2010年11月CATTI二级笔译实务真题与参考译文
2010年11月【英译汉】【试题一】
Offshore supply vessels resembling large, floating flat-backed trucks fill
Victoria Dock, unable to find charters in a sign of the downturn in Britain's
oil industry. With UK North Sea oil and gas production 44 percent below its
peak, self-styled oil capital of Europe Aberdeen fears the slowdown is not
simply cyclical. The oil industry that at one stage sparked talk of Scotland as
"the Kuwait of the West" has already outlived most predictions. Tourism, life
sciences, and the export of oil services around the world
are among Aberdeen's targeted substitutes for North sea oil and gas --but
for many the biggest prize would be to use its offshore oil expertise to build a
renewable energy industry as big as oil. The city aims to use its experience to
become a leader in offshore wind, tidal power and carbon dioxide capture and
storage. Alex Salmond, head of the devolved Scottish government, told a
conference in Aberdeen last month the market for wind power could be worth 130
billion pounds, while Scotland could be the "Saudi Arabia of tidal power."
"We're seeing the emergence of an offshore energy market that is comparable in
scale to the market we've seen in offshore oil and gas in the last 40 years," he
said. Another area of focus, tourism, has previously been hindered by the
presence of oil. Eager to put Aberdeen on the international tourist map, local
business has strongly backed a plan by U.S. real estate tycoon Donald Trump for
a luxury housing and golf project 12 km (8 miles) north of the city, even though
it means building on a nature reserve. The city also hopes to reorientate its
vibrant oil services industry toward emerging offshore oil centers such as
Brazil. "Just because the production in the North Sea starts to decline doesn't
mean that Aberdeen
as a global center also declines," said Robert Collier, Chamber of Commerce
Chief Executive. "That expertise can still stay here and be exported around the
world."
【英译汉】【试题二】
We mark the passing of 800 years, and that is indeed a remarkable span for
any institution. But history is never an even-flowing stream, and the most
remarkable thing about modern Cambridge has been its enormous growth over the
past half century. Since I came up as an undergraduate in 1961 the student
population has more than doubled. More students have meant more teachers, and,
even more significantly, more scholars devoted solely to research: every
category has more than doubled in numbers. This huge increase has been partly
absorbed by an expansion of the colleges: they all have more students and more
Fellows than they did 50 years ago; and, since 1954, no fewer than 11 of the 31
colleges are either brand new foundations, or have been conjured up as new
creations from existing but quite different bodies. From being a university
primarily driven by undergraduate education, Cambridge's reputation is now
overwhelmingly tied to its research achievements, which can be simply
represented by the fact that more than three-quarters of its current annual
income is devoted to research. This has brought not just new laboratories but
new buildings to house whole faculties and departments: in the mid-20th century
few faculties had a physical manifestation beyond, perhaps, a library and a
couple of administrative offices. Cambridge attracts the best students and
academics because they find the University and the colleges stimulating and
enjoyable places in which to live and work. The students are thrown in with
similarly able minds, learning as much from each other as from their teachers;
the good senior
academics know better than to be too hierarchical or to cut themselves off
from intellectual criticism and debate. One generation dismisses another: not
even Erasmus or Newton, Darwin or Keynes stand unscathed by the passage of time;
nor can we be but humbled, especially in our day when so much information is so
easily accessible, by the vast store of knowledge which we can approach but
never really control. Our library and museum collections bring us into contact
with many lives lived in the past. They serve as symbols of the continuity of
learning, or the diversity of views, of an obligation to wrestle with fact and
argument, to come to our own conclusions, and in turn to be accountable for our
findings. The real quest is not for knowledge, but for understanding.
【汉译英】【试题一】
1972年，联合国教科文组织向全世界发出了“走向阅读社会”的号召，要求社会成员人人读书，使读书成为每个人日常生活不可或缺的一部分。
然而，中国出版科学研究所于2008年公布的第五次国民阅读调查结果显示，中国户均年消费图书仅1.75本。传统图书阅读率呈持续走低态势，阅读率为34.7%，比2005年降低了14%。至于不读书的原因，49.4%的人归结为“没有时间”，42.8%的人说“没有习惯”。
温家宝总理说：“书籍是人类智慧的结晶。读书决定一个人的修养和境界，关系一个民族的素质和力量，影响一个国家的前途和命运。一个不读书的人、不读书的民族，是没有希望的。”
【汉译英】【试题二】：庚寅话虎
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由于人类活动的加剧，狩猎手段的提高，原始森林的丧失而使野生虎几乎陷入万劫不复的境地。
(中间是人们追求高档皮毛服装导致。。。。。。)
20世纪60年代，一度的“打虎除害”运动导致全国在被打死的老虎数以千计。中国仅存的野生虎仅有300多只。
特别是对全国对枪支的收缴，对天然林的禁伐，这场人类对虎的绝杀方才有所收敛。
上个世纪中叶，中国边境的几起大型动物皮毛走私活动在国际社会引起轩然大波，国际上不得不认定，大型猫科动物皮张的主要消费国——中国。
。。。(时间)，中国洗清了在国际社会上的负名。
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