专四专八历年经典翻译真题例
1. The American economic system is, organized around a basically private-enterprise, market-
oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their
money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most.
[参考译文] 美国的经济是以基本的私有企业和市场导向经济为架构的，在这种经济中，消费者很大程度上通过在市场上为那些他们最想要的货品和服务付费来决定什么应该被制造出来。
2. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with
the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their
incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it.
[参考译文] 因此，在美国的经济体系中，个体消费者的需求与商人试图最大化其利润的欲望和个人想最大化其收入效用的欲望相结合，一起决定了什么应该被制造，以及资源如何被用来制造它们。
3. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend
to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit
more consumers to buy the product.
[参考译文] 另一方面，如果大量制造某种商品导致其成本下降，那么这就有可能增加卖方和制造商能提供的供给，而这也就会反过来降低价格并允许更多的消 费者购买产品。
4. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of
productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product
or to make a free contract with another private individual.
[参考译文] 在美国经济中，私有财产的概念不仅包含对生产资源的所有权，也指其他一些特定的权利，如确定一个产品价格和与另一个私人个体(经济单位) 自由签定合同的权利。
5. At the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employers are the
most efficient, allowing personnel and staffing assignments to be made accordingly. And they also
identify preferred customers for promotional campaigns.
[参考译文] 同时这些计算机记录下哪些时间是最忙的，哪些员工工作效率最高，这样就能相应地做出人员人事安排。而且它们(计算机)也能为促销活动找到那些拥有优先权的顾客。
6. Numerous other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and
electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more efficient services to consumers through
the use of computers.
[参考译文] 不计其数的其他商业企业，从剧院到杂志出版商，从公用燃气电力设施到牛奶处理厂，都通过计算机的使用给消费者带来更好、更有效率的服务。
7. Exceptional children are different in some significant way from others of the same age For these
children to develop to their full adult potential, their education must be adapted to those
differences.
[参考译文] 残疾儿童在许多关键方面都与其同龄人不同。为了让这些孩子发展其全部的成人后的潜能，他们的教育必须适应这些不同。
8. The great interest in exceptional children shown in public education over the past three decades
indicates the strong feeling in our society that all citizens, whatever their special conditions,
deserve the opportunity to fully develop their capabilities.
[参考译文] 在过去的30年中，公共教育中显示的对残疾儿童的巨大关注表明了我们社会中的一种中强烈的情绪，那就是所有的公民，不管其情况有多特殊，都应享有充分发展其能力的机会。
9. It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable price, thereby establishing
a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at competitive prices.
[参考译文] 它(广告)能够直接帮助货物以比较合理的价格被迅速分销出去，因此可以(使公司)建立一个坚固的国内市场，同时也使以具有竞争力的价格提供出口变得可能。
10. Apart from the fact that twenty-seven acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no
regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements.
[参考译文] 除去议会有27件法案来规范广告的条件，没有任何一个正式的广告商敢于推销一种商品却不能兑现其在广告中的承诺。
11. If its message were confined merely to information and that in itself would be difficult if not
impossible to achieve, for even a detail such as the choice of the color of a shirt is subtly
persuasive-advertising wound be so boring that no one wound pay any attention.
[参考译文] 如果其信息只被局限于告知一一就广告而言，如果这不是完全不可能达到的，也是非常难做的，因为即便是一个诸如衬衫的颜色的选择这样的细节都会具有微妙的说服意味，那么广告就会如此地乏味以至于没有人 会关注它。
12. The workers who gets a promotion, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who
learns a new language-all these are examples of people who have measurable results to show for
there efforts.
[参考译文] 得到了升迁的工人们，成绩进步的学生，学会了一门新语言的外国人一 一这些都是那些有可衡量的结果宋显示其努力的人们的例证。
13. As families move away from their stable community, their friends of many years, their
extended family relationships, the informal flow of information is cut off, and with it the
confidence that information will be available when needed and will be trustworthy and reliable.
[参考译文] 随着家庭离开他们原来稳定的社区，离开他们多年的朋友和扩展的家庭关系，非正式的信息流动被切断了，随之而去的是对在需要时能获得可靠和值得信赖的信息的信心。
14. The individual now has more information available than any generation, and the task of
finding that one piece of information relevant to his or her specific problem is complicated,
time--consuming, and sometimes even overwhelming.
