2007年9月高级口译真题(4)
日期:2008-09-14 17:07

(单词翻译:单击)

SECTION 3: TRANSLATION TEST

Directions: Translate of the following passage into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

The task of writing a history of our nation from Rome's earliest days fills me, I confess, with some misgivings, and even were I confident in the value of my work, I should hesitate to say so. I am aware that for historians to make extravagant claims is, and always has been, all too common: every writer on history tends to look down his nose at his less cultivated predecessors, happily persuaded that he will better them in point of style, or bring new facts to light. Countless others have written on this theme and it may be that I shall pass unnoticed amongst them; if so, I must comfort myself with the greatness and splendor of my rivals, whose work will rob my own of recognition.

My task, moreover, is an immensely laborious one. I shall have to go back more than 700 years, and trace my story from its small beginnings up to these recent times when its ramifications are so vast that any adequate treatment is hardly possible. I shall find antiquity a rewarding study, if only because, while I am absorbed in it, 1 shall be able to turn my eyes from the troubles which for so long have tormented the modern world, and to write without any of that over-anxious consideration which may well plague a writer on contemporary life, even if it does not lead him to conceal the truth.

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重点单词
  • unnoticedadj. 被忽视的;不引人注意的;未被注意的
  • comfortn. 舒适,安逸,安慰,慰藉 vt. 安慰,使舒适
  • extravagantadj. 奢侈的,浪费的,过度的,大量的
  • recognitionn. 认出,承认,感知,知识
  • splendorn. 光辉,壮丽,显赫
  • robv. 抢劫,掠夺
  • absorbedadj. 一心一意的;被吸收的 v. 吸收;使全神贯注(
  • adequateadj. 足够的,适当的,能胜任的
  • tracen. 痕迹,踪迹,微量 vt. 追踪,找出根源,描绘 v
  • concealvt. 隐藏,隐瞒,掩盖