桂林理工大学2020年硕士研究生入学考试试题 A卷

考试科目代码：865

考试科目名称：翻译与写作

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　（总分150分，三小时答完）　　　　　　　 

考生注意：请将答题写在答卷纸上，写在试卷上视为无效。

I．Sentence Translation (30 points)

1．Translate the following sentences into English (15 points).

(1) 我梦见自己正在小学的讲堂上预备作文，向老师请教立论的方法。

 (2) 书房里格外显得清寂，那窗外有蔚蓝如碧海似的青天，和淡金色的阳光。

(3)  温度高，水蒸发得快；温度低，水蒸发得慢。

2. Translate the following sentences into Chinese (15 points).

(1) He did nothing beyond writing a letter.

(2) There is no mo re dependency to be placed on his wo rds than there is on the wind.

(3) The two leaders found it beneficial to have this oppo rtunity, after so many years without contact, to present ca ndidly to one another their views on a variety of issues.

II．Passage Translation (70 points)

1. Translate the following passage into English (35 points)

我做翻译工作有四十多年, 译过二十几本书, 也改过別人的翻译, 教过高级翻译, 承香港翻译学会的情，叫我做他们的名誉会士, 我很感谢。不过说句诚实话, 我不很够资格做翻译, 我的功夫不够我读陆游写给他儿子陆遹的诗, 里面有一句:“汝果欲学诗, 功夫在诗外”, 他的话给了我启示, 就是要学翻译, 和做诗一样, 功夫在翻译外。我说我不够资格, 并不是虚伪的客气话, 是实在的招认。不过虽然不够资格, 对翻译倒有些体验。我体验下来, 虽然知道翻译是怎么回事, 我的资格就有向题了。我的体验是翻译实在太难。
 
2. Translate the following passage into Chinese (35 points)
 
The No rthern states had all outlawed slavery by 1830, but the Southern states, in which slaves had become the backbone of the economy, maintained the institution until it was finally ended by the Civil War, President Lincoln emancipation of slaves in 1863, a nd the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in 1865. But even after the abolition of slavery, wholesale discrimination was practiced against black Americans. Many states passed segregation laws to keep the races apart in schools, housing, restaurants, a nd other public facilities, while institutionalized discrimination kept blacks in the lowest-paid jobs. A variety of methods, such as rigged literacy tests, were used to keep blacks off the voters’ rolls a nd thus prevent them from exercising their political rights. Segregation laws continued to be enfo rced in Southern states until the 1950s: in the No rth info rmal methods were used often just as effectively.

III. Composition (50 points)

Direction: Write a composition with no less than 400 wo rds based on the Chinese saying “千里之行始于足下”.