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英语专业八级英译汉模拟题

英译汉模拟题 1

The British approach to research is embodied in the daily ritual of afternoon tea. At British universities, it is customary to cease work and spend a half-hour or so sipping tea and eating cookies with the members of one's department. Conversation ranges from science to politics to personal chitchat. I found that the professional benefits of teatime more than compensated for the time spent away from the bench. Not only was I the recipient of many insightful suggestions and ideas, but simply by explaining my latest results to someone outside my field and answering his or her questions, I was forced to think about my work in a broader context. Relationships were built that were later drawn upon6 for advice, collaboration, and friendship.

（摘自British Science: A Toast to Teatime by John T. Finn）

英译汉模拟题 2

To most of us, clouds are things of drama, romance and whimsy. To Caltech chemical engineer John Seinfeid, they're a cog in Earth's vast weather factory. At the beginning of the assembly line, salt particles escape from ocean waves and waft up to cooler altitudes, where moisture from the air condenses on them. Droplets form, and many droplets make a cloud. But human industry throws a monkey wrench into this process. The air's moisture also gloms onto "organic particles" (soot) from smokestacks, cars and kitchens. And since there's only so much water to go around, clouds form out of a finer mist, Seinfeld says. Such clouds reflect more of the sun's radiation back into space, making the Earth cooler. Pollution, it seems, has an upside: it compensates for warming due to greenhouse gases. Don't pop that cork just yet. Clouds may not produce as much rain. And nobody knows how big the cooling effect will be.

（摘自Mysteries of the Beach by Fred Guterl）

英译汉模拟题 3

And at the same time the forces of American commercialism are hugely dedicated to making us deliberately unhappy. Advertising is one of our major industries, and advertising exists not to satisfy desires but to create them-and to create them faster than any man's budget can satisfy them. For that matter, our whole economy is based

on a dedicated insatiability. We are taught that to possess is to be happy, and then we are made to want. We are even told it is our duty to want. It was only a few years ago, to cite a single example, that car dealers across the country were flying banners that read "You Auto Buy Now". They were calling upon Americans, as an act approaching patriotism, to buy at once, with money they did not have, automobiles they did not really need, and which they would be required to grow tired of by the time the next year's models were released.

（摘自What is Happiness by John Ciardi）\

英译汉模拟题 4

We have scrutinized the American dream of achieved wealth and well-being by comparing rich and unrich countries, and rich and unrich people. That leaves the final question: Over time, does happiness rise with affluence?

Typically not. Lottery winners appear to gain but a temporary jolt of joy from their winnings. Looking back, they feel delighted to have won. Yet the euphoria doesn't last. In fact, previously enjoyed activities such as reading may become less pleasurable. On a smaller scale, a jump in our income can boost our morale, for a while. "But in the long run" notes Inglehart, "neither an ice cream cone nor a new car nor becoming rich and famous produces the same feelings of delight that it initially did... Happiness is not the result of being rich, but a temporary consequence of having recently become richer." Ed Diener's research confirms that those whose incomes have increased over a 10-year period are not happier than those whose income has not increased. Wealth, it therefore seems, is like health: Although its utter absence can

breed misery, having it does not guarantee happiness. Happiness is less a matter of getting what we want than of wanting what we have.

英译汉模拟题 5

The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective assessment by some examiner. Examiners are only human. They get tired and hungry; they make mistakes. Yet they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time. They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word carries weight. After a judge's decision you have the right of appeal, but not after an examiner's. There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a person's true abilities. This is what it boils down to in the last analysis. The best comment on the system is this illiterate message recently scrawled on a wall: "I were a teenage drop-out and now I are a teenage millionaire."

英译汉模拟题 6

In some cultures friendship means a strong life-long bond between two people. In these cultures friendships develop slowly, since they are built to last. American society is one of rapid change. Studies show that one out of five American families moves every year. American friendships develop quickly, and they may change just as quickly.

People from the United States may at first seem friendly. Americans often chat easily with strangers. They exchange information about their families, hobbies and work. They may smile warmly and say "Have a nice day" or "See you later." Schoolmates may say, "Let's get together sometime." But American friendliness is not always an offer of true friendship. Americans use the word "friend" in a very general way. They may call both casual acquaintances and close companies "friends". Americans have school friends, work friends, sports friends and neighborhood friends. These friendships are based on common interest. When the shared activity ends, the friendship may fade.

