今日命题：
暮色中，河湾里落满云霞，与天际的颜色混合一起，分不清哪是流云哪是水湾。
也就在这一幅绚烂的图画旁边，在河湾之畔，一群羊正在低头觅食。它们几乎没有一个顾得上抬起头来，看一眼这美丽的黄昏。也许它们要抓紧时间，在即将回家的最后一刻再次咀嚼。这是黄河滩上的一幕。牧羊人不见了，他不知在何处歇息。只有这些美生灵自由自在地享受着这个黄昏。这儿水草肥美，让它们长得肥滚滚的，像些胖娃娃。如果走近了，会发现它们那可爱的神情，洁白的牙齿，那丰富而单纯的表情。如果稍稍长久一点端详这张张面庞，还会生出无限的怜悯。（出自大学英语专业八级考试命题）


我的翻译：
Against the twilight, the combined colors of rosy clouds and horizon drop into the rivers confuse one's vision to distinguish between the clouds and the ponds. It is beside this picture with profusions of colors that a flock of sheep are lowering their heads feeding by the riverside. Hardly not a one of them would care to raise and take a moment's delight in the picturesque dusk. They are, perhaps, taking use of every second to enjoy their last chew before taking leave. This is a scene of the Yellow River bank in which the shepherd disappears leaving no hints as to where he is resting himself. Only the sheep, however, are gleefully rejoicing the dusk. The succulent weeds have provided the sheep with over-sufficient nutritions that make them grow as plump as dolls. Approaching near them, you would subconsciously take note of their lily-white teeth and a variety of innocent expressions on their faces which would fill your heart with adoration if you stare them still longer. 

专八考这个啊····本人表示有压力

今日命题：
都市寸土千金，地价炒得越来越高，今后将更高。拥有一个小小花园的希望，对寻常之辈不啻是一种奢望，一种梦想。
我想，其实谁都有一个小小花园，这便是我们的内心世界。人的智力需要开发，人的内心世界也是需要开发的。人和动物的区别，除了众所周知的诸多方面，恐怕还在于人有内心世界。心不过是人的一个重要脏器，而内心世界是一种景观，它是由外部世界不断地作用于内心渐渐形成的。每个人都无比关注自己及至亲至爱之人心脏的渐损，以至于稍有微疾便惶惶不可终日。但并非每个人都关注自己及至亲至爱之人的内心世界的阴晴。（选自英语专业八级英语考题）

我的翻译： As every inch of land in urban areas is worth much and land price is soaring at such a high speed that it will presumbly grow still higher in the days to come, to owe a small garden has become more and more a matter of extravagence.
In my mind, however, everyone is sure to have a small flower bed of his own, namely, our inner world. There is a need for human beings to exploit fully their intelligence as is the case with their inner world. Perhaps what really distinguishes between men and animals, apart from diverse prospects which are commonly known, lies in that human beings have an inner world which animals don't have. Heart is in effect no more than an important organ whereas the inner world constitutes a landscape which gradually takes its form under the constant influence from the outside world. So great is the importance that everyone attaches to the conditions of his heart and those of his closet that once an inconsequent tremble of the heart would lead him to enduring anxiety. But of course not every one pays that much attention to the imperceptible change of his heart and that of his beloved ones. 

今日命题：
     中国民族自古以来从不把人看作高于一切，在哲学文艺方面的表现都反映出人在自然界中与万物占着一个比例较为恰当的地位，而非绝对统治万物的主宰。因此我们的苦闷，基本上比西方人为少为小；因为苦闷的强弱原是随欲望与野心的大小而转移的。农业社会的人比工业社会的人享受差得多，因此欲望也小得多。况中国古代素来以不滞于物，不为物役为最主要的人生哲学。并非我们没有守财奴，但比起莫里哀与巴尔扎克笔下的守财奴与野心家来，就小巫见大巫了。中国民族多数是性情中正和平、淡泊、朴实，比西方人容易满足。（选自英语专业八级英语考题）


