专八改错题及答案

2012年3月专八真题：改错部分

The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally or

freely．The argument has been going since at least the first (1) ______

century B.C．Up to the beginning of the 19th century, many writers favoured

certain kind of “free” translation: the spirit, not the letter; the (2) _______

sense not the word; the message rather the form; the matter not (3) _______

the manner．This is the often revolutionary slogan of writers who (4) _______

wanted the truth to be read and understood．Then in the turn of the 19th (5) ____

century, when the study of cultural anthropology suggested that

the linguistic barriers were insuperable and that the language (6) _______

was entirely the product of culture, the view translation was impossible (7) _____

gained some currency, and with it that, if was attempted at all, it must be as (8) __

literal as possible．This view culminated the statement of the (9) _______

extreme “literalists” Walter Benjamin and Vlad imir Nobokov.

The argument was theoretical: the purpose of the translation, the nature

of the readership, the type of the text, was not discussed．Too often,

writer, translator and reader were implicitly identified with each other．

Now, the context has changed, and the basic problem remains． (10) _____

参考答案：

1．going后加on

2．certain改为a certain

3．rather改为not

4．is 改为was

5．in 改为 at

6．去掉第二个the

7．view后面加that

8．去掉 was

9．culminated后面加in

10．and 改为but

2011年3月专八真题：改错部分

From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four (1)I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the conscience (2)that I was outraging my true nature and that soon or later I should have to (3)settle down and write books.

I was the child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side(4)and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeing mannerisms which(5)made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginative persons, and (6) I think from the very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with(7)the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing in unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created (8) a sort of private world which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life (9) Therefore, the volume of serious —i.e. seriously intended —writing which I produced (10)all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of

five, my mother taking it down to dictation.

1. grew 后加up

2. conscience 改成consciousness

3. soon 改成sooner

4. the 和child之间加middle

5. disagreeing 改成disagreeable

6. imaginative 改成imaginary

7. literal 改成literary

8. in 去掉

9. which 前加in

10. Therefore, 改成Nevertheless

改错题出自：George Orwell的《Why I Write》的前两段

第1个错误出现在 grew .解析：grow 表成长，如人和动植物的成长。如果要表“长大”就要用短语：grow up。

2 .句中conscience 有如下的释义：1.良心，良知 2.良知 1.良心 2.第三类法庭而consciousness表示1.意识到,知道. 2.意识，觉悟 3.意识状态 4.清醒句子的意思是：我意识到这是在违背我的本性。

3. 第三句考固定搭配：sooner or later 迟早。难点：outrage 违背做动词。

4. 按句子意思作者排行老二家里上面和下面都有个小孩因此加上 middle

5. disagreeing为disagree的ing,意思是“不同意不认同”。改为：disagreeable表 1. 不合意的;不愉快的;讨厌的 2. 难相处的,脾气坏的

6. imaginative 改成 imaginary，解析：imaginative 表示人富有想像力的;富于想像的;有创造力的。

而imaginary表示想像中的;虚构的;幻想的如： an imaginary friend 想像中的朋友

7 .literal表“文字的” 改成 literary 指文学作者的文学的志向与野心

8. face sth. 直面某个事实 .不用接介词 in

9. 定语从句，修饰world，有介词要用在which前，不能省略

10. Therefore, 改成Nevertheless句子有转折的意思，作者说他一直沉溺在自己的心世界，然而童年时代所写的东西数目不多。而非因此，童年所写的东西不多。

2010年3月专八真题：改错部分

So far as we can tell, all human languages are equally complete and perfect as instruments of communication: that is, (1) every language appears to be well equipped as any other to say (2) the things their speakers want to say. (3) There may or may not be appropriate to talk about primitive peoples or cultures, but that is another matter. Certainly, not all groups of people are equally competent in nuclear physics or psychology or the cultivation of rice or the engraving of Benares brass. (4) Whereas this is not the fault of their language.

The Eskimos can (5) speak about snow with a great deal further precision and subtlety than we can in English, but this is not because the Eskimo language (one of those sometimes miscalled 'primitive') is inherently more precise and subtle than English.

(6) This example does not come to light a defect in English, a show of unexpected 'primitiveness'. The position is simply and obviously that (7) the Eskimos and the

English live in similar environments. The English language (8) will be just as rich in terms for different kinds of snow, presumably, if the environments (9) in which English was habitually used made such distinction as important.

