2004年11月《CATTI》二级笔译实务试题

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Section 1: English-Chinese Translation  (英译汉)( 60 point  )

This section consists of two parts: Part A "Compulsory Translation" and Part B "Optional Translations" which comprises "Topic 1" and "Topic 2". Translate the passage in Part A and your choice from passage in Part B into Chinese. Write "Compulsory Translation" above your translation of Part A and write "Topic 1" or "Topic 2" above your translation of the passage from Part B. The time for this section is 100 minutes.

Part A Compulsory Translation (必译题) (30 points)

Until recently, scientists knew little about life in the deep sea, nor had they reason to believe that it was being threatened. Now, with the benefit of technology that allows for deeper exploration, researchers have uncovered a remarkable array of species inhabiting the ocean floor at depths of more than 660 feet, or about 200 meters. At the same time, however, technology has also enabled fishermen to reach far deeper than ever before, into areas where bottom trawls can destroy in minutes what has taken nature hundreds and in some cases thousands of years to build.

Many of the world's coral species, for example, are found at depths of more than 200 meters. It is also estimated that roughly half of the world's highest seamounts - areas that rise from the ocean floor and are particularly rich in marine life - are also found  in the deep ocean.

These deep sea ecosystems provide shelter, spawning and breeding areas for fish and other creatures, as well as protection from strong currents and predators. Moreover, they are believed to harbor some of the most extensive reservoirs of life on earth, with estimates ranging from 500,000 to 100 million species inhabiting these largely unexplored and highly fragile ecosystems.

Yet just as we are beginning to recognize the tremendous diversity of life in these areas, along with the potential benefits newly found species may hold for human society in the form of potential food products and new medicines, they are at risk of being lost forever. With enhanced ability both to identify where these species-rich areas are located and to trawl in deeper water than before, commercial fishing vessels

are now beginning to reach down with nets the size of football fields, catching everything in their path while simultaneously crushing fragile corals and breaking up the delicate structure of reefs and seamounts that provide critical habitat to the countless species of fish and other marine life that inhabit the deep ocean floor.

Because deep sea bottom trawling is a recent phenomenon, the damage that has been done is still limited. If steps are taken quickly to prevent this kind of destructive activity from occurring on the high seas, the benefits both to the marine environment and to future generations are incalculable. And they far outweigh the short-term costs to the fishing industry.

Part B Optional Translations  (二选一题)( 30 points  )

Topic 1 (选题一)

Most of the world's victims of AIDS live - and, at an alarming rate, die - in Africa. The number of people living with AIDS in Africa was estimated at 26.6 million in late 2003. New figures to be published by the United Nations Joint Program on AIDS

( UNAIDS  ),  the special UN agency set up to deal with the pandemic, will

probably confirm its continued spread in Africa, but they will also show whether the rate of spread is constant, increasing or falling.

AIDS is most prevalent in Eastern and Southern Africa, with South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya having the greatest numbers of sufferers; other countries severely affected include Botswana and Zambia. AIDS was raging in Eastern Africa - where it was called "slim", after the appearance of victims wasting away - within a few years after its emergence was established in the eastern Congo basin; however, the conflicting theories about the origin of AIDS are highly controversial and politicized, and the controversy is far from being settled.

Measures being taken all over Africa include, first of all, campaigns of public awareness and device, including advice to remain faithful to one sexual partner and to use condoms. The latter advice is widely ignored or resisted owing to natural and cultural aversion to condoms and to Christian and Muslim teaching, which places emphasis instead on self-restraint.

An important part of anti- AIDS campaigns, whether organized by governments,

nongovernmental organizations or both, is the extension of voluntary counseling and testing (VCT). In addition, medical research has found a way to help sufferers, though not to cure them.

Funds for anti- AIDS efforts are provided by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and affected communities around the world; the fund was launched following a call by the UN Secretary-General in 2001. However, much more  is needed if the spread of the pandemic is to be at least halted.

Topic 2 (选题二)

As a leader of a least developed country, I speak from experience when I say that poverty is too complex a phenomenon, and the strategies for fighting it too diverse  and dependent on local circumstances, for there is no single silver bullet in the war on poverty.

We have learned the hard way over the years. We have experimented with all kinds of ideas.

Yet a report recently released by the World Economic Forum shows that barely a third of what should have been done by now to ensure the world meets its goals to fight poverty, hunger and disease by 2015 is done. I am now convinced that the Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations in 2000 can only be attained through a global compact, anchored in national policies that take into account local circumstances.

