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2002年3月考题 　　The line of demarcation between the adult and the child world is drawn in many ways. For instance, many American parents may be totally divorced from the church, or entertain grave doubts about the existence of God, but they send their children to Sunday school and help them to pray. American parents struggle in a competitive world where sheer cunning and falsehood are often rewarded and respected, but they feed their children with nursery tales in which the morally good is pitted against the bad, and in the end the good inevitably is successful and the bad inevitably punished. When American parents are in serious domestic trouble, they maintain a front of sweetness and light before their children. Even if American parents suffer a major business or personal catastrophe, they feel obliged to turn to their children and say,“ Honey, everything is going to be all right.” This American desire to keep the childrens world separate from that of the adult is exemplified also by the practice of delaying transmission of the news to children when their parents have been killed in an accident. Thus, in summary, American parents face a world of reality while many of their children live in a near-ideal unreal realm where the rules of the parental world do not apply, are watered down, or are even reversed. 分析： 　　① The line of demarcation between the adult and the child world is drawn in many ways. 　　译文：成人与儿童世界的划分是多方面的。 // 划分成人与儿童世界有很多方式。 　　考点： 转态译法：主被交换 　　② For instance, many American parents may be totally divorced from the church, or entertain grave doubts about the existence of God, but they send their children to Sunday school and help them to pray. 　　译文：例如 / 比方说，许多美国家长可能跟教会毫无瓜葛 / 不信教，对上帝是否存在也不置可否 / 深表怀疑，然而他们却把孩子们送去主日学校（灌输宗教思想），并帮助他们祷告。 　　考点： 正反译法： be totally divorced from → 脱离（正译）　→与……毫无瓜葛 　　entertain grave doubt about →深表怀疑（正译）　　→对……不置可否（反译） 　　divorce: separate sth from sth in a wrong way. 使脱离 　　may →可能　　抽象译法： church →教会 　　转态译法：省略被动词： be totally divorced from →