是你上班或进城或回家的道路。
无论是哪条路，你都熟悉到对他的每个迂回拐弯处都了如指掌。
（增译/尽量简洁/意译）On these sorts of trips //it’s easy to lose concentration on the driving // and pay little attention // to the passing scenery.行驶在这类道路上，你的注意力很容易分散，极少会留心沿途的风景。
（按照汉语习惯进行意译）The consequence //is that you perceive // that the trip has taken less time //than it actually has.结果，你感觉到这趟旅程所花费的时间比它实际的时间要短。
2）This is the well-travelled road effect: // people tend to underestimate the time //it takes to travel a familiar route.这就是在常开的道路上开车所产生的效果：人们倾向于低估在熟悉的道路上开车的时间。
3）The effect is caused //by the way we allocate our attention. //我们注意力的分配方式导致了这种效应。
2015年考研英语一真题、解析和全文翻译(大师兄版)
[B]journals are strengthening their statistical checks.[C]few journals are blamed for mistakes in data analysis.[D]lack of data analysis is common in research projects.32.The phrase“flagged up”(Para.2)is the closest in meaning to______.[A]found[B]revised[C]marked[D]stored33.Giovanni Parmigiani believes that the establishment of the SBoRE may______.[A]pose a threat to all its peers[B]meet with strong opposition[C]increase Science’s circulation[D]set an example for other journals34.David Vaux holds that what Science is doing now______.[A]adds to researchers’workload[B]diminishes the role of reviewers[C]has room for further improvement[D]is to fail in the foreseeable future35.Which of the following is the best title of the text?______.[A]Science Joins Push to Screen Statistics in Papers[B]Professional Statisticians Deserve More Respect[C]Data Analysis Finds Its Way onto Editors’Desks[D]Statisticians Are Coming Back with ScienceText4Two years ago,Rupert Murdoch’s daughter,Elisabeth,spoke of the“unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions”.Integrity had collapsed,she argued,because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism”in society should be profit and the market.But“it’s us,human beings,we the people who create the society we want,not profit”.Driving her point home,she continued:“It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose,of a moral language within government,media or business could become one of the most dangerous own goals for capitalism and freedom.”This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International,she thought,making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.As the hacking trial concludes—finding guilty one ex-editor of the News of the World,Andy Coulson,for conspiring to hack phones,and finding his predecessor,Rebekah Brooks,innocent of the same charge—the wider issue of dearth of integrity still stands.Journalists are known to have hacked the phones of up to5,500people. This is hacking on an industrial scale,as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire,the man hired by the News of the World in2001to be the point person for phone hacking.Others await trial.This long story still unfolds.In many respects,the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place.One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom,how little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired how the stories arrived.The core of her successful defense was that she knew nothing.In today’s world,it has become normal that well-paid executives should not be accountable for what happens in the organizations that they run.Perhaps we should not be so surprised.For a generation,the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit.The words that have mattered are efficiency, flexibility,shareholder value,business-friendly,wealth generation,sales,impact and,in newspapers,circulation. Words degraded to the margin have been justice,fairness,tolerance,proportionality and accountability.The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding,to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity.It was to ruin lives in the quest for circulation and impact.Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories,but she asked no questions,gave no instructions—nor received traceable,recorded answers.36.According to the first two paragraphs,Elisabeth was upset by______.[A]the consequences of the current sorting mechanism[B]companies’financial loss due to immoral practices[C]governmental ineffectiveness on moral issues[D]the wide misuse of integrity among institutions37.It can be inferred from Paragraph3that______.[A]Glem Mulcaire may deny phone hacking as a crime.[B]more journalists may be found guilty of phone hacking.[C]Andy Coulson should be held innocent of the charge.[D]phone hacking will be accepted on certain occasions.38.The author believes the Rebekah Brooks’s defense______.[A]revealed a cunning personality[B]centered on trivial issues[C]was hardly convincing[D]was part of a conspiracy39.The author holds that the current collective doctrine shows______.[A]generally distorted values[B]unfair wealth distribution[C]a marginalized lifestyle[D]a rigid moral code40.Which of the following is suggested in the last paragraph?______.[A]The quality of writing is of primary importance.[B]Common humanity is central to news reporting.[C]Moral awareness matters in editing a newspaper.[D]Journalists need stricter industrial regulations.Part BDirections:In the following article,some sentences have been removed.For Questions41-45,choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blank.There are two extra choices,which do not fit in any of the gaps.Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.(10points)How does your reading proceed?Clearly you try to comprehend,in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them,drawing on your implicit knowledge of English grammar.(41)__________.You begin to infer a context for the text,for instance by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved:who is making the utterance,to whom,when and where.The ways of reading indicated here are without doubt kinds of comprehension.But they show comprehension to consist not just of passive assimilation but of active engagement in inference and problem-solving.You infer information you feel the writer has invited you to grasp by presenting you with specific evidence and clues.(42) ___________.Conceived in this way,comprehension will not follow exactly the same track for each reader.What is in question is not the retrieval of an absolute,fixed or“true”meaning that can be read off and checked for accuracy, or some timeless relation of the text to the world.(43)___________.Such background material inevitably reflects who we are.