英语四级翻译训练附答案

　　参考翻译:

　　There are tens of thousands of Chinese characters,though most of them are only slightlydifferent from each other and only seen in historical documents.Studies show that normallythree to four thousand characters are used on a daily basis.Most of earlier Chinese characterswere pictographs-simple pictures used to mean words, but few modern Chinese characters arepictographs.Many modern Chinese characters are a combination of two or more simplecharacters.Chinese characters may also be considered to be an abstract art because of how thecharacters are made up of lines and points.

　　1.汉字有成千上万个，尽管其中的大多数差别很细微，且只在历史文献中出现过：“成千上万”可译为tensof thousands of; “差别很细微”即“细微区别于”可译为slightly different from;“出现过”的意思也就是“被人们看见”，因此可以译为seen,用过去分词形式表示被动。

　　2.许多现代汉字是两个或两个以上简单文字的组合：“…的组合”可译为combination of...。

　　3.汉字也可以因为其线条和点的排列组合方式被看成是一门抽象艺术：该句中 “因为其线条和点的排列组合方式”可译为由how引导的名词性从句，即because of how the characters...;“被看成是”可译为beconsidered to be, consider常构成以下词组：consider as(认为)、repeatedly consider(再三考虑)。

　　瓷器(porcelain)是一种由精选的瓷土(porcelain clay)或瓷石(pottery stone)、通过工艺流程制成的物件。尽管瓷器由陶器(pottery)发展而来，然而它们在原料、轴(glaze)、烧制温度方面都是不同的。比起陶器，瓷器质地更坚硬，器身更通透，光泽也更好。瓷器在英语里叫做china,因为第一件瓷器就是在中国制造的。瓷器促进了中国和外部世界之间的经济文化交流，并深刻地影响着其他国家的传统文化和生活方式。

　　参考翻译:

　　Porcelain is a material made from well-chosen porcelain clay or pottery stone throughtechnological processes.Although porcelain is developed from pottery,the two are different inraw material, glaze and firing temperature.Compared with pottery, porcelain has toughertexture,more transparent body and finer luster.It is called china in English because it was firstmade in China.Porcelain promotes economic and cultural exchanges between China and theoutside world, and also profoundly influences the traditional culture and lifestyle of othercountries.

　　1.瓷器是一种由精选的瓷土或瓷石，通过工艺流程制成的物件：“精选的”可译为well-chosen，这种well+形容词的构词法还有：well-formed(身材苗条的;结构良好的)、well-trained (训练有素的)、well-built(体型匀称的);“工艺流程”可译为technological processes; “制成”可译为be made from, from表示不可以看出原材料。同义词组be made of, of表示看得出原材料。

　　2.尽管瓷器由陶器发展而来，然而它们在原料、釉、烧制温度方面都是不同的。比起陶器，瓷器质地更坚硬，器身更通透，光泽也更好：“由...发展而来”可用develop from表示;“原料”可用raw material表示;raw意为“生的;未加工的”，还可构成词组：raw water(生水)、raw coal(原煤)、raw data(原始数据)。“质地更坚硬”即“更坚硬的质地”，可译为tougher texture; “器身更透明”即“更透明的器身”，可译为transparent body。

　　3.瓷器促进了中国和外部世界之间的经济文化交流，并深刻影响着其他国家的传统文化和生活方式：该句有两个谓语动词，即promotes和influences,用and连接。“经济文化交流”可译为economic and culturalexchanges。