2006年福建师范大学写作与翻译考研试卷

I、Translation（75 points）

1．Put the following passage into Chinese：（35 points）

It is a curiosity of our intellectual history that cognitive structures developed by the mind are generally regarded and studied very differently from physical structures developed by the body.There is no reason why a neutral scientist ，unencumbered by traditional doctrine，should adopt this view.Rather，he would，or should，approach cognitive structures such as human language more or less as he would investigate an organ such as the eye or heart，seeking to determine：its character in a particular individual；its general properties，invariant across the species apart from gross defect；its place in a system of such structures；the course of its development in the individual；the genetically determined basis for this development；the factors that gave rise to this mental organ in the course of evolution.The expectation that construction of sensorimotor intelligence determine the character of a mental organ such as language seems to me hardly more plausible than a proposal that the fundamental properties of the eye or the heart develop on this basis.Furthermore,when we turn to specific properties of this mental organ ，we find little justification for any such belief ，so far as I can see.

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