2018年5月翻譯資格考試三級(jí)筆譯模擬題：阿姆斯特丹

　　英譯漢

　　Strolling beside Amsterdam‟s oldest canals, where buildings carry dates like 1541 and 1603, it is easy to imagine the city‟s prosperity in the 17th century. Replace today‟s bicycles and cars with horse-drawn carts, add more barges on the waterways, and this is essentially how Amsterdam must have looked to Rembrandt as he did his rounds of wealthy merchants.

　　Such musings are not, of course, unprompted. This year, Amsterdam is celebrating the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt‟s birth, and it is hard to escape his shadow. His birthplace in Leiden, 20 miles south, has naturally organized its own festivities. But Amsterdam has two advantages: it boasts the world‟s largest Rembrandt collection — and tourists like to come here anyway.

　　True, anniversaries can be pretty corny, but what city resists them? This year, Amsterdam is competing with Salzburg, where Mozart was born 250 years ago, and Aix-en-Provence, where Cézanne died a century ago. A sign in Amsterdam‟s tourist office by the Central Station hints at one motive for such occasions: “Buy your Rembrandt products here.”

　　Still, if you start off by liking Rembrandt, as I do, there is much to discover. For instance, when in Amsterdam I always make a point of paying homage to the Rembrandt masterpieces in the Rijksmuseum, yet until now I had never bothered to visit Rembrandt House, where the painter lived from 1639 until driven out by bankruptcy in 1658. In brief, I had never much connected his art to his person.

　　Now, at least, I have made a stab at doing so because, for this anniversary (he was born on July 15, 1606), Amsterdam has organized a host of events that offer insights intoRembrandt‟s world. They highlight not only what is known about his life, but also the people he painted and the city he lived in from the age of 25 until his death at 63 in 1669. Although the Rijksmuseum is undergoing a massive renovation through 2009, the museum is not snubbing its favorite son. Throughout the year, in part of the building to be renovated last, it is presenting some 400 paintings and other 17th-century objects representing the

　　Golden Age in which Rembrandt prospered. These include works by Jan Steen, Vermeer and Frans Hals as well as by Rembrandt and his pupils. And they climax with Rembra ndt‟s largest and best known oil, “The Night Watch,” itself the focus of “Nightwatching,” a light and sound installation by the British movie director and Amsterdam resident, Peter Greenaway.

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　　阿姆斯特丹古老的運(yùn)河旁矗立著許多年代久遠(yuǎn)的老建筑，在這里(甚至)能看到 1541年和 1603 年修建的建筑。沿著這些運(yùn)河徜徉漫步，人們不禁會(huì)浮想：17 世紀(jì)的阿姆斯特丹該是何等的繁華!當(dāng)年倫布朗在這里為富商巨賈作畫，他眼中的阿姆斯特丹想必是馬車熙攘，駁船如織，一派繁忙景象，而今天的阿姆斯特丹則是自行車和汽車的天下，河道水運(yùn)已不復(fù)往昔。

　　當(dāng)然，產(chǎn)生這種聯(lián)想對(duì)比自有緣由。今年恰逢倫布朗 400 周年誕辰紀(jì)念，阿姆斯特丹到處都有倫布朗的“身影”。作為倫布朗的出生地、位于阿姆斯特丹以南 20 英里的萊頓也舉辦了各種紀(jì)念活動(dòng)。不過，阿姆斯特丹的紀(jì)念活動(dòng)有兩大優(yōu)勢(shì)：一是這里關(guān)于倫布朗的收藏品是世界上最多的，二是阿姆斯特丹本身就是旅游勝地。誠(chéng)然，周年紀(jì)念活動(dòng)難免落入俗套，但又有哪個(gè)城市能抵制住誘惑呢?今年除了阿姆斯特丹的倫布朗周年紀(jì)念活動(dòng)，還有薩爾斯堡的莫扎特 250 周年紀(jì)念活動(dòng)以及艾克司

　　普羅旺司的塞尚逝世百年祭活動(dòng)。在中央車站附近的阿姆斯特丹旅游辦公室里有一個(gè)貼士，曰：“可在此購買倫布朗紀(jì)念品，”可以說為此類紀(jì)念活動(dòng)一語道破天機(jī)。不過，如果你同我一樣是倫布朗的擁躉者，那么，此時(shí)到訪阿姆斯特丹還是很有意義的/也肯定不虛此行。比如，以前只要到阿姆斯特丹，我都會(huì)專程去國(guó)立博物館欣賞倫布朗的杰作，然而，我之前從沒有想過要去參觀倫布朗故居。倫布朗從 1639 年起開始在這里居住，一直

　　到 1639 年因破產(chǎn)而不得不搬離此地�？傊�，此前我從沒有將倫布朗的藝術(shù)創(chuàng)作與其個(gè)人生活聯(lián)系在一起。倫布朗出生于 1606 年 7 月 15 日，阿姆斯特丹為他舉辦的一系列誕辰紀(jì)念活動(dòng)向人們展示了倫布朗的個(gè)人世界，我也得以開始嘗試了解這位藝術(shù)巨匠的私人生活。倫布朗從 25 歲開始直到他 63 歲(1669 年)去世一直生活在阿姆斯特丹。紀(jì)念活動(dòng)不僅展示了早已為人所知的倫布朗的個(gè)人生活，而且還突出展示了倫布朗畫作中相關(guān)人物的背景以及他生活過的這座城市的舊有風(fēng)貌。國(guó)立博物館現(xiàn)正進(jìn)行大修，要到 2009 年才能完工，不過倫布朗作為該博物館的寵兒并未受到冷落。該博物館分段進(jìn)行翻修，按計(jì)劃暫不翻修的區(qū)域全年都將展示 17 世紀(jì)倫

　　布朗發(fā)跡的那個(gè)黃金時(shí)代的約 400 幅畫作和其他代表作品，其中包括揚(yáng)·斯滕、韋梅爾、弗朗斯·哈爾斯以及倫布朗的名作，還有倫布朗學(xué)生的一些畫作。鎮(zhèn)館之寶當(dāng)屬倫布朗的巨幅名作、油畫《夜巡》�，F(xiàn)居阿姆斯特丹的英國(guó)電影導(dǎo)演彼得 ·格林納威的電影《夜巡》就是圍繞倫布朗的這幅名作而展開的。

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