四级文化翻译参考译文–学生复习用.docVIP

III. 中国文化翻译 (中译英50%) 1 传统的中国绘画是一门独特的美术（fine art），无论是风格还是技巧都与世界其他艺术门类迥然不同。中国人绘画采用毛笔（brush）蘸墨汁或颜料，灵巧地挥洒（wield）于纸上。画家用深、浅、浓、淡的点（dot）和线构成一幅图画。在优秀画家的手里，毛笔和墨汁非常具有表现力，它们不仅是绘画的工具，也是画家艺术追求的象征。与水墨画相比，宫廷画（palace painting）注重细腻的画法、细节的描绘，以及丰富的色彩（elaborate coloring）。 参考译文 Traditional Chinese paintings constitute a unique school of fine art, a school that, in style and techniques is vastly different from any other fine art school in the world. The Chinese do paintings with brushes, dipping their brushes in ink or paint and then skillfully wielding them. Painters produce on the paper pictures with lines and some heavy, and some light, some deep, and some pale dots. In the hands of a good painter, brushes and ink can be highly expressive. Because of this, they are seemed not only as tools for drawing pictures, but also as a symbol of artistic pursuit. In comparison to ink and wash painting, the palace paintings pay attention to fine brushwork, details and elaborate coloring. 2 黄河（the Yellow River）是中华文明和中华民族的摇篮（cradle），所以又被称作“母亲河”。黄河长达5464公里，是中国第二大河。黄河的平均流量为每年48亿立方米，还不到长江的1/20。传说，这条河里的一条龙给中国人民带来笔画（stroke），以后发展为汉字（Chinese character）。然而，黄河也是中国的伤心事，因为其灾害性的洪水造成无数人死亡。强大的洪水经常改变河道（course of the river）。 参考译文 The cradle of Chinese civilization and the Chinese race, the Yellow River is called the Mother River. The Yellow River is 5,464 km in length and is the second largest River in China. The average volume of the flow of the Yellow River, 48 billion cubic meters each year, is not more than one-twentieth of the Yangtze’s. Legend has it that a dragon from the river brought to the Chinese the strokes from which the Chinese characters developed. However, the Yellow River is known as China’s sorrow because it has caused countless deaths through its devastating floods. The powerful floods have often changed the course of the river. 3 象征幸福的圆圆的汤圆（dumpling）是在元宵节（Lantern Festival）吃的传统食物。现在，在中国这些汤圆也是一种流行的甜点。汤圆有两种：一种是由白糖和红糖（brown sugar）、带香甜味的桂花（osmanthus）、坚果（nut）和芝麻（sesame seed）做的；另一种有肉和蔬菜馅料（fillings