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汉译英 中国的文学 中文原文： 与舞蹈和音乐相伴的歌谣跟口头流传的神话，远在文字出现之前就已大量产生。中国 的文学正是发端于此。 不过歌谣本是人们在生活中随兴而发的东西， 上古时代也没有保存和 记载它们的手段， 因之也就很快湮灭， 不留痕迹。 我们只能从一些古籍书中推断它们的存在。 古书中记载了一些据称年代非常久远的歌谣， 但是大多出于后人的伪托， 能够断定朝代的歌 谣要到《诗经》里才能看见。从这点来看，古代神话对中国文学的影响更为显著。 参考译文： Long before the emergence of the written word, ballads, accompanied by music and dance,and myths, passed around by word of mouth, were widely popular. Chinese literat ure findsits origins in these traditions. However, ballads were what people improvised out of daily life, anddue to lack of means to record and preserve them in ancient times, they quickly disappearedwithout leaving much of a trace. Today, we can only deduce their ex istence from ancient books,which recorded some time-honored ballads, though most of t hese are belived to be derivatives oflater generations. Ballads in the Book of Songs are th e earliest writings that can be dated. From thispoint of view, ancient mythology obviously has had a great influence on Chinese literature. 汉译英《追忆往事》 中文原文： 老太太总以自家花园里那棵高大的玫瑰树为荣。她非常喜欢告诉别人，数年前她初次 结婚时从罗马带回来的枝条， 是如何长成如今这般高大的。 那时， 她与丈夫乘马车从罗马旅 行归来 (那时还没有火车 ) ，途经锡耶那南部的崎岖路段时，马车坏了，他们被迫就宿于路边 的小屋里。住宿条件当然非常差；她一夜未能安眠，一早便起身穿好衣服，立于窗前，感受 着扑面而来的席席凉风， 等待着黎明的到来。 事隔多年， 她仍然记得那情景。 明月高悬在青 山群峦之上， 远处山峰上的小镇逐渐明亮起来， 月亮慢慢消退， 晨曦把群山涂得粉红。 突然 之间，一束阳光照亮了城镇。城里的窗户相继明亮起来，反射出耀眼的光芒。最后，整个小 城宛若繁星，在天空中不停闪烁。 参考译文： The old lady had always been proud of the great rose-tree in her garden, and was f ond oftelling how it had grown from a cutting she had brought years before from Italy, w hen she wasfirst married. She and her husband had been travelling back in their carriage from Rome ( it wasbefore the time of railways ) and on a b