1、口译二级实务环境保护练习试卷 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 issue of climate change is now very, very critical indeed. Let me try and explain to you frankly what I see, from the policy-makers point of view, as the two difficulties weve got to overcome and how we overcome them. / The first is that I think there is a clear recognition round the world
3、now that something is happening to our climate people are experiencing it and feeling it. Nonetheless, the timeframe over which some of these things are going to impact is certainly beyond any very short-term political cycle, and often stretches significantly into the future. Thats one issue. / And
4、the other issue is that there has grown up round the world, a debate, that sometimes I think takes place on a quite false basis but nonetheless is there, that somehow there is a trade-off between economic growth and environmental protection, so that if we improve the protection of our environment, w
5、e may inhibit our ability to grow and to enjoy rising living standards. / Now each of these two issues has to be confronted. How do we do that, is the real question. The first is how do we get the world to think long-term about this? We have to continue to build a very strong base of support and agi
6、tation for change, not just in the political world but in civic society as well. I think that is enormously important, the pressure on this has got to come on governments from people, not merely on governments from their own internal mechanisms. / We are committed to the Kyoto Protocol. We believe i
7、t is essential that we have that implemented. We in our country will abide by our Kyoto targets, but I just want to make one point to you. When I asked for an analysis to be done by David King and his colleagues of what the true scale of the challenge was, we learned that even if we were to implemen
8、t the Kyoto Protocol, it falls significantly short of what we will need over the next half century if we are to tackle this problem seriously and properly. / So even, and this is a tall order in some ways at the moment, if we succeed in getting support for the Kyoto Protocol, we are still, even havi
9、ng done that, only in the position of having achieved a first step. It will be an important recognition, but it is only a first step and we need to be building a clearer understanding of the fact that even with Kyoto we are still a long way short of what we actually need to do. And weve got to build
10、 support in the political institutions of which were a part in order to make sure that case is properly understood. / I think we have to make sure that this occupies, as an issue, a central place in political decision-making beyond any election or parliamentary cycle. Its beyond the life of any gove
11、rnment. Its beyond the life of any passing political phase. It has to be there, central in the politics of each country, built up not just from support within government, but from support within civic society over a period of time. / The second point is about the conflict between the supposition tha
12、t we need to grow continually and that we cannot grow unless we degrade our environment. That is the importance of a Climate Group that involves not just states and cities but also business so that there are practical, clear examples of how good environmental policy is also good business policy and
13、is right for growth. If you look in the 12 years 1990 to 2002, we in Britain cut our emissions by about 15 percent whilst we were growing at 30 percent. It is possible to do. / Showing that cities and states and businesses can do good environmental policy and actually reap an economic benefit is eno
14、rmously important because that debate about some supposed trade- off between environmental protection and economic growth is still there. We may all, in this room, believe that that argument has been resolved long ago, but I can tell you there is a large part of business and many countries that stil
15、l see that trade-off existing. / (Excerpts from UK Prime Ministers speech on climate change delivered on April 27, 2004) 2 That brings me to my final point, which is how do we help give the Climate Group the focus that it needs. I think one part of this is that you provide us with a lot of informati
16、on, the detail, the examples, the living proof, of what good environmental policy can achieve. That is one important part. / The second thing is, that we use, as our country, our position in every way we can to push this agenda at a senior level. Ive already said that for Britains chairmanship of th
