2015 年江苏苏州大学翻译与写作考研真题 I. Translate the following passage into English.(40 points ) 一座半圮的石桥，一幢临河的危楼，一所破败的古宅，一条铺着石板的小街，一架伸入 河 内的石阶 … …这些史无记载的陈迹，这些古老岁月漫不经心的洒落，如今成了摄影家们的 猎物，成了旅游者的追逐之地。那些旧时代的老照片，也成了书店的卖点。人们在走向现代 化的时候，为什么又回过头来来重温那逝去的岁月？ 曾几何时，我们向往西方的大桥，汽车的洪流，摩天高楼，乡间的别墅和那如茵的草地； 我 们把石桥、危楼、古宅、石阶视为贫穷与落后。如今，在国内的某些大城市和开发区，与 西 方的距离正在缩短，一样的高楼林立，汽车奔流，一望无际；那些新建的公寓楼，小别墅， 明亮宽敞，设备齐全，冷热任意调节，真有点不知今夕是何夕？ 提前进入或超过了小康的人呀，尽情地享用吧，这一切多么地来之不易！可又不知道为 什 么，他们在得到的同时却又感到失去了什么，而且越来越怀念那已经失去的，难以捉摸的 一 切。 II. Translate the following passage into Chinese.(40 points ) The cherry is a companionable fruit. You can eat it while you are reading or talking, and you can go on and on ，absent-mindedly as it were, though you must mind not to swallow the stone. The trouble of disengaging this from the fruit is just sufficient to make the fruit taste sweeter for the labour. The stalk keeps you from soiling your fingers; it enables you also to play bob cherry. Lastly, it is by means of 

cherries that one penetrates the great mysteries of life—when and whom you will marry, and whether she really loves you or is taking you for your worldly prospects. There are only two ways of eating strawberries. One is neat in the strawberry bed, and the other is mashed on the plate. The first method generally requires us to take up a bent position under a net—in a hot sun very uncomfortable, and at any time fatal to the hair. The second method takes us into the privacy of the home, for it demands a dressing-gown and no spectators. For these reasons I think the strawberry an overrated fruit. Yet I must say that I like to see one floating in cider cup. It gives a note of richness to the affair, and excuses any shortcomings in the lunch itself. Raspberries are a good fruit gone wrong. A raspberry by itself might indeed be the best fruit of all; but it is almost impossible to find it alone. I do not refer to its attachment to the red currant; rather to the attachment to it of so many of our dumb little friends. The instinct of the lower creatures for the best is well shown in the case of the raspberry. If it is to be eaten it must be picked by the hand, well shaken, and then taken. Gooseberries burst at the wrong end and smother you;melons...make your ears sticky; currants, when you have removed the skin and extracted the seeds, are unsatisfying; blackberries have the faults of raspberries without their virtues; plums are never ripe. Yet all these fruits are excellent in their season. Their faults are faults which we can forgive during a slight acquaintance, which indeed seem but pleasant little idiosyncrasies in the stranger. But we could not live with them. III. Write an essay of no less than 350 words on the following topic.(30 points ) 

“Making a bad decision is sometimes better than making no decision at all.” Do you agree or disagree? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. IV. Write an essay of no less than 400 words under the title below.(40 points ) Haste makes waste