填空题 Please translate the following passages into English.(北京外国语大学2008研,考试科目:基础英语) 枯叶蝴蝶 峨眉山下,伏虎寺旁,有一种蝴蝶,比最美丽的蝴蝶可能还要美丽些,是峨眉山最珍贵的特产之一。 当它阖起两张翅膀的时候,像生长在树枝上的一张干枯了的树叶。谁也不去注意它,谁也不会瞧它一眼。 它收敛了它的花纹、图案,隐藏了它的粉墨、彩色,逸出了繁华的花丛,停止了翱翔的姿态,变成了一张憔悴的、干枯的、甚至不是枯黄的而是枯槁的、如同死灰颜色的枯叶。 它这样伪装,是为了保护自己。但是它还是逃不脱被捕捉的命运。不仅因为它的美丽,更因为它那用来隐蔽它的美丽的枯槁与憔悴。 它以为它这样做可以保护自己,殊不知它这样做更叫人去搜捕它。有一种生物比它还聪明,这种生物的特技之一是装假作伪,因此装假作伪这种行径是瞒不过这种生物——人的。 人把它捕捉,将它制成标本,作为一种商品去出售,价钱越来越高。最后几乎把它捕捉得再也没有了。这一生物品种快要绝种了。 到这时候,国家才下令禁止捕捉枯叶蝶。但是,已经来不及了。国家的禁止更增加了它的身价。枯叶蝶真是因此而要绝对的绝灭了。 我们既然有一对美丽的和真理的翅膀,我们永远也不愿意阖上它们。做什么要装模作样,化为一只枯叶蝶,最后还是被售,反而不如那翅膀两面都光彩夺目的蝴蝶到处飞翔,被捕捉而又生生不息。 我要我的翅膀两面都光彩夺目。 我愿这自然界的一切都显出它们的真相。
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【正确答案】 1、正确答案:Lappet Butterfly At the foot of Emei Mountain, nearby Crouching Tiger Temple, there lives a kind of butterfly. Being one of the Emei Mountain"s most precious specialities, it is probably even more beautiful than the most beautiful butterflies in the world. When its two wings are closed, it looks like a withered leaf on the tree branch. No one will notice its existence, nor will have a look at it. Having got away from the flower clumps and stopped flying, with its markings and patterns folded, its powder and color hidden, it turns into a die-away, dried, withered yellow, rather than turning-yellow leaf, like dying embers. It camouflages in this way to protect itself. However, it still can not escape the fate of being captured, not merely because of its beauty but more because of its wilt and haggardness which are used to conceal its beauty. It takes this disguise as a protection for itself, without knowing that by doing this it makes people more likely to search and catch it. There is another creature—human being, who is smarter than this butterfly and specially adept at pretending and forging, thus no masquerading whatsoever can slide by under his nose. People catch them and make them into specimens that are sold as products priced higher and higher. Hardly have any lappet butterflies been found in the end, and the species is on the edge of extinction. Only by this time, the nation gives orders to forbid capturing lappet butterflies. But, it"s too late. The forbiddance even more boosts its price. Lappet butterflies are actually doomed to be extinct owing to this forbiddance. Now that we have a pair of beautiful and truthful wings, we will never be willing to close them. Having turned into a lappet butterfly, why should we camouflage and be sold out eventually? We are not as fortune as other butterflies flying all around with flashing and colorful wings who are captured but never run out of vitality. I"d like both sides of my wings to shine brightly. I wish everything in nature showed their truth.    
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