翻译理论与技巧(A)试题集及答案

翻译理论与技巧(A)试题集及答案

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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.

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

literary works

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

the sun we in fact think of.

10.Yan Fu’s standard for good translation is ,

and .

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

___________ function.

12.We should analyze , and before we

really put something into the target language.

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

sentences, ___________ sentences, sentences and sentences.

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

①

②

③

15.The sentence “The earth goes around the sun” performs the

function of language.

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

well-educated. Here the language carries the meaning.

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

classified into , , .

19.Translation can be regarded as a , a or

a .

20.According to different topics, translation can be classified into

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.

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5The 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 t hat 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.

12…

13It is obvious that this was merely a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul. There was no real clearing up of the outstanding debt.

14He doubtlessly expected hugs, tablefuls of food, tears, laughter, and conversation followed by more conversation, then hugs and more hugs all over again, without end.

15There 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.

16English prose is elaborate rather than simple. It was not always so.

17When I go around on speaking engagements, they all expect me to assume

a Quaker-Oats look.

18The door was unlocked. She went inside and sat in a stupor. She was near collapse, barely able to move her swollen feet.

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

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

over the valley.

21I 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.

22One 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.

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24Hygeia herself would have fallen sick under such a regimen; and how much more this poor old nervous victim

25Our Band-Aid approach to economic development must be changed.

26It would have been only courteous to kneel at the proper time, as all did, since I had voluntarily come to the church.

27It develops an argument; it cites instances; it reaches a conclusion.

28Father’s attitude toward anybody who wasn’t his kind used to puzzle me.

29Several blocks from the park, running parallel to it, Clement Street bustles like a second Chinatown with dozens of ethnic restaurants.

30We know that a cat, whose eyes can take in many more rays of light than our eyes, can see clearly in the night.

31She stopped listening. She felt as though she had been slapped to the extreme outer edge of life, into a cold darkness.

32Nancy Reagan, and not George Gallup, may well have the final say.

33Mr. Kingsley and his Red Brick boys will have to look to their laurels.

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35The hungry boy was wolfing down his dinner.

36I 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.

37The importance of oceanography as a key to the understanding of our planet is seldom as well appreciated.

38I 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.

39There is a mixture of the tiger and ape in the character of the imperialists. 40 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.

41When prices range from $34,500 to $50,000 per car, evidence that these

machines are more than a cut above the rest is essential.

42One 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.

43The heavily laden infantry, though enjoying a superiority of six-to-one, simply could not keep to schedule and lost 60000 men in one day.

44I have a c ake in the oven that I was making for the Senora’s dinner.

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46The world is scraping bottom in the deepest economic slump in a half-century.

47Now, dear, hurry home and make yourself pretty in your pink dress.

48Military strategy may bear some similarity to the chessboard but it is dangerous to carry the analogy too far.

49Studies show that otherwise rational people act irrationally when forced to stand in line or wait in crowds, even becoming violent.

50Prolonged 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.

51Many advocated strong action to bring the Prime Minister into line.

52He cannot wholly detach himself from the technicalities and personal inconveniences which accompany the battle for intelligence.

53I will not have it said that I could never teach my daughter proper respect for her elders.

54Although the recession has reached every corner of the planet, the impact is uneven.

55I think lawyers mistakenly believe complex language enhances the mystique of the law.

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57Not long ago, a foreign visitor whose English is extremely good told me of his embarrassment in a tea shop.

58Meanwhile individual schools are moving on their own to redress the imbalance between teaching and research.

59We 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.

60Then the players find out the lottery is not particularly good bet and they find other forms of gambling.

61The 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. 62There 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.

63We must just make the best of things as they come along.

64But once I made the decision, I went at it with all flags flying.

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

with gold and red and olive.

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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, you can retort that so are most criminals. The question is inherently insoluble, but self-esteem conceals this from most people. We are all, whatever part of the world we come from, persuaded that our own nation is superior to all others. Seeing that each nation has its characteristic merits and demerits, we adjust our standard of values so as to make out that the merits possessed by our nation are the really important ones, while its demerits are comparatively trivial. Here, again, the rational man will admit that the question is one to which there is no demonstrably right answer. It is more difficult to deal with the self-esteem of man as man, because we cannot argue out the matter with some non-human mind. The only way I know of dealing with this general human conceit is to remind ourselves that man is a brief episode in the life of

a small planet in a little corner of the universe, and that for aught we know,

other parts of the cosmos may contain beings as superior to ourselves as we are to jelly-fish.

2Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the author’s or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.

Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate, together they all add up to something; they are connected with each other and with other cities. The same ideas, or related ones, turn up in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature, but with different solutions according to different writings at different times.

Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on books somebo dy tells you “ought ” to read, you probably won’t have fun. But if you put down a book you don’t like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost certainly have a good time—and if you become as a result of reading, better, wiser, kinder, or more gentle, you won’t have suffered during the process.

3 It is well that the commonest fruit should be also the best. Of the virtues of

the orange I have not room fully to speak. It has properties of health giving, as that it cures influenza and establishes the complexion. It is clean, for

whoever handles it on its way to your table, but handles its outer covering, its top coat, which is left in the hall. It is round, and forms an excellent substitute with the young for a cricket ball. The pip can be flicked at your enemies, and quite a small piece of peel makes a slide for an old gentleman.

But all this would count nothing had not the orange such delightful qualities of taste. I dare not let myself go upon this subject. I am a slave to its sweetness. I grudge every marriage in that it means a fresh supply of orange blossom, the promise of so much golden fruit cut short. However, the world must go on.

With the orange we do live year in and year out. That speaks well for the orange. The fact is that there is an honeaty about the orange which appeals to all of us. If it is going to be bad—for the best of us are bad sometimes—it begins to be bad from the outside, not from the inside. How many a pear which presents a blooming face to the world is rotten at the core. How many an innocent-looking apple is harbouring a worm in the bud. But the orange has no secret faults. Its outside is a mirror of its inside, and if you are quick you can tell the shopman so before he slips it into the bag.

4 It is odd to watch with what feverish ardor the Americans pursue

prosperity and how they are ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they may not have chosen the shortest route to get it.

Americans cleave to the things of this world as if assured that they will never die, and yet are in such a rush to snatch any that come within their reach, as if expecting to stop living before they have relished them. They clutch everything but hold nothing fast, and so lose grip as they hurry after some new delight.

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An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on; he will plant a garden and rent it just as the trees are coming into bearing; he will clear a field and leave others to reap the harvest;

he will take up a profession and leave it, settle in one place and soon go off elsewhere with his changing desires. If his private business allows him a moment’s relaxation, he will plunge at once into the whirlpool of politics.

Then, if at the end of a year crammed with work he has a little spare leisure, his restless curiosity goes with him traveling up and down the vast territories of the United States. Thus he will travel five hundred miles in a few days as a distraction from his happiness.

Death steps is in the end and stops him before he has grown tired of this futile pursuit of that complete felicity which always escapes him.

5 Through all of our history we have pondered the stars and mused whether

humanity is unique or if, somewhere else in the dark of the night sky, there are other beings who contemplate and wonder as we do, fellow thinkers in the cosmos. Such beings might view themselves and the universe differently.

There might be very exotic biologies and technologies and societies. In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding, we are a

little lonely, and we ponder the ultimate significance, if any, of our tiny but exquisite blue planet. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is the search for generally acceptable cosmic context for the human species. In the deepest sense, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

Along with the growing dedication to a serious search, a slightly negative note has merged which is nevertheless very interesting. A few scientists have lately asked a curious question: if extraterrestrial intelligence is abundant, why have we not already seen its manifestations

6 A real woman, by my definition, neither despises nor worships men, but is

proud not to have been born a man, does everything she can to avoid thinking or acting like one, knows the full extent of her powers, and feels free to reject all arbitrary man-made obligations. She is her own oracle of right and wrong, firmly believing in her five sound senses and intuitive sixth.

Once a real woman has been warned by her nose that those apples are tasteless or assured by her finger-tips that this material is shoddy, no salesman in the world can persuade her to the contrary. Nor, once she has met some personage in private and summed him up with a single keen glance as weak, vain or crooked, will his mounting public reputation convince her otherwise. She takes pleasure in the company of simple, happy, undemanding women; but seldom or never finds a friend worthy of her full confidence.

翻译理论与技巧（A）答案

一 1 designative meaning or referential meaning, linguistic meaning and

pragmatic meaning

2 declarative sentences, interrogative sentences, imperative sentences and

exclamatory sentences

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4beauty of meaning, beauty of sound and beauty of form

5comprehension, expression and testing

6informative function, expressive function, vocative function and aesthetic function

7source, target

8Aesthetics

9Associative

10Faithfulness, Expressiveness, Elegance

11phatic

12Grammar, meaning and structure.

13Simple, compound, complex, compound complex

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151) A translation should give a complete transcript of the idea of the original

work; 2) The style and manner of writing should be of the same character as that of the original; 3) A translation should have all the ease of the original composition.

16informative

17indexical meaning.

18Intralingual translation, interlingual translation, intersemiotic translation 19science, art, skill(craft)

20professional translation, literary translation, general translation

二1他们的主人，又是割啊，又是倒啊，又是上菜啊，又是切面包啊，又是说啊，又是笑啊，又是敬酒啊，忙个不停。

2 狡猾的敌人，一面伸出橄榄枝，表示愿意讲和，一边在准备发动新的攻势。

3她那双乌黑的眼睛就像亮晶晶的星星在闪烁，他平素醒来的时候，她也是这样望着他。

4然而，萦绕心头的画面，那些一经嗅到玫瑰花香或新鲜干草的气息便会倏地闯入记忆的情景，其实并不复杂。

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5 要参加那个俱乐部并非易事—他们只吸收手头阔绰的人，而不是普通百姓。

6门没锁上，她走了进去，呆呆地坐了下来，极度的衰弱几乎使她无力挪动她那红肿的双脚。

7但是母亲已经好多年没有走这条路了，她那苗条的身段和宽健的步伐也已一去经年。

8 我软得像一团棉花，脊背疼痛得好像被钢丝抽打过一样。

9如你所知，我们正处在一个竞争激烈的市场中，不得不将价格降到了最低限度。

10我跟他妻子一起坐在他们家的起居室里，望着玻璃门外的后院。后院里有阿伦的游泳池，上面还盖着过冬时铺上去的黑色塑料蓬。

11时光的流逝丝毫无损于围墙的完美，也无损于宅邸本身，它宛如托在掌心的一颗明珠。

12显然，这只是拆东墙补西墙，要彻底还清这么多的债务是绝对不可能的。

13无疑问，他以为会有热烈的拥抱，满桌的食物，激动的泪水，欢乐的笑声，一段接一段的谈话，一次又一次的拥抱，没完没了。

14最令女主人失望的是，她花了许多心神或费用来招待客人，可是这位客人只顾津津有味地与她的丈夫论政治、谈生意，丝毫也没注意到咖啡的浓香、糕点的松软或房间内讲究的陈设，而这些却可能是她最感兴趣、最为自豪的。

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15今英国散文华巧而欠简朴，过去却并非总是如此。

16我应邀外出演讲时，他们都指望我摆出一付毫无表情、一本正经的面孔。17门没锁上，她走了进去，呆呆地坐了下来，极度的衰弱几乎使她无力挪动她那红肿的双脚。

18将军说：“敌人确实赢得了战斗，但他们的胜利只是皮洛士的胜利，得

不偿失。”

19那天天色昏暗，整天都像要下雨的样子，空荡荡的山谷一片寂静。

20我把椅子挪过去坐下，开始两脚分开，但我突然觉得这样显得不尊重，太不拘礼节，便把两膝并拢，把双手随便地放在膝盖上。

21一天，匹普外出在阴冷的荒原上游荡时，一个魁梧、凶狠的男子把他吓了一跳。这个男子威胁他，让他立即为他送些食物来。

22按照这样的养身之道，别说这可怜的老太太了，就连健康女神哈奇亚也会生病。

23我们必须改变在经济发展中的权宜之计。

24既然我来教堂出于自愿，仅仅为了礼帽起见，我本来也应该和大家一起下跪。

25它扩大了论点，引用了例证，还得出了结论。

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26以前我总不懂父亲为什么对那些脾气跟他不一样的人采取那么个态度。

