英语四级翻译练习题：黄河

　　For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.

　　黄河全长五千多米，是我国第二长河以及世界第六长河。

　　它发源于青海省的巴颜喀拉山脉，流经九个省，最后注入渤海。

　　由于黄河流域是中华文明最主要的发源地，因此我国称其为“母亲河”，它也被誉为“中华文明的摇篮”。

　　但是其洪灾频发也使得其得名“中国之痛”。

　　新中国成立以后，政府投入大量人力物力治理黄河并取得了显著的效果。

　　【参考译文】

　　The Yellow River, with its length of more than five thousand meters, is the second longest river in our country and the sixth longest in the world.

　　Originating from the Bayankala Mountains in Qinghai Province, it flows through nine provinces of China and empties into the Bohai Sea.

　　Since its basin is the main birthplace of Chinese civilization and the most prosperous region in early Chinese history, it is called as “Mother River of China” and also hailed as “the Cradle of

　　Chinese Civilization”.

　　But frequent devastating flooding has also earned it the unenviable distinction as "China's Sorrow".

　　The government has invested a great deal of manpower and material resources to harness the Yellow River and has achieved remarkable effects since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

　　【简要解析】

　　第一句：用with作伴随状语;句子的并列注意使用省略。

　　第二句：翻译时注意用非谓语动词作伴随状语;“流经”可译为flow through;“注入”可译为empty into。

　　第三句：since引导原因状语从句;“被誉为”可译为be hailed as;注意被动语态的并列。

　　第四句：“使其得名”可译为earn it the distinction。

　　第五句：翻译时使用现在完成时;“大量人力物力”可译为a great deal of manpower and material resources。

英语四级翻译练习题：长江

　　For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.

　　长江全长6000多米，是中国以及亚洲最长的河流。

　　它发源于青藏高原，流经11个省，往东注入东海。

　　长江流域居住着约4亿人，其中少数民族人口约占6%。

　　从唐朝以来，长江流域一直是中国的经济中心，同时也是中国现代工业的起源地。

　　但是，目前长江流域的经济发展很不平衡，河流三角洲地区发达，而上游区域相对落后。

　　【参考译文】

　　The Yangtze River, as the longest river in China and Asia, is more than 6,000 meters long.

　　Flowing through 11 provinces, it originates the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and empties into the East Sea.

　　There are approximately 400 million people living in the Yangtze Basin, among which the ethical minorities account for about 6%.

　　The Yangtze Basin has been the economic center since Tang Dynasty, and was the birthplace of China's modern industry.

　　However, presently the economic development in the basin is imbalanced, generally developed in the Delta region and relatively backward in the upper basin.

　　【简要解析】

　　第一句：用as…介词短语后置的方式使句子显得更简洁。

　　第二句：翻译时注意用非谓语动词作伴随状语;“注入”可译为empty into;“起源于”可译为originate。

　　第三句：翻译时可以用there be句型，这样后面可以用定语从句将前后两句连接起来;“长江流域”译为the Yangtze Basin ;“少数民族”译为the ethical minority。

　　第四句：翻译时注意使用现在完成时;“起源地”可译为birthplace。

　　第五句：翻译时注意省略后面的主谓让整个句子看起来更简洁;“相对落后”可译为relatively backward。

英语四级翻译练习题：中国茶文化

　　中国是一个文化历史悠久的(time-honored)国度，也是一个礼仪(ceremony anddecorum)之邦。每当客人来访，都需要泡茶给客人喝。在给客人奉茶之前，你应该问问他们都喜欢喝什么类型的茶，并采用最合适的茶具奉上。奉茶期间，主人需要仔细留意客人的茶杯里的茶量。通常，若是用茶杯泡的茶，在茶喝完一半之后就应该加开水，这样，茶杯就一直都是满的，茶的芳香(bouquet)也得以保留。

　　参考译文：

　　Chinese Tea Culture

　　China is a country with a time-honored civilization and also a land of ceremony and decorum.Whenever guests visit, it is necessary to make and serve tea to them.Before serving tea, you may ask them for their preferences as to what kind of tea they fancy, and serve them the tea in the most appropriate teacups.In the course of serving tea, the host should take careful note of how much water remains in the guests’cups.Usually, if the tea is made in a teacup,boiling water should be added into the cup when half of the tea in it has been consumed; and thus the cup is kept filled and the tea retains the same bouquet.

英语四级翻译练习题：电子产品

　　如今，中国已经成为智能手机和个人电脑的最大消费国。根据相关资料显示，到去年年底，中国智能手机市场已成为全球智能手机出货量(shipment)第一的市场。与此同时，在个人电脑销售方面，中国去年售出了8520万台，超越美国成为最大的个人电脑市场。中国在电子产品方面消费的增加充分体现了中国市场的巨大变化：财力的增加和消费者受教育程度的提高。电子产品价格的走低也被认为是吸引中国消费者的重要原因之一。

　　参考译文：

　　Nowadays, China has become the world’s largest consumer of smartphones and personal computers. According to related data, by the end of last year, China’s smartphone market had become the biggest market of smartphone shipments around the world. Meanwhile, in the aspect of personal computer sales, 85.2 million computers were sold in China last year, which made China the biggest PC market overtaking the United States. The increase in the consumption of electronic products fully displays great changes in China’s market: the increase of financial resources and the improvement of consumers’ education. The lowering prices of electronic products are also regarded as one of the important reasons to attract Chinese consumers.

　　重点词汇：

　　智能手机 smart phone

　　个人电脑 personal computer; PC

　　相关资料 related data

　　电子产品 electronic product

　　财力 financial resource/power/capacity