2013年5月CATTI二级笔译实务真题与参考译文

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　　2013年5月
              英译汉
        　　Passage 1(The New York Times 10th, May, 2010)
        　　Ancient Arab Shipwreck Yields Secrets of Ninth-Century Trade
        　　For more than a decade, archaeologists and historians have been studying
the contents of a ninth-century Arab dhow that was discovered in 1998 off
Indonesia’s Belitung Island. The sea-cucumber divers who found the wreck had no
idea it eventually would be considered one of the most important maritime
discoveries of the late 20th century.
        　　The dhow was carrying a rich cargo — 60,000 ceramic pieces and an array of
gold and silver works — and its discovery has confirmed how significant trade
was along a maritime silk road between Tang Dynasty China and Abbasid Iraq. It
also has revealed how China was mass-producing trade goods even then and
customizing them to suit the tastes of clients in West Asia.
        　　"Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon
Winds,” at the new,
lotus-shaped ArtScience Museum designed by Moshe Safdie, presents items from the
Belitung wreck. Curated by the Asian Civilisations Museum here and the Arthur M.
Sackler Gallery and Smithsonian Institution in Washington, the show is expected
to travel to museums around the world over the next five to six years.
        　　"This exhibition tells us a story about an extraordinary moment in
globalization,” said Julian Raby, director of the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of
Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. “It brings to life the tale of Sinbad sailing
to China to make his fortune. It shows us that the world in the ninth century
was not as fragmented as we assumed. There were two great export powers: the
Tang in the east and the Abbasid based in Baghdad.”
        　　Until the Belitung find, historians had thought that Tang China traded
primarily through the land routes of Central Asia, mainly on the Silk Road.
Ancient records told of Persian fleets sailing the Southeast Asian seas but no
wrecks had been found, until the Belitung dhow. Its cargo confirmed that a huge
volume of trade was taking place along a maritime route, said Heidi
Tan, a curator at the Asian Civilisations Museum and a co-curator of
the exhibition.
        　　Mr. Raby said: “The size of the find gives us a sense of two things: a
sense of China as a country already producing things on an industrialized scale
and also a China that is no longer producing ceramics to bury.” He was referring
to the production of burial pottery like camels and horses, which was banned in
the late eighth century. “Instead, kilns looked for other markets and they
started producing tableware and they built an export market.”
            
            

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        　　Passage 2(The New York Times 8th, Mar, 2011)
        　　EU Signals Big Shift on Genetically Modified Crops
        　　Madeira is more than 500 kilometers from the African coast and is
officially one of the “outermost regions” of the European Union. Despite that
far-flung status, Madeira catapulted into the center of the Union’s agricultural
and environmental affairs last year when Portugal asked the European Commission
for permission to impose an unprecedented ban on growing biotech crops
there.
        　　Last week, the commission quietly let the deadline pass for opposing
Portugal’s request, allowing Madeira, which is one of Portugal’s autonomous
regions, to become the first E.U. territory to get formal permission from
Brussels to remain entirely free of genetically modified organisms. Madeira now
will probably go ahead and implement the ban, a spokeswoman for the Portuguese
government said Friday.
        　　Individual European countries and regions have banned certain genetically
modified crops before. Many consumers and farmers in countries like Austria,
France and Italy regard the crops as potentially dangerous and likely to
contaminate organically produced food. But the case of Madeira represents a
significant landmark, because it is the first time the commission, which runs
the day-to-day affairs of the European Union, has permitted a country to impose
such a sweeping and definitive rejection of the technology.
        　　The Madeirans’ main concerns focused on preserving the archipelago’s
biodiversity and its forest of subtropical laurel trees. Such forests, known as
laurisilva, were once widespread on the European mainland but were wiped out
thousands of years ago during an earlier period of climate change. That has left
Madeira with “much the largest extent of laurel forest surviving in the world,
with a unique suite of plants and animals,” according to the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which named the Madeiran
laurisilva a World Heritage Site in 1999.The forest also is a growing attraction
for tourists, who make up a significant portion of Madeira’s earnings.
        　　In seeking to ban biotechnology on Madeira, the Portuguese government told
the commission that it would be impossible to separate crops containing
genetically engineered material from other plant life. The “risk to nature
presented by the deliberate release of GMOs is so dangerous and poses such a
threat to the environmental and ecological health of Madeira, that it is not
worthwhile risking their use, either directly in the agricultural sector or even
on an experimental basis,” the Portuguese told the commission, using the acronym
for genetically modified organisms.
            
            

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        　　汉译英
        　　Passage 1
        　　关于稀土的…文章不是完整的几段，是到处粘的，比较零碎~
        　　大致就是12年的白皮书《中国的稀土状况与政策》和一篇叫做《不能以牺牲环境为代价开采稀土》里的内容，但是也不完整~
        　　Passage 2(2013年3月10日吴邦国讲话节选)
        　　中国特色社会主义法律体系的形成，总体上解决了有法可依的问题，在这种情况下，有法必依、执法必严、违法必究的问题就显得更为突出、更加紧迫，这也是广大人民群众普遍关注、各方面反映强烈的问题。因此，我们要在继续加强立法工作的同时，采取积极有效措施，切实保障宪法和法律的有效实施。一要维护宪法和法律的权威和尊严。
        　　一切国家机关和武装力量、各政党和各社会团体、各企业事业组织都必须遵守宪法和法律，任何组织或者个人都不得有超越宪法和法律的特权，一切违反宪法和法律的行为必须予以追究。
        　　二要坚持依法行政和公正司法。国家行政机关要严格按照法定权限和程序办事，加快建设法治政府。国家审判机关、检察机关要依法独立公正行使审判权、检察权，维护社会公平正义。
        　　三要增强全社会的法律意识和法治观念。让各级领导干部和国家机关工作人员带头遵守宪法和法律，善于运用法律解决现实生活中的实际问题，让广大人民群众懂得依法按程序表达利益诉求、解决矛盾纠纷，用法律武器维护自身的合法权益。
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