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上 海 对 外 经 贸 大 学 2017年 攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试 《英语翻译基础》试题 适用翻译硕士专业 （全部试题均做在答题纸上，否则不予得分） 一、英译汉 （75 分） A mind of large powers, accidentally directed to some particular direction: such is Samuel Johnsons description of genius. Johnsons own mind, however, possessing the largest general powers of all but a few in British history, was exercised in many directions. He was first and foremost a poet, and his poetic imagination illuminates his prose and dazzles in his conversation, which is the most splendid ever recorded. He was first lexicographer of his language, and the Dictionary remained supreme for over a century. He was one of the best literary critics of all time, and there is no better short biography than his life of Savage. He was a fine scholar, both in the Classics and in the history of English Literature. Debarred by his lack of a university degree from entering any of the learned professions, of which he would have preferred Law, he acquired a vast amount of professional learning. He was the most distinguished layman-lawyer of his day, giving practical help to his legal friends and affecting the latter reform of the English criminal law. Of the third profession, Medicine, he again probably knew as much as any layman of his day. His interest in medicine was linked with his study of natural science, or philosophy, as he called it: he read widely in the great scientists of the previous century and was a keen experimenter in chemistry. From science he went on to technology, and was praised by the inventor Arkwright as ha