第十一届语言桥杯翻译大赛决赛参考译文.pdfVIP

1. Translate this paragraph, making it like li ture – in the same style as the source text. She would come to class in the mornings, her pale eyes glittering, too bright, and laughingly confess she had not had the time to correct their books or prepare the new lesson: should they read some poetry instead? Tara was charmed. The girls said she had a ‘boyfriend’. What had the principal caught her at? Had she tried to elope? With the blonde Buddhist monk? The gossip grew wilder. 早晨，塔拉迈进班级，她那浅蓝色的眼 睛总是神采奕奕，兴奋极了。她笑着坦白说 没来得及校正他们的书本，或是没有时间备 新课：要不让他们读点儿诗？塔拉着魔了。 们说她找了个“男友”。校长看到了什 么呢？她要私奔？跟那个金发的和尚一 起？传言越来越甚。 2. Translate this into , trying every effort to save the original style. Maria looks up at the sky. Clear. Clear as a bell. But the chickens penned up in wire cages are making an awful racket. She gotta get them out of there soon or they’ll start eating each other alive. She doesn’t know why folks believe chickens are cowardly. She’s seen two of ’em stand toe to toe and peck each other to death. 仰头看去，天空清澈、通透。（只 听见）关在铁丝笼里的鸡发出凄厉 ， 她得赶紧把它们分走，要不然他们就得生食 了彼此。 不明白为什么大伙儿都说鸡 胆小，她就曾看过两鸡对峙，啄死 。 3. Translate this short passage, making it accurate in the author’s points of view and representing it in the same serious academic style. In trying to discover the answers to questions of such forms as ‘What are the conditions under which we use such-and-such an expression or class of expressions?’ or ‘Why do we say such-and-such a thing and not such-and-such another?’, we may find ourselves able to frame classifications or disclose differences broad and deep enough to satisfy the strongest appetite for generality. What we shall not find in our results is that character of elegance and system which belongs to the