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2010年考研英语翻译试题及答案

one basic weakness in a comservation system based wholly one economic

motives is that most members of the ity have no economic

these ereatures are members of the biotic community and ,if its stability depends

on its inteyrity,they are entitled to continuance。

When one of these noneconomic categories is threatened and,if we happen to

love it .we invert excuses to give it economic the beginning of

century songbiras were supposed to be disappearing。(46scinentists jumped to the

resure with some distimctly shaky evidence to the effect that insects would eat us

up of birds failed to control them)，the evideuce had to be conbmic in order to be

valid。

It is pamful to read these round about accounts today .we have no land ethic

yet ,(47but we have at least drawn near the point of admitting that birds should

continue as a matter of intrinsic right,regardless of the presence or absence of

economic advantage to us)

A panallel situation exists in respect of predatory mamals and fish-eating

birds 。(48time was when biologists somewhat over worded the evidence that

these creatures preserve the health of game by killing the physically weak,or that

they prey only on “worthless species)

Some species of tree have been read out of the party by economics-minded

foresters because they grow too slowly .or have too low a sale vale to pay as

imeber crops (49in europe ,where forestry is ecologically more advanced ,the

ncommercial tree species are recognized ad members of native forest

community ,to be preserved as such ,within reason)

To sum up:a system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest is

hopelessly lopsided。(50It tends to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate, many

elements in the land community that lack commercial value, but that are essential

to its healthy functioning。)without the uneconomic pats。

2010年考研英语翻译之英译汉答案

46.科学家们赶紧拿出某些明显站不住脚的证据前来救驾，大致说的是如果鸟儿不能控

制害虫的话，害虫就会把我们吃掉。

47.但是我们至少已经几乎承认了这样一种观点：那就是鸟儿的生存是它们的固有权利，

不管它对我们是否有经济利益。

48.

曾几何时，生物学家总是重述以下的这条证据：这些生物是为了维持食物链的正常运

行去捕食弱小的生物或“没有价值的物种”。

49在生态林业较为先进的欧洲，没有成为商业化对象的树种被视为原始森林群落的成

员适当地加以保护。