龙舌兰英文最新考研英语翻译模拟试题及答案(二)

2021年1月23日发(作者：大树懒)
考研英语翻译模拟试题及答案（二）

There
is
no
question
that
science-fiction
writers
have
become
more
ambitious, stylistically and thematically, in recent years. (1) (But this may
have less to do with the luring call of academic surroundings than with
changing
market
conditions
—
a
factor
that
academic
critics
rarely
take
into
account.)
Robert
Silverberg,
a
former
president
of
The
Science
Fiction Writers of America, is one of the most prolific professionals in a
field
dominated
by
people
who
actually
write
for
a
living.
(Unlike
mystery or Western writers, most science-fiction writers cannot expect to
cash
in
on
fat
movie
sales
or
TV
tie-ins.)
(2)
(Still
in
his
late
thirties,
Silverberg
has
published
more
than
a
hundred
books,
and
he
is
disarmingly frank about the relationship between the quality of genuine
prose and the quality of available outlet. )By his own account, he was “an
annoyingly
verbal
young
man”
from
Brooklyn
who
picked
up
his
first
science-fiction book at the age of ten, started writing seriously at the age
of thirteen, and at seventeen nearly gave up in despair over his inability to
break into the pulp magazines. (3)( At his parents
’

urging, he enrolled in
Columbia University, so that, if worst came to worst, he could always go
to
the
School
of
Journalism
and
“get
a
nice
steady
job
somewhere”.)
During
his
sophomore
year,
he
sold
his
first
science-fiction
story
to
a
Scottish magazine named Nebula. By the end of his junior year, he had
sold a novel and twenty more stories. (4) (By the end of his senior year,
he was earning two hundred dollars a week writing science fiction, and
his parents were reconciled to his pursuit of the literary life. )“I became
very cynical very quickly,” he says. First I couldn
’
t sell anything, then I
could sell everything. The market played to my worst characteristics. An
editor
of
a
schlock
magazine
would
call
up
to
tell
me
he
had
a
ten-thousand-word hole to fill in his next issue. I
’
d fill it overnight for a
hundred and fifty dollars. I found that rewriting made no difference. (5)( I
knew
I
could
not
possibly
write
the
kinds
of
things
I
admired
as
a
reader
—
Joyce,
Kafka,
Mann
—
so
I
detached
myself
from
my
work.)
I
was
a
phenomenon
among
my
friends
in
college,
a
published,
selling
author.
But
they
always
asked,
“When
are
you
going
to
do
somethin
g
serious?” —
meaning something that wasn
’
t science fiction
—
and I kept
telling them, “ When I
’
m financially secure.”




答案




1.
但是这一 点与其说是与学术环境具有诱惑力的召唤有关，还不
如说是与变化的市场状况有关
——
一这是一个学术评论家很少考虑
的因素。




2.还不到四十岁，西尔弗伯格就已出版了一百多本书籍，而他对
真正散文的质量与应时之作的质量之间 的关系十分坦诚，毫无掩饰。




3.
在他双亲的敦促 下，他报考了哥伦比亚大学，所以即便最糟他
也能进入新闻学校，
“
将来总可以有一份 稳定的好工作。
”




4.
到大四结束的时候，他每星期写科幻小说已经可以赚两百美元