2007年12月英语六级翻译训练(2)
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1. _________________(我没有买到一张好票)for yesterday’s movie.
2. It’s confirmed that _______________(铁路将延伸到我们村子).
3. The new manager of our company _____________(有很强的事业心).
4. When I walked past his house,________________(我听见他在弹钢琴).
5. ________________(学生们应该从这里得出一条经验):Don’t be misled by false appearances.
以下是试题的参考答案及解析:
引用
1. I didn’t buy a good seat
解析:题中“好票”是一个干扰项,是典型的汉语表达。“没有买到一张好票”实际上是说“没有买到好座位”,因此不能译成I didn’t buy a good ticket。
2. the railway will be extended to our village
解析:本题考查英语被动语态的翻译。虽然原中文句给出了主动语态,但在这里主动语态表示被动含义。因为铁路不可能自己延伸,延伸铁路的必定是人。再如:这个问题已经解决了。(The problem has been solved.)
3. is a man of great enterprise
解析:本题也有很强的干扰性。考生易译成has a strong heart of career,这种翻译看起来与中文对应,实际上不能被接受,而且完全背离了原文的意思。“很强的事业心”有自己固定说法:sb. of great enterprise,也可以说成:be self-motivated and result-oriented。
4. I heard him playing the piano
解析:本题是对基本知识点的考查。我们知道,感官的动词hear,see,watch等有两种接续形式:一个是后接现在分词,一个是后接不带to的不定式作宾语补足语。接现在分词表示动作正在进行中;接不带to的不定式表示动作已经完成。根据题意,应该选择第一种翻译。
5. Students should draw a lesson here
解析:本题意为:学生们应该从这里得出一条经验:不要被假象所迷惑。看到“经验”一词,大多考生会反应出experience,但根据全句意思可知,“经验”两字在这里并不是指取得成功之后所积累的经验,而是指从错误和失败中得出的教训。Lesson表示教训、惩戒、训诫等,在译文中能准确传递原文的内涵
解析:题中“好票”是一个干扰项,是典型的汉语表达。“没有买到一张好票”实际上是说“没有买到好座位”,因此不能译成I didn’t buy a good ticket。
2. the railway will be extended to our village
解析:本题考查英语被动语态的翻译。虽然原中文句给出了主动语态,但在这里主动语态表示被动含义。因为铁路不可能自己延伸,延伸铁路的必定是人。再如:这个问题已经解决了。(The problem has been solved.)
3. is a man of great enterprise
解析:本题也有很强的干扰性。考生易译成has a strong heart of career,这种翻译看起来与中文对应,实际上不能被接受,而且完全背离了原文的意思。“很强的事业心”有自己固定说法:sb. of great enterprise,也可以说成:be self-motivated and result-oriented。
4. I heard him playing the piano
解析:本题是对基本知识点的考查。我们知道,感官的动词hear,see,watch等有两种接续形式:一个是后接现在分词,一个是后接不带to的不定式作宾语补足语。接现在分词表示动作正在进行中;接不带to的不定式表示动作已经完成。根据题意,应该选择第一种翻译。
5. Students should draw a lesson here
解析:本题意为:学生们应该从这里得出一条经验:不要被假象所迷惑。看到“经验”一词,大多考生会反应出experience,但根据全句意思可知,“经验”两字在这里并不是指取得成功之后所积累的经验,而是指从错误和失败中得出的教训。Lesson表示教训、惩戒、训诫等,在译文中能准确传递原文的内涵
2007年12月英语六级翻译训练(1)
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1. We had better _________________(天天锻炼身体).
2. _______________(为了不影响他们),we left quietly.
3. _____________(我答复她)that I would accept her invitation.
4. According to the newly-announced policy,we should ________________(努力搞活国有大中型企业).
5. It has become an utmost urgency that ________________(必须清除政府中的贪污腐化现象).
没答完前勿看,以下为试题答案:
2. _______________(为了不影响他们),we left quietly.
3. _____________(我答复她)that I would accept her invitation.
