2006年考研英语英译汉试题练习精选(一)
一、中级英译汉试题练习精选语段40段
1. It has been 20 years since Don Diego de la Vega successfully fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero Zorro. Imprisoned for two decades, he now must find a successor to stop Don Rafael Montero —— the powerful, former Spanish governor of Alta California who cost de la Vega his freedom his wife and his daughter, is making plans to purchase California from Mexico’s president, General Santa Anna. Alejandro Murieta, a bandit with a troubled past, is transformed by de la Vega into a new Zorro who he hopes will help him foil Montero’s schemes once and for all. The new Zorro assumes de la Vega’s mantle and enters into a romantic relationship with a woman close to his predecessor’s heart.
2. If the boss’s chair has no arms (which is usually the case with the visitor’s chair), he will probably be seen with one or both feet on the desk. If his superior enters his office, it is unlikely that the boss would take an obvious territorial (ownership) posture but would resort to more subtle gesture such as putting his foot on the lower drawer of his desk or placing his foot hard against the legs of the desk to stake his claim of the ownership.
3. Such gestures can be quite annoying if they are found during negotiation, and it is vital for you to make the person change to a different position, because the longer he stays in the legoverchair or feetondesk position, the longer he will have an indifferent or hostile attitude. An easy way to do this is to hand him something and ask him to look at it, thus forcing him to change his position.
4. As I have said many times, engagement is not the same as endorsement. We continue to have sharp differences with China, but we also believe that the best way to narrow those differences is by raising them vigorously and discussing them honestly: as President Clinton did not only in private, but openly before the Chinese people and the world.
5. For many decades, I felt equally at home whether in China or in the United States. I was as proficient in taking the New York subway as I was in cycling down a Beijing street. I could one day be staying with a poor peasant family, partaking with them their meals of steamed sorghum buns and dried cabbage and sleeping in their horse shed, and on the next I might be flying abroad on a Boeing 747 and then having dinner at the WaldorfAstoria and be equally at ease in both places and with both hosts.
6. Throughout my life, I have wanted to excel in whatever were my pursuits. But my abilities and innate intelligence are no better than aboveaverage and whatever I was able to accomplish was largely because of good luck and patrons who gave me just the right push at the right time. In 1956, I became Premier Chou Enlai’s English interpreter and I remained at that post for 17 years. During that time, in addition to accompanying the Premier in his many visits abroad, I took part in the interpretation and translation work for the Kissinger and Nixon visits to China. I then served consecutively as Counselor in the Chinese Liaison Office in Washington, D. C., Deputy Director of the Department of International Organizations and Conferences and then Deputy Director of the Department of American and Oceanic Affairs of the Foreign Ministry, MinisterCounselor in the Chinese Embassy in the United States of America, Ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati and Vanuatu, Ambassador to the Court of James’s in London, and UnderSecretaryGeneral of the United Nations.
7. Jefferson adhered to his belief “that knowledge is power, that knowledge is safety, and that knowledge is happiness.” Jefferson’s last years were brightened by outcome of the most important enterprise that he attempted after he left the presidency. It was a project that claimed his most intense interest, effort, and devotion and one that in its fruition left to him his greatest monument: the establishment of the University of Virginia. He wanted a university “on a plan so broad and liberal and modern, so as to be worth patronizing with the public support, and be a temptation to the youth of other States to come and drink of the cup of knowledge and fraternize with us.”
8. A few weeks after the opening of the university, Jefferson wrote that he was “closing the last scenes of life by fashioning and fostering an establishment for the instruction of those who are to come after us.” He hope its influence on their virtue, freedom, fame, and happiness, will be salutary and permanent. He would remain active in the affairs of the university until the end of his life, attending his last board meeting only three months before his death, and he would regard his role in founding the university as one of the greatest accomplishments of his life.
9. Mr. President, I’m very glad to have this opportunity to ask you a question. With a friendly smile you have set foot on the soil of China and you have come to the campus of Beida, so we are very excited and honored by your presence, for the Chinese people really aspire for the friendship between China and the United States on the basis of equality.
10. When the Soviet Union went away, Russia had to decide how to define its greatness. Would they attempt to develop the human capacity of the Russian people and work in partnership with their neighbors for a greater future, or would they remember the bad things happened to them in the past 200 years and think the only way they could be great would be to dominate their neighbors militarily? They chose a forward course. The world is a better place.
11. You ask me, do I really want to contain China? The answer is no. The American people have always had a very warm feeling toward China that has been interrupted from time to time when we have had problems. But if you go back through the history of our country, there’s always been a feeling on the part of our people that we ought to be close to the Chinese people. And I believe that it would be far better for the people of the United States to have a partnership on equal, respectful terms with China in the 21st century than to have to spend enormous amounts of time and money trying to contain China because we disagree with what is going on beyond our borders. So I do not want that. I want a partnership. I’m not hiding another design behind a smile, it’s what I really believe.
12. Sandwich, the snack of two slices of buttered bread with a filling, is named after the English diplomat John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718 ~ 1792), who was such an impulsive gambler that, preferring not to interrupt his game by leaving the gaming table to eat, would order his valet to bring food to his table. The Earl was brought food of cold beef between two slices of bread. Soon the snack became widely known as a sandwich.
13. This year, we have made great progress on our pledge to ensure that every 8yearold can read, every 12yearold can log on to the Internet, every 18yearold can go on to college. In the bill I signed last week, we helped to build a citizen army of reading tutors, which nearly doubled our investment in education technology; we expanded public school choice and competition and we provided the largest increase in Pell Grant scholarships in two decades. As we raise standards for our children, we are also providing them with the tools they need to meet the challenge and seize the opportunities of the 21st century.
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