2019年12月英語四級翻譯預測：漢字

四級翻譯原文：

漢字有成千上萬個，盡管其中的大多數(shù)差別很細微，且只在歷史文獻中出現(xiàn)過。研究表明，日常使用的漢字大概有三至四千個。大多數(shù)早期漢字是象形字(pictographs),用簡單的圖畫來代表字，但現(xiàn)代漢字中象形文字已經(jīng)很少了。許多現(xiàn)代漢字是兩個或兩個以上簡單文字的組合。漢字也可以因為其線條和點的排列組合方式被看成是一門抽象藝術(shù)(abstract art)。

四級翻譯參考:

There are tens of thousands of Chinesecharacters,though most of them are only slightlydifferent from each other and only seen in historicaldocuments.Studies show that normally three to fourthousand characters are used on a daily basis.Most ofearlier Chinese characters were pictographs-simple pictures used to mean words, but fewmodern Chinese characters are pictographs.Many modern Chinese characters are acombination of two or more simple characters.Chinese characters may also be considered to bean abstract art because of how the characters are made up of lines an。