2024年5月4日发(作者：)

2021年考研《英语二》翻译答案

Section Ⅲ Translation

ions:

Translate the following text into Chinese. Your translation should be written on

the ANSWER SHEET. (15 points)

A fifth garder gets a homework assignment to select his future career path

from a list of occupations. He ticks “astronaut” but quickly adds “scientist” to

the list and selects it as well. The boy is convinced that if he reads enough. He can

explore as many career paths as he likes. And so he reads—everything from

encyclopedias to science fiction novels. He reads so passionately that his parents

have to institute a “no reading policy”at the dinner table.

That boy was Bill Gates,and he hasn’t stopped reading yet—not even after

becoming one of the most science fiction and reference books; recently, he

revealed that he reads at least so nonfiction books a year. Gates chooses

nonfiction title because they explain how the world works.“Each book opens up

new avenues of knowledge,”Gates says.

【参考译文】

一个五年级的学生需要完成一份作业，作业的内容是要从工作清单中选出自己未来的

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职业。他在“宇航员”那里画了线，但是又很快加上了“科学家”。他相信，如果他读的

书够多，就可以任意选择他所喜欢的职业。所以他读了从百科全书到科幻小说非常多的书。

他对于读书太过于痴迷以至于他的父母不得不制定了在餐桌上“禁止读书政策”。

这个男孩就是比尔盖茨，他至今都没有停止过阅读，即使已经成为世上最成功的人士

之一。如今，他不仅阅读科幻作品和百科丛书：他最近透漏自己一年至少阅读50本非小

说书籍，因为这些书揭秘了世界的运转方式。比尔盖茨说：“每一本书都开辟了探索知识

的新路径”。

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