中科院英语A期中翻译试题

1、. Passage1Among his first efforts in this area was “Tommy Tuckers Tooth (1922), a short bining live action and animation made on assignment for a local dentist.他在这个领域的第一个成就是“汤米塔克的牙1922，一部结合了生动动作和动画，描述给当地医生任务的短剧。A 1945 Look magazine article, titled “Walt Disney: Teacher of Tomorrow, described Disney

2、as “revolutionizing an educational system and cited how the Donald Duck short “The New Spirit, made for the United States Treasury Department, affected 37 percent of Americans regarding their willingness to pay ta*es1945年，瞭望杂志一篇标题为“沃特 迪斯尼：教师的明天的文章，把迪斯尼描述为“改革一个教育体系，并且引用美国财政部是如何用唐老鸭短剧“新的精神来影响37%的美国人交税

3、的意愿。This film contributed to Disneys being presented with an award of merit, for his contribution to public safety, by the Automobile Club of Southern California.因为迪斯尼对于公共平安的奉献，南加利福尼亚汽车俱乐部给予迪斯尼功绩的奖赏。Im not an educator. My primary purpose is to entertain though if people want to read education into m

4、y work, thats fine with me.我不是教育家，我的主要目的是娱乐，但如果人们想要从我的工作中受到教育，我也乐于承受。Passage 2Diffusion is the process by which molecules or ions scatter or spread from regions where they are in higher concentrations towards regions where they are in lower concentrations.扩散是分子或离子从高浓度区域分散或散布至低浓度区域的过程。Such motion is

5、haphazard, but it accounts for the mi*ing of molecules that monly occurs when different kinds of substances are put together.这种运动是无规则的,但它解释了将不同种类的物质放在一起时，通常会发生分子的混合的原因。Osmosis is a special kind of diffusion. It occurs whenever water molecules diffuse from a region of higher concentration through a s

6、electively permeable membrane,such as a cell membrane.渗透是一种特殊的扩散。当水分子从高浓度区域通过选择性渗透膜如细胞膜扩散时即为渗透。Passage3One of the problems of watching weather forecasts on TV is that by the time they have reached your region, you have tuned out and missed the vital information you have been waiting for. But it is n

7、ot a problem in the United States because they have a weather channel devoted entirely to weather. Set up in 1982, the Weather Channel was given just weeks to survive by its critics, but such is the interest in the vagaries of the climate that it has thrived.收看天气预报的一个问题就是当他们播到你那个区域时你已经换台而错过了你一直在等的重要

8、信息。但是在美国不存在这样的问题，因为他们有一个专门的天气频道。天气频道建立于1982年，他的评论家认为它只能存活几周，但是人们对变化莫测的天气如此感兴趣以至于它很盛行。Weather is big business in the United States. The country has 750 weather zones, including eight in the New York metropolitan area alone.在美国天气是一项大事，这个国家有750个天气区域，单纽约这样的大都市就包含8个区域。Passage 41.The Julian calendar devis

9、ed by Julius Caesar and based on the phases of the moon,had trouble pinning down that date.儒略历凯撒大帝制定，并根据月相，遇到了麻烦，牵制该日期。2.Aside from setting the first year of the Lord around Jesusfourth birthday,it does not had not account for a year 0.The concept of a whole number between minus-one and one had not

10、yet made the journey from the Arab world to Western Europe.除了设置耶稣的第四个生日为第一年，它不包括0年。一负一和一之间的整数的概念还没有从阿拉伯世界传到西方欧洲。Passage5Do you think it is possible to defeat an opponent so fierce that a glance at her turns one to stone “ This was the fate of anyone who looked upon the Medusa , a dreaded monster who

11、se hair was made of hissing serpents. 你认为有可能如此猛烈的击败一个对手，即看她一眼就会变成石头吗？这是任何一个看Medusa的人的命运，一个可怕的魔鬼，她的头发是嘶嘶叫的蛇所组成的.The brave Perseus undertook to fight the Medusa , but he was pelled to do battle in a most awkward manner .To help Perseus in his venture ,the goddess Minerva had lent him her bright shield

12、 ,and the god Mercury had given him winged shoes .勇敢的Perseus着手与Medusa斗争，但他被迫以一个最不方便的方式在战斗中战斗。为了帮助危险中的Perseus，女神Minerva把她的放光盾借给他，并且Mercury给他了一双有翅膀的鞋子。Cautiously he approached the awesome monster .Using the image of the Medusa in his shield as a guide , he succeeded in cutting off her head and fi*ing

13、it to the center of Minervas shieldPerseus小心翼翼的靠近了令人恐惧的魔鬼。在他的盾牌上用Medusa的肖像作为一个向导，他成功的把她的头切下来了，并把它装在Minerva的盾牌的中心。Perseus then flew to the realm of King Atlas whose chief pride was his garden filled with golden fruit . Thirsty and near collapse , he pleaded with the King for water to quench his thirs

