1、2022 考研英语一强化课程翻译122 考研英语一考研英语一强化强化翻译翻译例例 1：2010 年年One basic weakness in a conservation system based wholly on economic motivesis that most members of the land community have no economic value.Yet thesecreatures are members of the biotic community and,if its stability depends on itsintegrity,they are
2、 entitled to continuance.When one of these noneconomic categories is threatened and,if we happen tolove it.We invert excuses to give it economic importance.At the beginning of centurysongbirds were supposed to be disappearing.（46）Scientists jumped to the rescuewith some distinctly shaky evidence to
3、the effect that insects would eat us up if birdsfailed to control them.The evidence had to be economic in order to be valid.It is painful to read these round about accounts today.We have no land ethicyet,（47）but we have at least drawn near the point of admitting that birds shouldcontinue as a matter
4、 of intrinsic right,regardless of the presence or absence ofeconomic advantage to us.A parallel situation exists in respect of predatory mammals and fish-eating birds.（48）Time was when biologists somewhat over worded the evidence that thesecreatures preserve the health of game by killing the physica
5、lly weak,or that they preyonly on worthless species.Some species of tree have been read out of the party by economics-mindedforesters because they grow too slowly,or have too low a sale vale to pay as timbercrops.（49）In Europe,where forestry is ecologically more advanced,thenon-commercial tree speci
6、es are recognized as members of native forest community,to be preserved as such,within reason.2022 考研英语一强化课程翻译2To sum up:a system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest ishopelessly lopsided.（50）It tends to ignore,and thus eventually to eliminate,manyelements in the land community th
7、at lack commercial value,but that are essential toits healthy functioning.It assumes,falsely,I think,that the economic parts of thebiotic clock will function without the uneconomic parts.例例 2:2011 年年(46)Allens contribution was to take an assumption we all share-that becausewe are not robots we there
8、fore control our thoughts-and reveal its erroneous nature.(47)while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the consciousmind alone,in reality we are continually faced with a question:“Why cannot I makemyself do this or achieve that?”2022 考研英语一强化课程翻译3(48)This seems a justification
9、for neglect of those in need,and a rationalizationof exploitation,of the superiority of those at the top and the inferiority of those at thebottom.(49)circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us and if we feelthat we have been“wronged”then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort toescape from our situation.(50)The upside is the possibilities contained in knowing that everything is up tous;where before we were experts in the array of limitations,now we becomeauthorities of what is possible.
