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湖北省第十三届外语翻译大赛英语专业组决赛试题 I．下面的英语段落后提供的汉语译文有未完成的地方，这些未完成的地方用划线标出，并均提供了三个译文（分别标为A,B,C），请选择你认为最好的译文.（2x10=20%） Be very wary of opinions that flatter your self-esteem. ①Both men and women, ②nine times out of ten, are firmly convinced of the superior excellence of their own sex. There is abundant evidence on both sides. If you are a man, you can point out that most poets and men of science are male; if you are a woman, you can retort that so are most criminals. ③The question is inherently insoluble, but self-esteem conceals this from most people. We are all, whatever part of the world we come from, ④persuaded that our own nation is superior to all others. Seeing that each nation has its characteristic merits and demerits, ⑤we adjust our standard of values so as to make out that the merits possessed by our nation are the really important ones, while its demerits are comparatively trivial. ⑥Here, again, the rational man will admit that the question is one to which there is no demonstrably right answer. It is more difficult ⑦to deal with the self-esteem of man as man, because we cannot argue out the matter with some non-human mind. The only way I know of dealing with this general human conceit ⑧is to remind ourselves that man is a brief episode in the life of a small planet in a little corner of the universe, ⑨and that for aught we know, other parts of the cosmos may contain beings ⑩as superior to ourselves as we are to jelly-fish. 对于那些容易助长你狂妄自大的观点尤宜提防。①……②……双方都有不可胜数的证据。如果你自己是男性，你可以指出大多数诗人和科学家都是男子；而如果你是女性，你可以用大多数罪犯也都是男子来反唇相讥。③……但是，自尊心却使大多数人看不到这一点。不管我们属于世界上哪个国家，④……看到每个民族都有自己特有的长处和短处，⑤……以便证明自己民族的长处乃是真正重要的长处，而其缺点相对来说则微不足道。⑥……由于我们无法和人类之外的智者辩论清楚，所以就更难⑦……就我所知，处理这个普遍存在的人类自高自大问题的唯一方法就是⑧……⑨……宇宙中其他地方还有一些生物，⑩…… ① 不论男人或女人， 男人和女人们， 男人和女人， ②十之八九都坚信男性或女性特别优越。 十之八九都坚信自己性别的优越。 十之八九都坚信自己的性别比对方优越。 ③ 这个问题天生就无法解决； 这个问题本来就无法解决； 这个问题本来是无法解决的； ④ 我们总是认为自己的民族比所有其他民族都优越。 大家总是认为我们自己的民族比所有其他民族都优越。 大家总是被说服自己的民族比所有其他民族都优越。 ⑤ 我们就要调整自己的价值标准， 我们却调整自己的价值标准， 我们就把自己的价值标准加以调整， ⑥ 在这个问题上，一位明白事理的人也一定会承认，它没有明显正确的答案。