2005年至2010年英语专业八级真题翻译.doc

2005年 一个人的生命究竟有多大意义, 这有什么标准可以衡量吗？提出一个绝对的标准当然很困难；但是, 大体上看一个人对待生命的态度是否严肃认真, 看他对待劳动、工作等等的态度如何, 也就不难对这个人的存在意义做出适当的估计了。 古来一切有成就的人, 都很严肃地对待自己的生命, 当他活着一天, 总要尽量多劳动、多工作、多学习, 不肯虚度年华, 不让时间白白地浪费掉。我国历代的劳动人民及大政治家、大思想家等等都莫不如此。 Could there be any standards to evaluate the meaning of one’s life? Actually，it is quite difficult to offer such an absolute standard. However， it would not be that difficult to make a appropriate evaluation of the meaning of one’s life，if we, on the whole, can perceive his attitude towards his life and work. Throughout the history, all the people with great accomplishment regard their life seriously. As long as they live in this world.they will study and work to the best of their abilities unwilling to idle away or just simply waste their life. Such examples have been set a lot by Chinese laboring people, great statesmen and thinkers of past dynasties. Yet few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Do not dictate to your author; try to become him. Be his fellow-worker and accomplice. If you hang back, and reserve and criticize at first, you are preventing yourself from getting the fullest possible value from what you read. But if you open your mind as widely as possible, then signs and hints of almost imperceptible fineness, from the twist and turn of the first sentences, will bring you into the presence of a human being unlike any other. Steep yourself in this, acquaint yourself with this, and soon you will find that your author is giving you, or attempting to give you, something far more definite. 然而，很少有人愿意接受书中所能提供的东西，通常我们总是三心二意地带着模糊的观念去看书：要求小说情节真实，要求诗歌内容虚构，要求传记讨人欢心，要求历史能印证我们自己的偏见。如果我们读书能抛弃所有这些成见，那将是一个极可贵的开端。我们不要对作者指手画脚，而应努力站在