第一篇：江西省第二届翻译大赛试题及答案

江西省第二届英语翻译大赛

Time limit: 150 Min 第一部分：英译汉（50分）

Street Haunting: A London Adventure(Excerpt)

Virginia Woolf

No one perhaps has ever felt passionately towards a lead pencil.But there are circumstances in which it can become supremely desirable to possess one;moments when we are set upon having an object, an excuse for walking half across London between tea and dinner.As the foxhunter hunts in order to preserve the breed of foxes, and the golfer plays in order that open spaces may be preserved from the builders, so when the desire comes upon us to go street rambling the pencil does for a pretext, and getting up we say: “Really I must buy a pencil,” as if under cover of this excuse we could indulge safely in the greatest pleasure of town life in winter — rambling the streets of London.How beautiful a London street is then, with its islands of light, and its long groves of darkness, and on one side of it perhaps some tree-sprinkled, grass-grown space where night is folding herself to sleep naturally and, as one passes the iron railing, one hears those little cracklings and stirrings of leaf and twig which seem to suppose the silence of fields all round them, an owl hooting, and far away the rattle of a train in the valley.But this is London, we are reminded;high among the bare trees are hung oblong frames of reddish yellow light — windows;there are points of brilliance burning steadily like low stars — lamps;this empty ground, which holds the country in it and its peace, is only a London square, set about by offices and houses where at this hour fierce lights burn over maps, over documents, over desks where clerks sit turning with wetted forefinger the files of endless correspondences;or more suffusedly the firelight wavers and the lamplight falls upon the privacy of some drawing-room, its easy chairs, its papers, its china, its inlaid table, and the figure of a woman, accurately measuring out the precise number of spoons of tea which —— She looks at the door as if she heard a ring downstairs and somebody asking, is she in?

第二部分：汉译英（50分）

一件小事（节选）鲁 迅

我从乡下跑到京城里，一转眼已经六年了。其间耳闻目睹的所谓国家大事，算起来也很不少；但在我心里，都不留什么痕迹，倘要我寻出这些事的影响来说，便只是增长了我的坏脾气，——老实说，便是教我一天比一天的看不起人。

但有一件小事，却于我有意义，将我从坏脾气里拖开，使我至今忘记不得。

这是民国六年的冬天，大北风刮得正猛，我因为生计关系，不得不一早在路上走。一路几乎遇不见人，好容易才雇定了一辆人力车，叫他拉到S门去。不一会，北风小了，路上浮尘早已刮净，剩下一条洁白的大道来，车夫也跑得更快。刚近S门，忽而车把上带着一个人，慢慢地倒了。

跌倒的是一个女人，花白头发，衣服都很破烂。伊从马路上突然向车前横截过来；车夫已经让开道，但伊的破棉背心没有上扣，微风吹着，向外展开，所以终于兜着车把。幸而车夫早有点停步，否则伊定要栽一个大筋斗，跌到头破血出了。

伊伏在地上；车夫便也立住脚。我料定这老女人并没有伤，又没有别人看见，便很怪他多事，要自己惹出是非，也误了我的路。

我便对他说，“没有什么的。走你的罢！”

车夫毫不理会，——或者并没有听到，——却放下车子，扶那老女人慢慢起来，搀着臂膊立定，问伊说： “你怎么啦？” “我摔坏了。”

我想，我眼见你慢慢倒地，怎么会摔坏呢，装腔作势罢了，这真可憎恶。车夫多事，也正是自讨苦吃，现在你自己想法去。车夫听了这老女人的话，却毫不踌躇，仍然搀着伊的臂膊，便一步一步的向前走。我有些诧异，忙看前面，是一所巡警分驻所，大风之后，外面也不见人。这车夫扶着那老女人，便正是向那大门走去。

我这时突然感到一种异样的感觉，觉得他满身灰尘的后影，刹时高大了，而且愈走愈大，须仰视才见。而且他对于我，渐渐的又几乎变成一种威压，甚而至于要榨出皮袍下面藏着的“小”来。

参考译文

第一部分：英译汉（50分）

伦敦神游（节选）

弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫

恐怕从未有人曾经热切地想要一支铅心笔，但有时候这种欲望会变得压倒一切。那是在下午茶之后、晚饭之前，我们会一心要买一件东西，其实是找借口在此期间游逛半个伦敦。猎人猎狐以保持狐狸的品种，球手打高尔夫以阻止建筑商侵占空地。同样，当我们心血来潮想去街上闲逛时，铅笔就可以作为借口。所以，我们站起身说：“真的，我必须买支铅笔。”好像有了这个借口，我们就可以放心去尽情享受冬天城市生活最大的乐趣—在伦敦逛街。

伦敦的街道是多么美丽啊！有灯光的岛屿，有一团团幽暗的阴影，可能在其中一侧还有树木错落的茵茵草地，夜在草地上舒展开，将大地罩入夜的睡乡；越过铁栅栏，你还可以听到树枝树叶摇曳发出轻微的窸窣声，衬出周围田野的一片寂静，还有一只猫头鹰的枭叫，远处山谷火车经过的咔嚓声。但我们旋即想起这是伦敦。光秃秃的的大树上方，高高悬挂着黄里透红的方形方框—是窗户；点点亮光不动不灭好像低垂的星星—是路灯；这片让人感觉如乡村一样恬静的空旷地只是伦敦的一个广场，四周布满了办公楼与家居。此时此刻，要么楼里刺眼的灯光正照耀着地图，照耀着文件，照耀着办公桌，桌前办事员正沾湿了食指，翻阅着无穷无尽信件

往来的文件夹；要么在一个客厅，壁炉的火光闪烁着，路灯的灯光窥射进来，光线在这个隐私空间弥漫，映照出扶手椅、书信、瓷器、嵌花桌子，还有一个女人的身影，她一匙匙准确地量着茶水，算出准确的数字；这茶—她望着门，好像听到楼下门铃声，听到有人问，她在吗？

第二部分：汉译英（50分）

A Small Incident(Excerpt)

Lu Xun

Six years have slipped by since I came from the country to the capital.During that time the number of so-called affairs of state I have witnessed or heard about is far from small, but none of them made much impression.If asked to define their influence on me, I can only say they made my bad temper worse.Frankly speaking, they taught me to take a poorer view of people every day.One small incident, however, which struck me as significant and jolted me out of my irritability, remains fixed even now in my memory.It was the winter of 1917, a strong north wind was blustering, but the exigencies of earning my living forced me to be up and out early.I met scarcely a soul on the road, but eventually managed to hire a rickshaw to take me to S-Gate.Presently the wind dropped a little, having blown away the drifts of dust on the road to leave a clean broad highway, and the rickshaw man quickened his pace.We were just approaching S-Gate when we knocked into someone who slowly toppled over.It was a grey-haired woman in ragged clothes.She had stepped out abruptly from the roadside in front of us, and although the rickshaw man had swerved, her tattered padded waistcoat, unbuttoned and billowing in the wind, had caught on the shaft.Luckily the rickshaw man had slowed down, otherwise she would certainly have had a bad fall and it might have been a serious accident.She huddled there on the ground, and the rickshaw man stopped.As I did not believe the old woman was hurt and as no one else had seen us, I thought this halt of his uncalled for, liable to land him trouble and hold me up.“It’s all right,” I said.“Go on.”

He paid no attentionbut set down the shafts, took the old woman's arm and gently helped her up.“Are you all right?” he asked.“I hurt myself falling.”

I thought: I saw how slowly you fell, how could you be hurt?