英译汉模拟题7

Culture shock might be called an occupational disease of people who have been suddenly transplanted abroad. Like most ailments, it has its own symptoms and cure. Individuals differ in the degree in which culture shock affects them. Although not common, there are individuals who cannot live in foreign countries. However, those who have seen people go through culture shock and on to a satisfactory adjustment can discern steps in the process. During the first few weeks most individuals are fascinated by the new. They stay in hotels and associate with nationals who speak their language and are polite and gracious to foreigners. This honeymoon stage may last from a few days or weeks to six months, depending on circumstances. If one is very important, he or she will be shown the show places, will be pampered and petted, and in a press interview will speak glowingly about goodwill and international friendship.

英译汉模拟题8

The art of pleasing is a very necessary one to possess; but a very difficult one to acquire. It can hardly be reduced to rules; and your own good sense and observation will teach you more of it than I can. Do as you would be done by, is the surest method

that I know of pleasing. Observe carefully what pleases you in others, and probably the same things in you will please others. If you are pleased with the complaisance and attention of others to your humors, your tastes, or your weaknesses, depend upon it, the same complaisance and attention, on your part, to theirs, will equally please them. Take the tone of the company, that you are in, and do not pretend to give it;

be serious, gay, or even trifling, as you find the present humor of the company; this is an attention due from every individual to the majority. Do not tell stories in company, there is nothing more tedious and disagreeable; if by chance you know a very short story, and exceedingly applicable to the present subject of conversation, tell it in as few words as possible.

英译汉模拟题9

A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.

A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today as it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.

英译汉模拟题10

I should say teachers' vital role is teaching in such a way as to provide students with a key to the treasure house of knowledge, not to turn their brains into mere receptacles. Teachers' work is primarily to prompt students to think for themselves, help them to practice, to experiment in order to get hold of knowledge. More importantly, teachers should encourage their students to come up with contradictory opinions at academic discussions, to thrash out problems for themselves, and to draw conclusions of their own. It is not by any manner of means a teacher's monopoly.

I favor those students who like raising questions; I've no affection for mum one' s. In point of truth, learning is a process of making and correcting errors. Young people ought to learn ceaselessly, we elders ought to do the same. In a word, education

orientates a person from ignorance to intelligence, from stupidity to wisdom, from barbarity to civility. Never the other way round.

英译汉模拟题11

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy-ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness-that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what-at last-I have found.

（摘自Three Passions I Have Lived For by B. Russell）

英译汉模拟题12

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep spring of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exits in a man of 60, more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows merely by the number of years; we grow old by deserting our ideas. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from infinite, so long as you are young.

（摘自Youth by Samuel Ullman）

英译汉模拟题13

The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature. It is a moral quality. The absence of it is not an assured ground of condemnation, but the presence of it is an invariable sign of goodness of heart. In proportion to the degree in which it is felt will probably be the degree in which nobleness and beauty of character will be attained.

Natural beauty is an all-pervading presence. The universe is its temple. It unfolds into the numberless flowers of spring. It waves in the branches of trees and the green blades of grass. It haunts the depths of the earth and the sea. It gleams from the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects but the oceans, the mountains, the clouds, the stars, the rising and the setting sun--- all overflow with beauty. This beauty is so precious, and so congenial to our tenderest and noblest feelings, that it is painful to think of the multitude of people living in the midst of it and yet remaining almost blind to it.

（摘自The Love of Beauty by John Ruskin）

英译汉模拟题14

The men of history were not perpetually looking into the mirror to make sure of their own size. Absorbed in their work they did it. They did it so well that the wondering world saw them to be great, and labeled them accordingly. To live with a high ideal is a successful life. It is not what one does, but what one tries to do, that makes a man strong.

"Eternal vigilance," it has been said, "is the price of liberty." With equal truth it may be said, "Unceasing effort is the price of success." If we do not work with our might, others will; and they will outstrip us in the race, and pluck the prize from our grasp. Success grows less and less dependent on luck and chance. Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures.

The great and indispensable help to success is character. Character is crystallized habit, the result of training and conviction. Every character is influenced by heredity environment and education. But these apart, if every man were not to a great extent the architect of his own character, he would be a fatalist, an irresponsible creature of circumstances.

(摘自On Achieving Success by Hemingway)

英译汉模拟题15

It's an odd paradox: thanks to cell phones, PDAs and the Internet, we've never before been in touch and within reach of so many people. And yet, we've never been so lonely, either.

Which is to say, our loneliness is largely something we've inflicted on ourselves through countless lifestyle choices, many of them good, some even critical. But in the end, is it all worth it?

What is lost when we have e-mail pals on the other side of the world, but don't know our own neighbors? Are bigger salaries, bigger cars, bigger homes worth the price of smaller social circles and diminished relationships?

