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2010年考研真题 -----英译汉 One basic weakness in a conservation system based wholly on economic motives is that most members of the land community have no economic value. Yet these creatures are members of the biotic community and, if its stability depends on its integrity, they are entitled to continuance. When one of these noneconomic categories is threatened and, if we happen to love it. We invert excuses to give it economic importance. At the beginning of century songbirds were supposed to be disappearing.(1) Scientists jumped to the rescue with some distinctly shaky evidence to the effect that insects would eat us up if birds failed to control them, the evidence had to be economic in order to be valid. 科学家们立即拿出某些明显站不住脚的证据前来救驾，大致说的是如果鸟儿不能控制害虫的话，害虫就会把我们吃掉。这个证据不得不是经济性的，才能是有效的。 句子的主干是“scientists jumped to the rescue with some distinctly shaky evidence”，后接that 引导的同位语从句。If引导的条件状语从句修饰that从句。to the effect that大意是，意思是; fail to 未能; jump to立即，赶快 the rescue营救,援救，解救。 It is painful to read these round about accounts today. (2)We have no land ethic yet, but we have at least drawn near the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of intrinsic right, regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us. 但是我们至少已经几乎承认了这样一种观点：不管鸟类对我们是否有经济利益，生存都是它们的固有权利。 解析：句子主干we have drawn near the point。介词短语of admitting that...作定语修饰point。其中嵌套了that从句作admit的宾语从句。regardless of...作让步状语。a matter of .....的问题，大约;draw near 接近，靠近;intrinsic right天生的权利，固有的权利;economic advantage经济利益，经济优势。 A parallel situation exists in respect of predatory mammals and fish-eating birds . (3) Time was when biologists somewhat over worded the evidence that these creatures preserve the health of game by killing the physically weak, or that they prey only on “worthless” species. 解析：主干time was when...。when引导了表语从句。Time was when可看作固定短语，译为“从前，曾经”。注意两个并列同位语从句的翻译。 (3)参考译文：曾几何时，生物学家总是重述以下的这条证据：这些生物通过捕食弱小的动物去维持生物链的正常运行，或它们只是去捕食“没有价值的物种”。 Some species of tree have been rea