翻译二级笔译实务分类模拟题25英译汉1. Natural abilities are like plants; they need pruning by study. 正确答案：与生俱来的才能需学习（江南博哥）才能提高，犹如植物需修剪才能成长。2. Your education and intellect is measured by your modesty. 正确答案：谦虚是衡量一个人教育程度和聪明才智的标准。3. None are less eager to learn than they who know nothing. 正确答案：越是无知，越是不想学习。4. The highest result of education is tolerance. 正确答案：教育的最高境界是宽容。5. It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. 正确答案：与其受过教育而无常识，还不如有常识而未受过教育。6. He who opens a school closes a prison. 正确答案：谁开办一所学校，谁就关闭了一座监狱。7. Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more you must have of the former. 正确答案：监狱和学校之间的关系是此长彼消：学校越少，监狱就会越多。8. By nature all men are alike, but by education become different. 正确答案：人之初，性本同；教不同，习相远。9. Education is not intended to make lawyers or clergymen, soldiers or schoolmasters, farmers or artisans, but men. 正确答案：教育的目的是造就人，而不是培养律师、牧师、军人或教师，也不是培养农夫或工匠。10. Prove that you can control yourself and you are an educated man; without this, all other education is good for nothing. 正确答案：有自控能力的人，才能算是有教育的人；否则，一切其它教育都毫无用处。11. Pour water hastily into a vessel with a narrow neck, and little enters; but pour gradually, and in small quantities, and the vessel is filled. Such was the simile employed by Quintillian, to show the folly of teaching children too much at a time. 正确答案：急急忙忙把水注入瓶颈狭窄的容器，进入容器的水就很少；慢慢把水注入，每次少一点，容器就很快会注满。古罗马修辞学家和教师昆体良就是用这个比喻告诉我们，一下子想教会孩子很多东西是多么的愚蠢。(对孩子的教育，拔苗助长是十分愚蠢的做法。)12. The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom; the choice of them, education. Knowledge is not power but riches, and like them has its value in spending. 正确答案：占有资料是知识，运用资料是智慧，选择资料是教育。知识不是力量，而是财富。像财富一样，知识也是有价值的。13. Not all educated men are college graduates, nor are all college graduates educated men. An educated man is one who is useful to humanity, his profession or trade, and to himself. 正确答案：并非所有有知识的人都是大学生，也并非所有的大学生都是有知识的。真正有知识的人应该有益于人类，有益于自己的专业或行业，有益于自己。14. Only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his own knowledge. 正确答案：只有接受教育，才会因自己知识的欠缺而感到不满；只有从事教学，才会因自己知识的不足而感到不安。15. When a faculty has exclusive authority to determine its own membership, it has achieved full status as a professional body. The standards applied measure the individuals performance of the several faculty functionsteaching, research activity, and service to the community. 正确答案：只有当大学的一个系能独立自主地决定自己的成员，才算是真正取得了专业团体的地位；而衡量每个教师完成系里工作的标准是：教学、科研和对社会的服务。16. Today, virtually all of Americas more than 3,000 post-secondary institutions, from vocationally-oriented community colleges to research universities, use the course-credit system. It is universally accepted in the United States as the standard way of organizing higher education. 正确答案：如今，美国3000多所大学几乎全都实行学分制，包括以职业培训为主的社区大学和以科研为主的大学。在美国，作为组织高等教育的标准形式，学分制得到了广泛的认可。17. An important development since World War II has been the growth of postdoctoral education, especially in the sciences. Postdoctoral fellowships have been defined by the National Research Council as appointments of a temporary nature which are intended to offer an opportunity for continued education and experience in research, usually though not necessarily, under the supervision of a senior mentor. 正确答案：二次大战以来博士后教育已经取得了重要的进展，尤其在自然科学的领域中。根据美国国家研究委员会的定义，博士后研究是一种临时性的职位，“旨在提供继续教育和增加研究经验的机会，通常应在资深导师的指导下进行工作，虽然这并非是必要的条件。”18. In 1971 OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) in Dublin, Ohio, a world leader in cataloging and bibliographic control, launched a project that became known as World Cat. In the past thirty years, World Cat has become one of the worlds foremost bibliographic databases, which is used by libraries around the world. 正确答案：俄亥俄州都柏林的网上电脑图书馆中心(OCLC)，在图书编目和书目控制方面世界领先。1971年，该中心开始了一项以“世界猫”而闻名的计划。30年来，“世界猫”已成为全球最先进的书目数据库之一，并为全世界的图书馆广泛采用。19. Collegiate debating in the United States is a major educational enterprise. Sponsored by more than 800 schools, it is organized into networks of state and interstate competition, recognized through honor societies, and supported by state and national groups of teachers of forensics. 正确答案：在美国，大学辩论是一项重要的教育事业。该项辩论由800多所大学发起，由一些荣誉社团认可，并得到州和全国的辩论学教师团资助。这种大学辩论通常在州内和各州之间进行。20. Electronic conferencing forums provide an opportunity for students to interact with each other, with the instructor, or anyone who has access to the forum. The interaction can be asynchronous, meaning that the discussants need not be present simultaneously. 正确答案：电子会议论坛为学生与学生、学生与导师或与任何进入论坛的人士相互交流提供了一种机会。这样的相互交流可以不必同时进行，也就是说，讨论者不必同时在线。21.Public or Private, US Schools Aim for Best Education Neighborhood Schools1 There is no great difference between city, suburb and village s