[外语类试卷]口译二级实务会议致辞练习试卷1及答案与解析.doc

1、口译二级实务会议致辞练习试卷 1及答案与解析 一、 PART 1 English-Chinese Translation (50 points, 30 minutes) Interpret the following passages from English into Chinese. Start interpreting at the signal and stop it at the signal. You may take notes while you are listening. You will hear the passages only ONCE. Now lets begi

2、n. 1 Thank you, Mr. Bishop, Assistant Vice Minister Li, Chinese Peoples Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries President Lu Qiutian, and Vice President Li Xiaolin, All China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese Vice President Tang Wensheng, distinguished guests representing the Peoples

3、 Republic of China, your excellencies and other colleagues in the diplomatic corps, honored guests, friends and my fellow Americans. / This year, as you can see, our focus is on the great American state of Florida. I wish to thank the terrific American companies that have joined us in sponsoring tod

4、ays event. Sarah and I hope that you will join us in enjoying their fine products. I also want to thank acting administration consular Terry Wong and his team for organizing and decorating for todays event. / Over the long Independence Day holiday in the United States, many of the visitors to Washin

5、gton are driving into nearby Virginia to visit the home of George Washington, Mount Vernon. Others are traveling a short distance farther along the same highway to visit the home of his neighbor, George Mason. Masons home is called Gunston Hall. / These neighboring Virginia farmers are now recognize

6、d as two of the leading men of the founding generation. George Washington University in the District of Columbia honors our first president. A few miles away in Virginia is George Mason University. A visit to Gunston Hall is rewarding. It is a brick building in the early Georgian style of the eighte

7、enth century. A modern visitor is delighted to find that Mason chose to decorate one of the rooms in what was then the Chinese style, or “Chinoiserie. “ There he and his wife displayed some Chinese plates and vases. / The walls were painted with what English decorators then imagined to be scenes of

8、China. You can also see this same style in the diplomatic entrance foyer off the south entrance to the white house. What do these items in Masons “Chinoiserie“ room tell us? They show that the trade between china and Europe in the reign of Emperor Qianlong had reached America. They demonstrate how C

9、hinese art, then as now, exerted a powerful influence on the western imagination. But they also tell us that while Americans knew something of china and the wonders of its civilization, there was not yet much contact between China and America. / What did George Mason and others of his generation kno

10、w of China? That china was a powerful and wealthy civilization. That it pioneered such innovations in government as the civil service examinations. But no doubt they also knew that china under the Manchus faced severe problems, especially from arbitrary rule and corruption. These were problems that

11、Americans of the time knew at first hand because they faced similar problems as a colony. / Masons contribution to American independence was the drafting of the Virginia Bill of Rights, adopted by the state of Virginia just three weeks before the Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Indepe

12、ndence. It guaranteed the rights to life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness and safety. / Please join me in an Independence Day toast. To President Hu and President Bush. May the friendship and mutual understanding between china and the United States continue to expand and prosper not o

13、nly to the benefit of our two great nations and peoples but also to the benefit of all nations and peoples. And, may human dignity and liberty flourish. / (Excerpts from the speech presented to the guests of the July 4th Celebration by Clark T. Randt, Jr, former US Ambassador to China in Beifing on

14、July 4th, 2004) 2 Chief Justice Li, Ladies and gentlemen, Thank you for giving me the privilege of attending this historic dedication and for asking me to speak to you this morning. / Universities, like most other human institutions and enterprises, must be always in search of new systems, new model

15、s, new ways to perform their essential mission. That is why it is of paramount importance for this school to prosper and succeed. And when it does, your model can inspire dynamic changes in legal education throughout your great nation. Your success is important for China. And your school is importan

16、t for other nations who want to rely upon law and the legal profession to find common goals to achieve common progress. / In the United States our law school professors have immense talent, and law schools are influential in government and in society at large. As some of you know, our law review sys

