2014年专八
PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)
In this section there are four reading passages followed be a total of 20 multi ple-choicequestions. Read the passages and then mark the best answer to ea ch question on ANSWERSHEER TWO.
TEXT A
My class at Harvard Business School helps students understand what good m anagementtheory is and how it is built. In each session, we look at one comp any through the lenses ofdifferent theories, using them to explain how the co mpany got into its situation and to examinewhat action will yield the needed r esults. On the last day of class, I asked my class to turnthose theoretical lens es on themselves to find answers to two questions: First, How can I besure I’l l be happy in my career? Second, how can I be sure my relationships with my spouseand my family will become an enduring source of happiness? Here are some managementtools that can be used to help you lead a purposeful life.
1. Use Your Resources Wisely. Your decisions about allocating your personal ti me, energy, andtalent shape your life’s strategy. I have a bunch of “business es” that compete for theseresources:I’m trying to have a rewarding relationsh ip with my wife, raise great kids, contribute to my community, succeed in my career, and contribute to my church. And Ihave exactly the same problem tha t a corporation does. I have a limited amount of time, energy and talent. How much do I devote to each of these pursuits?
Allocation choices can make your life turn out to very different from what youi ntended.Sometimes that’s good: opportunities that you have never planned f or emerge. Butif you don’t invest your resources wisely, the outcome can be bad. As I think about people whoinadvertently invested in lives of hollow unha ppiness, I can’t help believing that their troublesrelated right back to a short-t erm perspective.
When people with a high need for achievement have an extra half hour of tim e or an extraounce of energy, they’ll unconsciously allocate it to activities that yield the most tangibleaccomplishments. Our careers provide the most concr ete evidence that we’re movingforward.You ship a product, finish a design, co mplete a presentation, close a sale teach aclass, publish a paper, get paid, ge t promoted. In contrast, investing time and energy in yourrelationships with y our spouse and children typically doesn’t offer the same immediate senseof a chievement. Kids misbehave every day. It’s really not until 20 years down the road thatyou can say,
“I raised a good son or a good daughter.” You can neglect your relationship w ithyour spouse and on a daily basis it doesn’t seem as if thing are deterioratin g. People who aredriven to excel have this unconscious propensity to underin
vest in their families andoverinvest in their careers, even though intimate and loving family relationships are the mostpowerful and enduring source of happ iness.
If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you’ll find th is predispositiontoward endeavors that offer immediate gratification. If you lo ok at personal lives throughthat lens,you’ll see that same stunning and soberi ng pattern: people allocating fewer andfewer resources to the things they wo uld have once said mattered most.
2. Create A Family Culture. It’s one thing to see into the foggy future with a a cuity and chartthe course corrections a company must make. But it’s quite an other to persuade employees toline up and work cooperatively to take the co mpany in that new direction.
When there is little agreement, you have to use “power tools”
– coercion, threats, punishments and so on, to secure cooperation. But if emp loyee’s ways of working togethersucceed over and over, consensus begins to f orm. Ultimately, people don ‘t even think aboutwhether their way yields succe ss. They embrace priorities and follow procedures by instinctand assumption r ather than by explicit decision, which means that they’ve created aculture. Cu lture, in compelling but unspoken ways, dictates the proven, acceptable meth odsby which member s of a group address recurrent problems. And culture de fines the prioritygiven to different types of problems. It can be a powerful ma nagement tool.
I use this model to address the question, How can I be my family becomes an enduringsource of happiness? My students quickly see that the simplest way parents can elicitcooperation from children is to wield power tools. But there c omes a point during the teenyears when power tools no longer work. At that point, parents start wishing they had begunworking with their children at a ve ry young age to build a culture in which children instinctivelybehave respectfu lly toward one another, obey their parents, and choose the right thing to do. Families have cultures, just as companies do. Those cultures can be built cons ciously.
If you want your kids to have strong self-esteem and the confidence that they can solve hardproblems, those qualities won’t magically materialize in high sc hool. You have to design theminto your family’s culture and you have think a bout this very early on. Like employees, childrenbuild self-esteem by doing th ings that are hard and learning what works.
11. According to the author, the key to successful allocation of resources in y our life dependson whether you ________.
A. can manage your time well
B. have long-term planning
C. are lucky enough to have new opportunities
D. can solve both company and family problems
12. What is the role of the statement “Our careers provide the most concrete evidence thatwe’re moving forward” with reference to the previous statement in the paragraph?
A. To offer further explanation
B. To provide a definition
C. To present a contrast
D. To illustrate career development
13. According to the author, a common cause of failure in business and family relationships is________.
A. lack of planning
B. short-sightedness
C. shortage of resources
D. decision by instinct
14. According to the author, when does culture begin to emerge ________.
A. When people decide what and how to do by instinct
B. When people realize the importance of consensus
C. When people as a group decide how to succeed
D. When people use “power tools” to reach agreement
15. One of the similarities between company culture and family culture is that ________.
A. problem-solving ability is essential
B. cooperation is the foundation
C. respect and obedience are key elements
D. culture needs to be nurtured
Text B
It was nearly bedtime and when they awoke next morning land would be in si ght. Dr. Macphaillit his pipe and, leaning over the rail, searched the heavens f or the Southern Cross. After twoyears at the front and a wound that had take n longer to heal than it should, he was glad tosettle down quietly at Apia (阿皮亚，西萨摩亚首都) for twelve months at least, and he feltalready better for the journey. Since some of the passengers were leaving the ship next daythey ha d had a little dance that evening and in his ears hammered still the harsh not es of themechanical piano. But the deck was quiet at last. A little way off he s aw his wife in a longchair talking with the Davidsons, and he strolled over to
her. When he sat down under the lightand took off his hat you saw that he ha d very red hair, with a bald patch on the crown, and thered, freckled skin whi ch accompanies red hair; he was a man of forty, thin, with a pinched face, pr ecise and rather pedantic; and he spoke with a Scots accent in a very low, qui et voice.
