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四.翻译英译汉(6选1) Unit1The?country?is?India.?A?colonial?official?and?his?wife?are?giving?a?large?dinner?party.? They?are?seated?with?their?guests?--?officers?and?their?wives,?and?a?visiting?American? naturalist?--?in?their?spacious?dining?room,?which?has?a?bare?marble?floor,?open?rafters?and?wide?glass?doors?opening?onto?a?veranda.? 故事发生在印度。某殖民地官员和他的夫人正举行盛大的晚宴。筵席设在他们家宽敞的餐室里，室内大理石地板上没有铺地毯；屋顶明椽裸露；宽大的玻璃门外便是走廊。跟他们一起就坐的客人有军官和他们的夫人，另外还有一位来访的美国博物学家。 Trust?the?future;?trust?the?young.?Jefferson?felt?that?the?present?should?never?be? chained?to?customs?which?have?lost?their?usefulness.?No?society,?he?said,?can?make?a?perpetual?constitution,?or?even?a?perpetual?law.?The?earth?belongs?to?the?living? generation.?He?did?not?fear?new?ideas,?nor?did?he?fear?the?future.?How?much?pain,? he?remarked,?has?been?caused?by?evils?which?have?never?happened!?I?expect?the?best,not?the?worst.?I?steer?my?ship?with?hope,?leaving?fear?behind.? 相信未来，相信青年。杰斐逊认为，绝不可以用那些已经无用的习俗来束缚住“现在”的手脚。他说：“没有哪个社会可以制订一部永远适用的宪法，甚至连一条永远适用的法律也制订不出来。地球是属于活着的一代的。”他不害怕新思想，也不惧怕未来。他评论说：“有多少痛苦是由一些从未发生过的灾难引起的啊！我期待的是最好的东西，而不是最坏的东西。我满怀希望地驾驶着自己的航船，而把恐惧抛在后面。” Another?puzzle?that?Einstein?could?never?understand?was?his?own?fame.?He?had? developed?theories?that?were?profound?and?capable?of?exciting?relatively?few? scientists.?Yet?his?name?was?a?household?word?across?the?civilized?world.?Ive?had? good?ideas,?and?so?have?other?men,?he?once?said.?But?its?been?my?good?fortune?that?my?ideas?have?been?accepted.?He?was?bewildered?by?his?fame:?people?wanted?to? meet?him;?strangers?stared?at?him?on?the?street;?scientists,?statesmen,?students,?and? housewives?wrote?him?letters.?He?never?could?understand?why?he?received?this? attention,?why?he?was?singled?out?as?something?special. 爱因斯坦一直没能理解的另一个谜是他自己的名望。他提出的理论都是些非常深奥、只能使比较少的科学家感兴趣的理论。然而他的名字在整个文明世界却家喻户晓，尽人皆知。有一次他说：“我有一些很好的思想，别人也有一些很好的思想。只是由于我运气好，我的思想才被人接受了。”他的名望使他感到迷惑不解：人们都想见他；陌生人在街上盯着他看；科学家、政治家、学生和家庭主妇都给他写信。他一直不能理解，为什么他会受到这种注意，为什么单单把他挑出来当作特殊人物对待。 In?the?operating?room?I?was?equally?con