Aid and trade are both necessary, but they are not enough on their own. Neither is good governance enough in itself. Above all, nothing can move without the direct participation of local communities. I fear that we lecture too much. This is not the best way.

I will give an example of how such a compact worked in Tanzania to achieve universal basic schooling.

In the mid-1990s, almost all indicators for basic education were in free fall. The gross enrollment rate had fallen from 98 percent in the early 1980s to 77.6 percent in 2000. The net enrollment rate had likewise fallen, from over 80 percent to only 58.8 percent.

Then several things happened. We decided at the top political level that basic education would be a top priority, and adopted a five-year Primary Education Development Plan to achieve universal basic education by 2006 - nine years ahead of the global target.

Good governance produced more government revenues, which quadrupled over the last eight years. In 2001, we received debt relief under the World Bank's enhanced HIPC( heavily indebted poor countries ) Initiative. Subsequently, more donors put aid money directly into our budget or into a pooled fund for the Primary Education Development Program ( PEDP ) .

The government's political will was evidenced by the fact that over the last five years

the share of the national budget going to poverty reduction rose by 130 percent. We abolished school fees in primary schools.

 

Then we ensured that all PEDP projects are locally determined, planned, owned, implemented and evaluated. This gave the people pride and dignity in what they were doing. After only two years of implementing PEDP, tremendous successes have been achieved.

Section 2: Chinese- English Translation  (汉译英)( 40 point  )

This section consists of two parts: Part A "Compulsory Translation" and Part B "Optional Translations" which comprises "Topic 1" and "Topic 2".Translation the passage in Part A and your choice from passage in Part B into English. Write "Compulsory Translation" above your translation of Part A and write "Topic 1" or "Topic 2" above your translation of the passage from Part B. The time for this section is 80 minutes.

Part A Compulsory Translation (必译题) ( 20 points )

进入新世纪,国际形势继续发生深刻复杂的变化。世界多极化和经济全球化灾曲折中发展。科技进步日新月异,我们既面临着必须抓住的发展机遇,也面临着必须认真应付的严峻挑战,尽管当今世界还存在着这样那样的矛盾和利益冲突,不确定、不稳定因素有所增加,但和平与发展仍是当今时代的主题,世界要和平、

国家要发展、人民要合作是不可阻挡的历史潮流。

当前亚洲形势总体稳定,和平、发展、合作已成为前进中亚洲的主流。经过共同努力,亚洲有关国家摆脱了金融危机的阴影,战胜了非典和禽流感疫情的冲击, 经济结构调整取得成效,产业升级换代步伐加快,区域合作方兴未艾,抗御风险能力不断增强。亚洲仍然是全球最具发展活力的地区之一,也继续是全球贸易的重要增长点之一。我们对亚洲的发展前景充满信心。

Part B Optional Translations (二选一题) ( 20 points )

Topic 1 (选题一)

中国目前已经建成 1.9 万公里公路。自 1990 年以来,中国每年都要新增 3700

公里公路。到 2020  年公路网将连接中国所有重要城市。中国公路里程将仅次于

美国,达到 55000 公里。

高速公路网将带来深远的影响。城市带将形成;人们的生活方式将会发生变化; 枢纽城市的经济增长率将迅速上升,因为便利的交通条件将吸引更多的投资者。许多国际开发商支持这种看法。世界银行和亚洲开发银行正用巨额贷款支持中国开展公路建设。它们认为公路建设对于缓解贫困至关重要。自上世纪末,亚洲开发银行已减少它在中国经济发达的东部地区的公路投资,而将重点转向较为贫困的西部地区。

在公路建设中,中国也很重视支线公路建设,因为支线公路可以使小城镇充分利用附近干线公路建设带来的发展机遇。

Topic 2 (选题二)

长期以来西方人一直怀疑由草药制成的中成药是否有效。在过去的几年内,中国传统医药在世界范围内经历了严格的科学审查。

为证明和提高传统治疗方法的效益,中国大陆投入了巨资在这方面进行艰苦研究。香港一直在努力使自己成为世界上传统中医研究的带头人。台湾也提出它将把自己建成一个中医技术中心。

传统中医药的研究工作在亚洲以外地区的大学和其他机构也蓬勃开展。这些揭开传统医学秘密的研究工作可能会为中西医都大感头疼的疾病患者带来福音。

尽管在理论上中西医之间还存在着分歧,一些对中医药感兴趣的著名国际制药公司已开始在中国实施小规模的研究项目。一批新药已在亚洲各地接受试验。

 