Our loneliness has costs: crime goes up when neighbors don't look out for each other. The burden on public services increases when we're not helping each other out. And the din of an iPod is no substitute for genuine connection with another human being. There's no easy way out of our collective loneliness, and no solutions that come without trade-offs. But some of those trade-offs are worth reconsidering, lest we consume our lives with the things that matter least, at the expense of those that matter most.

（摘自Only the Lonely）

英译汉模拟题16

The lesson of the story, I suggested, was that in some strange sense we are more whole when we are missing something. The man who has everything is in some ways a poor man. He will never know what it feels like to yearn, to hope, to nourish his soul with the dream of something better. He will never know the experience of having someone who loves him give him something he has always wanted or never had. There is a wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations, who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and not feel like a failure for doing so. There is a wholeness about the man or woman who has learned that he or she is strong enough to go through a tragedy and survive, she can lose someone and still feel like a complete person.

（摘自The Wholeness of Life）

英译汉模拟题17

No young man starting life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided,

he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more-to be happy and successful-than much money or great learning.

Friendship is no one-sided affair. There can be no friendship without reciprocity. One cannot receive all and give nothing, or give all and receive nothing, and expect to experience the joy and fullness of true companionship.

Those who would make friends must cultivate the qualities which are admired and which attract. If you are mean, stingy and selfish, nobody will admire you. You must cultivate generosity and large-heartedness; you must be magnanimous and tolerant; you must have positive qualities, for a negative, shrinking, apologizing, round-about man is despised. You must believe in yourself. If you do not, others will not believe in you. You must look upward and be hopeful, cheery, and optimistic. No one will be attracted to a gloomy pessimist.

（摘自Friendship by Orison Swett Marden）

英译汉模拟题18

There is not much to choose between men. They are all a hotchpotch of greatness and littleness, of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness. Some have more strength of character, or more opportunity, and so in one direction or another give their instincts freer play, but potentially they are the same. For my part, I do not think I am any better or any worse than most people, but I know that if I set down every action in my life and every thought that has crossed my mind, the world would consider me a monster of depravity. The knowledge that these reveries are common to all men should inspire one with tolerance to oneself as well as to others. It is well also if they enable us to look upon our fellows, even the most eminent and respectable, with humor, and if they lead us to take ourselves not too seriously.

（摘自On Motes and Beams by William S. Maugham）

英译汉模拟题19

It is difficult to say what is the real centre of London, but many people would choose Piccadilly Circus. This is because it is not only central but also the heart of London's entertainment world. Within a few hundred yards of it we find most of London's

best-known theatres and cinemas, the most famous restaurants and the most luxurious night-clubs.

In the middle of Piccadilly Circus there is a statue said to be of Eros, the god of love. Few people know that it really represents the Angel of Christian Charity. This statue is

the first that was ever cast in aluminum. On Cup Final night and New Year's Eve it is boarded up to prevent over-enthusiastic revelers from climbing onto it.

The buildings around the Circus are rather nondescript, though some of them are large and quite imposing. Many of them are decorated with bright neon signs advertising goods and entertainments; Piccadilly Circus at night is a colorful sight.

英译汉模拟题20

Millions of people are engaged in horticulture on a full-time, part-time, leisure-time, or amateur basis. It is a field that affects and influences all people. We live daily with horticulture. It provides a large portion of our food supply.

The horticultural industry has the responsibility of providing much of the food for the masses in the most efficient manner while at the same time allowing individuals to grow plants for aesthetic enjoyment through a relationship with the earth, which promotes physical and mental well-being. Horticulture is a part of each individual's daily life. It may be a profession, as it is for horticulture teachers and research workers, or it may be an occupation or vocation as it is for those who work in the production phases. It is strictly a business for the merchandiser, but it may be simply a source of exercise and health for the amateur gardener. People earn a living, relax, and survive through horticulture.

英译汉模拟题21

Coupled with the growing quantity of information is the rapid development of technologies which enable the storage and delivery of more information with greater speed to more locations than has ever been possible before. Computer technology makes it possible to store vast amounts of data in machine-readable files, and to program computers to locate specific information. Telecommunications developments enable the sending of messages via television, radio, and electronic mail to bombard people with multitudes of messages. Satellites have extended the power of communications to report events at the instant of occurrence. Expertise can be shared worldwide through teleconferencing, and problems in dispute can be settled without the participants leaving their homes and/or jobs to travel to a distant conference site. Technology has facilitated the sharing of information and the storage and delivery of information, thus making more information available to more people.

英译汉模拟题22

Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with a gentleness, a vigor, and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the epicurean motto of 'Eat, drink, and be merry, ' but most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.

Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.

