2021年12月四级第2套选词填空原文翻译及答案解析

Questions __26__ to __35__ are based on the following passage.

精确的问题基于以下段落。

It is commonly believed that the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564. But it is impossible to know the __26__ day on which he was born.

人们普遍认为，伟大的英国剧作家兼诗人威廉·莎士比亚于1564年4月23日出生在埃文河畔的斯特拉特福。但无法确切知道他出生的具体日期。

Church records show he was baptized (施洗礼) on April __26__, and three days was a customary amount of time to wait before baptizing a newly born baby. Shakespeare's date of death is __27__ known, however: it was April 23, 1616. He was 52 and had retired to Stratford three years before.

教堂记录显示他于4月exact日受洗，而三天是新生儿受洗前通常等待的时间。然而，莎士比亚的去世日期是确切已知的：1616年4月23日。他当时52岁，三年前已退休回到斯特拉特福。

Although few plays have been performed or analyzed as extensively as the 38 plays Shakespeare wrote, there are few surviving details about his life. This __28__ of biographical information is due primarily to his social __29__; he was not a noble, but the son of a leather trader.

尽管很少有戏剧像莎士比亚创作的38部戏剧那样被广泛演出或分析，但关于他生平的现存细节却很少。这种传记信息的匮乏主要是由于他的社会地位；他不是贵族，而是一个皮革商人的儿子。

Shakespeare __30__ attended the grammar school in Stratford, where he would have studied Latin and read __31__ literature. He did not go to university and at age 18 married Anne Hathaway, who was eight years his __32__. They had four children, including the twins, Hamnet and Judith. Nothing is known of the period between the birth of the twins and Shakespeare's __33__ as a dramatist in London in the early 1590s.

莎士比亚可能就读于斯特拉特福的文法学校，在那里他学习了拉丁语并阅读了古典文学。他没有上大学，18岁时娶了比他大八岁的安妮·海瑟薇。他们有四个孩子，包括双胞胎哈姆尼特和朱迪丝。关于从双胞胎出生到莎士比亚在1590年代初作为剧作家出现在伦敦之间的时期，没有任何记录。

In a million words written over 20 years, he __34__ the full range of human emotions and conflicts with a __35__ that remains sharp today. As his great contemporary the poet and dramatist Ben Jonson said, "He was not of an age, but for all time.

在20年里创作的一百万字中，他以至今仍然犀利的精确度呈现了人类情感和冲突的全部范围。正如他伟大的同时代人、诗人兼剧作家本·琼森所说：'他不属于一个时代，而属于所有时代。'