[参考译文] 现在每个人能够得到的信息比任何时代的人都多，而找到与他／她的特定问题相关的那一点信息的任务不仅复杂、耗时，有时甚至令人难以招 。
15. Expertise can be shared world wide through teleconferencing, and problems in dispute can be
settled without the participants leaving their homes and/or jobs to travel to a distant conference
2021年英语专八翻译
一、The old gentleman, however, seemed cheerful enough；and it was plain that he took an interest
in the strangers, and wished to make their acquaintance.This was soon effected by the friendly
waiter；and after a little talk the old man invited them to visit his villa and garden which were just
outside the walls of the town.So the next afternoon, when the sun began to descend, and they saw
in glimpses through door-ways and windows, blue shadows beginning to spread over the brown
mountains, they went to pay their visit.It was not much of a place, a small, modernized, stucco
villa, with a hot pebbly garden, and in it a stone basin with torpid gold-fish, and a statue of Diana
and her hounds against the wall.But what gave a glory to it was a gigantic rose-tree which
clambered over the house, almost smothering the windows, and filling the air with the perfume of
2015 专八汉译英真题及参考译文
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TEM 8 2015 Translation Chinese to English
2015专业八级汉译英真题
茶花（Camellia）的自然花期在12月至翌年4月，以红色系为主，另有黄色系和白色系等，花色艳丽。本届花展充分展示了茶花的品种资源和科研水平，是近三年来本市规模最大的一届茶花展。为了广大植物爱好者有更多与茶花亲密接触的机会，本届茶花展的不沾范围延伸至整个园区，为赏花游客带来便利。
此次茶花展历时2个月，展期内200多个茶花品种将陆续亮相。
Camellia naturally blooms between December and April in the next year,
mainlyinredaswellasinyellowandwhite,withitsbrightandgorgeousblossom.TheFlower
Show, which displays into full the varieties and technological research of theflower,
marks the largest one in our city in recent three years. In order to enable
thevegetation lovers to embrace Camellia, the flower show extends its place to the
wholegarden, making it more convenient for the visitors.
The Flower Show lasts for two months and more than 200 types of camellia
willmake its appearance during the period.
英语专业八级历年英译汉汇总
1.2005年3月
PartⅠ
1. Despite the fact that the situation in the Middle East
appears grim, I am still convinced that peace is within reach.
尽管中东局势看来十分糟糕，但我仍然坚信，和平是可以达到的。
2. The adoption of a new technology can bring about
revolutionary changes in the way we do things.
采用新技术可以在我们做事的方式上带来革命性的变化。
3. In a world of ever-increasing interdependence, countries
should work together to tackle global problems that no one
country can solve alone.
在一个日益相互依存的世界里，国家应该携手合作解决一些国家无法独自解决的全球性问题。
4. Far from providing a cure-all, the new measure is likely
to have limited effect in solving the issue.
这项新的措施并不能治愈一切，而在解决这个问题时有可能产生有限的效果。
我们有必要为我们造成的环境灾难承担责任，并采取有效措施扭转这一趋势。
Part II
专业英语八级(翻译)模拟试卷199(题后含答案及解析)
专业英语八级（翻译）模拟试卷199 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有： 4. TRANSLATION
PART IV TRANSLATION
1． 在古罗马，柱子是按照人的比例划分的；到了文艺复兴时期，人就是世界上最美好的尺度。今天的中国城市里，裁弯取直的河渠，向四面八方扩张的交通，膨胀硕大的以便于接纳更多商业行为的城市广场与建筑立面，都在告诉人们建设背后的权力与资本才是审美标准。直到有一天。回过头来看到自己的孩子站在为车辆交通铺开的、满是尘土的路上，我们才发现，城市的大，却容不下一个让孩子们展开笑颜的机会。
正确答案：As early as in ancient Rome, columns were designed in proportion to
the human body. When it came to the Renaissance, human was celebrated as the finest
measure that had ever appeared in the world.By now, in Chinese cities, however, the
aesthetic values of construction are measured by power and capital behind the
construction projects—the shortcut rivers, widespread traffic arteries, the
ever-expanding city squares and outer space of buildings that accommodates more
commercial activities—all reveal the same truth.One day, looking back, we may find
2019专八真题汉译英
2019专八真题-中译英译文
原文
白洋淀曾有“北国江南”的说法，但村舍的形制自具特色，与江南截然不同。南方多雨，屋顶是坡顶；这里的村舍则不同，屋顶是晒粮食的地方，而且历史上淀里每逢水大洪灾，村民就得把屋里的东西搬到屋顶上。房屋彼此挨得很近，有些屋顶几乎相连。（节选自 冯骥才《白洋淀之忧》 ）
译文仅供参考
Baiyangdian was once known as “Northern Jiangnan”. The southern
type of water town in the North is quite different from the village houses
in the south of China. The design and constructions of the cottage here
have their distinctive features. Village houses in the south have sloping
roofs to stand the rainy weather, while the cottages here have flat roofs to
dry the harvest in the sun. What’s more, every time the water flooded, the
villagers had to move belongings in the room onto the roof. These
cottages are so close to each other and some are almost connected.
