2013年暨南大学211翻译硕士英语考研试题（回忆版）

2013年暨南大学211翻译硕士英语考研试题（回忆版）

第一篇英译汉的文章，我查了一下 应该是这一篇 想看汉语翻译的自己去网上搜，很容易找到

Love Is Not Like Merchandise

By Sydney J.Harris

A reader in Florida, apparently bruised by some personal experience, writes in to complain, “If I steal a nickel’s worth of merchandise, I am a thief and punished; but if I steal the love of another’s wife, I am free.”

This is a prevalent misconception in many people’s minds---that love, like merchandise, can be “stolen”. Numerous states, in fact, have enacted laws allowing damages for “alienation of affections”.

But love is not a commodity; the real thing cannot be bought, sold, traded or stolen. It is an act of the will, a turning of the emotions, a change in the climate of the personality.

When a husband or wife is “stolen” by another person, that husband or wife was already ripe for the stealing, was already predisposed toward a new partner. The “love bandit” was only taking what was waiting to be taken, what wanted to be taken.

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