2017年翻譯資格考試catti高級口譯模擬試題（11）

　　【中譯英】

　　他在父親的教導下“發(fā)憤用功”，其實他讀書還是出于喜好，只似饞嘴佬貪吃美食：食腸很大，不擇精粗，甜咸雜進。極俗的書他也能看得哈哈大笑。戲曲里的插科打諢，他不僅且看且笑，還一再搬演，笑得打跌。精微深奧的哲學、美學、文藝理論等大部著作，他像小兒吃零食那樣吃了又吃，厚厚的書一本本漸次吃完，詩歌更是他喜好的讀物。重得拿不動的大詞典、辭典、百科全書等，他不僅挨著字母逐條細讀，見了新版本，還不嫌其煩的把新條目增補在舊書上。他看書常做些筆記。

　　【參考譯文】

　　Though he “made a determined effort to study” under his father’s preaching, he studied out of his own interest. He was just like an gourmet greatly attached to delicate food. Coarse and delicate, sweet and bitter, could well go into his enormous stomach. Similarly, he would burst into an uproar while reading low-brow books. He would chuckle while watching farcical parts in folk operas and even laugh out of his balance and imitate them again and again. As for refined and sophisticated works, either philosophical, aesthetical works or theoretical books of literature and arts, he would read them over and over, as kids licking their candies As a result, he finished reading those thick books one by one. Poetry was his favorite. If it were dictionaries, glossaries, encyclopedias which were too heavy to move, he would read them entry by entry, line by line. If there were any new version which he happened to come across, he would never get tired of squeezing the new entry into the old ones. He used to make notes while reading.