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南京航空航天大学
2018年硕士研究生入学考试初试试题（A卷）科目代码:842
满分:150 分
科目名称:翻译与写作（英语）
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Part One: Translate the following into Chinese ( 60 points)
（1）
The American mathematician Norbert Wiener first gave common use to the word “cybernetics” (from the Greek word for “steersman”), to describe that branch of study which is concerned with self-regulating systems of communication and control in living organisms and machines. The derivation seems apt, since the primary function of many cybernetic systems is to steer an optimum course through changing conditions towards a predetermined goal. We know from long experience that stable objects are those with broad bases and with most of their mass centred low, yet we seldom marvel at our own remarkable ability to stand upright, supported only by our jointed legs and narrow feet. To stay erect even when pushed, or when the surface beneath us moves, as on a ship or a bus; to be able to walk or run over rough ground without falling; to keep cool when it is hot or vice versa, are examples of cybernetic processes and of properties exclusive to living things and to highly automated machines.
（2）
The book that has been treasured many years and read again and again is not merely a book written by somebody or other so many years ago. It is part of oneself, incorporated and inseparable; and after one has spent some time in reading new books there is a wonderful friendliness about the faded and familiar pages of an old book. The reader opens it at random and sees a marked passage that brings the past to life again. He knows without turning what he will find on the next page, and yet there is a distinct pleasure in looking to see that nothing has been changed. Added to all these pleasures, there is the more prosaic consideration that “dead authors are amazingly cheap”.
The desire to follow familiar paths is, of course, a feeling that becomes intensified as one grows older. In the days of youth, on the contrary, tradition is all to make. The adventurous spirit is strong, and novelty has an irresistible appeal by no means pleasant to the elders. Dr. Arnold was greatly disturbed by the popularity of The Pickwick Papers with the boys, and not so long ago a conscientious headmistress expressed herself as grieved to find her pupils taking with avidity to the stories of W. W. Jacobs. But youth will be served, and all the fulminations of elder folk avail but little. Pickwick has now achieved the position of a classic appointed to be read in schools, and the stories of Mr. Jacobs will soon be regarded as wholly acceptable reading for the class-room.
（3）
A young man sees a sunset and, unable to understand or to express the emotion that it rouses in him, concludes that it must be the gateway to a world that lies beyond. It is difficult for any of us in the moments of intense aesthetic experience to resist the suggestion that we are catching a glimpse of a light that shines down to us from a different realm of existence, different and, because the experience is intensely moving, in some way