Between the Macphails and the Davidsons, who were missionaries, there had arisen theintimacy of shipboard, which is due to proximity rather than to any community of taste. Their chief tie was the disapproval they shared of the me n who spent their days and nights inthe smoking-room playing poker or bridg e and drinking. Mrs. Macphail was not a little flatteredto think that she and he r husband were the only people on board with whom the Davidsonswere willin g to associate,and even the doctor, shy but no fool, half unconsciouslyacknow ledged the compliment. It was because he was of an argumentative mind that intheir cabin at night he permitted himself to carp (唠叨).
‘Mrs. Davidson was saying she didn’t know how they’d have got through the j ourney if it hadn’tbeen for us,’ said Mrs. Macphail, as she neatly brushed out her transformation (假发).
‘Shesaid we were really the only people on the ship they cared to know.’
‘I shouldn’t have thought a missionary was such a big bug (要人、名
士) that he could afford toput on frills (摆架子).’
‘It’s not frills. I quite understand what she means. It wouldn’t have been very nice for theDavidsons to have to mix with all that rough lot in the smoking-ro om.’
‘The founder of their religion wasn’t so exclusive,’ said Dr. Macphail with a ch uckle.
‘I’ve asked you over and over again not to joke about religion,’ answered his wife.
‘I shouldn’tlike to have a nature like yours, Alec. You never look for the best i n people.’
He gave her a sidelong glance with his pale, blue eyes, but did not reply. Afte r many years ofmarried life he had learned that it was more conducive to pea ce to leave his wife with the lastword.He was undressed before she was, and climbing into the upper bunk he settled down toread himself to sleep.
When he came on deck next morning they were close to land. He looked at it with greedyeyes.There was a thin strip of silver beach rising quickly to hills co vered to the top withluxuriant vegetation. The coconut trees, thick and green,
came nearly to the water’s edge, andamong them you saw the grass houses of the Samoaris (萨摩亚人); and here and there, gleaming white, a
little church. Mrs. Davidson came and stood beside him. She was dressed inbl ack, and wore round her neck a gold chain, from which dangled a cross. She was a littlewoman, with brown, dull hair very elaborately arranged, and she h ad prominent blue eyesbehind invisible pince-nez (夹鼻眼镜). Her face was
long, like a sheep’s, but she gave noimpression of foolishness, rather of extre me alertness; she had the quick movements of abird. The most remarkable th ing about her was her voice, high, metallic, and withoutinflection; it fell on th e ear with a hard monotony, irritating to the nerves like the pitilessclamor of t he pneumatic drill.
‘This must seem like home to you,’ said Dr. Macphail, with his thin, difficult s mile.
‘Ours are low islands, you know, not like these. Coral. These are volcanic. We’ve got anotherten days' journey to reach them.’
‘In these parts that’s almost like being in the next street at home,’ said Dr. M acphailfacetiously.
‘Well, that’s rather an exaggerated way of putting it, but one does look at dist ances differentlyin the J South Seas. So far you’re right.’
Dr. Macphail sighed faintly.
16. It can be inferred from the first paragraph that Dr. Macphail ________.
A. preferred quietness to noise
B. enjoyed the sound of the mechanical piano
C. was going back to his hometown
D. wanted to befriend the Davidsons
17. The Macphails and the Davidsons were in each other’e company because t hey ________.
A. had similar experience
B. liked each other
C. shared dislike for some passengers
D. had similar religious belief
18. Which of the following statements BEST describes Mrs. Macphail?
A. She was good at making friends
B. She was prone to quarrelling with her husband
C. She was skillful in dealing with strangers
D. She was easy to get along with.
19. All the following adjectives can be used to depict Mrs. Davidson EXCEPT _ _______.
A. arrogant
B. unapproachable
C. unpleasant
D. irritable
20. Which of the following statements about Dr. Macphail is INCORRECT?
A. He was sociable.
B. He was intelligent.
C. He was afraid of his wife.
D. He was fun of the Davidsons.
Text C
Today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We 're told that tobe great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ou rselves as a nation of extroverts— which means that we've lost sight of who we really are. One-third to one-half of Americansare introverts — in the other words, one out of every two or three people you know. If you'renot an introv ert yourself, you are surely raising,managing, married to, or coupled with one .
