2017年高级翻译资格考试笔译模拟试题精讲（四）

　　1 I think lawyers mistakenly believe complex language enhances the mystique of the law.

　　2 Not long ago, a foreign visitor whose English is extremely good told me of his embarrassment in a tea shop.

　　3 Meanwhile individual schools are moving on their own to redress the imbalance between teaching and research.

　　4We have created a faculty of scholars frequently so narrow in their studies and specialized in their scholarship they are simply incapable of teaching introductory courses.

　　5 Then the players find out the lottery is not particularly good bet and they find other forms of gambling.

　　6 The English language is in very good shape. It is changing in its own undiscoverable way, but it is not going rotten like a plum dropping off a tree.

　　7 There has always been a close cultural link, or tie between Britain and English-speaking America, not only in literature but also in the popular arts, especially music.

　　8 We must just make the best of things as they come along.

　　9 But once I made the decision, I went at it with all flags flying.

　　10Autumn’s mellow hand was upon the woods, as they owned already, touched with gold and red and olive.

　　解析：

　　1我认为律师们有一个错误的想法，即复杂的语言能增加法律的深奥性。

　　2不久前，一位英语极好的外国客人告诉我他在一家小吃店里的窘状。

　　3与此同时，各学校正采取步骤纠正教学与科研不平衡的状况。

　　4我们已经造就出一批学者，他们的研究范围常常如此之窄，学问如此之专门，以致他们简直无法胜任入门课程的教学。

　　5后来玩彩券的人发现买彩券并不是特别有利的方式，于是就找到其他形式的。

　　6英语目前的情况很好，它正按照它那不易为人发现的方式在起着变化,而不是像一只树上掉下的李子那样在逐渐腐烂。

　　7在英国和说英语的美国之间，不仅在文学方面，而且在流行艺术，特别是音乐方面，一直有着密切的接触和联系。

　　8当然，事情发生后，我们还得要尽力去补救.

　　9不过，我一旦做出决定，就大张旗鼓地去进行了。

　　10秋季的成熟的手已经在抚摸树木，它们顺从秋季的到来，染上了金黄、丹红和橄榄绿。