2016北京大学翻译硕士MTI考研真题.doc
首先,最后一门,百科写作。百科词语解释:文选、文选妖孽和桐城谬种、 荷马 、 、Matthew Arnold、CSR、温室气体排放、文学翻译、文化中心主义、一带一路、语言桥(翻译公司) ,也就只能记住这些了,这些词汇的出处都是刘宓庆的中西翻译思想比较研究和另外一本未来企业之路 ,真心把握不住会考哪个词语,所以,还是实打实地把这两本书过一遍为妙,至少也可以混个眼熟,不至于碰到一个词,什么也说不出来。今年的词语解释,几乎不涉及翻译史和语言学名词,和去年的差别很大。着实不好把握。应用文:大概题干:北京二十五中的李平发现学校早上举行升旗仪式时,同学们不怎么大声唱国歌,经调查发现,很大一部分同学不会唱国歌是主要原因,李平就和部分同学商量写一篇文章,号召同学们大声唱国歌,大家一致推荐李平为主笔人,假如你是李平,请完成这篇文章。注意文体和格式,450字左右。题干中没有直接给出应用文的格式,但是,看到“号召”两个字,本人觉得写一篇倡议书为好,另外,经研究发现,北大 2011 年和 2012 年的应用文写作都是要求写倡议书。所以觉得八九不离十就是倡议书了。2大作文:大概题干:2015 年 11 月,北京普降大雪,对此,有人欢喜有人忧,请以此为话题,自立题目,文体不限,字数 800 字以内。这个话题着实不好下手,难道要写成对立统一规律的辩证法?很难找到有高度有水平的利益。请自行思考,在此就不多加讨论了。翻译基础首先词汇翻译,考了两个去年考过的:桂冠诗人、室内设计,还有就是孕妇装、付费电视、露天市场、读者文摘英译汉:Vatican City,Union Jack,string quartet, X-rate, spaghetti,英译汉:是关于 modenity,self, self-realization, self-exploration, aesthetics, 中间举例子有马克思、尼采、韦伯等人的思想,最后回归到了 double consciousness(这是翻译硕士英语中排序题的主题词应该是选自同一篇文章) , 最后讲到 modernity 不再局限于西方,而是扩展到所有追求现代的人,是给所有人的 poisoned gift。总体不难翻译。篇章大意也较容易理解,但是中间有两三个生词拦路虎,有点不好处理。汉译英:讲的是禅宗和绘画之间的关系,其中论述了 “胸中有丘壑”与绘画之间的关系,其中还讲了庄子的思想等等。暂且能想起来。翻译硕士英语首先是完形填空,难度一般,想全对也着实不易。文章出处:http:/www.smh.com.au/it-pro/how-digital-culture-is-rewiring-our-brains-20120806-23q5p.html 文章名:How digital culture is rewiring our brains,Our brains are superlatively evolved to adapt to our environment: a process known asneuroplasticity. The connections between our brain cells will be shaped, strengthened andrefined by our individual experiences. It is this personalisation of the physical brain, driven3by unique interactions with the external world, that arguably constitutes the biologicalbasis of each mind, so what will happen to that mind if the external world changes inunprecedented ways, for example, with an all-pervasive digital technology?A recent survey in the US showed that more than half of teenagers aged 13 to 17 spendmore than 30 hours a week, outside school, using computers and other web-connecteddevices. If their environment is being transformed for so much of the time into afast-paced and highly interactive two-dimensional space, the brain will adapt, for good orill. Professor Michael Merzenich, of the University of California, San Francisco, gives atypical neuroscientific perspective.There is a massive and unprecedented difference in how digital natives brains areplastically engaged in life compared with those of average individuals from earliergenerations and there is little question that the operational characteristics of the averagemodern brain substantially differ, he says.The implications of such a sweeping mind change must surely extend into educationpolicy. Most obviously, time spent in front of a screen is time not spent doing other things.Several studies have already documented a link between the recreational use ofcomputers and a decline in school performance. Perhaps most important of all, we need tounderstand the full impact of cyber culture on the emotional and cognitive profile of the21st-century mind.AdvertisementInevitably, there is a variety of issues. Let us look at just three.4First, social networking. Eye contact is a pivotal and sophisticated component of humaninteraction, as is subconscious monitoring of body language and, most powerful of all,physical contact, yet none of these experiences is available on social networking sites. Itfollows that if a young brain with the evolutionary mandate to adapt to the environment isestablishing relationships through the medium of a screen, the skills essential for empathymay not be acquired as naturally as in the past.In line with this prediction, a recent study from Michigan University of 14,000 collegestudents has reported a decline in empathy over the past 30 years, which was particularlymarked over the past decade.Such data does not, of course, prove a causal link but just as with smoking and cancersome 50 years ago, epidemiologists could investigate any possible connection.The psychologist Sherry Turkle, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has arguedin her recent book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less fromEach Other that the more continuously connected people are in cyberspace, the moreisolated they feel.Second, video games. Neuropsychological studies suggest frequent and continuedplaying might lead to enhanced recklessness. Data also indicates reduced attention spansand possible addiction. In line with this, significant chemical and even structural changesare being reported in the brains of obsessional gamers.No single paper is ever likely to be accepted unanimously as conclusive but a survey of 136reports using 381 independent tests, and conducted on more than 130,000 participants,5concluded that video games led to significant increases in desensitisation, physiologicalarousal, aggression and a decrease in prosocial behaviour.Third, search engines. Can the internet improve cognitive skills and learning, as has beenargued? The problem is that efficient information processing is not synonymous withknowledge or understanding. Even the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, has said: I worrythat the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information - and,especially, of stressful information - is, in fact, affecting cognition. It is, in fact, affectingdeeper thinking. I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to reallylearn something.Given the plasticity of the brain, it is not surprising adapting to a cyber-environment willalso lead to positives - for example, enhanced performance in skills that are continuouslyrehearsed, such as a mental agility similar to that needed in IQ tests or in visuomotorco-ordination. However, we urgently need a fuller picture.