翻译三级笔译实务分类模拟题8及答案解析.doc

1、翻译三级笔译实务分类模拟题 8 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、English Chinese Tran(总题数：5，分数：100.00)1.It“s a typical Snoopy card: cheerful message, bright colors, though a little yellow and faded now. Though I“ve received fancier, more expensive card over the years, this is the only one I“ve saved. One summer, it spo

2、ke volumes to me. I received it during the first June I faced as a widow to raise two teenage daughters alone. In all the emotional confusion of this sudden single parenthood, I was overwhelmed with, of all things, the simplest housework: leaky taps, oil changes, even barbeques(烧烤). Those had always

3、 been my husband“s jobs. I was embarrassed every time I hit my thumb with a hammer or couldn“t get the lawnmower(割草机) started. My uncertain attempts only fueled the fear inside me: How could I be both a father and mother to my girls? Clearly, I lacked the tools and skills. On this particular morning

4、, my girls pushed me into the living room to see something. (I prayed it wasn“t another repair job.) The “something“ turned out to be an envelope and several wrapped bundles on the carpet. My puzzlement must have been plain as I gazed from the colorful packages to my daughters“ bright faces. “Go ahe

5、ad! Open them!“ They urged. As I unwrapped the packages, I discovered a small barbecue grill(烧烤架) and all the necessary objects including a green kitchen glove with a frog pattern on it. “But why?“ I asked. “Happy Father“s Day!“ they shouted together. “Morns don“t get presents on Father“s Day.“ I pr

6、otested. “You forgot to open the card.“ Jane reminded. I pulled it from the envelope. There sat Snoopy, on top of his dog house, merrily wishing me a Happy Father“s Day. “Because,“ the girls said, “you“ve been a father and mother to us. Why shouldn“t you be remembered on Father“s Day?“ As I fought b

7、ack tears, I realized they were right, I wanted to be a “professional“ dad, who had the latest tools and knew all the tricks of the trade. The girls only wanted a parent they could count on to be there, day after day, performing repeatedly the maintenance tasks of basic care and love. The girls are

8、grown now, and they still send me Father“s Day cards, but none of those cards means as: much to me as that first one. Its simple message told me being a great parent didn“t require any special tools at alljust a willing worker. （分数：20.00）_2.A few years ago, the rich world“s worry about economic inte

9、raction with developing countries was that the poor could not profit from it. So unbalanced were the terms of exchange between the North“s mighty industries and the South“s weakling sweatshops that trade between the two could be nothing more than exploitation of the one by the other; far from helpin

10、g the poor countries, global integration would actually deepen their poverty. This fear has now given way to a pessimism that is equal and oppositenamely, that trade with the developing world will impoverish today“s rich countries. This new fear is more dangerous than the old one. The earlier scare

11、tacitly “affirmed that the industrial countries would suffer if they cut heir links with the third world. Starting from there, campaigning in the North to restrict trade with developing countries was going to be an uphill struggle. Those who oppose deeper economic integration now have a better platf

12、orm. Vital interests oblige the rich countries to protect their industries from the new competition. Unlike its predecessor, this idea may sell. The new fear, like the old one, expresses the conviction that growth in one part of the world must somehow come at the expense of another. This is a deeply

13、 rooted prejudice, and plainly wrong. Very nearly all of the world is more prosperous now than it was 30 years ago. Growth has been a story of mutual advance. Lending useful support to this first error is a secondthe idea that there is only so much work to go round. If new technologies make some job

14、s obsolete, or if an increase in the supply of cheap imports makes other jobs uneconomic, the result must be a permanent rise in unemployment. Again, on a moment“s reflection, this is wrong. At the core of both errors is blindness to the adaptive power of a market economy. （分数：20.00）_3.Three passion

15、s, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the verge o

16、f despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasyecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim

17、 of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this

18、 is what at last I have found. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. A little of this, but not much. I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward reward the heavens. But a

19、lways pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberated in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to all

20、eviate the evil, but I cannot and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and I would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me. （分数：20.00）_4.For all the fevered work being done, however, science is still far away from the Brave New World vision of engineering

21、a perfect human or even a perfect tomato. Much more research is needed before gone therapy becomes commonplace, and many diseases will take decades to conquer, if they can be conquered at all. In the short run, the most practical way to use the new technology will be in genetic screening. Doctors wi

22、ll be able to detect all sorts of flaws in DNA long before they can be fixed. In some cases the knowledge may lead to treatments that delay the onset of the disease or soften its effects. Someone with a genetic predisposition to heart disease, for example, could follow a low-fat diet. And if scienti

23、sts determine that a vital protein is missing because the gone that was supposed to make it is defective, they might be able to give the patient an artificial version of the protein. But in other instances, almost nothing can be done to stop the ravages brought on by genetic mutations. （分数：20.00）_5.

