华慧考博英语翻译历年英译汉翻译真题练习第十七篇

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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。以下是第十七篇英译汉复习题：

原文:

In some societies people want children for what might be called familial reasons: to extend the family line or the family name, to propitiate the ancestors; to enable the proper functioning of religious rituals involving the family. Such reasons may seem thin in the modern, secularized society but they have been and are powerful indeed in other places.

In addition, one class of family reasons shares a border with the following category, namely, having children in order to maintain or improve a marriage: to hold the husband or occupy the wife; to repair or rejuvenate the marriage; to increase the number of children on the assumption that family happiness lies that way. The point is underlined by its converse: in some societies the failure to bear children (or males) is a threat to the marriage and a ready cause for divorce.

Beyond all that is the profound significance of children to the very institution of the family itself. To many people, husband and wife alone do not seem a proper family -they need children to enrich the circle, to validate its family character, to gather the redemptive influence of offspring. Children need the family, but the family seems also to need children, as the social institution uniquely available, at least in principle, for security, comfort, assurance, and direction in a changing, often hostile, world. To most people, such a home base, in the literal sense, needs more than one person for sustenance and in generational extension.