英语翻译练习材料[参考解答].docVIP

拓界英语——《2011翻译写作批改讲评班》练习材料一  DATE \@ M/d/yyyy 5/4/2017/8/29 PAGE  PAGE - 10 - 共3页 2010年9月5日练习材料 1. E-C Translation. (上海交大2005研，考试科目:英语水平考试) Defining the meaning [tautological with to define] of “happiness” is a perplexing proposition [〔口语〕事情，工作；家伙, /【逻辑学】命题；【修辞学】主题；【数学】定理 (cf. proposal, to propose)。] [rev. the definition of happiness is a perplexing proposition.]: the best one can do is to try to set some extremes to the idea and then work towards the middle. To think of happiness as achieving superiority over others, living in a mansion made of marble, having a wardrobe with hundreds of outfits, will do to set the greedy extreme. To think happiness as the joy of a holy man of India will do to set spiritual extreme. He sits completely still, contemplating the nature of reality, free even of his own body. If admires[??admirers??] bring him food, he eats it; if not, he starves. Why be concerned? What is physical is trivial to him. To contemplate is his joy and he achieves complete mental focus through an incredibly demanding discipline [修行， 修真养性， 训练，锻炼；磨炼；修养；教养。], the accomplishment of which is itself a joy to him. Is he a happy man? Perhaps his happiness is only another sort of illusion. But who take it from him? And who will dare say it is more false than happiness paid for through an installment plan[installments]. Although the holy man’s 【圣人】concept of happiness may enjoy considerable prestige in the Orient, I doubt [OR doubt about/of] the existence of such motionless happiness. What is certain is that his way of happiness would be tortures to almost anyone [almost all, nearly all, or virtually everyone/anyone] of [or with, or by] Western temperaments. Yet these extremes will [miss out] still serve to define the [an] area [the boundary] within which [where] all of us must find some sort of balance. Thoreau [索罗]had his own firm sense of that [this] balance: save on the petty in order to spend on the essential. 2. Translate the passage into Chinese. (北