If these statistics surprise you, that's probably because so many people prete nd to beextroverts.Closet introverts pass undetected on playgrounds, in high school locker rooms, andin the corridors of corporate America. Some fool eve n themselves, until some life event — alayoff, an empty nest, an inheritance t hat frees them to spend time as they like — jolts theminto taking stock of thei r true natures. You have only to raise this subject with your friends andacquai ntances to find that the most unlikely people consider themselves introverts. It makes sense that so many introverts hide even from themselves. We live w ith a valuesystem that I call the Extrovert Ideal— the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, alpha, and comfortable in the spotlight. The arche typal extrovert prefers action tocontemplation, risk-taking to heed-taking, cer tainty to doubt. He favors quick decisions, even at the risk of being wrong. Sh e works well in teams and socializes in groups. We like tothink that we value i ndividuality, but all too often we admire one type of individual — the kindwho' s comfortable "putting himself out there." Sure, we allow technologically gifte d loners wholaunch companies in garages to have any personality they please , but they are the exceptions, not the rule, and our tolerance extends mainly t o those who get fabulously wealthy or hold thepromise of doing so.
Introversion — along with its cousin’s sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness —is now asecond-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted becauseof a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealingpersonality style, but we've turn ed it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel wemust conform.
The Extrovert Ideal has been documented in many studies, though this resear ch has neverbeen grouped under a single name. Talkative people, for exampl e, are rated as smarter, better-looking,more interesting, and more desirable a s friends. Velocity of speech counts as well asvolume: we rank fast talkers as more competent and likable than slow ones. Even the wordintrovert is stigma tized — one informal study, by psychologist Laurie Helgoe, found thatintrovert s described their own physical appearance in vivid language, but when asked todescribe generic introverts they drew a bland and distasteful picture.
But we make a grave mistake to embrace the Extrovert Ideal so unthinkingly. Some of ourgreatest ideas, art, and inventions — from the theory of evolutio n to van Gogh's sunflowers tothe personal computer — came from quiet and c erebral people who knew how to tune in totheir inner worlds and the treasure s to be found there.
21. According to the author, there exists, as far as personality styles are conc erned, adiscrepancy between ________.
A. what people say they can do and what they actually can
B. what society values and what people pretend to be
C. what people profess and what statistics show
D. what people profess and what they hide from others
22. The ideal extrovert is described as being all the following EXCEPT ______ __.
A. doubtful
B. sociable
C. determined
D. bold
23. According to the author, our society only permits ________ to have what ever personalitythey like.
A. the young
B. the ordinary
C. the artistic
D. the rich
24. According to the passage, which of the following statements BEST reflects the author’sopinion?
A. Introversion is seen as an inferior trait because of its association with sensi tivity.
B. Extroversion is arbitrary forced by society as a norm upon people.
C. Introverts are generally regarded as either unsuccessful or as deficient.
D. Extroversion and introversion have similar personality trait profiles.
25. The author winds up the passage with a ________ note.
A. cautious
B. warning
C. positive
D. humorous
Text D
Speaking two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasinglyglobalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages ofbilingualism are even more fundamental than bei ng able to converse with a wider range ofpeople.Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect onyour brain,improving cog nitive skills not related to language and even shielding againstdementia （痴呆） in old age.
This view of bilingualism is remarkably different from the understanding of bili ngualism throughmuch of the 20th century. Researchers, educators and polic y makers long considered a secondlanguage to be an interference, cognitively speaking, that hindered a child’s academic andintellectual development. They were not wrong about the interference: there is ample evidence that in a bilingual’sbrain both language systems are active even when he is using onl y one language, thus creatingsituations in which one system obstructs the oth er. But this interference, researchers arefinding out, isn’t so much a handicap as a blessing in disguise. It forces the brain to resolveinternal conflict,giving t he mind a workout that strengthens its cognitive muscles.
The collective evidence from a number of such studies suggests that the bilin gualexperience improves the brain’s so-called executive function — a comman d system thatdirects the attention processes that we use for planning, solving problems and performingvarious other mentally demanding tasks. These pro cesses include ignoring distractions to stayfocused, switching attention willfull y from one thing to another and holding information inmind ? like rememberi ng a sequence of directions while driving.
Why does the tussle between two simultaneously active language systems im prove theseaspects of cognition? Until recently, researchers thought the biling ual advantage stemmedprimarily from ability for inhibition that was honed by the exercise of suppressing onelanguage system: this suppression, it was tho ught, would help train the bilingual mind toignore distractions in other context s. But that explanation increasingly appears to beinadequate, since studies ha ve shown that bilinguals perform better than monolinguals evenat tasks that do not require inhibition, like threading a line through an ascending series ofn umbers scattered randomly on a page.
The key difference between bilinguals and monolinguals may be more basic: a heightenedability to monitor the environment.
“Bilinguals have to switch languages quite often? Youmay talk to your father i n one language and to your mother in another language,” says AlbertCosta, a researcher at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Spain.
“It requires keeping track ofchanges around you in the same way that we mo nitor our surroundings when driving.” In astudy comparing German-Italian bili nguals with Italian monolinguals on monitoring tasks, Mr. Costa and his collea gues found that the bilingual subjects not only performed better, but theyalso did so with less activity in parts of the brain involved in monitoring, indicatin g that theywere more efficient at it.
The bilingual experience appears to influence the brain from infancy to old ag e, and there isreason to believe that it may also apply to those who learn a se cond language later in life.
