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北 京 外 国 语 大 学
2005 年 硕 士 研 究 生 入 学 考 试 英 语 翻 译 理 论 与 实 践 专 业 试 题
I. Translate the following passage into Chinese, using the answer sheet provided. (40% )
D eath in the O pen
Lewis Thomas (1913 － )
M ost of the dead animals you see on highways near the cities are dogs, a few cats. O ut in the
countryside. the forms and colouring of the dead are strange ； these are the wild creatures. Seen
from a car window they appear as fragments, evoking memories of woodchucks, badgers, skunks,
voles, snakes, sometimes the mysterious wreckage of a deer.
It is always a queer shock, part a sudden upwelling of grief, part unaccountable amazement.
It is simply astounding to see an animal dead on a highway The outrage is more than just the
location； it is the impropriety of such visible death, anywhere. You do not ex pect to see dead
animals in the open. It is the nature of animals to die alone. off somewhere, hidden. It is wrong to
see them lying out on the highway； it is wrong to see them anywhere .
Everything in the world dies, but we only know about it as a kind of abstraction. If you stand
in a meadow, at the edge of a hillside, and look around carefully, almost everything you can catch
sight of is in the process of dying, and most things w ill be dead long before you are. If it were not
for the constant renewal and replacement going on before your eyes, the whole place would turn
to stone and sand under your feet.
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A nimals seem to have an instinct for performing death alone, hidden. Even the largest, most
conspicuous ones find ways to conceal themselves in time. If an elephant missteps and dies in an
open place, the herd will not leave him there； the others will pick him up and carry the body from
place to place, finally putting it down in some inexplicably suitable location. W hen elephants
encounter the skeleton of an elephant out in the open, they methodically take up each of the bones
and distribute them, in a ponderous ceremony, over neighbouring acres.
It is a natural marvel. A 11 of the 1ife of the earth dies. all of the time. in the same volume as
the new life that dazzles us each morning, each spring. All we see of this is the odd stump, the fly
struggling on the porch floor of the summer house in O ctober, the fragment on the highway. I have
lived all my life w ith an embarrassment of squirrel in my backyard, they are all over the place, all
year long, and I have never seen, anywhere, a dead squirre1.
II. Translate the following passage into Chinese, using the answer sheet provided (40% )
Thoughts in Westminster A bbey
Joseph A ddison (1672— 1719)
W hen I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster A bbey； where
the gloominess of the place, and the use which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building,
and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or
rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the
churchyard, the cloisters, and the church., amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions
that I met with in those several regions of the dead. M ost of them recorded nothing else of the
buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another： the whole history of his
life being comprehended in those two circumstances, that are common to all mankind I could not
but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the
departed persons； who had left no other memorial of them, but that they were born and that they
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