2018年翻译资格考试初级笔译试题：海明威

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　　ONE DAY in February 1926 an unknown American writer walked out of a New York snowstorm and into history. An important piece of that history is now in danger of being lost forever, caught in the controversy over the US trade embargo against Cuba.

　　The unknown writer was Ernest Hemingway, and the New York office he walked into was that of Maxwell Perkins, the most famous American literary editor of his day.

　　It is difficult to conceive -- 80 years and an incandescent literary career later -- the idea of publishing the 26-year-old Hemingway was a big risk. Hemingway had not yet published a novel. Indeed, his only published fiction consisted of a few short stories and poems, mostly in obscure Paris literary journals.

　　Yet Mr. Perkins, as Hemingway was to call him for years afterwards, even after they had become close friends, took the risk. On the spot, he offered Hemingway a deal included a generous $1,500 advance on an unfinished, unnamed novel that Perkins had not even seen.

　　Hemingway and Perkins began a correspondence that lasted for 21 years, until Perkins's death in 1947. A number of those letters are now housed in Cuba, at Finca Vigia, whereHemingway lived longer than anywhere else.But the house is in danger of collapse.

　　A group of Americans is trying to save the house and its contents. Yet the US government won't let them.The Treasury Department recently turned down the Hemingway Preservation Foundation's application for a license to permit its architects, engineers, and consultants to travel to Cuba to research a feasibility study to help the Cubans save Finca Vigia. This denial,

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　　1926 年 2 月的一天，纽约大雪纷飞，这一天，一位默默无闻的美国作家踏入了永垂史册的机会之门。如今，由于美国对古巴实施贸易禁运引发争议，那段历史的重要记忆也因而面临永久消失的危险。

　　这位当时名不见经传的作家就是欧内斯特·海明威，他所踏入的机会之门就是麦克斯威尔·柏金斯在纽约的办公室。柏金斯是美国当时赫赫有名的文学编辑。80 年过去了，自己也经历了辉煌的文学生涯，现在再回顾当时，确实让人难以想象，海明威当时才 26 岁，为这样毫无名气的年轻人出书可是冒了不小的风险。海明威那时还没出版过一本长篇小说，事实上，他所出版的唯一的小说收集了他的一些短篇小说和诗　歌，其中大部分也只是发表在巴黎一些没有名气的文学杂志期刊上。

　　不过，柏金斯先生这次甘愿冒险。从最初相识到相知多年后海明威对他一直以柏金斯先生相称，甚至两人成了密友之后也是如此。当时柏金斯还没有看过海明威的那篇小说，而且小说还没写完，甚至连书名都还没有，但是，柏金斯当即给海明威开出了优厚条件，包括支付他 1，500 美元的定金。海明威和柏金斯从此开始了长达 21 年的书信往来，直到 1947 年柏金斯去世。海明威一生在古巴的瞭望山庄生活时间最长，现在这里还收藏着两人的部分书信真迹。但是，瞭望山庄现在有坍塌之虞。一些美国人试图要拯救这座山庄及其藏品，但是美国政府却横加阻挠。海明威保护基金会曾提出申请，希望能获得许可，派一批建筑师、工程师和顾问前往古巴进行可行性研究，帮助古巴人拯救瞭望山庄，但是，美国财政部最近拒绝了这一申请。申请遭拒违背了相关法律条文和精神，现在该基金会正据此提出上诉。