专八改错题及答案.docx

2 0 1 2 年 3 月 专 八 真 题 ： 改 错 部 分 The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally or freely． The argument has been going since at least the first (1) ______ century ． Up to the beginning of the 19th century, many writers favoured certain kind of “free ” translation: the spirit, not the letter; the (2) _______ sense not the word; the message rather the form; the matter not (3) _______ the manner． This is the often revolutionary slogan of writers who (4) _______ wanted the truth to be read and understood． Then in the turn of the 19th (5) ____ century, when the study of cultural anthropology suggested that the linguistic barriers were insuperable and that the language (6) _______ was entirely the product of culture, the view translation was impossible (7) _____ gained some currency, and with it that, if was attempted at all, it must be as (8) __ literal as possible ． This view culminated the statement of the (9) _______ extreme “literalists ” Walter Benjamin and VlairdNimobokov. The argument was theoretical: the purpose of the translation, the nature of the readership, the type of the text, was not discussed ． Too often, writer, translator and reader were implicitly identified with each other ． Now, the context has changed, and the basic problem remains ． (10) ___ __ 参考答案： 1． going 后加 on 2． certain 改为 a certain 3． rather 改为 not 4． is 改为 was 5． in 改为 at 6．去掉第二个 the 7． view 后面加 that 8．去掉 was 9． culminated 后面加 in 10． and 改为 but 2011 年 3 月专八真题：改错部分 From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four (1)I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the conscience (2)that I was outraging my true nature and that soon or later I should have to (3)settle down and write books. ?