我的翻译：
Chinese people have never, since ancient times, regarded mortal beings as the highest of all creatures whose reflection takes a proportion with all others on earth in both respects of philosophy and arts, but not as an absolute dominator. Therefore, our agitation and dismay, the intensity of which usually grows with the expansion of one's desire and ambition,are much less that those of the westerners. Since people in rural society took far less material enjoyment in life than people in industry society, their needs are comparatively less. In addition, ancient Chinese took the motto of "not confined nor driven by material" as the philosophy of life. It doesn't mean that we lack moneygrubbers but that they would have been dwarfed when compared with those similar characters moulded by Moliere and Balzac. Most of the Chinese are of mild, content and guileless disposition so that they can be easily satisfied than western people. 

今日命题：
一个人的生命究竟有多大意义，这有什么标准可以衡量吗？提出一个绝对的标准当然很困难；但是，大体上看一个人对待生命的态度是否严肃认真，看他对待劳动、工作等等的态度如何，也就不难对这个人的存在意义做出适当的估计了。
古来一切有成就的人，都很严肃地对待自己的生命，当他活着一天，总要尽量多劳动、多工作、多学习，不肯虚度年华，不让时间白白地浪费掉。我国历代的劳动人民及大政治家、大思想家等等都莫不如此。

我的翻译
Are there any standards available on measuring the significance of one's life?   Hard pressed as it is to put forward an absolute one, it will not be so to estimate the very meaning of it by simply how one treats his life and whether he takes an positive attitude towards life.
Throughout ages, the accomplished men and women,almost without exception,take their lives seriously. As long as they live in this world, they devote themselves wholeheartedly to work and study than let time slip by in vain. The same is true of the common laborers,politicians and thinkers of our great country at all ages.

今日命题： 在人际关系问题上我们不要太浪漫主义。人是很有趣的，往往在接触一个人时首先看到的都是他或她的优点。这一点颇像是在餐馆里用餐的经验。开始吃头盘或冷碟的时候，印象很好。吃头两个主菜时，也是赞不绝口。愈吃愈趋于冷静，吃完了这顿宴席，缺点就都找出来了。于是转喜为怒，转赞美为责备挑剔，转首肯为摇头。这是因为，第一，开始吃的时候你正处于饥饿状态，而饿了吃糠甜如蜜，饱了吃蜜也不甜。第二，你初到一个餐馆，开始举筷时有新鲜感，新盖的茅房三天香，这也可以叫做“陌生化效应”吧。


我的翻译（今天这篇有点难）：In terms of interpersonal relations, we should avoid being too romantic. Human beings are really funny in that their attention is prone to be drawn to the merits of a new acquaintance. This tendency may be compared to the experience of dining in a new restaurant where you will be greatly impressed by the cold dish and then the first few courses can also be appreciated. However the more you eat the more sober you become until when the dinner ends up with all the flaws exposed. In consequence, your joy would give way to anger; your praise to criticism; your approval to dissatisfaction. The reasons for such a reversal are as follows: In the first place as you start eating you are in hunger, and chaff tastes sweet as honey and vice versa. Secondly, upon lifting your chopsticks in a new restaurant, you were overwhelmed by the feeling of freshness as was mocked in the saying that a newly-built latrine smells good." This can be called "the de-familiarization effect". 

今日命题：在得病以前，我受父母宠爱，在家中横行霸道，一旦隔离，拘禁在花园山坡上一幢小房子里，顿感被打入冷宫，十分郁郁不得志起来。一个春天的傍晚，园中百花怒放，父母在园中设宴，霎时宾客云集，笑语四溢。我在山坡的小屋里，悄悄掀起窗帘，窥见园中大千世界，一片喧闹。自己的哥姐，堂表弟兄，也穿插其间，个个喜气洋洋。一霎时，一阵被人摈弃，为世所遗忘的悲愤兜上心头，禁不住痛哭起来。