英译汉模拟题23

She is not hungry. It will be a few hours before she begins to feel hungry and then there will be the throwaway stuff in the bins The sky is azure, evenly blue, hardly faded at the edges at all She moves a hand back and forth on a slat of the seat she is sitting on, her fingers caressing the smooth timber, the texture different where the paint has worn away.

The gap left where a tooth was drawn a fortnight ago has lost its soreness. She feels it with her tongue, pressing the tip of her tongue into the cavity, recalling the aching there has been. It was the Welshman, Davo, who said that. They went along together because he knew the way. "Not many would bother with your toothache" Davo said. Not many would think toothache would occur in a derelict's mouth. "You can always come back," the woman dentist said. "Don't be in pain."

（摘自Felicia's Journey by William Trevor）

英译汉模拟题24

Punctuation, one is taught, has a point: to keep up law and order. Punctuation marks are the road signs placed along the highway of our communication - to control speeds, provide directions and prevent head-on collisions. A period has the unblinking finality of a red light; the comma is a flashing yellow light that asks us only to slow down; and the semicolon is a stop sign that tells us to ease gradually to a halt, before gradually starting up again. By establishing the relations between words, punctuation establishes the relations between the people using words. That may be one reason why school-teachers exalt it and lovers defy it ("We love each other and belong to each other let's don't ever hurt each other Nicole let's don't ever hurt each other, "

wrote Gary Gilmore to his girlfriend). A comma, he must have known, "separates inseparables", in the clinching words of H. W. Fowler, King of English Usage.

英译汉模拟题25

But the most agonizing song is the song of the coolies who bring the great bales from the junk up the steep steps to the town wall. Up and down they go, endlessly, and endless as their toil rises their rhythmic cry. He, aw -ah, oh. They are barefoot and naked to the waist. The sweat pours down their faces and their song is a groan of pain. It is a sigh of despair. It is heart-rending. It is hardly human. It is the cry of souls in infinite distress, only just musical, and that last note is the ultimate sob of humanity. Life is too hard, too cruel, and this is the final despairing protest. That is the song of the river.

英译汉模拟题26

Autumn is also the authentic season of renewal. Yale Lecturer William Zinsser hit the nail squarely: "The whole notion of New Year's Day as the time of fresh starts and bold resolutions is false." In truth that time is autumn. Popular pleasure shows itself in those hastening steps and brightened smiles encountered as the air grows nippier. Some psychiatrists have patients who grow almost alarmed at how congenial they suddenly feel. Autumn is a friendlier time.

The rejuvenating ambience of autumn is immeasurably more ancient than even the calendar. The Creation itself was achieved in the autumn, according to a tradition of Judaism-whence the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, at summers end or the start of fall. The suspicion that even God is partial to autumn has overwhelmed others, including John Donne, who enthused: "In Heaven, it is always Autumn."

英译汉模拟题27

Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia was delivered to my house in Bethesda, Md. No card or note came with it. Calls to the florist were always in vain - it was a cash purchase. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender's identity and just delighted in the beauty and heady perfume of that one magical, perfect white flower nestled in soft pink tissue paper.

But I never stopped imagining who the anonymous giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming about someone wonderful and exciting but too shy or eccentric to make known his or her identity.

My mother contributed to these imaginings. She'd ask me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness who might be showing appreciation. Perhaps the neighbor I'd help when she was unloading a car full of groceries.

英译汉模拟题28

As close as we were, though, the time came when Jeff needed a door between us, a space of his own to grow in. The door to that bedroom would be shut most of the evening, behind it the muffled sound of a radio or the clack of his secondhand manual typewriter as he banged out one of his marathon letters.

I knew those letters to friends must have been filled with thoughts and opinions Jeff did not share with me. His life was spreading into areas that had nothing to do with home and family. I no longer could -or should -know everything about him.

As conscientious parents, we strive to foster independence. But when it happens, when you pause outside that door and look at the blank panels it is always a little unsettling.

英译汉模拟题29

Often in the soothing, restorative glow we stare transfixed, bouncing our ambitions and hopes and plans off this great reflector. We dream our dreams; we examine the structure of our lives; we make considered decisions. In a hectic, confusing world, it helps to step out into a quiet, clear swath of moonlight, to seek out the fundamentals and eschew the incidentals.

The night after I showed John the moon, he burst breathlessly through the door, calling, "Mom, come out for a minute!" This time, he led me, coatless and shivering. The driveway gravel crunched underneath our sneakers. From somewhere in the woods beyond the pond, the plaintive calls of geese honked and died away.

