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英语专业八级翻译练习题（一）The Rewards of Living a Solitary LifeThe other day an acquaintance of mine, a gregarious and charming man, told me he had found himself unexpectedly alone in New York for an hour or two between appointments. He went to the Whitney and spent the "empty" time looking at things in solitary bliss. For him it proved to be a shock nearly as great as falling in love to discover that he could enjoy himself so much alone.参考译文：独自生活的报偿前些日子，我的一个熟人，一位热爱交际并很受欢迎的男士告诉我，他在纽约的两个约会之间偶然有一两个小时的空闲，他便去了惠特尼博物馆，四处浏览着展品，无比幸福的度过了那些时光。
发现自已独自一人，也能如此的幸福，他感觉像坠入爱河那般震惊。
英语专业八级翻译练习题（二）What had he been afraid of, I asked myself? That, suddenly alone, he would discover that he bored himself, or that there was, quite simply, no self there to meet? But having taken the plunge, he is now on the brink of adventure; he is about to be launched into his own inner space to the astronaut. His every perception will come to him with a new freshness and, for a time, seem startlingly original.参考译文：“他一直在害怕什么呢？”，我问自已。
历年英语八级翻译试题2006年试题A. 汉译英（翻译划线部分）中国民族自古以来从不把人看作高于一切，在哲学文艺方面的表现都反映出人在自然界中与万物占着一个比例较为恰当的地位，而非绝对统治万物的主宰。
因此我们的苦闷，基本上比西方人为少为小，因为苦闷的强弱原是随欲望与野心的大小而转移的。
农业社会的人比工业社会的人享受差得多，因此欲望也小得多，况中国古代素来以不滞于物、不为物役为最主要的人生哲学。
并非我们没有守财奴，但比起莫利哀与巴尔扎克笔下的守财奴与野心家，就小巫见大巫了。
中国民族多数是性情中正平和、淡泊、朴实，比西方人容易满足。
讨论稿1. (仅供参考!)：From the ancient times (Since time immemorial) the Chinese people have neverviewed the human beings as superior in the world, which is completely reflected in what they’ve done in their philosophy and art, showing that a human being has the status quite appropriately in proportion to other things on earth, rather than an absolute ruler in the world. Therefore, what we’ve suffered is much less and smaller compared with the westerners, for thedepressions vary with the different desires and the ambitions the people have. People in the agricultural society have much less enjoyment than those in the industrial society, thus their desire much less. What’s more, in ancient China, Chinese people always took the concept//notion of “Never addict oneself as a slave to material wealth” mainly as their philosophyin life.[语言通俗、结构连贯]讨论稿2.The Chinese nation has never believed in human supremacy. And the nation finds full expression in the philosophy, literature and art that human coexist with other species in nature with a proportionally proper rather than an absolutely dominant position. Therefore we generally suffer less depression thanWesterners, as the degree of the suffering varies with that of our desire and ambition. People in the agricultural society have much less enjoyment than those in the industrial society, and hence less desire. Moreover, the main Chinese ancient philosophy of life is always to be free from the encumbrance or enslavement of the outside world. Certainly there areamong us misers（守财奴）and careerists（野心家）depicted（描述）by Moliere and Balzac. In comparison with Westerners, the Chinese people, easier to be satisfied, are mostly unbiased（无偏见）, peaceful, unworldly and guileless（厚道）.(邵志洪译)[用词更讲究]2007年试题Section A:Translate the underlined part of thefollowing text into English:暮色中，河湾里落满云霞，与天际的颜色混合在一起，分不清哪是流云哪是水湾。
