英语六级翻译模拟练习:传统文化
博大精深 both extensive and profound
儒家学说 Confucianism
道家学说 Taoism
诸子百家 Hundred Schools of Thought
孔夫子 Confucius
孙中山 Dr. Sun Yat-sen
天下兴亡,匹夫有责 Everybody is responsible for the rise or fall of the country.
爱国情操 patriotism
民为邦本 People are the foundation of the country.
民贵君轻 The people are more important than the monarch.
己所不欲,勿施于人 Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you.
行为准侧 code of conduct
【精彩译文】
The traditional Chinese culture, both extensive and profound, starts far back and runs a long, long course. More than 2 000 years ago,there emerged in China Confucianism and Taoism, and many other theories and doctrines that figured prominently in the history of Chinese thought,all being covered by the famous term “the Hundred Schools of Thought”. From Confucius to Dr. Sun Yat-sen,the traditional Chinese culture presents many precious ideas. For example, they lay stress on. patriotism as embodied in the saying“Everybody is responsible for the rise or fall of the country.”, the populist ideas that “People are the foundation of the country.”and that “The people are more important than the monarch”and the code of conduct of “Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you”.