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2017年翻译资格考试catti三级笔译实务练习题(3)

来源 :中华考试网 2017-09-02

2017年翻译资格考试catti三级笔译实务练习题(3)

  【汉译英】

  论想象力的培养

  我的讲话是主张培养想象力。

  那么,我是从什么意义上使用“想象力”这个词的呢?“想象力”一词的定义是:“构思出理想图画的能力”;“向自己或他人描述不在眼前的事物的能力。”我在下面的讲话使用“想象力”这个词时,就具有这样的含义。

  沿着这条思路,我相信可以把我的意思讲清楚。不在眼前的事物是什么呢?例如历史就是。历史讲的是过去的事情。从某种意义上来说,历史并不存在于脑中——就是说,你看不到过去的事情;但是学习历史能使你得到并增强理解不在眼前的事物的能力。因此我愿向你们推荐历史课,那是一门最值得学习的课程。

  【参考译文】

  I address these words in favor of the cultivation of the imagination.

  In what sense, then, do I use th6 word "imagination"? The meaning of "imagination" is "the power of forming ideal pictures"; "the power of representing absent things to ourselves and to others."

  That is the sense in which I shall use the word "imagination" in the course of my address.

  Now follow out this thought and I think I can make my meaning clear. Absent things! Take history. History deals with the things of the past. They are absent in a sense, from your minds -- that is to say you cannot see them; but the study of history qualifies you and strengthens your capacity for understanding things that are not present to you, and thus I wish to recommend history to you as a most desirable course of study.

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