【浙江财经学院2012年考研专业课真题】专业综合(外国语)2012.pdfVIP

2012 年攻读浙江财经学院硕士学位研究生入学考试试题 科目代码： 881 科目名称：专业综合 答案请写答题纸上 Part One Translation (90 points) I. Put the English passage into Chinese (45 points). A reader in Florida, apparently bruised by some personal experience, writes in to complain “if I steal a nickel ’s worth of merchandise, I am a thief and punished; but if I steal the love of another ’s wife, I am free. ” This is a prevalent misconception in many people ’s minds that love, like merchandise, can be “stolen. ” Numerous states, in fact, have enacted laws allowing damages for “alienation of affections. ” But love is not a commodity; the real thing cannot be bought, sold, traded or stolen. It is an act of the will, a turning of the emotions, a change in the climate of the personality. When a husband or wife is “stolen ” by another person, that husband or wife was already ripe for the stealing, was already predisposed toward a new partner. The “lovebandit ” was only taking what was waiting to be taken, what wanted to be taken. We tend to treat persons like goods. We ever speak of children “ to their parents. But nobody “belongs ” to anyone else; each person belongs to himself, and to God. Children are entrusted to their parents, and if their parents do not treat them properly, the state has a right to remove from their parents trusteeship. Most of us, when young, had the experience of a sweetheart being taken from us by somebody more attractive and more appealing. At the time, we may have resented this intruder -- but as we grew older, we recognized that the sweetheart had never been ours to begin with. It was not the intruder that “caused ” the break, but the lack of a real relationship. On the surface, many marri