2021考研英语一翻译试题及来源分析

考研翻译 唐静

试题分析：

文章来源于学术文献International Handbook of Higher Education, 符合考研英语一的一贯风格——只选择偏某一主题的学术专著。原文标题是Reflections on the Transition from Elite to Mass to Universal Access: Forms and Phases of Higher Education in Modern Societies since WWII,论文作者是Martin A. Trow，发表日期是2008年8月5日。

命题人选择了Aspects of Growth这一章。略有改编，比如把47题原文单词strata，改写为social classes，避免strata这个超纲单词出现。五个划线句均为长句，无特别复杂语法现象的难句，难度维持在考研英语一2014年至今的正常水平。

（感谢跟谁学英语教研团的小伙伴：王洲洲，黎霞、李靖悦）

WWII was the watershed event for higher education in modern democratic societies. 46) Those societies came out of the war with levels of enrollment that had been roughly constant at 3-5% of the relevant age groups during the decades before the war. But after the war, great social and political changes arising out of the successful war against Fascism created a growing demand in European and American economies for increasing numbers of graduates with more than a secondary school education. 47) And the demand that rose in those societies for entry to higher education extended to groups and social classes that had not thought of going to university before the war. These demands resulted in a very rapid expansion of the systems of higher education, beginning in the 1960s and developing very rapidly though unevenly in the 70s and 80s. 

The growth of higher education manifests itself in at least three quite different ways, and these in turn have given rise to different sets of problems. There was first the rate of growth: 48) in many countries of Western Europe the numbers of students in higher education doubled within five-year periods during the 1960s and doubled again in seven, eight, or ten years by the middle of the 1970s. Second, growth obviously affected the absolute size both of systems and individual institutions. And third, growth was reflected in changes in the proportion of the relevant age group enrolled in institutions of higher education. 

Each of these manifestations of growth carried its own peculiar problems in its wake. For example a high growth rate placed great strains on the existing structures of governance, of administration, and above all of socialization. When a very large proportion of all the members of an institution are new recruits, they threaten to overwhelm the processes whereby recruits to a more slowly growing system are inducted into its value system and learn its norms and forms. When a faculty or department grows from, say, 5 to 20 members within three or four years, and 49) when the new staff are predominantly young men and women fresh from postgraduate study, then they largely define the norms of academic life in that faculty and its standards. And if the postgraduate student population also grows rapidly and there is loss of a close apprenticeship relationship between faculty members and students, then the student culture becomes the chief socializing force for new postgraduate students, with consequences for the intellectual and academic life of the institution—this was seen in America as well as in France, Italy, West Germany, and Japan. 50) High growth rates increased the chances for academic innovation; they also weakened the forms and processes by which teachers and students are admitted into a community of scholars during periods of stability or slow growth. In the sixties and seventies of the last century, European universities saw marked changes in their governance arrangements, with the empowerment of junior faculty and to some degree of students as well. They also saw higher levels of student discontent, reflecting the weakening of traditional forms of academic communities.