4. According to the newly-announced policy,we should ________________(努力搞活国有大中型企业).
5. It has become an utmost urgency that ________________(必须清除政府中的贪污腐化现象).
没答完前勿看,以下为试题答案:
引用
1. take exercise everyday
解析:考生如果按照字面将此句翻译成train our body everyday,那么就完全不符合英文表达习惯。虽然train有锻炼、训练、培养之意,但一般用于train horses,train the football team,train athletes等,不能说train one’s body,“锻炼身体”的习惯译法是:do/take exercise。
2. Not to disturb them
解析:本题主要从两个方面考察同学们对基础知识的掌握。一是“影响”的正确选词;二是不定式作目的状语的否定用法。“影响”在这里不能选用 influence,因为influence表示一种影响人和事或导致事件发生的力量,具有感化力。而本句从意思来看应该是为了不打扰别人,所以应该选用 disturb。虽然汉语表述上都是“影响”,但译成英文时要联系上下语境来分析。不定式作目的状语时,否定用法只需要在不定式前加否定词not即可。
3. I replied to her
解析:本题主要考查词义辨析。“答复”在英文里可以选用reply和respond,reply是比较正式的书面用于,有时也可以用于口头或行动上的应答,表示正式而且经过考虑过后的回答,指答复对方论点或问题等,侧重于答复的内容。Respond是比较正式的用语,往往对表示号召、职责、请求等作出相应的答复或反映。如:他没有对我的问题作出任何反应。(He didn’t respond to my question.)
4. invigorate the large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises
解析:很多考生会把“努力搞活”翻译成endeavor to invigorate,try our best to invigorate。其实,“搞活”企业就必须付出“努力”,“努力”和“搞活”之间存在意义重叠。Invigorate已经包括“努力使活跃”的含义,因此没必要将两个中文单词都翻译出来。另外,大家要记住“国有企业”,“外资企业”(overseas-funded enterprises),“合资企业”(joint venture)的英文译文。
5. the administration must be cleaned of graft and corruption
解析:本题既考查了无主句的转换,又考查了抽象词的省译,还考查了固定短语搭配。句子需填入部分没有给出主语,“贪污腐化现象”不可能自己清除自己,因此最佳方案是译成被动句式;“贪污腐化”本身就是一种现象,英文不能重复译成the phenomena of graft and corruption;“清除”的常用搭配有:be eliminated from,be cleared away from,be cleaned of,be cleaned out,be weeded out。
解析:考生如果按照字面将此句翻译成train our body everyday,那么就完全不符合英文表达习惯。虽然train有锻炼、训练、培养之意,但一般用于train horses,train the football team,train athletes等,不能说train one’s body,“锻炼身体”的习惯译法是:do/take exercise。
2. Not to disturb them
解析:本题主要从两个方面考察同学们对基础知识的掌握。一是“影响”的正确选词;二是不定式作目的状语的否定用法。“影响”在这里不能选用 influence,因为influence表示一种影响人和事或导致事件发生的力量,具有感化力。而本句从意思来看应该是为了不打扰别人,所以应该选用 disturb。虽然汉语表述上都是“影响”,但译成英文时要联系上下语境来分析。不定式作目的状语时,否定用法只需要在不定式前加否定词not即可。
3. I replied to her
解析:本题主要考查词义辨析。“答复”在英文里可以选用reply和respond,reply是比较正式的书面用于,有时也可以用于口头或行动上的应答,表示正式而且经过考虑过后的回答,指答复对方论点或问题等,侧重于答复的内容。Respond是比较正式的用语,往往对表示号召、职责、请求等作出相应的答复或反映。如:他没有对我的问题作出任何反应。(He didn’t respond to my question.)
