江西省第七屆英語翻譯大賽

1、江西省第七屆英語翻譯大賽（初賽）試題（2015-9-24）1、請將下列短文譯成漢語（50）分：All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply available to all of us within the covers of books-but we must know how to avail ourselves of this treasure and how to get the most from it.I am

2、 most interested in people, in meeting them and finding out about them.Some of the most remarkable people Ive met existed only in a writers imagination, then on the pages of his book,and then,again,in my imagination.Ive found in books new friends, new societies, new worlds.If I am interested in peop

3、le, others are interested not so much in who as in how.Who in the books includes everybody from science-fiction superman two hundred centuries in the future all the way back to the first figures in history. How covers everything from the ingenious explanations of Sherlock Holmes to the discoveries o

4、f science and ways of teaching manners to children.Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun ,not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work.

5、 Your own imagination works along with the authors or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his ,brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in library are like houses in

6、a city.Although they are separate, together they all add up to something; they are connected with each other and with other cities. The same ideas, or related ones, turn up in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature, but with different solu

7、tions according to different writings at different times.Reading can only be fun if you expect ti to be. If you concentrate on books somebody tells you “ought” to read, you probably wont have fun. But if you put down a book you dont like and try another till you find one that means something to you

8、,and then relax with it,you will almost certainly have a good time-and if you become as a result of reading, better, wiser, kinder,or more gentle, you wont have suffered during the process.2、請將下列短文譯成英語（50）分從朋友口中，聽到一則軼事。電子學教授程之藩當年自美國來香港中文大學履新，臨行之前，與夫人在家中整理行裝。陳教授夫婦有一套精美的茶具，收拾行裝時，一不小心，打破了一只茶杯。一般人的反應，一定是感到十分心疼，好端端的成套茶具，打破一只杯如何去配？誰知陳教授的反應卻不然，他莞爾一笑，坦然地說：“真不錯，又多了一只碟子！”凡事從好處想，這種能耐，在現(xiàn)實生活中，確能使人受益無窮。程之藩教授不但是位杰出的科學家，也是為了不起的散文家，他的一些散文集，清新雋永，當年曾使我折服不已。如今回想起來，令我驚嘆的，不僅僅是他那優(yōu)美的文筆，而是字里行間流露出來的睿智與巧思。人生不如意事常八九，這是一句老話，老得幾乎令人不想再重復，可是生命的旅程，行行復行行，在漫長的旅途上，