最新-翻译理论与技巧(A)试题集及答案 精品

翻译理论与技巧(A)试题集及答案

(红色为自己所出题)

一Fill in the blanks.

1.According to sociosemiotic theories, meaning consists of three aspects:

_________, ___________ and ____________ .

2.As far as communicative function is concerned, English sentences can be

classified into four types: ____________ , ___________ , _____________ and ___________ .

3.Professor Xu Yuanzhong ever proposed that literary translation should

conform to the principle of “____________, __________ and ___________”.

4.The basic procedures of translation are made up of three steps: __________,

___________ and ___________ .

5.Peter Newmark divided the function of language into six kinds, among which

the most important four functions are ____________, ___________ , __________ and ___________ .

6.“Literal translation” is based on -language-oriented principle, while

“liberal translation” is based on -language-oriented principle.

7.Translators often abide by -oriented principle when they translate

literary works

8.When we see the sun, we often think of hope. It’s the meaning of

the sun we in fact think of.

9.Yan Fu’s standard for good translation is , and .

10.According to Peter Newmark, the expression “How do you do?” performs

___________ function.

11.We should analyze , and before we

really put something into the target language.

12.According to the structure, English sentences can be classified into

sentences, ___________ sentences, sentences and sentences.

13.The three principles for translation advocated by Alexander Fraser Tytler are:

①

②

③

14.The sentence “The earth goes around the sun” performs the function

of language.

15.When we hear somebody speaks ungrammatically, we know that he is not

well-educated. Here the language carries the meaning.

16.According to the different signs that translation deals with, translation can be

classified into , , .

17.Translation can be regarded as a , a or

a .

18.According to different topics, translation can be classified into sssssss

translation, translation and translation.

二Translating the following sentences into Chinese.

1Their host carved, poured, served, cut bread, talked, laughed, proposed healths.

2The crafty enemy was ready to launch a new attack while holding out the olive branch.

3Her dark eyes made little reflected stars. She was looking at him as she was always looking at him when he awakened.

4The pictures that linger in his mind, called up in a moment by such sensations as the smell of roses or of new-mown hay, are of a simpler nature.

5 It’s not easy to become a member of that club—they want people who have

plenty of money to spend, not just every Tom , Dick, and Harry.

6 The door was unlocked. She went inside and sat in a stupor. She was near

collapse, barely able to move her swollen feet.

7 But my mother had not passed this way for years. And the slimness and the

stride were long past, too.

8 I was limp as a dish rag. My back felt as though it had been beaten with wires.

9 As you know, we operate in a highly competitive market in which we have

been forced to cut our prices to the minimum.

10 I sat with his wife in their living room, looking out the glass doors to the

backyards, and there was Allen’s pool, still covered with black plastic that had been stretched across it for winter.

11 Time did not spoil the beauty of the walls, nor the palace itself, lying like a

jewel in the hollow of a hand.

12It is obvious that this was merely a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul. There was no real clearing up of the outstanding debt.

13He doubtlessly expected hugs, tablefuls of food, tears, laughter, and conversation followed by more conversation, then hugs and more hugs all over again, without end.

14There is nothing more disappointing to a hostess who has gone to a lot of trouble or expanse than to have her guest so interested in talking politics or business with her husband that he fails to notice the flavour of the coffee, the lightness of the cake, or the attractiveness of the house, which may be her chief interest and pride.

15English prose is elaborate rather than simple. It was not always so.

16When I go around on speaking engagements, they all expect me to assume a Quaker-Oats look.

17The door was unlocked. She went inside and sat in a stupor. She was near collapse, barely able to move her swollen feet.

18“It is true that the enemey won the battle, but theirs is but a Pyrrhic victory.”said the General.

19 A dirty-yellow sky had threatened rain all day and a hollow stillness hung

over the valley.

20I pulled up a chair and sat down. I sat with my legs wide apart at first. But this struck me as being irreverent and too familiar. So I put my knees together and let my hands rest loosely on them.

