2017英语专八翻译每日一练（59）

2017英语专八翻译每日一练（59）

　　2017专八翻译主要测试考生的汉译英能力，题源一般是我国报刊杂志上的文章和一般文学作品。提高翻译水平的基本功即是每日练习完善不足记忆词汇语法知识点，下面是新东方在线专八频道给大家分享的2017英语专八翻译每日一练，供考生平日练习。

　　在有些社会，要孩子只是为了所谓的家族原因：传宗接代，延续香火，安慰祖辈，维系礼仪。在现代世俗社会中，这类原因似显苍白，但在其他地方，这些原因确实强劲有力。 此外，有一类家族原因与下面一组原因共通，即生儿育女是为了维系或改善婚姻：能拴住丈夫或者让妻子有事可做;修复或重振婚姻;之所以多生孩子是因为他们认为多子多福。反过来说：在某些社会中，不生孩子(或不生男孩)不仅是婚姻的一种威胁，还成为离婚的便当理由。

　　此外，更为重要的是，孩子对于家庭这一机构自身尤为重要。对许多人来说，夫妻两人还不算一个真正意义上的家庭——他们需要孩子来丰富两人小天地，使它具有家庭特征，并使他们自己从中获得赎救。

　　孩子需要家庭，家庭似乎也需要孩子。在一个变幻莫测、常常是充满敌意的世界中，家庭作为一种社会机构，以其特有的方式，至少在原则上，需要在孩子身上获得某种安全感、慰藉、保障和指望。对于多数人来说，这种原本意义上的家的基地，需要不止一个人来维持，使其代代相传，生生不息。

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　　In some societies people want children for what might be called familial reasons1: to extend the family line or the family name2, to propitiate the ancestors; to enable the proper functioning of religious rituals involving the family3. Such reasons may seem thin in the modern, secularized society but they have been and are powerful indeed in other places.

　　In addition, one class of family reasons shares a border with the following category4, namely, having children in order to maintain or improve a marriage: to hold the husband or occupy the wife5, to repair or rejuvenate the marriage; to increase the number of children on the assumption that family happiness lies that way6. The point is underlined by its converse7: in some societies the failure to bear children (or males) is a threat to the marriage and a ready cause for divorce. 8

　　Beyond all that is the profound significance of children to the very institution of the family itself.9 To many people, husband and wife alone do not seem a proper family—they need children to enrich the circle, to validate its family character, to gather the redemptive influence10 of offspring. Children need the family, but the family seems also to need children, as the social institution uniquely available, at least in principle, for security, comfort, assurance, and direction in a changing, often hostile, world. To most people, such a home base, in the literal sense, needs more than one person for sustenance and in generational extension.

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