Putting on an act like this is simply disgusting.The rickshaw man asked for trouble, and now he’s got it.He’ll have to find his own way out.But the rickshaw man did not hesitate for a minute after hearing the old woman's answer.Still holding her arm, he helped her slowly forward.Rather puzzled by his I looked ahead and saw a police-station.Because of the high wind, there was no one outside.It was there that the rickshaw man was taking the old woman.Suddenly I had the strange sensation that his dusty retreating figure had in that instant grown larger.Indeed, the further he walked the larger he loomed, until I had to look up to him.At the same time he seemed gradually to be exerting a pressure on me which threatened to overpower the small self hidden under my fur-lined gown.江西省第二届英语翻译大赛决赛特等奖（第一名）获奖作品选登

一件小事（节选）

鲁 迅

我从乡下跑到京城里，一转眼已经六年了。其间耳闻目睹的所谓国家大事，算起来也很不少；但在我心里，都不留什么痕迹，倘要我寻出这些事的影响来说，便只是增长了我的坏脾气，——老实说，便是教我一天比一天的看不起人。

但有一件小事，却于我有意义，将我从坏脾气里拖开，使我至今忘记不得。

这是民国六年的冬天，大北风刮得正猛，我因为生计关系，不得不一早在路上走。一路几乎遇不见人，好容易才雇定了一辆人力车，叫他拉到S门去。不一会，北风小了，路上浮尘早已刮净，剩下一条洁白的大道来，车夫也跑得更快。刚近S门，忽而车把上带着一个人，慢慢地倒了。

跌倒的是一个女人，花白头发，衣服都很破烂。伊从马路上突然向车前横截过来；车夫已经让开道，但伊的破棉背心没有上扣，微风吹着，向外展开，所以终于兜着车把。幸而车夫早有点停步，否则伊定要栽一个大筋斗，跌到头破血出了。

伊伏在地上；车夫便也立住脚。我料定这老女人并没有伤，又没有别人看见，便很怪他多事，要自己惹出是非，也误了我的路。

我便对他说，“没有什么的。走你的罢！”

车夫毫不理会，——或者并没有听到，——却放下车子，扶那老女人慢慢起来，搀着臂膊立定，问伊说：

“你怎么啦？” “我摔坏了。”

我想，我眼见你慢慢倒地，怎么会摔坏呢，装腔作势罢了，这真可憎恶。车夫多事，也正是自讨苦吃，现在你自己想法去。

车夫听了这老女人的话，却毫不踌躇，仍然搀着伊的臂膊，便一步一步的向前走。我有些诧异，忙看前面，是一所巡警分驻所，大风之后，外面也不见人。这车夫扶着那老女人，便正是向那大门走去。

我这时突然感到一种异样的感觉，觉得他满身灰尘的后影，刹时高大了，而且愈走愈大，须仰视才见。而且他对于我，渐渐的又几乎变成一种威压，甚而至于要榨出皮袍下面藏着的“小”来。

江西省第二届英语翻译大赛决赛特等奖

译文：

A Small Incident(Excerpt)Lu Xun It has been six years since I came to the capital from the country.The so-called affairs of state during that time which I had seen or heard about did amount to many, albeit with no visible trace left in my heart.Speaking of their influence on me, they only exacerbated my ill temper.To be honest, they made me more and more ignorant of others day by day.One small incident, however, which bore great significance to me, dragged me out of my ill temper and remains forever in my memory.It was a winter in the sixth year of the Republic of China, the north wind was blowing violently.For the sake of making a living, I had to go out early when there was barely a person in sight on the road.Finally I managed to hire a rickshaw and told him to go towards the door S.Soon the wind blew less fiercely, while dust on the road was swept clean, leaving a smooth road ahead.So the rickshaw man ran faster.As we were approaching the door S, all of a sudden, a person ran into our rickshaw and gradually fell down.It was a grey-haired woman, dressed in ragged clothes.She suddenly walked towards us from the roadside.Though the rickshaw man had gone out of her way, her ragged waistcoat was unbuttoned, which stretched out in the wind and caught on the handle bar.Fortunately, the rickshaw man had taken early action, otherwise the old lady would certainly fell down and get seriously hurt.She was lying there.The rickshaw man stopped.I was sure that she was not hurt and there was no witness then, so I complained of his being so “helpful”.If he had made a fuss, it would have wasted my time as well.So I said to him: “It’s no big deal.Let’s go.”

Totally regardless of my words,(or simply not having heard it,)he let go of the rickshaw, and helped the woman stand on her feet.Holding her arm, he asked: “Are you OK?”

“Not well.”

I watched her slowly falling down, how could she possibly get hurt? “She is pretending!” I thought to myself, “How contemptible it is!” The rickshaw man was being so “helpful” that he was troubling the trouble.I would leave him alone.Upon hearing the woman’s words, the rickshaw man made no hesitation.He was still holding her arm and they walked ahead step by step.Feeling a bit confused, I looked ahead.There was a patrolling police station, where nobody was outside in such a violent wind.The two were moving towards that place, surely.At that moment, a strange sensation seized me: his dusty figure suddenly became mighty.The further they walked, the mightier it seemed.In the end I had to look up to him.What he meant to me gradually became a pressure, a kind of pressure massive enough to overshadow “the little myself” beneath the garments.Street Haunting: A London Adventure(Excerpt)

Virginia Woolf

No one perhaps has ever felt passionately towards a lead pencil.But there are circumstances in which it can become supremely desirable to possess one;moments when we are set upon having an object, an excuse for walking half across London between tea and dinner.As the foxhunter hunts in order to preserve the breed of foxes, and the golfer plays in order that open spaces may be preserved from the builders, so when the desire comes upon us to go street rambling the pencil does for a pretext, and getting up we say: “Really I must buy a pencil,” as if under cover of this excuse we could indulge safely in the greatest pleasure of town life in winter — rambling the streets of London.How beautiful a London street is then, with its islands of light, and its long groves of darkness, and on one side of it perhaps some tree-sprinkled, grass-grown space where night is folding herself to sleep naturally and, as one passes the iron railing, one hears those little cracklings and stirrings of leaf and twig which seem to suppose the silence of fields all round them, an owl hooting, and far away the rattle of a train in the valley.But this is London, we are reminded;high among the bare trees are hung oblong frames of reddish yellow light — windows;there are points of brilliance burning steadily like low stars — lamps;this empty ground, which holds the country in it and its peace, is only a London square, set about by offices and houses where at this hour fierce lights burn over maps, over documents, over desks where clerks sit turning with wetted forefinger the files of endless correspondences;or more suffusedly the firelight wavers and the lamplight falls upon the privacy of some drawing-room, its easy chairs, its papers, its china, its inlaid table, and the figure of a woman, accurately measuring out the precise number of spoons of tea which —— She looks at the door as if she heard a ring downstairs and somebody asking, is she in?

漫步街区：一次伦敦之旅（节选）

弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫

或许不曾有人对一支铅笔求之不得欣喜不已，但是我们却总有占有某物的欲望之火熊熊燃烧的时候，我们却总有决心得到一个物品，以作为我们茶余饭后漫步伦敦的借口的时候。正如猎狐者为了狐狸生生不息的繁衍而打猎，正如高尔夫球运动者为了保护广阔空旷的土地免遭建设者的蹂躏而打球一样。当漫步街区的欲望不期而至，买铅笔只不过是一个借口罢了。于是我们起身立之，喃喃自语道：“我确实必须要去买一支铅笔。”似乎在这冠冕堂皇的借口之下，我们可以尽情地沉溺在冬日城镇生活的愉悦惬意中——闲庭漫步于伦敦街区。

伦敦街区的景色真是美不胜收啊！光芒温柔地照耀在岛屿上，悠长的小树丛安静地隐没在黑暗中。街道一旁几颗树木零星地生长着，周围草木丛生绿意盎然。夜幕在这里静静地降临，双手合抱，安然入睡。当你路过铁轨旁的时候，你可以听到那细碎的哐啷声，伴着风中枝叶的摇摆声声作响，宛如田野的静谧般扑面而来。一只猫头鹰声声呼唤，远处一辆火车缓缓驶过，在山谷中格格作响，久久回荡。但是我们一次次的被提醒，这里是伦敦啊！那高悬于稀疏的树木之间，放射着浅红微黄光芒的方形框架——只不过是窗户罢了；那些宛如低空星辰般耀眼夺目、异彩纷呈的光点——只不过是电灯罢了；那默默承载着伦敦、展现着她的静穆的空旷大地——只不过是伦敦广场罢了。鳞次栉比的办公室和房屋在此拔地而起。此时此刻，强烈的灯光正照耀着各式各样的地图，照耀着纷至沓来的文件，照耀着一张张桌子，桌旁的小职员们正用湿漉漉的手指书写着无穷无尽的信件。那闪烁的灯光肆无忌惮地弥漫在某间画室里，照亮了那简陋的椅子，厚厚的纸张，精美的瓷器，嵌饰的桌子，也照亮了一个女子的身影，她正精确地量着茶叶的匙数——而此时她朝门望去，仿佛听到楼下传来一阵铃声，一个人正轻声问道：“她在吗？”

