研究生英语读写译17课练习参考答案和参考译文.docx

1、研究生英语读写译17课练习参考答案和参考译文研究生英语读写译教程练习参考答案及参考译文注意：研究生英语读写译教程第二次印刷做了以下更改：1PP95倒数第四行的 edifion 改成 edition；并将练习全部移至第96页2PP87 省略法 第一句话去掉，改为： 省略是指在翻译时按意义、修辞和句法等方面的需要省略或减少部分词语使译文更加精炼、更符合汉语的表达习惯。 去掉（一）中的第二个例句，用下句替换：John had many wonderful ideas, buthe only put a few into practice. 约翰有很多好想法，但是只有少数付诸实践。3PP97 将LEA

2、D-IN QUESTION部分4A换成下句：Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. (George Santayana)参考译文：科学只不过是发展了的知觉（ 科學只不過是深化了的洞悉），经过诠释的含义，经过整理、表达详细的常识。4PP106 Comprehension第一题中的humanity改为“the humanities“第一部分：各课练习答案UNIT ONE STAY HUNGRY. STAY F

3、OOLISH.COMPREHENSION1 He dropped out of Reed College because he did not see the value of it. (The answer to the second part of the question is open.)2 Life was tough he slept on the floor in friends rooms, he returned coke bottles and he walked 7 miles to get one good free meal3 He cited the example

4、 to demonstrate that what he had learned in his calligraphy class worked when designing the first Macintosh computer. 4 Jobs first story tells that the dots will somehow connect in your future. (What you have learned/experienced might help in your future career.)5 He was publicly out. (The company t

5、hat he and Woz established dismissed him.) The fact that he still loved what he did made him start over again. 6 He has learned a good lesson from his failure.7 Do the things we love to do.8 Open.9 Open.10 Open. (We should always want more, never be content and when we want to do something that othe

6、rs say is foolish, do it anyway.)VOCABULARY AND STRUCTUREA1 naively 2 curiosity 3 combination 4 let down 5 vision 6 baton 7 creative 8 mirror 9 trap 10 inventionB1 drowned out 2 tuition 3 Commencement 4 deposit 5 typography 6 make way for 7 animation 8 intuition 9 destination 10 divergeC 1 follow: o

7、rders, rules, advice, fads, an ideal, ones instinct2 trust in: honesty, the Lord, power, intuition, sixth sense3 wear out, fade out, put out, make out, get out, break out4 play writer/playwright, speedwriter, blog writer, letter writer, editorial writer5 habitual, textual, accentual, sexual, spiritu

8、al, conceptual6 shocking, stunning, eye-catching, astonishing, striking, dazzlingD 1 an 2 great 3 the 4 to 5 6 that 7 8 been 9 been 10 inTRANSLATIONA1热烈的鼓掌 2波涛汹涌的海面 3熟睡 4烟瘾大的人 5油腻而难消化的食物 6烈酒 7悲痛的消息 8沉闷冗长的读物 9化重水10他在一家法国银行拥有外国人账户。11那老实的男孩毫无隐讳地说明了他的行为。12他突然感到一阵莫明其妙的不安情绪。13脚踩两条凳,早晚要坠地（即：脚踏两条船）。14骄者必败。1

9、5 我们遇到一对从巴黎来的夫妇，他们很有趣。B 见译文部分。P.19 EX. A1. I was asked to do the assignment. So I think there are three reasons for the failure in the experiment.2. Although I worked hard to acquire more knowledge, I couldnt improve my English.3. Though.4. therefore-However5. If we compare the number of people who

10、worked in this department between 2001 and 2003, it only increased from five people to twenty but the orders were twice more.6. We have three ways of recruitment. The first is the recruitment agency, which we used two years ago. The expenditure was very high and the people provided were not very sui

11、table. The second is online recruitment. We have never used this method before, so we cannot say this is good or not. However, online recruitment is risky because of the unbelievable resources of the applicants.7. are-is8. including-include9. has a negative impact, have a positive and powerful effec

12、t10. There never seems to be anything worth watching on television. Young people tend to listen to the radio more than older age groups while older people find it more enjoyable to chat with people of their age.UNIT TWO TWO TRUTHS TO LIVE BYCOMPREHENSION1. According to Rabbi Alexander Schindler, we

13、should hold fast to many gifts such as beauty, love.2. The author exploits the parable of open and closed hand in the very beginning of the text to control the idea of the whole text. “Life is a paradox”, because it encourages us to grasp its many gifts although it predetermines their final disappea

14、rance.3. The author tells the audience his experience in hospital to prove the fact that people are indifferent to the grandeur of each day, and nobody sees the beauty of sunlight or responds to it.4. According to the author, people are reluctant to accept losses and failures because they think that

15、 the world is theirs to command especially when they are young.5. Since all of us will perish in the end, we must seek a wider perspective, viewing our lives as through windows that open on eternity, whereby to reconcile on lifes paradoxical demands. Though our lives are finite, our deeds on earth w

