1、MBA（英语）翻译练习试卷 6 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 When the public demands “law and order“ and when newspapers editorials talk about the “rising tide of crime,“ the
2、y have in mind mostly street crime committed by the poor. Even the massive report of the Presidents Crime Commission, the Challenge of Crime in a Free Society, devoted only two pages to the entire subject of white-collar offenders and business crimes. The deep concern with street crimes is understan
3、dable. Unlike a swindler, who merely takes the victims money, an armed mugger threatens physical injury and even death. (1) Yet the fact remains that a great deal of crime in American societyperhaps most crime, and certainly the most costly crimeis committed by respectable middle-class and upper-cla
4、ss citizens. The term “white-collar crime“ was first used by Edwin Sutherland: in an address to the American Sociological Association in 1939.(2) “White-collar crime,“ he declared, “may be defined approximately as a crime committed by a person of respectability and high status in the course of his o
5、ccupation.“ Sutherland documented the existence of this form of crime with a study of the careers of 70 large, reputable corporations, which together had committed 980 violations of the criminal law or an average of 14 convictions apiece. Behind the offenses of false advertising, unfair labor practi
6、ces, restraint of trade, price-fixing agreements, stock manipulation, copyright infringement, and outright swindles, were perfectly respectable middle-class executives. (3) Sociologists now use the term “white-collar crime“ to refer not only to crimes committed in the course of business activities f
7、or corporate benefit but also to crimes, such as embezzlement, typically committed by persons of high status for personal benefits.As Sutherland pointed out, the full extent of white-collar crime is difficult to assess. Many corporate malpractices go undetected, and many wealthy people are able to c
8、ommit crimes like expense-account fraud for years without being found out. (4) More important, white-collar crimes are usually regarded as somehow less serious than the crimes of the lower class, and they attract less attention from police and prosecutors. Even the victims may be unwilling to prosec
9、ute because of the offenders “standing in the community“ and would rather out of court. A company that finds its safe has been burgled in the night will immediately summon the police, but it might not do so if it finds that one of its executives has embezzled some of its funds. (5) To avoid unwelcom
10、e publicity, the company officials may simply allow the offender to resign after making an arrangement to repay the missing money. 2 (1) China and the United States signed a historic agreement yesterday that will pave the way for Beijing to enter the World Trade Organization (WTO), 13 years after it
11、 applied to join. While Beijing has still to complete negotiations with other WTO members, the US was the toughest party to deal with. The agreement, and after six gruelling days and nights of negotiations, opens the way for China to join the worlds principle trading body and is the mainlands most i
12、mportant economic event since December 1979. When it switched from state planning and isolationism to reform and the open-door policy. Zhang Ligang, chief executive of e-Long com, an Internet start-up firm that was illegal when it was founded last week but become legal yesterday with the lifting of
13、a ban on foreign investment in the Net, summed up the day. “If we say that Deng Xiaoping opened China to the world in 1979, we can say that this time China has entered the world“ (2) The chief US negotiator, Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, described the deal as “profoundly important“ , “ab
14、solutely comprehensive“ and an excellent one for American business. At a meeting with Ms Barshevfsky yesterday afternoon, President Jiang Zemin called the deal “good, historic and realistic, and a win-win for both sides which showed that both countries saw the issue from a strategic view point.China
15、s entry into the WTO will have profound ramifications for the country, binding her to international trading rules and encouraging foreign firms to invest by providing a system less based on rule by the idiosyncrasies of an official and more on transparent laws and regulations. It will accelerate a p
16、rocess of closing money-losing and over-manned state companies and moving labor and capital into market-driven businesses. In the short term, it will drive up unemployment as inefficient, capital-intensive state industries are shut down. (3) It also marks a vital victory for Prime Minister Zhu Rongj
17、i, the main proponent, along with Mr Jiang, of Chinas membership, who offered a similar deal in Washington in April. The war in Yugoslavia, in which Beijing sided with Sebia, and the Nato bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, froze negotiations from until September. (4) For Mr Zhu, WTO members
18、hip will serve as a motor for reform of state companies, banking, insurance, securities and other industries. At a news conference just before she left China, Ms Barshefsky said the support of the two presidents had been crucial. Presidents Bill Clinton and Jiang Zemin met in Auckland and agreed to
19、put the talks back on track, with a deadline of the next round of WTO talks that will begin in Seattle on November 30. Beijing will eliminate non-tariff quotas within five years, some in two to three years. It will cut tariffs on imported cars from the current 80-100 percent to 25 percent by 2006 an
20、d allow foreign financial institutions to finance the purchase of cars. It will allow 49 percent foreign investment in telecommunications firms from the date of entry, rising to 50 percent in two years, and will allow foreign banks to conduct local currency business with domestic companies two years
21、 after accession and with domestic individuals five years after.Beijing also agreed to lift a ban on foreign investment in the Internet. (5) In return, Beijing received a concession on textiles, with Washington backing down from its demand that quotas on Chinas exports remain until 2010. Instead the
22、y will end in 2005, but with an “anti-import surge“ mechanism remaining for a further four years, to prevent a flood of experts.MBA（英语）翻译练习试卷 6 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 ANS
23、WER SHEET 2.1 【正确答案】 1然而一个依然存在的事实是，美国社会的大部分犯罪也许绝大部分犯罪，当然也是高代价的犯罪是由应受尊敬的中层和上层市民犯下的。2“白领犯罪， ”他说， “可以大致上这样来定义，即一个应受尊敬的和有崇高社会地位的人在从业过程中所犯下的罪行。”3社会学家现在使用“白领犯罪” 这个术语，不仅是指那些在商务活动中为本公司利益而犯的罪行，也指那些通常由高层人土为个人利益所犯的诸如盗用公款公物之类的罪行。4更要紧的是，这种白领犯罪总被人们认为不如下层阶级的犯罪那么严重，因此也不那么引起警方和检察官的注意。5为了避免惹人的注意，公司官员会只让那个违法者在做出一个偿还亏空
24、的钱款安排后辞职。【知识模块】 英译汉2 【正确答案】 1中国和美国昨天签署了一项历史性协议，这将为中国在提出申请 13 年之后加入世界贸易组织(WTO)铺平道路。2美国首席谈判者“贸易代表” 查伦?巴尔舍夫斯基称该协议“意义深远” 、“非常全面”，并且对于美国商界来说是一项了不起的协议。3这也标志着朱镕基总理的重大胜利，他和江先生一道，不遗余力地推动中国加入世界贸易组织，早在 4 月他就在华盛顿提出了一项类似的协议。4对于朱总理来说，世界贸易组织成员资格将成为推动国有公司、银行业、保险业、证券业以及其他行业改革的动力。5作为回报，中国得到美方在纺织品方面的让步：华盛顿不再坚持要求对中国的纺织品配额保留到 2010 年。【知识模块】 英译汉
