2012 年攻读浙江财经学院硕士学位研究生入学考试试题
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Part One Translation (90 points)
I. Put the English passage into Chinese (45 points).
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 “lovebandit” was only taking what was waiting to be taken, what wanted to
be taken.
We tend to treat persons like goods. We ever speak of children “belonging”
to their parents. But nobody “belongs” to anyone else; each person belongs to
himself, and to God. Children are entrusted to their parents, and if their parents
do not treat them properly, the state has a right to remove from their parents’
trusteeship.
Most of us, when young, had the experience of a sweetheart being taken
from us by somebody more attractive and more appealing. At the time, we may
have resented this intruder -- but as we grew older, we recognized that the
sweetheart had never been ours to begin with. It was not the intruder that
“caused” the break, but the lack of a real relationship.
On the surface, many marriages seem to break up because of a “third
party.” This is, however, a psychological illusion. The other woman or the other
man merely serves as a pretext for dissolving a marriage that had already lost its
essential integrity.
Nothing is more futile and more self-defeating than the bitterness of
spurned love, the vengeful feeling that someone else has “come between”
oneself and a beloved. This is always a distortion of reality, for people are not
the captives or victims of others -- they are free agents, working out their own
destinies for good or for ill.
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