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【新东方课程简介】 东方口译课程规划：口译名师指导
英译汉：
American are much more likely than citizens of other nations to believe that they live in a meritocracy, i.e. Government by people selected according to merit. But this self-image is a fantasy: America actually stands out as a the advanced country in which it matters most who your parents were, the country in which those born on one of society's lower rungs have the least chance of climing to the top or even to the middle.
美国人可能比任何其他国家的人都更相信他们生活在一个崇尚精英体制国家，比如他们坚信有能力的人才会被人民选为政府的一份子。但他们这个自我的认识可说是一种幻觉。虽然美国发达强大，傲视群雄，但在那里家庭背景却极其重要，若一个人出生在无权无势的家庭，他成为精英甚至中产阶级的机会则是微乎其微的。
And if you ask why America is more class-bound in practice than the rest of the Western world, a large part of the reason is that our government falls down on the job of creating equal opportunity.
如果你要问为什么实际上美国比其他西方国家都要阶级分明，政府在创造公平机会这件事情上的失职从很大程度上来说是罪魁祸首。
The failure starts early: in America, the holes in the social safety net mean that both low-income mothers and their children are all too likely to suffer from poor nutrition and receive inadequate health care. It continues once children reach school age, where they encounter a system in which the afflent send their kids to good, well-financed public schools or, if they choose, to private schools, while less-advantaged children get a far worse education.
这种失职从很早就开始了, 社会的安全网存在着漏洞，这就意味着低收入的母亲和儿童将遭受营养不良和医疗不利之苦。这个趋势将会继续下去---等小孩到了上学的年纪，富人可以送小孩上优质的、资金充足的学校，如果他们愿意，甚至可以去私立学校，而家境贫寒的人只能委身于水准低得多的教育。
汉译英：
自古以来，我国各民族人民劳动、生息、繁衍在祖国的土地上，各民族组之间建立了紧密的政治经济文化联系，早在两千多年前就形成了幅员辽阔的统一国家。悠久的中华文化，成为维系民族团结和国脚埃同意的牢固纽带。
From ancient times, our people of all ethnic groups have labored, lived, multiply on this land, where closely-knitted political, economic and cultural links have been established. As early as two thousand years ago, we have built a unified nation with a vast territory. The Chinese cutlures, which go back a long way, stand bonding all ethnic groups together and reinforcing our national solidarity.
我们的先人历来把独立自主作为立国之本。中国作为人类文明发祥地之一，在几千年的历史进程中，文化传统始终没有中断。近代中国虽屡遭列强欺凌，国势衰败，但经过全民族的百年抗争，又以巨人的姿态重新站立起来。
Our forefathers were dedicated to the proposition of maintaining independence. As one of the oldest birthplaces of human civilizations，China has all along maintained its cultural tradition without letup in the history of several thousand years. In modern tines, the frequent bullying and humiliation by imperialist powers once weakened China. However, after a hundred year's struggle of the entire Chinese nation, China has stood up again as a giant.
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发表于 2016-7-11 16:58:56