参宿四中国科学院大学英语A 期中期末考试英汉翻译

2021年1月16日发(作者：宫本言)

英语速读 翻译题答案（整理历年考试翻译题）
Passage1
A 1945 Look magazine article, titled ―Walt Disney: Teacher of Tomorrow,‖ described Disney as ―revolutionizing an
educational system‖ and cited how the Donald Duck short ―The New Spirit,‖ made for the United States Treasury
Department, affected 37 percent of Americans regarding their willingness to pay taxes
1945年，瞭望杂志一篇标题为―沃特 迪斯尼：老师的明天‖的文章，把迪斯尼描述为―改革一个教 育体系‖，并
且引用美国财政部是如何用唐老鸭短剧―新的精神‖来影响37%的美国人交税的意愿。
Among his first efforts in this area was ―Tommy Tucker’s Tooth‖ (1922), a short combining live action and animation
made on assignment for a local dentist.
他在这个领域的第一个成就是―汤米塔克的牙‖（192 2），一部结合了生动动作和动画，描述给当地医生任务的
短剧。

This film contributed to Disney’s being presented with an award of merit, for his contribution to public safety, by the
Automobile Club of Southern California.
因为迪斯尼对于公共安全的贡献，南加利福尼亚汽车俱乐部给予迪斯尼功绩的奖赏。

I’m not an educator. My primary purpose is to entertain – though if people want to read education into my work, that’s
fine with me.
我不是教育家，我的主要目的是娱乐，但如果人们想要从我的工作中受到教育，我也乐于接受。

Passage 2
Diffusion is the process by which molecules or ions scatter or spread from regions where they are in higher
concentrations towards regions where they are in lower concentrations.
扩散是分子或离子从高浓度区域分散或散布至低浓度区域的过程。

Such motion is haphazard, but it accounts for the mixing of molecules that commonly occurs when different kinds of
substances are put together.
这种运动是无规则的,但它解释了将不同种类的物质放在一起时，通常会发生分子的混合的原因。

Osmosis is a special kind of diffusion. It occurs whenever water molecules diffuse from a region of higher
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concentration through a selectively permeable membrane,such as a cell membrane.
渗透是一种特殊的扩散。当水分子从高浓度区域通过选择性渗透膜（如细胞膜）扩散时即为渗透。

Passage3
One of the problems of watching weather forecasts on TV is that by the time they have reached your region, you have
tuned out and missed the vital information you have been waiting for. But it is not a problem in the United States
because they have a weather channel devoted entirely to weather. Set up in 1982, the Weather Channel was given just
weeks to survive by its critics, but such is the interest in the vagaries of the climate that it has thrived.
收看天气预报的一个问题就是当他们播到你那个区域时你已经换台而错过了 你一直在等的重要信息。但是在美
国不存在这样的问题，因为他们有一个专门的天气频道。天气频道建立 于1982年，他的评论家认为它只能存
活几周，但是人们对变化莫测的天气如此感兴趣以至于它很盛行 。

Weather is big business in the United States. The country has 750 weather zones, including eight in the New York
metropolitan area alone.
在美国天气是一项大事，这个国家有750个天气区域，单纽约这样的大都市就包含8个区域。

Passage 4
Julian calendar devised by Julius Caesar and based on the phases of the moon,had trouble pinning down that
date.
儒略历凯撒大帝制定，并根据月相，遇到了麻烦，牵制该日期。

from setting the first year of the Lord around Jesus’fourth birthday,it does not had not account for a year
concept of a whole number between minus-one and one had not yet made the journey from the Arab world to Western
Europe.
除了设 置耶稣的第四个生日为第一年，它不包括0年。一负一和一之间的整数的概念还没有从阿拉伯世界传到
西 方欧洲。

Passage5
Do you think it is possible to defeat an opponent so fierce that a glance at her turns one to stone ? This was the fate of
anyone who looked upon the Medusa , a dreaded monster whose hair was made of hissing serpents.
你认为有可能如此猛烈的击败一个对手，即看她一眼就会变成石头吗？这是任何 一个看Medusa的人的命运，
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一个可怕的魔鬼，她的头发是嘶嘶叫的蛇所组成的.

The brave Perseus undertook to fight the Medusa , but he was compelled to do battle in a most awkward manner .To
help Perseus in his venture ,the goddess Minerva had lent him her bright shield ,and the god Mercury had given him
winged shoes .
勇 敢的Perseus着手与Medusa斗争，但他被迫以一个最不方便的方式在战斗中战斗。为了帮助危险中的 Perseus，
女神Minerva把她的放光盾借给他，并且Mercury给他了一双有翅膀的鞋 子。

Cautiously he approached the awesome monster .Using the image of the Medusa in his shield as a guide , he
succeeded in cutting off her head and fixing it to the center of Minerva’s shield
Perseus小心翼翼的靠近了令人恐惧的魔鬼。在他的盾牌上 用Medusa的肖像作为一个向导，他成功的把她的头
切下来了，并把它装在Minerva的盾牌的 中心。

Perseus then flew to the realm of King Atlas whose chief pride was his garden filled with golden fruit . Thirsty and
near collapse , he pleaded with the King for water to quench his thirst and for a place to rest .
然后，Perseus飞到了 Atlas王国的境内，它的首领以他花园中的金色水果为荣。Perseus口渴并接近虚脱，他
恳求 国王一些水来止渴和一个休息的地方。

But Atlas feared that he would be betrayed into losing his golden apples . He uttered just one
word ,―Begone!‖Perseus ,finding that he could not pacify Atlas , responded by beckoning him to look upon Medusa’s
head .Atlas was changed immediately into stone
但是，Atlas害怕他将会泄露出他的金色苹果。他只说出了一个字―滚蛋！‖Perseus发觉他 不能使Atlas平静下
来，以引诱他看Medusa的头作为回应。Atlas立刻变成了石头。

