第 1 頁:Section I Use of English |
第 2 頁:Section II Reading Comprehension |
第 6 頁:Part B |
第 7 頁:Part C |
第 8 頁:Section III Writing |
Part C
Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)
Shakespeare’s life time was coincident with a period of extraordinary activity and achievement in the drama.(46) By the date of his birth Europe was witnessing the passing of the religious drama, and the creation of new forms under the incentive of classical tragedy and comedy. These new forms were at first mainly written by scholars and performed by amateurs, but in England, as everywhere else in western Europe, the growth of a class of professional actors was threatening to make the drama popular, whether it should be new or old, classical or medieval, literary or farcical. Court, school organizations of amateurs, and the traveling actors were all rivals in supplying a widespread desire for dramatic entertainment; and (47) no boy who went a grammar school could be ignorant that the drama was a form of literature which gave glory to Greece and Rome and might yet bring honor to England.
When Shakespeare was twelve years old, the first public playhouse was built in London. For a time literature showed no interest in this public stage. Plays aiming at literary distinction were written for school or court, or for the choir boys of St. Paul’s and the royal chapel, who, however, gave plays in public as well as at court.(48) but the professional companies prospered in their permanent theaters, and university men with literature ambitions were quick to turn to these theaters as offering a means of livelihood. By the time Shakespeare was twenty-five, Lyly, Peele, and Greene had made comedies that were at once popular and literary; Kyd had written a tragedy that crowded the pit; and Marlowe had brought poetry and genius to triumph on the common stage - where they had played no part since the death of Euripides. (49) A native literary drama had been created, its alliance with the public playhouses established, and at least some of its great traditions had been begun.
The development of the Elizabethan drama for the next twenty-five years is of exceptional interest to students of literary history, for in this brief period we may trace the beginning, growth, blossoming, and decay of many kinds of plays, and of many great careers. We are amazed today at the mere number of plays produced, as well as by the number of dramatists writing at the same time for this London of two hundred thousand inhabitants. (50)To realize how great was the dramatic activity, we must remember further that hosts of plays have been lost, and that probably there is no author of note whose entire work has survived.
【參考譯文】
46.到莎士比亞出生的年代,歐洲經(jīng)歷了宗教戲劇的消亡,以及在古典悲劇和喜劇的影響下新的戲劇形式的產(chǎn)生。
47. 每個(gè)進(jìn)入文法學(xué)校學(xué)習(xí)的少年都知道戲劇是一種文學(xué)形式,這種文學(xué)形式賦予希臘和羅馬以榮耀,并且可能給英國帶來榮耀。
48. 但是這些專業(yè)公司在其永久劇院中興起來了,進(jìn)而,一些有文學(xué)抱負(fù)的大學(xué)生很快投身到這些當(dāng)作謀生手段的劇院中。
49. 這些文學(xué)巨匠創(chuàng)造出了具有本土特色的文學(xué)戲劇,并使其與公共劇場結(jié)盟起來,至少一些偉大的傳統(tǒng)已經(jīng)開始了。
50. 為了認(rèn)識到戲劇行為的偉大性,我們必須進(jìn)一步牢記許多戲劇形式已經(jīng)消失了,而且可能沒有一位著名作家的全部作品得以存留至今。
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