(44)___________.This doesn’t,however,make interpretation merely relative or even pointless.Precisely because readers from different historical periods,places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the page—including for texts that engage with fundamental human concerns—debates about texts can play an important role in social discussion of beliefs and values.How we read a given text also depends to some extent on our particular interest in reading it,(45)_________. Such dimensions of reading suggest—as others introduced later in the book will also do—that we bring an implicit(often unacknowledged)agenda to any act of reading.It doesn’t then necessarily follow that one kind of reading is fuller,more advanced or more worthwhile than another.Ideally,different kinds of reading inform each other,and act as useful reference points for and counterbalances to one another.Together,they make up the reading component of your overall literacy or relationship to your surrounding textual environment.[A]Are we studying that text and trying to respond in a way that fulfills the requirement of a given course? Reading it simply for pleasure?Skimming it for information?Ways of reading on a train or in bed are likely todiffer considerably from reading in a seminar room.[B]Factors such as the place and period in which we are reading,our gender,ethnicity,age and social class will encourage us towards certain interpretations but at the same time obscure or even close off others.[C]If you are unfamiliar with words or idioms,you guess at their meanings,using clues presented in the context.On the assumption that they will become relevant later,you make a mental note of discourse entities as well as possible links between them.[D]In effect,you try to reconstruct the likely meanings or effects that any given sentence,image or reference might have had:these might be the ones the author intended.[E]You make further inferences,for instance about how the text may be significant to you,or about its validity—inferences that form the basis of a personal response for which the author will inevitably be far less responsible.[F]In plays,novels and narrative poems,characters speak as constructs created by the author,not necessarily as mouthpieces for the author’s own thoughts.[G]Rather,we ascribe meanings to texts on the basis of interaction between what we might call textual and contextual material:between kinds of organization or patterning we perceive in a text’s formal structures(so especially its language structures)and various kinds of background,social knowledge,belief and attitude that we bring to the text.SectionⅢTranslationDirections:Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese.Your translation should be written clearly on the ANSWER SHEET.(10points)Within the span of a hundred years,in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries,a tide of emigration—one of the great folk wanderings of history—swept from Europe to America.(46)This movement,driven by powerful and diverse motivations,built a nation out of a wilderness and,by its nature,shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.(47)The United States is the product of two principal forces—the immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas,customs,and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits.Of necessity,colonial America was a projection of Europe.Across the Atlantic came successive groups of Englishmen,Frenchmen,Germans,Scots,Irishmen,Dutchmen,Swedes,and many others who attempted to transplant their habits and traditions to the new world.(48)But,inevitably,the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America,the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another,and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw,new continent caused significant changes.These changes were gradual and at first scarcely visible.But the result was a new social pattern which,although it resembled European society in many ways,had a character that was distinctly American.(49)The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the15th-and-16th-century explorations of North America.In the meantime,thriving Spanish colonies had been established in Mexico,the West Indies,and South America.These travelers to North America came in small,unmercifully overcrowded craft.During their six-to twelve-week voyage,they subsisted on meager rations.Many of the ships were lost in storms,many passengers died of disease, and infants rarely survived the journey.Sometimes storms blew the vessels far off their course,and often calm brought interminable delay.To the anxious travelers the sight of the American shore brought almost inexpressible relief.Said one chronicler,“The air at twelve leagues’distance smelt as sweet as a new-blown garden.”The colonists’firstglimpse of the new land was a vista of dense woods.(50)The virgin forest with its richness and variety of trees was a real treasure-house which extended from Maine all the way down to Georgia.Here was abundant fuel and lumber.Here was the raw material of houses and furniture,ships and potash,dyes and naval stores.SectionⅣWritingPart A51.Directions:You are going to host a club reading session.Write an email of about100words recommending a book to the club members.You should state reasons for your recommendation.You should write neatly on the ANSWER SHEET.Do not sign your own name at the end of the e“Li Ming”instead.Do not write the address.(10points)Part B52.Directions:Write an essay of160-200words based on the following drawing.In your essay you should1)describe the drawing briefly,2)explain its intended meaning,and3)give your comments.You should write neatly on the ANSWER SHEET.(20points)@大师兄英语·2015年考研英语一2015年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语一试题参考答案Section I Use of English(10points)1.A B C D2.A B C D3.A B C D4.A B C D5.A B C D6.A B C D7.A B C D8.A B C D9.A B C D10.A B C D11.A B C D12.A B C D13.A B C D14.A B C D15.A B C D16.A B C D17.A B C D18.A B C 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2015年考研英语阅读理解部分翻译
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2015年考研英语统考翻译题原题及翻译Within the span of a hundred years, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a tide of emigration—one of the great folk wanderings of history—swept from Europe to America. 46) This movement, driven by powerful and diverse motivations, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.
