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广东外语外贸大学 英语教育学院 《翻译（笔译）》09--10学年度第一学期期末考试试题C卷 （考试时间90分钟） 考核对象：08级国贸、广告、新闻、营销全英班 08级管理、信息、法学、经贸、政管、新闻学院部分A班 考试说明：1. 本场考试可携带传统词典，不可携带电子词典。 2. 班内序号即签到表上的序号。 3. 请监考老师收齐试卷与答题纸，将答题纸按学生签到表序号排序后装入试卷袋。 广东外语外贸大学 英语教育学院 《翻译（笔译）》09--10学年度第一学期期末考试试题C卷 学院__________ 班级______________ 姓名____________ 学号________ 班内序号__________ 分数 __________ 1. Translate the following underlined part into Chinese （50％） The greatest legacy of the babyboom generation’s early adulthood has been that it asked all the right questions but resolved nothing. YOUTH Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a body of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human beings heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of whats next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, you and I remain young. When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may have a young heart at 80. 2. 请将短文中划线部分译成英语（50%） 谈谈学英语 上个世纪末曾经有理想主义者发明一种世界语，想借此促进人类的团结。可是语言正如庄稼，不能在实验室里制造，它必须深深扎根于民族生活。那崇高的理想固然可敬，也的确风行过一阵。如今，知者已不多，用者更是寥寥。 由于历史和地理原因，英语至今仍是用得最广的语言。这一方面是由于英国曾经是日不落帝国，同时也应承认，英语在西方语言中是比较容易学的。例如，英语名词不讲性别，因而形容词也不必跟着变。发音也没有鼻音。以我这个北京人来说，没有任何音是我发不出的。