专八翻译真题概要1.doc

The translation section in Band 8 Exam for English majors （一）题型本题为两项：Section A及Section B。考试时间共计60分钟。Section A：A项由一段300词左右的汉语短文所组成，其中有一段150词左右的段落被底线划出。要求根据上下文将此段译成英语。Section B：B项由一段300词左右的短文所组成，其中有一段150词左右的段落被底线划出。要求根据上下文将此段译成汉语。 （二）测试要求汉译英项目要求应试者运用汉译英的理论与技巧，翻译我国报刊杂志上的论述文和国情介绍，以及一般文学作品的节录。速度为每小时约250汉字。译文必须忠实原意，语言通顺。英译汉项目要求应试者运用英译汉的理论与技巧，翻译英、美报刊杂志上的有关政治、经济、历史、文化等方面的论述以及文学原著的节录。速度为每小时约250词。译文要求忠实原意，语言流畅。（三）历年真题 2004 在人际关系问题上我们不要太浪漫主义。人是很有趣的，往往在接触一个人时首先看到的都是他或她的优点。这一点颇像是在餐馆里用餐的经验。开始吃头盘或冷碟的时候，印象很好。吃头两个主菜时，也是赞不绝口。愈吃愈趋于冷静，吃完了这顿筵席，缺点就都找出来了。于是转喜为怒，转赞美为责备挑剔，转首肯为摇头。这是因为，第一，开始吃的时候你正处于饥饿状态，而饿了吃糠甜加蜜，饱了吃蜜也不甜。第二，你初到一个餐馆，开始举筷时有新鲜感，新盖的茅房三天香，这也可以叫做“陌生化效应”。 For me the most interesting thing about a solitary life, and mine has been that for the last twenty years, is that it becomes increasingly rewarding. When I can wake up and watch the sun rise over the ocean, as I do most days, and know that I have an entire day ahead, uninterrupted, in which to write a few pages, take a walk with my dog, read and listen to music, I am flooded with happiness. I am lonely only when I am overtired , when I have worked too long without a break, when for the time being I feel empty and need filling up. And I am lonely sometimes when I come back home after a lecture trip, when I have seen a lot of people and talked a lot, and am full to the brim with experience that needs to be sorted out. Then for a little while the house feels huge and empty, and I wonder where my self is hiding. It has to be recaptured slowly by watering the plants and, perhaps, by looking again at each one as though it were a person. It takes a while, as I watch the surf blowing up in fountains, but the moment comes when the world falls away, and the self emerges again from the deep unconscious, bring back all I have recently experienced to be explored and slowly understood. 2015 花茶（camellia）的自然花期在12月至翌年4月，以红色为主系，另有黄色系和白色系，花色艳丽。本届花展充分展示了花茶的品种资源和科研水平，是近三年来本市规模最大的一届花茶。为了使广大植物爱好者有更多与花茶亲密接触的机会，本届花茶展的布展范围延伸至整个园区，为赏花游客带来便利。 此次花展历时2个