24、Artificial intelligence and virtual reality are two computer-related technologies that may cast a large shadow on education. Much of school planning may be done not by human agents but by programs created by human agents; and much of what was once accomplished by textbooks and occasional field trips

25、 will now be performed in virtual reality. One can ask: what is the truth value of materials prepared entirely by non-human entities? In a turnabout from previous trends, the acquisition of credentials may become less important. Individuals will be able to educate themselves (largely if not wholly)

26、and to exhibit their mastery in a simulated setting. Why pay $120,000 to go to law school, if one can “read law“ as in earlier times and then demonstrate one“s legal skills via computer simulation? Or learn to fly a plane by similar means, for that matter? Technology has revolutionized the world in

27、which schools operate. Now it“s time for education to catch up to change. （分数：20.00）_翻译三级笔译实务分类模拟题 8 答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、English Chinese Tran(总题数：5，分数：100.00)1.It“s a typical Snoopy card: cheerful message, bright colors, though a little yellow and faded now. Though I“ve received fancier, mor

28、e expensive card over the years, this is the only one I“ve saved. One summer, it spoke volumes to me. I received it during the first June I faced as a widow to raise two teenage daughters alone. In all the emotional confusion of this sudden single parenthood, I was overwhelmed with, of all things, t

29、he simplest housework: leaky taps, oil changes, even barbeques(烧烤). Those had always been my husband“s jobs. I was embarrassed every time I hit my thumb with a hammer or couldn“t get the lawnmower(割草机) started. My uncertain attempts only fueled the fear inside me: How could I be both a father and mo

30、ther to my girls? Clearly, I lacked the tools and skills. On this particular morning, my girls pushed me into the living room to see something. (I prayed it wasn“t another repair job.) The “something“ turned out to be an envelope and several wrapped bundles on the carpet. My puzzlement must have bee

31、n plain as I gazed from the colorful packages to my daughters“ bright faces. “Go ahead! Open them!“ They urged. As I unwrapped the packages, I discovered a small barbecue grill(烧烤架) and all the necessary objects including a green kitchen glove with a frog pattern on it. “But why?“ I asked. “Happy Fa

32、ther“s Day!“ they shouted together. “Morns don“t get presents on Father“s Day.“ I protested. “You forgot to open the card.“ Jane reminded. I pulled it from the envelope. There sat Snoopy, on top of his dog house, merrily wishing me a Happy Father“s Day. “Because,“ the girls said, “you“ve been a fath

33、er and mother to us. Why shouldn“t you be remembered on Father“s Day?“ As I fought back tears, I realized they were right, I wanted to be a “professional“ dad, who had the latest tools and knew all the tricks of the trade. The girls only wanted a parent they could count on to be there, day after day

34、, performing repeatedly the maintenance tasks of basic care and love. The girls are grown now, and they still send me Father“s Day cards, but none of those cards means as: much to me as that first one. Its simple message told me being a great parent didn“t require any special tools at alljust a will

35、ing worker. （分数：20.00）_正确答案：()解析：这是一张典型的史努比卡片：带着愉悦的文字和明亮的颜色，如今已有点发黄褪色。尽管过去几年，我都会收到一些既精美又昂贵的卡片，但是这张卡片却是我保存下来的唯一的一张。我在一个夏天收到它，它对我有着不寻常的意义。 我是在变成寡妇的第一年的六月收到这张卡片的，当时我需要独自抚养两个十几岁的女儿。突然变成单身母亲，我无可逃避地需要处理许多问题，即使是最简单的家务：水龙头漏水、换煤气，甚至是烧烤。这些一直都是我丈夫的事情。每当我的拇指被锤头碰伤或者不能开动割草机的时候，我就会感到很困窘。 我那靠不住的行为引起了我内心的恐惧：对我的孩子们来说

