2016年专八翻译真题参考译文

专八考试改革后，原来的英译中部分取消，只保留了中译英的部分。这部分题目要求学生将一段150个汉字组成的段落译成英语，能运用语法、词汇、修辞等语言知识。

这里是刚刚过去这个周末，英语专业八级考试翻译部分的真题：

请将下面一段话中划线的部分翻译成英语。

流逝，表现了南国人对时间最早的感觉。“子在川上曰，逝者如斯夫。”他们发现无论是潺潺小溪，还是浩荡大河，都一去不复返，流逝之际青年变成了老翁而绿草转眼就枯黄，很自然有错阴的紧迫感。流逝也许是缓慢的，但无论如何缓慢，对流逝的恐惧使人们必须用“流逝”这个词来时时警戒后人，必须急匆匆地行动，给这个词灌注一种紧张感。

以下是北京新东方在线名师唐静给出的参考译文：

They realized that both the babbling brook and the mighty river would flow on, and that their waters would never return. They found that as time passed by, young men would become old and the green grass would turn yellow and wither in almost the blink of an eye. A sense of urgency naturally arose over the elusiveness of time. No matter how slowly time flowed, the very fear of its transiency compelled people to use the word “passage”to warn the coming generations of the necessity of taking prompt action; thus instilling the word with a sense of tension.

（来源：新东方在线，编辑：Helen）