17、tem relies on students who are just beginning to study and to explore the law to engage in formal criticism of decisions made by judges. Judges, of course, are senior to students in years and in experience. But the judges respect and welcome the criticism from those who are just beginning to study t

18、he law. / Judges do not view student and faculty criticism simply as a necessary way to train the next generation of legal thinkers. Judges and indeed the whole profession embrace the criticism as a crucial check on the power of the bench and bar. We rely on criticism from law students to see if we

19、can find new insights to express new principles that strengthen the Rule of Law. So our law professors and our law students can be proud of their work, even when that work criticizes authority. / Sometimes we hear law professors say: “we teach our students how to think. “ In one sense this should no

20、t be at all surprising. Any teacher in any subject at any level wants to teach students how to think. So in some respects the law professors boast is nothing more than a commonplace observation. Successful teachers always seek to inspire students to be precise and clear. / Too often, however, the su

21、ggestion or connotation is that professors at law schools have some sort of a monopoly on clear thinking. That, of course, is pretentious, narrow, and simply wrong. And to prove that law has no monopoly on thinking, one need only notice those law schools which now hire law professors with a rich, di

22、verse interdisciplinary background. Our law professors come to law school with degrees not only in law but other fields as well. / The thirst for interdisciplinary diversity has had an effect on the ranks of law students as well. It used to be that desks in law school classrooms were manned by pupil

23、s with a more or less homogeneous background. Most had undergraduate majors in pre-law or political science and had come straight to law school after completing their undergraduate studies. Today we see a different dynamic. Alongside the political science undergrad we find economics, chemistry and l

24、iterature majors, or even find students have made a professional mark on the world in one field or who have an advanced degree and who are now eager to bring that experience to our venerable profession. / The law professors selfimportant claim that he or she teaches students how to think is in need

25、of some revision, some refinement. We can discard that unwarranted pretension, yet we can continue to capture the vital and unique societal function law schools perform. We can say that law schools train students how to think about simple things in a formal way. This is the path to a world of though

26、t that discovers moral principles and social responsibilities in everyday activities. / If the law student is to succeed in this worthwhile project, he or she must be patient. This may account in part for the slight, initial disappointment some beginning law students feel. They come to law school fi

27、lled with idealism and great expectations. They are eager to learn the truths that ought to inform any enlightened system of justice. Then the student finds that he or she is required to spend hours interpreting a few little words, or even the punctuation, in a contract or a statute. They might beco

28、me impatient. They ask themselves “why am I spending my time on detail when I am so anxious to find solutions for the crises of our times?“ To this question there are a number of answers. Let me give a few. / To begin with it is necessary to teach certain elementary rules and principles for interpre

29、ting documents, enforcing contracts, and imposing liability just so that we can have simple rules to begin managing an evermore complex society. Every science in every discipline must begin by teaching students its own vocabulary, and its own basic assumptions, and its own rudimentary principles. /A

30、nd then, too, in law school we hope to teach the tools of debate and rhetoric. We want to teach a means for reconciling disputes and reaching common agreement through civil, productive, rational, respectful, honest discussion and debate. A student in a law school should learn to argue a difficult pr

31、oposition in a graceful, diplomatic, courteous, logical way that shows at all times the respect that he or she has for all others engaged in the process. / (Excerpt from remarks by Justice Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court on the Occasion of the Opening of the Peking University School of Transnati

32、onal Law) 口译二级实务会议致辞练习试卷 1答案与解析 一、 PART 1 English-Chinese Translation (50 points, 30 minutes) Interpret the following passages from English into Chinese. Start interpreting at the signal and stop it at the signal. You may take notes while you are listening. You will hear the passages only ONCE. Now