参考译文

Section 1: 英译汉 ( 60  分)

Part A  (必译题)( 30  分)

前不久,科学家们对深海生物还知之甚少,也不太相信它们正受到威胁。现在, 随着深海探测技术的发展,研究人员发现 660 多英尺,即 200 米深的海底生存着大量多种多样的物种。但与此同时,渔业人员也可以依靠技术到达以前更深的地方,进行海底拖网捕捞,而此种深海捕捞则可在几分钟内就把大自然几百年乃至几千年的一切毁灭。

例如,世界上的许多种珊瑚在二百多米深的海底才能找到。此外,据估计世界上一些最高的海底山约有一半位于深海海底。这些海底隆起的地方,海洋生物特别丰富。

这些深海生态系统为鱼类和其它生物提供生存、产卵、繁殖的场所,俄保护它们免遭大海流和猎食者的侵袭。此外,据信这些深海生态系统蕴藏着世界上最丰富的生命宝库,估计有五十万至一亿种生物生活在这些大体上未经勘探极脆弱的生态系统中。

当我们现在刚刚开始认识这些地区极其丰富的生物多样性,并发现这些新物种可能为人类社会带来好处时--如新食品和新药品,这些地区却面临着永远消失的危险。由于确定物种丰富地区的能路增强,由于拖网捕涝能到达比过去更深的区域, 商业渔船可把足球场大小的拖网撒入海中,碰上什么捕捞什么,同时损坏了脆弱的珊瑚,破坏礁石和海底山的脆弱结构,而正是这些东西为生活在深海海底的无数鱼类和其它海洋生物提供了赖以生存的场所。

因为深海海底拖网捕捞是最近才出现的一种现象,它所造成的损害还是有限的。如能赶紧采取措施防止这些在公海上的破坏活动,它为海洋环境和子孙后代带来的好处将是无法估量的。这些好处将远远超过渔业短期内需承担的花费。

Part B 二选一题 ( 30 分) 选题一

世界上大多数艾滋病患者生活在非洲,并以惊人的速度大批死亡。据估计, 2003

年底非洲的艾滋病患者达到 2660  万人。联合国联合防治艾滋病计划署是联合国

为对付艾滋病而设立的专门机构,该机构将要公布的最新数字可能证实艾滋病还在非洲继续蔓延,但同时也可以说明它蔓延的速度是维持不变,或在加快,还是在放慢。

艾滋病最猖獗的地区是非洲的东部和南部,在南非、津巴布韦和肯尼亚患者人数最多,疫情严重的国家还包括博茨瓦纳和赞比亚。 1981 年艾滋病的出现在世界上得到确认,没过几年,这种病就在非洲东部流行起来--当地人管它叫"瘦病", 因为患者的容貌是日渐消瘦。关于这种病毒的发源地,一种说法是发源于东刚果盆地;然而关于艾滋病来源的说法不一,很有争议,且带有浓厚的政治色彩;这场争论至今还远未结束。

整个非洲都在采取措施,最主要的是提高公众意识和防范手段,包括建议忠实于一个性伴侣和使用避孕套。人们一般不愿使用避孕套,因为不习惯,还有文化方面的原因,同时它也不符合基督教和伊斯兰教的教义,它们更强调自我约束。在防治艾滋病的活动中,重要的一项就是提倡"自愿就医检查",这项活动,有的市政府组织的,有的是民间组织的,也有的是政府和民间共同组织的。此外,医学研究也找到了一种办法,虽然不能治愈,也可对患者有所帮助。

"全球预防艾滋病、肺结核、疟疾基金会"是世界各国政府部门、市民社会、私人企业和患者群体的一个协作机构,是应联合国秘书长的号召,于 2001 年发起成立的。这一机构为防治艾滋病的各项活动提供资金。然而,即便只是为了制止艾滋病的蔓延,这也是远远不够的。

选题二

作为一个最不发达国家的领导人,就切身体验而言,我认为贫穷是一个非常复杂的现象,战胜贫穷的方法也是多种多样的,而且在很大程度上取决于当地的情况, 因此也就没有一件特别有效的法宝。