His head and hair became forests , his body increased in bulk and became cliffs , and the gods ruled that the heaven
with all its stars should rest upon his shoulders . Can there be a worse calamity than that which befell Atlas ?
他的头和头发变成了森林，他的身体增大成一块并且变成了悬岩，并且众神规定，天上所有的星星都应在他的肩膀上休息。还有一个更坏的灾难能比降临在Atlas上的还糟吗？

Using the image of the Medusa in his shield as a guide, he succeeded in cutting off her head and fixing it to the center
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of Minerva’s shield.
在他的盾牌上用Medusa的肖像作为一个向导，他成功的把 她的头切下来了，并把它装在Minerva的盾牌的中
心。

Passage6
The key to achieving this seemingly unbelievable feat lies in knowing how to make the most of a very natural sleep
phenomenon – dreaming.
达到这种看似不可思议的壮举之关键在于了解如何充分利用一个非常自然的睡眠现象——做梦。

Let the images that filled your mind during the dream return.
在梦慢慢回逝时让（梦中的）影像充满你的思维。

To prepare for the dream, write a description in your notebook of the character’s personality, physical traits, tastes in
music and art---whatever unique characteristics you intend to give her.
做为梦的准 备，你可以在笔记本上写一个关于她个性特点、身体特征、音乐和艺术品味——以及任何你打算赋
予她的 独特个性的描述。

Passage 7
After some months, the choice was made and work was about to begin when one of the companies which had not been
successful complained to the Minister.
几个月后，当两家公司中的一家向部长提出的控诉失败时，选择和工作即将开始。

They said that the official who had been responsible for advising him on the choice of a company to do the work had
accepted bribes.
他们说，负责建议他选择由哪个公司完成工作的官员已经接受了贿赂。

The Minister at once ordered an inquiry into the whole matter, and after a month has proof that the official had indeed
taken bribes.
部长立刻要求对整件事进行调查，一个月后，证明官员确实收受了贿赂。

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I did not just take on from the company to which I recommended that you should give the work.
我不仅从我建议你给予工作的公司里接受贿赂。

I took a bribe from each company to favour it in my choice of the one to recommend.
我接受每个公司的贿赂，以帮助我选择推荐哪个公司。

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The prototypes are frozen solid in huge refrigerators, flooded in artificial rainstorms, driven through mud and water
and up hills as steep as the steepest hill in San Francisco.
原型车在巨型冰箱中冻得结结实 实，在人工暴雨中冲刷，在泥水中穿行，并爬上像旧金山最陡的山那样陡峭的
山。

They are twisted screeching around sharp corners, jolted over cobblestones,and lifted off the ground and suddenly
dropped.
模型车在急转弯处转弯时发出刺耳的声音，在鹅卵石铺成的路上颠簸，被吊起后突然落下。

A special machine opens and slams a prototype’s doors 80,000 times, and other instruments test the brakes and the
amount of gasoline and oil the engine uses.
用专用机器开关原型车门80000次，并用其他仪器测试刹车系统和发动机的耗油量。

This shows them whether the car is wearing as well as they had expected,or if changes are necessary.
这项检查告诉工程师们车辆的磨损情况是否和预期相同，或者是否需要更换零部件。

Through such tests, engineers designed a collapsing steering column and controlled crush front end and frame to
protect drivers from serious injury in case of accident.
通过这种测试，工程师 们设计了折叠式转向柱及可控粉碎式前端和车架，用于保护驾驶员在车祸中免受重伤。

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Countless millions of families have been torn apart and caused immeasurable pain and expense because the income
producer neglected to write a will.
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正是因为家庭收入生产者忽视了立遗 嘱这个问题，数不清的成千上万的家庭因此支离破碎,造成不可估量的痛
苦和损失。

There even have been cases in which families have split apart over a set of soup bowls or a couple of clay
pots-because a will failed to spell out how the crockery should be divided.
甚至还有这样的例子，由于遗嘱中没有说明陶器如何分配，一些家庭就为一套汤碗或几个黏土罐子而发生分裂。

They didn’t know the groom well enough to be sure of him, and they had no use for his father, a widower.
他们并不十分了解新郎所以还不知道他是否可靠，而且不需要了解他的鳏夫父亲。

Most people will take just about any advice on how to expand their wealth – but these same people will fail utterly to
explore the most economical ways of passing on their assets to their survivors.
大多数人会采纳如何扩大他们财富的建议，但是这些人完全不会 寻找最经济的方法把他们的财产分给后人。

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What’s so frightening about this so-called silent killer is that it often does not produce symptoms for years,secretly
damaging arteries and organs throughout the body until it erupts in the form of (stroke,heart attack,congestive heart
failure or kidney disease).
这一所谓的潜在杀手的可怕之处在于它常年并不产生症状， 而是悄悄地损坏全身的动脉和器官，直到以中风、
心脏病、充血性心衰或肾脏疾病的形式爆发出来。

If left untreated, even mild hypertension can reduce the life expectancy of a 35-year-old by several years.
如果放弃治疗，即使是轻微的高血压，也会使一个35岁的人减寿几年。

Evaluating the results of a 13-year survey undertaken by the National Center for Health Statistics, James H. Dwyer,
associate professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, found that
people who consumed 1300 milligrams of calcium a day were 12 percent less likely to develop hypertension than
those consuming only 300 mg a day.
南加州大学医学院预防医学副教授James H. Dwyer评估了 由国家卫生统计中心承担的一项长达13年的调查研
究的结果，发现那些每天摄入1300毫克钙的人罹 患高血压的可能性比每天只摄入300毫克的人小12 %。
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