英语专业八级考试汉译英常见问题解析考题标准•“衡量汉译英考题优劣的标准，应该是看语篇是否能在翻译实践中较集中地反映汉英语言包括语义、句法、语用、修辞等在内的各个层面的差异”。
（邵志洪）理解方面的问题•习语（包括俗语）的理解错误•断句的错误•词组间关系的判定错误•逻辑隐含关系的理解错误•临时意义的理解错误•词的隐含意义的理解错误•缺乏语体差别的敏感性•背景知识的欠缺•政治意识的缺乏习语的理解错误•寒暄：coldly talk for a while（误）•叶公好龙：“too much addicted is something”;“One does not mean what he says”（误）•本世纪上半叶：the half page of this century（误）断句的错误•汉语是意合的语言，形态机制不发达，汉语句子在断句问题上并不严格，因此，对句子停顿的意识很多情况下完全取决于读者的语感。
学生对此认识不足，不敢果断断句。
•汉语功底欠缺、语感薄弱•“世界上第一代博物馆属于自然博物馆，它是通过化石、标本等向人们介绍地球和各种生物的演化历史”•The world’s first generation museums are museums of natural history. They introduce to the people with fossils and specimens the evolution of the earth and various living organisms on it.词组间关系的判定错误•“科学知识”和“科学技术”误: science and knowledgescientific technology正: scientific knowledgescience and technology背景知识的欠缺•“奥斯丁”：•“我的导师是亚裔人”误：“My tutor is an Asian.”正：“My tutor is an Asian American.”•“除有一名来自德国外，其余5 位均是亚裔学生”正：“…except one of German origin,the rest five were of Asian origin.”•“现今180 万温哥华居民中，有一半不是在本地出生的，每4 个居民中就有一个是亚裔人。
英语专业八级考试汉译英常见问题解析考题标准•“衡量汉译英考题优劣的标准，应该是看语篇是否能在翻译实践中较集中地反映汉英语言包括语义、句法、语用、修辞等在内的各个层面的差异”。
（邵志洪）理解方面的问题•习语（包括俗语）的理解错误•断句的错误•词组间关系的判定错误•逻辑隐含关系的理解错误•临时意义的理解错误•词的隐含意义的理解错误•缺乏语体差别的敏感性•背景知识的欠缺•政治意识的缺乏习语的理解错误•寒暄：coldly talk for a while（误）•叶公好龙：“too much addicted is something”; “One does not mean what he says”（误）•本世纪上半叶：the half page of this century（误）断句的错误•汉语是意合的语言，形态机制不发达，汉语句子在断句问题上并不严格，因此，对句子停顿的意识很多情况下完全取决于读者的语感。
学生对此认识不足，不敢果断断句。
•汉语功底欠缺、语感薄弱•“世界上第一代博物馆属于自然博物馆，它是通过化石、标本等向人们介绍地球和各种生物的演化历史”•The world’s first generation museums are museums of natural history. They introduce to the people with fossils and specimens the evolution of the earth and various living organisms on it.词组间关系的判定错误•“科学知识” 和“科学技术”误: science and knowledgescientific technology正: scientific knowledgescience and technology背景知识的欠缺•“奥斯丁” ：•“我的导师是亚裔人”误：“My tutor is an Asian.”正：“My tutor is an Asian American.”•“除有一名来自德国外，其余5位均是亚裔学生”正：“…except one of German origin, the rest five were of Asian origin.”•“现今180万温哥华居民中，有一半不是在本地出生的，每4个居民中就有一个是亚裔人。
TEM 8 真题训练21篇1997来美国求学的中国学生与其他亚裔学生一样，大多非常刻苦勤奋，周末也往往会抽出一天甚至两天的时间去实验室加班，因而比起美国学生来，成果出得较多。
我的导师是亚裔人，嗜烟好酒，脾气暴躁。
但他十分欣赏亚裔学生勤奋与扎实的基础知识，也特别了解亚裔学生的心理。
因此，在他实验室所招的学生中，除有一名来自德国外，其余5位均是亚裔学生。
他干脆在实验室的门上贴一醒目招牌：“本室助研必须每周工作7天，早10时至晚12时，工作时间必须全力以赴。
”这位导师的严格及苛刻是全校有名的，在我所呆的3 年半中，共有14 位学生被招进他的实验室，最后博士毕业的只剩下5人。
1990年夏天，我不顾别人劝阻，硬着头皮接受了导师的资助，从此开始了艰难的求学旅程。
19981997 年2 月24 日我们代表团下榻日月潭中信大饭店，送走了最后一批客人，已是次日凌晨3 点了。
我躺在床上久久不能入睡，披衣走到窗前，往外看去，只见四周峰峦叠翠，湖面波光粼粼。
望着台湾这仅有的景色如画的天然湖泊，我想了许多，许多……这次到台湾访问交流，虽然行程匆匆，但是，看了不少地方，访了旧友，交了新知，大家走到一起，谈论的一个重要话题就是中华民族在21世纪的强盛。
虽然祖国大陆、台湾的青年生活在不同的社会环境中，有着各自不同的生活经历，但大家的内心都深深铭刻着中华文化优秀传统的印记，都拥有着振兴中华民族的共同理想。
在世纪之交的伟大时代，我们的祖国正在走向繁荣富强，海峡两岸人民也将加强交流，共同推进祖国统一大业的早日完成。
世纪之交的宝贵机遇和巨大挑战将青年推到了历史前台。
跨世纪青年一代应该用什么样的姿态迎接充满希望的新世纪，这是我们必须回答的问题。
日月潭水波不兴，仿佛与我一同在思索……1999加拿大的温哥华1986 年刚刚度过百岁生日，但城市的发展令世界瞩目。
以港立市，以港兴市，是许多港口城市生存发展的道路。
经过百年开发建设，有着天然不冻良港的温哥华，成为举世闻名的港口城市，同亚洲、大洋洲、欧洲、拉丁美洲均有定期班轮，年货物吞吐量达到8，000 万吨，全市就业人口中有三分之一从事贸易与运输行业。
专业英语八级（翻译）模拟试卷23(题后含答案及解析) 题型有： 5. TRANSLATIONPART V TRANSLATION (60 MIN)SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISHDirections: Translate the following text into English.1．择书比择友简单得多。
