2002年武汉大学考博英语翻译真题

2002年武汉大学考博英语翻译真题

　　考博英语真题是考博生们在复习考博英语时的重要参考资料，新东方在线整理了2002年武汉大学考博英语翻译真题及答案供考生们参考复习。

　　Part A

　　Direction: Read the following passage carefully and then translate the underlined sentences into Chinese.

　　The world's long romance with speed may finally be ending. Even if Concorde(协和式飞机) flies again, its antique nature was revealed as soon as the Paris accident made people scratch their heads and ask quite why these odd aircraft were still flying. Much of the technology that surrounded us has, when we look at it afresh, a Jules Verne quality—solving problems that once seemed important in ways that ingenious but not necessarily efficient or safe.

　　The reorientation of science reward the biological and computer frontiers is now truism, but the 19t-h century fascination with motive power has retained a powerful hold on our imaginations and our economies. 71. Advances in motive power were for a long while the main way in which progress and national competition in technology were measured. First at sea, then on the railways, then on the roads, in the air and finally in space, more and more rapid movement was seen as an carefree good and also, in some vague way, as a key to a fuller understanding of the world.

　　So intoxicating was this ultimate way in which the growing speed and reach of man-made vehicles could be used that when an unknown rocket enthusiast called Hermann Oberth published his By Rocket To Interplanetary Space in the 1920s, it represented such an escape from the difficulties of the present to the anxious citizens of Weimar Germany (德国魏玛共和国)that it became a bestseller overnight.

　　72.For individual sportsmen, pilots and drivers, speed had the status of a privileged substance to which, in those early days, only a minority had full access. Mechanized speed made men, and a few women, into heroes, and it remains a commodity to which males, in particular, are attracted. The front of the Boys Own annual of half a century ago would typically feature a speeding train in the middle ground, a fast aeroplane above, and a racing car in the foreground.

　　Disentangling the genuine advantages of speed from its cult aspects has always been a problem, and this was certainly the case in the era in which Concorde was conceived. Land, air and sea speed records had mattered since the 20s in a way inconceivable today, This manic race was run on three tracks—of celebrity sport, of competition between civil industries, and of military development. All three were littered with casualties, whether spectators at Le Mans, Donald Campbell on Coniston Water, or numerous test pilots and astronauts through the years.

　　Britain was slowing down on all three courese when Concorde came along, Indeed the concorde project survived in part because, as Harold Wilson explained in his memoirs, the agreement with the French was embodied in an international treaty, and they refused even to consider abandoning or postponing the work. “We had little choice but to go on,” the then prime minister concluded.

　　His lack of enthusiasm suggests that, long before Concorde flew, some those responsible for it knew that it was not going to be a practical aircraft, and also that the technical spin-off would be less than advertised. The reason was that speed was such as dominant consideration that everything else had to take second place. The result was an aircraft that was both ahead of its tie and behind the times, since the era of small-scale luxury air travel was over.

　　A preoccupation with speed has always gone hand in hand with a preoccupation with safety, the two standards betwwn them providing a way in which advanced states calibrate the state of civilization. Increasing speeds have world lives inconstant fear of regression, of losing the scientific and organizational edge that enables it to be both fast and safe. That is one reason why air and sea accidents can attain such mythic status. The disparate treatment of first and third world accidents in the Western press is probably due ore to the feeling that accidents are indicators of technical health than to any devaluation of African or Asian lives.

　　Speed still has its kingdom, but is it shrinking. Its limits have long ago been reached on the roads, and its value in the air, even for manned military aircraft, is diminished—agility and protection are as or more important. 73. It is still marginally attractive to make trains go faster. The pursuit of physical speed has been replaced by the pursuit of near instantaneity on the Net, an aim which we may in time come to regard just as skeptically.

　　It is hard to imagine the mood in which David Lean's The Sound Barrier was made in 1952. breaking that barrier seemed to hold the key to a mystery. But there was no mystery. Man can go faster, but that does mean it is worth doing so.

　　Part B

　　Direction: Translate the following short paragraph into English and write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET.

　　“我的英语有多好?”对任何学习英语的人来说是最重要的一个问题。知道这个问题的答案不仅有助于你的信心，而且如果你想取得更多的进步，知道这个答案是有用的，因为一旦知道已经达到一个水平，你就会开始向下一个水平进军。考试在学习过程中发挥另外一个重要作用——考试证明学习者在一种语言中是否熟练。通过语言考试远不只是激励了自己在语言方面的自尊。如果你想到英语国家去念大学，或者你想找一份需要英语技能的工作的话，通过语言考试那就至关重要了。

　　考博英语翻译答案解析：

　　Part A

　　71.在一段时间里，动力的发展一直是衡量进步和国家在技术上竞争的主要尺度。首先在海上，接着在铁路上，然后在公路上，后来在天空，最后在太空，越来越快的运动被视为一件无需担忧的好事，而且，以某种模糊的方式，越来越快的运动被看成是更充分理解世界的一把钥匙。

　　72.对个体的运动员、飞行员和汽车驾驶员来说，在较早的那些年代，速度具有一种有特权的财富地位，只有少数人才能完全得到这种有特权的财富。机械化的速度使得男人和少数妇女成为英雄，至今机械化的速度还是一种商品，男人对其特别青睐。

　　73.使火车跑得更快仍然还有一些吸引力。对物质速度的追求已经被对网上接近瞬时的追求所替代。我们也许最终会用看待速度一样怀疑的眼光来看待网上接近瞬时这一目标。

　　Part B

　　The most important question for any English learner is “How good is my English”. Knowing the answer not only helps your confidence, it is useful if you want to make more progress because once you know you have reached a certain level, you can then start tackling the next. Exams play another important role in the learning process—they provide proof that whether a learner is proficient in the language. Passing an exam does far more than just boost your linguistic self-esteem; it is'vital if you want to be enrolled in a college or university in an English-speaking country, or if you want to find a job which requires English language skills.

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