2017英語(yǔ)翻譯考試中級(jí)練習(xí)題及答案
試題一：
The first outline of The Ascent of Man was written in July 1969and the last foot of film was shot in December 1972. An undertaking aslarge as this, though wonderfully exhilarating, is not entered lightly. It demands an unflagging intellectual and physical vigour, a total immersion, which I had to be sure that I could sustain with pleasure; for instance, Ihad to put off researches that I had already begun; and I ought to explai-n what moved me to do so.
There has been a deep change in the temper of science in the last20 years: the focus of attention has shifted from the physical to the life sciences. As a result, science is drawn more and more to the study of in-dividuality. But the interested spectator is hardly aware yet how far-reaching the effect is in changing the image of man that science moulds. Asa mathematician trained in physics, I too would have been unaware, had not a series of lucky chances taken me into the life sciences in middle age. I owe a debt for the good fortune that carried me into two seminal fields of science in one lifetime; and though I do not know to whom the debt is due, I conceived The Ascent of Man in gratitude to repay it.
The invitation to me from the British Broadcasting Corporation was to present the development of science in a series of television programmes to match those of Lord Clark on Civilisation. Television is an admirable medium- for exposition in several ways: powerful and immediate to the eye, able to take the spectator bodily into the places and processes that are described, and conversational enough to make him conscious that what he witnesses are not events but the actions of people. The last of these merits is to my mind the most cogent, and it weighed most with me in agreeing to cast a personal biography of ideas in the form of television essays. The point is that knowledge in general and science in particular does not consist of abstract but of man-made ideas, all the way from its beginnings to its modern and idiosyncratic models. Therefore the underlying concepts that unlock nature must be shown to arise early and in the simplest cultures of man from his basic and specific faculties. And the development of science which joins them in more and more complex conjunctions must be seen to be equally human: discoveries are made by men, not merely by minds, so that they are alive and charged with individuality. If television is not used to make these thoughts concrete, it is wasted.
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不是因?yàn)槲覀兒ε驴吹剿麜?huì)因失誤而給他輝煌的生涯畫(huà)上遺憾的一筆。從善意的角度說(shuō)，我們想讓邁克知道，我們?nèi)匀恍蕾p他，至少在我們的記憶中，他仍然是英雄。事實(shí)上，我們不想讓他重返球場(chǎng)，即使他是邁克爾·喬丹。我們覺(jué)得這是個(gè)貿(mào)然之舉，我們不想看到自信的商標(biāo)蛻變成一種自負(fù)的象征。我們不想讓他重返球場(chǎng)，因?yàn)闆](méi)有人喜歡賣(mài)弄。失誤呢?那將會(huì)很有趣。
但是我們是有著225年樂(lè)觀歷史的美國(guó)人，我們都是好心人。當(dāng)喬丹幾天前宣布他將在九月重返NBA時(shí)，我們?cè)鵀橹徽�。宣布的前一天，他說(shuō)過(guò)：“我盼望能打球，并希望事情能如愿以?xún)�。有些人懷疑，有些人緊張，都屬正常�！薄稌r(shí)代》周刊和美國(guó)有線(xiàn)新聞網(wǎng)上周做的一項(xiàng)民意調(diào)查表明，每?jī)蓚�(gè)美國(guó)人當(dāng)中就有一個(gè)人希望喬丹盡快重返賽場(chǎng)。只有21%的人們認(rèn)為，如果他的重返導(dǎo)致一場(chǎng)徹底失敗，將會(huì)損害他的傳奇。事實(shí)上只有28%的人認(rèn)為運(yùn)動(dòng)員應(yīng)該在他的運(yùn)動(dòng)巔峰時(shí)期引退。
與喬丹關(guān)系密切的人告訴《時(shí)代》周刊，當(dāng)喬丹第一次談到重返它與其他人共同擁有的華盛頓奇才隊(duì)并為之效力時(shí)，一些他最信任的顧問(wèn)試圖私下打消他的愿望�！暗麄冋f(shuō)，如果試圖阻止他，只能鑒定他的決心，”一位NBA人士如是說(shuō)。
喬丹復(fù)出所產(chǎn)生的問(wèn)題不僅僅在于他不可能重現(xiàn)1998年的神話(huà)，那一年，他以一個(gè)精彩的最后一秒投籃，使球隊(duì)贏得了冠軍，也為自己贏得了第六只金指環(huán)。問(wèn)題是他重返的動(dòng)機(jī)——他需要人們的關(guān)注，需要在38歲體力不支時(shí)，仍然打球。這一切都有悖于他所創(chuàng)造的神話(huà)——一個(gè)展示絕對(duì)控制力的神話(huà)。如果說(shuō)二十世紀(jì)的第一個(gè)球星巴比·魯斯是一個(gè)身材魁梧肥胖的魯莽之夫和酒鬼天才，喬丹則證明了剛毅所能帶來(lái)的優(yōu)雅風(fēng)度，并以此結(jié)束了二十世紀(jì)。巴比對(duì)觀眾的頤指氣使被喬丹無(wú)奈聳肩的魅力所取代。喬丹代表著成功，因?yàn)樗拿譀](méi)有被他的政治傾向、他的觀點(diǎn)或是他的超級(jí)明星個(gè)性所玷污。喬丹迷就是典雅和自信迷。
試題二：
It’s not that we are afraid of seeing him stumble, of scribbling a mustache over his career. Sure, the nice part of us wants Mike to know we appreciate him, that he still reigns, at least in our memory. The truth, though, is that we don’t want him to come back because even for Michael Jordan, this would be an act of hubris so monumental as to make his trademark confidence twist into conceit. We don’t want him back on the court because no one likes a show-off. The stumbling? That will be fun.
