1、MBA（英语）翻译练习试卷 22 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 2.0 March 27, 1997, dawned as a normal day at the Collins home. By the middle of the morning, Jack Collins was at hi
2、s desk, writing checks, paying bills the way he always had on time. Then the phone rang, and the nightmare began. (1)An investigator for a bank was on the line, asking in a severe voice why Collins, a university physicist, was late on payments for a $27,000 car, bought in Virginia the previous year.
3、 “I dont have a car like this,“ Collins protested. The last time he had set foot in Virginia was as an officer at a submarine base, three decades ago. But his name was on the contract, and so was his Social Security Number. During the months that ensued, he and his wife learned that someone had boug
4、ht four more cars and 28 other itemsworth $113,000 in all in their name. Their hitherto good credit record had been destroyed. (2)“After a lifetime of being honesty“ says Collins, “all of a sudden I was basically being accused of stealing and treated like a criminal.“ This is what it means to fall p
5、rey to a nonviolent but frightening and fast-growing crime: identity theft. It happens to at least 500,000 new victims each year, according to government figures. (3)And it happens very easily because every identification number you have such as Social Security, credit cards, drivers license, teleph
6、one “is a key that unlocks some storage of money or goods,“ says a fraud (欺诈) program manager of the U.S. Postal Service. “So if you throw away your credit card receipt and I get it and use the number on it, Im not becoming you, but to the credit card company Ive become your account.“ (4)One major p
7、roblem, experts say, is that the Social Security Number (SSN)originally meant only for retirement benefit and tax purposeshas become the universal way to identify people. It is used as identification by the military, colleges and in billions of commercial transactions. Yet a shrewd thief can easily
8、snatch your SSN, not only by stealing your wallet, but also by taking mail from your box, going through your trash for discarded receipts and bills or asking for it over the phone on some pretext. Using your SSN, the thief applies for a credit card in your name, asking that it be sent to a different
9、 address than yours, and uses it for multiple purchases. A couple of months later the credit card company, or its debt collection agency, presses you for payment. You dont have to pay the debt, but you must clean up your damaged credit record. (5) That means getting a police report and copy of the e
10、rroneous contract, and then using them to clear the fraud from your credit reports which is held by a credit bureau. Each step can require a huge amount of effort.5 How many really suffer as a result of labor market problems? This is one of the most critical yet contentious social policy questions.
11、In many ways, our social statistics exaggerate the degree of hardship. (1)Unemployment does not have the same dire ( 怕的) consequences today as it did in the 1930s when most of the unemployed were primary breadwinners, when income and earnings were usually much closer to the margin of subsistence; an
12、d when there were no countervailing social programs for those failing in the labor market. Increasing affluence, the rise of families with more than one wage earner, the growing predominance of secondary earners among the unemployed, and improved social welfare protection have unquestionably mitigat
13、ed the consequences of joblessness. Earnings and income data also overstate the dimensions of hardship. Among the millions with hourly earnings at or below the minimum wage level, the overwhelming majority are from multiple-earner, relatively affluent families. (2)Most of those counted by the povert
14、y statistics are elderly or handicapped or have family responsibilities which keep them out of the labor force, so the poverty statistics are by no means an accurate indicator of labor market pathologies. Yet there are also many ways our social statistics underestimate the degree of labor-market-rel
15、ated hardship. The unemployment counts exclude the millions of fully employed workers whose wages are so low that their families remain in poverty. Low wages and repeated or prolonged unemployment frequently interact to undermine the capacity for self-support. (3)Since the number experiencing jobles
16、sness at some time during the year is several times the number unemployed in any month, those who suffer as a result of forced idleness can equal or exceed average annual unemployment, even though only a minority of the jobless in any month really suffer. For every person counted in the monthly unem
17、ployment tallies, there is another working part-time because of the inability to find full-time work, or else outside the labor force but wanting a job. (4)Finally, income transfers in our country have always focused on the elderly, disabled and dependent, neglecting the needs of the working poor, s
18、o that the dramatic expansion of cash and in-kind transfers does not necessarily mean that those failing in the labor market are adequately protected. (5)As a result of such contradictory evidence, it is uncertain whether high levels of joblessness can be tolerated or must be countered by job creati
19、on and economic stimulus. There is only one area of agreement in this debatethat the existing poverty, employment, and earnings statistics are inadequate for their primary applications, measuring the consequences of labor market problems.MBA（英语）翻译练习试卷 22 答案与解析一、Section IV TranslationDirections: In t
20、his section there is a passage in English. Translate the passage into Chinese and write your translation on ANSWER SHEET 2.【知识模块】 英译汉1 【正确答案】 打电话的人是一个银行调查员，他用严肃的口吻质问大学物理学家 Collins，为什么迟迟不付他去年在弗吉尼亚州购买的一辆价值 2 万 7 千美元的小汽车货款。【知识模块】 英译汉2 【正确答案】 Collins 说：“我一生正直诚实。忽然间我几乎被起诉有偷盗行为，被当成罪犯。”【知识模块】 英译汉3 【正确答案】 美
21、国邮政管理局的一位反欺诈项目经理说道：“这种事情很容易发生，因为你所持的各种身份证件，如社会保险卡、信用卡、驾车执照、电话等，都是开启存款或商品的钥匙。”【知识模块】 英译汉4 【正确答案】 专家们认为，主要问题在于原来社会保险卡号只用于发放退休金和征税，现在却成了识别身份的普遍方式。【知识模块】 英译汉5 【正确答案】 这就意味着你必须要拿到警察局的调查报告和弄错了的合同副本。然后，凭借这些文件澄清你信用卡上被欺骗的金额，信用卡通常由信誉担保机构统一保管。【知识模块】 英译汉【知识模块】 英译汉6 【正确答案】 如今，失业的后果并不像 20 世纪 30 年代那样可怕：当时，大部分失业者是家庭
22、收入的主要提供者，收入通常只能维持基本的生计。【知识模块】 英译汉7 【正确答案】 贫困统计表中统计的大部分是年老者，或是残疾者，或是需要承担家务事而不能工作者，所以贫困统计表根本不可能正确反映劳动力市场的问题。【知识模块】 英译汉8 【正确答案】 因为一年中某个时段的失业人数会是其他任何月中失业人数的好几倍，所以，那些因被迫失业而蒙受损失的人数可能等于或超过年平均失业人数，尽管在其他月中，失业者中只有少数人真正蒙受了损失。【知识模块】 英译汉9 【正确答案】 最后，我们国家的收入救济总是关注那些年老者、残疾者以及生活不能自理者，忽视了那些有工作的穷人的需求，所以，救济金和救济物的迅猛增长并不一定意味着那些身处劳动力市场的失业者得到了充分的保护。【知识模块】 英译汉10 【正确答案】 由于这些迹象相互矛盾，所以，还不能确定现在的高失业率是可以忍受，还是必须通过创造工作机会、采用经济刺激手段来遏制的。【知识模块】 英译汉
