213年春季上海中高級(jí)口譯考試于今日3月17日開考，滬江英語在考后第一時(shí)間提供真題、解析、答案信息，本文為2013年3月高級(jí)口譯英譯漢答案 ，由滬江網(wǎng)校提供。

SECTION 3: TRANSLATION TEST

American mythology loves nothing more than the reluctant hero: the man -- it is usually a man -- whose natural talents have destined him for more than obliging obscurity. George Washington, we are told, was a leader who would have preferred to have been a farmer. Thomas Jefferson, a writer. Martin Luther King, Jr., a preacher. These men were roused from lives of perfunctory achievement, our legends have it, not because they chose their own exceptionalism, but because we, the people, chose it for them. We -- seeing greatness in them that they were too humble to observe themselves -- conferred on them uncommon paths.?Historical circumstance became its own call of duty, and the logic of democracy proved itself through the answer.

Neil Armstrong was a hero of this stripe: constitutionally humble, circumstantially noble. Nearly every obituary written for him has made a point of emphasizing his sense of privacy, his sense of humility, his sense of the ironic ordinary. And yet every aspect of Armstrong’s life made clear: On that day in 1969, he acted on our behalf, out of a sense of mission that was communal rather than personal. The reluctant hero is also the self-sacrificing hero.

【參考譯文】

美國神話最愛的莫過于不情愿的英雄：天賦注定他無法默默無聞。據(jù)說，領(lǐng)袖喬治·華盛頓其實(shí)更愿意當(dāng)農(nóng)民，托馬斯·杰斐遜寧愿當(dāng)個(gè)作家，而馬丁·路德·金更想當(dāng)一名傳教士。我們的傳奇故事里說，這些人之所以能脫離平庸，不是因?yàn)樗麄冞x擇卓越，而是因?yàn)槲覀儭癖姟獮樗麄冏龀隽诉x擇。他們因?yàn)樘^謙卑而看不到自己的偉大之處，而我們發(fā)現(xiàn)了，于是賦予了他們不平凡的道路。歷史機(jī)緣成為使命的召喚，而民主的邏輯通過答案證明了自身。

尼爾·阿姆斯特朗就屬于這類英雄：本性謙卑，因?yàn)榫秤龆哔F。幾乎每篇訃告都強(qiáng)調(diào)他的隱私意識(shí)、謙卑意識(shí)和平凡意識(shí)——一種具有諷刺意味的“平凡”。但是，阿姆斯特朗生活的方方面面都表明：1969年的那一天，他為我們而行動(dòng)，他的行為出于社會(huì)使命感而非個(gè)人意愿。不情愿的英雄也是自我犧牲的英雄。

【評(píng)析】

本篇題目取材自《What Died With Neil Armstrong》by Megan Garber, 難度適中，中心話題是“阿姆斯特朗離世造成的英雄文化轉(zhuǎn)變”。這個(gè)話題還是大家比較熟悉的，因此理解不難。

文中出現(xiàn)了一些名人和事跡介紹，大家在平時(shí)英語學(xué)習(xí)中注意積累。

關(guān)鍵詞：

reluctant 不情愿的

obscurity 身份低微

exceptionalism ?例外主義

communal 公共的