不善辞令、厌恶应酬的人，可以自由自在地徜徉于书林之中，游目四顾，俯拾皆友。
看书，可以博览，可以细嚼，没有人会怪你喜新厌旧，也没有人要求你从一而终。
你大可以从一本换到另一本，喜爱的书，不妨一读再读；不耐看的书，又可随手抛下，谁也不会因此而伤心失望。
人际关系错综复杂，那“书际关系”呢?只要花点时间去了解，再高深的学问也弄得明白。
正确答案：It is much easier to choose a book than a friend. One who is poor at speech and shuns socializing will nevertheless feel like being surrounded by friends while sauntering freely in the midst of books. Some books are to be read cursorily, and some are to be chewed and digested. None will ever call you fickle-minded, and none will ever demand that you be constant in your affection. You can go from one book to another. And you can read your favorite book over and over again. When you lay aside the book you dislike, none will ever feel hurt or disappointed. While interpersonal relations are very complicated, what about your relations with books? Devote your time to studies, and you will be able to acquire any knowledge no matter how profound it is.解析：1、这两段为论说性小品文，整体时态应为一般现在时。
1995-2010英语专八汉译英及参考答案1CHINESE TO ENGLISH乔羽的歌大家都熟悉。
但他另外两大爱好却鲜为人知，那就是钓鱼和喝酒。
晚年的乔羽喜爱垂钓，他说：“有水有鱼的地方大都是有好环境的，好环境便会给人好心情。
我认为最好的钓鱼场所不是舒适的、给你准备好饿鱼的垂钓园，而是那极其有吸引力的大自然野外天成的场所。
”钓鱼是一项能够陶冶性情的运动，有益于身心健康。
乔羽说：“钓鱼可分三个阶段：第一阶段是吃鱼；第二阶段是吃鱼和情趣兼而有之；第三阶段主要是钓趣，面对一池碧水，将忧心烦恼全都抛在一边，使自己的身心得到充分休息。
”ENGLISH TO CHINESEEffort is the gist of it. There is no happiness except as we take on life- engaging difficulties. Short of the impossible, as Yeats put it, the satisfaction we get from a lifetime depends on how high we choose our difficulties. Robert Frost was thinking in something like the same terms when he spoke of “The pleas u re of taking pains”. The mortal flaw in the advertised version of happiness is in the fact that it purports to be effortless.We demand difficulty even in our games. We demand it because without difficulty there can be no game. A game is a way of making something hard for the fun of it. The rules of the game are an arbitrary imposition of difficulty. When someone ruins the fun, he always does so by refusing to play by the roles. It is easier to win at chess if you are free, at your pleasure, to change the wholly arbitrary roles, but the fun is in winning within the rules. No difficulty, no fun.乔羽的歌大家都熟悉。
专业英语八级（散文类英译汉）模拟试卷1(题后含答案及解析) 题型有： 5. TRANSLATIONPART V TRANSLATION (60 MIN)SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESEDirections: Translate the following text into Chinese.1．Today I have read the Tempest ... Among the many reasons which make me glad to have been born in England, and one of the first is that I read Shakespeare in my mother tongue. If I try to imagine myself as one who cannot know him face to face, who hears him only speaking from afar, and that in accents which only through the labouring intelligence can touch the living soul, there comes upon me a sense of chill discouragement, of dreary deprivation. I am wont to think that I can read Homer, and, assuredly, if any man enjoys him, it is I; but can I for a moment dream that Homer yields me all his music, that his word is to me as to him who walked by the Hellenic shore when Hellas lived? I know that there reaches me across the vast of time no more than a faint and broken echo; I know that it would be fainter still, but for its blending with those memories of youth which are as a glimmer of the world’s primeval glory.正确答案：今天我读完了《暴风雨》……我很庆幸自己出生在英格兰，在众多的理由之中首要的理由之一是，我用我的母语阅读莎士比亚，要是我想象自己不能面对面地去认识他，只能听他从遥远的地方讲话，而且是用一种费解的口音讲话，我将会感到心灰意冷，也会因为被剥夺了一种权利而感到沮丧。