4. invigorate the large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises
解析:很多考生会把“努力搞活”翻译成endeavor to invigorate,try our best to invigorate。其实,“搞活”企业就必须付出“努力”,“努力”和“搞活”之间存在意义重叠。Invigorate已经包括“努力使活跃”的含义,因此没必要将两个中文单词都翻译出来。另外,大家要记住“国有企业”,“外资企业”(overseas-funded enterprises),“合资企业”(joint venture)的英文译文。
5. the administration must be cleaned of graft and corruption
解析:本题既考查了无主句的转换,又考查了抽象词的省译,还考查了固定短语搭配。句子需填入部分没有给出主语,“贪污腐化现象”不可能自己清除自己,因此最佳方案是译成被动句式;“贪污腐化”本身就是一种现象,英文不能重复译成the phenomena of graft and corruption;“清除”的常用搭配有:be eliminated from,be cleared away from,be cleaned of,be cleaned out,be weeded out。
2007年12月英语六级阅读专项训练(八)
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Western airliner manufacturers seem to be tripping over themselves in their eagerness to sign collaborative agreements with Asian partners as a low-cost route to developing new airliners. Their potential Asian partners seem to be tripping over themselves to sign such agreements, as a low-cost route to acquiring new airliner technology. If they are not careful the two sides will end up tripping over each other: the one by selling its birth-right for short-term gain, the other by trying to break into a market which isn‘t big enough to sustain it.
Technology transfer works in a growing market, where the aspirations of the new entrant receiving that technology can be met through expansion. The airliner market is not such a device.
Even the most optimistic projections of airliner sales for the next 20 years show that airliner manufacture can only be profitable if a small number of aircraft builders share the available sales. It follows that if new manufacturers come into the market and take sales, their sales must come from substitution, not expansion.
Given the complexity of today‘s airliners, it is unlikely that any new entrant will have both the financial and technical resources to come into the market without the involvement of an established manufacturer. In the short term, such involvement may not be to the exclusive benefit of the new entrant: most of the established manufacturers are searching for ways to reduce costs of manufacture.
In the short term,, it can be of benefit to an established Western manufacturer to have either components of complete air – frames made or assembled in lower-wage economics such a China, Taiwan or Korea, while retaining the design, development and marketing of aircraft for itself. It would be a very unwise Western manufacturer which did not heed the fact that these developing economies are acquiring skills ( like computing ) at least as quickly as they are acquiring skills in metallbashing.
The danger comes when the new entrant no longer needs the established Western partner because it has acquired the technical and intellectual ability to design and build its own aircraft. An Asian partner may well find itself in the happy position of having the low-cost labour base, the high-cost technology base and the vital financial base to build a new airliner.
1.The author‘s attitude towards Western/eastern collaboration can be depicted as ________.
A.positive B.progressive C.conservative D.negative
2.“The airliner market is not such a device ” means that the airliner market _______.
A.does not encourage technology transfer
B.is too limited to offer chances of success
C.requires hi-tech rather than unaccepted devices
D.is full of competitions even for new entrants
3.Established manufacturers search for partners in order to _______.
A.save the cost of the airframe B.improve some aircraft components
C.save the cost of labour D.develop new technology
4.According to the author,a wise established manufacturer should ______.
A.try to benefit from both financial and technical resources
B.break up his partnership with the East once profits are made
C.keep a tight told over hi-tech development and marketing of airliners
D.collaborate with Asian partners for a short time
5.The word “base” in the last paragraph represents_______.
A.a production place
B.the initial operation of building aircraft
C.a research institute
D.a position where to start building
Technology transfer works in a growing market, where the aspirations of the new entrant receiving that technology can be met through expansion. The airliner market is not such a device.
Even the most optimistic projections of airliner sales for the next 20 years show that airliner manufacture can only be profitable if a small number of aircraft builders share the available sales. It follows that if new manufacturers come into the market and take sales, their sales must come from substitution, not expansion.
Given the complexity of today‘s airliners, it is unlikely that any new entrant will have both the financial and technical resources to come into the market without the involvement of an established manufacturer. In the short term, such involvement may not be to the exclusive benefit of the new entrant: most of the established manufacturers are searching for ways to reduce costs of manufacture.
In the short term,, it can be of benefit to an established Western manufacturer to have either components of complete air – frames made or assembled in lower-wage economics such a China, Taiwan or Korea, while retaining the design, development and marketing of aircraft for itself. It would be a very unwise Western manufacturer which did not heed the fact that these developing economies are acquiring skills ( like computing ) at least as quickly as they are acquiring skills in metallbashing.
The danger comes when the new entrant no longer needs the established Western partner because it has acquired the technical and intellectual ability to design and build its own aircraft. An Asian partner may well find itself in the happy position of having the low-cost labour base, the high-cost technology base and the vital financial base to build a new airliner.
