2003 年考研英语真题翻译

1、61.【翻译要点】 本意为“使服从”，可以根据不同的宾语而经常意译。如，We must subject everything to careful 为“我们必须对每一件事进行仔细检查”，而不是“让每一件事服从我们的仔细检查”。other life 意“其他生命的形态”转译为“其他形态的生命”。【参考译文】而且，人类还有能力改变自己的生存环境，从而让所有其他形态的生命服从人类自己独特的思想和想像。62.Social science is that branch of intellectual enquiry which seeks to study humans and theirendeavo

2、rs in the same reasoned, orderly, systematic, and dispassioned manner that naturalscientists use for the study of natural phenomena.Social science is that branch of which seeks to study humans and their )The emphasis on data gathered combined with a perspective broughtto the analysis of cultures pas

3、t and present, makes this study a unique and distinctly importantsocial science.brought to the analysis of cultures past and p64.acquired by man as a member of 65.Thus, the anthropological concept of “culture”, like the concept of “set” in mathematics, is anabstract concept which makes possible imme

4、nse amounts of concrete research and understanding.【考核知识点】猜测词义及倒装结构61.The Greeks assumed that the language structure had some connection with the process of thought,which took root in Europe long before people realized how diverse the language could be.【考核知识点】定语从句的翻译和词性转换注：62.We are obliged to them

5、because some of these languages have since vanished,as the peoples whospoke them died out or became assimilated and lost their native language.【考核知识点】上下文指代关系because some of these languages have since vanas the people who spoke them died The newly described languages were often so strikingly differen

6、t from the well studied languagesof Europe and Southeast Asia that some scholars even accused Boas and Spair of fabricating theirdata.【翻译要点】well strikingly different需要进行词性转换，译成“差别显著”或“显著的差别”。64.Being interested in the relationship of language and thought,Whorf developed the idea that thestructure of

7、 language determines the structure of habitual thought in a society.【考核知识点】分词作状语和同位语从句Being interested in the relationship of language and thought,Whorf the ideathat the structure of language determines the structure of habitual a society.例1.Whorf对语言与思维的关系感兴趣，而发展了在社会中语言结构决定习惯思维结构的观点。（2分）例5.通过对语言和思想的

8、兴趣的提高，发展了思想，并且这个思想引导语言，从而也控制人们社会思维方式。（0分）65.Whorf came to believe in a sort of linguistic determinism which,in its strongest form,states thatlanguage imprisons the mind,and that the grammatical patterns in a language can producefarreaching consequences for the culture of a society.【考核知识点】定语从句46.Tele

9、vision is one of the means by which these feelings are never before has it served so much to connect different peoples and nations as in the recent eventsin Europe.47.In Europe, as elsewhere, ma groups have been increasingly successful groups whichbring together television, radio, newspapers,magazin

10、es and publishing houses that work in relationto one another.【参考译文】在欧洲，像在其他地方一样，传媒集团越来越成功：这些集团将相关的电视、广播、报纸、杂志和出版社组合在一起。48.This alone demonstrates that the television business is not an easy world to survive in, a factunderlined by statistics that show that out of eighty European television networks, no less than50% took a loss in 1989.【考核知识点】代词指代49.Creating a“European identity” that respects the different cultures and traditions which go to make