1、口译二级实务体育练习试卷 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 begin.
2、 1 Ellen Wille, the Norwegian associations delegate at the 45th FIFA (Fdation Internationale de Football Association) Congress in Mexico City in 1986, impressed upon FIFA that more should be done to further women football and to unfold the latent potential in this sector of the game. Little did Will
3、e know her spark would light the way for the womens football movement./ Presiding over the debates at the Congress, former FIFA President Joo Havelange not only agreed entirely with the Norwegian female representative but also assured her that he personally would back the womens football movement, s
4、etting up an ad hoc committee as the first step. / Have lange and then-Secretary General Joseph Blatter were serious about supporting the womens sector. As a long-serving member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Havelange had seen for himself how women had been given the opportunity to c
5、ompete as equals in a variety of Olympic disciplines to the sheer delight of the crowds. It was only a question of time before women would be beating the drum for their own world football tournament. If football genuinely intended to achieve universal appeal, it could not turn its back on the female
6、 half of the worlds population. / Following the FIFA Presidents consent, the womens football scene in pioneering countries such as Norway, Sweden, Germany, Italy and the USA where 40 percent of all the players enrolled in clubs are girls and women was given a shot in the arm. The prospects of a worl
7、d championship afforded womens football an arena that would highlight the attractiveness and style of this type of football. In any case, it was high time to snuff out any remaining prejudice. which, although unfounded, would still be difficult to eradicate. / Sure enough, in 1988 a tournament was s
8、taged in the province of Guangdong in southern China as a testing ground for a world championship. The high standards of play coupled with the scramble for tickets convinced the world governing body and its special committee that they were steering in the right direction. /The auspicious start motiv
9、ated the World Cups official sponsors to cultivate an interest in womens football. Barely three years later, twelve national teams from all over the world gathered in southern China where the women footballers enraptured the football world in Guangzhou and four other towns in Guangdong province. / S
10、purred on by spirited crowds, they demolished the wall of prejudice that had once thwarted their progress with displays of technique, imagination and dynamism at their first world championship in PRC. /The positive impression was perpetuated when the FIFA Referees Committee appointed women to offici
11、ate as referees and to serve on the touchline for one of the matches. The high point came when, for the first time in the history of a FIFA competition, Claudia de Vasconcelos from Brazil competently refereed the playoff for third place as though it was second nature. / China 1991 was a solid founda
12、tion on which to build. Responding to a suggestion from women players and officials that there was still a great deal of groundwork to be done, FIFA invited interested parties to a seminar in Zurich in autumn 1992. / The outcome was a somewhat sobering experience in spite of encouraging signs of gro
13、wth in the USA and some leading European footballing countries. Elsewhere, however, social conventions stood in the way of a breakthrough for womens football. Even today in countries in which womens football is widely played there still exists a disconcerting lack of resources to establish a profess
