考研英语一翻译真题及答案 .pdf

考研英语一翻译真题及答案 考研英语一翻译真题 Part C Directions： Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points) Within the span of a hundred years ， in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries ， a tide of emigration -one of the great folk wanderings of history-swept from Europe to America. (46) This movement， driven by powerful and diverse motivations， built a nation out of a wilderness and， by its nature， shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent. (47) The United States is the product of two principal forces-the immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas， customs， and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits. Of necessity ， colonial America was a projection of Europe. Across the Atlantic came successive groups of Englishmen ， Frenchmen， Germans， Scots， Irishmen， Dutchmen， Swedes， and many others who attempted to transplant their habits and traditions to the new world. (48) But， the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America， the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another， and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw， new continent caused significant changes. These changes were gradual and at first scarcely visible. But the result was a new social pattern which， although it resembled European society in many ways， had a character that was distinctly American. (49)The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorations of North America. In the meantime， thriving Spanish colonies had been established inMexico， the West Indies， and South America. These travelers to North America came in small， unmercifully overcrowded craft. During their six- to