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历届英文翻译大奖赛竞赛原文及译文 英译汉部分 3 Beauty (excerpt) 3 美(节选) 3 The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature of Power byThomas De Quincey 8 知识文学与力量文学托 马斯·昆西 8 An Experience of Aesthetics by Robert Ginsberg 11 审美的体验 罗伯特·金斯伯格 11 A Person Who Apologizes Has the Moral Ball in His Court by Paul Johnson 14 谁给别人道歉，谁就在道义上掌握了主动 保罗·约翰逊 14 On Going Home by Joan Didion 18 回家 琼·狄迪恩 18 The Making of Ashenden (Excerpt) by Stanley Elkin 22 艾兴登其人（节选）斯坦利·埃尔金 22 Beyond Life 28 超越生命[美] 卡贝尔 著 28 Envy by Samuel Johnson 33 论嫉妒 [英]塞缪尔·约翰逊 著 33 中译英部分 37 在义与利之外 37 Beyond Righteousness and Interests 37 读书苦乐 杨绛 40 The Bitter-Sweetness of Reading Yang Jiang 40 想起清华种种 王佐良 43 Reminiscences of Tsinghua Wang Zuoliang 43 歌德之人生启示宗白华 45 What Goethes Life Reveals by Zong Baihua 45 怀想那片青草地 赵红波 48 Yearning for That Piece of Green Meadow by Zhao Hongbo 48 可爱的南京 51 Nanjing the Beloved City 51 霞 冰心 53 The Rosy Cloud byBingxin 53 黎明前的北平 54 Predawn Peiping 54 老来乐 金克木 55 Delights in Growing Old by Jin Kemu 55 可贵的“他人意识” 58 Calling for an Awareness of Others 58 教孩子相信 61 To Implant In Our Children’s Young Hearts An Undying Faith In Humanity 61 英译汉部分 Beauty (excerpt) 美(节选) 　　Judging from the scientists I know, including Eva and Ruth, and those whom Ive read about, you cant pursue the laws of nature very long without bumping into beauty. “I dont know if its the same beauty you see in the sunset,” a friend tells me, “but it feels the same.” This friend is a physicist, who has spent a long career deciphering what must be happening in the interior of stars. He recalls for me this thrill on grasping for the first time Diracs⑴ equations describing quantum mechanics, or those of Einstein describing relativity. “Theyre so beautiful,” he says, “you can see immediately they have to be true. Or at least on the way toward truth.” I ask him what makes a theory beautiful, and he replies, “Simplicity, symmetry, elegance, and power.” 　　我结识一些科学家（包括伊娃和露丝），也拜读过不少科学家的著作，从中我作出推断：人们在探求自然规律的旅途中，须臾便会与美不期而遇。一个朋友对我说：“我不敢肯定这种美是否与日落之美异曲同工，但至少，两