2020年天津商业大学英语翻译基础考研真题.docVIP

PAGE / NUMPAGES 2020年天津商业大学英语翻译基础考研真题 I. Read the following passage and explain Venuti’s “Domesticating” strategy in no more than 100 English words. (20 points) This relationship points to the violence that resides in the very purpose and activity of translation: the reconstitution of the foreign text in accordance with values, beliefs and representations that pre-exist it in the target language, always configured in hierarchies of dominance and marginality, always determining the production, circulation, and reception of texts. Translation is the forcible replacement of the linguistic and cultural difference of the foreign text with a text that will be intelligible to the target language reader. (Lawrence Venuti 1995) II. Translate the following items into their respective target language. (30 points) 1. biennial 2. Aristotle 3. ubiquitous 4. mobile etiquette 5. paradox 6. brain drain 7. baby-boomers 8. Kublai Khan 9. the Nile 10. Gini coefficient 11. downsizing, restructuring and outsourcing 12. Jason, leader of the Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece 13. 垃圾邮件和钓鱼软件 14. （网购）打分和评价 15. 条形码 16. 智库 17. 新常态 18. （股票）上市 19. （公司间的）收购 20. 大宗交易 21. 住院和门诊服务 22. “发展体育运动，增强人民体质” 23. “百花齐放，百家争鸣” III. Translate the following two source texts into their respective target language. (100 points) Source Text 1: (50 points) How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimesthinks he sensesit. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people – first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received