翻譯專項訓練2004四川大學

Part A (20%, 20 minutes)
Direction: Translate the following passage into Chinese. Write your Chineseversion on the ANSWER SHEET．
The methodof scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary modeof working of the human mind; it is simply the mode by which all phenomena arereasoned about and given precise and exact explanations. The difference betweenthe operations and methods of a baker weighing out his goods in common scales,and the operations of a chemist by means of his balance is not that the scalesin the one case, and the balance in the other, differ in the principles oftheir construction or manner of working; but that the latter is a much finerapparatus and of course much more accurate in its measurement than the former．
Probablythere is not one here who has not in the course of the day had occasion to setin motion of a complex train of reasoning, of the very same kind, thoughdiffering in degree, as that which a scientific man goes through in tracing thecauses of natural phenomena．
Part B (20%, 20 minutes)
Direction: Translate the following sentences into English and write yourEnglish version on the ANSWER SHEET．
1．荷花居污泥而不染，若為怕水污而種在旱地上，它早就枯死了。人生也一樣，避惡、避丑、避邪，只能說明自己心靈脆弱。