2012考研英语考前预测之翻译
Part C
Directions:
Read the following textcarefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Yourtranslation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)
There is no question thatscience-fiction writers have become more ambitious, stylistically andthematically, in recent years. (46) But this may have less to do with theluring call of academic surroundings than with changing market conditions—afactor that academic critics rarely take into account. Robert Silverberg, aformer president of The Science Fiction Writers of America, is one of the mostprolific professionals in a field dominated by people who actually write for aliving. (Unlike mystery or Western writers, most science-fiction writers cannotexpect to cash in on fat movie sales or TV tie-ins.) (47) Still in his latethirties, Silverberg has published more than a hundred books, and he isdisarmingly frank about the relationship between the quality of genuine proseand the quality of available outlet. By his own account, he was “anannoyingly verbal young man” from Brooklyn who picked up his firstscience-fiction book at the age of ten, started writing seriously at the age ofthirteen, and at seventeen nearly gave up in despair over his inability tobreak into the pulp magazines. (48) At his parents’ urging, he enrolled inColumbia University, so that, if worst came to worst, he could always go to theSchool of Journalism and “get a nice steady job somewhere”. During hissophomore year, he sold his first science-fiction story to a Scottish magazinenamed Nebula. By the end of his junior year, he had sold a novel and twentymore stories. (49) By the end of his senior year, he was earning two hundreddollars a week writing science fiction, and his parents were reconciled to hispursuit of the literary life. “I became very cynical very quickly,” hesays. First I couldn’t sell anything, then I could sell everything. The marketplayed to my worst characteristics. An editor of a schlock magazine would callup to tell me he had a ten-thousand-word hole to fill in his next issue. I’dfill it overnight for a hundred and fifty dollars. I found that rewriting madeno difference. (50) I knew I could not possibly write the kinds of things Iadmired as a reader—Joyce, Kafka, Mann—so I detached myself from my work. Iwas a phenomenon among my friends in college, a published, selling author. Butthey always asked, “When are you going to do something serious?” —meaningsomething that wasn’t science fiction—and I kept telling them, “ When I’mfinancially secure.”
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