14年秋翻译考试题答案

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UNIT 1

1.She impresses me, and I feel so ignorant that I shouldn’t even breathe the same air as her. 她给我留下了深刻的印象，我觉得自己太无知了，甚至不配跟她呼吸同样的空气。

2.I’m in heaven and the first thing to do is buy the required textbooks, cover them with the purple and white NYU book jackets so that people in the subway will look at me admiringly. 我乐得飘飘然了，第一件事就是去买所需要的课本，然后用纽约大学紫白相间的护封把它们套起来，这样地铁里的乘客就会向我投来艳羡的目光了。

3.I’m not sure what happens to my dirty clothes after putting them in the clothes basket and before finding them clean, ironed and folded in my wardrobe. Maybe Mum will call soon.

我只知道把脏衣服扔进衣篮，但并不清楚衣服是如何洗净、熨平并叠好放进衣柜里的。也许妈妈快来电话了。

4.Finally, with my mother red in the face and short of breath, we find Room 8, I unlock the door, and we all walk in.

等我们终于找到8号房间的时候，妈妈已经涨红了脸，累得上气不接下气。我打开门锁，我们都走了进去。

5.Ivy League schools are academically and socially important. They are at the top of the US college and university rankings and the institutions have a reputation for social elitism.

常青藤学校享有极高的学术和社会地位。它们是美国大学排行榜上的顶级学校，同时也是社会精英的摇篮。

6.The room is barely big enough for one, and certainly not big enough for the whole family.

I can lie on the bed and touch three walls without moving a muscle.

这个房间刚刚够一个人住，一家人都进去，肯定容不下。我躺在床上，不动弹就可以碰到三面墙。

7.She says The History of Education in America course will provide me with the broad cultural background I need after my inadequate European education.

她说由于我接受的欧洲教育不全面，“美国教育史”能使我具备广博的文化背景知识。

8.There’s a coffee morning for first year students. I meet my tutor, who is tall with round shoulders, and looks determined to be pleasant.

早上，有一个为一年级新生举办的咖啡早茶会。我见到了我的导师，他个子高高的，肩膀厚实，好像打定了主意要逗人开心。

Unit 2

1.I’m the top of the line of 11 children, so you get to learn how to cook whether you like it

or not. The dish I cook here is my version which is different from other restaurants.

我是11个孩子中的老大，所以不论喜欢与否，我都得做饭。我这里做的菜与别的馆子做的风味迥异。

2.“Now, stop complaining, try one oyster for me, then you can have something nice and

easy to eat, maybe some prawns with bread and butter,” he suggested, striking a note of compromise for the first time during the whole meal.

“好了，别抱怨了，就给我尝一只牡蛎，然后你就可以吃些好吃的、顺口的东西。”

他提议说，他的话中第一次有了妥协的意思。

3.There was no hope left, the only feeling was hunger, and the only emotion was the fear of

lost innocence as I realized there could be no escape from my first oyster.

没有希望，只感觉到饿，只担心失去纯真，因为我意识到这第一只牡蛎我是非吃不可了。

4.I did as I was told. The oyster was slippery and the taste was unlike anything I have ever

tasted before or since. My father watched me, half smil ing as if to say, “what do you think?”

我按照他说的吃掉了那只牡蛎。牡蛎滑溜溜的，那味道是我从未品尝过的，打那以后我没再尝过。我父亲看着我，似笑非笑，好像在说，“怎么样？”

5.But what accounts for its amazing popularity for even the properties that have made

millions of people confess to being chocoholics

但是，是什么原因使得巧克力出奇地畅销？又是什么原因导致了巧克力的上瘾特性，使无数人承认自己是巧克力迷呢？

6.Outside the skies were grey and a strong wind was blowing off the sea. It looked as

gloomy as I felt.

外面，天空灰蒙蒙的，海面上刮来一阵强风。天气看起来和我的心情一样阴郁。

7. But with the clear perception which only a ten-year- old boy can have, I still understood that the compromise included eating that oyster, sitting on the side of my father’s plate.

但是，尽管清晰地感觉到了他的妥协——只有一个十岁的男孩才有这样的感觉，我仍然明白这妥协包含着吃掉那只牡蛎，那只放在我父亲的盘子边上的牡蛎。

8. There will be a total ban on ads for junk food during children’s programmes and on children’s channels, as well as adult programmes watched by a large number of children.

