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【篇一】
The Nobel Academy
For the last 82 years, Sweden's Nobel Academy has decided who will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, thereby determining who will be elevated from the great and the near great to the immortal. But today the Academy is coming under heavy criticism both from the without and from within.
Critics contend that the selection of the winners often has less to do with true writing ability than with the peculiar internal politics of the Academy and of Sweden itself. According to Ingmar Bjorksten, the cultural editor for one of the country's two major newspapers, the prize continues to represent "what people call a very Swedish exercise: reflecting Swedish tastes."
The Academy has defended itself against such charges of provincialism in its selection by asserting that its physical distance from the great literary capitals of the world actually serves to protect the Academy from outside influences. This may well be true, but critics respond that this very distance may also be responsible for the Academy's inability to perceive accurately authentic trends in the literary world.
Regardless of concerns over the selection process, however, it seems that the prize will continue to survive both as an indicator of the literature that we most highly praise, and as an elusive goal that writers seek. If for no other reason, the prize will continue to be desirable for the financial rewards that accompany it; not only is the cash prize itself considerable, but it also dramatically increases sales of an author's books.
【篇二】譯文
諾貝爾委員會
在過去的82年里，瑞典的諾貝爾委員會決定了誰將獲得諾貝爾文學(xué)獎，因此也就決定了誰將從偉大或近乎偉大榮升為不朽。但在今天，該委員會卻遭到了評選委員會內(nèi)外的猛烈批評。
批評者們爭論說：評選獲獎?wù)邥r，起作用更大的不是真實(shí)的寫作能力，而是該委員會以及瑞典特有的內(nèi)部政治。按照瑞典兩家主要報紙之一的文化版編輯Ingmar Bjorksten的說法，該文學(xué)獎仍然是“人們所說的一種非常瑞典式的做為：反映瑞典口味”。
對于其評選過程中目光短淺的指責(zé)，該委員會辯護(hù)說，該委員會與世界幾大文學(xué)之都相距遙遠(yuǎn)，實(shí)際上使該委員會免受外來的干擾。這也許是對的，但批評者們反駁說，也正因?yàn)橄嗑嗳绱诉b遠(yuǎn)，該委員會才不能準(zhǔn)確地把握文學(xué)界的真正趨勢。
盡管對評選程序存在著關(guān)注，該文學(xué)獎將繼續(xù)作為世人為推崇的文學(xué)的標(biāo)志而存在，并將繼續(xù)是作家們難以達(dá)到卻又會不斷追逐的目標(biāo)。如果不考慮其他因素，而僅僅考慮與之俱來的經(jīng)濟(jì)利益，該獎也將繼續(xù)為人所渴求：這不僅因?yàn)樵摢劚旧砭褪且还P可觀的現(xiàn)金收入，而且該獎還將極大地增加一個作家的著作的銷量。
【篇三】
A Rare Fossil Record
The preservation of embryos and juveniles is a rate occurrence in the fossil record. The tiny, delicate skeletons are usually scattered by scavengers or destroyed by weathering before they can be fossilized. Ichthyosaurs had a higher chance of being preserved than did terrestrial creatures because, as marine animals, they tended to live in environments less subject to erosion. Still, their fossilization required a suite of factors: a slow rate of decay of soft tissues, little scavenging by other animals, a lack of swift currents and waves to jumble and carry away small bones, and fairly rapid burial. Given these factors, some areas have become a treasury of well-preserved ichthyosaur fossils.
The deposits at Holzmaden, Germany, present an interesting case for analysis. The ichthyosaur remains are found in black, bituminous marine shales deposited about 190 million years ago. Over the years, thousands of specimens of marine reptiles, fish and invertebrates have been recovered from these rocks. The quality of preservation is outstanding, but what is even more impressive is the number of ichthyosaur fossils containing preserved embryos. Ichthyosaurs with embryos have been reported from 6 different levels of the shale in a small area around Holzmaden, suggesting that a specific site was used by large numbers of ichthyosaurs repeatedly over time. The embryos are quite advanced in their physical development; their paddles, for example, are already well formed. One specimen is even preserved in the birth canal. In addition, the shale contains the remains of many newborns that are between 20 and 30 inches long.
Why are there so many pregnant females and young at Holzmaden when they are so rare elsewhere? The quality of preservation is almost unmatched and quarry operations have been carried out carefully with an awareness of the value of the fossils. But these factors do not account for the interesting question of how there came to be such a concentration of pregnant ichthyosaurs in a particular place very close to their time of giving birth.
【篇四】譯文
罕見的化石記錄
胚胎與幼體被保存下來在化石記錄中是少見的事情。微小纖細(xì)的骨骼通常在石化前就被食腐肉的動物拆散了，或者被風(fēng)化作用破壞掉了。魚龍比起陸地的動物有更大的幾率被保存下來，因?yàn)樗鼈冏鳛楹Ｑ髣游锍Ｉ钤诟g性較小的環(huán)境中。但是它們的石化需要一系列因素：軟組織的腐爛速度緩慢，很少被其他動物殘食，缺少混雜、沖走小骨頭的快速水流和波浪，以及相當(dāng)快地被掩埋。當(dāng)這些因素存在時，某些地區(qū)就會變成一個充滿保存完好的魚龍化石的寶庫。
在德國獲爾茲梅登，那兒的沉積物給人們提出了一個有趣的分析案例。人們在黑色的、含瀝青的海洋頁巖中發(fā)現(xiàn)了約19，000年前沉積下來的魚龍化石。幾年時間內(nèi)，在這些巖石中取得了數(shù)以千計(jì)的海洋爬行動物、魚類以及無脊椎動物的標(biāo)本。它們的保存質(zhì)量非常的好，但更令人稱奇的是保存下來的育有胚胎的魚龍化石數(shù)目。在獲爾茲梅登附近一個小地區(qū)的六個不同的頁巖層中分別發(fā)現(xiàn)了育有胚胎的魚龍化石。這表明大量的魚龍經(jīng)年累月重復(fù)使用一個特定的地點(diǎn)。那些胚胎已經(jīng)發(fā)育得相當(dāng)完整了。比如，它們的蹼槳已經(jīng)完全形成了。有一個標(biāo)本甚至被保存在產(chǎn)道中。而且，那塊頁巖包含著很多在20到30英寸之間的新生幼體的化石。
為什么在其他地方那么稀少的懷孕雌獸和幼體在獲爾茲梅登卻那么多呢? 因?yàn)槠浔４尜|(zhì)量幾乎舉世無雙，采集工作的進(jìn)行一直是一絲不茍的。大家都認(rèn)識到這些化石的價值極其珍貴，但這些因素并不能解釋這個有趣的問題： 為什么在一個特定的地點(diǎn)會如此集中地出現(xiàn)即將臨產(chǎn)的懷孕魚龍群呢?