专八翻译 2006-2009 真题和译文,版本一
华研外语：英语专业8级历年真题
TEM-8 2006 TRANSLATION
SECTION 1
中国民族自古以来从不把人看做高于一切，在哲学方面的表现都反映出人在自然界中与万物占有一个比例较为恰当的地位，而非绝对统治万物的主宰。因此我们的苦闷，基本上比西方人为少为小；因为苦闷的强弱原是随欲望与野心的大小而转移的。农业社会的人比工业社会的人享受差得多，因此欲望也小得多。况中国古代素来以不滞于物，不为物役为最主要的人生哲学。并非我们没有守财奴，但比起莫里哀和巴尔扎克笔下的守财奴与野心家来，就小巫见大巫了。中国民族多数是性情中正和平、淡泊、朴实，比西方人容易满足。
TEM-8 2006 TRANSLATION
SECTION 1
Since ancient times the Chinese nationalities have never considered human
beings to be superior to other species . As is reflected in Chinese philosophy , in the
natural world human beings occupy a reasonable position in proportion to all other
creatures and the former do not absolutely dominate the latter . Therefore ,
generally speaking , we Chinese feel depressed less often and less severely than
people in the west , for the intensity of one’s depression literally varies with the
magnitude of one’s desire and ambition . As people in an agricultural society enjoy
专八历年翻译真题详解
【2001年8级测试英译汉】
Possession for its own sake or in competition with the rest of the neighborhood would have
been Thoreau’s idea of the low levels1. The active discipline of heightening one’s perception of
what is enduring in nature would have been his idea of the high2. What he saved from the low was
time and effort he could spend on the high. Thoreau certainly disapproved of starvation, but he
would put into feeding himself only as much effort as would keep him functioning for more
important efforts.
Effort is the gist of it3. There is no happiness except as we take on life-engaging difficulties.
Short of the impossible, as Yeats put it, the satisfaction we get from a lifetime depends on how
high we choose our difficulties4. Robert Frost was thinking in something like the same terms when
he spoke of “The pleasure of taking pains”5. The mortal flaw in the advertised version of
2011年专八翻译真题
2011年专八真题：汉译英原文
现代社会无论价值观的持有还是生活方式的选择都充满了矛盾。而最让现代人感到尴尬的是，面对重重矛盾，许多时候你别无选择。匆忙与休闲是截然不同的两种生活方式。但在现实生活中，人们却在这两种生活方式间频繁穿梭，有时也说不清自己到底是“休闲着”还是“忙碌着”。
譬如说，当我们正在旅游胜地享受假期，却忽然接到老板的电话，告诉我们客户或工作方面出了麻烦——现代便捷先进工具在此刻显示出了它狰狞、阴郁的面容——搞得人一下子兴趣全无。接下来的休闲只能徒有其表，因为心里已是火烧火燎了。
2011年专八真题参考答案：汉译英部分
Being hasty and at leisure are two quite distinct lifestyles. But in the real world, people have to
frequently shuttle between these two lifestyles, sometimes not sure whether they are “at ease” or
“in a rush”.
For example, we are enjoying our holidays in the resort while suddenly we receive phone calls
from the boss who tells us there are some troubles with our customers and work--so at this
moment the modern, convenient and advanced device shows its vicious and gloomy features--and
we lose all our interest. The subsequent leisure is the mere showy for we are in a restless and
2015 专八汉译英真题及参考译文 2
TEM 8 2015 Translation Chinese to English
2015 专业八级 汉译英真题
茶花（Camellia）的自然花期在12月至翌年4月，以红色系为主，另有黄色系和白色系等，花色艳丽。本届花展充分展示了茶花的品种资源和科研水平，是近三年来本市规模最大的一届茶花展。为了广大植物爱好者有更多与茶花亲密接触的机会，本届茶花展的不沾范围延伸至整个园区，为赏花游客带来便利。
此次茶花展历时2个月，展期内200多个茶花品种将陆续亮相。
Camellia naturally blooms between December and April in the next year, mainly
in red as well as in yellow and white, with its bright and gorgeous blossom. The
Flower Show, which displays into full the varieties and technological research of the
flower, marks the largest one in our city in recent three years. In order to enable the
vegetation lovers to embrace Camellia, the flower show extends its place to the whole
garden, making it more convenient for the visitors.
The Flower Show lasts for two months and more than 200 types of camellia will
make its appearance during the period.
专八汉译英翻译题
专八汉译英翻译题
2018专八汉译英翻译题
2018英语专业八级翻译题型考察方式为汉译英，题材多为我国报刊杂志上的文章及文学作文，150字左右短文。下面是店铺根据2018年专八考察题材所整理的2018专八汉译英翻译题供大家参考练习。
2018专八汉译英翻译题一
中文原文：
上海的教授对人讲文学，以为文学当描写永远不变的`人性，否则便不长久。例如英国，莎士比亚和别的一两个人所写的是永久不变的人性，所以至今流传，其余的不这样，就都消灭了去。这真是所谓“你不说我倒还明白，你越说我越糊涂”了。英国有许多先前的文章不流传，我想，这是总会有的，但竟没有想到它们的消灭，乃因为不写永久不变的人性。
Translation:
A Shanghai professor lecturing on literature states that
literature should describe the eternal human qualities, otherwise
it will not live. For example, in England Shakespeare and a few
others wrote about the eternal human qualities, hence they are
still read today; other writers failed to do this, and their works
perished. This is truly a case of: "The more you explain, the more
confused I grow." I am sure it is possible that many earlier English
works of literature have been lost, but I never knew that they