许多年来,我们吃过不少苦头。我们对各种不同的主张进行了试验。

然而,世界经济论坛不久前发表的一份报告称,全世界应在 2015 年完成的战胜贫穷、饥饿和疟疾的目标,至今只勉强完成了应完成的三分之一。现在我确信, 要实现联合国于 2000 年确定的各项新前年发展目标,必须要有一项全球协议。该协议必须基于符合当地情况的国家政策。

援助和贸易都是必要的,但光靠它们还是不够的。只靠善治也是不够的。事实上,

没有地方社会力量的直接参与,任何事情都不可能取得进展。我担心的是我们说得太多。这可不是上策。

我想举一个例子来说名义向全球协议是怎么在坦桑尼亚运作,以实现普及基础教育的。

二十世纪九十年代中期,基础教育几乎各项指标都大幅下滑。毛入学率从八十年代初的 98% 下降到 2000 年的 77.6% 。净入学率也从 80% 以上下降到只有

58.8% 。

随后发生了几件事情。最高政治领导层决定将基础教育列为最优先发展的项目, 并通过了"小学教育五年发展计划",规定于 2006 年普及基础教育,比全球的规定目标提前九年。

善治使国库日渐充实,政府收入八年来翻了两番。 2001 年,我们接受了世界银行为重债穷国进一步免除债务的安排。随后还有捐助者直接把钱划入我们的预算,或捐给小学教育发展计划设立的合作基金。

政府的政治决心从以下情况可以得到验证:五年来,国家预算中用于消除贫穷的部分增加了 130% 。我们还取消了小学的学费。

此外,我们还保证所有涉及小学教育发展计划的项目都由地方来确定、规划、拥有、执行和评估。这就使得人们为自己的所作所为感到骄傲,感到光彩。小学教育发展计划只实行了两年,就取得了巨大的成功。

Section 2: 汉译英 ( 40  分)

Part A  (必译题)( 20  分)

In the new century, the international situation has continued to undergo profound and complicated changes. World multipolarization and economic globalization are progressing amid twists and turns. Science and technology are advancing with each passing day. We have before us both development opportunities that we must seize  and grave challenges that we must deal with seriously. Despite the widespread conflicts and clashes of interests and increasing numbers of factors of uncertainty and instability in the world today, peace and development remain the overriding themes of the times. The world needs peace, countries desire development and people want cooperation. This has become an irresistible trend of history.

At present, Asia, on the whole, enjoys stability, with peace, development and

cooperation becoming the mainstream of an advancing Asia. With concerted efforts, relevant Asian countries have freed themselves from the shadow of the financial crisis, overcome the impact of SARS and bird flu, succeeded in economic restructuring, quickened the tempo of industrial upgrading and transformation, promoted a robust regional cooperation, and increased the capacity to tide over potential risks. Asia has retained its position as one of the world's most dynamic regions and a key growth  point in global trade. We are full of confidence in the future of Asia's development.

Part B 二选一题 ( 30  分)

选题一

Up to now, China has built 19,000km of highways. Since 1990, some 3,700km of highways have been added each year. By 2020, highway networks will connect all major Chinese cities, and the total length of China's highways will be 55.000km, second only to that of the United States. The impact of highway networks will be huge. Urban belts will emerge; people's lifestyles will change; and the economic growth rate of interchange cities will surge, as the convenient transportation facilities will attract more investors.

Many international developers share this view. Both the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank are lending heavily to support China's road expansion. They believe highway construction is vital for poverty alleviation. Since the late 1990s, the Asian Development Bank has reduced its road investment in China's economically developed eastern areas and shifted its focus to the relatively poor western region.

During its highway construction, China pays great attention to the building of feeder roads, as they can help smaller towns make full use of the development opportunities brought about by the construction of nearby trunk highways.

选题二

For a long time, Westerners have been skeptical about the efficacy of China's patent drugs made of medicinal herbs. In the past few years, traditional Chinese medicine  has been subject to rigorous scientific scrutiny worldwide.

To prove and enhance the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, China's mainland (the mainland of China) has poured huge amounts of money into hard research on this

field. While Hong Kong has been endeavoring to make itself the world leader in research on traditional Chinese medicine, Taiwan has put forward a plan to transform itself into a traditional Chinese medicine technology center.

Research into traditional cures is also blossoming at universities and other institutions outside Asia. These efforts to unlock the secrets of traditional remedies could produce benefits for sufferers of diseases that have confounded both Western and traditional Chinese medicines.