第二篇：江西省第二届翻译大赛

第二届翻译大赛初赛（2010年）翻译原文及参考译文

一、将下列短文译成汉语（50分）: 1)At a time when a towering personality like Mme.Curie has come to the end of her life, let us not merely rest content with recalling what she has given to mankind in the fruits of her work.It is the moral qualities of its leading personalities that are perhaps of even greater significance for a generation and for the course of history than purely intellectual accomplishments.Even these latter are, to a far greater degree than is commonly credited, dependent on the stature of character.It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme.Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship.I come to admire her human grandeur to an ever growing degree.Her strength, her purity of will, her austerity toward herself, objectively, her incorruptible judgment—all these were of a kind seldom found joined in a single inpidual.She felt herself at every moment to be a servant of society and her profound modesty never left any room for complacency.2)It was common enough during the first year of the war to meet people who took an aesthetic pleasure in the darkness of the streets at night.It gave them un nouveau frisson.They said that never had London been so beautiful.It was hardly a gracious thing to say about London.And it was not entirely true.The hill of Piccadilly has always been beautiful, with its lamps suspended above it like strange fruits.The Thames between Westminister Bridge and Blackfriars has always been beautiful at night, pouring its brown waters along in a dusk of light and shadow.And had we not always had Hyde Park like a little dark forest full of lamps, with the gold of the lamps shaken into long Chinese alphabets in the windy waters of the Serpentine? There was Chelsea, too.Surely, even before the war, Chelsea by night lay in darkness like a town forgotten and derelict in the snug gloom of an earlier century.（注：un nouveau frisson，法语，一种新的颤动；Piccadilly：皮卡迪利，位于伦敦西区的繁华地段；Westminister Bridge and Blackfriars: 威斯敏斯特大桥和黑衣修士区；Serpentine：蛇湖，海德公园内；Chelsea切尔西区。)

二、将下列短文译成英语（50分）: 1）名声、财产、知识等等都是身外之物，人人都可求而得之，但没有人能够代替你感受人生。你死以后，没有人能够代替你再活一次。如果你真正意识到了这一点，你就会明白，活在世上，最重要的事就是活出你自己的特色和滋味来。你的人生是否有意义，衡量的标准不是外在的成功，而是对人生意义的独特领悟和坚守，从而使你的自我闪放出个性的光芒。

2）至于时间，更不成问题。达尔文一生多病，不能多作工，每天只能做一点钟的工作。你们看他的成绩！每天花一点钟看10页有用的书，每年可看3600多页书，30年可读11万页书。

诸位，11 万页书可以使你成一个学者了。可是每天看三种小报也得费你一点钟的工夫，四圈麻将也得费你一点半钟的光阴。看小报呢？还是打麻将呢？还是努力做一个学者呢？全靠你们自己的选择。易卜生说：“你的最大责任是把你这块材料铸造成器。”

（注：本文节选自胡适在对毕业生的致词，题为《不要抛弃学问》）参考译文：

英译中

1)当居里夫人这样杰出的人物逝世的时候，我们不能仅缅怀她的研究成果为人类做出的贡献。对于一个时代和整个历史进程来说，杰出人物所具有的高尚品质也许比他们纯智力成就具有更重大的意义。即使后者也依赖于人格力量，而这依赖的程度远比一般人所想象的要高得多。

我很荣幸，20 年来一直和居里夫人保持高尚而纯洁的友谊。我对她高尚品德的敬佩与日俱增。她的力量，她的意志的纯粹，她的严与自律，她的客观，她的公正的判断—一 个人身上极少具有如此多方面的品质。她每分每秒都觉得自己是社会的公仆。她虚怀若谷的品德从未被丝毫自满的情绪所沾染。

2）战争的头一年里，在夜间街头的一片黑暗之中，有人产生了一种审美快感，遇见这样的人是相当普通的事。黑暗使他们感到一种新的颤动。他们都说伦敦从来没有如此美丽！用这样的话来形容伦敦并不算溢美之词。而且这样说也并非完全真实。皮卡迪利大街的上空一向是美丽的，悬空的街灯宛如异乡的水果。横贯威斯敏斯特大桥与黑衣修士区的泰晤士河，到了夜间一向是美丽的，在光影相映的暮色之中，延绵不断地倾泻着褐色的河水。我们不是一向拥有海德公园吗？它宛如灯火密布的小小黑森林，金光闪闪的灯火在蛇湖起了风浪的水面上摇曳不定，变成了长形的中文汉字。还有切尔西区呢。确实，甚至就在战前，切尔西区到了夜晚便静卧于黑暗之中，就像上实际的一个镇子，为了淡忘遭到遗弃，消没于隐然的昏沉之中。（杨岂深译）

中译英

1）Fame, wealth and knowledge are merely worldly possessions which are within the reach of anybody striving for them.But your experience of and feeling about life are your own and not to be shared(But no one can experience life on behalf of you).No one can live your life over again after your death A full awareness of this will point out to you that the most important thing in your existence is your distinctive inpiduality or something special of yoursWhat really counts is not your worldly success but your peculiar insight into the meaning of life and your commitment to it, which add lusterto your personality.2）Time is no object.Charles Darwin could only work one hour a day due to his ill health.Yet what a remarkable man he was!If you spend one hour a day reading 10 pages of a book, you can finish more than 3600 pages a year, and 110,000 pages in 30 years.Dear students, 110,000 pages will be quite enough to make a learned man of you.It will take you one hour to read three tabloids a day, and one and half hours to finish four rounds of mah-jong a day.Reading tabloids, playing mah-jong or striving to be a learned man, the choice lies with you.Henrik Ibsen says, “It is your supreme duty to cast yourself into a useful implement”

第三篇：江西省第二届英语翻译大赛

一件小事（节选）鲁 迅 我从乡下跑到京城里，一转眼已经六年了。其间耳闻目睹的所谓国家大事，算起来也很不少；但在我心里，都不留什么痕

迹，倘要我寻出这些事的影响来说，便只是增长了我的坏脾气，——老实说，便是教我一天比一天的看不起人。

但有一件小事，却于我有意义，将我从坏脾气里拖开，使我至今忘记不得。

这是民国六年的冬天，大北风刮得正猛，我因为生计关系，不得不一早在路上走。一路几乎遇不见人，好容易才雇定了一辆人力车，叫他拉到S门去。不一会，北风小了，路上浮尘早已刮净，剩下一条洁白的大道来，车夫也跑得更快。刚近S门，忽而车把上带着一个人，慢慢地倒了。

跌倒的是一个女人，花白头发，衣服都很破烂。伊从马路上突然向车前横截过来；车夫已经让开道，但伊的破棉背心没有上扣，微风吹着，向外展开，所以终于兜着车把。幸而车夫早有点停步，否则伊定要栽一个大筋斗，跌到头破血出了。伊伏在地上；车夫便也立住脚。我料定这老女人并没有伤，又没有别人看见，便很怪他多事，要自己惹出是非，也误了我的路。我便对他说，“没有什么的。走你的罢！”

车夫毫不理会，——或者并没有听到，——却放下车子，扶那老女人慢慢起来，搀着臂膊立定，问伊说： “你怎么啦？” “我摔坏了。”

我想，我眼见你慢慢倒地，怎么会摔坏呢，装腔作势罢了，这真可憎恶。车夫多事，也正是自讨苦吃，现在你自己想法去。车夫听了这老女人的话，却毫不踌躇，仍然搀着伊的臂膊，便一步一步的向前走。我有些诧异，忙看前面，是一所巡警分驻所，大风之后，外面也不见人。这车夫扶着那老女人，便正是向那大门走去。

我这时突然感到一种异样的感觉，觉得他满身灰尘的后影，刹时高大了，而且愈走愈大，须仰视才见。而且他对于我，渐渐的

又几乎变成一种威压，甚而至于要榨出皮袍下面藏着的“小”来。

参考译文

第一部分：英译汉（50分）伦敦神游（节选）弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫

恐怕从未有人曾经热切地想要一支铅心笔，但有时候这种欲望会变得压倒一切。那是在下午茶之后、晚饭之前，我们会一心要买一件东西，其实是找借口在此期间游逛半个伦敦。猎人猎狐以保持狐狸的品种，球手打高尔夫以阻止建筑商侵占空地。同样，当我们心血来潮想去街上闲逛时，铅笔就可以作为借口。所以，我们站起身说：“真的，我必须买支铅笔。”好像