1.The author‘s attitude towards Western/eastern collaboration can be depicted as ________.
A.positive B.progressive C.conservative D.negative
2.“The airliner market is not such a device ” means that the airliner market _______.
A.does not encourage technology transfer
B.is too limited to offer chances of success
C.requires hi-tech rather than unaccepted devices
D.is full of competitions even for new entrants
3.Established manufacturers search for partners in order to _______.
A.save the cost of the airframe B.improve some aircraft components
C.save the cost of labour D.develop new technology
4.According to the author,a wise established manufacturer should ______.
A.try to benefit from both financial and technical resources
B.break up his partnership with the East once profits are made
C.keep a tight told over hi-tech development and marketing of airliners
D.collaborate with Asian partners for a short time
5.The word “base” in the last paragraph represents_______.
A.a production place
B.the initial operation of building aircraft
C.a research institute
D.a position where to start building
引用
答案:CDADA
2007年12月英语六级阅读专项训练(七)
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There are various ways in which individual economic units can interact with one another. Three basic ways may be described as the market system, the administered system, and the traditional system.
In a market system individual economic units are free to interact among each other in the marketplace. It is possible to buy commodities from other economic units or sell commodities to them. In a market, transactions may take place via barter or money exchange. In a barter economy, real goods such as automobiles, shoes, and pizzas are traded against each other. Obviously, finding somebody who wants to trade my old car in exchange for a sailboat may not always be an easy task. Hence, the introduction of money as a medium of exchange eases transactions considerably. In the modern market economy, goods and services are bought or sold for money.
An alternative to the market system is administrative control by some agency over all transactions. This agency will issue edicts or commands as to how much of each good and service should be produced, exchanged, and consumed by each economic unit. Central planning may be one way of administering such an economy. The central plan, drawn up by the government, shows the amounts of each commodity produced by the various firms and allocated to different households for consumption. This is an example of complete planning of production, consumption, and exchange for the whole economy.
In a traditional society, production and consumption patterns are governed by tradition; every person‘s place within the economic system is fixed by parentage, religion, and custom. Transactions take place on the basis of tradition, too. People belonging to a certain group or caste may have an obligation to care for other persons, provide them with food and shelter, care for their health, and provide for their education. Clearly, in a system where every decision is made on the basis of tradition alone, progress may be difficult to achieve. A stagnant society may result.
1.What is the main purpose of the passage?
A.To outline contrasting types of economic systems.
B.To explain the science of economics.
C.To argue for the superiority of one economic system.
D.To compare barter and money-exchange markets.
2.In the second paragraph, the word “real” in “real goods” could best be replaced by ___,
A.high quality
B.concrete
C.utter
D.authentic.
3.According to the passage, a barter economy can generate ___.
A.rapid speed of transactions.
B.misunderstandings.
C.inflation
D.difficulties for the traders.
4.According to the passage, who has the greatest degree of control in the administered system?
A.Individual households
B.Small businesses.
C.Major corporations.
D.The government.
5.Which of the following is not mentioned by the author as a criterion for determining a person‘s position in a traditional society?
A.Family background
B.Age
C.Religious beliefs.
D.Custom
In a market system individual economic units are free to interact among each other in the marketplace. It is possible to buy commodities from other economic units or sell commodities to them. In a market, transactions may take place via barter or money exchange. In a barter economy, real goods such as automobiles, shoes, and pizzas are traded against each other. Obviously, finding somebody who wants to trade my old car in exchange for a sailboat may not always be an easy task. Hence, the introduction of money as a medium of exchange eases transactions considerably. In the modern market economy, goods and services are bought or sold for money.
An alternative to the market system is administrative control by some agency over all transactions. This agency will issue edicts or commands as to how much of each good and service should be produced, exchanged, and consumed by each economic unit. Central planning may be one way of administering such an economy. The central plan, drawn up by the government, shows the amounts of each commodity produced by the various firms and allocated to different households for consumption. This is an example of complete planning of production, consumption, and exchange for the whole economy.
In a traditional society, production and consumption patterns are governed by tradition; every person‘s place within the economic system is fixed by parentage, religion, and custom. Transactions take place on the basis of tradition, too. People belonging to a certain group or caste may have an obligation to care for other persons, provide them with food and shelter, care for their health, and provide for their education. Clearly, in a system where every decision is made on the basis of tradition alone, progress may be difficult to achieve. A stagnant society may result.
