上海外国语大学 2008攻读硕士研究生入学考试 英语语言文学专业翻译试卷 （180分钟，总分150分） 1.Translate the following into English（75分） 千万不要被“忽悠”了 ——谨防新时期的“糖衣炮弹” 去年，美国时任财政部长的汉克·保尔森曾恭维中国说， “中国已经是 全球经济领袖之一” 。此后，美英两国媒体在这方面做了不少文章。美国《时代》 周刊在年初一期杂志的封面以显赫的大字宣称： 中国： “ 一个新王朝的开始” 2007 。 年 1 月， 英国伦敦皇家国际问题研究所所长维克托· 托马斯意味深长地发表文章， 提醒世界注意： 《2020 年，世界将有中美两个超级大国》 ，而且要求中国同美国 一样， “把责任扩大到整个地球” 月下旬，美国一些媒体大量报道“美国世界 。5 意见调查机构”最近对十几个国家进行的所谓“世界民意调查” ，认为“中国经 济将超过美国” 而且说得有鼻子有眼， ， 时间大概就在 2020 年； 并挑逗中国人说， 你们怎么“对自己的经济还没有美国人有信心”呢。 尤其值得注意的是，5 月中旬，美国中央情报局公布了一份“世界数字”报 告，按美国所谓 “实际购买力”估算，突出宣传在世界各国国内生产总值方面，中国仅排在美国 之后，遥遥领先于第三的日本。报告还“分析”说，如果按 2006 年一年间美中 两国距离缩小近 3%的比例算， “中国只需要两年就能超过美国，在 2009 年内成 为世界上实际的第一经济大国” 。说得多么“有根有据” ，多么娓娓动听而又发人 深思！ 所谓中国很快就要赶超美国的论调，实际上是新时期的一颗“糖衣炮弹” ， 是“中国威胁论”的变种。它一是要引起西方、特别是美国的惊恐，从根本上感 到“中国的威胁”和挑战，从而动员“遏制中国的势力” 。二是要刺激中国某些 人的浮躁情绪和简单的“大国心态” ，麻痹忧患意识。这是更阴险的一招，而且 更具“魅力” 。我们不能“以小人之心度君子之腹” ，但也千万不要被“忽悠”了， 不可不学会一点“以君子之心度小人之腹” 。 2.Translate the following into Chinese（75 分） A Meditation upon a Broomstick By Jonathan Swift ACCORDING TO THE STYLE AND MANNER OF THE HON. ROBERT BOYLE’S MEDITATIONS. THIS single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing state in a forest. It was full of sap, full of leaves, and full of boughs; but now in vain does the busy art of man pretend to vie with nature, by tying that withered bundle of twigs to its sapless trunk; it is now at best but the reverse of what it was, a tree turned upside-down, the branches on the earth, and the root in the air; it is now handled by every dirty wench, condemned to do her drudgery, and, by a capricious kind of fate, destined to make other things clean, and be nasty itself; at length, worn to the stumps in the service of the maids, it is either thrown out of doors
    or condemned to the last use — of kindling a fire. When I behold this I sighed, and said within myself, “Surely mortal man is a broomstick!” Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head, the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, till the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk; he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs, all covered with powder, that never grew on his head; but now should this our broomstick pretend to enter the scene, proud of those birchen spoils it never bore, and all covered with dust, through the sweepings of the finest lady’s chamber, we should be apt to ridicule and despise its vanity. Partial judges that we are of our own excellencies, and other men’s defaults! But a broomstick, perhaps you will say, is an emblem of a tree standing on its head; and pray what is a man but a topsy-turvy creature, his animal faculties perpetually mounted on his rational, his head where his heels should be, grovelling on the earth? And yet, with all his faults, he sets up to be a universal reformer and corrector of abuses, a remover of grievances, rakes into every slut’s corner of nature, bringing hidden corruptions to the light, and raises a mighty dust where there was none before, sharing deeply all the while in the very same pollutions he pretends to sweep away. His last days are spent in slavery to women, and generally the least deserving; till, worn to the stumps, like his brother besom, he is either kicked out of doors, or made use of to kindle flames for others to warm themselves by.

上海外国语大学 2007攻读硕士研究生入学考试 英语语言文学专业翻译试卷 （180分钟，总分150分） 1.Translate the following into English（75分） 我是个最喜欢在十丈红尘里奔走道路的人。我现在每天在路上的时间差不多 总在两点钟以上，这是已经有好几月了，我却一点也不生厌，天天走上电车，老 是好像开始蜜月旅行一样。电车上和道路上的人们彼此多半是不相识的，所以大 家都不大拿出假面孔来，比不得讲堂里，宴会上，衙门里的人们那样彼此拼命地 一味敷衍。公园，影戏院，游戏场，馆子里面的来客个个都是眉花眼笑的，最少 也装出那么样子，墓地，法庭，医院，药店的主顾全是眉头皱了几十纹的，这两 下都未免太单调了，使我们感到人世的平庸无味。车子里面和路上的人们却具有 万般色相，你坐在车里，可要从睁大眼睛不停地观察了卅分钟，你差不多可以在 所见的人们脸上看出人世一切的苦乐感觉同人心的种种情调。 你坐在位子上默默 地鉴赏， 同车的客人们老实地让你从他们的形色举止上去推测他们的生平同当下 的心境，外面的行人一一现你眼前，你尽可恣意瞧着，他们并不会晓得，而且他 们是这么不断地接连走过，你很可以拿他们来彼此比较，这种普通人的行列的确 是比什么赛会都有趣得多，路上源源不绝的行人可说是上帝设计的赛会，当然胜 过了我们佳节时红红绿绿的玩意儿了。 并且在路途中我们的心境是最宜于静观的，最能吸收外界的刺激的。我们通 常总是干事，正经事也好，歪事也好，我们的注意免不了特别集中在一点上，只 有路途中，尤其走熟了的长路，在未到目的地以前，我们的方寸是悠然的，不专 注于一物，却是无所不留神的，在匆匆忙忙的一生里，我们此时才得好好地看一 看人生的真况。 所以无论从那一方面说起， 途中是认识人生最方便的地方。 车中， 船上同人行道可说是人生博览会的三张入场券，可惜许多人把它们当做废纸，空 走了一生的路。 2.Translate the following into Chinese（75 分） It is curious that our own offenses should seem so much less heinous than the offenses of others. I suppose the reason is that we know all the circumstances that have occasioned them and so manage to excuse in ourselves what we cannot excuse in others. We turn our attention away from our own defects, and when we are forced by untoward events to consider them, find it easy to condone them. For all I know we are right to do this; they are part of us and we must accept the good and bad in ourselves together. But when we come to judge others, it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left our everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world. To take a trivial instance: how scornful we are when we catch someone out telling a lie; but who can say that he has never told not one, but a hundred? There is not much to choose between men. They are all a hotchpotch of greatness and littleness, of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness. Some have more strength of character, or more opportunity, and so in one direction or another give their instincts freer play, but potentially they are the same. For my part, I do not think I am any better or any worse than most people, but I know that if I set down every action in my life and every thought that has crossed my mind, the world would consider me a monster of depravity. The knowledge that these reveries are common to all men