2014年9月京江翻译练习解析

翻译练习

10

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练习

1

We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency

–

a threat to

the survival of our

civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here. But there is

hopeful news as well: we have the ability to solve this crisis and avoid the worst

–

though not all

–

of its consequences, if we act boldly, decisively and quickly. However, despite a growing number

of

honorable

exceptions,

too

many

of

the

world's

leaders

are

still

best

described

in

the

words

Winston

Churchill

applied

to

those

who

ignored

Adolf

Hitler's

threat:

“They

go

on

in

strange

paradox,

decided

only

to

be

undecided,

resolved

to

be

irresolute,

adamant

for

drift,

solid

for

fluidity,

all

powerful

to

be

impotent.”

So

today,

we

dumped

another

70

milli

on

tons

of

global-warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, as if it were an

open

sewer.

And

tomorrow,

we

will

dump

a

slightly

larger

amount,

with

the

cumulative

concentrations now trapping more and more heat from the sun.

练习

2

在 元朝末年，

朝廷变得腐败无能。

许多读书人都坚信蒙古人已失掉 了天命，

不再能统治天下

了。然而他们当中谁曾料到，天命竟然 会落到朱元璋这样一位几乎终生目不识丁的人头上。

明太祖朱元璋出身极其微贱，

除了天生才具之外一无所有。

他的父母是极其贫苦的农民，

饥荒而背井离乡。

为了不至于全家都饿死，

他们把儿子卖进了寺庙。

朱元璋做了几年小和尚，

< br>然后就跑掉当了土匪。在当时天下大乱、

反叛四起的情况下，

他这么做倒是顺理成章。

过了

一些年，他在南京登基坐殿， 开创了明朝近三百年的江山。

练习

3

The American Falls do not inspire this feeling in the same way as the Canadian. It is because they

are less in volume, and because the water does not fall so much into one place. By comparison

their

beauty

is

almost

delicate

and

fragile.

They

are

extraordinarily

level,

one

long

curtain

of

lacework

and

woven

foam.

Seen

from

opposite,

when

the

sun

is

on

them,

they

are

blindingly

white, and the clouds of spray show dark against them. With both Falls the color of the water is

the ever-altering wonder. Greens and blues, purples and whites, melt into one another, fade, and

come

again,

and

change

with

the

changing

sun.

Sometimes

they

are

as

richly

diaphanous

as

a

precious

stone,

and

glow

from

within

with

a

deep,

inexplicable

light.

Sometimes

the

white

intricacies of dropping foam become opaque and creamy. And always there are the rainbows. If

you come suddenly upon the Falls from above, a great double rainbow, very vivid, spanning the

extent of spray from top to bottom, is the first thing you see. If you wander along the cliff opposite,

a

bow

springs

into

being

in

the

American

Falls,

accompanies

you

courteously

on

your

walk,

dwindles and dies as the mist ends, and awakens again as you reach the Canadian tumult. And the

bold traveler who attempts the trip under the American Falls sees, when he dare open his eyes to

anything, tiny baby rainbows, some four or five yards in span, leaping from rock to rock among

the foam, and gamboling beside him, barely out of hand’s reach, as he goes. One I saw in that

place was a complete circle, such as I have never seen before, and so near that I could put my foot

on

it.

It

is

a

terrifying

journey,

beneath

and

behind

the

Falls.

The

senses

are

battered

and

bewildered by the thunder of the water and the assault of wind and spray; or rather, the sound is

not of falling water, but merely of falling; a noise of unspecified ruin. So, if you are close behind

the endless clamor, the sight cannot recognize liquid in the masses that hurl past. You are dimly

and pitifully aware that sheets of light and darkness are falling in great curves in front of you. Dull

omnipresent foam washes the face. Farther away, in

the roar and hissing, clouds of spray seem

literally to slide down some invisible plane of air.

练习

4

我之于书

夏丏尊

二十年来

,

我生活费中至少十分之一二是消耗在书上的。我的房子里比较贵重的东西就

是书。

我一向没有对于任何问题做高深研究 的野心

,

因之所买的书范围较广

,

宗教、

艺术、

文学、

社会、哲学、历史、生物

,

各方面差不多都有一点。最多的是 各国文学名著的译本

,

与本国古

来的诗 文集

,

别的门类只是些概论等类的入门书而已。

我不喜欢向别人或图书馆借书。借来的书

,