33、lets begin. 1 【正确答案】 谢谢裴孝贤先生、谢谢李部长助理、中国外交协会会长卢秋田先生、对外友协副会长李小林女士、中华全国归国华侨联合会副主席唐闻生女士、谢谢代表中华人民共和国出席招待会的尊贵客人们、使团各位同行阁下以及尊敬的来宾、朋友和我的美国同胞们： / 今年，正如您所看到的，我们的注意力集中在美国伟大的佛罗里达州。我还想感谢赞助今天活动的优秀的美国公司，谢谢你们加入到这次活动中来。莎拉和我希望大家能喜 欢他们带来的精美产品。我同时感谢美国使馆代理公使特里 ?王和他的部下组织了今天的活动，装点了今天的会场。 / 在美国独立日这个长假里，许多游览华盛顿的游客驱车前往弗吉尼亚州去

34、瞻仰华盛顿的故居和维农山，其他游客沿着同一条高速公路近距离拜访他的邻居乔治 ?梅森。梅森的家是甘斯顿庄园。 / 这两位弗吉尼亚州相邻的农民，现在被公认为是国父级的领袖。位于哥伦比亚特区的乔治 ?华盛顿大学的创建就是为了纪念这位美国首任总统。，在几英里之外的弗吉尼亚州建有乔治 ?梅森大学。甘斯顿庄园值得前往拜访。这是一座 18世纪早 期乔治亚风格的砖砌建筑。现代拜访者很高兴的发现梅森先生将其中的一间屋子装饰成中国风格，或者说是具有 “18世纪的中国艺术风格 ”。他和他的妻子在里面展示了一些中国的盘子和花瓶。 / 房间的墙壁被粉刷成当时英国装饰者想象中的中国风情。你还可以在白宫南入口处的外交人员入

35、口大厅看到同样的风格。摆在梅森的 “中国艺术风格 ”房间里的这些物品告诉了我们什么 ?这些物品说明在乾隆统治时期，中国和欧洲之间的贸易已经延伸到美国；这些物品还展示了中国艺术一直以来对西方想象力所产生的强烈影响；这些物品同时还告诉我们，在美国人民对 中国和中国文明奇迹有所了解的同时，两国之间并没有太多的接触。 / 对于中国，乔治 ?梅森及其同时代的人都知道些什么 ?他们知道中国是强大而富饶的文明大国；他们知道中国率先在政府里进行了例如科举制度的革新；但是毫无疑问，他们也明白，在满洲统治下的中国也面临着许多严重问题，特别是专制统治和腐败。这些都是那个时代美国人所了解的第一手信息，因为他们，作为殖

36、民地人民，也面临着同样的问题。 / 梅森对美国独立的贡献是在大陆会议签署独立宣言前 3个星期，起草了弗吉尼亚权利法案，并被弗吉尼亚州采用，这个法 案保证了生命、自由、财产、和追求幸福与安全的权利。 / 我提议为独立日干杯，为胡锦涛主席和布什总统干杯。祝愿中美之间的友谊之树继续常青，相互理解继续加深 !祝福中关两个伟大的国家和人民利益，也祝福全世界和全人类的利益 !祝愿人类尊严和自由长盛不衰 !/ (选自前美国驻华大使雷德 ?克拉克 ?兰特在美国独立日庆祝会上的致辞， 2004年7月 4日，北京 ) 【知识模块】 会议致辞 2 【正确答案】 首席大法官李先生， 女士们，先生们， 感谢你们给我如此

37、殊荣出席今天上午这一具有历史意义的创院典礼，也谢谢你们邀请我发表演讲。 / 如同其他大多教人文机构和企业一样，大学必须经常为执行自身的基本使命不断寻求新的体系、新的模式和新的方法。这就是为什么这所学院的兴旺与成功具有至高无上的重要意义。这所学院如取得成功，你们的模式就可以激发这个伟大国家的法律教育不断进行变革。你们的成功不仅对中国具有重要意义，对于希望依靠法律和法律行业取得共同进步、达到共同目标的其他国家而言，也同样具有重要意义。 / 在美国，我们的法学教授拥有很高的才智，法 学院对政府和整个社会都具有影响力。你们有些人知道，我国的法律审察制度依靠刚开始学习和探索法律的学生以规范方式对法官做出