26. According to the passage, the more recent and old views of bilingualism d iffer mainly in________.
A. its practical advantages
B. its role in cognition
C. perceived language fluency
D. its role in medicine
27. The fact that interference is now seen as a blessing in disguise means tha t ________.
A. it has led to unexpectedly favorable results
B. its potential benefits have remained undiscovered
C. its effects on cognitive development have been minimal
D. only a few researchers have realized its advantages
28. What is the role of Paragraph Four in relation to Paragraph Three?
A. It provides counter evidence to Paragraph Three.
B. It offers another example of the role of interference.
C. It serves as a transitional paragraph in the passage.
D. It further illustrates the point in Paragraph Three.
29. Which of the following can account for better performance of bilinguals in doing non-inhibition tasks?
A. An ability to monitor surroundings.
B. An ability to ignore distractions.
C. An ability to perform with less effort.
D. An ability to exercise suppression.
30. What is the main theme of the passage?
A. Features of bilinguals and monolinguals.
B. Interference and suppression.
C. Bilinguals and monitoring tasks.
D. Reasons why bilinguals are smarter.
PART V TRANSLATION (60 MIN)
SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH
Translate the underlined part of the following text into English. Write your tra nslation onANSWER SHEET THREE.
当我在小学毕了业的时候，亲友一致的愿意我去学手艺，好帮助母亲。我晓得我应当去找饭吃，以减轻母亲的勤劳困苦。可是，我也愿意升学。我偷偷地考入了师范学校——制服，饭食，书籍，宿处，都由学校供给。只有这样，我才敢对母亲提升学的话。入学，要交十元的保证金。这是一笔巨款!母亲作了半个月的难，把这巨款筹到，而后含泪把我送出门去。她不辞劳苦，只要儿子有出息。当我由师范毕业，而被派为小学校长，母亲与我都一夜不曾合眼。我只说了句：“以后，您可以歇一歇了!”她的回答只有一串串的眼泪。
SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE
Translate the following text into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER S HEET THREE.
The physical distance between speakers can indicate a number of things and can also be usedto used to consciously send messages about intent. Closenes s, for example, indicatesintimacy or threat to many speakers whilst distance may denote formality or a lack ofinterest. Proximity is also both a matter of p ersonal style and is often culture-bound so thatwhat may seem normal to a s peaker from one culture may appear unnecessarily close ordistant to a speake r from another.And standing close to someone may be quite appropr iate insome situations such as an informal party, but completely out of place i n others, such asmeeting with a superior.
Posture can convey meaning too. Hunched shoulders and a hanging head give a powerfulindication of mood. A lowered head when speaking to a superior ( with or without eyecontact) can convey the appropriate relationship in some c ultures.
01到14年专八汉译英真题及答案： 2014年本题是一篇典型的文学翻译，原文选自老舍名篇《我的母亲》。老舍的作品生活气息浓郁，语言朴实直白。因此，在翻译本篇时不仅要注意忠实于文字意义，更要忠实地再现原文的语言风格，所以要避免用过于高级的词汇表达和句子结构，用平实的语句表达出原文的精神面貌。 当我在小学毕了业的时候，亲友一致的愿意我去学手艺，好帮助母亲。我晓得我应当去找饭吃，以减轻母亲的勤劳困苦。可是，我也愿意升学。我偷偷的考入了师范学校——制服，饭食，书籍，宿处，都由学校供给。只有这样，我才敢对母亲说升学的话。入学，要交十圆的保证金。这是一笔巨款！母亲作了半个月的难，把这巨款筹到，而后含泪把我送出门去。她不辞劳苦，只要儿子有出息。当我由师范毕业，而被派为小学校校长，母亲与我都一夜不曾合眼。我只说了句：“以后，您可以歇一歇了！”她的回答只有一串串的眼泪。 参考译文：After I graduated from primary school，relatives and friends all suggested that I should drop out and learn a trade to help my mother. Although I knew that I ought to seek a livelihood to relieve mother of hard work and distress，I still aspired to go on with study. So I kept learning secretly. I had no courage to tell mother about the idea until admitted to a normal school which provided free uniforms，books，room and board. To enter the school，I had to pay ten Yuan as a deposit. This was a large sum of money for my family. However，after two weeks' tough effort，mother managed to raise the money and sent me off to school in tears afterwards. She would spare no pains for her son to win a bright future. On the day when I was appointed the schoolmaster after graduation，mother and I spent a sleepless night. I said to her，"you can have a rest in the future." but she replied nothing，only with tears streaming down her face. 2013年 生活像一杯红酒，热爱生活的人会从中品出无穷的美妙。将它握在手中观察，它的暗红有血的感觉，那正是生命的痕迹。抿一口留在口中回味，它的甘甜有一丝苦涩，如人生一般复杂迷离。喝一口下肚，余香润人心肺，让人终受益。红酒越陈越美味，生活越丰富越美好。当人生走向晚年，就如一瓶待开封的好酒，其色彩是沉静的，味道中充满慷慨于智慧。 Life is like a cup of wine; people who love it discover inexhaustible wonders from it. Hold in the hand and gaze at it, the dark red color is reminiscent of the blood, which is the impress of life. Take a sip of it and appreciate the taste, the bittersweet flavor is exactly the same with life, which is complicated and blurred. Once the sip is swallowed, the lingering fragrance pleases the heart and refreshes the mind, leaving a person lifelong benefit. There was a remarkable resemblance between life and wine: the taste becomes more delicious as the wine mellows, just as life gets better as it becomes more abundant. When life comes to twilight years, it looks calm and tastes full of wisdom and generosity, just like a bottle of wine to be savored.
