专业八级备考讲义--英译汉.doc

专业八级备考讲义－－英译汉 一、历年题材、体裁的分布 年度 体裁 题材范围 涉及内容 字数（含标点） 1993 记叙 航行记事 风中航行 153 1994 时评 新闻报导 报导美国球星 165 1995 论说 生活随笔 城乡对比 149 1996 评论 政选 里根竞选连任 134 1997 散文 文艺 音乐艺术 159 1998 论说 文学 英美文学异同 193 1999 论说 生活 论家庭及繁衍后代 167 2000 散文 人生哲理 寿命长短及其意义 150 2001 散文 文学 创作之意义 170 2002 散文 人生哲理 成败区别 154 2003 论说 文学 解析文学 156 2004 散文 人生哲理 工作与思考之意义 156 2005 散文 论读书 论读书态度 148 2006 演讲 政治 勇对暴政 156 2007 论说 科技的作用 科技是把双刃剑 147 2008 议论 论婚姻 结婚前后对比 157 2009 演讲 环境保护 地球在发烧（气候变暖） 170 2010 散文 文化与生活 复活节日所见景色描写 165 二、难句例析 In addition, one class of family reasons shares a border with the following category, namely, having children in order to maintain or improve a marriage: to hold the husband or occupy the wife; to repair or rejuvenate the marriage; to increase the number of children on the assumption that family happiness lies that way. (1999) The point is underlined by its converse: in some societies the failure to bear children (or males) is a threat to the marriage and a ready cause for divorce.(1999) History denies this, of course. Among prominent summer deaths, one recalls those of Marilyn Monroe and James Deans, whose lives seemed equally brief and complete. Writes cannot bear the fact the poet John Keats died at 26, and only half playfully judge their own lives as failures when they pass that year. The idea that the life cut short is unfulfilled is illogical because lives are measured by the impressions they leave on the world and by their intensity and virtue. (2000) Effort is the gist of it. There is no happiness except as we take on life-engaging difficulties. Short of the impossible, as Yeats put it, the satisfaction we get from a lifetime depends on how high we choose our difficulties. (2001) Robert Frost was thinking in something like the same terms when he spoke of “the pleasure of taking pains”. The mortal flaw in the advertised version of happiness is in the fact that it purports to be effortless. (2001) They are aware that there is a difference between being loving and acting l