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2020年考研英語(yǔ)(二)真題及答案：翻譯

Section III translation

It's almost impossible to go through life without experiencing some kind of failure. People who do so probably live so cautiously that they go nowhere. Put simply, they’re not real living at all. But, the wonderful thing about failure is that it's entirely up to us to decide how to look at it.

We can choose to see failure as"the end of the world, "or as proof of just how inadequate we are. Or, we can look at failure as the incredible learning experience that it often is. Every time we fail at something, we can choose to look for the lesson we're meant to learn. These lessons are very important; they're how we grow, and how we keep from making that same mistake again. Failures stop us only if we let them. Failure can also teach us things about ourselves that we would never have learned otherwise.

For instance, failure can help you discover how strong a person you are. Failing at something can help you discover your truest friends, or help you find unexpected motivation to succeed.

參考譯文：

人的一生幾乎不可能不經(jīng)歷某種失敗。但是，失敗的妙處就在于，完全由我們來(lái)決定如何看待它。

我們可以選擇將失敗看作是“世界末日”?；蛘呦褚酝粯?，把它看作令人難以置信的學(xué)習(xí)經(jīng)歷。每當(dāng)我們?cè)谀臣律鲜r(shí)，我們會(huì)選擇尋找應(yīng)學(xué)習(xí)的教訓(xùn)。這些教訓(xùn)非常重要;他們教會(huì)我們?nèi)绾纬砷L(zhǎng)，如何避免再次犯相同的錯(cuò)誤。如果失敗阻止我們前進(jìn)，那么唯一的條件就是我們?cè)试S它的發(fā)生。

失敗還可以教會(huì)我們認(rèn)識(shí)自己，那是我們?cè)趧e處永遠(yuǎn)無(wú)法學(xué)習(xí)到的。例如，失敗可以幫助你發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的能力。失敗可以幫助你發(fā)現(xiàn)最真實(shí)的朋友，或者幫助你找到預(yù)料之外的成功動(dòng)力。

【解析】

一、總述

考題文章來(lái)自于知名網(wǎng)站Mind Tools上一篇名為“Overcoming Fear of Failure：Facing Your Fear of Moving Forward”一文。文章略有刪減，總詞數(shù)151詞，共3段，10句話。題目難度適中，題材常規(guī)，符合英語(yǔ)二翻譯歷年的考題規(guī)律。相似題材的文章曾經(jīng)考過(guò)，如2010年“承受力”這篇文章?？碱}貼近生活，總體難度較低，考生可從容應(yīng)對(duì)，個(gè)別語(yǔ)句較為抽象，略有難度，下面進(jìn)行解析。

二、難句剖析

1.【原文】But, the wonderful thing about failure is that it's entirely up to us to decide how to look at it.

【分析】本句話易于簡(jiǎn)單，由主句加上that引導(dǎo)的表語(yǔ)從句構(gòu)成，表語(yǔ)從句中嵌套這how引導(dǎo)的賓語(yǔ)從句。其中，the wonderful thing about failure 可以理解為“失敗的妙處”，be up to sb.表示“取決于某人”;it's entirely up to us to decide how to look at it可以理解為“完全由我們來(lái)決定如何看待它”，把無(wú)靈主語(yǔ)it譯成有靈主語(yǔ)“我們”，更符合漢語(yǔ)習(xí)慣。

【譯文】但是，失敗的妙處就在于，完全由我們來(lái)決定如何看待它。

2.【原文】Or, we can look at failure as the incredible learning experience that it often is.

【分析】本句話由主句和that引導(dǎo)的定語(yǔ)從句構(gòu)成。其中，look at failure as the learning experience需要注意措辭，incredible是形容詞，最常見的意思是“不能相信的”，但也有“難以置信的、極大的、極好的”之意;結(jié)合語(yǔ)境，翻譯成“難以置信的”較為通順，因此這半句話可理解為“把它看作令人難以置信的學(xué)習(xí)經(jīng)歷”，為避免上下文重復(fù)，可將failure譯成代詞“它”。

【譯文】或者像以往一樣，把它看作令人難以置信的學(xué)習(xí)經(jīng)歷。

3.【原文】Failures stop us only if we let them.

【分析】本句由主句和only if引導(dǎo)的條件狀語(yǔ)構(gòu)成，only if基本的詞義為“只要……就，只是在……的時(shí)候，只有”的意思，也有“除了”的含義。本句考點(diǎn)之一在于狀語(yǔ)從句翻譯時(shí)需要前置，其二在于選取only if符合語(yǔ)境的詞義。

【譯文】除非我們?cè)试S失敗的發(fā)生，否則失敗無(wú)法阻止我們前進(jìn)。

46. Directions:

translate the following text into Chinese. Write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET. (15 points)