1、=精选公文范文,管理类,工作总结类,工作计划类文档,欢迎阅读下载=-精选公文范文,管理类,工作总结类,工作计划类文档,感谢阅读下载- 1 考研英语翻译历年真题汇总2010 年考研一天天临近,在此为广大考生提供了 2010 年考研英语翻译历年真题,希望能有所帮助。In his autobiography, Darwin himself speaks of his intellectual powers with extraordinary modesty. He points out that he always experienced much difficulty in expressing
2、 himself clearly and concisely, but (46) he believes that this very difficulty may have had the compensating advantage of forcing him to think long and intently about every sentence, and thus enabling him to detect errors in reasoning and in his own observations. He disclaimed the possession of any
3、great quickness of apprehension or wit, such as distinguished Huxley. (47) He asserted, also, that his power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought was very =精选公文范文,管理类,工作总结类,工作计划类文档,欢迎阅读下载=-精选公文范文,管理类,工作总结类,工作计划类文档,感谢阅读下载- 2 limited, for which reason he felt certain that he never cou
4、ld have succeeded with mathematics. His memory, too, he described as extensive, but hazy. So poor in one sense was it that he never could remember for more than a few days a single date or a line of poetry. (48) On the other hand, he did not accept as well founded the charge made by some of his crit
5、ics that, while he was a good observer, he had no power of reasoning. This, he thought, could not be true, because the “Origin of Species” is one long argument from the beginning to the end, and has convinced many able men. No one, he submits, could have written it without possessing some power of r
6、easoning. He was willing to assert that “I have a fair share of invention, and of common sense or judgment, such as every fairly successful lawyer or doctor must have, but not, I believe, in any higher degree。 ” (49) =精选公文范文,管理类,工作总结类,工作计划类文档,欢迎阅读下载=-精选公文范文,管理类,工作总结类,工作计划类文档,感谢阅读下载- 3 He adds humbly
7、 that perhaps he was “superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them carefully。 ”Writing in the last year of his life, he expressed the opinion that in two or three respects his mind had changed during the preceding twenty or thirty years. U
8、p to the age of thirty or beyond it poetry of many kinds gave him great pleasure. Formerly, too, pictures had given him considerable, and music very great, deligght. In 1881, however, he said: “Now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures
9、 or music。 ” (50) Darwin was convinced that the loss of these tastes was not only a loss of happiness, but might possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character。 =精选公文范文,管理类,工作总结类,工作计划类文档,欢迎阅读下载=-精选公文范文,管理类,工作总结类,工作计划类文档,感谢阅读下载- 4 真题解析46. He believes / that (this ver
10、y )difficulty may have had the compensating advantage (of forcing him to think long and intently about every sentence, / and thus enabling him to detect errors in reasoning and in his own observations。)句子结构分析(1)本句是一个主从复合句,含有一个 that 引导的宾语从句;其主干是 he believes that (difficulty may have had the advantage
11、)。(2)宾语从句 “that this veryhis own observations”含有 of 引导的两个后置定语“of forcing him tohis own observations”;由于是分词短语作定语,且太长,翻译时要找到与主句的逻辑关系,翻译成非定语成分。词语用法解释(1)veryadj. 表示“ 真正的,真实的,恰好的”等等。=精选公文范文,管理类,工作总结类,工作计划类文档,欢迎阅读下载=-精选公文范文,管理类,工作总结类,工作计划类文档,感谢阅读下载- 5 adv. 表示 “很,甚,及其,非常,完全”等。例如: The very idea of cheating
12、people again is distasteful to him。( 他一想到还要欺骗人就感到很不是滋味。)表示加强语气,意思是“就是,正是”,原文正是此种用法。(2)compensatevi. to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought是不定式作后置定语,由于太长,可以处理成非定语成分。(3)原因状语从句中所含的宾语从句是 he never could have succeeded with mathematics,由于太长,将其放在宾补certain 之后。词语用法解释(1)assertv。表示“ 宣称, 断言, 声明;维
13、护, 坚持” 等。如: assert ones rights (维护自己的权利),assert sth. to =精选公文范文,管理类,工作总结类,工作计划类文档,欢迎阅读下载=-精选公文范文,管理类,工作总结类,工作计划类文档,感谢阅读下载- 9 be true(断言某事是真实的),assert national independence (维护民族独立)。 本句中可译为“ 认为,断言 ”。(2)trainn。表示“ 列车, 行列, 后果, 顺序”等。如: a train of events (一连串的事件)。v。表示“(常与 to 连用)培养,教导,训练”。如: Mr. Hart has
14、trained his daughter for years. (哈特先生已训练自己女儿多年。)本句中可译为“ 一连串的 ”。(3)limitn。表示“ 界限, 限度, 限制” 。例如:There is a limit to the amount of money I can afford. (我能付得起的钱数是有限的。)vt。表示“减少,限制, 限定( 常与 to 搭配)”。例如:My mother limits the amount of food that I eat. (我母亲限制我的饭量。)(4)follow=精选公文范文,管理类,工作总结类,工作计划类文档,欢迎阅读下载=-精选公文
15、范文,管理类,工作总结类,工作计划类文档,感谢阅读下载- 10 v。表示“ 跟随, 追随,追求;理解; 遵循” 等等。如:I didnt follow his line of reasoning. (我不明白他的推理方法。)We shall follow closely the latest advance of the subject in the world. (我们将密切注意世界上这一课题的最新进展。)常用短语:as follows (如下)。此处可译为“ 理解”。参考译文他还认为,在深入理解冗长且完全抽象的一系列观点方面,自己的能力非常有限;因此,他曾深信自己在数学方面本来就不该获得成功。 48. (On the other hand), he did not accept as well founded the charge (made by some of his critics)/ that, while he was a good observer,/ he had no power of reasoning。句子结构分析(1)本句是一个复杂的由 as well