16、eave a timeless pattern. 6. Life is a process. During the process, we should hold fast to life, but not so fast that we cannot let go; we must accept our losses, and learn how to let go.7. According to the author, we should pursue the ideal, for ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of endur

17、ing worth.8. Alexander Schindler encourages the students to exalt above their personal considerations and to perfect the present world. 9. There is strong religious color in the text. Alexander Schindler asks us to hold fast to Gods gifts, to be reverent before each dawning day, to view our lives as

18、 through windows that open on eternity, and to add religion to the humblest of edifices.10. The author delivers this speech to the university students in order to teach them how to cope with lifes paradoxical problems in a wise way, and what to pursue. VOCABULARY AND STRUCTUREA1. renounce 2. tender

19、3. petty 4. relish 5. gleaned6. abounds in 7. parable 8. evanescent 9. redeem 10. sanctuaryB1. indifference to 2. Preoccupied 3. redeem 4. clinging to 5. relentless6. paradox 7. ordained 8. wanes 9. exalted 10. dawn/have dawned onC1. the meaning the opportunity the door happiness the purpose2. the q

20、uestion the jokes the advertisement the film the lecture3. run drive speak sail stick4. arrival survival refusal approval renewal5. restless priceless endless homeless aimless6. widen quicken deepen lengthen shortenD1. on 2. CORRECT 3. for 4. of 5. CORRECT 6. supply 7. CORRECT 8. there 9. have 10. d

21、ownTRANSLATIONA1成功与否取决于她的努力。2她把窗子打开，让新鲜空气进来。3他不抽烟，但他父亲烟抽得很凶4人们之所以关注历史研究的方法，主要是因为史学家们内部分歧过大，其次才是因为外界并不认识历史是一门学科。5由于人口的猛增或大量人口流动（现代交通工具使大量人口流动变得相对容易）所造成的种种问题也会增加社会压力。6只要拨对了号码，你就可以在家里电视机上选看到有远方城市一座图书馆发出的预先录制的一出戏、一堂打高尔夫球的讲课，或者一次物理学演讲。7只要一发现有可能反对他的人，他就本能地要用他的魅力和风趣将这人争取过来。8她苍白的脸色清楚地表明了她那时的心情。9独立思考对学习是绝对必需

22、的。10新主席有礼貌地前来拜访受害者，获得了他们的一些好感。B 见译文部分。TEXT BREADING COMPREHENSION1. The Chinese view of life and things presented in the passage is expressed by the best and wisest Chinese minds in their folk wisdom and their literature.2. Chinese poets and scholars present a view of life through their common sense

23、, their realism and their sense of poetry.3. The nature of Chinese philosophy is an idle philosophy born of an idle life.4. The Chinese philosophers waking life is characterized by a dream-world quality, and he sees the happenings and his own efforts as futile.(or useless)5. The highest ideal of Chi

24、nese culture is represented by a sense of detachment toward life and high-mindedness.6. The sense of detachment toward life results in the sense of freedom, love of vagabondage, pride and nonchalance.7. “Wake up and live” implies that a wise proportion of Americans dream the hours away.8. The nation

25、al mind of Chinese is so racially different and historically isolated that new answers to the problems of life, new methods of approaches and new posing of problems are expected.9. For most people, the Chinese mind is intensely practical, hard-headed; for the lovers of Chinese art, it is profoundly

26、sensitive; and for a smaller proportion of people, it is poetic and philosophical.10. The Chinese as a nation has survived for four thousand years because the Chinese have a light, an almost gay philosophy rather than an efficient life.UNIT THREE THE FUTURE OF BOOKSCOMPREHENSION1. Umberto Eco classi

27、fies memory into three types: organic memory represented by human brain; mineral memory represented by clay tablets, obelisks and electronic memory of todays computer; and vegetal memory represented by the first papyruses and books made of paper. 2. According to Umberto Eco, the libraries function a

28、s the places for conservation of books and have been the most important way of keeping our collective wisdom.3. “Universal brain” means a place where we can retrieve what we have forgotten and what we still do not know.4. According to paragraph 2, humans invent libraries because they know that they

29、do not have divine powers, but they try to do their best to imitate them.5. In the computer and Internet era, libraries should not be abolished because they should survive as museums conserving the past.6. Compared with reading on a computer screen, reading printed books is the better way for us to

30、read carefully, to speculate and to reflect about what we are reading.7. Compared with computers, books have brought a lot of conveniences to humans computers cant: books still represent the most economical, flexible way to transport information at a very low cost; books travel with you and at your

31、speed; it is a valuable instrument and the best companions for a shipwreck.8. Two industrially exploited inventions are as follows: one is printing on demand, namely, every book will be tailored according to the desires of the buyer; the other is the e-book which is useful for consulting information

32、.9. “The idea that a new technology abolishes a previous one is frequently too simplistic.” What the author means is that there are a lot of new technological devices that have not made previous ones obsolete, that in the history of culture it has never been the case that something has simply killed something else. Rather, a new invention has always profoundly changed an older one.10. In