2014年9月京江翻译练习解析.pdfVIP

翻译练习 10 篇 练习 1 We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency – a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here. But there is hopeful news as well: we have the ability to solve this crisis and avoid the worst – though not all – of its consequences, if we act boldly, decisively and quickly. However, despite a growing number of honorable exceptions, too many of the worlds leaders are still best described in the words Winston Churchill applied to those who ignored Adolf Hitlers threat: “Theygo on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent. So” today, we dumped another 70 milli on tons of global-warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, as if it were an open sewer. And tomorrow, we will dump a slightly larger amount, with the cumulative concentrations now trapping more and more heat from the sun. 练习 2 在元朝末年， 朝廷变得腐败无能。 许多读书人都坚信蒙古人已失掉了天命， 不再能统治天下 了。然而他们当中谁曾料到，天命竟然会落到朱元璋这样一位几乎终生目不识丁的人头上。 明太祖朱元璋出身极其微贱， 除了天生才具之外一无所有。 他的父母是极其贫苦的农民， 因 饥荒而背井离乡。 为了不至于全家都饿死， 他们把儿子卖进了寺庙。 朱元璋做了几年小和尚， 然后就跑掉当了土匪。在当时天下大乱、 反叛四起的情况下， 他这么做倒是顺理成章。 过了 一些年，他在南京登基坐殿，开创了明朝近三百年的江山。 练习 3 The American Falls do not inspire this feeling in the same way as the Canadian. It is because they are less in volume, and because the water does not fall so much into one place. By comparison their beauty is almost delicate and fragile. They are extraordinarily level, one long curtain of lacework and woven foam. Seen from opposite, when the sun is on them, they are blindingly white, and the clouds of spray show dark against them. With both Falls the colo