2004年5月翻译资格考试二级英语笔译实务真题及答案

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2004 年 5 月翻译资格考试二级英语笔译实务真题及答案

Section 1: English-Chinese Translation（英译汉）（60 point）

This section consists of two parts: Part A "Compulsory Translation" and Part B

"Optional Translations" which comprises "Topic 1" and "Topic 2". Translate the

passage in Part A and your choice from passage in Part B into Chinese. Write

"Compulsory Translation" above your translation of Part A and write "Topic 1"

or "Topic 2" above your translation of the passage from Part B. The time for

this section is 100 minutes.

Part A Compulsory Translation （必译题）（30 points）

The first outline of The Ascent of Man was written in July 1969and the last

foot of film was shot in December 1972. An undertaking as large as this, though

wonderfully exhilarating, is not entered lightly. It demands an unflagging

intellectual and physical vigour, a total immersion, which I had to be sure

that I could sustain with pleasure; for instance, I had to put off researches

that I had already begun; and I ought to explain what moved me to do so.

There has been a deep change in the temper of science in the last20 years: the

focus of attention has shifted from the physical to the life sciences. As a

result, science is drawn more and more to the study of individuality. But the

interested spectator is hardly aware yet how far-reaching the effect is in

changing the image of man that science moulds. As a mathematician trained in

physics, I too would have been unaware, had not a series of lucky chances taken

me into the life sciences in middle age. I owe a debt for the good fortune that

carried me into two seminal fields of science in one lifetime; and though I do

not know to whom the debt is due, I conceived The Ascent of Man in gratitude to

repay it.

The invitation to me from the British Broadcasting Corporation was to present

the development of science in a series of television programmes to match those

of Lord Clark on Civilisation. Television is an admirable medium- for

exposition in several ways: powerful and immediate to the eye, able to take the

spectator bodily into the places and processes that are described, and

conversational enough to make him conscious that what he witnesses are not

events but the actions of people. The last of these merits is to my mind the

most cogent, and it weighed most with me in agreeing to cast a personal

biography of ideas in the form of television essays. The point is that

knowledge in general and science in particular does not consist of abstract but

of man-made ideas, all the way from its beginnings to its modern and

idiosyncratic models. Therefore the underlying concepts that unlock nature must

be shown to arise early and in the simplest cultures of man from his basic and

specific faculties. And the development of science which joins them in more and

more complex conjunctions must be seen to be equally human: discoveries are

made by men, not merely by minds, so that they are alive and charged with

individuality. If television is not used to make these thoughts concrete, it is

wasted.

Part B Optional Translations （二选一题）（30 points）

Topic 1 （选题一）

It's not that we are afraid of seeing him stumble, of scribbling a mustache

over his career. Sure, the nice part of us wants Mike to know we appreciate

him, that he still reigns, at least in our memory. The truth, though, is that

we don't want him to come back because even for Michael Jordan, this would be

an act of hubris so monumental as to make his trademark confidence twist into

conceit. We don't want him back on the court because no one likes a show-off.

The stumbling? That will be fun. But we are nice people, we Americans, with 225

years of optimism at our backs. Days ago when M.J. said he had made a decision

about returning to the NBA in September, we got excited. He had said the day

before, "I look forward to playing, and hopefully I can get to that point where

I can make that decision. It's O.K., to have some doubt, and it's O.K. to have

some nervousness." A Time/CNN poll last week has Americans, 2 to 1, saying they

would like him on the court ASAP. And only 21 percent thought that if he came

back and just completely bombed, it would damage his legend. In fact only 28

percent think athletes should retire at their peak.

Sources close to him tell Time that when Jordan first talked about a comeback

with the Washington Wizards, the team Jordan co-owns and would play for, some

of his trusted advisers privately tried to discourage him. "But they say if

they try to stop him, it will only firm up his resolve," says an NBA source.

The problem with Jordan's return is not only that he can't possibly live up to

the storybook ending he gave up in 1998 - earning his sixth ring with a last-

second championship-winning shot. The problem is that the motives for coming

back - needing the attention, needing to play even when his 38-year-old body

does not - violate the very myth of Jordan, the myth of absolute control. Babe

Ruth, the 20th century's first star, was a gust of fat bravado and drunken

talent, while Jordan ended the century by proving the elegance of resolve;

Babe's pointing to the bleachers replaced by the charm of a backpedaling

shoulder shrug. Jordan symbolized success by not sullying his brand with his

politics, his opinion or superstar personality. To be a Jordan fan was to be a

fan of classiness and confidence.

To come back when he knows that playing for Wizards won't get him anywhere near

the second round of the play-offs, when he knows that he won't be the league

scoring leader, that's a loss of control.

Jordan does not care what we think. Friends say that he takes articles that

tell him not to come back and tacks them all on his refrigerator as

inspiration. So why bother writing something telling him not to come back? He

is still Michael Jordan.

Topic 2 （选题二）

Even after I was too grown-up to play that game and too grown-up to tell my

mother that I loved her, I still believed I was the best daughter. Didn't I run

all the way up to the terrace to check on the drying mango pickles whenever she

asked?

As I entered my teens, it seemed that I was becoming an even better, more

loving daughter. Didn't I drop whatever I was doing each afternoon to go to the

corner grocery to pick up any spices my mother had run out of?

My mother, on the other hand, seemed more and more unloving to me. Some days

she positively resembled a witch as she threatened to pack me off to my second

uncle's home in provincial Barddhaman - a fate worse than death to a cool

Calcutta girl like me - if my grades didn't improve. Other days she would sit

me down and tell me about "Girls Who Brought Shame to Their Families". There

were apparently, a million ways in which one could do this, and my mother was

determined that I should be cautioned against every one of them. On principle,

she disapproved of everything I wanted to do, from going to study in America to

perming my hair, and her favorite phrase was "over my dead body." It was clear

that I loved her far more than she loved me - that is, if she loved me at all.

After I finished graduate school in America and got married, my relationship

with my mother improved a great deal. Though occasionally dubious about my

choice of a writing career, overall she thought I'd shaped up nicely. I thought

the same about her. We established a rhythm: She'd write from India and give me

all the gossip and send care packages with my favorite kind of mango pickle;

I'd call her from the United States and tell her all the things I'd been up to

and send care packages with instant vanilla pudding, for which she'd developed

a great fondness. We loved each other equally - or so I believed until my first

son, Anand, was born.

My son's birth shook up my neat, organized, in-control adult existence in ways

I hadn't imagined. I went through six weeks of being shrouded in an exhausted

fog of postpartum depression. As my husband and I walked our wailing baby up

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