北京外国语大学英语翻译理论与实践(试题和答案)2003年考研试题研究生入学考试试题考研真题

北京外国语大学

2003年硕士研究生入学考试英语翻译理论与实践专业试卷

Ⅰ. Translate the fallowing passage into Chinese, using the answer sheet provided. (35 points)

A Language in Transition

As the world is in transition, so the English language is itself taking new forms. This, ofcourse, has always been true: English has changed substantially in the 1500 years or so of its use,reflecting patterns of contact with other languages and the changing communication needs ofpeople. But in many parts of the world, as English is taken into the fabric of social life, it acquires a momentum and vitality of its own, developing in ways which reflect local culture and languages,while diverging increasingly from the kind of English spoken in Britain or North America.

English is also used for more purposes than ever before. Everywhere it is at the leading edge of technological and scientific development, new thinking in economics and management, newliteratures and entertainment genres. These give rise to new vocabularies, grammatical forms andways of speaking and writing. Nowhere is the effect of this expansion of English into newdomains seen more clearly than in communication on the Internet and the development of ‘net English’.

But the language is, in another way, at a critical moment in its global career: within a decade or so, the number of people who speak English as a second language will exceed the number ofnative speakers. The implications of this are likely to be far reaching: the centre of authority regarding the language will shift from native speakers as they become minority stakeholders in the global resource. Their literature and television may no longer provide the focal point of a globalEnglish language culture, their teachers no longer form the unchallenged authoritative models forlearners.

Ⅱ. Translate the following passage into Chinese, using the answer sheet provided. (35 points)

Shadow Lake

The colour-beauty about Shadow Lake during the Indian summer is much richer than onecould hope to find in so young and so glacial a wilderness.Almost every leaf is tinted then, and the goldenrods are in bloom; but most of the colour is given by the ripe grasses, willows, andaspens. At the foot of the lake you stand in a trembling aspen grove, every leaf painted like abutterfly, and away to right and left round the shores sweeps a curving ribbon of meadow, red andbrown dotted with pale yellow, shading off here and there into hazy purple. The walls, too, aredashed with bits of bright colour that gleam out on the neutral granite grey. But neither the walls, nor the margin meadow, nor yet the gay, fluttering grove in which you stand, nor the lake itself,flashing with spangles, can long hold your attention; for at the head of the lake there is a gorgeousmass of orange-yellow, belonging to the main aspen belt of the basin, which seems the very fountain whence all the colour below it had flowed, and here your eye is filled and fixed. Thisglorious mass is about thirty feet high, and extends across the basin nearly from wall to wall. Richbosses of willow flame in front of it, and from the base of these the brown meadow comes forwardto the water’s edge, the whole being relieved against the unyielding green of the coniferae, whilethick sun-gold is poured over all.

During these blessed colour-days on cloud darkens the sky, the winds are gentle, and the landscaperests, hushed everywhere, and indescribably impressive. A few ducks are usually seen sailing onthe lake, apparently more for pleasure than anything else, and the ouzels at the head of