1.What is the main purpose of the passage?
A.To outline contrasting types of economic systems.
B.To explain the science of economics.
C.To argue for the superiority of one economic system.
D.To compare barter and money-exchange markets.
2.In the second paragraph, the word “real” in “real goods” could best be replaced by ___,
A.high quality
B.concrete
C.utter
D.authentic.
3.According to the passage, a barter economy can generate ___.
A.rapid speed of transactions.
B.misunderstandings.
C.inflation
D.difficulties for the traders.
4.According to the passage, who has the greatest degree of control in the administered system?
A.Individual households
B.Small businesses.
C.Major corporations.
D.The government.
5.Which of the following is not mentioned by the author as a criterion for determining a person‘s position in a traditional society?
A.Family background
B.Age
C.Religious beliefs.
D.Custom
引用
答案:ABDDB
2007年12月英语六级阅读专项训练(六)
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The American economic system is organized around a basically private-enterprise, market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen, striving to make profits, produce these goods and services in competition with other businessmen; and the profit motive, operating under competitive pressures, largely determines how these goods and services are produced. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers,coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it.
An important factor in a market-oriented economy is the mechanism by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers. In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and fall in response to relative demands of consumers and supplies offered by seller-producers. If the product is in short supply relative to the demand, the price will be bid up and some consumers will be eliminated from the market. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. Thus, price is the regulating mechanism in the America economic system.
The important factor in a private-enterprise economy is that individual are allowed to own productive resources (private property), and they are permitted to hire labor, gain control over natural resources, and produce goods and services for sale at a profit. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual.
1.In Para. 1,“ the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes” means ___.
A.Americans never feel satisfied with their incomes.
B.Americans tend to overstate the amount of their incomes.
C.Americans want to have their incomes increased.
D.Americans want to increase the purchasing power of their incomes.
2.The first two sentences in the second paragraph clarity the idea to us that ___.
A.producers can satisfy the consumers by mechanized production.
B.consumers can express their demands through producers.
C.producers decide the prices of products.
D.supply and demand regulate prices.
3.The word “embraces” in Para. 3 probably parallels ___.
A.enfold
B.hug
C.comprehend
D.support
4.According to the passage, a private-enterprise economy is characterized by ___.
A.private property and rights concerned.
B.manpower and natural resources control.
C.ownership of productive resources
D.free contracts and prices.
5.The passage is mainly talking about ___.
A.how American goods are produced.
B.how American consumers buy their goods.
C.how American economic system works.
D.how American businessman make their profits.
答案:DDCAC
An important factor in a market-oriented economy is the mechanism by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers. In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and fall in response to relative demands of consumers and supplies offered by seller-producers. If the product is in short supply relative to the demand, the price will be bid up and some consumers will be eliminated from the market. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. Thus, price is the regulating mechanism in the America economic system.
The important factor in a private-enterprise economy is that individual are allowed to own productive resources (private property), and they are permitted to hire labor, gain control over natural resources, and produce goods and services for sale at a profit. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual.
1.In Para. 1,“ the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes” means ___.
A.Americans never feel satisfied with their incomes.
B.Americans tend to overstate the amount of their incomes.
C.Americans want to have their incomes increased.
D.Americans want to increase the purchasing power of their incomes.
2.The first two sentences in the second paragraph clarity the idea to us that ___.
A.producers can satisfy the consumers by mechanized production.
B.consumers can express their demands through producers.
C.producers decide the prices of products.
D.supply and demand regulate prices.
3.The word “embraces” in Para. 3 probably parallels ___.
A.enfold
B.hug
C.comprehend
D.support
4.According to the passage, a private-enterprise economy is characterized by ___.
A.private property and rights concerned.
B.manpower and natural resources control.
C.ownership of productive resources
D.free contracts and prices.
5.The passage is mainly talking about ___.
A.how American goods are produced.
B.how American consumers buy their goods.
C.how American economic system works.
D.how American businessman make their profits.
引用
答案:DDCAC




