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PAGE PAGE # 英语专业八级考试翻译部分历届试题及参考答案 说明：本处提供的参考答案完全是为了教学、 教育目的而制作，参考答案分别源自福州 大学外国语学院英语系翻译课程小组及邹申主编的《新编高等院校英语专业八级考试指南》 :2001，上海：上海外语教育出版社］ (转引自松园英文书院和《中国翻译》等，供同学们 学习、比较。 1995年英语专业八级考试--翻译部分参考译文 C-E原文： 简?奥斯丁的小说都是三五户人家居家度日婚恋嫁娶的小事。因此不少中国读者不理 解她何以在西方享有那么高的声誉。 但一部小说开掘得深不深， 艺术和思想是否有过人之处， 的确不在题材大小。有人把奥斯丁的作品比作越咀嚼越有味道的橄榄。 这不仅因为她的语言 精彩，并曾对小说艺术的发展有创造性的贡献， 也因为她的轻快活泼的叙述实际上并不那么 浅白，那么透明。史密斯夫人说过，女作家常常试图修正现存的价值秩序，改变人们对“重 要”和“不重要”的看法。也许奥斯丁的小说能教我们学会转换眼光和角度， 明察到“小事” 的叙述所涉及的那些不小的问题。 参考译文： However, subject matter is in deed n ot the decisive factor by which we judge a novel of its depth as well as (of ) its artistic appeal and ideological content (or: as to whether a novel digs deep or not or whether it excels in artistic appeal and ideological content). Some people compare Austen ' s works to olives: the more you chew them, the more tasty (the tastier) they become. This comparis on is based not only on (This is not only because of ) her expressive Ian guage and her creative con tributio n to the developme nt of no vel writi ng as an art, but also on (because of ) the fact that what hides beh ind her light and lively n arrative is someth ing implicit and opaque (not so explicit and tran spare nt). Mrs. Smith once observed, wome n writers ofte n sought (made attempts) to rectify the exist ing value con cepts (orders) by changing people ' s opinions on what is “ important ” and what is not. E-C原文 I, by comparison, living in my overpriced city apartment, walking to work past putrid sacks of street garbage, paying usurious taxes to local and state governments I gen erally abhor, I am rated middle class. This causes me to won der, do the measurement make sense? Are we measuring only that which is easily measured the numbers on the money chart and ignoring values more central to the good life?For my sons there is of course the rural bounty of fresh-grown vegetables, line-caught fish and the shared riches of n eighbours ' orchards and garde ns. There is the un paid baby-sitter for whose child