但愿人长久，千里共婵娟。
We wish each other a long life so as to share the beauty of this graceful moonlight, even though miles apart.独在异乡为异客，每逢佳节倍思亲。
A lonely stranger in a strange land I am cast, I miss my family all the more on every festive day.大江东去，浪淘尽，千古风流人物。
The endless river eastward flows; with its huge waves are gone all those gallant heroes of bygone years.二人同心，其利断金。
If two people are of the same mind, their sharpness can cut through metal.富贵不能淫，贫贱不能移，威武不能曲，此之谓大丈夫。
It is a true great man whom no money and rank can confuse, no poverty and hardship can shake, and no power and force can suffocate.海内存知己，天涯若比邻。
A bosom friend afar brings distance near.合抱之木，生于毫末，九层之台，起于累土；千里之行始于足下。
A huge tree that fills one’s arms grows from a tiny seedling; a nine-storied tower rises from a heap of earth; a thousand li journey starts with the first step.祸兮，福之所依；福兮，祸之所伏。
专业英语八级翻译分类真题英译汉(二) (总分100,考试时间90分钟)
TRANSLATION ENGLISH TO CHINESE 1. I thought that it was a Sunday morning in May, that it was Easter Sunday, and as yet very early in the morning. I was standing at the door of my own cottage. Right before me lay the very scene which could really be commanded from that situation, but exalted, as was usual, and solemnized by the power of dreams. There were the same mountains, and the same lovely valley at their feet; but the mountains were raised to more than Alpine height, and there was interspace far larger between them of meadows and forest lawns; the hedges were rich with white roses; and no living creature was to be seen except that in the green churchyard there were cattle tranquilly reposing upon the graves, and particularly round about the grave of a child whom I had tenderly loved, just as I had really seen them, a little before sunrise in the same summer, when that child died. 2. When flying over Nepal, it's easy to soar in your imagination and pretend you're tiny—a butterfly—and drifting above one of those three-dimensional topographical maps architects use, the circling contour lines replaced by the terraced rice paddies that surround each high ridge. Nepal is a small country, and from the windows of our plane floating eastward at 12,000 feet, one can see clearly the brilliant white mirage of the high Himalayas thirty miles off the left window. Out the right window, the view is of three or four high terraced ridges giving sudden way to the plains of India beyond. There were few roads visible below, most of the transportation in Nepal being by foot along ancient trails that connect and bind the country together. There is also a network of dirt airstrips, which was fortunate for me, as I didn't have time for the two-and-a-half week trek to my destination. I was on a flight to the local airport. 