TEM 8 阅读理解 A What we know of prenatal development makes all this attempt made by a mother to mold the character of her unborn child by studying poetry, art, or mathematics during pregnancy seem utterly impossible. How could such extremely complex influences pass from the mother to the child? There is no connection between their nervous systems. Even the blood vessels of mother and child do not join directly. An emotional shock to the mother will affect her child, because it changes the activity of her glands and so the chemistry her blood. Any chemical change in the mother’s blood will affect the child for better or worse. But we can not see how a looking for mathematics or poetic genius can be dissolved in blood and produce a similar liking or genius in the child. In our discussion of instincts we saw that there was reason to believe that whatever we inherit must be of some very simple sort rather than any complicated or very definite kind of behavior. It is certain that no one inherits a knowledge of mathematics. It may be, however, that children inherit more or less of a rather general ability that we may call intelligence. If very intelligent children become deeply interested in mathematics, they will probably make a success of that study. As for musical ability, it may be that what is inherited is an especially sensitive ear, a peculiar structure of the hands or the vocal organs connections between nerves and muscles that make it comparatively easy to learn the movements a musician must execute, and particularly vigorous emotions. If these factors are all organized around music, the child may become a musician. The same factors, in other circumstance might be organized about some other center of interest. The rich emotional equipment might find expression in poetry. The capable fingers might develop skill in surgery. It is not the knowledge of music that is inherited, then nor even the love of it, but a certain bodily structure that makes it comparatively easy to acquire musical knowledge and skill. Whether that ability shall be directed toward music or some other undertaking may be decided entirely by forces in the environment in which a child grows up. 1. Which of the following statements is not true? A. Some mothers try to influence their unborn children by studying art and other subjects during their pregnancy. B. It is utterly impossible for us to learn anything about prenatal development. C. The blood vessels of mother and child do not join directly. D. There are no connection between mother’s nervous systems and her unborn child’s. 2. A mother will affect her unborn baby on the condition that ____. A. she is emotionally shocked B. she has a good knowledge of inheritance C. she takes part in all kind of activities D. she sticks to studying 3. According to the passage, a child may inherit____.
20０7年英语专业八级考试翻译原题及参考答案 C－Ｅ：暮色中,河湾里落满云霞，与天际得颜色混合一起，分不清哪就是流云哪就是水湾。也就在这一幅绚烂得图画旁边，在河湾之畔,一群羊正在低头觅食。它们几乎没有一个顾得上抬起头来,瞧一眼这美丽得黄昏。也许它们要抓紧时间,在即将回家得最后一刻再次咀嚼。这就是黄河滩上得一幕。牧羊人不见了，她不知在何处歇息.只有这些美生灵自由自在地享受着这个黄昏。这儿水草肥美,让它们长得肥滚滚得，像些胖娃娃.如果走近了，会发现它们那可爱得神情,洁白得牙齿,那丰富而单纯得表情。如果稍稍长久一点端详这张张面庞，还会生出无限得怜悯。 Besｉde tｈis pictuｒｅwithｐｒoｆuｓiｏnｓof colorｓ, a grｏup of sheｅp aｒe lｏwing tｈeir heads,ｅａｔing by ｔｈe riｖer bank、Hardly ｎone oｆｔｈｅｍwｏulｄspare sｏme timｅto raise their eyes tｏhａve a glaｎcｅat the bｅａutifｕｌdusk、Ｔhｅｙare, perhaps,takinｇuse oｆｅvery miｎuteｔo enjｏy ｔheｉr lasｔcｈew befoｒe bｅｉng drｉven home、This is a piｃtｕｒe ｏｆthe Yｅｌｌow River baｎk，iｎwhｉch the shepherd diｓapｐeａrs，ａnｄno onｅknoｗs where he is rｅｓｔｉｎg hｉmsｅlf、Only the ｓheep，ｈｏｗｅver,as free creatures，ａrｅ ｊoｙfullｙaｐｐreciating ｔhｅdｕsk、Tｈe exubeｒant wａte ｒpｌants ｈaｖe nｕｔritedｔｈｅshｅep, ｍaｋing ｔhem
2007年英语专业八级考试翻译原题及参考答案 C-E:暮色中，河湾里落满云霞，与天际的颜色混合一起，分不清哪是流云哪是水湾。也就在这一幅绚烂的图画旁边，在河湾之畔，一群羊正在低头觅食。它们几乎没有一个顾得上抬起头来，看一眼这美丽的黄昏。也许它们要抓紧时间，在即将回家的最后一刻再次咀嚼。这是黄河滩上的一幕。牧羊人不见了，他不知在何处歇息。只有这些美生灵自由自在地享受着这个黄昏。这儿水草肥美，让它们长得肥滚滚的，像些胖娃娃。如果走近了，会发现它们那可爱的神情，洁白的牙齿，那丰富而单纯的表情。如果稍稍长久一点端详这张张面庞，还会生出无限的怜悯。 Beside this picture with profusions of colors, a group of sheep are lowing their heads, eating by the river bank. Hardly none of them would spare some time to raise their eyes to have a glance at the beautiful dusk. They are, perhaps, taking use of every minute to enjoy their last chew before being driven home. This is a picture of the Yellow River bank, in which the shepherd disappears, and no one knows where he is resting himself. Only the sheep, however, as free creatures, are joyfully appreciating the dusk. The exuberant water plants have nutrited the sheep, making them grow as fat as balls. When approaching near, you would find their lily-white teeth and a variety of innocent facial impressions.
