2015考研英語(yǔ)真題：翻譯（網(wǎng)絡(luò)版）

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　　英語(yǔ)一：

　　文章來(lái)源于A(yíng)n Outline of American History，《美國(guó)歷史綱要》，是一本歷史學(xué)方面的專(zhuān)著。考研翻譯曾經(jīng)在1999年考過(guò)歷史學(xué)方面的話(huà)題，當(dāng)初考的是歷史學(xué)科建立方面的爭(zhēng)論，關(guān)于歷史研究方法論的。今年的考題與1999年那篇?dú)v史學(xué)文章的試題相比，簡(jiǎn)單太多。但是與2014年考研翻譯試題相比，難度倒是上升了不小。

　　真題如下，大家參考：

　　Within the span of a hundred years, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a tide of emigration -one of the great folk wanderings of history-swept from Europe to America. 46) This movement, impelled (命題人改寫(xiě)為driven) by powerful and diverse(命題人刪除了這兩個(gè)詞)motivations, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.

　　47) The United States is the product of two principal forces-the immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs, and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these distinctly European cultural (命題人刪除了這三個(gè)詞)traits. Of necessity, colonial America was a projection of Europe. Across the Atlantic came successive groups of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Scots, Irishmen, Dutchmen, Swedes, and many others who attempted to transplant their habits and traditions to the new world. 48) But, inevitably,(命題人刪掉了這個(gè)詞) the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused significant changes. These changes were gradual and at first scarcely visible. But the result was a new social pattern which, although it resembled European society in many ways, had a character that was distinctly American.

　　49)The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorations of North America. In the meantime, thriving Spanish colonies had been established in Mexico, the West Indies, and South America. These travelers to North America came in small, unmercifully overcrowded craft. During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they subsisted on meager rations. Many of the ships were lost in storms, many passengers died of disease, and infants rarely survived the journey. Sometimes tempests blew the vessels far off their course, and often calm brought interminable delay.

　　To the anxious travelers the sight of the American shore brought almost inexpressible relief. Said one chronicler, "The air at twelve leagues' distance smelt as sweet as a new-blown garden." The colonists' first glimpse of the new land was a vista of dense woods. 50)The virgin forest with its profusion (命題人把這個(gè)詞改為richness) and variety of trees was a veritable (命題人把這個(gè)詞改為real) treasure-house which extended over 1,300 miles from Maine in the north to Georgia (命題人把這個(gè)部分改為：from Maine all the way down to Georgia) in the south. Here was abundant fuel and lumber. Here was the raw material of houses and furniture, ships and potash, dyes and naval stores.

　　英語(yǔ)二：

　　文章來(lái)源于www.spring.org.uk，它是一個(gè)關(guān)于心理學(xué)方面的網(wǎng)站。原文標(biāo)題是：The Well-Travelled Road Effect: Why Familiar Routes Fly By，文章鏈接地址如下：http://www.spring.org.uk/2013/06/the-well-travelled-road-effect-why-familiar-routes-fly-by.php

　　2015年翻譯真題，經(jīng)過(guò)命題人改編，完全符合英語(yǔ)二翻譯部分大綱要求，總字?jǐn)?shù)為156個(gè)詞，有8句話(huà)，難度與2014年年初翻譯難度相當(dāng)。

　　真題如下，答案稍后公布：

　　Think about driving a route that’s very familiar. It could be your commute to work, a trip into town or the way home. Whichever it is, you know every twist and turn like the back of your hand. On these sorts of trips it’s easy to zone out from the actual (命題人改編為：lose concentration on the) driving and pay little attention to the passing scenery. The consequence is that you perceive that the trip has taken less time than it actually has.

　　This is the well-travelled road effect: people tend to underestimate the time it takes to travel a familiar route.

　　The effect is caused by the way we allocate our attention. When we travel down a well-known route, because we don’t have to concentrate much, time seems to flow more quickly. And afterwards, when we come to think back on it, we can’t remember the journey well because we didn’t pay much attention to it. So we assume it was proportionately(命題人刪掉了這個(gè)詞) shorter.