2001年考研英语翻译真题及答案

2001年考研英语翻译真题及谜底

　Section IV English-Chinese Translation

　　Directions:

Read the following passage carefully and then translate the underlinedsentences into Chinese. Your translation must be written neatly on


ANSWER SHEET2. (15 points)

In less than 30 years’ time the Star Trek holodeck will be a reality.Direct links between the brain’s nervous system and a computer will also createfull sensory virtual environments, allowing virtual vacations like those in thefilm Total Recall.

1) There will be television chat shows hosted by robots, and cars withpollution monitors that will disable them when they offend. 2) Children willplay with dolls equipped with personality chips, computers with in-builtpersonalities will be regarded as workmates rather than tools, relaxation willbe in front of smell-television, and digital age will have arrived.

According to BT’s futurologist, Ian Pearson, these are among thedevelopments scheduled for the first few decades of the new millennium (a periodof 1,000 years), when supercomputers will dramatically accelerate progress inall areas of life.

3) Pearson has pieced together the work of hundreds of researchers aroundthe world to produce a unique millennium technology calendar that gives thelatest dates when we can expect hundreds of key breakthroughs and discoveries totake place. Some of the biggest developments will be in medicine, including anextended life expectancy and dozens of artificial organs coming into use betweennow and 2040.

Pearson also predicts a breakthrough in computer-human links. “By linkingdirectly to our nervous system, computers could pick up what we feel and,hopefully, simulate feeling


too so that we can start to develop full sensoryenvironments, rather like the holidays in Total Recall or the Star Trekholodeck,” he says. 4) But that, Pearson points out, is only the start ofman-machine integration: “It will be the beginning of the long process ofintegration that will ultimately lead to a fully electronic human before the endof the next century.”

Through his research, Pearson is able to put dates to most of thebreakthroughs that can be predicted. However, there are still no forecasts forwhen faster-than-light travel will be available, or when human cloning will beperfected, or when time travel will be possible. But he does expect socialproblems as a result of technological advances. A boom in neighborhoodsurveillance cameras will, for example, cause problems in 2010, while thearrival of synthetic lifelike robots


will mean people may not be able todistinguish between their human friends and the droids. 5) And home applianceswill also become so smart that controlling and operating them will result in thebreakout of a new psychological disorder -- kitchen rage.

谜底解析

　　Section IV: English-Chinese Translation (15 points)

1. 届时，将呈现由呆板人主持的电视谈话节目和装有污染监控器的汽车，一旦这些汽车排污超标(违规)，监控器就会使其停驶。

2. 儿童将与装有个性化芯片的玩具娃娃顽耍，具备个性内置的计较机将被视为事情火伴而不是东西，人们将在气息电视机前休闲，届时数字体期间就来到了。

3. 皮尔森聚集世界各地数百位钻研职员的功效，体例了一个怪异的新技能千年历，它列出了人们有望看到数百项重大冲破和发明的最迟日期。

4. 但皮尔森指出，这个冲破仅仅是人机一体化的起头：“它是人机一体化漫长之路的第一步，终极会令人们在来世纪末以前就研制出彻底电子化的仿真人。”

5. 家用电器将会变得如斯智能化，以致于节制和操作它们会激发一种新的生理疾病-- 厨房狂躁。