14、t and for a place to rest .然后，Perseus飞到了Atlas王国的境，它的首领以他花园中的金色水果为荣。Perseus口渴并接近虚脱，他恳求国王一些水来止渴和一个休息的地方。 But Atlas feared that he would be betrayed into losing his golden apples . He uttered just one word ,“Begone!Perseus ,finding that he could not pacify Atlas , responded by beckoning him to look upo

15、n Medusas head .Atlas was changed immediately into stone但是，Atlas害怕他将会泄露出他的金色苹果。他只说出了一个字“滚蛋！Perseus觉察他不能使Atlas平静下来，以引诱他看Medusa的头作为回应。Atlas立刻变成了石头。His head and hair became forests , his body increased in bulk and became cliffs , and the gods ruled that the heaven with all its stars should rest upon hi

16、s shoulders . Can there be a worse calamity than that which befell Atlas “他的头和头发变成了森林，他的身体增大成一块并且变成了悬岩，并且众神规定，天上所有的星星都应在他的肩膀上休息。还有一个更坏的灾难能比降临在Atlas上的还糟吗？Using the image of the Medusa in his shield as a guide, he succeeded in cutting off her head and fi*ing it to the center of Minervas shield.在他的盾牌上用

17、Medusa的肖像作为一个向导，他成功的把她的头切下来了，并把它装在Minerva的盾牌的中心。Passage6The key to achieving this seemingly unbelievable feat lies in knowing how to make the most of a very natural sleep phenomenon dreaming.到达这种看似不可思议的壮举之关键在于了解如何充分利用一个非常自然的睡眠现象做梦。 Let the images that filled your mind during the dream return.在梦慢慢回逝时

18、让梦中的影像充满你的思维。To prepare for the dream, write a description in your notebook of the characters personality, physical traits, tastes in music and artwhatever unique characteristics you intend to give her.做为梦的准备，你可以在笔记本上写一个关于她个性特点、身体特征、音乐和艺术品味以及任何你打算赋予她的独特个性的描述。Passage 7After some months, the choice wa

19、s made and work was about to begin when one of the panies which had not been successful plained to the Minister. 几个月后，当两家公司中的一家向部长提出的控诉失败时，选择和工作即将开场。They said that the official who had been responsible for advising him on the choice of a pany to do the work had accepted bribes. 他们说，负责建议他选择由哪个公司完成工作的

20、官员已经承受了贿赂。The Minister at once ordered an inquiry into the whole matter, and after a month has proof that the official had indeed taken bribes.部长立刻要求对整件事进展调查，一个月后，证明官员确实收受了贿赂。I did not just take on from the pany to which I remended that you should give the work.我不仅从我建议你给予工作的公司里承受贿赂。I took a bribe fr

21、om each pany to favour it in my choice of the one to remend.我承受每个公司的贿赂，以帮助我选择推荐哪个公司。8The prototypes are frozen solid in huge refrigerators, flooded in artificial rainstorms, driven through mud and water and up hills as steep as the steepest hill in San Francisco.原型车在巨型冰箱中冻得结结实实，在人工暴雨中冲刷，在泥水中穿行，并爬上像旧

22、金山最陡的山那样陡峭的山。They are twisted screeching around sharp corners, joltedover cobblestones,and liftedoff the ground and suddenly dropped.模型车在急转弯处转弯时发出刺耳的声音，在鹅卵石铺成的路上颠簸，被吊起后突然落下。A special machine opens and slams a prototypes doors 80,000 times, and other instruments test the brakesand the amount of gasol

23、ine and oil the engine uses.用专用机器开关原型车门80000次，并用其他仪器测试刹车系统和发动机的耗油量。This shows them whether the car is wearing as well as they had e*pected,or if changes are necessary.这项检查告诉工程师们车辆的磨损情况是否和预期一样，或者是否需要更换零部件。Through such tests, engineers designed a collapsing steering column and controlled crush front e

24、nd and frame to protect drivers from serious injury in case of accident.通过这种测试，工程师们设计了折叠式转向柱及可控粉碎式前端和车架，用于保护驾驶员在车祸中免受重伤。9Countless millions of families have been torn apart and caused immeasurable pain and e*pense because the ine producer neglected to write a will.正是因为家庭收入生产者无视了立遗嘱这个问题，数不清的成千上万的家庭因此

25、支离破碎,造成不可估量的痛苦和损失。There even have been cases in which families have split apart over a set of soup bowls or a couple of clay pots-because a will failed to spell out how the crockery should be divided.甚至还有这样的例子，由于遗嘱中没有说明器如何分配，一些家庭就为一套汤碗或几个黏土罐子而发生分裂。They didnt know the groom well enough to be sure of