Past the row of pine trees that line the road, the sky opened up with the full moon on it, suspended so precariously close that it might come hurtling toward us - incandescent, even larger and more breathtaking than the night before, climbing its motionless climb over the molten silver of our pond.

英译汉模拟题30

When first he came to the island he was a big, brawny fellow, with thick black hair and a black beard, of a powerful physique; but gradually his skin became pale and waxy; he grew thin and frail. It was an odd contradiction in the most logical of men that, though a convinced and impetuous materialist, he despised the body; he looked upon it as a vile instrument which he could force to do the spirit's bidding. Neither illness nor lassitude prevented him from going on with his work. For fourteen years he toiled unremittingly. He made thousands and thousands of notes. He sorted and classified them. He had his subject at his finger ends, and at last was ready to begin. He sat down to write. He died.

The body that he, the materialist, had treated so contumeliously took its revenge on him.

That vast accumulation of knowledge is lost for ever.

英译汉模拟题31

What is leadership?

Its qualities are difficult to define. But they are not so difficult to identify.

Leaders don't force other people to go along with them. They bring them along. Leaders get commitment from others by giving it themselves, by building an environment that encourages creativity, and by operating with honesty and fairness. Leaders demand much of others, but also give much of themselves. They are ambitious - not only for themselves, but also for those who work with them. They seek to attract, retain and develop other people to their full abilities.

Good leaders aren't "lone rangers". They recognize that an organization's strategies for success require the combined talents and efforts of many people. Leadership is the catalyst for transforming those talents into results.

Leaders know that when there are two opinions on an issue, one is not bound to be wrong. They recognize that hustle and rush are the allies of superficiality. They are open to new ideas, but they explore their ramifications thoroughly.

英译汉模拟题32

But in other hours, Nature satisfies by its loveliness, and without any mixture of corporeal benefit. I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the

active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.

英译汉模拟题33

Love can tolerate imperfection. In a love relationship there are times of boredom, times when I may feel like giving up, times of real strain, and times I experience an impasse. Authentic love does not imply enduring happiness. I can stay during rough times, however, because I can remember what we had together in the past, and I can picture what we will have together in our future if we care enough to face our problems and work them through. We agree with reverend Maier when he writes that love is a spirit that changes life. Love is creative and that transforms. However, Maier does not view love as being reserved for a perfect world. "Love is meant for our imperfect world where things go wrong. Love is meant to be a spirit that works in painful situations. Love is meant to bring meaning into life where nonsense appears to reign." In other words, love comes into an imperfect world to make it livable.

英译汉模拟题34

Now when a person enters a strange culture, all or most of these familiar cues are removed. He or she is like a fish out of water, no matter how broad-minded or full of goodwill you may be, a series of props have knocked from under you, followed by a feeling of frustration and anxiety. People react to the frustration in much the same way. First they reject the environment which causes the discomfort. "The ways of the host country are bad because they made us feel bad." When foreigner in a strange land get together to grumble about the host country and its people, you can be sure they are suffering from culture shock. Another symptom of culture shock is regression. To the foreigner everything becomes irrationally glorified. All the difficulties and problems are forgotten and only the good things back home are remembered. It usually takes a trip home to bring one back to reality.

英译汉模拟题35

Abroad, we have all notice how abruptly most of the cities seem to begin; here, no city; there, the city. With us the cities pretend they are not really there until we are well inside them. They almost insinuate themselves into the countryside. This comes from another compromise of ours, the suburb. There is a great deal to be said for the suburb. To people of moderate means, compelled to live fairly near their work in a city, the suburb offers the most civilized way of life. Nearly all Englishmen are at heart country gentlemen. The suburban villa enables the salesman or the clerk, out of hours, to be a country gentleman. A man in a newish suburb feels that he has one foot in the city and one in the country. As this is the kind of compromise he likes, he is happy.

第四章英语专业八级汉译英模拟题

汉译英模拟题 1

环滁皆山也。其西南诸峰，林壑尤美。望之蔚然而深秀者，琅琊也。山行六七里，渐闻水声潺潺，而泻出于两峰之间者，酿泉也。峰回路转，有亭翼然临于泉上者，醉翁亭也。作亭者谁?山之僧智仙也。名之者谁?太守自谓也。太守与客来饮于此，饮少辙醉，而年又最高，故自号曰"醉翁"也。醉翁之意不在酒，在乎山水之间也。山水之乐，得之心而寓之酒也。