2014年英语专八翻译来源 汉译英 当我在小学毕业的时候，亲友一致地愿意我去学手艺，好帮助母亲，我晓得我应当去找饭吃，以减轻母亲的勤劳困苦。可是，我也愿意升学。我偷偷地考入了师范学校--制服、饭食、书籍、宿处，都由学校供给。只有这样，我才敢对母亲提升学的话。入学，要交十元的保证金。这是一笔巨款!母亲作了半个月的难，把这笔巨款筹到，而后含泪把我送出门去。她不辞劳苦，只要儿子有出息。当我由师范毕业，而被派到小学任校长，母亲与我都一夜不曾合眼。我只说了句：“以后，您可以歇一歇了!”她的回答只是一串串的眼泪。 老舍著；老树画画绘,真正的生活者,中国画报出版社,2015.07,第6页 老舍著,茶馆想北平猫城记,巴蜀书社,2015.02,第74页 我的母亲（节选）——老舍After I graduated from primary school, relatives and friends all suggested that I should drop out and learn a trade to help my mother. Although I knew that I ought to seek a livelihood to relieve mother of hard work and distress, I still aspired to go on with study. So I kept learning secretly. I had no courage to tell mother about the idea until admitted to a normal school which provided free uniforms, books, room and board. To enter the school, I had to pay ten Yuan as a deposit. This was a large sum of money for my family. However, after two weeks’ tough effort, mother managed to raise the money and sent me off to school in tears afterwards. She would spare no pains for her son to win a bright future. On the day when I was appointed the schoolmaster after graduation, mother and I spent a sleepless night. I said to her, "you can have a rest in the future." but she replied nothing, only with tears streaming down her face. 2015年英语专八翻译来源 汉译英 2014上海茶花展今天开幕60种云南山茶首次来沪 产生日期：2014-01-29来源：新华网 “茶花闹春暖意迎新”2014上海茶花展今天在上海植物园拉开序幕，花展将持续到3月16日。此次花展通过丰富的茶花品种和景点，营造缤纷花卉闹新春的节日气氛。 茶花的自然花期在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。品种展示、花卉造景……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。为了使广大植物爱好者有更多与茶花亲密接触的机会，本届茶花展的布展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、1000余株茶花将陆续亮相。 根据茶花品种和花期的不同，花展分为两个阶段:第一阶段为“滇茶风情”，从春节至元宵节。重点推出两个以云南茶花品种为主的温室展区:一个以“茶马道，丽江情”为主题；一个集“云南茶花品种展示”“茶花花朵艺术展示”和“上海植物园茶花新品种展示”于一体。春节期间，共有60多个云南山茶品种首次在沪与游客见面。第二阶段主题为“名品争艳”，从二月中旬至三月中旬。元宵节后茶花将进入盛开期，届时多个室外景点的“特色茶花品种展示区”将集中布置各类花型的茶花，成为最值得期待的赏茶区域。 此外上海植物园内名字中带“马”的植物均被挂上了特制的“标签”隆重推出，是上海植物园马年新春花展的一大亮点。本次花展由上海市绿化和市容管理局主办，上海植物园和上海星源农业实验场共同承办。 参考译文：Camellia’s flowering period starts from December and ends in the next April，and
passage One (Violence Can Do Nothing to Diminish Race Prejudice) In some countries where racial prejudice is acute, violence has so come to be taken for granted as a means of solving differences, that it is not even questioned．There are countries where the white man imposes his rule by brute force; there are countries where the black man protests by setting fire to cities and by looting and pillaging．Important people on both sides, who would in other respects appear to be reasonable men, get up and calmly argue in favor of violence – as if it were a legitimate solution, like any other．What is really frightening, what really fills you with despair, is the realization that when it comes to the crunch, we have made no actual progress at all．We may wear collars and ties instead of war-paint, but our instincts remain basically unchanged．The whole of the recorded history of the human race, that tedious documentation of violence, has taught us absolutely nothing．We have still not learnt that violence never solves a problem but makes it more acute．The sheer horror, the bloodshed, the suffering mean nothing．No solution ever comes to light the morning after when we dismally contemplate the smoking ruins and wonder what hit us． The truly reasonable men who know where the solutions lie are finding it harder and herder to get a hearing．They are despised, mistrusted and even persecuted by their own kind because they advocate such apparently outrageous things as law enforcement．If half the energy that goes into violent acts were put to good use, if our efforts were directed at cleaning up the slums and ghettos, at improving living-standards and providing education and employment for all, we would have gone a long way to arriving at a solution．Our strength is sapped by having to mop up the mess that violence leaves in its wake．In a well-directed effort, it would not be impossible to fulfill the ideals of a stable social programme．The benefits that can be derived from constructive solutions are everywhere apparent in the world around us．Genuine and lasting solutions are always possible, providing we work within the framework of the law． Before we can even begin to contemplate peaceful co-existence between the races, we must appreciate each other’s problems．And to do this, we must learn about them: it is a simple exercise in communication, in exchanging information．'Talk, talk, talk,’the advocates of violence say,‘all you ever do is talk, and we are none the wiser．’It’s rather like the story of the famous barrister who painstakingly explained his case to the judge．After listening to a lengthy argument the judge complained that after all this talk, he was none the wiser．‘Possible, my lord,’the barrister replied,‘none the wiser, but surely far better informed．’Knowledge
