【第十二期】冲刺一
【宗旨】：巩固提高翻译水平，备考2004年考研英语翻译。
【特点】：篇幅较短，以考研应试为目的，主要从基础开始，系统的培养大家的翻译技巧
和能力。材料来自经典翻译书籍以及考研翻译相关资料。
【方式】：一周出二或三期节目，回复可见翻译参考答案和翻译技巧解析。
【奖励】：每期有精彩翻译的沪友会得到一定得沪元奖励。每月评选2名翻译明星，有沪
江大奖等着你！
【回复须知】：
1。大家通过回帖的方式直接可以看到参考答案以及相关翻译技巧解析，注意，与回答无
关的帖子一律算灌水，按照最严厉的扣分标准处理。
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【本期练习题】(请把划线的句子翻译出来。)
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth—more than ruin, more even than death. Though is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom. Though looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. 1)It sees man, a feeble speck, surrounded by unfathomable depths of silence; yet it bears itself proudly, as unmoved as if it were lord of the universe. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. 2)It is fear that holds men back—fear lest their cherished beliefs should prove delusions, lest the institutions by which they like should prove harmful, lest they themselves should prove less worthy of respect than they have supposed themselves to be. “Should the working class think freely about property? Then what will become of us, the rich? Should the youth think freely about sex? Then what will become of military discipline? Away with thought! Back into the shades of prejudice, lest property, morale and war should be endangered! 3) Better men should be stupid, slothful, and oppressive than that their thoughts should be free. For if their thoughts were free they might not think as we do. And at all costs this disaster must be averted.” So the opponents of thought argue in the unconscious depth of their souls. And so they act in their schools and universities.
No institution inspired by fear can further life. Hope, not fear, is the creative principle in human affairs. 4) All that has made man great has sprung from the attempt to secure what is good, not from the struggle to avert what was thought evil. Education should not aim at a passive acceptance of dead facts, but at an activity directed towards the world that our efforts are to create. 5) It should be inspired by a shining vision of the society that is to be, of the triumphs that thought will achieve in the time to come, and of the ever-widening horizon of man’s survey over the universe. Those who are taught in this spirit will be filled with life and hope and joy, able to bear their part in bringing mankind a future less somber than the past, with faith in the glory that human effort can create.
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