2019年翻譯資格考試英語(yǔ)口譯初級(jí)模擬題：拓荒者

　　英譯漢

　　In his classic novel, “The Pioneers”, James, Feminore Cooper has his hero, a land developer, take his cousin on a tour of the city he is building. He describes the broad streets, rows of houses, a teeming metropolis. But his cousin looks around bewildered. All she sees is a forest, “Where are the beauties and improvements which you were to show me?” she asks. He’s astonished she can’t see them. “Where! Why everywhere,” he replies. For though they are not yet built on earth, he has built them in his mind, and they are as concrete to him as if they were already constructed and finished.// Cooper was illustrating a distinctly American trait, future-mindedness: the ability to see the present from the vantage point of the future; the freedom to feel unencumbered by the past and more emotionally attached to things to come. As Albert Einstein once said, “Life for the American is always becoming, never being.”

　　參考譯文

　　詹姆斯·費(fèi)尼莫爾·庫(kù)柏在其經(jīng)典小說(shuō)《拓荒者》中，記述了主人公—— 一位土地開發(fā)商——帶著表妹游覽一座他將要建造的城市的情景。他向表妹描繪了寬闊的街道，排排的房屋，儼然一座熙來(lái)攘往的大都市。// 然而，表妹環(huán)顧四周，卻一臉迷茫，她所看到的只是一片森林。于是她問(wèn)：“你要給我看的美景和改觀在哪里啊?”他很驚訝，她居然還不能心領(lǐng)神會(huì)。便回答說(shuō)：“還問(wèn)哪里?這不到處都是嘛�！币�?yàn)楸M管他還沒(méi)有把它們真正建成，他卻早已在心中構(gòu)想好了。它們對(duì)他來(lái)說(shuō)是如此真實(shí)具體仿佛它們?cè)缫呀ǔ伞?/P>

　　庫(kù)柏在這里揭示了一種美國(guó)人獨(dú)有的特征，即前瞻性：他們能夠站在未來(lái)的高度來(lái)看現(xiàn)在的一切;擺脫過(guò)去束縛而更加心系未來(lái)。正如埃爾伯特?愛因斯坦曾言：“對(duì)美國(guó)人來(lái)說(shuō)，生活總是進(jìn)取，而非守成。”

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