考研命題人張劍教授解析2012年考研真題(四)
第四部分：閱讀理解(Part C 英譯漢)
2012年全國碩士研究生入學(xué)考試英語試題分析
Part C
Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)
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Gray and his colleagues have put them to the test by examining four family trees that between them represent more than 2,000 languages. (50) Chomsky’s grammar should show patterns of language change that are independent of the family tree or the pathway tracked through it, whereas Greenbergian universality predicts strong co-dependencies between particular types of word-order relations. Neither of these patterns is borne out by the analysis, suggesting that the structures of the languages are Line age — specific and not governed by universals。
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50. 喬姆斯基的語法應(yīng)該顯示出語言變化的模式，這些模式并不受語言譜系或貫穿譜系的路徑的影響；而格林堡的普遍性原則卻預(yù)言了特定的語法詞序關(guān)系類型之間所存在的緊密互依性。
【注釋】 本句是whereas引導(dǎo)的并列句，前后是轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系。1)主句的結(jié)構(gòu)是“簡單句 + 定語從句”。 patterns of language change that are independent of…，可譯為“獨立于……的語言變化模式”。其中，family tree指“語言譜系”，而不是“族譜”；pathway指的是語言的“發(fā)展路徑”。2)后半句中的whereas譯為 “而……”，co-dependencies意為“緊密互依性”。Particular types of word-order relations意為“特定的語法詞序關(guān)系類型”。總體上講，文章的話題較偏，涉及語言學(xué)和語言史。對于學(xué)習(xí)語言學(xué)的同學(xué)比較有利，因為他們知道喬姆斯基和格林堡等人，以及他們的理論。而對于廣大理工科學(xué)生而言，可能文章有一定難度。
