大学英语六级终极预测（翻译篇）

20 篇短文翻译之1-5篇

Test 1———国家公祭日

国家公祭日是国家为了纪念曾经发生过的重大民族灾难而设立的国家祭日。二战后,主要参战国政府纷纷推出国家级哀悼日,以国家公祭的形式来祭奠在惨案中死难的国民,增强现代人对国家遭受战争灾难历史的记忆,目前已成为国际惯例。

波兰的奥斯威辛集中营大屠杀纪念馆、美国的珍珠港事件纪念馆、俄罗斯卫国战争纪念馆、日本的广岛和长崎原爆纪念馆等,每年都举行国家公祭。12 月 13 日是我国南京大屠杀死难者国家公祭日纪念活动引起了世界媒体的关注。

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National Memorial Day, set up by the state,is meant to commemorate the significant national catastrophe.

After World War II, the major belligerent states successively put forward the day of mourning at a national level, in the form of a public memorial ceremony,to remember the citizens who lost their lives in the massacre and intensify the conscience of neoteric people about the pains and sorrows that their countries suffered during the war, up to now, which has become an international observance.

So far, there are numerous examples existing across the world, such as the Holocaust Memorial Hall at Auschwitz, Poland, the Pearl Harbor Memorial Museum in the United States, the Memorial Hall in honor of the Soviet Unions Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany in Russia, the Memorial Hall in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan and so forth, where a rite will be held annually.

China observes its National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims on 13th December,and the commemorative service has gained medias atten- tion worldwide.

Test 2———智能手机让人变笨

最近,研究人员进行了一项关于手机对人们智力的影响的研究。他们发现,当手机在视线范围内时,人们在处理任务和记忆信息方面的表现会很糟糕。

其中一位研究人员指出,尽管这些电子设备可以极大地便利生活,但手机总放在身边会导致认知能力下降。即使能够成功保持长期注意力,即能抵挡查看手机的诱惑,现有的认知能力也会因手机在场而降低。

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Recently,a study concerning the effects of smart phones on our brain had been conducted by a group of researchers.They discovered that people are worse at conducting tasks and remembering information if they have a smart phone within their range of visibility.

One of the researchers of this study pointed out that although smart phones had immense potential to improve welfare, their persistent presence may come at a cognitive cost.

Even when people are successful at maintaining sustained attention—against the temptation to check their phones—the presence of these devices reduces available cognitive capability.

Test 3———人生

我们一生中会犯很多错误。这个道理对每个人都适用。没有人可以避免。但是,有三种错误我们应该尽可能地避免。第一种错误是“一直在抱怨”。 几乎所有人都这么做,因为抱怨似乎会让我们感觉很好。 第二种错误是“ 想把身边的人都比下去”。

如果我们非要抓住每个可悲的机会去证明自己比身边的人行,最终只会把自己弄得惨不忍睹。第三种错误是“无条件的善良”。无条件的善良与邪恶无异。这个世界缺的是理智。

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We will make a lot of mistakes in our life. This rule works for everybody. No one can be exceptional. But there are three kinds of mistakes we should do our best to avoid.

The first kind is to constantly complain. Almost everybody keeps doing it because it seems like complaining makes us feel good.

The second kind is to try to outweigh everybody around us. If we take every pitiful chance to prove ourselves better than others, well only make ourselves miserable in the end.

The third is to be kind without any condition. Kindness without reasoning is the same as evil. What this world doesnt have enough is rationality.

Test 4———读书

好书就像是你最好的朋友。它是最有耐心、最令人愉悦的伴侣。在我们陷入困境或遭遇不幸时,它也不会抛弃我们,而是对我们一如 既往地亲切。年轻时,好书能陶冶我们的性情,增长我们的知识;年老时,它又给我们以慰藉和鼓励。

人们常常因为喜欢同一本书而结为知己,就像有时两个人因为敬慕同一个人而成为朋友一样。书是真诚而高尚的情谊纽带。人们可以通过共同喜爱的作家沟通思想,交流感情彼此息息相通。

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Good books may be our best friends. They are the most patient and cheerful companions. They will never turn their back upon us when we are suffering from adversity or distress, but always show us the same kindness.

When we are in youth, a good book cultivates our temper and increases our knowledge; when we are in age, it consoles us and encourages us. Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration of a third.

Books are sincere and lofty bonds of friendship. Men can exchange ideas, communicate feelings and sympathize with each other through their favorite author.

Test 5———选择

我们无法选择出生,无法选择成长的周遭环境,也无法选择死亡。但是在这些无法选择之中,我们却可以选择自己的生活方式:是勇敢无畏还是胆小怯懦,是光明磊落还是厚颜无耻,是目标坚定还是随波逐流。

我们可以决定生活中哪些至关重要,哪些微不足道。 而能够显示我们自身重要性的,是我们做了什么。当我们做决定和选择时,我们的生活便得以形成。

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We cannot choose our birth,our upbringing circumstances and also, our way of death.But within all the choicelessness, we can choose how we shall live: courageously or cowardly, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We can decide what is important and what is trivial in life.

It is what we decide to do that makes us significant. We decide and choose, so are our lives formed.