3. In some cases, intelligent people implementing intelligent policies are responsible for producing a "boomerang effect"; they actually create more of whatever it is they seek to reduce in the first place. The boomerang effect has been achieved many times in recent years by men and women of goodwill. State legislatures around the nation have recently raised the drinking age back to 21 in an effort to reduce the prevalence of violent deaths among our young people. But such policies seem instead to have created the conditions for even more campus violence. Some college students who previously drank in bars and lounges under the watchful supervision of bouncers(夜总会、酒吧等保安人员) (not to mention owners eager to keep their liquor licenses) now retreat to the sanctuary of their fraternity houses and apartments, where they no longer control their behaviour or their drinking. The boomerang effect has also played a role in attempts to reduce the availability of illicit drugs. During recent years, the federal government has been quite successful in reducing the supply of street drugs. As fields are burned and contraband (违禁品) confiscated, the price of street drugs has skyrocketed to a point where cheap alternatives have begun to compete in the marketplace. Unfortunately, the cheap alternatives are even more harmful than the illicit drugs they replace. boomerang: a curved flat piece of wood that can be thrown so as to return to the thrower 回飞镖 4. The UN General Assembly, the central political forum, is composed of 193 members, including virtually all the world's nation-states. Two-thirds of its members are developing countries, which account for about three-quarters of the world's population. Reaching decisions is difficult, especially since all agreements by custom must be reached by consensus. As a result, important agreements are often held hostage by narrow special interests, and most agreements are reached only by reducing them to their **mon denominations. But the real question is whether the major countries of the world will allow democracy to function at the highest level. The Security Council, which is responsible for peace and security, deals with issues of the greatest political importance. The Council has only 15 members so it can meet frequently and deal with crises. Once impotent due to Cold War rivalries, it has regained much of the authority accorded by the UN charter. 5. The physical distance between speakers can indicate a number of things and can also be used to consciously send messages about intent. Closeness, for example, indicates intimacy or threat to many speakers whilst distance may denote formality or a lack of interest. Proximity is also both a matter of personal style and is often culture-bound so that what may seem normal to a speaker from one culture may appear unnecessarily close or distant to a speaker from another. And standing close to someone may be quite appropriate in some situations such as an informal party, **pletely out of space in others, such as meeting with a superior. Posture can convey meaning too. Hunched shoulders and a hanging head give a powerful indication of mood. A lowered head when speaking to s superior (with or without eye contact) can convey the appropriate relationship in some cultures.
