2011年英语三级考试翻译辅导习题及答案49

英语三级考试翻译辅导习题

1. 没有人能否认：教育是人生最重要的一方面。

No one can deny the fact that one person‘s education is the most important aspect of his life.

2. 我不喝酒，但从30岁那年开始抽烟，先是偶尔为之，后来上了瘾。在文化部工作那十年，每天两包（40支），连手指也熏黄了，到晚上唇干舌燥，也毫无戒意。

I’m a teetotaler， but I began to smoke at the age of 30. At first I did it only occasionally， but later I became addicted to it. During the ten years when I was with the Ministry of Culture， I used to consume two packs a day， containing 40 cigarettes， till my fingers were yellowed and my lips and tongue parched. But I still couldn’t get out of the tobacco habit.

3. 有人在报刊上写文章讲吸烟有害，我认为，这是危言耸听，有逆反心理。歪道理的理由是，我烟龄几十年还活到这把年纪。奇怪的是，两年前的一个早上，点上第一支烟，觉得不是滋味，掐灭了，从此，不戒自戒。在我的吸烟史上画了一个句号。

Some people dwelled on the harmfulness of smoking in articles published in newspaper or magazines. To me， however， they were exaggerating things just to scare people and sort of manifesting a rebellious mentality. I reasoned lamely that decades of heavy smoking hadn’t shortened my life at all. Strange to say， early on a certain morning two years ago， my first cigarette of the day happened to be so sickening that I stubbed it out immediately and from then on smoked no more. That marked the beginning of my clean break with cigarettes.

4. Social science is that branch of intellectual enquirywhich seeks to study humans and their endeavors in the same reasoned， orderly， systematic， and dispassioned mannerthat natural scientists use for the study of natural phenomena.（英译汉）

社会科学是知识探索的一个分支，它试图象自然科学家用来研究自然现象那样，以理性的，有序的，系统的和冷静的方式来研究人类及其行为。