1、口译二级实务文化教育练习试卷 3及答案与解析 一、 PART 2 Chinese-English Translation (50 points, 30 minutes) Interpret the following passages from Chinese into English. 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 世界著名的格萨尔王传是藏族人民在漫长历史长河中创造出来的一部珍贵的长篇英雄史诗，是中国乃至世界文学宝库中少有的珍品，但一直是通过民间说唱艺人口头流传为了保护藏民族的这一文化瑰宝，西藏自治区于 1979年成立了抢救、整理格萨尔王传的专门机构，进行全面搜集、采录、整理、研究和出版工作。国家将格萨尔列入 “六五 ”、 “七五 ”、 “八五 ”三个五年计划的重点科研项目。 /经过 20年的努力，共搜集藏文手抄 本、木刻本近 300部，除去异文本约有100部，现已正式出版藏文本 70余部，总印数达 300余万册，使这一长期零散传唱的口头文学变成了一部系统完整、被称为 “世界史诗之王 ”的文学巨
3、著、同时还出版了 20多部汉译本，并有若干种译成英、日、法文出版。这在藏族民间文艺遗产的保护以及出版史上都是前所未有的。 / 西藏的现代文学艺术事业在同民族传统形式、风格和特色相结合的过程中得到了巨大发展。西藏和平解放后，一批从内地进藏的各族文艺工作者一边深入现实生活，一边发掘继承优秀的民族文艺传统，创作了一批诗歌、小说、歌舞、美 术、电影、摄影等作品，给处于封闭和半封闭状态的西藏带来了新的文艺思想和文艺创作经验。 / 2 近五年来，在中央人民政府和兄弟省、市的支援下，西藏的文化设施建设力度显著加大。累计投资 1.4046亿元。目前，西藏已建成各级群众艺术馆、综合文化馆和文化站 400多个，这
4、些文化场所可以开展内容丰富、形式多样的文娱、体育活动。 /西藏图书馆于 1996年 7月开馆，现已接待藏族读者 10余万人次。西藏现有县级乌兰牧骑演出队 17个，业余文艺演出队和藏戏演出队 160余个，他们常年活跃在农牧区，深受群众喜爱，不少节目 在全国性和自治区文艺汇演中获奖。各地、市、县还举办不定期的群众文艺汇演，促进了群众文化活动的繁荣。近几年，每逢藏族传统节日 “雪顿节 ”，西藏都举行藏戏、歌舞演出，开展丰富多彩的群众自娱性传统文化活动。 /而且国家投资 260多万元在堆龙德庆县建成了国家级农村儿童文化园，并于 1996年成立了西藏少年儿童艺术团。西藏少年儿童艺术团两度赴北京演出，并于
5、 1998年赴美国参加国际儿童艺术节演出，均获得巨大成功。 /1995年至 1999年，西藏自治区先后派出包括藏族群众业余演出团在内的 40个艺术团组360人次，到世界五大洲 20多个国家和地区进行演出、展览和学术交流活动，所到之处无不引起轰动。 / 口译二级实务文化教育练习试卷 3答案与解析 一、 PART 2 Chinese-English Translation (50 points, 30 minutes) Interpret the following passages from Chinese into English. Start interpreting at the sign
6、al 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】 The world-famous Life of King Gesar， a long and Valuable heroic epic created by the Tibetan people over a considerable long period of time， is a rare literary trea
7、sure of China and the entire world. However, it has all along been passed down by folk artists orally. To better protect it， the regional authorities set up special bodies in 1979 for the collection, research, editing and publishing of the Life of King Gesar. The State included it in the key scienti
8、fic research project lists of the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Five-Year plans. /After 20 years efforts, nearly 300 handwritten or block-printed Tibetan volumes have been collected. Among them, except 100 variant volumes, about 70 volumes have been formally published in the Tibetan language, with a tot
9、al print run of well over three million copies. Thus, this epic, which had for long centuries been known only to a few folk artists, has come out as a systematically complete literary masterpiece that is called “the king of world epics. “ In addition, over 20 volumes of the Chinese edition have been
10、 published, and some have been translated into English, Japanese and French, and distributed all over the world. This was an unprecedented achievement in protecting the Tibetan literary and art heritage, as well as in publishing history. / Modern Tibetan literature and art have developed greatly in
11、the process of combining with the traditional formats, styles and characteristics. After the peaceful liberation of Tibet, a group of literary and art workers from different ethnic groups went into the thick of life in Tibet to explore and inherit the fine aspects of the local literature and art tra
12、dition. They created a lot of poems, novels, songs, dances, fine art works, films and photos, introducing new literary and artistic ideas and creation experience to the then closed or semi-closed parts of Tibet. / 【知识模块】 文化教育 2 【正确答案】 In the past five years, with the support of the Central Peoples G
13、overnment and other autonomous regions, provinces and municipalities, Tibet has intensified its efforts in building cultural facilities, investing a total of 140. 46 million yuan in this sphere. So far, Tibet has constructed more than 400 mass art centers, where recreational and sports activities of
14、 diverse forms can be carded out. / The Tibet Library was opened in July 1996, and has been visited by over 100,000 Tibetan readers so far. Now Tibet has 17 mobile performance teams and some 160 amateur theatrical performance teams and Tibetan opera teams at the county level. These teams always perf
15、orm for the people in the farming and pastoral areas, and are very popular there. Many of their performances have won awards at national or regional theatrical festivals. In addition, the various prefectures, cities and counties hold mass theatrical festivals from time to time to promote cultural ac
16、tivities. On the traditional Tibetan Shoton Festival in recent years, Tibetan opera and song and dance performances have been staged in Tibet, together with a wide range of other traditional cultural activities of popular appeal. /The State invested over 2.6 million yuan to construct the state-level
17、 cultural garden for rural children in Doilungdeqen County and established the Tibet Childrens Art Ensemble in 1996. The Tibet Childrens Art Ensemble has performed twice in Beijing, and participated in the International Childrens Art Festival in the United States in 1998, both with great success. /
18、From 1995 to 1999, a total of 40 professional and amateur art ensembles made up of 360 people were sent by the government of Tibet Autonomous Region to perform or hold exhibitions in or conduct academic exchanges with more than 20 countries and regions worldwide, and wherever they went, they were enthusiastically welcomed. / 【知识模块】 文化教育
