华慧考博英语翻译历年英译汉翻译真题练习第十篇

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2018年已经正式到来。全国各大院校博士研究生招生已经陆续正式展开。对于2018年准备考博的考生来说，眼下除了确认好自己所心仪的院校之外，复习好考博英语也是重中之重。

根据全国各大院校历年考博英语真题显示，基本上大部分院校自主命题试卷的题型之中都出现了考博英语翻译测试，且不是简单的单个词句翻译而是整个段落的翻译。

段落翻译一般以英译汉的题型进行测试，大部的考试段落英语都选自一些优秀的小说、散文或者新闻事件。

为了让广大华慧考博学员可以更好地进行英语复习，华慧考博汇总了历年各大院校考博英语、考研英语及专业英语考试之中的英译汉真题，以便考生们进行复习。以下是第十篇英译汉复习题：

原文：

Birds and Death

The bird, however hard the frost may be, flies briskly to his customary roosting-place, and, with beak tucked into his wing, falls asleep. He has no apprehensions; only the hot blood grows colder and colder, the pulse feebler as he sleeps, and at midnight, or in the early morning, he drops from his perch---death.

Yesterday he lived and moved, responsive to a thousand external influences, reflecting earth and sky in his small brilliant brain as in a looking-glass; also he had a various language, the inherited knowledge of his race, the faculty of flight, by means of which he could shoot, meteor-like, across the sky, and pass swiftly from place to place; and with it such perfect control over all his organs, such marvelous certitude in all his motions, as to be able to drop himself plumb down from the tallest tree-top , or out of the void air , on to a slender spray , and scarcely cause its leaves to tremble . Now , on this morning , he lies stiff and motionless ; if you were to take him up and drop him from your hand , he would fall to the ground like a stone or a lump of clay-so easy and swift is the passage from life to death in wild nature! But he was never miserable