2014英语八级汉译英练习汇总.docVIP

理解和表达理解和表达是翻译过程中两个紧密联系的阶段，理解是表达的前提，没有正确的理解就不可能有正确的表达。具体到八级考试翻译测试中，考生应正确理解原文中的词法和句法结构,修辞手法，以及原文中涉及的文化背景知识等。请看下面的例子: 　　我的导师是亚裔人,嗜烟好酒,脾气暴躁. 　　误译: My advisor, an Asian, was addicted to alcohols and cigarettes. 　　改译: My advisor, an Asian American, was addicted to alcohols and cigarettes. 　　这是1997年八级考试汉译英试题中的一句，很多考生将亚裔人理解为亚洲人,而译成Asian,这显然是不对的.根据原文的语境,这里的亚裔人指的是已经取得美国国籍的亚洲人,应翻译成Asian American. 　　Among prominent summer deaths, one recalls those of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean, whose lives seemed equally brief and complete. 　　误译: 在著名的夏天的逝世者中,我们会想起玛丽莲梦露和詹姆斯迪恩,他们的生命都是既短促又圆满的. 　　改译: 在著名的英年早逝者中,我们会想起玛丽莲梦露和詹姆斯迪恩,他们的生命都是既短促又圆满的。 　　这是2000年八级考试英译汉试题中的一句，居中summer deaths 短语中的summer不是夏天的意思，而是壮年,全盛期的意思。如此错误的理解导致译文在意思上和原文相去甚远.英语八级汉译英练习：追忆往事 老太太总以自家花园里那棵高大的玫瑰树为荣。她非常喜欢告诉别人，数年前她初次结婚时从罗马带回来的枝条，是如何长成如今这般高大的。那时，她与丈夫乘马车从罗马旅行归来(那时还没有火车)，途经锡耶那南部的崎岖路段时，马车坏了，他们被迫就宿于路边的小屋里。住宿条件当然非常差；她一夜未能安眠，一早便起身穿好衣服，立于窗前，感受着扑面而来的席席凉风，等待着黎明的到来。事隔多年，她仍然记得那情景。明月高悬在青山群峦之上，远处山峰上的小镇逐渐明亮起来，月亮慢慢消退，晨曦把群山涂得粉红。突然之间，一束阳光照亮了城镇。城里的窗户相继明亮起来，反射出耀眼的光芒。最后，整个小城宛若繁星，在天空中不停闪烁。　　The old lady had always been proud of the great rose-tree in her garden, and was fond of telling how it had grown from a cutting she had brought years before from Italy, when she was first married. She and her husband had been travelling back in their carriage from Rome ( it was before the time of railways ) and on a bad piece of road south of Siena they had broken down, and had been forced to pass the night in a little house by the road-side. The accommodation was wretched of course; she had spent a sleepless night, and rising early had stood, wrapped up, at her window, with the cool air blowing on her face, to watch the dawn. She could still, after all these years, remember the blue mountains with the bright moon above them, and how a far-off town on one of the peaks had gradually grown whiter and whiter, till the moon faded, the mountains were touched with the pink of the rising sun, and suddenly the town was lit as by an illumination, one window aft