2014年考研英語二真題翻譯題型分析

　　分析：眾所周知，英語二與英語一在翻譯題上是有不小的差距的，首先從題型上就與英語一不同，英語二翻譯部分是兩段話的翻譯，具有連貫性，這樣可明顯降低翻譯難度，而英語一是五句話的翻譯，這無疑需要考生聯(lián)系上下文才能準確翻譯出句中的代詞、新詞等。

　　2014年考研英語二翻譯與往年選材新的特點不同，今年的翻譯題選自09年三月份的時代雜志，但依舊保持往年的難度，內(nèi)容貼近生活，易于理解。文章中并沒有特別難理解的句子出現(xiàn)，有一些常見的從句和復(fù)合句，考生只要平時在做《考研真相》和《考研圣經(jīng)》的過程中，多注意書中長難句分析部分，這部分摘錄出真題中長句、難句進行框架分析，考生可以很直觀的理解并學習其中分析句子的能力和翻譯要領(lǐng)，長此以往，英語二的翻譯題部分就基本可以拿到不錯的成績。

　　2014考研英語二真題完型填空文章出處

　　原文出處：時代雜志

　　原文標題：A Primer for Pessimists

　　刊登時間：March, 2009

　　原文節(jié)選：Most people would define optimism as being eternally hopeful, endlessly happy, with a glass that’s perpetually half full. But that’s exactly the kind of false cheerfulness that positive psychologists wouldn’t recommend. “Healthy optimism means being in touch with reality,” says Tal Ben-Shahar, a Harvard professor who taught the university’s most popular course, Positive Psychology, from 2002 to 2008. “It certainly doesn’t mean thinking everything is great and wonderful.”

　　Ben-Shahar, who is the author of Happier and The Pursuit of Perfect, describes realistic optimists an “optimalists”—not those who believe everything happens for the best, but those who make the best of things that happen.

　　In his own life, Ben-Shahar uses three optimalist exercises, which he calls PRP. When he feels down—say, after giving a bad lecture—he grants himself permission (P) to be human. He reminds himself that not every lecture can be a Nobel winner; some will be less effective than others. Next is reconstruction (R). He analyzes the weak lecture, learning lessons for the future about what works and what doesn’t. Finally, there’s perspective (P), which involves acknowledging that in the grand scheme of life, one lecture really doesn’t matter.

　　Studies suggest thatpeople who are able to focus on the positive aspects of a negative event—basically, cope with failure—can protect themselves from the physical toll of stress and anxiety. In a recent study at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), scientists asked a group of women to give a speech in front of a stone-faced audience of strangers. On the first day, all the participants said they felt threatened, and they showed fear hormones. On subsequent days, however, those women who had reported rebounding from a major life crisis in the past no longer felt the same subjective threat over speaking in public. They had learned that this negative event, too, would pass and they would survive. “It’s a back door to the same positive state because people are able to tolerate and accept the negative,” says Elissa Epel, one of the psychologists involved in the study.