2017年翻译资格考试初级英语笔译练习题（9）

　　翻译练习

　　1.The custom of watching football games on Thanksgiving Day also evolved during the early decades of the 20th century.

　　2.For a brief time during the 17th century, Puritans banned Christmas in England and in some English colonies in North America because they felt it had become a season best known for gambling, flamboyant public behavior, and overindulgence in food and drink.

　　3.The custom of wearing new clothes on Easter began around 300 A. D., around the time of Constantine, the first Christian emperor.

　　4.The people of Greece hail September l as their New Year's Day because it marks the start of the Greek sowing season, a time of hope and promise.

　　5.The daylight trees of July are signs of common beauty, common freshness, and a mystery familiar and abiding as night and day.

　　6.It was said that the brightly decorated eggs were left by the Easter rabbit for the country children, who made a game of finding the eggs.

　　7.The island children carry sea water and pebbles home in a jar, to serve, along with the new wreath, as protective devices.

　　8.Originally superstitions surrounding the "borrowed days" endured well into the nineteenth century. They were dangerous days, fraught with taboos and the specter of bad weather.

　　9.Because Canada is north of the Un/ted States, its harvest comes earlier in the year.

　　Accordingly, the Thanksgiving holiday falls earlier in Canada than in the United Sates.

　　10.Villagers began the tradition of placing plates of the finest food and bits of treats that the household had to offer on their doorsteps, as gifts, to appease the hunger of the ghostly wanderers.

　　参考答案

　　1.从20世纪早期开始，感恩节活动又添新节目，那就是观看足球比赛。

　　2.在17世纪的一段时期，新教甚至曾严令禁止英国及其北美殖民地人民举行圣诞节庆祝活动。因为他们认为，人们圣诞节假日恣意、招摇过市，还暴饮暴食。

　　3.在复活节穿新衣服的习俗是在公元后300年左右开始的，大约在第一个基督徒皇帝康斯坦丁的时代。

　　4.希腊人在9月1日欢庆新年，因为这一天标志着希腊播种季节的开始，这是一个充满希望和期待的季节。

　　5.七月白昼的葱郁树木，体现出普通的美，常见的清新，是一种如同黑夜白昼般惯常而又永恒的不解之谜。

　　6.据说，五彩缤纷的彩蛋是复活节兔子为乡村里的那些找蛋玩儿的孩子留下的。

　　7.他们用罐子装上海水和小鹅卵石带回家，用这些海水、石头连同新花环驱魔避邪。

　　8.原先种种有关“借日”的迷信说法一直延续到19世纪。这三天里天气阴怖，人们避讳做很多事，怕出点什么茬子。

　　9.加拿大位于美国以北，每年农作物收割季节较美国早些，所以加拿大总在美国之前庆祝感恩节。

　　10.家家户户都拿出几盘美食和糖果放在闩口，作为给游魂的礼物，让他们填饱肚子。村民们的安魂风俗由此而始。