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第 PAGE 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 5 页 英译汉学习 02：语言变迁 CATTI考试资料与资讯?2017-08-07 来源：冯庆华《实用翻译教程》 In the year 1914?a young girl named Monica Baldwin entered a?convent, remaining secluded there until 1941?when?she was released from her vows and returned to the outer world.? 1914 年，一个名叫莫妮卡· 鲍德温的年轻姑娘进了一座修道院，过着与世隔绝的隐居生活，直到1941 年她才从许下的愿言中解脱出来，重新回到外界生活之中。 In the intervening twenty-eight years?wars and revolutions had come and gone?in Europe, her uncle, Stanley Baldwin, had guided the destinies of his country for some time, technical developments had altered the conditions of everyday life almost beyond recognition, but all these events had left virtually untouched the small religious community to which she had belonged. 在这28年的岁月里，欧洲经历了多次的战争和革命；她的叔父，斯坦利· 鲍德温，曾一度执掌国家的命运；社会生产技术的发展几乎完全改变了人们日常生活的面貌。但是所有这一切简直丝毫没有波及她曾栖身于其中的那一个小小的宗教团体。 In 1949 Miss Baldwin published her impressions of those first?bewilderingyears of her return to a world in which the motor-car had ousted the horse and carriage, and where respectable women showed their legs and painted their faces. Yet it was not only these odd sights that astounded her, for she was even more puzzled by what she heard.? 1949 年，鲍德温小姐出版了她重返世俗后最初几年迷惑不解的印象记。在当时社会上汽车已代替了马车，名媛淑女已在画眉涂唇，裸腿而行。令她吃惊的不仅是这些新奇的景象，人们的言谈更使她茫然不知所云。 During a railway journey the term‘luggage in advance’meant nothing to her, so in desperation she implored the porter to do as he thought best.? 在一次火车旅行时，她听不懂“luggage in advance”（行李先行托运）这个说法，于手足无措之中，她只好央求搬运工看着办。 Reading the daily newspapers made her feel?idiotic?in the extreme, because the writers of reviews and leading articles used words and phrases such as Jazz, Gin and It, the Unknown Soldier, Lease-lend, Hollywood, Cocktail, Striptease and Isolationism.? 读起报纸来，她感到如堕五里雾中，因为写评论和社论的人用了诸如jazz（爵士乐）、gin and it（甜味苦艾酒和杜松子酒的混合饮料）、the Unknown Soldier（无名阵亡战士）、lend-lease（租借法）、Hollywood（好莱坞）、cocktail（鸡尾酒）、striptease（脱衣舞）和isolationism（孤立主义）等词语。 These and many others were quite?incomprehensible?to Miss Baldwin, who was equally be