2010年考研英語一翻譯真題及答案解析

Part C

Directions:

Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written carefully on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)

One basic weakness in a conservation system based wholly on economic motives is that most members of the land community have no economic value. Yet these creatures are members of the biotic community and, if its stability depends on its integrity, they are entitled to continuance.

When one of these noneconomic categories is threatened and, if we happen to love it .We invert excuses to give it economic importance. At the beginning of century songbirds were supposed to be disappearing. (1) 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. the evidence had to be economic in order to be valid.

It is painful to read these round about accounts today. We have no land ethic yet, (2) but we have at least drawn near 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.

A parallel situation exists in respect of predatory mammals and fish-eating birds. (3) Time was when biologists somewhat over worded the evidence that these creatures preserve the health of game by killing the physically weak, or that they prey only on "worthless" species.

Some species of tree have been read out of the party by economics-minded forestersbecause they grow too slowly, or have too low a sale vale to pay as timber crops. (4) In Europe, where forestry is ecologically more advanced, the non-commercial tree species are recognized as members of native forest community, to be preserved as such, within reason.

To sum up: a system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest is hopelessly lopsided. (5) It tends to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate, many elements in the land community that lack commercial value, but that are essential to its healthy functioning. It assumes, falsely, I think, that the economic parts of the biotic clock will function without the uneconomic parts.

答案

Part C (10 points)

1 . 科學家們趕緊拿出某些明顯站不住腳的證據來補救，大致說的是如果鳥兒 不能控制昆蟲數量的話，昆蟲就會把我們吃光。

2. 但是我們至少更傾向于承認這樣一種觀點：那就是鳥兒的生存是它們的固 有權利，不管其存在與否對我們是否有經濟利益。

3. 曾幾何時，生物學家似乎過度使用了以下這條證據：這些生物是為了維持 食物鏈的正常運行去捕食弱小的生物或只捕食“沒有價值的”物種。

4 . 在生態林業較為先進的歐洲，沒有成為商業化對象的樹種被視為原始森林 群落的成員適當地加以保護。

5 . 這個系統容易忽視并最終消滅陸地群落中很多缺乏商業價值的物種，然而 這些物種對于整個生物群落的健康運行是至關重要的。

2010年考研英語一翻譯真題及答案解析

Part C

Directions:

Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written carefully on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)

One basic weakness in a conservation system based wholly on economic motives is that most members of the land community have no economic value. Yet these creatures are members of the biotic community and, if its stability depends on its integrity, they are entitled to continuance.

When one of these noneconomic categories is threatened and, if we happen to love it .We invert excuses to give it economic importance. At the beginning of century songbirds were supposed to be disappearing. (1) 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. the evidence had to be economic in order to be valid.

It is painful to read these round about accounts today. We have no land ethic yet, (2) but we have at least drawn near 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.

A parallel situation exists in respect of predatory mammals and fish-eating birds. (3) Time was when biologists somewhat over worded the evidence that these creatures preserve the health of game by killing the physically weak, or that they prey only on "worthless" species.

Some species of tree have been read out of the party by economics-minded forestersbecause they grow too slowly, or have too low a sale vale to pay as timber crops. (4) In Europe, where forestry is ecologically more advanced, the non-commercial tree species are recognized as members of native forest community, to be preserved as such, within reason.

To sum up: a system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest is hopelessly lopsided. (5) It tends to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate, many elements in the land community that lack commercial value, but that are essential to its healthy functioning. It assumes, falsely, I think, that the economic parts of the biotic clock will function without the uneconomic parts.

答案

Part C (10 points)

1 . 科學家們趕緊拿出某些明顯站不住腳的證據來補救，大致說的是如果鳥兒 不能控制昆蟲數量的話，昆蟲就會把我們吃光。

2. 但是我們至少更傾向于承認這樣一種觀點：那就是鳥兒的生存是它們的固 有權利，不管其存在與否對我們是否有經濟利益。

3. 曾幾何時，生物學家似乎過度使用了以下這條證據：這些生物是為了維持 食物鏈的正常運行去捕食弱小的生物或只捕食“沒有價值的”物種。

4 . 在生態林業較為先進的歐洲，沒有成為商業化對象的樹種被視為原始森林 群落的成員適當地加以保護。

5 . 這個系統容易忽視并最終消滅陸地群落中很多缺乏商業價值的物種，然而 這些物種對于整個生物群落的健康運行是至關重要的。