2014.12.20 英语六级翻译：文学艺术（文都）

【翻译题目】反应在艺术和文学中的乡村生活理想是中国文明的重要特征。这在很大程度上归功于道家对自然的感情。传统中国画有两个最受青睐的主题，一是家庭生活的各种幸福场景，画中往往有老人在下棋饮茶，男人在耕耘收割，妇女在织布缝衣，小孩在户外玩耍。另一个则是乡村生活的种种乐趣，画有渔夫在湖上打渔，农夫在山上砍柴采药，或是书生坐在松树下吟诗作画。这两个主题可以分别代表儒家和道家的生活理想。

【参考译文】The idealof country life reflected by the art and literature is the important feature ofChinese culture, which is, to a large degree, attributed to the feelings to thenature from Taoist. There are two most popular topics in the traditionalChinese painting. One is the various scenes of happiness about family life, inwhich the old man often plays chess and drinks tea, with the man in theharvest, woman in weaving, children playing out of doors. The other scene is allkinds of pleasures about country life, in which the fisherman is fishing on thelake, with the farmer cutting wood and gathering herbs in the mountains and thescholar chanting poetry and painting pictures sitting under the pine trees. The two themes can represent the life ideal ofConfucianism and Taoism。