2018年12月大学英语四级翻译试题：甲骨文2篇

2018年12月大学英语四级翻译试题：甲骨文2篇

　　第一篇

　　请将下面这段话翻译成英文：

　　甲骨文(oracle bone script)是中国的一种古代文字，被认为是现代汉字的早期形式。甲骨文出现在商朝晚期。当时，王室为了占卜记事而在龟甲或兽骨上契刻文字。这是中国最早的成体系的文字形式，现代汉字就是由甲骨文演变而来。值得一提的是，甲骨文属于象形文字，即利用线条或笔画把物体的外形特征勾画出来。如今，汉字虽然还保留着象形文字的某些特征，但经过数千年的演变，已跟原来的形象相去甚远。

　　参考译文

　　Oracle bone script, a form of ancient Chinese writing, is cosidered an early form of modern Chinese characters. It emerged in the late Shang Dynasty. At that time, royal families carved words on turtle shells or animal bones to keep a record of divination and events. This was China's earliest form of systematic writing, and it was from the oracle bone script that modern Chinese characters evolved. What is worth mentionting is that the oracle bone script belongs to pictograph--the use of lines or strokes to sketch out the appearance or the feature of a physical object. Today, Chinese characters still keep certain features of pictograph, but after thousands of years of evolution, they've becoe very different from their original looks

　　第二篇

　　请将下面这段话翻译成英文：

　　甲骨文是中国的一种古代文字，是汉字的早期形式，也是现存中国王朝时期最古老的一种成熟文字，最早出土于河南省安阳市殷墟，在总共10余万片有字甲骨中，含有4千多不同的文字图形，其中已经识别的约有2800多字。甲骨文记录和反映了商朝的政治和经济情况，主要指中国商朝后期(前14～前11世纪)王室用于占卜吉凶记事而在龟甲或兽骨上契刻的文字，内容一般是占卜所问之事或者是所得结果。

　　参考译文

　　The oracle bone script is an ancient script in China and contains the earliest form of Chinese characters. It is the oldest surviving script from the known dynasties. It was unearthed in Yin ruins of Anyang in Henan Province. Amongst more than 100 thousand oracle bones carved with script, there are more than 4000 different pictographs with more than 2800 recognizable characters. Oracle bone scripts record the political and economic condition of the Shang Dynasty (14BC to 11BC). These typically refer to scripts carved on tortoise shell or animal bones, some of which record the divinations of the royal family of the later Shang Dynasty. They typically contain divination questions and outcomes.

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