2019年翻译考试初级英语笔译练习题（18）

　　美国的经验在许多方面都是独特的。

　　2. The country was blessed by notable advantages—above all, by the fact that population was scare in relation to available resources.

　　这个国家有着得天独厚的优势——主要是人口相对稀少而资源十分丰富。

　　3. It arose originally from a philosophical rather than an economic commitment...

　　它源于对思想原则的信仰，而不是出于对经济利益的追求……

　　4. In the record of his conflict, ideology has attracted some of the strongest intelligences mankind has produced...

　　在意识形态体系与经验主义斗争的历史上，意识形态体系曾吸引了人类历史上一些 聪明绝顶的人物……

　　5. In its finest hours, the US has, so to speak, risen above ideology

　　在其鼎盛时期，美国可以说超越了所有的意识形态体系。

　　6.Thus simplified, the issue attracts simplistic solutions: reduce the number of people; limit their share of nature’s resources; protect all other species from the human marauder by endowing them with “rights.”

　　将问题如此简单化必然导致解决方式的简单化，比如，减少人口;限制人类对自然资源的占有;赋予所有其他物种“权利”以此保护它们不受人类的掠夺。

　　7. Indeed,the whole ideological enterprise contradicted Jefferson’s temper, which was basically flexible and experimental.

　　说实在的，杰斐逊一生在意识形态体系上所做的努力与他的性格是相矛盾的。他的 性格特征基本上是灵活的、从经验出发的。

　　8. Indeed, I would suggest that we might well banish some overloaded words from intellectual discourse. These words no longer have clear meanings. They are sources of heat, not of light.

　　我甚至建议在思想界和学术界的讨论中摒弃某些用滥了的词语。……这些词语只能 使人头脑发热，而不会给人以智慧的光芒。

　　9. Her experiences, they may say, are amusing or diverting, certainly engrossing. In other words, the purpose of news should be to give people pleasure, at least to the extent that it takes their minds off their own troubles.

　　他们会说，她的那些经历很有趣，很有娱乐性，非常引人入胜。换句话说，新闻的目的应该是给观众带来快乐，起码要做到让他们忘记自己的烦心事。

　　10. News, we might say,may be history in its first and best form,or the stuff of literature,or a record of the condition of a society,or the expression of things,but in its worst form it can also be mainly a ”filler”, a ”come-on” to keep the viewer’s attention until the commercials come.

　　我们可以说，新闻是最初始而且形式最好的历史，是文学的原材料，是社会状态的记载，是其他某些事物的表现;但是就其最坏的形式而言，新闻也可以是在广告开始之前竭力吸引观众注意力的一种填充和引诱手段。