即将在儿童节目，儿童频道以及有大量儿童观看的成人频道全面禁止播出垃圾食品广告。

9. In recent years many of us have become aware of the importance of keeping fit and eating healthily.

近些年，许多人已经意识到保持身体健康和饮食健康的重要性

10.Th e world’s best-selling type of chocolate, milk chocolate, which is sweeter and smoother than dark chocolate, didn’t appear until the end of the 19th century.

直到19世纪末，世界上最畅销的巧克力——比黑巧克力更香甜柔滑的牛奶巧克力——才问世。

11.When Europeans brought chocolate back from their voyages, they added a sweet flavor,

and the drink soon became very popular as an expensive luxury.

当年欧洲的航海探险者带回了巧克力，又往巧克力中加入了香甜的调味料，这种饮料随即就作为昂贵的奢侈品受到人们的青睐。

Unit 3

1.Had she affirmed our intelligence first and spoken about the joy of thinking for ourselves,

had she not fanned our fear of her, we would all have learned even more powerfully what it meant to do our own thinking.

要是她一开始就肯定我们的聪明才智，给我们讲讲独立思考的乐趣，要是她没有激起我们对她的畏惧，我们大家就能更深切地体会到独立思考的意义。

2.When was the last organizational vision stateme nt you saw that included the words “…to

develop ourselves into a model environment in which everyone at every level can think for themselves?”

在我们周围逐渐创建出一个模型环境，使各个层次的人都有独立思考的空间。”你最后一次看到包含上述字眼的机构愿景陈述是在什么时候？

3.We may have learned to revere thinkers like Socrates, but we also learned that the state

poisoned him for thinking for himself: not unmitigated encouragement.

我们可能早就知道应该尊敬像苏格拉底那样的思想家，可是我们也知道，因为独立思考，他所在的城邦毒死了他。这可绝不是给予他的毫无保留的支持与鼓励。

4.The standard joke is that it is a system for transferring notes from the lecturer’s file to the

student’s notepad without passing through the mind of either.

有个经典的笑话，说课堂面授就是一个把笔记从讲师的文件夹转移到学生的笔记本上的过程。在此过程中，讲师和学生谁都不会去思考。

5.I was too scared around that teacher for the rest of my young life to think very well in her

presence. But I took the message with me and gradually examined and valued it..

在后来的青春岁月里，我一见到这位老师就害怕。在她面前，我根本就无法好好地思考。但是，我记住了她的教诲，并且渐渐地开始审视它、珍视它。

6.I remember my hand gathering sweat around the pencil. A few heads looked down and

their pencils started up.

我记得我握着铅笔的手出汗了。有些人低下了头，握着手中的铅笔开始写了起来。

7.Good lecturers will make a subject come alive for their students. They will provide

information, place the material of the course in context, and focus on difficult areas in some detail.

而优秀讲师能将一个话题活灵活现地呈现给学生。他们会提供信息，把授课内容和相关背景联系起来，还会比较详尽地集中讲解难点。

8.Activist learners learn best from new experiences, generating ideas and trying things out.

Problem-solving, group work and discussion suit them better than more “passive”

activities.

行动型学习者从新体验中学到的最多，他们提出新思想，做各种试验。解决问题、团队合作以及讨论比那些比较“被动的”活动更适合他们。

10. Getting to know a new environment, forming relationships with other students and

surviving on limited financial resources are all typical problems. But one of the greatest challenges you may have to face at university is the direct result of a new-found freedom.

典型的问题包括熟悉新环境、与其他同学相处，以及靠有限的经济来源维持生活。

而你在大学里所要面对的最大挑战之一就直接源于你刚刚获得的自由。

Unit 4

1. Now it has been announced that the signal range throughout London will be extended, nowhere in London will be beyond the reach of a mobile phone, not even the Underground.

现在有消息说，伦敦的手机信号覆盖范围将拓展延伸。以后，在伦敦的每一个角落都有手机信号，就连地铁也不例外。

2. At work people were calling me urgently on my mobile and ended up quite angry that I didn't call them back for three days, and anyway, by then it was too late.

上班的时候，大家都焦急地打我的手机，结果都因为我三天不给他们回电话而感到十分恼火。可三天后，不管说什么都已经太迟了。

3. When I dry it out and switch it back on, there are about 12 voicemail messages and a few

texts. Undoubtedly, everyone who needs to, can get hold of me.

等我把手机晾干又开机后，发现有12 条语音留言，还有几条短信。毫无疑问，需要找我的人都已经和我取得了联系，

4. I mostly use mobile phone for just texting my mates and arranging sort of social meetings with them. I don’t really talk much on it.

