四川外语学院成都学院翻译系  首届笔译大赛原文及参考译文

试卷1

Part I.  Translate the following into Chinese (60%):

Beauty (excerpt)

①All nature is meant to make us think of paradise,” Thomas Merton observed. ② Because the Creation puts on a nonstop show, beauty is free and inexhaustible, but we need training in order to perceive more than the most obvious kinds. ③ Even 15 billion years or so after the Big Bang, echoes of that event still linger in the form of background radiation, only a few degrees above absolute zero. ④Just so, I believe, the experience of beauty is an echo of the order and power that permeate the universe. ⑤ To measure background radiation, we need subtle instruments; to measure beauty, we need alert intelligence and our five keen senses.

“自然界的一切不过是让人想见天堂。”托马斯.默顿观后感言。上苍使得万事万物生生不息，那么美也自由自在、无穷无尽。除开那些最为显而易见的美丽，我们还需接受训练，以便感知其它形式的美。宇宙大爆炸后已过大约150亿年之久，而爆炸的回声以背景辐射的形式，尚未消散(仍然萦绕在….)，尽管(其温度)仅仅比绝对零度稍高几度。我深信，对美的体验也正是如此，它是弥漫在整个宇宙间秩序与力量的回声。测量背景辐射，我们需要精密仪器；而感知美丽，我们依靠敏捷的思维和五种敏锐的感官。

①Anyone with eyes can take delight in a face or a flower. ②You need training, however, to perceive the beauty in mathematics or physics or chess, in the architecture of a tree, the design of a bird's wing, or the shiver of breath through a flute. ③ For most of human history, the training has come from elders who taught the young how to pay attention. ④ By paying attention, we learn to savor all sorts of patterns, from quantum mechanics to patchwork quilts. ⑤ This predilection brings with it a clear evolutionary advantage, for the ability to recognize patterns helped our ancestors to select mates, find food, avoid predators. ⑥ But the same advantage would apply to all species, and yet we alone compose symphonies and crossword puzzles, carve stone into statues, map time and space.

任何人凭借双眼都可能对一张脸，一朵花产生愉悦之情。而要体会到数学、物理、棋类游戏、树木结构、鸟翼构造或者穿笛而过的气息的颤动所蕴涵的美，我们则需要训练。历史上，这种训练大多由老者进行，他们教导年轻人集中注意力。我们通过注意力的集中，学会怎样体味从量子力学到拼织而成的被子的形形色色的模式。这种爱好(偏好，嗜好)在人类进化过程中，具有显而易见的优点。这种可以辨认不同模式的能力曾经帮助我们的祖先选择配偶，发现食物，躲避野兽。任何生物都可具有利用这种优势，但只有人类能够谱写交响乐，编排字谜游戏，雕刻石像，描绘时空。

① Have we merely carried our animal need for shrewd perceptions to an absurd extreme? ② Or have we stumbled onto a deep congruence between the structure of our minds and the structure of the universe?

是不是我们仅仅把动物对于敏锐感官的需要发挥到了可笑的极至呢？还是我们误入了心灵(智力，头脑)与宇宙结构上高度一致的深渊呢？

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Part II. Translate the following into English (40%):

忘了过去就是犯罪

冯亦代

①日本军国主义的残余到今天还拒不承认日本帝国主义侵略中国和亚洲的事实,②但作为一个中国人的我,却不能忘却日本军人对中国人民犯下的血债。③抗战八年,中国人死了二千多万,单是南京屠城就杀害了三十万,而且大都是老弱妇孺，④日本军人犯下的弥天大罪有事实为证,特别是那些亲身参加杀戮、活埋、奸污、残害的凶犯,时至今日,他们天良发现承认了自己的罪行并表示忏悔,⑤这又岂是那些军国主义残余分子和政客所能掩盖抹杀的。

①在此八年日帝的铁蹄在中国大陆横行的时候,我的亲属在日帝的轰炸、占领下死掉的就有三人之多。②今天我已进入耄耋之年,但是偶一合眼,还能见到他们的容颜。③日本的刽子手可以拿忠君爱国作挡箭牌,遮掩他们的兽行,但受日本侵略的中国人民却是永远不会忘记的。

Today remnants of the Japanese militarists still refuse to admit the aggression against China and other Asian countries by Japanese imperialism. As a Chinese, however, I can never forget the blood debts owed by the Japanese military to the Chinese people. During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japan, Japanese troops killed a total of more than 20 million Chinese. In the Rape of Nanking alone, they slaughtered as many as 300,000, most of them old and weak and women and children. The monstrous crimes of the Japanese military have been evidenced by hard facts. And what's more, some Japanese ex-soldiers who took part in massacres, .brutal acts of burying people alive, rapes or murders, have now been aroused by conscience to con- fess their crimes and show repentance. Could all that be covered up or blotted out by remnants of the Japanese militarists and a handful of Japanese politicians?

During the eight years when the Japanese invaders were running amok in China, they took the lives of three of my relatives. Today, in my declining years, I can still occasionally recall their features distinctly. No matter how hard the Japanese butchers may try to gloss over their wartime savagery in the name of patriotism or loyalty to the Mikado, the people of China will never forget their past crimes.

