宁波大学专业课考研真题861翻译与汉语 2018年.docVIP

宁波大学2018年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题(A卷) (答案必须写在考点提供的答题纸上) 科目代码： 861 总分值： 150 科目名称： 翻译与汉语 第 PAGE 2 页 共 NUMPAGES 2 页 Part I Translation (100 points) Direction: This part consists of three passages. Translate Passage 1 from English into Chinese and Passages 2 and 3 from Chinese into English. Passage 1: English- Chinese Translation. (50 points) The Victorians, realizing that the greatest Happiness accorded to man is that provided by a happy marriage, endeavoured to pretend that all their marriages were happy. We, for our part, admitting the fact that no feat of intelligence and character is so exacting as that required of two people who desire to live permanently together on a basis of amity, are obsessed by the problem of how to render the basic facts of cohabitation simpler and more reasonable, in order that unhappy marriages may less frequently result. The Victorians would have considered it painful or unpleasant were one to point out that only four marriages out of every ten are anything but forced servitudes. We ourselves start from this very assumption and try to build from it a theory of more sensible relations between the sexes. Of all forms of arrant untruthfulness Victorian optimism appears to me to have been the most cowardly and the most damaging. Truth, therefore, is an attitude of the mind. It is important, if one does not wish to inconvenience and to bore ones friends, not to tell lies. But it is more important not to think lies, or to slide into those mechanical and untruthful habits of thought which are so pleasant and so easy as descents to mental ineptitude. The Victorian habit of mind (which I consider to have been a bad habit of mind) was unduly preoccupied by what was socially and morally convenient. Convenience is, however, in all affairs of life, an execrable test of value. One should have the courage to think uncomfortably, since it is only by rejecting the convenient that one can come to think the truth. Not, after all, that there is any su