我主要用手机来给朋友发短信，安排一些社交活动，我一般不用手机通话。

5. These episodes and incidents all involve a cultural bump, something which you notice usually with curiosity, usually with pleasure, occasionally with shock or embarrassment.

这些插曲、事件都包含着文化碰撞，使你感到好奇、愉悦，但偶尔也会让你感到震惊或尴尬。

6.Mobile phones have been the biggest factor of change in everyday behavior in Britain

over the past 15 years. Today it is thought that there are more than 55 million mobile phone subscribers, a rise from less than 10 million in 1997.

在过去的15年里，手机已成为改变英国人日常行为方式的最主要的因素。据统计，目前英国手机用户已超过5,500 万，而在1997年还不足1,000万。

7. At the same time, the world has got smaller too, and whereas in the past, people took photos of each other at famous tourist sights, nowadays few people can resist making calls to loved ones back home instead.

与此同时，世界也变得越来越小了。过去，在著名的旅游胜地人们相互拍照留念，而现在，大家几乎都忍不住给家里的亲朋好友打电话。

8. Text messaging is slow to enter, and you can only key in limited number of character. But it is a success and has grown incredibly quickly since texting became commercially available in 1995.

尽管短信输入速度慢，字数还受限制，但它却大获成功，自1995年商业化以来发展速度惊人。

9.I mostly use mobile phone for just texting my mates and arranging sort of social

meetings with them. I don’t really talk much on it.

我主要用手机给朋友发短信，安排一些社交活动，我一般不用手机通话。

10.But it’s not a matter of knowing all the conventions and rituals in different cultures. It’s

impossible to collect all the information you might need to be relaxed in the many different cultures around the worlds.

但是这不等于说我们需要悉数掌握不同文化的风俗习惯和礼仪。丰富的知识能使你自如地应对世界各国不同的文化，但是你不可能掌握全部必备的知识。

Unit 5

1 “Nelly, will you keep a secret for me?” she pursued, kneeling down by me, and lifting her winsome eyes to my face with that sort of look which turns off bad temper, even when one has all the right in the world to indulge it.

“内莉，你肯为我保密吗？”她缠着我，跪在我身旁，抬起她那双迷人的眼睛看着我。就算你完全有理由发火，一见到那眼神，你就没脾气了。

2 I’ve dreamt in my life d reams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

我这辈子做的一些梦一直缠着我，改变了我的心思；这些梦穿透了我的心，就像酒溶入水一样，改变了我心灵的颜色。

3 That will do to explain my secret. I’ve no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven.

这足以解释我的秘密。我不该嫁给埃德加?林顿，就像我不该去天堂一样。

4. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff, now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am.

现在，嫁给希思克厉夫会降低我的身份；他永远也不会知道我是多么爱他。我爱他，并不是因为他相貌英俊，内莉，而是因为他比我更像我自己。

5. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton’s is as different as

a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.”

不管我们俩的灵魂是什么做成的，我们的灵魂是一样的，而林顿与我们的差异犹如月光之于闪电，寒霜之于烈火。“

7.Not all traditions are old. A few years ago in Italy, a popular film showed a young couple

promising to remain faithful by fixing a padlock to a bridge in Rome, and throwing the

key into the river below.

传统的爱恋方式并未全部过时，几年前，在意大利有一部很叫座的电影，影片中一对年轻的情侣将一把锁锁在罗马的一座桥上，然后将钥匙扔到河中，以此承诺对彼此忠贞不渝。

8.We roped up and I made sure I stayed next to her. Otherwise, she thought that she would

have fallen off the mountain.

我们拽着绳子向上攀爬，我始终在她的身旁，否则她就会觉得自己要从山上掉下去了。

Times are changing. Today, Internet dating makes it possible for people living thousands of miles apart, and from different cultural backgrounds, to meet and fall in love online.

时代在变化。现在，人们即使彼此相隔千万里、文化背景不同，也可以通过网络约会，相识相爱。

9.Edgar Linton has asked me to marry him, and I’ve given him an ans wer- Now, before I

tell you whether it was a consent, or denial—you tell me which it ought to have been.

埃德加·林顿要我嫁给他，我已经答复他了。现在，我先不告诉你我是接受了还是拒绝了。你告诉我，我该怎么答复他。

10.Something urgent has come up and I have to go. The man said and hurried away leaving

his girlfriend heartbroken.

我有急事，必须离开。那个人说着便急急忙忙离开，让他女朋友一个人伤心地呆在那里。