14、ional league at the top of the scale. / The infrastructure for mens football took decades to develop before it acquired the predominance it enjoys today. Womens football ventured its first hesitant steps at the end of the last century but, in spite of widespread popularity over the past twenty years
15、, it is still very much in its infancy. This is where the associations come in. It is now up to them to nurture womens football actively (it is, after all, the most popular womens team sport in the world) by incorporating it, for example, in their general television and marketing contracts. / 2 The
16、1995 Womens World Cup in Sweden was anticipated as the consecration of the success which the womens game enjoyed at the inaugural championship in China in 199. After 52 teams participated in qualifying play, players from the best dozen teams in the world came together in the quest for two prizes: th
17、e World Cup itself, but also qualification for the first womens Olympic Football Tournament the following year in the United States. / The predominant impression from Sweden was that womens football was very alive, very well, and growing fast. All the positive features of the China tournament were i
18、n evidence again, notably the spirit of fair play, the will to attack, and the uninhibited enjoyment of the game. / But there were other new positive aspects, too. Not only did more teams in Sweden appear to have a greater number of first-choice players than in China, but also the gap in skill and t
19、alent between the top teams and the less successful had clearly closed over the past half decade. Whats more, significant progress in the refereeing sector had taken place, with women officials taking charge of several matches, including the final. / Europe still dominated the game in 1995, with the
20、 USA a proven strength, and the Far East another hotbed. But it was now for a few particular areas of the world, notably South America and also Africa, to recognize the ineluctable evolution and rise to the challenge of the future. / The best example of this new change was evident in Brazil which, a
21、fter a disappointing performance in Sweden, enthusiastically set about building up a new national team and saw its efforts crowned with a richly deserved fourth place in the 1996 Olympic Football Tournaments. / In addition to the fact that the standard of football was high throughout the event, Atla
22、nta96 will be remembered for being the first time ever that there was a womens football tournament at the Olympics. Nearly 1.4 million people watched the matches averaging over 40,000 per game. / With its incredible setting and fantastic atmosphere, the Womens World Cup USA 1999 final was a mileston
23、e in the history of womens sports of any kind. This World Cup will go down in sports history as a turning point; it has set the standard against which events today and in the future are measured, and will forever be remembered as the breakthrough that spurred on and encouraged every confederation, e
24、very national association and every club to continue to try to do everything possible for the womens game. / No fewer than 90,000 women, men, girls and boys were there, including former President Bill Clinton of the United States of America, filled the stadium on a baking hot day at the final of the
25、 Womens World Cup in Los Angeles on 9 July 1999. Media interest reached new heights. The American team finally made the nations dream come true, but only after scoring with a fifth and final penalty kick. Pictures of the teams celebrations were rushed round the world and will be remembered for a lon
26、g time. / Teams from 104 nations participated in qualifying competition for the FIFA Womens World Cup USA 2003, nearly 25 more teams than in 1999. It is recognized that there is a need to raise the skill level of players, from the local level all the way through the top teams, so that the next Women
