英汉翻译期末考试试卷__8_.docVIP

考 试 时 间 玉林师范学院期末课程考查试卷 命题教师： 命题教师所在系：外语系 试卷类型：（A） 课程名称： 英汉翻译 考试专业： 英语 （本）科 考试年级： 题 号 一 二 三 总 分 应得分 10 30 60 满分：100 实得分 评分： 评卷人 签 名 Ⅰ. Answer the following questions: (10%) What are the three principles of translation given by Alexander F. Tytler? What’s translation given by Anna Lenowa? Ⅱ. Translate the following sentences: (30%) Last night I heard him driving his pigs to market. The old man’s heart missed a beat when he saw the pearl. The streets were completely deserted and everything stood in crumbling ruins. Being invited to dance, she would not very well refuse. A thousand mustaches can live together, but not four breasts. No maid could have had more tender or more intuitive a lover. Customer first, service foremost. Tom is as strong as a horse. The maxim was that when a married couple saw red lawyers saw green. Years passed by and Alia became a sweet pretty young woman as fresh as flowers who began to comprehend life better and knew what was going on in this world. Christmas morning dawned perfectly, with the sun shining brightly across a fresh blanket of snow. He rushed the season, starting his gift list before we’d even finished the thanksgiving turkey. Is bird flu a natural disaster or human-made calamity? Throw a sprat to catch a whale. Different cultural atmosphere and natural ecological environments make people hare different association. Ⅲ. Translate the following passages: (60%) Less than years ago he had been graduated with honors form The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and had taken a position with a firm of construction engineers in southern Tennessee. All his life he had thought in terms of tunnels and skyscrapers and great squat dams and tall, three-towered bridges, that were like dancers holding hands in a row, with heads as tall as cities and skirts of cable strand. It had seemed romantic to George O’Kelly to change the sweep of rivers and the shape of mountains so that life could flourish in the