（摘自欧阳修《醉翁亭记》）

汉译英模拟题 2

曲曲折折的荷塘上面，弥望的是田田的叶子。叶子出水很高，像亭亭的舞女的裙。层层的叶子中间，零星地点缀着些白花，有袅娜地开着的，有羞涩地打着朵儿的;正如一粒粒的明珠，又如碧天里的星星，又如刚出浴的美人。微风过处，送来缕缕清香，仿佛远处高楼上渺茫的歌声似的。这时候叶子与花也有一丝的颤动，像闪电般，霎时传过荷塘的那边去了。叶子本是肩并肩密密地挨着的，这便宛然有了一道凝碧的波痕。叶子底下是脉脉的流水，遮住了，不能见一些颜色；而叶子却更见风致了。

（摘自朱自清《河塘月色》）

汉译英模拟题 3

但在江南，可又不同;冬至过后，大江以南的树叶，也不至于脱尽。寒风――西北风――间或吹来，至多也不过冷了一日两日。到得灰云扫尽，落叶满街，晨霜白得象黑女脸上的脂粉似的清早，太阳一上屋檐，鸟雀便又在吱叫，泥地里便又放出水蒸气来，老翁小孩就又可以上门前的隙地里去坐着曝背谈天，营屋外的生涯了;这一种江南的冬景，岂不也可爱得很么?

（摘自郁达夫《江南的冬景》）

汉译英模拟题 4

她问到了这里，我忽而感觉到我自己的现状了。因为自去年以来，我只是一日一日地萎靡下去，差不多把"我是什么人"，"我现在所处的是怎么一种境遇"，"我的心里还是悲还是喜"，这些观念都忘掉了。经她这一问，我重新把半年来困苦的情形一层一层地想了出来。所以听她问话以后，我只是呆呆地看她，半晌说不出话来。她看了我这个样子，以为我也是一个无家可归的流浪人，脸上就立时起了一种孤寂的表情，微微地叹着说: "唉!你也是同我一样的么?"

（摘自郁达夫《春风沉醉的晚上》）汉译英模拟题 5

走到那边月台，须穿过铁道，须跳下去又爬上去。父亲是一个胖子，走过去自然要费些事。我本来要去的，他不肯，只好让他去。我看见他戴着黑布小帽，穿着黑布大马褂，深

青布棉袍，蹒跚地走到铁道边，慢慢探身下去，尚不大难。可是他穿过铁道，要爬上那边月台，就不容易了。他用两手攀着上面，两脚再向上缩；他肥胖的身子向左微倾，显出努力的样子。

（摘自朱自清《背影》）

汉译英模拟题 6

我再向外看时，他已抱了朱红的橘子往回走了。过铁道时，他先将橘子散放在地上，自己慢慢爬下，再抱起橘子走。到这边时，我赶紧去搀他。他和我走到车上，将橘子一股脑儿放在我的皮大衣上。于是扑扑衣上的泥土，心里很轻松似的，过一会说:"我走了，到那边来信!"我望着他走出去。他走了几步，回过头看见我，说，"进去吧，里边没人。"等他的背影混入来来往往的人里，再找不着了，我便进来坐下，我的眼泪又来了。

（摘自朱自清《背影》）

汉译英模拟题7

我们的扬子江、黄河，可以代表我们的民族精神，扬子江及黄河遇见沙漠、遇见山峡都是浩浩荡荡的往前流过去，以成其浊流滚滚，一泻万里的魄势。目前的艰难境界，那能阻抑我们民族生命的前进。我们应该拿出雄健的精神，高唱着进行的曲调，在这悲壮歌声中，走过这崎岖险阻的道路。要知在艰难的国运中建造国家，亦是人生最有趣味的事……

（摘自李大钊《艰难的国运与雄健的国民》）

汉译英模拟题8

人民在自己的土地上辛勤劳作，把古城南京装扮得面貌一新。特别是近十几年来，改革开放又给这座美丽的名城注入了新的活力，崭新的工业、通达的运输、如画的城市建设、兴盛的第三产业、多采的文化生活，都使这个具有古都特色的现代都市焕发出勃勃英姿。孙中山先生所预言的:"南京将来之发达未可限量也"，正在逐步成为现实。

（摘自《可爱的南京》）汉译英模拟题9

理科出身的人呢，就全然不同了。中国是世界上最提倡科学的国家，没有旁的国家肯这样给科学家大官做的。外国科学进步，中国科学家进爵。在外国，研究人情的学问始终跟研究物理的学问分歧；而在中国，只要你知道水电、土木、机械、动植物等等，你就可以行政治人――这是"自然齐一律"。最大的胜利。理科出身的人当个把校长，不过是政治生涯的开始…… （摘自钱钟书《围城》）