Similarly, we have no reason to doubt that the Eskimo language could be as precise and subtle on the subject of motor manufacture or cricket (10) if these topics formed the part of the Eskimos' life. For obvious historical reasons, Englishmen in the 19th century could not talk about motorcars with the minute discrimination which is possible today: cars were not a part of their culture. But they had a host of terms for horse-drawn vehicles which send us, puzzled, to a historical dictionary when we are reading Scott or Dickens. How many of us could distinguish between a chaise, a landau, a victoria, a brougham, a coupe, a gig, a diligence, a whisky,

a calash, a tilbury, a carriole, a phaeton, and a clarence?

1 be后插入 as;

2 their改为its;

3 There改为It;

4 Whereas改为But

5 further 改为more

6 come改为bring;

7 similar改为different; 8 will改为would;

9 as important去掉as 10 the part去掉the

2009年3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分

The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes from one schoolchild to the next and illustrates the further difference (1) between school lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse, learnt in early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener (2) has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchildren. (3) The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmitting it may be something from 20 to 70 years. (4) With the playground lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on within the very hour (5) it is learnt; and, in the general, it passes between children (6) of the same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the difference in age between playmates to be more than five years. If, therefore, a playground rhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or (7) even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitted over and over, very possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three (8) hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live (9) after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the (10) original wording.

参考答案:

(1)illustrate改为illustrated (与前文的shown保持一致)

(2) the 改为a (用不定冠词表示泛指)

(3)their改为his (代词与前文a little listener在单复数上保持一致)

(4)something 改为anything (这里anything from...to...表示大约在...之间)

(5)therefore改为however (根据上下文逻辑关系)

(6) in the general去掉the (in general是习惯用法)

(7) currently 改为current (这里起的是表语的作用，需要形容词而不是副词)

(8) it has passed改为 it has been passed (主动改为被动，与前文保持一致)

(9) live 改为 alive （活跃的，仍然存在的） (live作形容词讲为“现场直播的”意

思)

(10) to let alone 改为 let alone (let alone 为习惯搭配，意思是“更不用说”) 2008年3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分

The desire to use language

as a sign of national identity is a very natural one, (1) ___

and in result language has played a prominent part in national moves. (2) ____

Men have often felt the need to cultivate a given language to show

that they are distinctive from another race whose (3) ____ hegemony they resent. At the time the United States (4) _____ split off from Britain, for example, there were proposals that

independence should be linguistically accepted by the use of a

(5)______

different language from those of Britain. There was even one (6)_____

proposal that Americans should adopt Hebrew. Others favored

the adoption of Greek, though, as one man put it, things would

certainly be simpler for Americans if they stuck on to English (7)______

and made the British learn Greek. At the end, as everyone (8)_____

knows, the two countries adopted the practical and satisfactory

solution of carrying with the same language as before. (9)______

Since nearly two hundred years now, they have shown the world (10) _____ that political independence and national identity can be complete

without sacrificing the enormous mutual advantages of a common

language.

参考答案:

1. one改为thing

2. result改为fact

3. distinctive改为distinct

4. at the time后加when

5. by改为with

6. those改为that

7. on去掉

8. At改为In

9. carrying 后加on

10. now改为ago

2007年3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分

From what has been said, it must be clear that no one can

make very positive statements about how language originated.

There is no material in any language today and in the earliest (1) and→or

records of ancient languages show us language in a new and (2) show→showing

emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language (3) the

originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the (4) and→but

necessary evidence is entirely lacking: there are no remote

tribes, no ancient records, providing evidence of

a language with a large proportion of such cries(5) large→lager

than we find in English. It is true that the absence

of such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in (6) in→on

other grounds too the theory is not very attractive.

People of all races and languages make rather similar

noises in return to pain or pleasure. The fact that (7) return→response such noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmen

and Malaysians whose languages are utterly different,

serves to emphasize on the fundamental difference （8）on

between these noises and language proper. We may

say that the cries of pain or chortles of amusement

are largely reflex actions, instinctive to∧large extent,(9) ∧a whereas language proper does not consist of signs

but of these that have to be learnt and that are (10) these→those

2006年3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分

We use language primarily as a means of communication with

other human beings. Each of us shares with the community in which we

live a store of words and meanings as well as agreeing conventions as (1)