26、him, and they had no use for his father, a widower. 他们并不十分了解新郎所以还不知道他是否可靠，而且不需要了解他的鳏夫父亲。Most people will take just about any advice on how to e*pand their wealth but these same people will fail utterly to e*plore the most economical ways of passing on their assets to their survivors. 大多数人会采纳如何扩大他们财富

27、的建议，但是这些人完全不会寻找最经济的方法把他们的财产分给后人。10Whats so frightening about this so-called silent killer is that it often does not produce symptoms for years,secretly damaging arteries and organs throughout the body until it erupts in the form of (stroke,heart attack,congestive heart failure or kidney disease).这一所

28、谓的潜在杀手的可怕之处在于它常年并不产生病症，而是悄悄地损坏全身的动脉和器官，直到以中风、心脏病、充血性心衰或肾脏疾病的形式爆发出来。If left untreated, even mild hypertension can reduce the life e*pectancy of a 35-year-old by several years.如果放弃治疗，即使是轻微的高血压，也会使一个35岁的人减寿几年。Evaluating the results of a 13-year survey undertaken by the National Center for Health Statis

29、tics, James H. Dwyer, associate professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, found that people who consumed 1300 milligrams of calcium a day were 12 percent less likely to develop hypertension than those consuming only 300 mg a day.南加州大学医学院预防医学副教授Jame

30、s H. Dwyer评估了由国家卫生统计中心承当的一项长达13年的调查研究的结果，发现那些每天摄入1300毫克钙的人罹患高血压的可能性比每天只摄入300毫克的人小12 %。Soon doctors may urge some hypertension patients to increase their calcium intake, much the way they now advise sodium restriction. 很快医生们会建议一些高血压患者增加钙的摄入量，就像他们现在建议限制钠的摄入。Passage11If a foreign film is captivating sa

31、y the Chinese drama Raise the Red Lantern within a few minutes the subtitles melt away如果一部外国电影非常有吸引力，比方说，中国电影大红灯笼高高挂，几分钟之你就不注意字幕了。One forgets that the characters are speaking a different language, and the message of the film, its plot, its humor, e through. 观众会丢开演员们讲的不同的语言这一事实，而影片的信息、情节、幽默，均会被传达。Pas

32、sag12Is hunting, as Oscar Wilde said, “the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable, or is it a countryside tradition, misunderstood and defamed by over-sentimental city dwellers“狩猎是什么？是像奥斯卡王尔德说的对非食用东西的无法形容的追求，还是被感性的城市居民所误解和诽谤的乡下习俗They use guerrilla tactics to disrupt hunts and end up in violent stru

33、ggles with the riders , much to the delight of television crews他们用游击战术破坏狩猎，最后同狩猎者发生武力冲突完毕，而这正合电视台工作人员的心意。They see hunting as cruel , elitist and an inefficient way of controlling animals that may not to be controlled anyway.他们认为狩猎是残忍的，以非正常以及低效率的手段来控制动物的活动，而这些动物们其实并不需要人为的方式来控制它们。They accuse hunters o

34、f abusing not only the fo*es , deer and hares that they chase, but also of cruelty to the hounds and sometimes to their horses.他们控告狩猎者不仅滥杀他们追逐的狐狸、鹿和野兔，而且残忍对待他们的猎犬，有时还虐待他们的马。Passage13Unmarked and trackless though the ocean may seem to us,its surface is divided into definite zones,and the pattern of t

35、he surface water controls the distribution of its life.(P1,L1)对我们来说海洋是无形无迹的，但是它的外表被分成了特定的区域，外表海水形态控制着其中生命分布Seasonal abundance of certain forms containing reddish or brown pigments may cause the “red water known from ancient time in many parts of the world, and so mon is this condition in some enclos

36、ed seas that they owe their names to itthe Red Sea is an e*ample.(P4,L3)自古以来在世界很多地方都有发现,含有微红色、棕色色素的特定组分的季节性富集可能会形成“红水，在一些封闭的海域这种情况是很常见的以至于用它做名字红海是其中的一个例子。P141.The source of this interference remains unconfirmed, but increasingly, e*perts are pointing the blame at portable electronic devices such as

37、laptops, mobile phones, radio and cassette players and game machines.虽然仍没有确认产生干扰的原因，但渐渐地，专家指出产生这些干扰应归咎于便携式电子设备，像便携式电脑，手机，收音机，录音机和游戏机等。2.Some e*perts have gone further, calling for a total ban during all flights.calling for 现在分词做补语，对专家的意见进一步说明一些专家甚至更进一步地要求在整个飞行过程中都应制止使用电子设备。3. And although some airli