21One day, while out on the bleak moors, Pip is startled by a hulking, menacing man who threatens him if he does not bring him some food immediately.

22Hygeia herself would have fallen sick under such a regimen; and how much more this poor old nervous victim?

23Our Band-Aid approach to economic development must be changed.

24It would have been only courteous to kneel at the proper time, as all did, since I had voluntarily come to the church.

25It develops an argument; it cites instances; it reaches a conclusion.

26Father’s attitude toward anybody who wasn’t his kind used to puzzle me.

27Several blocks from the park, running parallel to it, Clement Street bustles like a second Chinatown with dozens of ethnic restaurants.

28We know that a cat, whose eyes can take in many more rays of light than our eyes, can see clearly in the night.

29She stopped listening. She felt as though she had been slapped to the extreme outer edge of life, into a cold darkness.

30Nancy Reagan, and not George Gallup, may well have the final say.

31Mr. Kingsley and his Red Brick boys will have to look to their laurels.

32The hungry boy was wolfing down his dinner.

33I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of the skin but by the content of their character.

34The importance of oceanography as a key to the understanding of our planet is seldom as well appreciated.

35I pulled up a chair and sat down. I sat with my legs wide apart at first. But this struck me as being irreverent and too familiar. So I put my knees together and let my hands rest loosely on them.

36There is a mixture of the tiger and ape in the character of the imperialists. 37 A country that wishes to become a member of WTO is to send in its

application before a working party is formed by WTO for examination of the specific conditions of the country.

38When prices range from $34,500 to $50,000 per car, evidence that these machines are more than a cut above the rest is essential.

39One of the most heartwarming aspects of people who are born with a facial disfigurement, whether minor or major, is the number of them who do not allow it to upset their lives, even reaching out to help others with the same problem.

40The heavily laden infantry, though enjoying a superiority of six-to-one, simply could not keep to schedule and lost 60000 men in one day.

41I have a cake in the oven that I was making for the Senora’s dinner.

42The world is scraping bottom in the deepest economic slump in a half-century.

43Now, dear, hurry home and make yourself pretty in your pink dress.

44Military strategy may bear some similarity to the chessboard but it is dangerous to carry the analogy too far.

45Studies show that otherwise rational people act irrationally when forced to stand in line or wait in crowds, even becoming violent.

46Prolonged high unemployment will threaten the current leadership in other capitals as well, and it could ignite violent upheavals in some of the most hard-pressed land.

47Many advocated strong action to bring the Prime Minister into line.

48He cannot wholly detach himself from the technicalities and personal inconveniences which accompany the battle for intelligence.

49I will not have it said that I could never teach my daughter proper respect for her elders.

50Although the recession has reached every corner of the planet, the impact is uneven.

51I think lawyers mistakenly believe complex language enhances the mystique of the law.

52Not long ago, a foreign visitor whose English is extremely good told me of his embarrassment in a tea shop.

53Meanwhile individual schools are moving on their own to redress the imbalance between teaching and research.

54We have created a faculty of scholars frequently so narrow in their studies and specialized in their scholarship they are simply incapable of teaching introductory courses.

55Then the players find out the lottery is not particularly good bet and they find other forms of gambling.

56The English language is in very good shape. It is changing in its own undiscoverable way, but it is not going rotten like a plum dropping off a tree.

57There has always been a close cultural link, or tie between Britain and English-speaking America, not only in literature but also in the popular arts, especially music.

58We must just make the best of things as they come along.

59But once I made the decision, I went at it with all flags flying.

60 Autumn’s mellow hand was upon the woods, as they owned already, touched

with gold and red and olive.

三Translate the following passage into Chinese.

1Be very wary of opinions that flatter your self-esteem. Both men and women, nine times out of ten, are firmly convinced of the superior excellence of their own sex. There is abundant evidence on both sides. If you are a man, you can point out that most poets and men of science are male; if you are a woman,