Although there are still differences between Western and traditional Chinese medicines in theory, some world-known pharmaceutical companies, taking interest in traditional Chinese medicine, have launched small research projects in China. A number of new medicines have already undergone trials across Asia.

2005 年 5 月二级笔译实务试题

Section 1: English-Chinese Translation(英译汉)(60 point)

This section consists of two parts: Part A "Compulsory Translation" and Part B "Optional Translations" which comprises "Topic 1" and "Topic 2". Translate the passage in Part A and your choice from passage in Part B into Chinese. Write "Compulsory Translation" above your translation of Part A and write "Topic 1" or "Topic 2" above your translation of the passage from Part B. The time for this section is 100 minutes.

Part A    Compulsory Translation  (必译题)(30 points)

It was one of those days that the peasant fishermen on this tributary of the Amazon River dream about.

With water levels falling rapidly at the peak of the dry season, a giant school of bass,  a tasty fish that fetches a good price at markets, was swimming right into the nets being cast from a dozen small canoes here.

"With a bit of luck, you can make $350 on a day like this," Lauro Souza Almeida, a leader of the local fishermen's cooperative, exulted as he moved into position. "That is a fortune for people like us," he said, the equivalent of four months at the minimum wage earned by those fortunate enough to find work.

But hovering nearby was a large commercial fishing vessel, a "mother boat" equipped

with large ice chests for storage and hauling more than a dozen smaller craft. The  crew on board was just waiting for the remainder of the fish to move into the river's main channel, where they intended to scoop up as many as they could with their efficient gill nets.

A symbol of abundance to the rest of the world, the Amazon is experiencing a crisis of overfishing. As stocks of the most popular species diminish to worrisome levels, tensions are growing between subsistence fishermen and their commercial rivals, who are eager to enrich their bottom line and satisfy the growing appetite for fish of city-dwellers in Brazil and abroad.

In response, peasants up and down the Amazon, here in Brazil and in neighboring countries like Peru, are forming cooperatives to control fish catches and restock their rivers and lakes. But that effort, increasingly successful, has only encouraged the commercial fishing operations, as well as some of the peasants' less disciplined neighbors, to step up their depredations.

"The industrial fishing boats, the big 20- to 30-ton vessels, they have a different mentality than us artisanal fishermen, who have learned to take the protection of the environment into account," said the president of the local fishermen's union. "They want to sweep everything up with their dragnets and then move on, benefiting from our work and sacrifice and leaving us with nothing."

Part B Optional Translations (二选一题) (30 points)

Topic 1 (选题一)

Ever since the economist David Ricardo offered the basic theory in 1817, economic scripture has taught that open trade-free of tariffs, quotas, subsidies or other government distortions-improves the well-being of both parties. U.S. policy has implemented this doctrine with a vengeance. Why is free trade said to be universally beneficial? The answer is a doctrine called "comparative advantage".

Here's a simple analogy. If a surgeon is highly skilled both at doing operations and performing routine blood tests, it's more efficient for the surgeon to concentrate on the surgery and pay a less efficient technician to do the tests, since that allows the surgeon to make the most efficient use of her own time.

By extension, even if the United States is efficient both at inventing advanced biotechnologies and at the routine manufacture of medicines, it makes sense for the United States to let the production work migrate to countries that can make the stuff more cheaply. Americans get the benefit of the cheaper products and get to spend their resources on even more valuable pursuits, That, anyway, has always been the premise. But here Samuelson dissents. What if the lower wage country also captures the advanced industry?

If enough higher-paying jobs are lost by American workers to outsourcing, he calculates, then the gain from the cheaper prices may not compensate for the loss in

U.S. purchasing power.

"Free trade is not always a win-win situation," Samuelson concludes. It is particularly a problem, he says, in a world where large countries with far lower wages, like India and China, are increasingly able to make almost any product or offer almost any service performed in the United States.

If America trades freely with them, then the powerful drag of their far lower will  begin dragging down U.S. average wages. The U.S. economy may still grow, he calculates, but at a lower rate than it otherwise would have.

Topic 2 (选题二)

Uganda's eagerness for genuine development is reflected in its schoolchildren's smiles and in the fact that so many children are now going to school. Since 1997, when the government began to provide universal primary education, total primary enrollment had risen from 3 million to 7.6 million in 2004. Schools have opened where none existed before, although there is some way to go in reaching the poorest areas of the country.

Uganda has also made strides in secondary and higher education, to the point that it is attracting many students from other countries. At the secondary level, enrollment is above 700,000, with the private sector providing the majority if schools. For those who want to take their education further, there are 12 private universities in addition  to the four publicly funded institutions, together providing 75,000 places.

