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笔译作业参考答案

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In the course of the evening they came into the drawing-room, and, as an especial treat, were to sing some of their hymns to me, instead of saying them, so that I might hear how nicely they sang. Ernest was to choose the first hymn, and he chose one about some people who were to come to the sunset tree. I am no botanist, and do not know what kind of tree a sunset tree is, but the words began, "Come, come, come; come to the sunset tree, for the day is past and gone. " The tune was rather pretty and had taken Ernest's fancy, for he was unusually fond of music and had a sweet little child's voice which he liked using.

杨绛先生是名人之女，幼承家学，文学很有功底，能诗。旧日与钱先生颇多赠答酬唱之作。她原在苏州东吴大学攻读政治学，后考取清华大学外文系研究生。因为有创作的天赋，所以选修了中文系朱自清先生的“散文习作”课。杨先生的第一篇小说习作受到朱先生好评，送《大公报》文艺副刊发表，后又被林徽因先生看中，选入《大公报丛刊小说选》。这篇小说发表后，杨先生颇受鼓舞，又写过一些短篇小说。

译文
到了晚上，他们都集中到会客室来，作为对我的一种特殊招待，他们要为我唱几段赞美诗，而不采取朗诵的办法，这样我就可以听听他们唱得是多么好。第一首诗应由欧内斯特来挑选，他选了讲一些人前往日落树下去的那一段。我不是植物学家，完全不知道日落树是什么树，但这首赞美诗的开头是：“去，去，去：去到日落树前，因为这一天已经过去，已经结束。”这首赞美诗的调子十分优美动人，欧内斯特一直很喜欢，他本来就对音乐有特殊爱好，另外，他还有一副他自己也很爱听的非常美的童音。

Yang Jiang was a famous man's daughter receiving her father's instruction and benefiting by his scholarship. In her youth she began to write poems. Later on, after she came to know Qian Zhongshu, they started a pen friendship, exchanging poems, inspiring each other. In her educational career Yang Jiang at first studied political science at Soochow University. Then she transferred to Tsinghua University as a postgraduate and shifted to foreign languages. Prompted by her natural gift, she minored in Chinese prose under Professor Zhu Ziqing. Her first piece of story-writing as a classroom exercise was most favourably received by the professor, who recommended it to Da Gong Bao to be published in the Literary Supplement. Later on Lin Weiyin read it, liked it and contributed it to the Da Gong Bao Collection of Selected Stories. This initial success inspired Yang Jiang to write more stories from time to time.