1、MBA（英语）翻译练习试卷 8 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 (1) If you believe the Macroeconomists, Europes new common currency will bring either economic chaos or the dawn
2、of a new era of growth, restructuring, and prosperity. But for those who will be dealing with the euro on a daily basis, the new currency leads to a much more pragmatic dilemma: just how to put a price on everything from butter to Big Macs.Theres little doubt that consumer demand will lead to some p
3、ricing changes, especially after euro notes and coins are issued in 2002. Consider Magnum ice cream bars, which Unilever sells across Europe. In France they cost about $2.50, while in the Netherlands they cost $1 Priced in guilders and francs, the difference isnt so noticeable. (2) But when priced i
4、n euros beginning next year, French ice cream lovers will soon figure out that theyre paying 2.5 times what the Dutch are paying. The same is true for a vast number of products. “Currently we have different prices in different countries, which isnt so visible with different currencies,“ says Gunther
5、 Moissl of German mail order house Quelle Schickendanz. “The moment you price in euros, you can see it “Of course, nobody is going to drive across borders just to buy cheaper ice cream. But they already do for big-ticket items such as cars. (3) Moreover, says Jan Haars, Unilever treasurer: “The atti
6、tude of the consumer toward your product may change if he feels ice cream is twice as expensive at home as it is somewhere else.“Thus, most everybody thinks the euro will force prices to converge. Volkswagen, which has been slapped with fines by the European Commission for trying to keep Germans fro
7、m buying its cars at cheaper prices in Italy, says it has already narrowed price diffentials to 105. Wolfgang Hartung, head of the Euro project at Daimler-Benz, warns that anyone who thinks they can maintain vastly different prices in the era of the euro is engaged in wishful thinking. “People are t
8、oo well-informed, says Hartung.Big price differences for the same product have been a fact Of life for years in Europe. (4) Manufacturers justify this by citing differences in taxes, distribution and labor costs, foreign-exchange risk, even local taste. For example, Quelle says it charges German wom
9、en more for bathing suits than Spanish women because Germans demand higher quality. “In Germany, the weight of the fabric must be higher, says Moissl, Quelles controller.”The Spanish accept poorer quality.“Moissls not too concerned about maintaining price differentials for bathing suitslocal tastes
10、in fashion, for instance, can justify ongoing price differentialsbut the pricing of such things as CD players is more problematic. The product doesnt differ much and can easily be shipped across borders. (5) Quelle says it is thinking about raising prices in less expensive countries to prevent middl
11、eman from buying, say, in Spain and then selling in Germany.2 Do animals have rights? This is how the question is usually put. It sounds like a useful, ground-clearing way to start. (1) Actually, it isnt, because it assumes that there is an agreed account of human rights, which is something the worl
12、d does not have.On one view of rights, to be sure, it necessarily follows that animals have done. (2) Some philosophers argue that rights exist only within a social contract, as part of an exchange of duties and entitlements. Therefore, animals cannot have rights. The idea of punishing a tiger that
13、kills somebody is absurd, for exactly the same reason, so is the idea that tigers have rights. However, this is only one account, and by no means an uncontested one. It denies rights not only to animals but also to some peoplefor instance, to infants, the mentally incapable and future generations. I
14、n addition, it is unclear what force a contract can have for people who never consented to it: how do you reply to somebody who says “I dont like this contract”?The point is this: without agreement on the rights of people, arguing about the rights of animals is fruitless. (3) It leads the discussion
15、 to extremes at the outset: it invites you to think that animals should be treated either with consideration humans extend to other humans, or with no consideration at all. This is a false choice. Better to start with another, more fundamental question: is this the way we treat animals a moral issue
16、 at all?Many deny it. (4) Arguing from the point of view that humans are different from animals in every relevant respect, extremists of this kind think that animals lie outside the area of moral choice. Any regard for the suffering of animals is seen as a mistakea sentimental displacement of feelin
17、g that should properly be directed to other humans.This view, which holds that torturing a monkey is morally equivalent to chopping wood, may seem bravely “logical“ . In fact it is simply shallow: the confused center is right to reject it. The most elementary form of moral reasoningthe ethical equiv
18、alent of learning to crawlis to weigh others interests against ones own. This in turn requires sympathy and imagination: without which there is no capacity for moral thought. To see an animal in pain is enough, for most, to engage sympathy. (5) When that happens, it is not a mistake: it is mankinds
19、instinct for moral reasoning in action, an instinct that should be encouraged rather than laughed at.MBA（英语）翻译练习试卷 8 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】 1如果你相信
20、宏观经济学家的说法，欧洲新的统一货币体系将要么带来经济混乱，要么就是一个经济增长、结构重组和经济繁荣的新纪元。2但是明年用欧元标价时，爱吃冰激凌的法国人很快就会算出他们付的钱是荷兰人的 2.5 倍。3而且联合利华公司的财务主管扬?哈尔斯说：“ 如果消费者感到本国的冰激凌价格比其他地方贵一倍的话，他们对你的产品的态度可能会发生变化。”4生产商将其解释为这是由不同税率、分销渠道和劳动力费用、汇率风险，甚至地区时尚所造成的。5奎尔公司说，它正考虑在价格较低的国家提价以防止中间商在比如西班牙买进，然后在德国卖出。【知识模块】 英译汉2 【正确答案】 1实际上并非如此，因为它是以存在一种对人权的一致解释这一假定为基础的，而这个世界并不存在这种解释。2有些哲学家论证说，权利仅存在于社会契约中，作为责任与应得的权利相互交换的一部分。3它从一开始就将讨论引向两个极端，引导人们认为对待动物，要么像人对人那样关心体贴，要么就一点儿也不关心体贴。4极端主义者依据人在各有关方面有别于动物为理由，争辩说：应将动物排除于道德考虑之外。5这种反应发生时，并不是一种错误，而是人类用道德观念进行推理的本能在起作用。这种本能应该受到鼓励，而不是嘲笑。【知识模块】 英译汉
