考研英语翻译考前试题.docx

考研英语翻译考前试题

下面是小编收集的英语试题，希望对大家有所帮助。Therelationoflanguageandmindhasinterestedphilosophersformanycenturies.(61)TheGreeksassumedthatthestructureoflanguagehadsomeconnectionwiththeprocessofthoughtwhichtookrootinEuropelongbeforepeoplerealizedhowperselanguagecouldbe.Onlyrecentlydidlinguistsbegintheseriousstudyoflanguagesthatwereverydifferentromtheirown.Twoanthropologists—linguists，FranzBoasandEdwardSapir，werepioneersindescribingmanynativelanguagesofNorthandSouthAmericaduringthefirsthalfofthetwentiethcentury.(62)Weareobligedtothembecausesomeoftheselanguageshavesincevanished，asthepeoplewhospokethemdiedoutorbecameassimilatedandlosttheirnativelanguages.Otherlinguistsintheearlierpartofthiscentury，however，whowerelesseagertodealwithbizarre(古怪的)datafrom“exotic(外来的)”language，werenotalwayssograteful.(63)ThenewlydescribedlanguageswereoftensostrikinglydifferentfromthewellstudiedlanguagesofEuropeandSoutheastAsiathatsomescholarsevenaccusedBoasandSapiroffabricatingtheirdata.NativeAmericanlanguagesareindeeddifferent，somuchsoinfactthatNavajocouldbeusedbytheUSmilitaryasacodeduringWorldWarⅡtosandsecretmessages.Sapir’spupil，BenjaminLeeWhorf，continuedthestudyofAmericanIndianlanguages.(64)Beinginterestedintherelationshipofthelanguageandthought，Whorfdevelopedtheideathatthestructureofthelanguagedeterminesthestructureofhabitualthoughtinasociety.Hereasonedthatbecauseitiseasiertoformulatecertainconceptsandnotothersinagivenlanguage，thespeakersofthatlanguagethinkalongonetrackandnotalonganother.(65)Whorfcametobelieveinasortoflinguisticdeterminismwhich，initsstrongestfrom，statesthatlanguageimprisonsthemind，andthatthegrammaticalpatternsinalanguagecanproducefarreachingconsequencesforthecultureofasociety.Later，thisideabecametobeknownastheSapirWhorfhypothesis，butthistermissomewhatinappropriate.AlthoughbothSapirandWhorfemphasizedthepersityoflanguages，Sapirhimselfneverexplicitlysupportedthenotionoflinguisticdeterminism.翻译题解：考题所选文章是关于语言和思维关系的有趣话题，文中语言用词较通俗易懂，结构也不如往年复杂，总体难度不算大。从卷面反映的情况看，第3、5句正确率较低，1、2、4句得分相对高些。文