上海外国语大学英汉互译试卷以及答案.docVIP

-  PAGE 27 - 上海外国语大学1991年攻读硕士学位研究生考试试卷 考试科目：翻译与现代汉语 I. Translate the following passage into Chinese.（25%） Thus far, our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more. As such it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill.