新概念三助你英语六级翻译“一语破的”

2013-06-18 00:00:00 · 作者:编辑部  
2013年6月的英语六级考试已经落下帷幕,面对英语六级,不少学生一直感慨其考点千头万绪,考题千变万化。要想在英语六级考试中脱颖而出,有效提升英语综合实力,抓住考题万变之其宗,才是攻克英语六级考试的核心

  2013年6月的英语六级考试已经落下帷幕,面对英语六级,不少学生一直感慨其考点千头万绪,考题千变万化,因而,不少学子谈之色变,叫苦不迭。要想在英语六级考试中脱颖而出,有效提升英语综合实力,抓住考题万变之其宗,才是攻克英语六级考试的核心。历经时代洗礼的 《新概念英语第三册》一直是大学生们的良师益友,追其根源,在于其难度又恰好与大学六级考试难度相吻合,其中大量的语言点与六级考试的重难点不谋而合,其中的丽句清词,得隽之句,助考生在输出性的翻译写作题型中应对自由,左右逢源。

  下面,笔者就从2013年6月15日的大学英语六级翻译原题入手,分析一下新概念三册中的重要语言点与六级考试考点的内在联系。这次翻译考试的的考点:倒装,被动语态,结果状语从句,主语从句,目的状语的表达方式。这样的语言点在新概念三课本中都能找影子,不得不说,新概念三的句型结构包括了英语六级翻译所有的考点。

  82. ___________(我们刚到山顶)than we all sat down to rest.

  【参考答案】No sooner had we reached the top of the hill

  【考点】no sooner…than… / hardly…when… / scarcely…when…与过去完成时连用,并且当no sooner, hardly, scarcely放句首时,前半句的助动词 had 和主语需要倒装。这一语言点早在新概念二册的第38课就早有提及,新概念二的第79课更是会将英语经常出现的倒装结构进行全面归纳。然而新概念三更是将倒装在英语表达语用的角度演绎到了极致,我们一同品味:

  1) Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well. 这句话中not only提到句首,句子前半部分需要部分倒装。(NCE-3 Lesson 5)

  2)Neither was I surprised when the train stopped at Widley, a tiny station a few miles along the line. 由于neither前置于句首,句中助动词was亦需要前置。(NCE-3 Lesson 37)

  3)Only when he saw that the man was actually telephoning the police

  did he realize that they had all been the victims of a hoax. 该句话中”only+状语”提到句首,助动词did提前。(NCE-3 Lesson 40)

  4)Nor is the city without its moments of beauty. 类似于第二个例子,nor放于句首,构成了倒装形式。(NCE-3 Lesson 41)

  5)So great is our passion for doing things for ourselves, that we are becoming increasingly less dependent on specialized labour. 结果状语从句so/such...that...当“so+名词性结构/such+名词性或副词性结构”放于句首时,so/such引导的从句应当倒装。(NCE-3 Lesson 46)

  83. Anyone driving with a high blood alcohol level ___________ (将被指控为醉驾) and face a severe penalty.

  【参考答案】will be accused of drunk driving

  【考点1】题干中的Anyone driving with a high blood alcohol level,是分词作后置定语的表达方式,这是从新概念三第一课开始,几乎在每一课都有提及。笔者列举几例:

  1)a woman picking blackberries 现在分词作后置定语。 (NCE-3 Lesson 1)

  2)the description given by people 过去分词作后置定语。(NCE-3 Lesson 1)

  3)remains dating from the fifteenth century B.C. 现在分词作后置定语。(NCE-3 Lesson 3)

  这道题目做对与否,认识到这里的分词是作定语,必不可少。因为,这有这样,才知道需要翻译的部分是句子的谓语结构。

  【考点2】此题考点相对明晰简单,为被动语态。我国著名语言学家王力先生曾经说过:“就句子的结构而论,西洋语言是法治的,中国语言是人治的。”(《中国语法理论》,《王力文集》第一卷,第35页,山东教育出版社,1984年),英文是一门法制的语言,多被动,这是在新概念三第三课会着重介绍的“中英文语言对比——英语多被动,汉语多主动。”有了这样的认识,拿到该题,自然轻松应对。同时,值得一提,多用被动语态的意识,也应该贯穿于我们自己的写作之中,会给自己的英语表达平添一些地道的英文色彩。

  84. Many people have become so addicted to online shopping that they ___________ (情不自禁每天都要访问购物网站).

  【参考答案】can’t help themselves visiting shopping websites everyday

  【考点1】这句话是一句典型的结果状语从句,“so + adj./ adv. + that + 从句”或者 “… so that …” 结构,这样的句型结构,在新概念二册的第35课就进行过总结,下面笔者简要列举新三中出现的句子:

  1)The noise had been so faint that no one thought that the ship had

  been damaged. (NCE-3 Lesson 50)

  2)We also make the fundamental error of announcing our resolutions to everybody so that we look even more foolish when we slip back into our bad old ways. (NCE-3 Lesson 50)

  【考点2】“can’t help + doing”这是一个固定常考的动名词结构,常考的动名词结构还有:cannot resist doing sth.和cannot keep from doing sth.这三个结构都是“情不自禁干什么事情”的含义。

  85. You are an executive council member of our organization, so ___________ (你说的话有份量).

  【参考答案】what you said weighs a lot /what you said matters

  【考点1】这是一句结构状语从句与主语从句的套用结构,从句套从句的语言现象,在新概念三中也并不少见:

  1)This exhibition received a great deal of attention in the press, for though the pictures were supposed to be the work of famous artists, they had in fact been painted by Dickie. 这句话属于“原因状语从句套让步状语从句”。 (NCE-3 Lesson 31)

  2)She was sentimentally attached to this house, for even though it was far too big her needs, she persisted in living there long before her husband’s death. 这句话同样属于“原因状语从句套让步状语从句”的结构。 (NCE-3 Lesson 49)

  接触大量的从句套从句现象,对于六级中出现得这种结构也就自然习以为常,不在话下。

  【考点2】主语从句的考核,what you said weighs a lot /what you said matters都是典型的主语从句,这同样是新概念二第58课出现得语言点,我们再来看新概念三中的几个例子:

  1)Whether we find a joke funny or not largely depends on where we have been brought up. (NCE-3 Lesson 29)

  2)Why people are prepared to tolerate a four-hour journey each day for the dubious privilege of living in the country is beyond me. (NCE-3 Lesson 41)

  86. To fully appreciate the author’s motive and intention, you really have to ___________ (仔细从字里行间去解读).

  【参考答案】understand/read carefully between the lines

  【考点1】To do不定式结构放于句首,表示“为了…”,早在新概念二的第59课已经作了详细归纳。

  【考点2】“read between the lines”是我们新概念三教学的核心理念,带领学生品味语言的内涵,读出作者的言外之意,弦外之音。英语中有这样一种说法 “It is not what you said but the way you said it that matters.”。英语中高级阶段,我们关注的不应仅仅只是作者在说什么,更应该是作者没有说什么,以及作者的说话方式。

  通过上述对今年六级考试翻译题的考点的归纳,以及与新概念这套教材的链接,想必大家也一定可以深切体会英语知识的相通性,感受到作者亚历山大先生在将文章内容发散得天马行空之时,紧密呼应的逻辑体系仍旧深深贯穿于整本教材,使得整本书籍前后呼应,相得益彰,这样核心知识点的滚动式出现,让每一个英语学习者受益匪浅,这也就是这个历经半个世纪的老人仍然雄踞各种教材之首的根源所在。最后衷心祝福新概念陪伴每个英语学习者取得梦想,创造辉煌。

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