But we are nice people, we Americans, with 225 years of optimism at our backs. Days ago when M.J. said he had made a decision about returning to the NBA in September, we got excited. He had said the day before, “I look forward to playing, and hopefully I can get to that point where I can make that decision. It’s O.K., to have some doubt, and it’s O.K. to have some nervousness.” A Time/CNN poll last week has Americans, 2 to 1, saying they would like him on the court ASAP. And only 21 percent thought that if he came back and just completely bombed, it would damage his legend. In fact only 28 percent think athletes should retire at their peak.
Sources close to him tell Time that when Jordan first talked about a comeback with the Washington Wizards, the team Jordan co-owns and would play for, some of his trusted advisers privately tried to discourage him. “But they say if they try to stop him, it will only firm up his resolve,” says an NBA source.
The problem with Jordan’s return is not only that he can’t possibly live up to the storybook ending he gave up in 1998 — earning his sixth ring with a last-second championship-winning shot. The problem is that the motives for coming back — needing the attention, needing to play even when his 38-year-old body does not — violate the very myth of Jordan, the myth of absolute control. Babe Ruth, the 20th century’s first star, was a gust of fat bravado and drunken talent, while Jordan ended the century by proving the elegance of resolve; Babe’s pointing to the bleachers replaced by the charm of a backpedaling shoulder shrug. Jordan symbolized success by not sullying his brand with his politics, his opinion or superstar personality. To be a Jordan fan was to be a fan of classiness and confidence.
To come back when he knows that playing for Wizards won’t get him anywhere near the second round of the play-offs, when he knows that he won’t be the league scoring leader, that’s a loss of control.
Jordan does not care what we think. Friends say that he takes articles that tell him not to come back and tacks them all on his refrigerator as inspiration. So why bother writing something telling him not to come back? He is still Michael Jordan.
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《人類(lèi)的進(jìn)程》一書(shū)的提綱初稿是1969年7月完成的，影片的最后一部分是在1972年12月拍攝的。像這樣大的一個(gè)項(xiàng)目，雖然異常精彩，令人激動(dòng)，卻并不是輕易上馬的。它要求我保持旺盛的腦力和體力，專(zhuān)心致志地投入工作。我必須確保持之以恒，并從中得到樂(lè)趣;比方說(shuō)，我不得不停下已經(jīng)開(kāi)始的研究工作;我還應(yīng)當(dāng)說(shuō)明一下，究竟是什么促使我承擔(dān)這項(xiàng)工作的。
二十年來(lái)，科學(xué)的發(fā)展趨勢(shì)發(fā)生了深刻的變化：關(guān)注的焦點(diǎn)已經(jīng)從自然科轉(zhuǎn)移到生命科學(xué)。結(jié)果，便把科學(xué)越來(lái)越吸引到個(gè)體特征的研究上來(lái)。然而感興趣的旁觀者幾乎沒(méi)有意識(shí)到此事對(duì)于改變科學(xué)塑造的人的形象產(chǎn)生了多么深遠(yuǎn)的影響。我是一個(gè)研究數(shù)學(xué)的人，以前學(xué)過(guò)物理學(xué)，若不是中年有幸有幾次機(jī)會(huì)涉足生命科學(xué)，我也不會(huì)有所認(rèn)識(shí)。我應(yīng)當(dāng)感謝我交的好運(yùn)，是它使我在一生中參與了兩個(gè)啟發(fā)性的科學(xué)領(lǐng)域。盡管我并不知道應(yīng)該向誰(shuí)表示感謝，我編寫(xiě)了《人類(lèi)的進(jìn)程》一書(shū)，以表示我的感激之情。
英國(guó)廣播公司邀請(qǐng)我做的是通過(guò)一套電視節(jié)目來(lái)表現(xiàn)科學(xué)的發(fā)展過(guò)程，以與克拉克勛爵制作的關(guān)于文明的電視節(jié)目相匹配。通過(guò)電視來(lái)進(jìn)行解說(shuō)有幾大好處：它有力、直觀，能使觀眾身臨其境或親身參與所描述的過(guò)程，它的語(yǔ)言親切，能使觀眾覺(jué)得他所看到的是人們的行動(dòng)而不是事件。這些優(yōu)點(diǎn)之中，我認(rèn)為最后一點(diǎn)最為突出，它是一股最大的動(dòng)力促使我同意以電視散文的方式從個(gè)人的角度來(lái)講述各種思想的發(fā)展史。重要的是知識(shí)總體，尤其是科學(xué)知識(shí)不是由抽象的思想構(gòu)成的，而是由人的思想構(gòu)成的，自有知識(shí)開(kāi)始直到現(xiàn)代千奇百怪的模式莫不是如此。所以介紹打開(kāi)自然界之門(mén)的基本思想，必須表現(xiàn)出它們很早就已產(chǎn)生，而且是產(chǎn)生在人類(lèi)最淳樸的文化之中，產(chǎn)生于人類(lèi)基本的、具體的感官之中。同時(shí)還必須表現(xiàn)出使種種思想形成越來(lái)越復(fù)雜的結(jié)合體的科學(xué)的發(fā)展也同樣是人類(lèi)的貢獻(xiàn)：種種發(fā)現(xiàn)都是人的產(chǎn)物，而不僅僅是頭腦的產(chǎn)物，因此它們都是有生氣的，而且具有個(gè)人的特色。如果電視未能把這些思想表現(xiàn)得很具體，那豈不是浪費(fèi)!
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