英语专业八级考试翻译题2①Opera is expensive: that much is inevitable. ②But expensive things are not inevitably the province of the rich unless we abdicate society's power of choice. ③We can choose to make opera,and other expensive forms of culture, accessible to those who cannot individually pay for it.④The question is: why should we? ⑤Nobody denies the imperatives of food, shelter, defense, health and education.⑥But even in a prehistoric cave, mankind stretched out a hand not just to eat, drink or fight, but also to draw. ⑦The impulse towards culture, the desire to express and explore the world through imagination and representation is f undamental. ⑧In Europe, this desire has found fulfillment in the masterpieces of our music, art, literature and theatre. ⑨These masterpieces are the touchstones for the possibilities to which human thought and imagination may aspire; they carry the most profound message that can be sent from one human to another.参考译文欣赏歌剧是一种奢侈的享受，你必须为此支付昂贵的票价。
2011年英语专八考试真题（影印完整版）2011专八真题阅读理解参考答案（周玉亮版）TEXT A11. A the family structure12. B English working class homes have spacious sitting rooms13. C stark14. A togetherness15. B constant pressure from the stateTEXT B16. A it further explains high-tech hubris17. B slow growth of the US economy18. A integrated the use of paper and the digital form19. C more digital data use leads to greater paper use20. A he review the situation from different perspectivesTEXT C21. D because Britons are still conscious of their class status22. D income is unimportant in determining which class one belongs to23. C Occupation and class are no longer related to each other24. C fewer types of work25. A showing modestyTEXD D26. D awkwardness27. B luxurious28. A they the couple as an object of fun29. C sweeping over the horizon, a precipice30. B the couple feel ill at ease2011专八人文知识真题参考答案（周玉亮版）31. B)英国最北部：Scotland；32. D)第一个到澳洲的人：Dutch；33. A)枫叶之国：Canada；34. B)The Common Sense的作者：Thomas Paine35. D) Virginia Woolf：Novelist；36. C) 历史叙事诗：Epic37. A) 探讨20世纪American Myth的文学作品：The Great Gatsby38. C）探讨语言和思维的学科：Cognitive Lingusitics39. A) 元音和辅音的区别：Obstruction of the air stream;40. C) 推动多种语言使用：Multilingualism2011年专八真题参考答案：改错部分2011年3月专八真题参考答案：改错部分From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. Nevertheless the volume of serious — i.e. seriously intended — writing which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation._______________________1. grew 后加up2. conscience 改成consciousness3. soon 改成sooner4. the 去掉5. disagreeing 改成disagreeable6. imaginative 改成imaginary7. literal 改成literary8. in 去掉9. which 前加in10. Therefore, 改成Nevertheless2011年专八真题参考答案：汉译英部分2011年专八真题：汉译英原文现代社会无论价值观的持有还是生活方式的选择都充满了矛盾。
专业英语八级翻译-英译汉(三)(总分100,考试时间90分钟)TRANSLATIONENGLISH TO CHINESE1. The land does not belong to us; we belong to the land. Conservation begins from this plain and simple fact. But how do we persuade more people to feel the truth of it, to know it in their bones? Here's what the Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday recommends: Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth, I believe. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures that are there and all the faintest motions in the wind. He ought to collect the glare of noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk. A man or woman who ventures outside the human bubble and pays attention to a given landscape season after season, year after year, may eventually become a true inhabitant of that place, taking it in through every doorway of the body, bearing steadily in heart and mind.2. On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone for scarcely two minutes, and when we came back we found him in his armchair, peacefully gone to sleep—but forever. An immeasurable loss has been sustained both by the militant proletariat of Europe and America, and by historical science, in the death of this man. The gap that has been left by the departure of this mighty spirit will soon enough make itself felt. Just as Darwin discovered that the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.; that therefore the production of the immediate material means of subsistence and consequently the degree of economic development attained by a given people or during a given epoch form the foundation upon which the state institutions, the legal conceptions, art, and even the ideas on religion, of the people concerned have been evolved, and in the light of which they must, therefore, be explained, instead of vice versa, as had hitherto been the case.3. Until recently daydreaming