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【华慧考博】2020年考博英语翻译每日一练（10月30日）
【翻译-段落翻译练习】标准化测试最近受到报纸的批评。把它作为批评的目标是不对的，因为在抨击这些测试时，批评者将注意力从信息不灵通或不称职的用户身上转移开了。对将来的表现进行有根据的预测是依据对过去相关表现的了解。而这些测试在多大程度上为后来的表现所证实，这取决于所用的信息的数量、可靠程度和适宜性，以及解释这些信息的技能和才智。一般说来，当所要测定的东西能很精确地界定时，测试最为有效，而当所要测定或预测的东西不能明确界定时，测试效果就差。测试能确定一个学生先前未被人们注意到的潜力，但是也有很多东西它们不能测试。例如测试并不弥补明显的社会不公，因此不能测定一个物质条件差的年轻人，如果让他在较好的环境下成长，可能会有多大的才干。
【翻译参考译文】
(1) Standardized tests have been the target of recent attacks in the daily press. (2) The target is wrong for in attacking the tests critics divert attention from the fault that lies with ill-informed or incompetent users. (3) All informed predictions of future performance are based upon some knowledge of relevant past performance. (4) How well the predictions will be validated by later performance depends upon the amount, reliability and appropriateness of the information used and on the skill and wisdom with which it is interpreted. (5) In general the tests work most effectively when the qualities to be measured can precisely be defined and least effectively when what is to be measured or predicted cannot be well defined. (6) Tests may identify a student’s potential previously not recognized but there are many things they cannot do. (7) For example they do not compensate for gross social inequality and thus do not tell how able an underprivileged youngster might have been had he grown up under more favorable circumstances.