有了这个借口，我们就可以放心去尽情享受冬天城市生活最大的乐趣—在伦敦逛街。

伦敦的街道是多么美丽啊！有灯光的岛屿，有一团团幽暗的阴影，可能在其中一侧还有树木错落的茵茵草地，夜在草地上舒展开，将大地罩入夜的睡乡；越过铁栅栏，你还可以听到树枝树叶摇曳发出轻微的窸窣声，衬出周围田野的一片寂静，还有一只猫头鹰的枭叫，远处山谷火车经过的咔嚓声。但我们旋即想起这是伦敦。光秃秃的的大树上方，高高悬挂着黄里透红的方形方框—是窗户；点点亮光不动不灭好像低垂的星星—是路灯；这片让人感觉如乡村一样恬静的空旷地只是伦敦的一个广场，四周布满了办公楼与家居。此时此刻，要么楼里刺眼的灯光正照耀着地图，照耀着文件，照耀着办公桌，桌前办事员正沾湿了食指，翻阅着无穷无尽信件

往来的文件夹；要么在一个客厅，壁炉的火光闪烁着，路灯的灯光窥射进来，光线在这个隐私空间弥漫，映照出扶手椅、书信、瓷器、嵌花桌子，还有一个女人的身影，她一匙匙准确地量着茶水，算出准确的数字；这茶—她望着门，好像听到楼下门铃声，听到有人问，她在吗？

第二部分：汉译英（50分）A Small Incident(Excerpt)Lu Xun Six years have slipped by since I came from the country to the capital.During that time the number of so-called affairs of state I have witnessed or heard about is far from small, but none of them made much impression.If asked to define their influence on me, I can only say they made my bad temper worse.Frankly speaking, they taught me to take a poorer view of people every day.One small incident, however, which struck me as significant and jolted me out of my irritability, remains fixed even now in my memory.It was the winter of 1917, a strong north wind was blustering, but the exigencies of earning my living forced me to be up and out early.I met scarcely a soul on the road, but eventually managed to hire a rickshaw to take me to S-Gate.Presently the wind dropped a little, having blown away the drifts of dust on the road to leave a clean broad highway, and the rickshaw man quickened his pace.We were just approaching S-Gate when we knocked into someone who slowly toppled over.It was a grey-haired woman in ragged clothes.She had stepped out abruptly from the roadside in front of us, and although the rickshaw man had swerved, her tattered padded waistcoat, unbuttoned and billowing in the wind, had caught on the shaft.Luckily the rickshaw man had slowed down, otherwise she would certainly have had a bad fall and it might have been a serious accident.She huddled there on the ground, and the rickshaw man stopped.As I did not believe the old woman was hurt and as no one else had seen us, I thought this halt of his uncalled for, liable to land him trouble and hold me up.“It’s all right,” I said.“Go on.”

He paid no attentionbut set down the shafts, took the old woman's arm and gently helped her up.“Are you all right?” he asked.“I hurt myself falling.”

I thought: I saw how slowly you fell, how could you be hurt? Putting on an act like this is simply disgusting.The rickshaw man asked for trouble, and now he’s got it.He’ll have to find his own way out.But the rickshaw man did not hesitate for a minute after hearing the old woman's answer.Still holding her arm, he helped her slowly forward.Rather puzzled by his I looked ahead and saw a police-station.Because of the high wind, there was no one outside.It was there that the rickshaw man was taking the old woman.Suddenly I had the strange sensation that his dusty retreating figure had in that instant grown larger.Indeed, the further he walked the larger he loomed, until I had to look up to him.At the same time he seemed gradually to be exerting a pressure on me which threatened to overpower the small self hidden under my fur-lined gown.江西省第二届英语翻译大赛决赛特等奖（第一名）获奖作品选登 一件小事（节选）鲁 迅

我从乡下跑到京城里，一转眼已经六年了。其间耳闻目睹的所谓国家大事，算起来也很不少；但在我心里，都不留什么痕迹，倘要我寻出这些事的影响来说，便只是增长了我的坏脾气，——老实说，便是教我一天比一天的看不起人。

但有一件小事，却于我有意义，将我从坏脾气里拖开，使我至今忘记不得。

这是民国六年的冬天，大北风刮得正猛，我因为生计关系，不得不一早在路上走。一路几乎遇不见人，好容易才雇定了一辆人力车，叫他拉到S门去。不一会，北风小了，路上浮尘早已刮净，剩下一条洁白的大道来，车夫也跑得更快。刚近S门，忽而车把上带着一个人，慢慢地倒了。

跌倒的是一个女人，花白头发，衣服都很破烂。伊从马路上突然向车前横截过来；车夫已经让开道，但伊的破棉背心没有上扣，微风吹着，向外展开，所以终于兜着车把。幸而车夫早有点停步，否则伊定要栽一个大筋斗，跌到头破血出了。伊伏在地上；车夫便也立住脚。我料定这老女人并没有伤，又没有别人看见，便很怪他多事，要自己惹出是非，也误了我的路。我便对他说，“没有什么的。走你的罢！”

车夫毫不理会，——或者并没有听到，——却放下车子，扶那老女人慢慢起来，搀着臂膊立定，问伊说： “你怎么啦？” “我摔坏了。”

我想，我眼见你慢慢倒地，怎么会摔坏呢，装腔作势罢了，这真可憎恶。车夫多事，也正是

自讨苦吃，现在你自己想法去。

车夫听了这老女人的话，却毫不踌躇，仍然搀着伊的臂膊，便一步一步的向前走。我有些诧异，忙看前面，是一所巡警分驻所，大风之后，外面也不见人。这车夫扶着那老女人，便正是向那大门走去。

我这时突然感到一种异样的感觉，觉得他满身灰尘的后影，刹时高大了，而且愈走愈大，须仰视才见。而且他对于我，渐渐的又几乎变成一种威压，甚而至于要榨出皮袍下面藏着的“小”来。江西省第二届英语翻译大赛决赛特等奖 译文：

A Small Incident(Excerpt)Lu Xun It has been six years since I came to the capital from the country.The so-called affairs of state during that time which I had seen or heard about did amount to many, albeit with no visible trace left in my heart.Speaking of their influence on me, they only exacerbated my ill temper.To be honest, they made me more and more ignorant of others day by day.5 One small incident, however, which bore great significance to me, dragged me out of my ill temper and remains forever in my memory.It was a winter in the sixth year of the Republic of China, the north wind was blowing violently.For the sake of making a living, I had to go out early when there was barely a person in sight on the road.Finally I managed to hire a rickshaw and told him to go towards the door S.Soon the wind blew less fiercely, while dust on the road was swept clean, leaving a smooth road ahead.So the rickshaw man ran faster.As we were approaching the door S, all of a sudden, a person ran into our rickshaw and gradually fell down.It was a grey-haired woman, dressed in ragged clothes.She suddenly walked towards us from the roadside.Though the rickshaw man had gone out of her way, her ragged waistcoat was unbuttoned, which stretched out in the wind and caught on the handle bar.Fortunately, the rickshaw man had taken early action, otherwise the old lady would certainly fell down and get seriously hurt.She was lying there.The rickshaw man stopped.I was sure that she was not hurt and there was no witness then, so I complained of his being so “helpful”.If he had made a fuss, it would have wasted my time as well.So I said to him: “It’s no big deal.Let’s go.”

Totally regardless of my words,(or simply not having heard it,)he let go of the rickshaw, and help

ed the woman stand on her feet.Holding her arm, he asked: “Are you OK?” “Not well.”

I watched her slowly falling down, how could she possibly get hurt? “She is pretending!” I thought to myself, “How contemptible it is!” The rickshaw man was being so “helpful” that he was troubling the trouble.I would leave him alone.Upon hearing the woman’s words, the rickshaw man made no hesitation.He was still holding her arm and they walked ahead step by step.Feeling a bit confused, I looked ahead.There was a patrolling police station, where nobody was outside in such a violent wind.The two were moving towards that place, surely.At that moment, a strange sensation seized me: his dusty figure suddenly became mighty.The further they walked, the mightier it seemed.In the end I had to look up to him.What he meant to me gradually became a pressure, a kind of pressure massive enough to overshadow “the little myself” beneath the garments.Street Haunting: A London Adventure(Excerpt)Virginia Woolf

No one perhaps has ever felt passionately towards a lead pencil.But there are circumstances in which it can become supremely desirable to possess one;moments when we are set upon having an object, an excuse for walking half across London between tea and dinner.As the foxhunter hunts in order to preserve the breed of foxes, and the golfer plays in order that open spaces may be preserved from the builders, so when the desire comes upon us to go street rambling the pencil does for a pretext, and getting up we say: “Really I must buy a pencil,” as if under cover of this excuse we could indulge safely in the greatest pleasure of town life in winter — rambling the streets of London.How beautiful a London street is then, with its islands of light, and its long groves of darkness, and on one side of it perhaps some tree-sprinkled, grass-grown space where night is folding herself to sleep naturally and, as one passes the iron railing, one hears those little cracklings and stirrings of leaf and twig which seem to suppose the silence of fields all round them, an owl hooting, and far away the rattle of a train in the valley.But this is London, we are reminded;high among the bare trees are hung oblong frames of reddish yellow light — windows;there are points of brilliance burning steadily like low stars — lamps;this empty ground, which holds the country in it and its peace, is only a London square, set about by offices and houses where at this hour fierce lights burn over maps, over documents, over desks where clerks sit turning with wetted forefinger the files of endless correspondences;or more suffusedly the firelight wavers and the lamplight falls upon the privacy of some drawing-room, its easy chairs, its papers, its china, its inlaid table, and the figure of a woman, accurately measuring out the precise number of spoons of tea which —— She looks at the door as if she heard a ring downstairs and somebody asking, is she in?