英语专业八级翻译练习题带答案2017 英语专业八级翻译练习题带答案2017 机会只对进取有为的人开放，庸人永远无法光顾。以下是小编为大家搜索整理的英语专业八级翻译练习题带答案2017，希望对正在关注的您有所帮助!更多精彩内容请及时关注我们应届毕业生考试网! part 1 The next day, when their mended carriage had come up to fetch them, and they were just starting to drive away from the inn, the Conte' s old servant appeared with the rose-cutting neatly wrapped up, and the compliments and wishes for a buon viaggio from her master. The town collected to see them depart, and the children ran after their carriage through the gate of the little city. They heard a rush of feet behind them for a few moments, but soon they were far down towards the valley; the little town with all its noise and life was high above them on its mountain peak. She had planted the rose at home, where it had grown and flourished in a wonderful manner; and every June the great mass of leaves and shoots still broke out into a passionate splendour of scent and crimson colour, as if in its root and fibres there still burnt the anger and thwarted desire of that Italian lover. Of course the old Conte must have died many years ago; she had forgotten his name, and had even forgotten the name of the mountain city that she had stayed in, after first seeing it twinkling at dawn in the sky, like a nest of stars. 参考译文: 次日，他们的马车修好了,上山来接他们。在就要离开旅馆之际，伯爵的老仆赶来了，送来一根包扎整齐的玫瑰枝条，并转达了伯爵旅途愉快的祝福。小城中的居民都赶来目送他们离去，孩童们也追随在车子后面，一直跟到小城门外。开始他们还能听到身后散乱的脚步声，但不久车子便驶入山谷，而这座喧闹的小城依然高高耸立于他们头顶的山颠. 她把玫瑰种在家中.玫瑰的长势非常好,枝繁叶茂;每年六月，在片片绿叶与新芽之中，绽放出绚丽的红花，散发出浓郁的香味,仿佛它的根须之间依旧燃烧着那位意大利情人的愤怒与没能实现的渴望。当然老伯爵肯定早已去世多年;而她也记不起他的名字了，甚至连她所住过的那座小城的名字也忘记了，虽然她曾经在拂晓之时看它犹如满天的繁星在空中闪烁。
2000年英语专业八级考试--翻译部分参考译文 中国科技馆的诞生来之不易。与国际著名科技馆和其他博物馆相比，它先天有些不足，后天也常缺乏营养，但是它成长的步伐却是坚实而有力的。它在国际上已被公认为后起之秀。世界上第一代博物馆属于自然博物馆，它是通过化石、标本等向人们介绍地球和各种生物的演化历史。第二代属于工业技术博物馆，它所展示的是工业文明带来的各种阶段性结果。这两代博物馆虽然起到了传播科学知识的作用，但是，它们把参观者当成了被动的旁观者。 世界上第三代博物馆是充满全新理念的博物馆。在这里，观 众可以自己去动手操作，自己细心体察。这样，他们可以更贴近先进的科学技术，去探索科学技术的奥妙。中国科技馆正是这样的博物馆!它汲取了国际上一些著名博物馆的长处，设计制作了力学、光学、电学、热学、声学、生物学等展品，展示了科学的原理和先进的科技成果。 参考译文The first generation of museums are what might be called natural museums which, by means of fossils, specimens and other objects, introduced to people the evolutionary history of the Earth and various kinds of organisms. The second generation are those of industrial technologies which presented the fruits achieved by industrial civilization at different stages of industrialization. Despite the fact that those two generations of museums helped to disseminate / propagate / spread scientific knowledge, they nevertheless treated visitors merely as passive viewers. The third generation of museums in the world are those replete with / full of wholly novel concepts / notions / ideas. In those museums, visitors are allowed to operate the exhibits with their own hands, to observe and to experience carefully. By getting closer to the advanced science and technologies in this way, people can probe into their secret mysteries. The China Museum of Science and Technology is precisely one of such museums. It has incorporated some of the most fascinating features of those museums with international reputation. Having designed and created exhibits in mechanics, optics, electrical science, thermology, acoustics, and biology, those exhibits demonstrate scientific principles and present the most advanced scientific and technological achievements. 2001年英语专业八级考试--翻译部分参考译文 C-E 乔羽的歌大家都熟悉。但他另外两大爱好却鲜为人知，那就是钓鱼和喝酒。晚年的乔羽喜爱垂钓，他说，“有水有鱼的地方大都是有好环境的，好环境便会给人好心情。我认为最好的钓鱼场所不是舒适的、给你准备好饿鱼的垂钓园，而是那极其有吸引力的大自然野外天成的场所。”钓鱼是一项能够陶冶性情的运动，有益于身心健康。乔羽说：“钓鱼可分三个阶段：第一阶段是吃鱼；第二阶段是吃鱼和情趣兼而有之；第三阶段主要是钓趣，面对一池碧水，将忧心烦恼全都
2018 英语专八阅读练习题及答案 英语专业八级针对的对象是英语及相关专业大四学生。非英语及相 关专业与非在校生无法参加考试。英语专业八级考试(TEM-8),全称为 全国高校英语专业八级考试。应届毕业生网小编为大家整理了2018 英 语专八阅读练习题及答案汇总，供各位考生参考。 