38、nes prohibit passengers from using such equipment during take-off and landing, most are reluctant toenforce a total ban, given that many passengers want to work during flights.虽然有一些航线会在起飞和降落的时候制止乘客使用这些设备，大局部航线还是不愿意强迫乘客全程制止使用这些设备的，因为他们考虑到大局部乘客想要在乘飞机的时候工作。4.E*perts know that portable devices emit radi

39、ation which affects those wavelengths which aircraft use for navigation and munication.专家知道，便携式电子设备会发射射线，这些射线会对飞机上用于航行和通信所使用的无线电波产生影响。5.The fact that aircraft may be vulnerable to interference raises增加，引发 the risk that terrorists may deliberately tamperwith radio systems in order to sabotage navigat

40、ion equipment.事实是，飞机对于外界干扰的敏感的可能性，会增加飞行危险性，因为恐惧分子可以成心地干预无线电系统来怕坏航行设备。P151.The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading womens legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are e*treme e*amples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that

41、once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you.中国上层社会的姑娘的裹足现象和尼日利亚风俗中将姑娘双腿绑上几磅重黄铜线的行为是比拟极端的例子，但是放眼整个世界，人们都在用类似的方法来确保一旦你追上一个女性她就跑不掉，即使她在你旁边，她也跟不上你。2.The lotus foot, which seems to us a deformity, was passionately admired in China for centuri

42、es, and today most people in Western society see nothing ugly in the severely pressed toes produced by modern footwear.在我们看来十分畸形的莲花足在中国却流行了很多世纪，今天很多西方社会的人并不觉得挤在时髦的女鞋里的极度压缩的脚趾有多么的丑陋。3.The high heeled, narrow-toed shoes that for most of this century have been an essential part of womans costume are co

43、nsidered se*ually attractive, partly because they make the legs look longeran e*tended leg is the biological sign of se*ual availability in several animal speciesand because they produce what anthropologists call a “courtship strut.在这个世纪的大局部时间中高跟的窄面的鞋成为女性时装领域的主要局部，它被认为是性感的诱惑，局部原因是它们能让女性的腿看起来更加修长，在一些

44、种类的动物中，长腿是可以交配的生物学信号，因为它们可以跳出被人类学家称为的“求爱舞步。4.Worst of all, if they are worn continually from adolescence on, they deform the muscles of the feet and legs so that it bees even more painful and difficult to walk in flat soles.最坏的一点是，如果她们从青春期就开场持续的穿高跟鞋，脚部和腿部的肌肉会由此变形，因此再穿平底鞋走路时她们会感觉到更加痛苦和困难。5.The haltin

45、g, tiptoe gait they produce is thought provocativeperhaps because it guarantees that no woman wearing them can outrun a man who is chasing her.这种慢吞吞，用脚尖走路的步态被认为具有挑逗性，或许因为它能保证穿着它们的女人无法在追求她们的男人面前跑掉。16Students and faculty at many colleges now have access to emailelectronicmail which bines the capabilit

46、ies of the puter with those of the phone line.现在很多大学的教师和学生已经开场使用电子，电子是依靠线来联合计算机的能力。No matter how many messages you send or how far you send them, your college or university does not pay anything beyond the fi*ed amount required to maintain its own proportion of the Internet.无论你发送多少信息或者你把这些信息发送多远，你的学

47、院或者大学不会支付任何超出需要维护互联网自身平衡金额。As important as speed is the fact that documents traveling directly from puter to puter remain as puter files rather than as a fi*ed printed page.如同速度一样重要的事实是文件作为计算机文档直接从计算机传送到计算机,而不是作为一个固定的打印页。P171.It says if the cause is medicine the person may be using ,then he or she s

48、hould ask the doctor for a similar medicine that does not produce dry mouth.这篇杂志认为，如果口干是由患者正在服用的药物引起的，则，他她应该让医生开与此相似的却不会导致口干的药物。18Although this may have been true for some Arctic region Eskimos, it was not indicative of the life of most Alaskan Eskimos.尽管对一些北极地区的爱斯基摩人来说这些情况是真实的，但不能代表大多数阿拉斯加爱斯基摩人的生活状

49、态。This kind of life-style that a particular group of Alaskan Eskimos followed at the time of the first European e*ploration of their homeland largely depended on the environment.阿拉斯加州的爱斯基摩人这个特殊群体的生活方式在第一次他们家园的欧洲探索时主要依靠环境形成了。IN the center of the munity was a large structure known as a mens club or mu

50、nal house.在社区的中心是一个很大的被称为男士俱乐部或公共的房屋的建筑。This clubhouse was used by the men for various activities in their leisure time. Also included in most munities were drying racks for meat and fish and storage pits where supplies for use during the winter months might be kept.大多社区中也有肉和鱼的风干架，及用于储藏冬季数月食粮的储藏窖19Such migrations