英譯中：（25分） Libraries are one of the most enduring features of the academy, centra…

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英譯中：（25分） Libraries are one of the most enduring features of the academy, central to the values and the practice of scholarship. However, in a period of austerity, libraries are increasingly being asked to justify their existence. Perhaps the deepest, yet most intangible, contribution that libraries make is to provide a physical manifestation of the scholarly ethos that universities exist to instruct and preserve. There is a risk that this intrinsic value may not be recognized by future generations of researchers who work in an online world. In building the evidence as to libraries’ contribution to research, it is important to stress that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and that the value of the library is as a crucial cornerstone and representation of the values of the academy and of scholarship.

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• 一、譯文（前半）：圖書館是大學最歷久不衰的建制之一，長期位居學術價值與學術實踐的核心。然而在財政緊縮的年代，圖書館卻愈來愈常被要求說明自身存在的正當性。圖書館最深刻、卻也最難以具體衡量的貢獻，或許在於它為「大學之所以存在，在於教導與保存學術精神」這件事，提供了一種具體有形的體現。
• 二、譯文（後半）：令人憂心的是，對於在網路世界裡工作的未來世代研究者而言，這份內在價值可能不被認可。因此，在為圖書館對研究的貢獻建立證據時，必須強調：整體大於部分的總和；而圖書館的價值，正在於它是學術與大學價值的關鍵基石與表徵。
• 三、關鍵詞處理：austerity 宜譯「財政緊縮」而非「嚴峻」；justify their existence 譯「說明存在的正當性」；intangible 譯「無形的、難以衡量的」；intrinsic value 譯「內在價值」；physical manifestation 譯「具體有形的體現」，不宜直譯為「物理顯現」；cornerstone 譯「基石」；representation 譯「表徵」或「體現」。
• 四、句型與語體：There is a risk that... 宜轉為「令人憂心的是……可能……」；the whole is greater than the sum of the parts 為英文習語，譯「整體大於部分之和」；被動式 are being asked to 宜轉為主動語氣「卻愈來愈常被要求」，以保留原文略帶無奈的意味。全篇屬論說性學術語體，譯文宜莊重、少用口語，並保留 However、Therefore 所標示的轉折與因果層次。

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