汉译英模拟题10

可是，结婚后这十几年，最令我紧张的，却正是他的语言表达力――尤其他在讲台上时。每次，听他把一个生动的主题叙述得冗长拖沓、恹恹欲睡；或将一个可以深入的命题稀里糊涂，轻松带过，我都急得两眼干瞪，恨不得跳上台去替他讲。我尽量避开他的演讲，连1984的在美国爱荷华大学，他那场后来轰动海峡两岸、造成无比震撼文化反思的《丑陋的中国人》演讲。当时，我就不在场，原因是我对他的演讲一直抱着这样一种态度:一个人丢人，比全家丢人好。

（摘自张香华《看，这个丑陋的中国人》）

汉译英模拟题11

西部地域辽阔，交通不发达，首先要进行基础设施的建设。现在，我们已经把国家的投资大量向西部地区倾斜，譬如，我们最近宣布的"西气东输"工程。我们在新疆的塔里木地区发现了大量天然气，并已经决定从新疆修建4，200公里的管道，经过8个省、市，直达上海。这样，沿线地区的能源结构、产业结构都会发生很大变化。这需要大量资金，我们欢迎海内外的投资者，特别是外国的投资者对此项目投资。

汉译英模拟题12

中国政府希望国际社会始终如一地奉行一个中国政策，希望美国政府切实履行中美三个联合公报关于台湾问题的各项原则和自己作出的坚持一个中国政策的庄严承诺。

随着中国政府相继对香港、澳门恢复行使主权，全中国人民迫切期望早日解决台湾问题，实现国家的完全统一，不能允许台湾问题再无限期地拖下去了。我们坚信，在包括两岸同胞和海外侨胞在内的全中国人民的共同努力下，中国的完全统一一定能够实现。

汉译英模拟题13

上海浦东新区地处中国海岸线中点和长江出海口的交汇处，紧靠繁华的上海市区，背倚物阜民丰的长江三角洲，面对太平洋及东南亚的发达国家和地区，有着得天独厚的地理优势。浦东新区面积为522平方公里，现有人口156万。

浦东新区总体规划目标是在三四十年里，把浦东建设成为有合理的发展结构、先进的综合交通网络、完善的城市基础设施、便捷的通讯信息系统和良好的生态环境的现代化新区。

汉译英模拟题14

意大利著名旅行家马可·波罗曾这样叙述他印象中的杭州:"这是世界上最美妙迷人的城市，它使人觉得自己是在天堂。"在中国，也流传着这样的话："上有天堂，下有苏杭。"杭州的名气主要在于风景如画的西湖。西湖一年四季都美不胜收，宋代著名诗人苏东坡用"淡

妆浓抹总相宜"的诗句来赞誉西湖。在杭州，您可以饱览西湖的秀色，也不妨漫步街头闹市，品尝一下杭州的名菜名点，还可购上几样名特土产。

汉译英模拟题15

在总结半个世纪中国外交的成就时，用辉煌50年的提法是非常准确的。如果再具体一点，我们起码可以列举两个辉煌来加以说明。第一是艰苦创业的辉煌。新中国刚刚诞生，在周恩来总理兼外长的主持下，外交工作开始起步，以崭新的面貌向全世界宣布旧中国积贫积弱、受尽屈辱、没有外交尊严的时代一去不复返了。有中国共产党领导的、代表了中国人民意志的、为保卫国家利益和世界和平而不懈奋斗的独立自主的外交从此就以辉煌的光焰照耀全世界，这是一次给全世界人民留下了深刻印象的辉煌的日出。

汉译英模拟题16

我们两个伟大的国家，交往的历史己经有200年了，跨越了三个世纪。两国人民友谊和合作的动人事迹还历历在目。19世纪60年代，中国数以万计的华工参加了美国横贯东西部大铁路的修建工作。他们不顾严寒、饥饿和待遇菲薄的恶劣条件，当别的建筑队伍都撤下来的时候，只有中国这支队伍坚持到底。最后一根枕木是由四位华工铺上的。无数人为这个工程献出了生命。

汉译英模拟题17

一个人的生命究竟有多大意义，这有什么标准可以衡量吗？提出一个绝对的标准当然很困难；但是，大体上看一个人对待生命的态度是否严肃认真，看他对待工作、生活的态度如何，也就不难对这个人的存在意义做出适当的估计了。

古来一切有成就的人，都很严肃地对待自己的生命，当他活着--天，总要尽量多工作、多学习，不肯虚度年华，不让时间白白地浪费掉。我国历代的劳动人民及大政治家、大思想家等等都莫不如此。