接下里是四篇阅读理解。首先,第一篇很难,大有“下马威”之意味。最后一段突出了主题“double consciousness”,这个同后面的排序题的主题是吻合的,都是论述“double consciousness”,暂且只能想起这么些了。个人感觉第一篇读起来很吃力。后面的几篇就比较顺畅了。第二篇记得也不大清楚了。第三篇,原文:The rise in female employment also seems to have coincided with (or perhapsprecipitated) a similarly steep rise in standards for what it means to be a good parent, andespecially a good mother. Niggling feelings of guilt and ambivalence over working outsidethe home, together with some social pressures, compel many women to try to fulfil6idealised notions of motherhood as well, says Judy Wajcman, a sociology professor at theLondon School of Economics and author of a new book, “Pressed for Time: TheAcceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism”. The struggle to “have it all” may be a fairly privileged modern challenge. But it bearsnoting that even in professional dual-income households, mothers still handle the lionsshare of parentingparticularly the daily, routine jobs that never feel finished. Attentivefathers handle more of the enjoyable tasks, such as taking children to games and playingsports, while mothers are stuck with most of the feeding, cleaning and nagging. Thoughwomen do less work around the house than they used to, the jobs they do tend to be thenever-ending ones, like tidying, cooking and laundry. Well-educated men chip in far morethan their fathers ever did, and more than their less-educated peers, but still put in onlyhalf as much time as women do. And men tend to do the discrete tasks that are moreeasily crossed off lists, such as mowing lawns or fixing things round the house. All of thishelps explain why time for mothers, and especially working mothers, always feelsscarce. “Working mothers with young children are the most time-scarce segment ofsociety,” says Geoffrey Godbey, a time-use expert at Penn State University.Parents also now have far more insight into how children learn and develop, so they havemore tools (and fears) as they groom their children for adulthood. This reinforces anotherreason why well-off people are investing so much time in parenthood: preparing childrento succeed is the best way to transfer privilege from one generation to the next. Now thatpeople are living longer, parents are less likely to pass on a big financial bundle when theydie. So the best way to ensure the prosperity of ones children is to provide the education7and skills needed to get ahead, particularly as this human capital grows ever moreimportant for success. This helps explain why privileged parents spend so much timeworrying over schools and chauffeuring their children to rsum-enhancing activities. “Parents are now afraid of doing less than their neighbours,”observes Philip Cohen, asociology professor at the University of Maryland who studies contemporary families. “Itcan feel like an arms race.”No time to loseLeisure time is now the stuff of myth. Some are cursed with too much. Others find it toocostly to enjoy. Many spend their spare moments staring at a screen of some kind, eventhough doing other things (visiting friends, volunteering at a church) tends to makepeople happier. Not a few presume they will cash in on all their stored leisure time whenthey finally retire, whenever that may be. In the meantime, being busy has its rewards.Otherwise why would people go to such trouble?Alas time, ultimately, is a strange and slippery resource, easily traded, visible only when itpasses and often most highly valued when it is gone. No one has ever complained ofhaving too much of it. Instead, most people worry over how it flies, and wonder where itgoes. Cruelly, it runs away faster as people get older, as each accumulating year grows lesssignificant, proportionally, but also less vivid. Experiences become less novel and morehabitual. The years soon bleed together and end up rushing past, with the most vibrantmemories tucked somewhere near the beginning. And of course the more one tries tohold on to something, the swifter it seems to go.8Writing in the first century, Seneca was startled by how little people seemed to value theirlives as they were living themhow busy, terribly busy, everyone seemed to be, mortal intheir fears, immortal in their desires and wasteful of their time. He noticed how evenwealthy people hustled their lives along, ruing their fortune, anticipating a time in thefuture when they would rest.“People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but assoon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it isright to be stingy,” he observed in“On the Shortness of Life”, perhaps the very firsttime-management self-help book. Time on Earth may be uncertain and fleeting, but nearlyeveryone has enough of it to take some deep breaths, think deep thoughts and smellsome roses, deeply. “Life is long if you know how to use it,” he counselled.Nearly 2,000 years later, de Grazia offered similar advice. Modern life, thatleisure-squandering, money-hoarding, grindstone-nosing, frippery-buying business, lefthim exasperated. He saw that everyone everywhere was running, running, running, but to