2023年专八改错题及答案.docVIP

2023年3月专八真题：改错部分 　　The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally or freely．The argument has been going since at least the first （1） ______ 　　century B。C．Up to the beginning of the 19th century， many writers　favoured 　 certain kind of “free translation： the spirit, not the letter; the （2） _______ 　　sense not the word; the message rather the form; the matter not (3） _______ 　　the manner．This is the often revolutionary slogan of writers who (4) _______ wanted the truth to be read and understood．Then in the turn of the 19th (5） ____ 　　century， when the study of cultural anthropology suggested that 　　the linguistic barriers were insuperable and that the language （6) _______ was entirely the product of culture， the view translation was impossible （7） _____ 　　gained some currency, and with it that, if was attempted at all, it must be as （8) __ 　　literal as possible．This view culminated the statement of the (9) _______ 　　extreme “literalists” Walter Benjamin and Vladimir Nobokov. 　　The argument was theoretical: the purpose of the translation, the nature 　　of the readership， the type of the text, was not discussed．Too often， 　　writer, translator and reader were implicitly identified with each other． 　　Now， the context has changed， and the basic problem remains． （10） _____ 　　参照答案： 　　1．going后加on 　　2．certain改为a certain 　　3．rather改为not 　　4．is 改为was 　　5．in 改为 at 　　6．去掉第二个the 　　7．view背面加that 　　8．去掉 was 　　9．culminated背面加in 　　10．and 改为but 2023年3月专八真题：改错部分 From a very early age， perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew I should be a writer。 Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four (1）I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the conscience （2)that I was outraging my true nature and that soon or later I should have to (3)settle down and write books。 ? I was the child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side(4)and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reason