Education is seen as a vital component in the fight against poverty. The battle for

better health is another, although it is one that will take longer to win in a country that carries a high burden of disease, including malaria and AIDS. Here, the solutions can only arise from a combination of international support and government determination to continue spending public money on preventive care and better public health information.

Current government plants include recruiting thousands of nurses, increasing the availability of drugs and building 200 new maternity units.

Uganda's high rate of population growth, at 3.6 percent per annum, poses a special challenge in the fight against poverty, says Finance Minister Gerald Ssendaula, who points out that the fertility rate, at 6.9 children per female, is the highest in Africa.

The government's newly revised Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) puts the "restoration of security" at the top of the current government agenda. This is because  it estimates that Uganda has lost 3 percent of its gross domestic product each year that the conflict has persisted. Displaced people are not only a financial burden, they are unable to the economy.

The other core challenges identified by the revised PEAP are finding ways to keep the lowest income growing, improving the quality of education, giving people more control over the size of their families and using public resources transparently and efficiently. It is a document that other poor countries could learn from.

Section 2: Chinese- English Translation(汉译英)(40 point)

This section consists of two parts: Part A "Compulsory Translation" and Part B "Optional Translations" which comprises "Topic 1" and "Topic 2".Translation the passage in Part A and your choice from passage in Part B into English. Write "Compulsory Translation" above your translation of Part A and write "Topic 1" or "Topic 2" above your translation of the passage from Part B. The time for this section is 80 minutes.

Part A    Compulsory Translation  (必译题)(20 points)

矿产资源是自然资源的重要组成部分,是人类社会发展的重要物质基础。中国是世界上最早开发利用矿产资源的国家之一。 过去 50 年,中国在矿产资源勘探开

发方面取得巨大成就。这为中国经济的持续、快速、健康发展提供了重要保障。中国政府高度重视可持续发展和矿产资源的合理利用,把可持续发展确定为

国家战略,把保护资源作为可持续发展战略的重要内容。

中国是一个人口众多、资源相对不足的发展中国家。中国主要依靠本国的矿产资源来保障现代化建设的需要。同时,中国又积极引进国外资本和技术开发中国矿产资源,利用国外市场与国外矿产资源,并努力推动中国矿山企业和矿产品进入国际市场。

Part B Optional Translations  (二选一题)(20 points)

Topic 1(选题一)

众所周知,鸟无翅膀不能飞,人无双腿不能走。但对尹小星而言,鸟无翅膀不能飞,人无双腿却能走!

1970 年出生于江苏一户农民家庭的尹小星,出生仅 8 个月就患小儿麻痹症并发急性肺炎。虽然最终保住了命,他却再也不能站立。因为身体残疾,初中毕业后小星不得不辍学。生存的压力对他来说显得格外沉重,他贩过水果,养过鸡,还下功夫学习过中医。

在他 21 岁的时候,这个年轻人竟怀揣一幅地图,手持一个指南针,摇着轮椅踏上了走遍全中国的艰难路途。

近 21 年来小星手摇轮椅,足迹遍布 31 省、市、自治区,行程 7 万多公里,用坏

了 4 部轮椅。他实现了徒手攀登泰山、华山、衡山等 20 多座名山,孤身翻越海

拔 5231 米的唐古拉山,手摇轮椅走过丝绸之路,穿越塔克拉玛干(Taklimakan) 大沙漠,徒手攀登上海东方明珠电视塔,圆满完成从沙漠到香港的旅行。

Topic 2 (选题二)

长城是世界一大奇迹。现在,每年都有几百万人到长城游览。在旺季,几处最著名的景点总是让成群结队的游客挤得水泄不通。

中国人修筑城墙的历史久远,可以追溯到战国时期。历史上,中国共修过大约20 座长城。在所有这些长城中,明长城最长,达到 6700 公里。在当时,中国技术在世界上处于领先地位,因此明长城的结构也是最复杂的。明长城的修筑是为了抵御北方游牧民族的入侵。

清朝建立后,由于它的建立者本身也是游牧民族,他们觉得没有必要继续修筑长

城。不过,清政府还是颁布法令对长城进行保护,禁止拆砖。但是,岁月的流逝和连续战乱使人们易到之处遭到了严重的破坏。

十几年来,蓬勃发展的旅游业促进了长城的修缮工程。目前,多处长城已经修复, 或正在修缮中。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

