95年到11年专八翻译真题(汉译英).doc

1995英语专业八级考试翻译部分参考译文 C-E原文： 简·奥斯丁的小说都是三五户人家居家度日，婚恋嫁娶的小事。因此不少中国读者不理解她何以在西方享有那么高的声誉。但一部小说开掘得深不深，艺术和思想是否有过人之处，的确不在题材大小。有人把奥斯丁的作品比作越咀嚼越有味道的橄榄。这不仅因为她的语言精彩，并曾对小说艺术的发展有创造性的贡献，也因为她的轻快活泼的叙述实际上并不那么浅白，那么透明。史密斯夫人说过，女作家常常试图修正现存的价值秩序，改变人们对“重要”和“不重要”的看法。也许奥斯丁的小说能教我们学会转换眼光和角度，明察到“小事”的叙述所涉及的那些不小的问题。 参考译文： However, subject matter is indeed not the decisive factor by which we judge a novel of its depth as well as its artistic appeal and ideological content. Some people compare Austn’s works to olives: the more you chew them, the more tasty they become. This comparison is based not only on her expressive language and her creative contribution to the development of novel writing as an art, but also on the fact that what hides behind her light and lively narrative is something implicit and opaque. Mrs. Smith once observed, women writers often sought to rectify the existing value concepts by changing people’s opinions on what is “important” and what is not.? 1996英语专业八级考试翻译部分参考译文 C-E原文： 近读报纸，对国内名片和请柬的议论颇多， 于是想起客居巴黎时经常见到的法国人手中的名片和请柬，随笔记下来，似乎不无借鉴之处。 在巴黎，名目繁多的酒会，冷餐会是广交朋友的好机会。在这种场合陌生人相识，如果是亚洲人，他们往往开口之前先毕恭毕敬地用双手把自己的名片呈递给对方，这 好像是不可缺少的礼节。然而，法国人一般却都不大主动递送名片，双方见面寒暄几句，甚至海阔天空地聊一番也就各自走开，只有当双方谈话投机，希望继续交往 时，才会主动掏出名片。二话不说先递名片反倒显得有些勉强。参考译文： In Paris, cocktail parties and buffet receptions of various kinds offer good opportunities for making friends. On such occasions two strangers may meet. If they are from Asia, they tend to present with respect their own name cards to each other before they speak, which seems to be indispensable social protocol. However, the French don’t do it that way. Instead of offering their visiting cards, they may stop to exchange greetings or even chat casually about any topic before they part and go away. They exchange? their name cards only when they find the chatting very agreeable and would like to have further contact. It would be embarrassing /unnatural for them to give their name cards before they talk to each other. 1997英语专业八级考试翻译部分参考译文 C-E原文： 来美国求学的中国学生与其他亚裔学生一样，大多非常刻苦勤