漫步街区：一次伦敦之旅（节选）弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫

或许不曾有人对一支铅笔求之不得欣喜不已，但是我们却总有占有某物的欲望之火熊熊燃烧的时候，我们却总有决心得到一个物品，以作为我们茶余饭后漫步伦敦的借口的时候。正如猎狐者为了狐狸生生不息的繁衍而打猎，正如高尔夫球运动者为了保护广阔空旷的土地免遭建设者的蹂躏而打球一样。当漫步街区的欲望不期而至，买铅笔只不过是一个借口罢了。于是我们起身立之，喃喃自语道：“我确实必须要去买一支铅笔。”似乎在这冠冕堂皇的借口之下，我们可以尽情地沉溺在冬日城镇生活的愉悦惬意中——闲庭漫步于伦敦街区。

伦敦街区的景色真是美不胜收啊！光芒温柔地照耀在岛屿上，悠长的小树丛安静地隐没在黑暗中。街道一旁几颗树木零星地生长着，周围草木丛生绿意盎然。夜幕在这里静静地降临，双手合抱，安然入睡。当你路过铁轨旁的时候，你可以听到那细碎的哐啷声，伴着风中枝叶的摇摆声声作响，宛如田野的静谧般扑面而来。一只猫头鹰声声呼唤，远处一辆火车缓缓驶过，在山谷中格格作响，久久回荡。但是我们一次次的被提醒，这里是伦敦啊！那高悬于稀疏的树木之间，放射着浅红微黄光芒的方形框架——只不过是窗户罢了；那些宛如低空星辰般耀眼夺目、异彩纷呈的光点——只不过是电灯罢了；那默默承载着伦敦、展现着她的静穆的空旷大地——只不过是伦敦广场罢了。鳞次栉比的办公室和房屋在此拔地而起。此时此刻，强烈的灯光正照耀着各式各样的地图，照耀着纷至沓来的文件，照耀着一张张桌子，桌旁的小职员们正用湿漉漉的手指书写着无穷无尽的信件。那闪烁的灯光肆无忌惮地弥漫在某间画室里，照亮了那简陋的椅子，厚厚的纸张，精美的瓷器，嵌饰的桌子，也照亮了一个女子的身影，她正精确地量着茶叶的匙数——而此时她朝门望去，仿佛听到楼下传来一阵铃声，一个人正轻声问道：“她在吗？”

第四篇：第三届翻译大赛试题及答案

Nature and Art

Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music.But the artist is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful—as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from the chaos glorious harmony.To say to the painter, that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player, that he may sit on the piano„

The dignity of the snow-capped mountain is lost in distinctness, but the joy of the tourist is to recognize the traveller on the top.The desire to see, for the sake of seeing, is, with the mass, alone the one to be gratified, hence the delight in detail.And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us—then the wayfarer hastens home;the working man and the cultured one, the wise man and the one of pleasure, cease to understand, as they have ceased to see, and Nature, who, for once, has sung in tune, sings her exquisite song to the artist alone, her son and her master—her son in that loves her, her master in that he knows her.To him her secrets are unfolded, to him her lessons have become gradually clear.He looks at her flower, not with the enlarging lens, that may gather facts for the botanist, but with the light of the one who sees in her choice selection of brilliant tones and delicate tints, suggestions of future harmonies.He does not confine himself to purposeless copying, without thought, each blade of grass, as commended by the inconsequent, but, in the long curve of the narrow leaf, corrected by the straight tall stem, he learns how grace is wedded to dignity.How strength enhances sweetness, that elegance shall be the result.In the citron wing of the pale butterfly, with its dainty spots of orange, he sees before him the stately halls of fair gold, with their slender saffron pillars, and is taught how the delicate drawing high upon the walls shall be traced in tender tones of orpiment, and repeated by the base in notes of graver hue.In all that is dainty and lovable he finds hints for his own combinations, and thus is Nature ever his resource and always at his service, and to him is naught refused.Through his brain, as through the last alembic, is distilled the refined essence of that thought which began with the Gods, and which they left him to carry out.Set apart by them to complete their works, he produces that wondrous thing called the masterpiece, which surpasses in perfection all that they have contrived in what is called Nature;and the Gods stand by and marvel, and perceive how far away more beautiful is the Venus of Melos than was their own Eve.自然与艺术

就色彩和形状而论，大自然包含所有图画的元素，就像键盘包含所有音乐的音符一样。

艺术家的天职就是对这些元素进行选择，将它们巧妙地糅合起来，构成一幅美丽的图画——就像音乐家用声音谱成和音，从混乱无序的声音中创作出动听和谐的乐曲一样。

如果对画家说他可以照大自然本来的样子画，就等于对演奏家说他可以一屁股坐在钢琴的键盘上„„

白雪皑皑的高山若是变得清晰可见就失去了它的威严，但观光者却因为能看见山顶上的游客而喜形于色。大多数人是为了看见而要看见，只是为了使这个愿望得到满足而已，因此他们仅以能看见细节为快。

当傍晚富有诗意的迷雾象柔纱般地笼罩着河边，破旧的建筑消失在朦胧的天空，高高的烟囱变成一座座钟楼，大大小小的仓库恍如夜间的宫殿，整个城市悬在了空中，宛若仙境展现在我们眼前，那时候，路上的人们匆匆走路回家；劳动者和文化人，智者和浪子，因为他们熟视无睹，他们也就不能理解，而只在此时才开始歌唱的大自然便把自己微妙的歌唱给艺术家——她的儿子和她的主人；说他是儿子是因为他爱她，说他是主人是因为他理解她。

只有对他，她才展现她的秘密，只有对他，她的内涵才逐渐变得清晰。他观察着她的花朵，不是用为植物学家采集实据的放大镜，而是用一种眼光，她用这种眼光在她精选的灿烂色调和精妙色彩中可以看见即将诞生的画面是多么和谐。他并非不假思索地描摹每一片草叶，如同那些不谙此道的人们所赞扬的那样，而是在又高又直的茎干上的细长叶弯里，他发现，优雅和尊严融为一体，力量使它更加温柔，而后才产生了高雅。

在蝴蝶那淡淡的香橼色并布满雅致的橘黄斑点的翅膀上，他看见庄严的金色大厅就在眼前，还有又细又高的金黄顶柱，并且懂得了那高墙上精巧的图画要用轻柔的雄黄色调来描绘，并要以更加庄重的色调为底色将其绘制下来。

在所有这些雅致和可爱的元素里，他得到如何进行融合的启示，这样，大自然就成了他取之不尽的源泉，随时为他服务，对他从不拒绝。

通过他的大脑，如同通过最后一道蒸馏器一样，那发端于诸神，并由诸神托付他去实现的思想精髓得以净化。

由于受到诸神的青睐去完成他们的作品，他创作了被称之为杰作的绝妙之作，它的完美超出诸神在大自然里所创造的一切；他们站在一旁，惊叹不已，并发现米洛斯岛上的维纳斯像比他们自己的夏娃要美丽得多。

第二部分：汉译英译文（50分）出生在天津的美国作家

岁月悠悠。一晃也是如云如烟的往事了。1981年秋，天津作家协会刚刚恢复工作，曾任美国作家联盟主席的约翰·赫赛（John Hersey）到天津来了。他是自费来中国旅游，又是特地来重温故乡之梦的。

天津怎么是赫赛的故乡呢？原来他父亲是美国传教士，曾任天津基督教青年会（YMCA :Young Men's Christian Association）干事多年；他母亲应南开中学邀请到南开中学任英语教师。随他来的翻译多说了几句，说他母亲教出了一位世界知名的人物，那就是周恩来。说他曾经玩笑地说，他是在母亲的肚皮里就已经认识这位伟大的人物了。他1914年出生在天津，11岁离开天津，回到美国。但天津一直留在他的心头，1939年和1945年都来重温过故乡之梦，这次是第三次了。