36、，我怎么可能承担起既当父亲又当母亲的责任呢?很明显，我缺乏必要的工具和技能。 那是一个特别的早上，我的女儿们把我推到了卧室看点东西。(我祈祷着别又是修理工作)。那个“东西”是地毯上的一个包装好的一个信封。我看看那多彩的包装，又盯向女儿们红润的脸颊，一脸的茫然。 “去把它打开。”他们催促我。在我把包装打开之后，我发现一个小烧烤架以及其它一些必备的东西和一副印有青蛙图案的绿色厨房手套。 “怎么回事呢?”我迷惑了。 “父亲节快乐!”他们喊道。 “妈妈在父亲节不收礼物的。”我抗议道。 “您忘了打开卡片。”简提醒我说。我把卡片从信封里拉出来，上面画着一个坐在狗舍上面的史努比，高兴地说祝我父亲节快乐。“因

37、为，”女孩们说道，“您对我们来说既是妈妈又是爸爸，在父亲节我们怎么可能想不起您来呢?” 我忍住即将流下的泪水，意识到他们说的是对的。我想要成为一名“专业”爸爸，哪有人有最新的工具和职业中的所有窍门呢?孩子们想要的是一个能够依靠的家长，并能够从中日复一日地得到最基本的照顾和爱心。 现在孩子们长大了，她们仍然送我父亲节卡片。但是没有一个卡片对我来说像第一张有意义。上面简单的信息告诉了我，做一个伟大的家长根本就不需要特殊的工具，只要心甘情愿就好。2.A few years ago, the rich world“s worry about economic interaction with deve

38、loping countries was that the poor could not profit from it. So unbalanced were the terms of exchange between the North“s mighty industries and the South“s weakling sweatshops that trade between the two could be nothing more than exploitation of the one by the other; far from helping the poor countr

39、ies, global integration would actually deepen their poverty. This fear has now given way to a pessimism that is equal and oppositenamely, that trade with the developing world will impoverish today“s rich countries. This new fear is more dangerous than the old one. The earlier scare tacitly “affirmed

40、 that the industrial countries would suffer if they cut heir links with the third world. Starting from there, campaigning in the North to restrict trade with developing countries was going to be an uphill struggle. Those who oppose deeper economic integration now have a better platform. Vital intere

41、sts oblige the rich countries to protect their industries from the new competition. Unlike its predecessor, this idea may sell. The new fear, like the old one, expresses the conviction that growth in one part of the world must somehow come at the expense of another. This is a deeply rooted prejudice

42、, and plainly wrong. Very nearly all of the world is more prosperous now than it was 30 years ago. Growth has been a story of mutual advance. Lending useful support to this first error is a secondthe idea that there is only so much work to go round. If new technologies make some jobs obsolete, or if

43、 an increase in the supply of cheap imports makes other jobs uneconomic, the result must be a permanent rise in unemployment. Again, on a moment“s reflection, this is wrong. At the core of both errors is blindness to the adaptive power of a market economy. （分数：20.00）_正确答案：()解析：几年前，富国担忧的是穷国可能不会从富国与发展

44、中国家的经济交流中受益。因此不平等就成为北方强大的工业化国家和南方弱小的血汗工厂之间交换条件的代名词，而两者之间的贸易无非就是一方对另一方的剥削。随着全球经济一体化的到来，穷国非但没有从中受益，反而加剧了它们的贫困。这种担忧如今已经转为一种与此相同、但是意思相反的悲观情绪，即与发展中国家的贸易会导致现在的富国变穷。 与旧的担忧相比，这种新的担忧更加危险。旧的担忧默认的一个事实是，工业化国家若割断与第三世界的联系则会遭受损失。因此可以说，北方限制与发展中国家进行贸易的活动是一场艰难的斗争。如今，反对深化经济一体化的那些人拥有了一个更好的平台。在至关重要的利益驱使下，富国要保护自己的工业免于新的竞

45、争。与原来的观点不同的是，这次的观点也许将被接受。 与旧的担忧相似的地方是，新的担忧同样表达了一种观点，也就是世界上一部分地区要取得发展，就必须牺牲另一部分地区的利益。这是一种根深蒂固的偏见，并且明显是错误的。与 30 年前相比，世界上几乎所有地区都要更加繁荣。这个事实证明，发展是一种相互受益的共同进步。 第二种错误观点是在支持第一种错误观点的基础上产生的，也就是能够分配的工作是有限的。若新技术使某些工作消失，若廉价进口品的供给增加导致其他工作不经济，势必会造成失业率的持续上升。可经过稍微的思索就会发现，这种观点是错误的。 没有考虑市场经济的巨大调节力量是产生以上两种错误的核心原因。3.Thr

46、ee passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to t

47、he verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasyecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it