- 5
- 0
- 约1.41万字
- 约 11页
- 2017-01-17 发布于湖北
- 举报
2008年广东外语外贸大学硕士研究生入学复试笔试样题
院系名称:高级翻译学院
专业方向:翻译学
考试科目:翻译理论与实践
科目代码: 925
考生须知
1.本试卷共 4页(含本页)。
2.本试卷分 3 大题。
3.答案必须写在答卷上,答案写在本试卷上无效。书写必须工整、清晰,答案不得超过划线部分,超过部分将不予批改。
4.考生必须把准考证号码和姓名填写在答卷左边密封装订线内,不得在试卷的其他任何地方书写姓名。
5.考试时间为三小时,满分100分。
6.考试结束时本试卷必须交回监考老师处。
*考试时不得使用任何工具书、参考书及任何其他种类的辅助工具和文献资料。
Section I Translate the following into Chinese. (35%)
The 20th century-- the century of metamyths and of megadeaths -- spawned false notions of total control, derived from arrogant assertions of total righteousness. The religious man of pre-modem times, who accepted reality as God-ordained, had given way to the secular fanatic, increasingly inclined to usurp God in the effort to construct heaven on earth, subordinating not only nature but humanity itself to his own utopian vision.
In the course of the century, this vision was perverted into the most costly exercise of political hubris in mankinds history: the totalitarian attempt to create coercive utopias. All of reality -- on the objective level of social organization and on the subjective level of personal beliefs -- was to be subject to doctrinal control emanating from a single political center. The price paid in human lives for this excess is beyond comprehension.
Adding them all up, somewhere between 167 million and 175 million individual human beings were deliberately extinguished through politically motivated carnage -- the scores of millions of soldiers and civilians killed in the centurys wars, the further scores of millions killed in concentration camps, gulags, forced collectivization, ethnic transplantings, and killing fields decreed by self-deified dictators.
The tens of millions that were killed because they were perceived, for racial or social reasons, as unworthy of living within the earthly utopia -- and the many millions more that were coerced into living within these systems -- all testify to the hypnotic appeal of the metamyths of Nazism that postulated the end of histor
原创力文档

文档评论(0)