赫赛这次重温故乡之梦，做了一定的准备。随来他的翻译又多说了几句，说他在北京请人为他译读了天津作家的一些作品，对孙梨的《荷花淀》与方纪的《来访者》评价很高，这就看出他对人生和现实的态度了。

转天，我应邀到他房间去长谈。他把微型录音机放在茶几上，要把我的原话和翻译的译语都录下来。他要我介绍唐山大地震给天津带来的灾难，又要我介绍天津作家的情况，说那两次重返故乡，他都没听说过天津也有作家，特别是听到作家写作不仅拿稿费而且月月有薪金时，仿佛是一大发现，惊奇得在笔记本上做了记录。我也顺势提出一问，他又是怎么靠稿费维持生活的。他说他在作家身份之外还兼具记者和教授的两种身份。这样既保证了生活的收入，又丰富了创作的源泉，也开拓了学识的领域。他的许多小说都是从报告文学中升华出来的，还有一些作品是在教学中酝酿成熟的。

An American Writer Who Was Born in Tianjin

It has been gone like smoke and clouds.How time flies!In the autumn of 1981 when Tianjin Writers’ Association has just resumed its normal function in the wake of the Cultural Revolution, Mr.John Hersey, Ex-Chairman of American Writers’ Federation, came to Tianjin.He had come to China as a tourist and made a point of coming to see his former home there.How come Tianjin had become Hersey’s hometown? What happened was that his father, a missionary from America, was in charge of Tianjin YMCA for many years and his mother, at the request of NankaiMiddle School, was there teaching English.His interpreter offered a few humorous remarks that at NankaiMiddle School his mother had taught a student that later became a world-known figure and this student was none other than Zhou Enlai.He added that Hersey had once said half jokingly that he had known this great figure when he was still in his mother’s womb.He was born in Tianjin in 1914, and left for America at the age of eleven.But Tianjin had always been to the fore of his mind.He had visited Tianjin twice earlier, the first one in 1939 and the second in 1946, and this was his third visit.Hersey was well prepared for his visit to Tianjin.His interpreter again offered some extra information that, while in Beijing, he had asked someone to translate and read to him in English some works by Tianjin writers and he had a high opinion of “The Lotus Lake” by Sun Li and “The Visitor” by Fang Ji, and that gave us a glimpse of his attitude toward life and how he looked at social realities.The next day I was invited to the hotel where he stayed and we had a long talk in his room.He put his pocket recorder on the tea table, saying he wanted to note down what I was going to say as it was being interpreted.He asked how Tianjin was affected by the Tangshan earthquake and then he said he would like to be furnished with some information about Tianjin writers, because, during his previous visits to Tianjin, it had never occurred to him that there was any writer in this city.When he learned that writers in China were paid regular salaries, apart from contribution fees for their writings, he was so amazed that he put it in his notebook as if he had discovered something unusual.Picking up the topic from where he left off I asked how he had managed to make a living by writing and he said he was currently employed as a journalist for a newspaper and a professor at a university.His employment in the two occupations not only provided him with materials for creative writing and widened the range of his learning.Some of his novels were developed on the reportage he had written as a journalist and others were conceived while he was teaching at university.

第五篇：翻译大赛试题

翻译大赛试题

I.Choose the one best translation of the Chinese phrases ：（每题2分，计20分）

(1)弱肉强食

A.the weak is the meat of the strong B.the weak are the prey of the strong C.the jungle principal D.the weak is the mercy of the strong

(2)如鸟兽散

A.flee helter skelter B.as if birds and beasts disappearing C.flying away as birds D.running away as animals

(3)深文周纳

A.well versed in literature and art

B.try to help innocent people out of trouble C.to enjoy great learning and popularity

D.convict sb by deliberately misinterpreting the law

(4)首鼠两端

A.take both for granted

B.catch the first mouse coming along C.there being two sides to everything D．shilly-shally

(5)师直为壮

A.an army fighting for a just cause has high morale B.an honest teacher is always eloquent in speech C.a great master is always speak out his mind D.strong physique is associated with moral life

(6)文不加点

A.article with no definite argument B.have a facile pen

C.without the use of any punctuation D.plain style without and flourish

(7)殊深轸念 A.fall a prey to

B.be sympathetic about

C.express deep solicitude for D.become bosom friends

(8)余勇可贾 A.valor to encourage others B.with strength yet to spare C.energy left over for future use D.great deeds for praise

(9)纵横捭阖

A.criss-crossing the vast country B.a wide stretch of beautiful field

C.maneuver among various political groupings D.search up and down for a bosom friend

(10)责有莜归

A.duty is well placed

B.obligation should be observed C.blame goes to its destiny

D.responsibility rests where it belongs

II.Choose the best version among the four given.（每题2分，计40分）

11．她是一个坚强的女人，在体格上、在精神上都是如此，我每天都从她身上吸取精神食粮。A.She was a touch woman, physically and spiritually.Not a day passed that I didn’t feed off the bread of her spirit.B.In physique as well as in spirit, she is a strong and firm lady, everyday I absorb from her spiritual nutrition.C.I get strength from her everyday, since she is a strong-willed woman, both in body and in mind.D.She has got very strong will-power, and everyday I can benefit from her spiritual food as far as mind and constitution are concerned.12．他相识不久就想动手动脚。

A.Before the acquaintance got to a certain point, he wants to be physically involved.B.He even wanted to get in possession before the relationship is ripe.C.Before long, he started to show his true colors.D.He wanted to get physical early in a relationship.13． 科技的发展似乎对纸张的使用没有太大的影响，正如医学的进步也不能铲除病毒。A.The development of science doesn’t seem to have great influence on the use of paper, just as the advances of medicine can not get rid of virus all together.B.Paper seems to be as immune to technology as viruses are to medical science.C.Paper is not very much affected by the development of technology;the same is true with the fact that progress in medical research cannot exterminate germs.D.The advances in science seems to have no function in affecting the use of paper, as the improvement in medicine and pharmacology are not able to wipe out viruses.14.那年中有好几次，我将我所受到的挫折以及失落感发泄到孩子们身上。A.Many times in that year, I vented out on my kids all the frustrations I experienced.B.On many an occasion that year I lost tempers and scolded my children for my own setbacks.C.I gave vent to my own lost feelings that year and wreaked my kids for my own headaches.D.There were quite a few times that year when I took my frustrations out on the children.15.这是个未知的领域：如何成为宇航员？无准则可遵循，无先例可参照。

A.This is an unknown world: how to become astronauts? No rules to follow, and no precedents to be used as references.B.That’s a field unknown to us: we have no experience in the past and there are no set rules for us to obey.C.That is an unfamiliar area for research: how to train astronauts? We have no regulations and principles to follow, and we have no successful examples for reference.D.This was uncharted territory---there were literally no guidelines or precedents on how to become an astronaut.16.这棵树在秋天身披金灿灿的树叶，显得格外美丽。

A.This tree is so outstandingly magnificent in full, covered with such a golden foliage B.Clad in golden glory, the tree is incredibly beautiful in autumn.C.So beautiful is the tree just because it is covered in such effulgent leaves.D.In this golden autumn, the tree is beautifully dressed in such bright gold.17.在参加工作面试之前，这个求职者在自己的房间里反复演练。

A.The job hunter practiced time and again in the room before he went to see the interviewer.B.Before he went to attend the interviewing for the job, he did a lot of practices in his own room.C.Before going to the job interview, the applicant rehearsed his presentation in his room.D.The candidate did some drilling in his room very seriously and then he went to the job interview.18.在新的环境中生活和工作，对刚毕业的学生来说，通常都是很大的挑战。A.Life and work in a new environment are usually very challenging for new graduates.B.In this new working and living environment, it is obvious that all this is a great challenge for the students who have just graduated for universities.C.It is clear that living and working in this new environment, newly graduated students are meeting an awesome challenge.D.The new work and living environment imposes a great challenge to the graduates who have just come for universities.19.千百年过去了，人们一直相信希腊神话和罗马神话，而且你可以看到这些神话一直在我们的思想和语言中反映出来。

A.Thousands of years elapses by, and people have been in faith of Greek and roman myths, and you can see them reflecting though our thoughts and languages.B.It has been many hundreds of years since people have believed in the myths of the Greeks and Romans, yet you can see that they still echo in our minds and in our language.C.Hundreds after hundreds of years have past, while people still have held a strong belief of Greek and Roman mythologies which keep coming through our spirits and languages.D.Hundreds and thousands of years later, Greek and Roman mythologies are still alive and full of vitality in people’s faith and beliefs, and you can see that they are showing themselves in our speech and thinking.20．尽管这部影片做了很多宣传，我个人认为故事情节没有什么新意。

A.In spite of the propaganda work done so far, personally I felt no originality in the plot.B.No matter how much the publicity about this film, I think the story shows nothing but some clichés.C.Though the film is given a lot of limelight, I can’t see anything bordering on new creation.D.Although there was much publicity about the movie, I personally found little novelty in the story line.21．当地警方已经逮捕了那些向店主勒索保护费的歹徒。

A.The local police have got those bad eggs in custody who often forced fee out of shop keepers for so-call “protection.”

