历年考研英语真题翻译长难句汇总

2009年：

1. It may be said that the measure of the worth of any social institution is its effect in enlarging and improving experience ; but this effect is not a part of its original motive。

译文：可以说，衡量任何社会制度的价值在于它对扩大和改进经验的影响，但是这种影响并不是它最初动机的组成部分。

2. Only gradually was the byproduct of the institution noted, and only more gradually still was this effect considered as a directive factor in the conduct of the institution。

译文：只有逐步才能注意到一种制度的副作用，而要承认这种副作用是执行该制度的一种规定性因素则更加缓慢。

3. While it is easy to ignore in our contact with them the effect of our acts upon their disposition, it is not so easy as in dealing with adults 。

译文：在和年轻人交往时，我们容易忽略自己的行为对他们性格的影响，但是在与成人打交道时却并不如此容易。

4. Since our chief business with them is to enable them to share in a common life we cannot help considering whether or no we are forming the powers which will secure this ability。

译文：既然我们的主要任务是让年轻人参与共同生活，我们禁不住要考虑是否我们正在形成获得这种能力的力量。

5. We are thus led to distinguish, within the broad educational process which we have been so far considering, a more formal kind of education—that of direct tuition or schooling。

译文：因此，我们要在从一直考虑的整个教育过程中辨认出一种比较正规的教育——直接教育或者学校教育。

2008年：

1. He believes that this very difficulty may have had the compensating advantage of forcing him to think long and intently about every sentence, and thus enabling him to detect errors in reasoning and in his own observations。

译文：他 达尔文 认为，正是这种困难起了弥补作用，使他长时间专注地思考每个句子，从而能在推理和亲自观察中发现自己的错误。

2. He asserted, also, that his power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought was very limited, for which reason he felt certain that he never could have succeeded with mathematics。

译文：他还认为，在深入理解冗长且完全抽象的一系列观点方面，自己的能力非常有限；因此，他曾深信自己在数学方面本来就不该获得成功。

3. On the other hand , he did not accept as well founded the charge made by some of his critics that, while he was a good observer, he had no power of reasoning。

译文：另一方面，一些批评家指责说，尽管他善于观察，但却不能推理，他对此既不接受且认为毫无根据。

4.He adds humbly that perhaps he was “superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them carefully。”

译文：他谦虚地补充说，或许他“和普通人相比，更能注意到他们容易忽略的细节，更能对这些细节进行仔细观察”。

5. Darwin was convinced that the loss of these tastes was not only a loss of happiness, but might possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character。

译文：达尔文认为，失去对音乐和绘画方面的兴趣，不仅失去了幸福，还可能损伤智力，甚至更可能败坏道德。

2007年：

1. Traditionally, legal learning has been viewed in such institutions as the special preserve of lawyers, rather than a necessary part of the intellectual equipment of an educated person。

译文：传统上，这些院校一直把学习法律看作是律师专有的特权，而不是每个受过教育的人所必备的一部分知识才能。

2. On the other, it links these concepts to everyday realities in a manner which is parallel to the links journalists forge on a daily basis as they cover and comment on the news。

译文：另一方面，通过采取与新闻记者在报道和评论新闻时一样的联系方式，法律把这些观念同日常生活实际联系了起来。

3. But the idea that the journalist must understand the law more profoundly than an ordinary citizen rests on an understanding of the established conventions and special responsibilities of the new media。

译文：但是，新闻记者必须比普通公民更深刻地了解法律，这种观点是基于对新闻媒体既定习俗和特殊责任的认识基础之上的。

4. In fact , it is difficult to see how journalists who do not have a clear grasp of the basic features of the Canadian constitution can do a competent job on political stories。

译文：事实上，那些没有清楚把握加拿大宪法基本特征的新闻记者是如何能够胜任政治新闻报道工作的，要想明白这一点是非常困难的。

5. While comment and reaction from lawyers may enhance stories, it is preferable for journalists to rely on their own notions of significance and make their own judgments。

译文：虽然律师提供的评论和反馈可能会丰富报道的内容，但是新闻记者凭借自己的重要观点做出自己的判断则更加难能可贵。

2006年：

1. I shall define him as an individual who has elected as his primary duty and pleasure in life the activity of thinking in Socratic（苏格拉底）way about moral problems。

译文：我认为，知识分子的定义是这样的：他选择使用苏格拉底式的方式来思考道德问题，将此作为自己人生的首要任务，并从中获得乐趣。

2. His function is analogous to that of a judge , who must accept the obligation of revealing in as obvious a matter as possible the course of reasoning which led him to his decision。

译文：他的职责与法官相似，要尽可能清楚明白地展示自己作出决定的推理过程，这是他必须承担的责任。

3. I have excluded him because, while his accomplishments may contribute to the solution of moral problems , he has not been charged with the task of approaching any but the factual aspects of those problems 。

译文：我将普通科学家排除在外的原因是，尽管他的成果可能有助于解决道德问题，但是他承担的任务只不过是研究这些问题的事实方面而已。

4. But his primary task is not to think about the moral code, which governs his activity, any more than a businessman is expected to dedicate his energies to an exploration of rules of conduct in business。

译文：但是，正如我们并不期望商人专注于探索商业行为的准则一样，普通科学家的首要任务也不是考虑支配自己行为的道德规范。

5. They may teach very well , and more than earn their salaries, but most of them make little or no independent reflections on human problems which involve moral judgment。

译文：知识分子可能很善于教书，而且不仅仅是为了挣钱。但是，对于涉及道德判断的人类问题，他们大多数人很少或者根本没有进行独立思考。

2005年：

1. Television is one of the means by which these feelings are created and conveyed—and perhaps never before has it served so much to connect different peoples and nations as is the recent events in Europe。

译文：电视是引发和传播这些感受的方式之一——在连接不同民族和国家之间的关系方面，电视以前也许还从来没有像在欧洲最近发生的事件中那样，起过如此重大的作用。

2. In Europe , as elsewhere multimedia groups have been increasingly successful groups which bring together television, radio newspapers, magazines and publishing houses that work in relation to one another 。

译文：像其他地方一样，欧洲的多媒体集团变得越来越成功，他们把相互之间关系密切的电视、广播、报纸、杂志、出版社组合在一起。

3. This alone demonstrates that the television business is not an easy world to survive in a fact underlined by statistics that show that out of eighty European television networks no less than 50% took a loss in 1989。

译文：仅这一点就足以表明，要在电视行业里生存不是一件容易的事情；有统计数字进一步说明了这个事实，在1989年欧洲80个电视网中，有50%以上的出现了亏损。

4. Creating a “European identity” that respects the different cultures and traditions which go to make up the connecting fabric of the Old continent is no easy task and demands a strategic choice。

译文：不同的文化和传统把欧洲大陆编织在一起，要创造出一种尊重这些不同文化和传统的“欧洲特征”绝非易事，需要做出战略性的选择。

5. In dealing with a challenge on such a scale , it is no exaggeration to say “United we stand, divided we fall”。

译文：在应对如此规模挑战的过程中，可以毫不夸张地说：“联合，我们就胜利；分裂，我们就失败”。