2018年华南理工大学357英语翻译基础考研真题.pdf

1、3572018( )1I. Translate each of the following statements into Chinese (50):1. John saw the writing on the wall for the British car industry two decades ago. 2. Without tools man is nothing, with tools, he is all.3. There is a mixture of the tiger and the ape in the character of Trump. 4. Snow was tr

2、eated very shabbily by the U.S. press and officialdom during this period, victimized for his views. 5. Our journey has brought us halfway across northern China. 6. I was, and remain, grateful for the part he played in my election. 7. Rainbows are formed when sunlight passes through small drops of wa

3、ter in the sky.8. Greenland is not a continent, as people thought. 9. He was a bit of a dog in his younger days.10.It was another one of those Catch-II. Translate each of the following statements into English (50):1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.2III. Translate each of the following underlined parts into Engli

4、sh 30 :131960 56 1323453IV. Translate the following underlined parts into Chinese 20 :After damning politicians up hill and down dale for many years, as, rogues and vagabonds, frauds and scoundrels, I sometimes suspect that, like everyone else, I often expect too much of them. Though faith and confi

5、dence are surely more or less foreign to my nature, I not infrequently find myself looking to them to be able, diligent, candid, and even honest. Plainly enough, that is too large an order, as anyone must realize who reflects upon the manner in which they reach public office. They seldom if ever get

6、 there by merit alone, at least in democratic states. Sometimes, to be sure, it happens, but only by a kind of miracle. They are chosen normally for quite different reasons, the chief of which is simply their power to impress and enchant the intellectually underprivileged. It is a talent like any ot

7、her, and when it is exercised by a radio crooner, a movie actor or a bishop, it even takes on a certain austere and sorry respectability. But it is obviously not identical with a capacity of the intricate problems of statecraft.Those problems demand for their solution when they are soluble at all, w

8、hich is not often a high degree of technical proficiency, and with it there should go an adamantine kind of integrity, for the temptations of a public official are almost as cruel as those of a glamour girl or a dipsomaniac. But we train a man for facing them, not by locking him up in a monastery an

9、d stuffing him with wisdom and virtue, but by turning him loose on the stump. If he is a smart and enterprising fellow, which he usually is, he quickly discovers there that hooey pleases the boobs a great dealmore than sense. Indeed, he finds that sense really disquiets and alarms them that it makes

10、 them, at best, intolerably uncomfortable, just as a tight collar makes them uncomfortable, or a speck of dust in the eye, or the thought of Hell. The truth, to the overwhelming majority of mankind, is indistinguishable from a headache. After trying a few shots of it on his customers, the larval sta

11、tesman concludes sadly that it must hurt them, and after that he taps a more humane keg, and in a little while the whocome in the candidate is on his way to the White House.I hope no one will mistake this brief account of the political process under democracy for exaggeration. It is almost literally

12、 true. I do not mean to argue, remember, that all politicians are villains in the sense that a burglar, a child-stealer, or a Darwinian are villains. Far from it. Many of them, in their private characters, are very charming persons, and I have known plentytrust with my diamonds, my daughter or my li

13、berty, if I had any such things. I 4happen to be acquainted to some extent with nearly all the gentlemen, both Democrats and Republicans, who are currently itching for the Presidency, including the present incumbent, and I testify freely that they are all pleasant fellows, with qualities above rathe

14、r than below the common. The worst of them is a great deal better company than most generals in the army, or writers of murder mysteries, or astrophysicists, and the best is a really superior and wholly delightful man full of sound knowledge, competent and prudent, frank and enterprising, and quite

15、as honest as any American can be without being clapped ot in politics. I can only tell you that he has been in public life a long while, and has not been caught yet.But will this prodigy, or any of his rivals, ever unload any appreciable amount of sagacity on the stump? Will any of them venture to t

16、ell the plain truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the situation of the country, foreign or domestic? Will any of them refrain from promises that he knows he that no human being could fulfill? Will any of them utter a word, however obvious, that will alarm and alienate any of the h

17、uge packs of morons who now cluster at the public trough, wallowing in the pap that grows thinner and thinner, hoping against hope? Answer maybe for a few weeks at the start. Maybe before the campaign really begins.Maybe behind the door.But not after the issue is fairly joined, and the struggle is o

18、n in earnest. From that moment they will all resort to demagogy, and by the middle of June of election year the only choice among them will be a choice between amateurs of that science and professionals.They will all promise every man, woman and child in the country whatever o make the rich poor, to

19、 remedy the irremediable, to succor the unsuccorable, to unscramble the unscrambleable, to dephlogisticate the undephlogisticable. They will all be curing warts by saying words over them, and paying off the national debt with money that no one will have to earn. When one of them demonstrates that tw

20、ice two is five, another will prove that it is six, six and a half, ten, twenty, n. In brief, they will divest themselves of their character as sensible, candid and truthful men, and become simply candidates for office, bent only on collaring know it now, that votes are collared under democracy, not

21、 by talking sense but by talking nonsense, and they will apply themselves to the job with a hearty yo-heave-ho. Most of them, before the uproar is over, will actually convince 5themselves. The winner will be whoever promises the most with the least probability of delivering anything.Some years ago I

22、 accompanied a candidate for the Presidency on his campaign-tour. He was, like all such rascals, an amusing fellow, and I came to like him very much. His speeches, at the start, were full of fire. He was going to save the country from all the stupendous frauds and false pretenses of his rival. Every

23、 time that rival offered to rescue another million of poor fish from the neglects and oversights of God he howled his derision from the back platform of his train. I noticed at once that these blasts of common sense got very little applause, and after a while the candidate began to notice it too. Wo

24、rse, he began to get word from his spies on the train of his rival that the rival was wowing them, panicking them, laying them in the aisles. They threw flowers, hot dogs and five-cent cigars athim. In places where the times were especially hard they them awhile longer, and promise them some more. T

25、here were no Gallup polls in those innocent days, but the local politicians had ways of their own for train in the middle of the night, and wake him up to tell him that all was lost, including honor. This had some effect upon him in truth, an effect almost as powerful as that of sitting in the elect

26、ric chair. He lost his intelligent manner, and became something you could hardly distinguish from an idealist. Instead of mocking he began to promise, and in a little while he was promising everything that his rival was promising, and a good deal more.One night out in the Bible country, after the hu

27、llabaloo of the day was over, I went into his private car along with another newspaper reporter, and we sat down to gabble with him. This other reporter, a faithful member of the so much hokum. What did he mean by making promises that no human being on this earth, and not many of the angels in Heave

28、n, could ever hope to carry out? Did he honestly think that farmers, as a body, would ever see all their rosy dreams come true, or that the share-croppers in their lower ranks would ever be more than a hop, skip and jump from starvation? The candidate thought awhile, took a long swallow of the coffi

29、n-varnish he carried with him, and then replied that the answer in every case was no. He was well aware, he said, that the plight of the farmers was intrinsically hopeless, and would probably continue so, despite doles from the treasury, for centuries to come. He had no notion that anything could be done about it by merely human means, and certainly not by 6political means: it would take a new Moses, and a whole series of miracles. premises must remain purely personal. You are not a candidate for President of gray in Washington and long ago lost to every decency, pointed the moral of the