英語專八考前最後的衝刺:翻譯自測

section a chinese to english

translate the following text into english.write your translation on answer sheet three.

人生是什麼?人生的真相如何?人生的意義何在?人生的目的是何?這些人生最重大最中心的問題,不只是古來一切大宗教家哲學家所殫精竭慮以求解答的。世界上第一流的大詩人凝神冥想,深人靈魂的幽邃,於一朵花中窺見天國,一滴露水參悟生命,然後用他們生花之筆,幻現層層世界,幕幕人生,歸根也不外乎啟示這生命的真相與意義。

section b english to chinese

translate the following underlined part of the text into chinese. write your translation on answer sheet three.

the pale sun burned away the morning chill and the clinging dampness, revealing a gigantic silent world. enormous trees with minks forty, feet in diameter rose two hundred feet overhead, where they spread their dense leafy canopy, blocking out the sky and perpetually dripping water to the ground below. curtains of gray moss, and the creepers and lianas, hung down in a tangle from the trees; parasitic orchids sprouted from the trunks.

at ground level, huge ferns, gleaming with moisture, grew higher than a man’s chest and held the low ground fog. here and there was a spot of color: the red acanthema blossoms, which were deadly poison, and the blue dicindra vine, which only opened in early morning. but the basic impression was of a vast, oversized, gray-green world- an alien place inhospitable to man.

jan kroger put aside his rifle and stretched his stiff muscles. dawn came quickly at the equator; soon it was quite light, although the mist remained.