27离公园几个街区便是与公园平行的克莱门特街。那儿有几十家少数民族餐馆，热闹得如同第二个唐人街。

28我们知道，由于猫的眼睛比我们人的眼睛能吸收更多的光线，所以猫在黑夜也能看得清楚。

29她再也听不下去了。她觉得似乎自己让人狠狠地击了一掌，摔到了生活的最外的危险边缘，推进了又冷又黑的地方。

30拥有最后发言权的，并非乔治·盖洛普民意测验，而是南希·里根。31金斯利先生和他那些二流大学的学生们必须小心翼翼地保持已经取得的荣誉。

32那个饥饿的男孩狼吞虎咽似地吃饭。

33我有一个梦想，有一天，我的四个孩子将生活在这样的国家里，在那里，判断他们的准则不是他们的肤色，而是他们的道德品质。

34海洋学是认识我们星球的关键，其重要性人们却很少理解。

35我把椅子挪过去坐下，开始两脚分开，但我突然觉得这样显得不尊重，太不拘节礼，便把两膝并拢，把双手随便地放在膝盖上。

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36帝国主义者的性格有残暴的一面，也有狡猾的一面。

37一个国家若想成为世贸组织的成员，须先呈递申请，而后由世贸组织组成一个工作小组对该国的具体条件进行审查。

38由于每辆汽车的价格从34500美元到50000美元不等，因此就必须有证据说明这些汽车比别的高级一些。

39有些人天生脸上就有或大或小的缺陷，但令人欣慰的是，这些人中有相当一部分并没有让这些缺陷扰乱了他们的生活，他们甚至还主动去帮助其他有类似问题的人。

40这支步兵尽管在数量上享有六比一的有时，但是由于个人负重量很大，根本无法按时行动，因而在一天内就损失了六万人。

41我炉子里正烤着一个蛋糕，本来是给太太晚餐时吃的。

42世界目前正在为度过这场半个世纪以来最严重的经济衰退尔使出了最后一点力量。

43好吧，乖孩子，赶紧回家，穿上那身粉红衣服，打扮得漂漂亮亮的。44打仗的策略同下棋可能有某些相似之处，但是如果把这两者之间的类比搞过了头则是危险的。

45有些研究表明，如果被迫去排队或挤在人群中等候，本来很讲道理的人也会失去理智，甚至暴跳如雷。

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46持续的高失业率也会给其他国家的现有领导构成威胁，而且可能会在一些最窘迫的国家引起暴乱。

47他们中许多人主张采取强有力的措施使这位总理先生在行动上与美国一致起来。

48他无法完全摆脱伴随着情报战而来的技术性问题和使他个人感到不方便的事情。

49我可不愿意让人家指着脊梁骨说我从来不教自己的女儿要尊敬长辈。50虽然这场经济衰退波及全球的每个角落，但各地受到的影响不尽相同。51我认为律师们有一个错误的想法，即复杂的语言能增加法律的深奥性。52不久前，一位英语极好的外国客人告诉我他在一家小吃店里的窘状。53与此同时，各学校正采取步骤纠正教学与科研不平衡的状况。

54我们已经造就出一批学者，他们的研究范围常常如此之窄，学问如此之专门，以致他们简直无法胜任入门课程的教学。

55后来玩彩券的人发现买彩券并不是特别有利的赌博方式，于是就找到其他形式的赌博。

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56英语目前的情况很好，它正按照它那不易为人发现的方式在起着变化,而不是像一只树上掉下的李子那样在逐渐腐烂。

57在英国和说英语的美国之间，不仅在文学方面，而且在流行艺术，特别是音乐方面，一直有着密切的接触和联系。

58当然，事情发生后，我们还得要尽力去补救.

59不过，我一旦做出决定，就大张旗鼓地去进行了。

60秋季的成熟的手已经在抚摸树木，它们顺从秋季的到来，染上了金黄、丹红和橄榄绿。

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1要小心提防那些助长你的自满情绪的想法。人们不论男女，十之八九都深信自己性别的优越无比，而且双方都有着许许多多的证据。如果你是男子，你可以指出，大多数诗人和科学家都是男性；如果你是女子，你可以反驳说，大多数罪犯也都是男性。这个问题自然是不可能得到解决的，但是自负使大多数人认识不到这一点。不论属于世界上的哪个国家，我们大家全都相信自己的民族优越于所有别的民族。看到每个民族都有其特有的长处和短处，我们就修改自己的价值标准，以便证明本民族的长处确实是重大的，而缺点相对来说则是次要的。在这个问题上，一个明白事理的人一定也会承认，我们不可能去证明某个说法就是正确的。至于人之作为人而产生的自满就更难办了，因为我们不可能与人类以外的某种有头脑的生物一道来把这个争个明白。就我所知，对待这种在人类中普遍存在的自负情绪的唯一办法就是提醒我们自己，人类仅是宇宙中一个小小角落里的一颗小小形星的生命史中一个短暂的插曲。说不定在宇宙的其他部分

可能还存在着一些生物，他们优越于我们就好比我们之于水母那样。

2读书之所以有趣，不是由于作者告诉了你什么，而是由于书本促使你思考。你的想象与作者的想象一道展开，甚至超过作者的想象。你的体验与作者的体验进行对照，使你得出与作者相同或不同的结论，而你在了解作者思想的同时便形成了自己的思想。

单独一本书犹如独家小院，汇集到图书馆则好似城市中的千家万户。虽然仍是各自独立，结合起来便成为一个有意义的整体。千家万户彼此相依，又与其他城市的家家户户相连。相同的思想或相关的思想在不同的地方出现；人生中经常遇到的问题在文学中也是反复出现，但其解决办法则随着时代的不同和作品的不同而各异。

