文档介绍：考研英语翻译真题及译文
2011
(46) Allen’s contribution was to take an assumption we all share-that because we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts-and reveal its erroneous nature.
参考翻译:艾伦的贡献在于提供了我们能分担和揭示错误性质的假设--因为我们不是机器人,因此我们能够控制我们的理想
(47) while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone, in reality we are continually faced with a question: “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that? ”
参考翻译:我们可以单独通过意识维持控制的感觉,但实际上我们一直面临着一个问题,为什么我不能完成这件事情或那件事情
(48) This seems a justification for neglect of those in need, and a rationalization of exploitation, of the superiority of those at the top and the inferiority of those at the bottom.
参考翻译:这似乎可能为必要时的忽视正名,也能合理说明剥削,以及在顶层的人的优越感及处于后层人们的劣势感
(49)circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us and if we feel that we have been “wronged” then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation
参考翻译:环境似乎是为了挑选出我们的强者,而且如果我们感觉受了委屈,那么我们就不可能有意识的做出努力逃离我们原来的处境
(50) The upside is the possibilities contained in knowing that everything is up to us; where before we were experts in the array of limitations, now we e authorities of what is possible.
参考翻译:正面在于我们处于这样的位置,知道所有事情都取决与我们自己,之前我们对着一系列的限制,而现在我们成了权威
2010
46. Scientists jumped to the rescue with some distinctly shaky evidence to the effect that insects would eat us up if birds failed to control them.
参考翻译:科学家急忙介入,但提出的证据显然站不住脚,其大意是,如果鸟类不能控制昆虫的数量,昆虫便会吞噬我们人类。
47. But we have at least drawn nearer the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of intrinsic right, regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us.
参考翻译:但是我们至少近乎承认,无论鸟类能否带给我们经济价值,它们自有生存下去的权利。
48. Time was when biologists somewhat overworked the evidence that these creatures preserve the health of game by killing the physically weak, or that they prey only on “worthless” species.
参考翻译:有证据表明:这些生物杀死体弱者来保持种群的健康,或者说它们仅仅捕食“没有价值”的物种。曾经有段时间,生物学家或多或少滥用了这一证据。
49. In Europe, where forestry is ecologically more adv