参考译文

Section 1: 英译汉 (60 分)

Part A  (必译题)(30 分)

在亚马逊河的这一支流上捕鱼的农民就希望遇上那天的情况。

旱季最缺水的时候,河面迅速下降,一大群鲈鱼正游进从十几只小船上撒下的网里。鲈鱼味道鲜美,能在市场上卖个好价钱。

"要是运气不错,赶上今天这种情况,就能挣 350 美元,"劳鲁?苏扎?阿尔梅达说道。他是当地渔民合作社的一位负责人。他一边兴高采烈地说着,一边摆好了架式准备干活。他说:"对我们这样的人来说,这可是一大笔钱呀。"因为就算一个人运气好,能找到工作,按最低工资计算,要四个月才能挣这么些钱。

然而就在不远的地方,有一只大型商业渔船在游弋,那是一只"母船",备有巨大的储藏冰柜,还拖着十几只小船。船员都在船上等候,等到剩余的鱼进入主河道以后,他们就用高效率的刺网进行捕捞,能捞多少,就捞多少。

亚马逊河在世界上是物产丰富的标志,到它现在正经受一场过量捕鱼的危机。随着人们最喜爱的各种鱼类数量日渐减少,到了令人担忧的地步,靠打鱼糊口的渔民和他们商业对手之间的紧张关系也日益加剧,因为这些对手一心想着装满自己的船舱,以满足巴西乃至国外城里人越来越大的吃鱼胃口。

针对这种情况,亚马逊河沿岸的农民群众,在巴西境内也好,在秘鲁等邻国也好,纷纷成立合作社,以求控制捕鱼量,增加河湖中鱼的数量。但是,这方面的努力虽日见成效,却促使那些为商业目的而捕鱼的机构以及附近一些不大守规

矩的农民加紧进行掠夺。

"那些工业化的渔船,二、三十吨位的,他们的想法跟我们这些手工操作的渔民不一样,我们懂得考虑怎样保护环境,"当地的渔业工会主席说道。"他们想用拖网一网打尽,然后有上别处去打。我们出力,他们受益,弄得我们一无所有。"

Part B 二选一题 (30 分) 选题一 [参考译文]

自从经济学家李嘉图于 1817 年提出基本理论以来,经济学方面的经典著作都说自由贸易免除关税、限额和补贴,也没有政府的其他小动作,因此会增加双方的利益。美国的政策是不遗余力地实行这一理论。为什么说自由贸易可以使大家普遍受益呢?这可以在所谓"相对优势"的理论中找到答案。

打个简单的比方,假如一位外科医生,既擅长动手术,又会做常规的验血工作,要取得较好的效益,就应让她集中精力做手术,同时雇一个能力较差的技术员去搞化验,因为这样就能让这位外科医生最有效的利用自己的时间。

引申而言,虽然美国既擅长发明高级的生物技术,有精于日常的药品生产, 明智的做法还是把药品生产从美国转移至生产费用更低的国家。这样,美国人就可以一方面因廉价产品获利,一方面把自己的资源用来从事更有价值的事业。这一向就是讨论问题的前提。但是现在萨缪尔森却提出了不同的看法。如果低工资国家也掌握了先进的产业,怎么办?

据他估计,假如把过多的美国工人失去的较高工资的工作包到国外去,美国从廉价商品的获益不见得能补偿它购买力下降造成的损失。

萨缪尔森断言:"自由贸易并不总是一种双赢的局面。"他说,当今世界这个问题尤其突出。因为像印度和中国这样的大国,他们的工资低的多,可是他们的能力有在不断提高,美国能生产的产品,他们几乎都能生产,美国能提供的服务, 他们也几乎都能够提供。

假如美国与这些国家进行自由贸易,它们低的多的工资产生的巨大影响就会把美国的平均工资往下拉。据他推算,美国的经济仍然会增长,不过比应有的增长速度要低。

选题二 [参考译文]

