四川大学翻译硕士考研2010年英译汉真题.docx
四川大学翻译硕士考研 2010年英译汉真题For the Greeks, beauty was a virtue: a kind of excellence. Persons then were assumed to be what we now have to call-lamely, enviously-whole persons. If it did occur to the Greeks to distinguish between a persons “inside“ and “outside,“ they still expected that inner beauty would be matched by beauty of the other kind. The well-born young Athenians who gathered around Socrates found it quite paradoxical that their hero was so intelligent, so brave, so honorable, so seductive-and so ugly.One of Socrates main pedagogical acts was to be ugly-and teach those innocent, no doubt splendid-looking disciples of his full of paradoxes life really was. They may have resisted Socrates lesson. We do not. Several thousands years later, we are more wary of the enchantments of beauty. We not only split off-with the greatest facility-the “inside“(character, intellect) from the “outside“(looks); but we are actually surprised when someone who is beautiful is also intelligent, talended, good.Frankly speaking, Adam, I created Eve to tame you. Indeed she is wiser than you because she knows less but understands more. Charm is her strength just as your strength is charm.Doubtless you are active, eager, passionate, variable, progressive and original but she is passive, stable, sympathetic and faithful. In other words you are like animals which use up energy, whereas she is like the plants which store up energy. Henceforth you have got to get along with her willy-nilly in sun and rain, joys and sorrows, peace and turbulence.For you the Rubicon has been crossed. It is up to you now to make the situation a blessing or a curse. I would refuse to entertain any more request from you to take her back.