2017 年广西民族大学写作与翻译考研真题 A 卷
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I. Translate the following text into English(每小题 20 分,共 2 小题,共 40 分)
(1)在人际关系问题上我们不要太浪漫主义。人是很有趣的,往往在接触一个人时
首先看到的都是他或她的优点。这一点颇像是在餐馆里用餐的经验。开始吃头盘或冷碟的
时候,印象很好。吃头两个主菜时,也是赞不绝口。愈吃愈趋于冷静,吃完了这顿宴席,
缺点就都找出来了。于是转喜为怒,转赞美为责备挑剔,转首肯为摇头。其中一个解释是
因为开始吃的时候你正处于饥饿状态,而饿了吃糠甜如蜜,饱了吃蜜也不甜。
(2)温哥华(Vancouver)的辉煌是温哥华人智慧和勤奋的结晶,其中包括多民族的
贡献。加拿大地广人稀,国土面积比中国还大,人口却不足 3000 万。吸收外来移民,是
加拿大长期奉行的国策。可以说,加拿大除了印第安人外,无一不是外来移民,不同的只
是时间长短而已。温哥华则更是世界上屈指可数的多民族城市。现今 180 万温哥华居民中,
有一半不是在本地出生的,每 4 个居民中就有一个是亚洲人。而 25 万华人对温哥华的经
济转型起着决定性的作用。他们其中有一半是近 5 年才来温哥华地区的,使温哥华成为亚
洲以外最大的中国人集居地。
AI. Translate the following text into Chinese(每小题 20 分,共 2 小题,共 40 分)
(1)Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death. In the young there
is a justification for this feeling. Young men who have reason to fear that
they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that
they have been cheated of the best things that life has to offer. But in an
old man who has known human joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work
it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat pitiful and ignoble. The
best way to overcome it — so at least it seems to me — is to make your
interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of
the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.
An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first,
narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders
and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the
waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become
merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.
(2)I am lonely only when I am overtired, when I have worked too long without
a break, when for the time being I feel empty and need filling up. And I am lonely
sometimes when I come back home after a lecture trip, when I have seen a lot of
people and talked a lot, and am full to the brim with experience that needs to
be sorted out.
Then for a little while the house feels huge and empty, and I wonder where
my self is hiding. It has to be recaptured by watering the plants and, perhaps,
by looking again at each one as though it were a person.
It takes a while, as I watch the surf blowing up in fountains, but the moment
comes when the world falls away, and the self emerges again from the deep
unconscious, bringing back all I have recently experienced to be explored and
slowly understood.
BI. Writing (每小题 70 分,共 1 小题,共 70 分)
Should people retire from their jobs when they reach a certain age, like 65.
This has been an intensely discussed question for years. The following are the
supporters’ and opponents’ opinions. Read carefully the opinions from both sides
and write your response in about 500 words, in which you should first summarize
briefly the opinions from both sides and give your view on the issue.
Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency,
organizationandlanguagequality.Failuretofollowtheaboveinstructionsmay
result in a loss of marks.
Considering the poor physical conditions, Senior employees have accumulated rich
YES
NO
senior
wisdom,
employees over 65 are not suitable to wor which is increasing gradually as time pass
k anymore. If keep working after 65, it is es and can truly be beneficial.
and
experience
s
not only dangerous for themselves, but al
so exactly detrimental to the company wh Though their deteriorating energy might
make it hard for them to be competent at
o hire them.
intense and stressful work, they are still
Plenty of young employees mean that the capable of some jobs, like consultants for
company
young
blood.
the companies.
development
infused
lots
With
with
the
is
of
of
technology,
technological
developed.
more
and
more
new
Senior
responsible
employees
are
more
productshave
been andeven-tempered.Whereas,the
younger
generation
is
normally
immature.
Senior employees tend to outshine young
adults and thus increase the likelihood of
youth unemployment. There is a danger
that
job
people
older
take
away
will
opportunities from younger people.