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      考研英语一翻译题，是英语一试卷题型中容易得分的题。2020考研学子，在暑期备考英语一翻译题时，应以历年考研英语一真题来训练。下面，北京文都考研网为帮助英语一考生快速提升翻译能力，特意整理出2013年考研英语(一)翻译真题及解析，供考生参考。

2013年考研英语(一)翻译真题及解析

It is speculated that gardens arise from a basic need in the individuals who made them: the need for creative expression. There is no doubt that gardens evidence an impossible urge to create, express, fashion, and beautify and that self-expression is a basic human urge; (46) Yet when one looks at the photographs of the garden created by the homeless, it strikes one that , for all their diversity of styles, these gardens speak of various other fundamental urges, beyond that of decoration and creative expression.

One of these urges had to do with creating a state of peace in the midst of turbulence, a “still point of the turning world,” to borrow a phrase from T. S. Eliot. (47)A sacred place of peace, however crude it may be, is a distinctly human need, as opposed to shelter, which is a distinctly animal need. This distinction is so much so that where the latter is lacking, as it is for these unlikely gardens, the former becomes all the more urgent. Composure is a state of mind made possible by the structuring of one’s relation to one’s environment. (48) The gardens of the homeless, which are in effect homeless gardens, introduce form into an urban environment where it either didn’t exist or was not discernible as such. In so doing they give composure to a segment of the inarticulate environment in which they take their stand.

Another urge or need that these gardens appear to respond to, or to arise from is so intrinsic that we are barely ever conscious of its abiding claims on us. When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, (49) most of us give into a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological conditions, until one day we find ourselves in garden and feel the expression vanish as if by magic. In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call arrangement of materials, an institution of colors, small pool of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals. On display here are various fantasy elements whose reference, at some basic level, seems to be the natural world.

(50) It is this implicit or explicit reference to nature that fully justifies the use of word garden, though in a “liberated” sense, to describe these synthetic constructions. In them we can see basophilic- a yearning for contact with nonhuman life-assuming uncanny representational forms.

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(46)然而，只要看看无家可归者所建造的花园的照片，你就会突然意识到，尽管样式各异，但这些花园除了表达(人类)装饰和创造的需求之外，更体现了人类很多其他的根本需求。

(47) 一片安宁的圣地，无论多么粗陋，体现的是人类特有的需求，它与庇护所之所不同，后者反映的是动物特有的需求。

(48) 无家可归者的花园实质上就是无定所的花园，它们将其“形式”引入都市环境中，而这种“形式”以前在都市环境中要么不存在，要么不那么容易辨识。

(49) 我们大多数人通常把陷入精神颓丧归咎 于某些心理疾病,直到有一天置身花园,才顿觉压抑感神奇地消失了。

(50) 正是这种对自然界或含蓄或明确的参考,充分印证了用“花园”一词描述这些人造建筑的合理性,尽管那是通过开放的感官感受到的“花园”。

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