外国语学院2014年英汉互译比赛试题.docVIP

外国语学院2014年英汉互译比赛试题 字体要求：英译汉 小四，宋体，汉译英字体Times New Roman 五号字体。 英译汉 ??The strange lives of Queen Elizabeth’s Roman Catholics AS EVERY English schoolboy knows, Queen Elizabeth I vowed “not to make windows into men’s hearts and secret thoughts”. According to government policy, an Englishman’s inner beliefs were a private matter. However, there is no evidence that Elizabeth actually said these words; the quote comes from her principal secretary, Francis Bacon. It is spin. Catholics were distrusted, spied on, harassed and penalised, often unjustly, as Jessie Childs’s excellent new book lays out. Ms Childs, a British historian, examines one aristocratic family in the Midlands from 1570 to the gunpowder plot in 1605. The Vauxes were not only papists, they were recusants—that is, they refused to go to church on Sundays with their fellow countrymen and stayed at home instead. To the queen’s more zealous pen-pushers, this could only mean treachery. Officials of her successor, James I, thought there had to be a link to the terrorist Guy Fawkes (Vaux was pronounced Vorks). The climate of fear and suspicion was not without reason. In 1570 the pope declared that Roman Catholics should not obey the queen’s laws or commandments. Many assassination attempts were made on the monarch’s life. The most serious was in 1605, when Fawkes tried to blow up Parliament and wipe out London’s entire political elite in one blast. The establishment reacted in each case by rushing out new laws and new offences. It was treason to question the queen’s right to rule. Emigration controls were passed. The import of papal bulls was quashed. Crosses, “hallowed” pictures and rosary beads were banned. Fines were imposed on non-attendance at church and on “the saying and hearing of Mass”. Stubborn English folk found small ways to register their protest. Roger Flamstead resolved to keep his hat on during prayers for the queen. Sir Richard Shireburn went to church but secretly blocked his ears with wool thro