上外英语考研历年翻译真题带答案1991-2006.docVIP

上外英语考研历年翻译真题带答案 1991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 thetime 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. Our day of dependence, our lo