1、口译二级实务文化教育练习试卷 2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 The Australia-China relationship is now, as some of you have heard, thirty years old， and thirty years ago it is probably fair to say there were no official Chinese residents with appropriate visas studying in Australia. Today, that number exceeds 25,000 and is projected to exceed 100, 000 in t
3、en years time. Education is the eighth largest export earner for Australia and to give you some idea of what that means, there are 38 universities in Australia. /My university, the University of New South Wales, has been active in the region, but last year overseas students brought in 128 million do
4、llars to one university. Our local fee paying students brought in 34 million dollars. Those of you who dont know Australia might think thats strange, but of course the vast majority of our local students study in a government subsidized manner but also making some contribution themselves later on in
5、 life when they start to earn money. / I wouldnt like you to think for one moment that I think education is about earning money, and I merely talked about the money education brings to Australia to reinforce what a big program it is and how important it is for Australia. and for Australian finances
6、and there seems little doubt that governments really are obsessed by export dollars. Im not saying thats wrong Im just making a comment, but governments are obsessed by export dollars and therefore education is important. / When I went to school, and I went to a government funded public school, ther
7、e were about 750 boys at that school, and there were two Chinese students one of whom was me. Last year I spoke at a speech day. It is now a co-educational school, but 70 percent of the students were of Asian heritage, and of that 70 percent, about three quarters of them were Chinese. Its a selectiv
8、e school and therefore reflects, I think, the Chinese and the Vietnamese families determination that education is important if they want their children to succeed. /I think thats great, but if any of you have visited the campus of my university you would notice one thing and that is it looks very As
9、ian. At the present time, the University of NSW has about 34,000 students, 27 percent of whom are overseas students and the majority of those are ethnic Chinese but if you look at the campus you would think about 55 to 60 percent look Asian because the other quarter are like me, Asians who are Austr
10、alians. And thats an interesting reflection of whats happened to Australia. / (Excerpts from the speech delivered by Dr. John Yu, Chairman of the Australia-China Council, on the Australia-China Oration Series 2002, November 6, Beijing) 2 By and large, governments of all persuasions, of all political
11、 persuasions in Australia have been reducing proportionately the amount of money that goes to education and many of us think that really is a great pity and shows a lack of foresight into what Australia really needs, but that nonetheless is what is happening. As a result of that many universities an
12、d schools are heavily dependent on overseas students to make up the shortfall. /I think we need to be really very careful in Australia that as this trend continues that overseas students who come to Australia not only to learn facts, but also to learn something about Australia and the Australian way
13、 of life otherwise they will have a very skewed view of what our Australia is about. Because I think it is important that if you go to an Australian university then at least youd meet a reasonable number of Australians. / There is a big push from many universities to recruit more and more students a
14、nd more and more overseas students, but in a climate when there isnt a lot of money for further strengthening of education and educational methods and facilities. If we all keep trying to recruit more and more students, then the experience is going to deteriorate and my university for example has de
15、cided to cap the number of students at the university. Because we believe that if we have many more students then we wont be able to do it properly. / There arent many universities in the fortunate position of my own to be able to do that. And the reason why we can do it is if you take a couple of o
16、ur more popular faculties to get to university, you need something which we call UAI (University of New South Wales Admission Index). To get into medicine at UNSW you need to have a pass mark of 99. 8%. To get into law and commerce you need a pass mark of 97.5%. Now a lot of you in this room tonight
17、 will know what I mean when I say that Chinese and Vietnamese especially value education and therefore it wouldnt be surprising to know that proportionally more Chinese and Vietnamese kids get their 99.8s and 97. 5s. / I took a university graduation on Friday before I came up here. It was a commerce
18、 graduation and of 200 graduates, 150 were Asian. Half of those were local kids, the other half were overseas. Commerce is something that is particularly popular, particularly in Hong Kong and Singapore, but its probably a reasonable indication of what is happening. And all I am really trying to mak
19、e a point about is that if we accept money from overseas students and from overseas families, then there is a responsibility that we give them the good education, the good experience. Im not saying we dont do it, but I think what is important is that we recognize that the experience we are giving th
20、em is potentially threatened by the large numbers coming in which are not being matched by the provision of adequate resources to service them. I think its great to take more and more students as long as we can service them properly. / (Excerpts from the speech delivered by Dr. John Yu, Chairman of
21、the Australia-China Council, on the Australia-China Oration Series 2002, November 6, Beijing) 口译二级实务文化教育练习试卷 2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. Yo
22、u may take notes while you are listening. You will hear the passages only ONCE. Now lets begin. 1 【正确答案】 你们当中有些人已经知道，澳中关系到今天已经走过了 30年的历程。也许可以这样说， 30年前没有一个来自中国的居民持适当的签证在澳大利亚学习。而今天，这一数字已经超过了 25000人，并在未来 10年时间里有望超过10万人。教育已成为澳大利亚第八大出口创汇产业。这么说吧，在澳大利亚共有38所大学。 /我所在的新南威尔士大学在该地区算是相当活跃了。去年外国留学生为我校带来了 1.28亿澳元的
23、收入，而我 们本国的付费学生仅带来了 3400万澳元的收入。不了解澳大利亚的人或许会觉得很奇怪，当然啦，澳大利亚本国的学生绝大多数是由政府资助入校学习的，但他们将来有了收入之后也会为社会做出一些贡献。 / 我的意思不是说我认为教育就是用来赚钱的，我只是想通过教育给澳大利亚带来收入这一事实来强调它是一项多么大的工程，以及它对澳大利亚和澳大利亚的财政来说有多重要。政府对出口收入极为关注，我并不是说那有什么错，我不过是想谈谈我的看法，既然政府时出口收入那么重视，教育也就因此而变得至关重要。 / 我上学的时候，上的是一所政府资助的公立学校，那所学校大约有 750个男孩子，只有 2个是华裔学生，而我就是
24、其中之一。去年我到该校做了一次演讲，现在它已经成了一所男女同校的学校，但有 70%的学生是亚裔，而这 70%中，有四分之三的学生是华裔。那是一所经考试选拔入学的学校，所以在我看来，这反映出中国家庭和越南家庭为让孩子出人头地而对教育特别重视， /我觉得这是一件好事，但是如果你们中育人去过我就读的大学，你会发现，它看起来已经和一个亚洲学校没有什么区别了。目前新南成尔士大学大约有 34000名学生，有 27%是外 国留学生，而其中绝大多数则是华裔。但是如果你在校园里转转，会觉得有 55%到 60%的学生像亚洲人，那是因为还有四分之一的学生像我一样，是亚裔澳大利亚人。这很有趣地反映了今天澳大利亚的现状
25、。 / (选自澳中理事会主席余森美博士在 2002年 11月 6日在北京澳中演讲系列会中的致辞 ) 【知识模块】 文化教育 2 【正确答案】 总的来说，澳大利亚各个派别的政府，无论其分属哪个政治派别，都在按比例减少用于教育的经费，我们许多人认为这是一个很大的憾事，说明澳大利亚政府缺乏远见，看不到这个国家真正需 要什么，但是这的确是我们所面临的现状。结果，许多大学和学校都在很大程度上依赖外国留学生来弥补经费上的不足。 /我觉得如果这种趋势在澳大利亚持续下去的话我们就得小心了，因为外国留学生来澳大利亚不仅仅是为了学习知识，更是为了了解澳大利亚和澳大利亚人的生活方式，否则的话，他们对这个国家的了解就
26、会有失偏颇。我个人认为如果你选择到澳失利亚大学去学习的话，你至少应该见到一定数目的澳大利亚人，这是十分必要的。 / 目前许多大学都在争相招收更多的新生，特别是更多的外国留学生。但是在当前的大环境下，我们没有太多的钱用 于进一步加强教育、改进教育方式和教育设施。如果所有的学校都招收越来越多的新生的话，教育的质量就难免下降，因此就有大学决定限制在校学生的人数，我们学校就是一例。因为我们认为如果我们招收太多新生，就无法为他们提供良好的教育。 / 然而像我们一样有幸可以做到这一点的大学并不多。我们之所以可以这么做是因为，如果你要在我们大学中比较热门的专业学习的话，你需要我们称为 UAI的新南威尔士大学
27、入学指数。如果你要在新南威尔士大学学医，你需要达到 99.8的通过分，而学法律或工商专业则需要达到 97.5。今晚在场的许多人都 明白我所说的中国人和越南人尤其重视教育这一点，因此按比例来说有更多的中国和越南孩子得到99.8或 97.5的分数也就不足为奇了。 / 来这里之前，我在周五参加了一个学校的毕业典礼。那是一个商学院的毕业典礼，在 200名毕业生中，有 150名是亚裔学生。其中一半是本国学生，另一半是外国留学生。商学是很热门的学科，在香港和新加坡尤其如此，但这也许合理说明了现状。我想说的是，如果我们向外国学生和他们的家里收了钱，我们就有责任给他们提供良好的教育，良好的经历、我不是说我们目前没有做到这一点，但我认为我们必须意识 到，我们能够给予他们的教育体验有可能受到威胁，因为入学的学生人数和我们所能服务于他们的教育资源不成比例。在我看来，扩招是件好事，但前提应该是能够为他们提供恰当的服务。 / (选自澳中理事会主席余森美博士在 2002年 11月 6日在北京澳中演讲系列会中的致辞 ) 【知识模块】 文化教育