Exploration of the Titanic After resting on the ocean floor, split asunder and rusting, for nearly three-quarters of a century, a great ship seemed to cone alive again. The saga of the White Star liner Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, carrying more than 1,500 passengers to their death, has been celebrated in print and on film, in poetry and song. But last week what had been legendary suddenly became real. As they viewed videotapes and photographs of the sunken leviathan, millions of people around the world could sense her mass, her eerie quiet and the ruined splendor of a lost age. Watching on television, they vicariously joined the undersea craft Alvin and Jason Jr. (J.J.) as they toured the wreckage of the luxury liner, wandering across the decks past corroded bollards, peering into the officers quarters and through rust-curtained portholes. Views of the railings where doomed passengers and crewmembers stood evoked images of the moonless night 74years ago when the great ship slipped beneath the waves. The two-minute videotape and nine photographs, all in color and shot 12,500ft.under the North Atlantic, were a tiny sample of 60 hours of video and 60,000 stills garnered during the twelve-day exploration. They are released at a Washington press conference conducted by Marine Geologist Robert Ballard, 44, who led the teams from the Wood Hole Oceanographic
2016年专八翻译题及答案详解 “流逝”表现了南国人对时间最早的感觉。子在川上曰：“逝者如斯夫。”他们发现无论是潺潺小溪，还是浩荡大河，都一去不复返，流逝之际青年变成了老翁而绿草转眼就枯黄，很自然有错阴的紧迫感。流逝也许是缓慢的，但无论如何缓慢，对流逝的恐惧使人们必须用“流逝”这个词来时时警戒后人，必须急匆匆地行动，给这个词灌注一种紧张感。 【参考译文1】 They have found that the flowing water,either a murmuring stream or a mighty river, passes quickly and never returns. With the passage of time, the young become the old and the green grass turns yellow. People naturallyhave a sense of urgency to value every bit of time. As time goes by,no matter how slowly it elapses, people always use the word “liushi” to warn thelater generations for fear of time’s flowing away. They tell their descendants to treasure every single minute and make a hurried action, which adds a sense of tension to the word. 【参考译文2】 They find that either a murmuring stream or a mighty river has gone forever and that the passage of time turns a young man into an old one, and yellows of the grass, which sends a massage of how time flies. Maybe the passing of time is slow. But no matter how slow it is, it makes people so fearful that they use “passage” to warn the later generations to rush. And the use of “passage” also infuses a sense of tension into the word. 【参考译文3】
He was an old man with a white beard and huge nose and hands. Long before the time during which we will know him, he was a doctor and drove a jaded white horse from house to house through the streets of Winesburg. Later he married a girl who had money. She had been left a large fertile farm when her father died. The girl was quiet, tall, and dark, and to many people she seemed very beautiful. Everyone in Winesburg wondered why she married the doctor. Within a year after the marriage she died. The knuckles of the doctor's hands were extraordinarily large. When the hands were closed they looked like clusters of unpainted wooden balls as large as walnuts fastened together by steel rods. He smoked a cob pipe and after his wife's death sat all day in his empty office close by a window that was covered with cobwebs. He never opened the window. Once on a hot day in August he tried but found it stuck fast and after that he forgot all about it. Winesburg had forgotten the old man, but in Doctor Reefy there were the seeds of something very fine. Alone in his musty office in the Heffner Block above the Paris Dry Goods Company's store, he worked ceaselessly, building up something that he himself destroyed. Little pyramids of truth he erected and after erecting knocked them down again that he might have the truths to erect other pyramids. Doctor Reefy was a tall man who had worn one suit of clothes for ten years. It was frayed at the sleeves and little holes had appeared at the knees and elbows. In the office he wore also a linen duster with huge pockets into which he continually stuffed scraps of paper. After some weeks the scraps of paper became little hard round balls, and when the pockets were filled he dumped them out upon the floor. For ten years he had but one friend, another old man named John Spaniard who owned a tree nursery. Sometimes, in a playful mood, old Doctor Reefy took from his pockets a handful of the paper balls and threw them at the nursery man. "'That is to confound you, you blithering old sentimentalist," he cried, shaking with laughter. The story of Doctor Reefy and his courtship of the tall dark girl who became his wife and left her money to him is a very curious story. It is delicious, like the twisted little apples that grow in the orchards of Winesburg. In the fall one walks in the orchards and the ground is hard with frost underfoot. The apples have been taken from the trees by the pickers. They have been put in barrels and shipped to the cities where they will be eaten in apartments that are filled with books, magazines, furniture, and people. On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy’ s hands. One nibbles at them