17、e G8 next year, there should be two issues for us: one is Africa, the other is climate change. Now I think it is important that we take a clear case on climate change to the G8 next year. Im not saying it will always be easy, but its important that the case is made, and I think that will give a focu
18、s to the efforts that are being made by this group and by others, not just in this country, but elsewhere in the world. / So I wanted to come and participate in the launch of The Climate Group for a very simple reason. When I first became Prime Minister, I obviously had a certain instinctive positio
19、n about this issue and we as a political party coming into government had certain policies about it. But one of the first things I did, which is one of the advantages when you come into government, is that instead of having a small research group somewhere with people doing this as well as half a do
20、zen other things, you can mobilise some of the best scientific minds and research that there is and I said, look, give me the facts. The interesting thing that came back to me was that the facts and the research indicated that this problem was, if anything, greater than I had realised / I dont think
21、, as I said before, there is any bigger long-term question facing the global community. This group will be one part of a set of relationships and groups and a movement worldwide to make sure that we treat the issue with the seriousness that it deserves. One thing for sure is this, if you talk to any
22、 group of young people in our country or anywhere else today, they realise its importance. They want us to act upon it, they know sometimes it will involve difficult decisions, but the cost of not acting in this case is so overwhelmingly greater than any short-term cost of action, that we have to ac
23、t and we have to act now. / So Im delighted to be with you all this morning and I wish you the very best of luck with The Climate Group, I think its a very, very important initiative. I am delighted to see so many people from different parts of the world that are here today. This is an issue that wi
24、ll carry on dominating our agenda but hopefully with your help, it will dominate the agenda of the global community in the years to come. / (Excerpts from UK Prime Ministers speech on climate change delivered on April 27, 2004) 口译二级实务环境保护练习试卷 2答案与解析 一、 PART 1 English-Chinese Translation (50 points,
25、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. 1 【正确答案】 气候变化现在的确是一个至关重要的问题让我从一个决策者的角度，开诚布公地跟大家讲一讲在我看来需要克服的两大困难，并探讨一下我
26、们该如何克服这些困难。 / 国际社会已经清楚地认识到，气候正经历着一场变化 人们正在经历并已感受到了这种变化。然而这些气候变化将会在一定时间内产生影响，这一时间范围必然超越任何一届政府的短暂任期，而常常延伸到久远的未来这是第一个问题。 / 另一个问 题是一场辩论正在世界范围内兴起，尽管我有时觉得这场辩论是在一个错误的基础上展开，但它的确存在着，似乎在经济增长和环境保护之间存在着一种相互制约的关系，因此，为了加强环境的保护，我们也许就得抑制经济的增长和生活水平的提高。 / 这两个问题我们都得面对。问题是，我们应当如何去面对 ? 首先，我们怎样才能让国际社会长远的去考虑这个问题 ?我们不仅需要在政
27、界，还应在公民社会中建立一个强有力的、能支持和激励变化的基础我认为政府的压力应该来自于人民而不只是来自于政府的内部机制，这一点是极为重要的。 / 我们 郑重承诺遵守京都议定书，而且相信让京都议定书得到实施是一项刻不容缓的任务。英国将遵守自己的京都目标，但有一点我想说明：当我要求大卫 ?金和他的同事们提供一份有关气候变化的挑战到底有多大的分析报告时，我得知，如果我们要在下半个世纪认真而妥善地解决环境问题，即使实施了京都议定书也是远远不够的。 / 所以从目前看来，京都议定书在某种程度上要求苛刻，但即使我们能成功地获得人们对京都议定书的支持，我们也只不过是走出了第一步。虽然会得到广泛的认可，但这仅仅
28、是第一步。我们需要更清醒地认识到这样一 个事实：那就是我们需要做的远不止京都议定书规定的目标。作为国际政治体系中的一份子，我们需要在该体系内建立支持，以确保人们能够正确理解这一事实。 / 我想我们应当确保气候变化作为一个议题在政治决策中占有核心地位，它比任何选举和议会换届都来得重要。其地位超越了任何一届政府的任期、超越了任何一个稍纵即逝的政治时期。它必须是所有国家的首要政治议题，不仅得到政府的支持，而且要逐渐得到公民社会的支持。 / 第二点有关两个假设之间的矛盾：一是我们需要不断地发展；其次是我们的发展必须以破坏环境为代价，对于气候集团来说重要的是不仅要有国家和城市的参与，还要有企业的参与，这
29、样就会产生明确而务实的范例，即好的环境政策同样也会是好的商业政策，而且有利于经济的增长。你们可以看一下在 1990年到 2002年这12年问，英国的排放量减少了 15%，但经济却增长了 30%，这是可以做到的。 / 有关经济增长和环境保护相互制约的争论还在继续，所以向人们展示城市、国家和企业可以在制定有效的环境政策的同时获得经济效益就显得至 关重要了。也许在座的很多人都认为这场争论在很久以前已经有了定论。但事实是，相当一部分企业和很多国家仍然认为经济增长和环境保护之间的这种相互制约是存存在。 / (节选自英国首相于 2004年 4月 27日就环境变化所做的讲话 ) 【知识模块】 环境保护 2
30、【正确答案】 最后我想探讨一下如何帮助气候集团获得它所需要的关注。我想，一种做法就是请各位为我们提供大量的信息、详情、范例和实例来证明良好的环境政策能取得什么样的成就，这是很重要的一方面。 / 另一方面就像英国所做的，各国应利用各 自的影响尽其所能把气候变化问题提到高层的议事日程上来。我已说过，明年英国作为八国集团轮值主席国将着重关注两个问题，即非洲问题和气候变化问题。现在我认为我们应当就气候变化问题向明年的八国集团提交议案，这是非常重要的。我并不是说这总是件容易的事，但重要的是要就此提出议案。我认为这会使气候集团和其他组织所作的努力不仅在这个国家，而且在世界范围内得到关注。 / 我来参加气候
31、集团成立大会的原因很简单。在我刚刚当选首相的时候，我显然对气候变化问题有一个本能的定位，作为政府的执政党，我们对此制定了相关一些政策。但 是我所做的第一件事就是利用我进入政府的有利条件，调动最优秀的科学家和顶尖的科研成果，让他们告诉我事实的真相，而不是利用那些同时兼顾若干其他事情的人员组成一个研究小组。于是我得到了一个令人关注的反馈：事实和研究结果显示气候变化问题比我意识到的要严重得多。 / 正如我曾经说过的，我认为气候变化是当今国际社会所面临的最严峻、最长期的挑战。气候集团将成为全球一系列有关组织、各种关系和运动的一部分，从而确保我们以应有的严肃性来对待这一问题。有一点可以肯定的是，今天，如
32、果你向我们国家或是任何地方的任何青年团体谈 起这个问题，他们都已经意识到了这个问题的重要性。他们希望我们能够采取相应的措施，他们知道有的时候我们需要做出艰难的抉择，但不行动的代价要远比采取任何行动所付出的短期代价高得多。所以我们必须采取行动，而且就在现在。 / 我很高兴今天上午能和你们聚集在此，希望气候集团一切顺利。我认为这是一个非常非常重要的倡议。我非常高兴看到这么多来自世界各地的人们今天汇集在这里。气候变化将成为我国的主要议程，但我希望，在你们各位的帮助下，该议题将在今后的几年里在整个国际社会的议程上占居重要位置。 / (节选自英 国首相于 2004年 4月 27日就环境变化所做的讲话 ) 【知识模块】 环境保护
