专八翻译真题(2002-2012)

2012八级翻译真题

1.泊珍到偏远小镇的育幼院把生在那里养到1岁的孩子接回来。但泊珍看他第一眼，仿似一声雷劈头而来。令她晕头胀脑，这l岁的孩子脸型长得如此熟悉，她心里的第一道声音是，不能带回去!

发育迟缓时，她更是心头无绪。她在孩子所待的房里来回踱步，这房里还有其他小孩。整个房间只有一扇窗，窗外树影婆娑。就让孩子留下来吧，这里有善心的神父和修女，这里将来会扩充为有医疗作用的看护中心，这是留住孩子最好的地方。这孩子是她的秘密，她将秘密留在这树林掩映的建筑里。

她将秘密留在心头。

参考答案：

With pains gathering in her heart, she felt something burning hot between her eyebrows. Her chest was brimmed with depression and sorrow which was about to run out of her throat in any moment. She could not think straight when the headmaster told her that the child suffered from developmental retardation. She strode up and down in the room where other children were staying. There was only one window in the room, out of which some shady trees were dancing. ―Just leave it here‖, she thought to herself, ―This might be the best choice. There are kind-hearted priests and nuns and the place will be renovated into a Medicare Center‖. The child would be her secret kept in the buildings behind the woods.

2.英译中

In some cases, intelligent people implementing intelligent policies are responsible for producing a "boomerang effect"; they actually create more of whatever it is they seek to reduce in the first place.

The boomerang effect has been achieved many times in recent years by men and women of goodwill. State legislatures around the nation have recently raised the drinking age back to 21 in an effort to reduce the prevalence of violent deaths among our young people. such policies seem instead to have created the conditions for even more campus violence. their liquor licenses) now retreat to the sanctuary of their fraternity houses and apartments, The boomerang effect has also played a role in attempts to reduce the availability of confiscated, the price of street drugs has skyrocketed to a point where cheap altematives boomerang: a curved flat piece of wood that can be thrown so as to return to the thrower 回飞镖

参考答案：

相反的是，上述政策似乎引发了更多的校园暴力。以前，一些大学生会在夜总会的酒吧饮酒，那是处于酒吧保安人员严密的监控之下(酒吧老板们这样做当然只是为了保住自己