was generally considered either a waste of time or a symptom of neurotic tendencies, and habitual daydreaming was regarded as evidence of maladjustment or an escape from life's realities and responsibilities. It was believed that habitual daydreaming would eventually distance people from society and reduce their effectiveness in coping with real problems. At its best, daydreaming was considered a compensatory substitute for the real things inlife. As with anything carried to excess, daydreaming can be harmful. There are always those who would substitute fantasy lives for the rewards of real activity. But such extremes are relatively rare, and there is a growing body of evidence to support the fact that most people suffer from a lack of daydreaming rather than an excess of it. We are now beginning to learn how valuable it really is and that when individuals **pletely prevented from daydreaming, their emotional balance can be disturbed. Not only are they less able to deal with the pressures of day-to-day existence, but also their self-control and self-direction become endangered. Recent research indicates that daydreaming is part of daily life and that a certain amount each day is essential for maintaining equilibrium. Daydreaming, science has discovered, is an effective relaxation technique. But its beneficial effects go beyond this. Experiments show that daydreaming significantly contributes to intellectual growth, powers of concentration, and the ability to interact **municate with others. 4. Today I have read the Tempest...Among the many reasons which make me glad to have been born in England, and one of the first is that I read Shakespeare in my mother tongue. If I try to imagine myself as one who cannot know him face to face, who hears him only speaking from afar, and that in accents which only through the labouring intelligence can touch the living soul, **es upon me a sense of chill discouragement, of dreary deprivation. I am wont to think that I can read Homer, and, assuredly, if any man enjoys him, it is I; but can I for a moment dream that Homer yields me all his music, that his word is to me as to him who walked by the Hellenic shore when Hellas lived? I know that there reaches me across the vast of time no more than a faint and broken echo; I know that it would be fainter still, but for its blending with those memories of youth which are as a glimmer of the world's primeval glory.5. Springs are not always the same. In some years, April bursts upon our Virginia hills in one, prodigious leap—and all the stage is filled at once, whole choruses of tulips, arabesques of forsythia, cadenzas of flowering plum. The trees grow leaves overnight. In other years, spring tiptoes in. It pauses, **e by shyness, like my grandchild at the door, peeping in, ducking out of sight, giggling in the hallway. "I know you're out there," I cry. "Come in!" and April slips into our arms. The dogwood bud, pale green, is inlaid with russet markings. Within the perfect cup a score of clustered seeds are nestled. One examines the bud in awe: Where were those seeds a month ago? The apples display their milliner's scraps of ivory silk, rose-tinged. All the sleeping things wake up—primrose, baby iris, blue phlox. The earth warms—you can smell it, feel it, crumble April in your hands. The dark Blue Ridge Mountains in which I dwell, great-hipped, big-breasted, slumber on the western sky. And then they stretch and gradually awaken. A warm wind, soft as a girl's hair, moves sailboat clouds in gentle skies. The **e—good rains to sleep by—and fields that were dun as oatmeal tum to pale green, then, to kelly green.。
1. The American economic system is, organized around a basically private-enterprise, market- oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most.[参考译文] 美国的经济是以基本的私有企业和市场导向经济为架构的，在这种经济中，消费者很大程度上通过在市场上为那些他们最想要的货品和服务付费来决定什么应该被制造出来。
2. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it. [参考译文] 因此，在美国的经济体系中，个体消费者的需求与商人试图最大化其利润的欲望和个人想最大化其收入效用的欲望相结合，一起决定了什么应该被制造，以及资源如何被用来制造它们。
3. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product.[参考译文] 另一方面，如果大量制造某种商品导致其成本下降，那么这就有可能增加卖方和制造商能提供的供给，而这也就会反过来降低价格并允许更多的消费者购买产品。
3月专业英语八级考试英译汉真题答案
演说者与听众之间的实际距离通常来是用来传送演说内容的途径但
是同时可以表明很多问题。就拿距离的远近来说，近距离可以体现演
说者和听众的一种亲密程度但同时对于演说者也是一种心灵上的震
慑，相反，远距离会是一种较正式的提现但也可说是一种缺乏兴趣的
表现。大致距离不仅仅是一种个人风格的提现同时也和个人的文化背
景息息相关，因此在一种文化中所体现的演说者与听众之间适宜的距
离在另一种文化中可能会被界定成一种过分亲近亦或过分的疏远。再
比如，如在非正规的宴会中，双方之间紧贴的距离是一种适宜的表现
但是如若是和高层领导洽谈，这样的距离就显得适得其反了。不仅仅
是距离，姿势也会透露很多细节。俯身前倾，头部前伸是一种正面情
绪的提现。但当和尊者沟通还伴随着时不时的眼神交流时，谦卑的低
头在一些文化背景中却也是一种合适的氛围。
