庄绎传《英汉翻译简明教程》配套题库（含考研真题）.pdf

第一章　篇章翻译第1节　故　事（Stories） Practice 1 吴先生具备一位教师应具备的一切条件，只是不善于启发学生。他像钟表一样守时，像奴隶船上的一名划船工那样辛苦地备课。讲课时，凡引用书中原文，别人也许会照本宣科念给学生听，他却不管篇幅多长，都要全部背下来。阐述任何问题，他都是“第一……，第二……”条理清晰，活像一位教官在练兵，有点干巴，但绝不会空泛。他不是那种口若悬河讲得天花乱坠，细想却让人不知所云的教师。他讲的东西全都是有内容的，可能观点不全正确，但至少不会放空炮。他从不拐弯抹角地提出任何观点，总是十分明确有力地表达出来。换句话说，他从不怕对任何意见表示自己的态度。对于一些历史史实，尤其是百科全书和各种参考书中可以找到的史实，吴先生是无懈可击的。你只能和他公正地争论有关鉴赏或阐释的问题。也正是在这方面，吴先生暴露了他的弱点。但是这一弱点，并不是由于说理不清或立意不诚，这个弱点是人文主义者所具有的观点中固有的，而且是作为白碧德（Babbit; Babbitian）人文主义者所固有的。遗憾的是吴先生使自己被白碧德人文主义吸引住了，使得他的所有观点无不染上白碧德人文主义的色彩。伦理和艺术可悲地纠缠在一起，你常常搞不清他是在阐释文学问题呢，还是在宣讲道德问题。（489字）（杭州电子科技大学2014研） 【参考译文】 Mr. Wu is everything that a teacher ought to be, except to be i
piring. Punctual as a clock, he works like a galley-slave at his lectures. Where othe
would read a quotation out of a book, he would memorize it, however long it might be. He is as orderly as a drill-sergeant in the exposition of any subject, with his “fi
tly this” and “secondly that.” Dull, perhaps; but never pointless. He is not one of those teache
, who talk of everything and say nothing. What he says does mean something: it may be wrong, but at least it is not hot air. He never hedges about any point; he always puts his foot plump on it. In other words, he is never afraid of committing himself to an opinion. On matte
of fact, especially of those facts which are to be found in encyclopedias and books of reference, Mr. Wu is unimpeachable. One can only fairly quarrel with him on matte
of taste or of interpretation. In these, Mr. Wu shows his weakness; but it is not a weakness, due to haziness or any failing in sincerity: it is a weakness, inherent in his point of view, which is that of a humanist—a Babbitian humanist, at that. It is a pity Mr. Wu has allowed himself to be lured into Babbitian humanism. As it is, all his views are colored by it. Ethics and art get woefully mixed up. Often, one is puzzled whether he is delivering himself on a question of literature or of morality. Practice 2 宋淇先生(Stephen C. Soong，1919—1996)生前著述甚丰，并不遗余力推动翻