1、MBA（英语）翻译练习试卷 10 及答案与解析一、Section IV TranslationDirections: In this section there is a passage in English. Translate the passage into Chinese and write your translation on ANSWER SHEET 2.1 Forty years ago, a historic document was signed in Rome that was to change the economic outlook and the future o
2、f many countries in Europe. That document was the Treaty of Rome, and this year, on March 25, 1997, the European Union celebrated the 40th anniversary of its signing. A revised draft treaty on European Union (The Maastricht Treaty) was presented in Rome on that date. (1) The revised Treaty is a cont
3、inuation of the process towards integration of the countries of Europe that began in 1957.(2) The Treaty of Rome was a historic milestone on the road to European integration, but the foundations had been laid almost ten years earlier. In the aftermath of world War on May 9, 1950, Robert Schuman, For
4、eign Minister of France, proposed the pooling of coal and steel production as part of a Franco-German union.Six founding countries signed the Treaty of Paris in 1951 to form the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). A single market in coal and steel was to be set up among signatory countries. (3
5、) Within a few months, all customs and discriminatory practices were swept away. For the coal and steel industries at least, frontiers ceased to exist. The Schuman Plan, as it was known, was the first step towards a united Europe. The signatory countriesItaly, France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg an
6、d the Netherlandsformed the building blocks of what know today as the European Union.Six years later European leaders such as Konrad Adenauer, Paul-Henry Spaak and Jean Monnet thought it time to apply the same approach to the entire economies of the six members of the ECSC. (4) The Treaty of Rome es
7、tablished the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) in 1957 and, in effect, marked the relaunching of Europe after the devastating of World War II.The EECs immediate objectives were the establishment of a customs union to promote the four freedoms envis
8、aged by the Treaty of Rome: the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital between the Member States. The Treaty also provided for a number of common policies in areas such as agriculture, external trade, transport and competition. (5) Its aim was to construct a common space in which nati
9、onal and common policies united to ensure stronger economic growth than was possible through the achievements of Member States acting individually.A further advance took place in 1967, when the executives of the three communities were merged to form the European Community. The European Community was
10、 to be served by four main institutionsthe European Commission, the Council of Ministers, the European Parliament and the European Court of Justice.2 At the start of the 21st century, humankind finds itself on a non-sustainable coursethe course that, unless it is changed, could lead to grand scale c
11、atastrophes. At the same time, we are unlocking formidable new capabilities mat lead to more exciting lives and glorious civilizations. This could be either humanitys last century or the century that sets the world on a course toward a spectacular future.(1) We live on a small, beautiful and a total
12、ly isolated planet, but its population is becoming too large; enormous new consumer societies are growing, of which China is the largest; and technology is becoming powerful enough to wreck the planet. (2) We are traveling at breakneck speed into an age of the extremesextremes in wealth and poverty,
13、 extremes in technology and the experiments that scientists want to perform, extreme forces of globalism, weapons of mass destruction and terrorists acting in the name of religion. If we are to survive, we have to learn how to manage this situation.Formidable problems confront us, but this is a book
14、 about solutionsmany solutions. With these solutions we will bring about the change in course, a great 21st century transition. (3) If we get it right, we have an extraordinary future. If we get it wrong, we face an irreversible disruption that could set humanity back centuries. A drastic change is
15、needed in the first half of that 21st century to set the stage for extraordinary events in the rest of the century.(4) Humankind has been able to thrive for thousands of years because nature provided it with resources like topsoil, underground water, fish in the oceans, minerals, oil and wetlands, b
16、ut these resources are finite, like cookies in a jar. We are using up many of these resources, and some dont have substitutes.During the lifetime of todays teenagers, fresh water will run out in many parts of the world, making food production difficult. Many fish species will be too depleted to repl
17、enish themselves. Global warming will bring hurricanes far more severe than Katrina and will cause natural climate- control mechanisms to go wrong. Rising temperatures will lower crop yields in many of the worlds poorest countries, such as those in central Africa, (5) The immense tensions brought ab
18、out by such catastrophes will occur in a time of extremism, religious belligerence and suicidal terrorism, and this will coincide with terrible weapons becoming much less expensive and more widely available.This interconnected set of problems has an interconnected set of solutions. If we humans impl
19、ement these solutions, we can gradually achieve sustainable development and a sustainable but affluent life.MBA（英语）翻译练习试卷 10 答案与解析一、Section IV TranslationDirections: In this section there is a passage in English. Translate the passage into Chinese and write your translation on ANSWER SHEET 2.1 【正确答案
20、】 1这个条约的修改草案是自 1957 年开始的欧洲各国一体化进程的继续。2罗马条约是欧洲一体化道路上的一个里程碑，但其基础几乎在它签订前 10 年就已奠定。3短短几个月，一切关税壁垒以及各种歧视做法都被一扫而光。41957 年，罗马条约建立了欧洲经济共同体和欧洲原子能共同体，这实际上标志着第二次世界大战劫难后“欧洲重建” 的开始。5目的是建立一个共同的经济空间，以便各成员国在该经济空间中能够将各自的政策和成员国采取的共同政策合为一体，以确保成员国的经济比各国独自发展取得更为强劲的增长。【知识模块】 英译汉2 【正确答案】 1我们生活在一个与其他星球隔绝的美丽的小星球上，但是地球的人口已经太多
21、；庞大的新消费社会正在成长，而中国是其中最大的一个；科技也变得无比强大，足以毁坏这个星球。2我们正以极快的速度地奔向一个极端的时代：极端的富有，极端的贫困，极先进的科学技术和科学实验，极大的全球化影响力，大规模毁灭性武器，还有以宗教名义进行的恐怖活动。3如果做对了，我们就会有美好的未来。如果做错了，人类的进程将受到干扰，其结果无法逆转，人类将因之倒退几个世纪。4人类几千年来一直能蓬勃发展，因为大自然提供给我们种种资源，如表层水、地下水、海中的鱼、矿物、石油和湿地，但是这些资源并非用之不竭，就像饼干罐中的饼干，吃一块少一块。5种种灾害会诱发高度的紧张，而这一切又将发生在一个充满极端的时代：宗教纷争不断、自杀恐怖活动频繁，加之可怕的武器偏偏又变得不那么昂贵，且极易获得。【知识模块】 英译汉
