翻译作文练习

Part Ⅰ Translation. Section A Directions: Translate the following passage into Chinese. But just because an April Fool's prank might be frowned upon, it doesn't mean you can't joke around while at work. Well-intentioned humor when shared amongst teams can create a positive work environment, especially when business is demanding. Some light-hearted wit can increase morale and motivation, resulting in improved productivity and retention.

Section B Directions: Translate the following passage into English. 旅游是一种集观光，娱乐，健身为一体的愉快而美好的活动。旅游业随着时代进步而不断发展。20世纪中叶以来，现代旅游在世界范围迅速兴起，旅游人数不断增加，旅游产业规模持续扩大，旅游经济地位显著提升，旅游活动日益成为各国人民交流文化，增进友谊，扩大交往的重要渠道，对人类生活和社会进步产生越来越广泛的影响。

Part Ⅱ Writing. Direction: you are to write within 30 minutes a composition of no less than 150 words according to the report above. Follow the requirements given below. 1. state your viewpoint of the phenomenon of tomb on-line; 2. explain the advantages and disadvantages; 3. draw a conclusion.

答案 Part Ⅰ Translation. Section A 尽管愚人节恶作剧可能会让人不悦，但这并不意味着不能和同事开玩笑。同事之间开开善意的玩笑有助于营造积极的工作氛围，尤其是在工作压力大的情况下。一些轻松的小幽默还能提升士气和工作积极性，从而提高员工的工作效率，并有助于留住员工。 Section B Tourism is a kind of popular and pleasant activity that combines sightseeing, recreation and health care. With the passage of time, tourism has been developing. Since the middle of the 20th century, tourism has been growing at a fast pace around the world. The number of tourists has been rising, the scale of the tourism industry has constantly been expanding, and the importance of tourism in the economy has grown obviously. Tourism acts gradually as an important bridge for cultural exchange and friendship, and it exerts a steadily broadening influence on daily life and social progress among countries. 早上,得知须等些时日马车才能修好,他们便搭乘当地车辆去了山顶小城.有人告诉他们在那可以找到更好的住处.他们在那逗留了两三天.那是一座意大利风格的小城,教堂高高耸立,有一气派浮华的广场,几条狭窄的小街,还有几座小巧的宫殿.所有这些,紧凑而完美地排列在山顶之上. 四周筑有城墙,城墙之内方园不比英国人的菜园大多少.但是,它喧哗热闹,生气勃勃,昼夜回响着脚步声与话语声.

参考答案： That morning, finding they would have to wait while their carriage was being repaired, they had driven in a local conveyance up to the city on the mountain, where they had been told they would find better quarters; and there they had stayed two or three days. It was one of the miniature Italian cities with a high church, a pretentious piazza, a few narrow streets and little palaces, perched, all compact and complete, on the top of a mountain, within an enclosure of walls hardly larger than an English kitchen garden. But it was full of life and noise, echoing all day and all night with the sounds of feet and voices.

People might say that they try to give their children an education so they will get a good start in life. If their children act out, they hope that they are just going through a stage and that they will get over it. Parents hope that their children won’t be burdened with financial worries or ill health and, if they face such difficulties, that they will be able to overcome them. Parents hope that their children will have a long life span and that they will go far in life. But they also know that their children, as all mortals, will reach the end of the road.

参考译文： 人们会说他们会尽力让自己的孩子受良好的教育，这样，孩子会有个好的生命开端。如果孩子出现行为问题，他们希望那是过程中难免的，不久就会过去。父母希望孩子没有经济上的困难或健康不佳。万一有了，父母希望他们能渡过难关。父母希望孩子健康长寿，事业有成，但他们也知道他们的孩子像常人无异，总会走到生命的尽头。

尽管我喜欢广交朋友，但我只愿与为数不多的几人成为至交。我所提及的那位黑衣男士，就是那样一个我希冀与其成为莫逆之交的人，因为他深得我的景仰。诚然，其行为举止不乏某些怪异的出尔反尔，他全然可被称为幽默家王国中的幽默大师。虽然他慷慨大方，乃至奢靡无度，但他仍假惺惺地希望人们将其视作节俭与审慎之奇才。尽管其言谈之中满是污秽和自私的格言，其内心却充盈着最博大无际的爱心。

参考译文： Though fond of many acquaintances, I desire an intimacy only with a few. The Man in Black, whom I have often mentioned, is one whose friendship I could wish to acquire, because he possesses my esteem. His manners, it is true, are tinctured with some strange inconsistencies, and he may be justly termed a humorist in a nation of humorists. Though he is generous even to profusion, he affects to be thought a prodigy of parsimony and prudence; though his conversation be replete with the most sordid and selfish maxims, his heart is dilated with the most unbounded love.

A close friend of mine recently underwent tests for leukemia. The most agonizing part of the ordeal, she said, was the week-long wait for the test results. A bad outcome she could learn to cope with, my friend said. It was the not knowing, the uncertainty, that was so difficult. “People feel worse when something bad might occur than when something bad will occur,” wrote Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert in a recent New York Times op-ed. “Most of us aren't losing sleep and sucking down Marlboros because the Dow is going to fall another thousand points, but because we don't know whether it will fall or not ─ and human beings find uncertainty more painful than the things they're uncertain about.”