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宁波大学 2016 年攻读硕士学位研究生
入 学 考 试 试 题(B 卷) (答案必须写在答题纸上)
考试科目: 翻译与汉语 科目代码： 861
适用专业: 英语语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学、翻译学
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Part I Translation(100 points)
Direction: This part consists of three passages. Translate passage 1 from English into Chinese and
passage 2 and 3 from Chinese into English.
Passage 1: English- Chinese Translation. (50 points)
It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world: with
out demands, without abrasions, without disappointments. People would have time for reflection. Such
work as they did would not be for themselves but for the collectivity. Competition would never enter in.
conflict would be eliminated, tension become a thing of the past. The stress of creation would be at an
end. Art would no longer be troubling, but purely celebratory in its functions. Longevity would be
increased, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous endeavor. Anxiety
would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human heart.
Ah, how unrelieved boring life would be!
There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambition therefore a sham. Does this
mean that success does not really exist? That achievement is at bottom empty? That the efforts of men
and women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events now not all success,
obviously, is worth esteeming, nor all ambition worth cultivating. Which are and which are not is
something one soon enough learns on one’s own. But even the most cynical secretly admit that success
exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of men and
women are useless. To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that is likely to be deranging. It is,
in its implications, to remove all motives for competence, interest in attainment, and regard for
posterity.
We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical
epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of
us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of
choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or
dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We
decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how
indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to
make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the end,
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