1998考研英语翻译

1998考研英语翻译

考研英语1998年的翻译题目如下：

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They were by far, the largest and most distant objects that scientists had ever detected: a strip of enormous cosmic clouds some 15 billion light-years from earth. But even more important, it was the farthest that scientists had been able to look into the past, for what they were seeing were the patterns and structures that existed 15 billion years ago. That was just about the moment that the universe was born. What the researchers found was at once both amazing and expected: the US National Aeronautics

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翻译为中文：

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他们迄今为止是科学家们探测到的最大、最遥远的物体：一条巨大的宇宙云带，距离地球大约150亿光年。但更重要的是，这是科学家们能够观测到的最遥远的过去，因为他们所看到的图案和结构存在于150亿年前。那几乎是宇宙诞生的时刻。研究人员发现的事情既令人惊奇又在意料之中：美国国家航空航天局

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请注意，考研英语的翻译题分值是10分，要求考生能将一般难度的英语短文准确翻译成汉语，译文要达意。