汉译英模拟题18

从北平来的人往往说上海这地方怎么"呆"得住。一切都这样紧张。空气是这样龌龊。走出去很难看得见树木。诸如此类，他们可以举出一大堆。我想，月亮仿佛失掉了这一点，也该列入他们认为上海"呆"不住的理由吧。假若如此，我倒并不同意。在生活的诸般条件里列入必须看月亮一项，那是没有理由的。清旷的襟怀和高远的想象力未必定须由对月而养成。把仰望的双眼移到地面，同样可以收到修养上的效益，而且更见切实。可是我并非反对看月亮，只是说即使看不到也没有什么关系罢了。

汉译英模拟题19

我曾对住在森林公园的一对夫妻羡慕不已，因为公园里有大片的杉树、竹林，有幽静的林间小道，有鸟语和花香。然而，当这对夫妇知道有人羡慕他们的住所时，却神情诧异。他们认为这儿没有多少值得观光和留恋的景致，远不如城市丰富有趣。

当时，我的感觉是，熟悉的地方没有风景。这对夫妇对这儿太熟悉了，花草树木，清风明月，在他们漫长的日子里，已不再有风景的含义，而是成为习以为常的东西。

汉译英模拟题20

十年浩劫，我自顾不暇，无心也无力顾及它们。但它们辗转多处，经受折磨、潮湿、践踏、撞破，终于还是回来了。失去了一些，我有些惋惜，但也不愿去寻觅它们，因为我失去的东西，比起它们，更多也更重要。

它们回到寒舍以后我对它们的情感如故。书无分大小、贵贱、古今、新旧，只要是我想保存的，因之也同我共过患难的，一视同仁。尘洗，安置，抚慰，唏嘘，它们大概是已经体味到了。(摘自孙犁《书籍》)

汉译英模拟题21

诸位毕业同学:你们现在要离开母校了，我没有什么礼物送你们，只好送你们一句话罢。这一句话是:"不要抛弃学问。"以前的功课也许有一大部分是为了这张毕业文凭，不得已而做的，从今以后，你们可以依自己的心愿去自由研究了。趁现在年富力强的时候，努力做一种专门学问。少年是一去不复返的，等到精力衰时，要做学问也来不及了。即为吃饭计，学问决不会辜负人的。吃饭而不求学问，三年五年之后，你们都要被后来少年

淘汰掉的。到那时再想做点学问来补救，恐怕已太晚了。（摘自胡适《不要抛弃学问》）

汉译英模拟题22

东西方文化对创新的内涵有不同理解和定义，亚洲传统比较保守，西方近代的文化则比较开明，但两者在创新方面的影响力则各有千秋。

西方文化的一个特点是强调个人的贡献，或许这有历史与宗教的原因。以个人为主是西方传统风格，演变到今日表现在西方文化和创造发明中往往是制造个人英雄，并将其个人贡献置于集体之上。其好处是激发人的进取心，弊端是导致以个人为中心，间接影响创新。

汉译英模拟题23

最令人触目惊心的一件事，是看着钟表上的秒针一下一下的移动，每移动一下就是表示我们的寿命已经缩短了一部分。再看看墙上挂着的可以一张张撕下的日历，每天撕下一张就是表示我们的寿命又缩短了一天。因为时间即生命。没有人不爱惜他的生命，但很少人珍视他的时间。如果想在有生之年做一点什么事，学一点什么学问，充实自己，帮助别人，使生命成为有意义，不虚此生，那么就不可浪费光阴。这道理人人都懂，可是很少人真能积极不懈地善为利用他的时间。（摘自梁实秋《时间即生命》）

汉译英模拟题24

美国《幸福》杂志曾在征答栏中刊登过这么一个题目:假如让你重新选择，你做什么:一位军界要人的回答是去乡间开一个杂货铺；一位劳动部长是想做一家饮料公司的经理…其间也有一般百姓的回答。想做总统的，想做外交官的，想做面包师的，应有尽有。但是，很少有人想做现在的自己。

人有时非常矛盾。本来活得好好的，各方面的环境都不错，然而当事者却常常心存厌倦。对人类这种因生命的平淡和缺少激情而苦恼的心态，有时是不能用不知足来解释的。

汉译英模拟题25

中国国际旅行社总社成立于1954年，是全国最大，历史悠久的旅游骨干企业。它是一家以招徕为主，同时经营饭店、车船、商贸，代理国内外公司机票和火车国际联运车票等业务的大型旅游企业。

国旅总社自1954年成立以来，三十余年间坚持"顾客至上，质量第一"的宗旨，竭诚为各界人士服务，赢得了广泛的赞誉，极大地提高了国旅以及中国旅游业在世界市场上的地位，为中国旅游业的发展做出了可贵的贡献。