乌干达渴望得到真正的发展,这种愿望不仅反映在小学生的笑脸上,而且还体现在那么多孩子在上学的现实中。自 1997 年政府开始普及小学教育以来,小

学在校总人数已从 300 万增至 2004 年的 760 万。过去没有学校的地方,现已开办了学校,不过要把教育发展到国内最贫困的地区,还要经过一番努力。

乌干达在发展中等教育和高等教育方面也取得了进展,甚至吸引了其他国家的许多学生前来就学。在中等教育方面,在校人数现已超过 70 万,大多数学校

是民办的。如有学生想继续深造,除 4 家公立大学外,还有 12 家私立大学,共

7.5 万个名额。

人们认为教育是战胜贫困的重要一环,努力增强体质也是重要的一环。然而, 乌干达饱受疾病的拖累,如疟疾、艾滋病等,增强体质绝非一日之功。在这方面, 要解决问题,必须一方面靠国际援助,一方面政府要下决心,继续拨款预防疾病, 并加强宣传公共卫生知识。

目前政府计划包括招聘数千名护理人员,增加药品供应,新建 200 所产科诊所。

财政部长杰拉尔德?森达乌拉说,乌干达人口的年增长率为百分之 3.6,这样高的增长率对消除贫困构成特殊障碍。他还指出,乌干达平均每个女人生 6.9 孩子,这一生育率是全非洲最高的。

政府最近修订过的《消除贫困行动计划》将"恢复安全"列为政府当前的首要任务。这是因为它估计连年不断的冲突已使乌干达的国内生产总值每年下降 3 个百分点。流离失所的人们不仅是财政方面的负担,也不能为发展经济出力。

修订过的《消除贫困行动计划》列举的其他重大事项还包括设法不断提高最低收入,改进教育质量,帮助人们最好地控制家庭人口,透明而有效地使用公共资源等。这一文件值得其他贫困国家借鉴。

Section 2: 汉译英 (40 分)

Part A  (必译题)(20 分)[参考译文]

Mineral resources are an important part of natural resources and an important material foundation for the development of human society. China is one of the first countries in the world to develop and utilize resources.

Over the past five decades, China has made great achievements in the survey and development of its mineral resources. This has provided an important guarantee for

the sustained, rapid and sound development of the Chinese economy.

The Chinese Government attaches great importance to sustainable development and the rational utilization of mineral resources. It has made sustainable development a national strategy and the protection of resources an important part of this strategy.

China is developing country with a large population and a relative shortage of resources. It depends mainly on the exploitation of its own mineral resources to meet the needs of its modernization program. Meanwhile, it has made energetic efforts to introduce foreign capital and technology to exploit its own resources, make use of foreign markets and foreign mineral resources, and strive to help its own mining enterprises and mineral products to enter the international market.

Part B 二选一题 (30 分)

选题一[参考译文]

As everyone knows, birds cannot fly without wings and a person cannot walk without legs. But for Yin Xiaoxing, while birds cannot fly without wings, a person can walk even without legs!

Born in 1970 into a farmer's family in Jiangsu Province, Yin Xiaoxing suffered from polio and acute pneumonia at the age of only eight months. He survived but lost the ability to stand on his feet. Because of his disability, Xiaoxing had to give up his study after junior middle school. The burden of life seemed to be especially heavy for him. He tried to make a living by selling fruits, raising chickens and taking pains to learn traditional Chinese medicine.

 

At the age of 21, this young man, with a map and a compass in hand, embarked on the hard journey of traveling around China in his wheelchair.

In the last 12 years, Yin Xiaoxing traveled a total of 70,000 kilometers in his wheelchair and left his footprints in 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. During this period, he wore out four wheelchairs. He left a trail of human records including climbing more than 20 famous mountains like Mont Tai, Mount  Hua and Mount Heng with his hands, crossing the 5,231-meter-high Mount Tanggula alone, traveling along the Silk Road in wheelchair, crossing the Taklimakan Desert,

getting to the top of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower in Shanghai with his hands, and completing the journey from the desert to Hong Kong.

选题二[参考译文]

The Great Wall is a wonder of the world. Now, millions of people journey to the Great Wall each year, making its most popular sites besieged by hordes of tourists during busy seasons.

The Chinese have a long history of building walls, dating from the Warring States period. In history, about 20 walls were built, with the wall constructed during the Ming Dynasty being the longest, extending 6,700 km. China was the most technologically advanced nation in the world then, so the wall was also the most sophisticated in structure. It was built to ward off the invasion of nomads from the north.

After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, since its founders were themselves nomads, they did not see a need to continue with wall building. Nonetheless, the Qing government did institute a law to preserve the wall, banning the removal of bricks from it. But, the impact of time and continuous wars have left the wall greatly damaged in its most accessible sections.

Over the past 10-plus years, the booming tourist industry has stimulated the Great wall's renovation project.