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2020年考研英语二翻译原文及参考译文

本页收录2020年考研英语二翻译部分的英文原文、参考译文与逐句对照。考研英语一为篇章下划线句英译汉(5 句、10 分),英语二为整段翻译(15 分),难点集中在长难句拆分与定语从句语序调整。

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese. Write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET. (15 points)

ANSWER SHEET. (15 points) It's almost impossible to go through life without experiencing some kind of failure. People who do so probably live so cautiously that they go nowhere. Put simply, they're not really living at all. But, the wonderful thing about failure is that it's entirely up to us to decide how to look at it. We can choose to see failure as “the end of the world”. Or, we can look at failure as the incredible learning experience that it often is. Every time we fail at something, we can choose to look for the lesson we’re meant to learn. These lessons are very important; they’re how we grow, and how we keep from making that same mistake again. Failures stop us only if we let them. Failure can also teach us things about ourselves that we would never have learned otherwise. For instance, failure can help you discover how strong a person you are. Failing at something can help you discover your truest friends, or help you find unexpected motivation to succeed.
参考译文

人生几乎不可能不经历某种失败。那些从不失败的人,很可能活得过于谨慎,以至于哪里也到不了。简单地说,他们其实根本没有真正生活。但失败的美妙之处在于,我们完全可以自己决定如何看待它。

我们可以选择把失败看成“世界末日”,也可以把失败视为它常常所代表的宝贵学习经历。每当我们在某件事上失败时,都可以选择寻找我们应当从中学到的教训。这些教训非常重要;它们使我们成长,也使我们避免再次犯同样的错误。只有当我们允许失败阻止我们时,失败才会真正阻止我们。

失败还能让我们了解一些否则永远不会知道的关于自己的事情。例如,失败可以帮助你发现自己有多坚强,也可以帮助你发现谁是你真正的朋友,或者帮助你找到意想不到的成功动力。

翻译思路

翻译重点:go through life译为“经历人生”;live so cautiously that they go nowhere译为“过于谨慎以至于毫无进展”;it is entirely up to us表示“完全取决于我们”;incredible learning experience译为“宝贵的学习经历”;keep from doing表示“避免”;otherwise译为“否则/在别的情况下”。