38、的裁决提出批评意见。当然，法官比学生年长且富有更多的经验，但法官尊重并欢迎初学法律的人士提出批评。 / 法官们不仅仅视法学院师生的批评为培养下一代法律思想家的一种必要手段。法官乃至整个法律界都认识到批评是制约法官和律师权力的重要手段。我们依靠法学院学生的批评，试图发现一些新的见解，借此阐释有助于增强法治的新原则。因此，我们的法学教授和法学院学生都为自己的工作感到自豪，即便在批评权威时 也是如此。 / 有时，我们会听到法学教授说： “我们教导学生如何思考。 ”从某种意义上来说，这种说法丝毫不令人感到意外。任何学科、任何层面的教师都希望教学生如何思考。因此在某种程度上，可以说法学教授的这种自夸不过

39、是一种十分普遍的言论成功的教师历来启发学生要做到头脑严谨、思维清晰。 /但法学教授们的言下之意常常是，法学教授对思维的清晰性具有某种垄断性。这当然是过于自命不凡、狭窄和完全错误的。要证明法律并不垄断思维，人们只要注意一下某些法学院聘用法律教授的情况就可以了。这些受聘的法律教授具有丰富多样的跨学科 背景。我们的法学教授不仅拥有法律学位，而且拥有其他学科的学位。 / 对跨学科多样性的渴求也对各级法学院学生产生了影响。过去法学院教室里的学生拥有的背景大同小异。他们大都是大学法律预科或政治学专业的本科生，毕业后直接进入法学院学习。今天，我们看到的是另一种态势。除了政治学本科生外，还有主修经济学、化学和

40、文学的学生，甚至有一些学生已在世界上某个专业领域取得了卓越的成就，或已获得高级学位，现在迫切希望将个人专长带入我们这个崇高的行业。 / 法学教授们声称他们教导学生如何思考，这种自命不凡的说法需要 修正并加以完善。我们可以一方面摒弃这种无根据的自命不凡，另一方面继续强调法学院所发挥的关键和独特的社会功能。我们可以说，法学院训练学生如何规范地思考简单问题。他们沿着这条道路可以走入一个思想的世界，从而在日常生活中发现道德原则和社会责任。 / 为了在这个值得为之努力的学科取得成功，法学院学生必须具备耐心。一些法律专业的新生最初会感到有些失望，其中部分原因就是他们缺乏耐心。他们进入法学院时踌躇满志、雄心

41、勃勃。他们渴望学习任何开明公正的司法制度秉承的真理。但随后，学生们发现他们必须花费大量时间解释一份合 同或一项法规中的只言片语，甚至是标点符号。他们可能因此失去耐心。他们会问自己： “我多么希望为解决我们这个时代的种种危机寻求出路，而此时我为什么要在细枝末节上花费时间 ?”对这个问题有几种答案。我想谈谈其中几个。 / 首先，讲授有关解释文本、执行合同和追究责任的基本规则和原则的确很有必要，以便我们能够为着手管理这个日益复杂的社会掌握一些简要原则。任何一门学科中的任何知识，都必须始于教给学生专业语汇、基本假设和基础原则。 /其次，我们也希望在法学院传授论辩和论证的技巧。我们希望传授一些方法，通过文明、有效 、理性、相互尊重以及开诚布公的讨论和辩论来调解纠纷，达成共同协议。一名法学院学生应当学会以文雅的风度、得体的言谈、彬彬有礼的姿态和严密的逻辑思维对棘手的案例进行论辩，自始至终对其他的所有涉案方表示尊重。 / (节选自美国最高法院大法官安东尼 ?肯尼迪在北京大学深圳研究生院举行的北京大学国际法学院创院典礼上的讲话 ) 【知识模块】 会议致辞