读书之所以能成为乐事首先必须是你期待着从中得到乐趣。如果你只读别人说是你“应该”读的书，那大概就不会有什么乐趣可言。但如果你把自己感到没劲的书放下另换别的，直到发现一本你认为有意思的书，然后轻松地读下去，那么几乎可以肯定你会感到很快活的。假若你能由此而变得更聪明有为、更和蔼温厚，那么阅读本身就不会是一种苦差事了。

3说来也巧，这种最普通的水果恰恰是最好的水果。论其优点，难尽其详。柑橘有益于健康，比如，可以治疗流感，滋养皮肤。柑橘干净卫生，不管是谁把它端上餐桌，也只触到它的表皮，即它的外衣，吃完以后便被丢在餐厅。柑橘是圆的，孩子们拿它当板球玩是再好不过了。柑橘核可用来弹射你的对手，一小片橘皮也能让一个老者滑个趔趄。

但是，如若不是柑橘有甜美可口的味道，上述一切便不足为奇。我真不敢纵谈它的美味，我被柑橘的美味所倾倒。每一个婚礼都使我感到痛惜，它意味着一束鲜橘花—未来金黄色果实的夭折。无奈，人类还得继续繁衍。我们年复一年地吃着柑橘生活，这就证明了柑橘的好处。事实上，是柑橘诚实的品格令我们所有的人羡慕不已。如果它开始变坏的话—即使我们之中最优秀者有时也会变坏—它是从外表而不是从内里开始的。有多少梨子，在向人们展现容光焕发的笑容时，内里已经腐烂。有多少看上去纯洁无暇的苹果，刚刚发芽就已经包藏蛀虫。而柑橘从不隐藏瑕疵。它的外表就是它内心的写照。假如你反应快，不等售货员把坏橘子放进纸袋儿，你就能把它指出来。

4美国人以疯狂的热情追求繁荣，却又常常拿不准自己是否真正选中了求富贵的最佳捷径，因此深受其苦。见到美国人如此生活，旁观者真是百思不解。

美国人紧紧抓住尘世中的东西不放，好像深信他们永远也不会死似的。可一旦利益近在咫尺，美国人却又追求得如此迫不及待，好像人生短促，岂能不及时行乐。他们什么都抓在手里，却又什么都抓不紧，因此为求新欢乐，常常便在匆忙中丢了旧爱好。

一个美国人会为安度晚年去兴建一幢房子，却又会在房顶还没架上屋梁时就把它卖掉；他会在花园里植树栽花，却又会在花园快要硕果累累时把它租给别人；他会在农田中播种耕耘，却又会把收获让给他人；他会热衷于一门专业，却又会马上将其放弃；他会在某处安家落户，却又会情移念转，另寻安身之地。如果管理自家店铺后仍有片刻闲暇，美国人会一头栽进政治纷争的旋涡之中。时值岁尾年首，终年忙碌的美国人竟会见缝插针，不忘休闲。于是他那永不休止的好奇之心，会与他一起同游美国辽阔的大地，

几日内纵横数百里河山，聊以消遣，暂将快乐置于一旁。

终于，死亡来临了。死亡阻止了他，在他求欢乐兴致仍浓之际。他没有达到目的，极致的快乐总是与他擦肩而过。

5 贯穿我们整个历史，我们一直在考察星星，思考人类是否是唯一的高级生命，还是也许在黑暗的夜空某一处，还有其他生命，宇宙中同辈思想家，也和我们一样在思考，在怀疑。这类生命可能不同于我们看待他们自己和宇宙。那里也许会有异乎寻常的生物学、技术和社会。在这人们难以想象的广袤而古老的宇宙苍穹中，我们是有点孤寂：我们思考着我们小而精微的蓝色星球的最终意义，假如有意义的话。探索外星智能就是为人类探索能接受的宇宙渊源背景。从深层意义上说，探索外星智能就是探索我们自己。最近，有一些科学家提出一个难以解释的问题：如果外星智能很多，那我们为什么没有看出其表现的形式呢

6 一个真正的妇女，就我的定义来说，既不轻视，也不崇拜男人，为生就不是男人而骄傲，竭尽全力不像男人那样思考和行动，她充分知道自己的力量所在，有权拒绝一切专横人为的义务。她是她自己错或对的主宰，坚信自己健全的五种感观和第六个直觉。一个真正的女人一旦用鼻子嗅出苹果无味，用手尖证实材料质劣，那么世界上任何推销员都难以令她更改。同样，一旦她私下遇到某个人，一束敏锐的目光把他归结为软弱、虚荣或狡诈，那么他那显赫的公众声誉也不能令她转变想法。她非常高兴和朴实、愉快、无所要求的妇女们为伴。可是她很少，或者从来没有找到一个值得她可以完全信赖的朋友。