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试卷2

Part I.  Translate the following into Chinese (70%):

 Life in a Violin Case

Alexander Bloch

①The turning point of my life was my decision to give up a promising business career and study music. ②My parents, although sympathetic, and sharing my love of music, disapproved of it as a profession. ③This was understandable in view of the family background. ④My grandfather had taught music for nearly forty years at Springhill College in Mobile and, though much beloved and respected in the community, earned barely enough to provide for his large family. ⑤My father often said it was only the hardheaded thriftiness of my grandmother that kept the wolf at bay. ⑥As a consequence of this example in the family, the very mention of music as a profession carried with it a picture of a precarious existence with uncertain financial rewards. ⑦My parents insisted upon college instead of a conservatory of music, and to college I went -quite happily, as I remember, for although I loved my violin and spent most of my spare time practicing, I had many other interests.

①Before my graduation from Columbia, the family met with severe financial reverses and I felt it my duty to leave college and take a job. ②Thus was I launched upon a business career.

①Now do not for a moment mean to disparage business. ② My whole point is that it was not for me. ③I went into it for money, and aside from the satisfaction of being able to help the family, money is all I got out of it. ④It was not enough. I felt that life was passing me by. ⑤From being merely discontented I became acutely miserable. ⑥My one ambition was to save enough to quit and go to Europe to study music. ⑦I used to get up at dawn to practice before I left for "downtown", distracting my poor mother by bolting a hasty breakfast at the last minute. ⑧Instead of lunching with my business associates, I would seek out some cheap cafe, order a meager meal and scribble my harmony exercises.⑨ I continued to make money, and finally, bit by bit, accumulated enough to enable me to go abroad. ⑩ The family being once more solvent, and my help no longer necessary, I resigned from my position and, feeling like a man released from jail, sailed for Europe. ⑾I stayed four years, worked harder than I had ever dreamed of working before and enjoyed every minute of it.

 

1.情系小提琴

亚历山大·布洛克

我人生的转折点,是我决定放弃可望发迹的经商之路,而去学音乐。父母尽管能谅解我,也像我一样喜爱音乐,但却反对我以音乐为职业。从我的家庭背景来看,这也能理解。我祖父在莫比尔的斯普林希尔学院教了近40年音乐,虽然在社区内深受爱戴和尊敬,可挣的钱难以养活一大家人。父亲常说:若不是祖母精打细算,省吃俭用,一家人非得忍饥挨饿不可。由于家中已有这样的前车之鉴,谁要是一提起以音乐为职业,大家就会联想起那收入不稳定、生活无保障的境况。父母坚持要我上大学,不让我进音乐学院,这样我就上了大学。我记得当时还挺高兴的,因为虽说我热爱小提琴,大部分课余时间都用在练琴上,我毕竟还有不少其他爱好。

没等我从哥伦比亚大学毕业,家里遇到了严重的经济困难,我感到自己有责任退学找工作。于是我被推上了生意场。

我丝毫没有贬低做生意的意思,我只是觉得我不适合这一行。我做生意是为了赚钱,除了能为补贴家用而感到满足之外,我从中得到的仅仅是钱。这是不够的。我觉得自己没有受到生活的眷顾。原本我只是不满意,后来就变得痛苦不堪。我惟一的抱负是攒足钱就洗手不干,到欧洲去学习音乐。我天天黎明即起,赶在去"商业区"上班之前先练琴,练到最后一刻才匆匆吞咽下几口早饭,惹得我那可怜的妈妈好生惶惑不安。午饭也不跟同事们一起吃,而是找一个便宜的餐馆,简单吃一点,随便编一些和声练习。我不停地挣钱,终于一点点地攒够了可以出国的钱。这时我的家庭状况又有好转,不再需要我的资助,我便辞职不干了,感觉自己像个刚出狱的囚犯,乘船奔赴欧洲。我在欧洲呆了4年,学习比我以往想像的还要刻苦,然而时时刻刻都觉得很快乐。

 

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Part II. Translation the following into English (30%):

守株待兔

①一天，宋国有个农夫在耕地。②忽然，他看见一只兔子飞也似地跑过来，一头碰在树干上，折断了脖子，当场咽了气，③农夫没费力气自捡了一只兔子，心里非常高兴。④从此，,他不再种地了, 整天守着这棵大树，眼巴巴地盼着再捡一只这样的兔子，⑤整整一年过去了, 农夫什么也没等着，⑥回头看着地里，却长满了杂草，一片荒芜, ⑦他成了宋国的笑柄。

 

2. Stump Watching

One day, a farmer of the kingdom of Sung was ploughing the field. Suddenly, he saw a rabbit dash into a tree trunk. The rabbit broke its neck and died instantly. The farmer was very glad that he got a rabbit without effort. From that day, he left his ploughing and kept watching by the big tree all day long in hopes of getting another rabbit this way. But a whole year passed and he got none. Looking back, he saw the field lie waste, overrun with weeds. He became a laughingstock of Sung.

 

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