17世纪到18世纪早期的一百多年间，人类历史上一次大规模的人口迁移席卷欧洲和美洲大陆。
这次人口迁移是由各种不同的强大驱动力促成的，它使一个国家在一片荒原上建立起来，其特性也塑造了这片新大陆的性格和命运。
47) The United States is the product of two principal forces-the immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs, and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits. Of necessity, colonial America was a projection of Europe. Across the Atlantic came successive groups of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Scots, Irishmen, Dutchmen, Swedes, and many others who attempted to transplant their habits and traditions to the new world.
如今的美国是两种主要力量的产物。
首先是思想、风俗和民族特点各不相同的欧洲移民，其次是一个新的国家对这些特征的影响和改变。
殖民地时期的美国不可避免地成为了一种欧洲的投影。
一批有一批的移民从英国、法国、德国、苏格兰、爱尔兰、丹麦、瑞典以及其他欧洲国家来到北美，并试图将他们的习俗和传统移植到这片新大陆。
48) But, the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused significant changes. These changes were gradual and at first scarcely visible. But the result was a new social pattern which, although it resembled European society in many ways, had a character that was distinctly American.
但是在一个未开垦过的新大陆维持以前的移民前的生活方式是非常困难的，再加上北美的独特地理条件以及不同民族群体间的相互影响，这一切都使原来的风俗习惯发生了显著的变化。
这些变化是循序渐进的，最初几乎注意不到，但其最终的结果却是一个新的社会模式。
这种模式虽然在很多方面和欧洲社会相似，但却有着明显的、专属于美国的特征。
49) The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the 15th- and 16th-century explorations of
North America. In the meantime, thriving Spanish colonies had been established in Mexico, the West Indies, and South America. These travelers to North America came in small, unmercifully overcrowded craft. During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they subsisted on barely enough food allotted to them. Many of the ship were lost in storms, many passengers died of disease, and infants rarely survived the journey. Sometimes storms blew the vessels far off their course, and often calm brought unbearably long delay.
对北美的地理探索是在15和16世纪进行的。
一百多年后，第一批移民横渡大西洋来到了如今美国所在的这片土地。
此时，西班牙人已经在墨西哥、西印度群岛以及南美建立了很多殖民地，并且发展迅速。
在到达北美之前，这些人要坐着拥挤不堪的小船在海上颠簸六到十二周的时间，而每天得到的食物配给少得可怜。
很多船在风暴中沉没，很多人死于疾病，而婴幼儿则几乎没有生存下来的可能。
有时风暴会将他们的船吹到离航线很远的地方，而平静无风天气则可能使他们的航程陷入长时间的、让人无法承受的停顿。
“To the anxious travelers the sight of the American shore brought almost inexpressible relief.”said one recorder of events, “The air at twelve leagues’distance smelt as sweet as a new-blown garden.”The colonists’first glimpse of the new land was a sight of dense woods. 50) The virgin forest with its richness and variety of trees was a veritable real treasure-house which extended from Maine all the way down to Georgia. Here was abundant fuel and lumber. Here was the raw material of houses and furniture, ships and potash, dyes and naval stores.
这些焦虑的旅客在看到美洲海岸时，感到的是几乎难以言表的解脱。
有人曾这样记述道，“离海岸还有三十多海里的时候，乘客们就嗅到了大陆的气息，这种气息如此甜美，就像是刚刚开满鲜花的花园。
”这些殖民者第一眼看到的北美大陆是一片茂密的森林。
这片原始森林树木繁茂，树种众多，从现在的缅因州一直延伸到佐治亚州。
这对他们来说真是一座宝库，可以为他们提供充足的燃料、木材和原材料。
有了这些，他们就可以建造房屋、家具、船只，就可以制造钾碱、染料和松脂。