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Part C
Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined
segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER
SHEET. (10 points)
Within the span of a hundred years, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth
centuries, a tide of emigration-one of the great folk wanderings of
history-swept from Europe to America. 46) This movement, driven by powerful and
diverse motivation, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature,
shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.
47) The United States is the product of two principal forces-the
immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs, and national
characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits. Of
necessity, colonial America was a projection of Europe. Across the Atlantic came
successive groups of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Scots, Irishmen, Dutchmen,
Swedes, and many others who attempted to transplant their habits and traditions
to the new world.
48) But, the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the
interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer
difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused
significant changes. These changes were gradual and at first scarcely visible.
But the result was a new social pattern which, although it resembled European
society in many ways, had a character that was distinctly American.
49)The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now
the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the
15th-and-16th-century explorations of North America. In the meantime, thriving
Spanish colonies had been established in Mexico, the West Indies, and South
America. These travelers to North America came in small, unmercifully
overcrowded craft. During their six-to twelve-week voyage, they subsisted on
barely enough food allotted to them. Many of the ships were lost in storms, many
passengers died of disease, and infants rarely survived the journey. Sometimes
storms blew the vessels far off their course, and often calm brought unbearably
long delay.
“To the anxious travelers the sight of the American shore brought almost
inexpressible relief,” said one recorder of events, “The air at twelve leagues’
distance smelt as sweet as a new-blown garden.” The colonists’ first glimpse of
the new land was a sight of dense woods. 50) The virgin forest with its richness
and variety of trees was a veritable real treasure-house which extended from
Maine all the way down to Georgia. Here was abundant fuel and lumber. Here was
the raw material of houses and furniture, ships and potash, dyes and naval
stores.
译文答案
46)受到各种强大的动机所驱使，这场运动在荒野中开创了一个国家;本质使然，它也塑造了这片未知大陆的性格和命运。
47)有两股主要力量形成了美国：一是欧洲移民带来的各式思想、风俗和民族特征，二是这个新国家本身在融合上述特征之后带来的影响。
48)但是，美国特有的地理条件、不同种族间的相互影响、以及在这片原始的新大陆上维持旧秩序的艰难，带来了巨大的变化。
49)十五世纪和十六世纪的探索发现了北美洲，又过了一百多年，第一艘满载移民的航船跨过大西洋驶向这片土地，即现在的美国。
50)原始的森林，有着种类繁多的林木，从缅因州往南一直绵延到乔治亚州，的确是一座宝库。 |
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发表于 2018-9-1 20:31:32