B.The policemen in this locality have got held of those hooligans who pressed the shop owners for protection fees.C.The local police arrested those gangsters who extorted protection money from shop owners.D.The local police authorities have already detained those scoundrels that threatened shop owners to hand in the money for their protection.22．有时大人也会上小孩的当。

A.Sometimes even adults will fall for children’s tricks.B.Once in a while, grownups will also be hoodwinked by a kid.C.From time to time, mature adults may be cheated by small children.D.At some occasions, kids may successfully take the grownup in.23．此外，英语得到了极大的丰富和发展，受益于许多其他语言。

A.Still, the English as a language made great progress and got enriched from many languages.B.Besides, English has got great progress and enrichment, benefiting a lot from other languages.C.In addition, the English language has been greatly enriched by many other languages.D.More over, English, enriched by many languages, has ever since made great advances.24．将军给突击队配备的是其最勇猛的战士。

A.The marshal put the bravest fighters in the storm units.B.The soldiers in the general’s commando are the best among the whole fighting force.C.The soldiers showed the greatest intrepidity among the general’s troops.D.The general manned the assault troops with his bravest soldiers.25．从一开始，他就和足球结下了不解之缘。

A.From the very beginning, he and football were tightened together.B.He and football were meant for each other at the very beginning.C.Football and he were tied together so tightly that they will never separate.D.From the start, he and football became inseparable friends.26．野生的花朵散发出甜美迷人的芳香，随风荡漾，蜜蜂哼着悠扬的曲调在欢快地采集着花粉。

A.Wild flowers issued very charming fragrance that travel with the wind, and bees are dancing and singing happily among the flowers.B.Those natural flowers give off attractive and nice odor, which is dancing on the light breeze, while the honeybees are humming merrily around collecting the pollens.C.Wild flowers spread their sweet heady perfume along the gentle breezes and bees hum musically to themselves as they cheerily collect flower pollen.D.Flowers in the wilderness set off enchanting sweet perfumes that floats on the swift air, and the bees accompanied by their own melody are joyfully picking pollen form flowers.27.但在我生活的大部分时间里，我一直不承认我看不见，而是装作看得见。A.Yet for most of my life I denied my blindness and pretended I could see.B.But in the greater part of my life, I kept denying my own blindness and pretend a joyful visibility.C.I refused to admit that I cannot see, and I pretend I can in most part of my life.D.However, I have been pretending to see while in fact I cannot in the majority of my lifetime.28.在我面前我看到的是一片空无缥缈，过去所发生的一切似幻影般在这一片空虚中浮荡。A.In front of me, I saw nothing but an emptiness, what happened in the past kept floating through this wide space as specters.B.Before my eyes, I feel a ghost-like phantom crossing the emptiness, everything that happened in the past seem so unreal.C.I took in all the emptiness just in front of my very eyes, and pondering on the past events that seemed like apparitions scudding through the open space.D.I gazed upon the profound emptiness in front of me and the ghosts of my past that drifted across it.29．只有勇气非凡的人才会相信看不见的事情，并且把所有的赌注都压在没有亮出的牌上。A.Only an unusually courageous person could have believed something not yet seen and put all the wager on that card that is not put down on the table.B.It takes an unusual person to believe what can’t be seen and to stake everything on a card that hasn’t fallen.C.It will be a very exceptionally brave person to believe invisible things and put all the stake on a card that is still off table.D.Any thing that is still not yet clearly seen can only be held fast by those bravest people who would make such brave stakes on a card still in hand.30.那次会议耗费时间，却不会解决问题。

A.That meeting consumed lot of time, but solved no issue.B.The convention bought time;it could not bring settlement.C.That reunion took a lot of time whereas no agreement reached.D.The conference took lots of time with no problems tackled and dealt with.III.Select the best version among the four choices:（每题2分，计40分）

31.He wants a lawyer who understands his case, who sympathizes with him and who has been there himself.A.他所选择的是对他的情况有所理解、有同情心、也遭遇过相同情况的律师。

B.他想找的律师要能够理解他的这场官司，对他有同情心，并有过类似的亲身经历。C.他想找一个了解他的情况，同情他，也去过那里的一位律师。

D.他想要的律师，能了解他的处境，同情他的心境，还到过案发现场。

32.These songs are part of our past.They’re about a good period when honor and respect were valued.A． 这些歌曲所表现的我们历史上的一个良好时代，当时的人们珍惜荣誉、崇尚尊严的价值观受到了重视。

B.那些歌谣反映着我们过去，在那个美好的时代，人们十分崇尚荣誉和尊严的价值观。C.这些音乐体现了我们在历史上曾经有过一段很好的时光，体现了人们讲究荣誉、重视尊严的世界观。

D.这些歌曲是我们历史的一部分，反映出了人们重视荣誉、重视尊严的那段美好的时光。

33． The workers threatened an all out strike but a word in season saved the day.A.劳工们的威胁是要举行大规模的罢工，但适当的解释解决了当天的问题。B.工人们威胁说要举行全面的罢工，但一句中听的好话就化解了危机。C．劳工进行全面罢工的威胁，因话不投机而提前了一天。

D．工人们要举行大罢工的威胁，因为有人从中斡旋而避免了当天的大规模冲突。

34．While the computer has had a profound effect on society in so many ways, there are other new technologies that are changing or could change, our lives no less dramatically.A．电脑对于社会的深刻影响有很多方面，还有其他一些新技术也正在改变或可以改变我们的生活，其规模也不容忽视。

B.计算机在很多方面对我们的社会有很大影响，而其他的一些新技术也会并已经在极大地改变着我们的生活。

C.电脑对我们的社会生活有很大的影响，其他新技术也是如此，不能小视。

D.在计算机对我们社会产生巨大影响的同时，其他新技术也在以惊人的方式正在改变或将要改变我们的生活。

35． First love may register in the blood with dizzying effect, but the love that endures takes up residence in the soul.A.第一次恋爱会在我们的血液中留下隐隐约约的痕迹，可是深沉的爱才可能永驻心田。B.首次坠入爱河时会有如痴如醉的感受，而永恒的爱却会在心灵深处扎根。C.初恋会在血液中留下令人陶醉地感觉，但是持久的爱情会注入灵魂深处。D.初恋时血液中流淌着令人神往的激情，而永久的爱会在灵魂深处安居。

36.Even in a land where miracles have street cred, St Rocco is special.He’s the patron saint of the sick and or prison inmates.A.即便是在一个在大街上都常有奇迹发生的地方，圣·拉科也是少见的。被奉为圣者，为病患和蹲监狱的人提供方便。

B.即使在这样一个充满神奇的国度里 圣徒罗轲也很特别。他可是个圣人，专门支助病者和入监服刑人员。

C.在大街上都充满奇怪事件的地方，森拉寇也不一般。他被奉为神灵，对老弱病残者和蹲大牢者都提供帮助。

D.就算是在这样一个大街上都充斥着奇迹的国家，圣人洛科也很标新立异。对犯人和病家，都慷慨解囊。

37.We agree to disagree without being disagreeable.A．我们同意各自保留不同意见，而不造成双方的不快。

B.我们达成的共识是：大家可以保留各自的看法，但不要伤害对方。C.我们双方同意，在不讨人嫌的基础上，可以表达各自不同的见解。D.意见一致也罢，不一致也罢，不要弄得双方难堪。

38.This is a fairy tale about a dragon rock, which lies still in a mountainous village for many years until a particular hot and dry summer.It wakes and saves the village by making a lake.A.这个童话故事讲述了一石龙劈山造湖的故事。曾经静卧多年之巨石，在某酷暑期间拯救了这个山村。

