文档介绍：英语八级汉译英练****第1期
【中文原文】
徐霞客一生周游考察了十六个省,足迹几乎遍及全国。他在考察的过程中,从来不盲目迷信书本上的结论。他发现前人研究的地理的记载有许多不很可靠的地方。为了进行真实细致的考察,他很少乘车坐船,几乎全靠双脚翻山越岭,长途跋涉;为了弄清大自然的真相,他总是挑选道路艰险的山区,人迹稀少的森林进行考察,发现了许多奇山秀景;他常常选择不同的时间和季节,多次重游各地名山,反复观察变换的奇景。
【翻译讲解】
1. 徐霞客一生周游考察了十六个省,足迹几乎遍及全国。
周游:到各处游历; 走遍travel across (around);tour;visit
考察:explore; make an on-the-spot investigation; inspect
足迹:footprint;footmark; trace
遍及:spread all over
【译文】During his life time, Xu Xiake visited and explored 16 provinces, leaving his footprints in nearly every corner of the country.
2. 他在考察的过程中,从来不盲目迷信书本上的结论。
他在考察的过程中:in his exploration; in his tours;on his tours
盲目:blindly; in a blind way; without thinking
迷信:superstition; blindly worship/ believe in。
这里“迷信”指接受,accept readily/without thinking
【译文】He never blindly accepted the conclusions given in books in his exploration.
3. 他发现前人研究的地理的记载有许多不很可靠的地方。
前人:predecessor; forefathers; others
前人栽树,后人乘凉:One man sows and another reaps.
记载:record; put down in writing; document; notes
可靠:真实可信 urate信得过reliable; trustworthy
【译文】He found many uracies in the travel notes on geography written by his predecessors.
 He found that many of the geographical records by other people before him were urate.
4. 为了进行真实细致的考察,他很少乘车坐船,几乎全靠双脚翻山越岭,长途跋涉;
为了:in order to, for the sake of, for the purpose of, with the aim of, with a view to
细致的:careful, delicate, detailed
乘车坐船:“乘坐”应使用一个词 by carriage and boat; take the wagon and the boat
翻山越岭:翻越可使用一个词 climb/cross mountains and ridges
长途跋涉:long difficult journeys
【译文】 He seldom traveled by horse cart or boat but climbed mountains and ridges and took long, difficult journeys most of the time with the aim of conducting a real and careful exploration.
5. 为了弄清大自然的真相,他总是挑选道路艰险的山区,人迹稀少的森林进行考察,发现了许多奇山秀景;
弄清:find out; make clear
真相:real situation(区别于表面或造假的情况);the actual state of affairs; fact; truth
e out in the wash; The truth is out; The facts are clear now.
弄清真相:get a clear picture of
艰险:hardships and dangers;dangerous; treacherous