北京外国语大学2005年英语翻译理论及实践.pdfVIP

北京外国语大学 2005 年硕士研究生入学考试英语翻译理论与实践专业试题 I. Translate the following passage into Chinese, using the answer sheet provided.(40%) Death in the Open Lewis Thomas (1913 －) Most of the dead animals you see on highways near the cities are dogs, a few cats. Out in the countryside. the forms and colouring of the dead are strange ；these are the wild creatures. Seen from a car window they appear as fragments, evoking memories of woodchucks, badgers, skunks, voles, snakes, sometimes the mysterious wreckage of a deer. It is always a queer shock, part a sudden upwelling of grief, part unaccountable amazement. It is simply astounding to see an animal dead on a highway The outrage is more than just the location ；it is the impropriety of such visible death, anywhere. You do not expect to see dead animals in the open. It is the nature of animals to die alone. off somewhere, hidden. It is wrong to see them lying out on the highway；it is wrong to see them anywhere . Everything in the world dies, but we only know about it as a kind of abstraction. If you stand in a meadow, at the edge of a hillside, and look around carefully, almost everything you can catch sight of is in the process of dying, and most things will be dead long before you are. If it were not for the constant renewal and replacement going on before your eyes, the whole place would turn to stone and sand under your feet. …… Animals seem to have an instinct for performing death alone, hidden. Even the largest, most conspicuous ones find ways to conceal themselves in time. If an elephant missteps and dies in an open place, the herd will not leave him there ；the others will pick him up and carry the body from place to place, finally putting it down in some inexplicably suitable loca