27、s World Cup final round also captivates spectators in terms of quality technical and tactical and underscores that womens football has definitely established itself. / The way to the top begins at an early age. It is, therefore, vital for every club to support the ambitions of the national associati
28、on by engaging qualified staff for coaching at the youngest levels. On the international scene, this will lead to the base of the pyramid widening and a significant pay-off in terms of quality at the top later on. / Over 80 teams participated in qualifying for the first FIFA U-19 Championship, held
29、in Canada in 2002. Although it will take time for the effect to be felt, for new nations to start to challenge todays best, more competition can only be for the good of the game overall. / 口译二级实务体育练习 试卷 1答案与解析 一、 PART 1 English-Chinese Translation (50 points, 30 minutes) Interpret the following pass
30、ages 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 begin. 1 【正确答案】 艾伦 -威尔是 1986年在墨西哥城召开的国际足联第 45次代表大会上挪威足协的一位代表，她向国际足联积极建议应该为发展女子足球采取更多的举措，让足球运动的另一半人口也能够展示出自己的潜力。威尔恐怕没有
31、想到，她灵感的火花会在随后照亮女足运动发展的道路。 /作为大会辩论的主持，前国际足联主席阿维兰热不仅完全同意这位挪威女代表的意见，而且还向她保证，自己本人一定会支持女足运动的发展，并成立了一个特别委员会作为行动的第一步。 / 阿维兰热和当时的秘书长约瑟夫 ?布拉特在支持女足运动的问题上是非常严肃认真的。作为在国际奥委会 (IOC)任职多年的成员之一，阿维兰热本人已经亲眼看到，女性在很多奥运会项目上都已获得平等比赛的权利，观众对此也是十分高兴。女性为自己的世界足球锦标赛摇旗呐喊只是个时间问题而已。如果足球真想吸引全世界的注目，它就不可能向占世界一半人口的女性说不。 / 随着国际足联主席的首肯，一
32、些女足运动的先驱国家开始大张旗鼓地行动起来，其中包括挪威、瑞典、德国、意大利还有美国 那里已加入俱乐部的球员有40%是女性。 这项有望成为世界锦标赛的运动，将为独具魅力的女子足球提供一个展示自己的舞台。无论如何，现在是消除一切成见的时候了，尽管这些成见毫无根据，但它们的确不容易被根除。 / 果然，作为世界锦标赛的试验场地， 1988年在中国南部的广东省举行了一场赛事。高水平的比赛和球迷抢购球票的盛况使国际足联及其执行机构确信他们正沿着正确的方向前进。 /初战告捷也令世界杯的官方赞助商们对女子足球渐渐有了兴趣。仅三年时间， 12支来自世界各地的国家队齐聚中国南部，她们在广州以及广东省的其他四座城
33、市展开对决，这些女足姑娘们的表现令 整个足球世界陶醉了。 / 在中国举办的首届世界女足锦标赛上，在狂热球迷的鼓舞下，她们充分展示了自己的技术、想象力和朝气蓬勃的活力，将所有阻碍女足前进的偏见都推翻了。 /当国际足联裁判委员会在其中一场比赛中指定女性担任裁判和巡边员时，本次赛事的积极意义得到了进一步的提升。这种积极意义的顶峰出现在争夺第三名的比赛上。来自巴西的克劳迪亚 -德 -瓦斯康塞洛斯出色地完成了裁判任务，仿佛那是她与生俱来的天性一样，这在国际足联赛事的历史上无疑是第一次。 / 1991年中国女足世界锦标赛为该事业的发展提供了一个坚实的基础。女球员和官员们都认为仍然有很多的基础工作需要完成，
34、作为对此的回应， 1992年秋天，国际足联邀请有关各方在苏黎世召开了一次研讨会。 /会上大家对女足的发展有了比较清醒的认识：尽管在美国和一些先进的欧洲足球国家，女足的发展令人鼓舞，而在其他地方，社会习俗仍然挡在女足运动的发展道路上。就算今天在那些女足运动广泛开展的国家，该项运动依然受到资源匮乏的困扰，因而无法成立高水平的女足职业联盟。 / 男子足球经过了数十年的基础建设才有了今天这 样的发展优势。而女子足球在上个世纪末才冒险迈出了自己踌躇的第一步。尽管在过去 20年间这项运动受到了广泛的欢迎，但它仍然处在自己的幼年期。这也正是各地足协所要着力发展的项目。现在他们的首要任务是积极扶持女足项目，比
35、如可通过大众电视转播以及营销合同来实现 (毕竟，女子足球是世界上最受欢迎的女子集体运动项目 )。 / 【知识模块】 体育 2 【正确答案】 1991年在中国举行的首届女足世界杯锦标赛取得了成功， 1995年瑞典女足世界杯则被视作是这一成功的进一步体现。在 52支球队进行了资格赛之后，来自世 界各地最好的 12支球队的球员们聚集在一起，共同追逐两大目标：首先是争夺世界杯，再一个就是取得进军首届奥运会女足比赛的资格，该项赛事将于次年在美国举行。 / 瑞典世界杯给人最深刻的印象是：女足运动具有旺盛的生命力，正在健康、快速地发展起来。在这次比赛中，所有曾在中国赛场上表现出来的积极方面都再次得到了印证，
36、尤其是公平竞赛的精神、进攻的意志以及对比赛无拘无束的享受。 /除此之外，还有更多令人欣喜的方面。与 1991年的中国赛场相比，更多的球队拥有了大量可供选择的一线球员，而且在过去的几年里，弱势球队与顶级 球队之间在技术和能力上的差距明显缩小。另外，在裁判方面也取得了重大进步，女性裁判执法了好几场比赛，其中包括最后的决赛。 / 尽管美国队被证明非常强大，远东球队也表现不俗，但 1995年世界杯仍然是欧洲球队的天下。不过现在，随着世界上几个重点地区的加入 尤其是南美洲和非洲的加入，其发展和进步是不可忽视的，也给未来带来了挑战。 /巴西队正是这种新变化的最好例证，在瑞典经历了令人失望的表现之后，她们全
37、力投入建立一支新的国家队，并在随后看到了这种努力带来的收获。在 1996年奥运会女足比赛中，该队当之无愧地获 得第四名的成绩。 /除了整个比赛期间高水准的足球赛事之外，1996年亚特兰大奥运会值得铭记的是，女足比赛第一次进入奥运会赛场。有近 140万名观众现场观看了比赛，平均每场观众人数超过了 4万人。 / 由于其了不起的环境和无与伦比的气氛， 1999年美国女足世界杯决赛堪称是所有女子运动项目的一个里程碑。本届世界杯将作为一个转折点记载于体育运动的历史中，它为今天甚至未来的大型赛事建立了一个标准。人们将永远铭记本次世界杯，还因为它推动和鼓舞了每一个联盟、每一个国家级足协和每一家俱乐部，继续去
38、尽一切努力来发展女足 运动。 / 1999年 7月 9日的洛杉矶，天气十分炎热。不下 9万观众 包括美国前总统比尔 ?克林顿 将球场塞了个水泄不通，他们正在观看女足世界杯的决赛。媒体的关注达到了一个新的顶峰。最终主队实现了所有关国人的梦想，不过她们也只是依靠第五个也是最后一个点球，才艰难取胜。球队庆祝胜利的照片在全世界范围内迅速传播，并将在很长一段时间内留在人们的脑海中。 / 来自 104个国家的球队参加了 2003年美国女足世界杯资格赛的争夺，这比 1999年的世界杯多了 25支球队。但无论是地方球队还是顶级的球队，大家一 致认为球员们在技术上还需进一步提高。所以下一届世界杯的决赛仍然要在质量上， 技术和战术上 吸引观众的目光，这也表明女足运动已完全步入正轨。 / 千里之行，始于足下。因此对任何俱乐部来说，雇佣高水平的教练来执教青少年队，以此支持国家级足协的雄心都是至关重要的。就国际赛场而言，这样做能够拓宽和加强女足金字塔的基础，不久的将来，位于塔尖球队的质量会有显著的提高。/首届国际足联 19岁以下青年女子足球锦标赛于 2002年在加拿大举行，超过 80支球队参加了该项赛事的资格赛。尽管还需要一段时间才能显现出效果， 但对于那些开始挑战当今霸主的新生力量来说，更多的比赛对于这项运动无疑是有好处的。 / 【知识模块】 体育