B.这个童话故事讲的是一块龙岩，它静静地卧在一个山村多年，直到有一年夏天又热又旱，它劈地造湖，拯救了这个山村。

C.这是一个讲述一块有关象龙一样的岩石的故事。这块石头一动不动地躺在一个小村庄里，度过了许多年。有一年天气特别热，干旱严重。这石头开山劈地挽救了这个村子。

D.童话故事，村有巨石，酷似飞龙，年复一年，静卧不动，某年夏季，天气酷热，旱情严重。该石变龙，造湖救村。

39.Her whole face seemed to light up, not only from the touch of blush, but from the sense of freedom she had pried out of her mother.A.她整张脸似乎都光彩靓丽，不仅仅是由于涂脂抹粉，更主要的是她从母亲那里获得了自由的感受。

B.她仪态万千，光彩夺目，这是因为外有妆饰，内有从妈妈那里获得自由的轻松感觉。C.她从母亲那里获得了自由的感觉，再加上漂亮的化妆，她显得容光焕发，光彩照人。D.她整个面部显得容光焕发，这不只是的化了妆缘故，还有她从母亲那儿争取来的自由感。

40.He eyed me silently for a long pause, as though weighing whether I could be trusted to keep his confidence, then spoke man-to-man.A.他盯着我瞧了半天，没吭气，仿佛在思量我能否为其保守机密，然后才敢对我敞开心扉。B.他看了我好半天没作声，好像在想我能不能为他保守秘密，然后才和我进行象男子汉之间的交谈。

C.他注视了我好一会儿，沉默不语，似乎在考虑我是否值得他信任，再与我开诚布公地进行交谈。D.他默默打量着我，用了好一会功夫，象是在掂量着我是否可靠，不会泄密，下一步再进行男人之间的对话。

41.What used to be a dirty, brown dust bowl, now gleamed and glistened in the sunlight, sending playful waves and ripples across the lake and inviting all to share.A.过去这里是一块肮脏的干泥洼地，现在在阳光的照耀下水光熠熠，碧波涟涟，湖光一片，路人都会停下来看一看。

B.这里过去是一片充满灰尘，脏兮兮的小池塘，然今非昔比也，阳光抚摸着碧波荡漾的湖面，一片金光，令路人驻足分享。

C.往昔乃尘土飞扬，污水横流之地，如今阳光普照，一顷碧波，金光万丈，浪花追逐，穿越整个湖面，此情此景，行者无不观赏赞叹，流连忘返。

D.往日此地，浮尘飞扬，污秽不堪，如今骄阳明媚，粼粼碧波，湖面美色，行者无不驻足观赏。

42.The university would rather that students play Wall Street than have frat parties when the market closes down.A.大学宁可让一些学生在墙壁大道上玩，也不允许他们在市场关闭时搞兄弟派对。B.大学的主管领导们宁可让大学生们在华尔街上做买卖，也不想让学生在无市时无事生非。C.学校宁愿学生在华尔街炒股，也不愿他们在股市关门时开联谊会。D.学校当局宁可让学生在华尔街上打闹玩耍，也不愿意让他们在市场不景气时搞社交联谊。

43.And the more we practice the art of letting go of all negativity, the better able we become to devote our thoughts, our time, and our energy to living joyfully in the present, whatever age we happen to be.A.无论我们处于什么年龄阶段，都应该明白，不去纠缠那些负面的东西本身就是一种艺术，我们越是学会放弃那些消极的东西，就能越能够将自己的思想、时间和精力投入到快乐的现实生活中去。

B.对于一些负面的东西，你不能耿耿於怀。因此，你愈能身体力行这种生活中的艺术，就愈能将自己的时间，精力和思考投入现在的生活之中，而感到快乐，不管你究竟处于何种年龄。

C.我们越是追求放弃不利的东西这种心态，就越是能够集中我们的思路，将我们的时间精力，愉快的融入现在的生活，各个年龄层次者，都应如此。D.不管年龄的大小，只要我们用心去体会，逐渐学会不去对那些无法挽回的事情不能释怀，就一定可以更好地理顺思绪，调整好时间和精力，幸福生活每一刻。

44.In conformity with other books in this series, and with my own predispositions as a reader of poetry, rather than describe “movements” and “trends,” I have taken fifty inpidual modern poets.A.与该系列从书中其他书一样, 在这本书中我以一个诗歌读者的身份，根据自己的爱好，选择了五十位有各自特点的现代诗人，而没有去描述什么“运动”和“趋势”。B.这一套书籍和其它的没有太大的区别，我的观点是从诗歌欣赏的角度选择了50位个别的现代诗人，而并没有去描述某种运动或趋势。

C.为了和其它的书保持一致，我从一个读者自身的爱好出发，选出了五十位作为个体的诗人，而没有去阐述什么“运动”和“倾向”。D.在与该系列丛书中其他书保持一致的基础上，我从一个诗歌爱好者的角度出发选定了50位个体的现代诗人的作品，而未去归纳出一定的“运动”或“趋向”。

45.Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.A.很多人会在这样暗淡不清的光线下就看上一位姑娘，而他在这样的条件下连一套西服也不会去选。

B.不少男士在朦胧暗淡的灯光下就会爱上了一位姑娘，可他们倒不会在这种条件下去选套西服。

C.好多男人中总有一个会在这样暗的光线下喜欢上了一个女孩，而通常他不同，他不会在这样的灯光下去选购一套西服。

D.许多男士会不假思索就爱上一位女士，而在购买一套西服时却会瞻前顾后。

46.One of the great charms of $2 as a companion was that he could never be bored and so could never be boring.A.劳伦斯非常讨人喜欢的原因是他从来不表现出来对别人的厌烦，也就从来不会被别人感到厌烦。

B.劳伦斯人缘很好，很有魅力，其中有一点十分重要，那就是他从不令人感到厌烦，也不对别人感到厌烦。

C.劳伦斯非常讨人喜欢有很多原因，其中一条就是对别人从不感到厌倦，因而也从不让别人感到厌倦。

D.劳伦斯的可爱之处是，作为一个伙伴，他从来不会感到厌倦他人，也不会让他人感到厌倦。

47.I walked to the ticket counter.When the ticket-seller saw me, her otherwise attractive face turned sour, violently so.A.我向柜台走过去时，那位长相漂亮的票务员见到我后脸色突变，表现得很不友好。B.我向柜台走了过去，看见那位售票员，她一见到我，本来还挺有吸引力的脸盘，就变的很难看，做得极为过分。

C.我向售票柜台走去。那位售票员见到我后，她那张本来还挺漂亮的脸蛋，立刻就沉了下来，变得极为难看。

D.我朝着售票柜台迈步走去，可是那个满脸微笑的售票员见到我后却现出不屑一顾的神情，做得极为明显。

48.He minces no words pointing out the seriousness of the situation.A.他从容不迫地指出了局势的严重性。B.他好不客气地指出了局势的严重性。C．他毫不在意地指出了局势的严重性。D．他开门见山地指出了局势的严重性。

49.As in all inter-personal relationships, success depends on clarity of purpose, openness to others, and a willingness to experiment.A.要取得成功和其他的人际关系的处理是一致的，目的要明确，对人要诚恳，工作要主动。B.成功取决于目的的明确性、对人的真诚，以及去进行尝试的意愿。这一点与所有其他的人与人之间的关系是一个道理。

C.和其他的人与人之间的相处是同一个道理，要成功就要做到有明确的目标，要对人有诚意，愿意不断积累经验。

D.与所有的人们相互之间的关系一样，要想成功，就要目的明确、坦诚待人，而且愿意尝试。

50.White flowers, were dotted in between the layers of the leaves，some blooming gracefully;others, as if bashfully, still in bud.They were like bright pearls and stars in an azure sky.A.层层的叶子中间，零星地点缀着些白花，有的袅娜地开着，有的羞涩地含苞待放；宛如一粒粒的明珠，又如碧天中的星星。

B.雪白的鲜花，点缀在层层密密的绿叶中，有些在怒放，有些在含羞打着朵儿，就像颗颗海上耀眼的明珠，或者碧空中的璀璨群星。

C.白花初显绿叶丛，含苞待放亦从容。婀娜多姿斗妍丽，亮如明珠嵌碧空。

D.白色的花朵在密实的叶子丛中显露出来，有些开得正旺，有些还在蓓蕾之中，稍显羞涩，朵朵鲜花犹如海上明珠，又似碧空耀眼的恒星