《商务翻译》第1次翻译练习
商务英语翻译 I 练习(2015-16)
2015-2016学年第一学期商务英语翻译（I）练习1. Germany's recovery grinds to a haltEconomic recovery in the eurozone lost steam in the closing months of last year as Germany’s upturn ground to a halt, in a blow to the country’s new Government under Angela Merkel, the Chanc ellor.An abrupt slowdown in Europe’s biggest economy saw Germany’s growth stagnate in the final quarter of 2005, after a robust expansion of 0.6 per cent in the previous three months, official figures showed.The disappointing sudden standstill in Germany contributed to a halving in fourth- quarter GDP growth across the eurozone to a modest pace of only 0.3 per cent.However, despite the bad news economists, investors and eurozone politicians all expressed confidence that both Germany and the eurozone would still enjoy a renewed acceleration in the opening months of this year.A survey of 25,000 German companies by the country’s chamber of industry and commerce (DIHK) reported that the outlook for corporate investment was at its strongest for 11 years, while expectations for exports surged to a six-year high. The mood among services firms also brightened, with companies’ spirits buoyed by expectation of a boost for consumer spending from this year’s World Cup.In a further counter to the gloomy GDP data, the closely-watched ZEW survey of sentiment among Germany’s investors dipped only slightly in February, with a headline confidence index of 69.8 — only a little below the two-year high of 70.0 set in January.The ZEW economic think-tank said the results showed that optimism in German financial markets had ―stabilized at a high level‖, while the investment climate remained positive.David Brown, an economist with Bear Stearns, backed the view of many other analysts yesterday that most of the ingredients for a strong revival in German economic activity this year remained in place. “Business confidence is still operating at a high level, consumer optimism is building as the jobless rate trends lower, and real activity levels are continuing to pick up,‖ he said.For now, yesterday’s official figures continued to show scant sign of any resurgence in German consumers’ willingness to spend. The country’s statistics office noted that domestic demand had―contributed little‖ to the economy’s fourth-quarter showing.It was unclear to what extent consumer spending may have been depressed at the end of last year by political uncertainties surrounding the creation of Germany’s ―grand coalition‖ Government of left and right under Frau Merkel.In the meantime, fourth-quarter growth relied instead on what was described as ―highly dynamic‖ net trade, and on strong investment spending.European finance ministers, meeting in Brussels, sought to brush aside the lackluster economic news and strike an optimistic tone over prospects for this year.2.1What I Have Lived For By Bertrand RussellThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy --- ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness --- that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what --- at last --- I have found.With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much I have achieved.Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.2.2 Youth Samuel UllmanYouth is not a time of life; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bow the heart and turn the spirit back to dust.Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, you and I will remain young.When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may have a young heart at 80.3. Genius Sacrificed for Failure Dr. William N. BrownDuring my youth in America’s Appalachian mountains, I learned that farmers preferred sons over daughters, largely because boys were better at heavy farm labor (though what boys anywhere could best the tireless Hui’an girls in the field of Fujian!)With only 3% of American in agriculture today, brain has supplanted brawn, yet cultural preferences, like bad habits, are easier to make than break. But history warns repeatedly of the tragic cost of dismissing too casually the gifts of the so-called weaker sex.About 150 years ago, a village church vicar in Yorkshire, England, had three lovely, intelligent daughters but his hopes hinged entirely on the sole male heir, Branwell, a youth with remarkable talent in both art and literature.Branwell’s father and sisters hoarded their pennies to pack him off to London’s Royal Academy of Arts, but if art was his calling, he dialed a wrong number. Within weeks he hightailed it home, a penniless failure.Hopes still high, the family landed Branwell a job as a private tutor, hoping this would free him to develop his literary skills and achieve the success and fame that he deserved. Failure again.For years the selfless sisters squelched their own goals, farming themselves out as teachers and governesses in support of their increasingly indebted brother, convinced the world must eventually recognize his genius. As failures multiplied, Branwell turned to alcohol, then opium, and eventually died as he had lived: a failure. So died hope in the one male – but what of the three anonymous sisters? During Branwell’s last years, the girls published a book of poetry at their own expense (under a pseudonym, for fear of reviewer’s bias against females).Even Branwell might have snickered: they sold only 2 copies.Undaunted, They continued in their spare time, late at night by candlelight, to pour out their pent-up emotion, writing of what they knew best, of women in conflict with their natural desires and social condition – in reality, less fiction than autobiography! And 19th century literature was transformed by Anne’s Agnes Grey, Emily’s Wuthering Heights and Charlotte’s Jane Eyre.But years of sacrifice for Banwell had taken their toll. Emily took ill at her brother’s funeral and died within 3 months, aged 29; Anne died 5 months later, aged 30; Charlotte lived only to age 39.If only they had been nurtured instead of sacrificed.No one remember Branwell’s name, much less his art or literature, but Bronte sisters’ tragically shot lives teach us even more of life than of literature. Their sacrificed genius cries out to us that in modern society we must value children not by their physical strength or sexual gender, as we would any mere beast of burden, but by their integrity, strength, commitment, courage--spiritual qualities abundant in both boys and girls. China, a nation blessed by more boys and girls than any nation, ignores at her own peril the lesson of the Bronte tragedy.Patrick Bronte fathered Branwell, but more importantly, he fathered Anne, Emily and Charlotte. Were he alive today he would surely urge us to put away our passé prejudices and avoid his own tragic and irrevocable error of putting all of his eggs in one male basket!4. Nature and ArtJames WhistlerNature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music.But the artist is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful---as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony.To say to the painter, that nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player, that he may sit on the piano.The dignity of the snow-capped mountain is lost in distinctness, but the joy of the tourist is to recognize the traveler on the top. The desire to see, for the sake of seeing, is, with the mass, alone the one to be gratified, hence the delight in detail.And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us---then the wayfarer hastens home; the working man and the cultured one, the wise man and the one of pleasure, cease to understand, as they have ceased to see, and Nature, who, for once, has sung in tune, sings her exquisite song to the artist alone, her son and her master---her son in that he loves her, her master in that he knows her.To him her secrets are unfolded, to him her lessons have become gradually clear. He looks at her flower, not with the enlarging lens, that he may gather facts for the botanist, but with the light of the one who sees in her choice selection of brilliant tones and delicate tints, suggestions of future harmonies.He does not confine himself to purposeless copying, without thought, each blade of grass, as commended by the inconsequent, but, in the long curve of the narrow leaf, corrected by the straight tall stem, he learns how grace is wedded to dignity, how strength enhances sweetness, that elegance shall be the result.In the citron wing of the pale butterfly, with its dainty spots of oranges, he sees before him the stately halls of fair gold, with their slender saffron pillars, and is taught how the delicate drawing high upon the walls shall be traced in tender tones of orpiment, and repeated by the base in notes of graver hue.In all that is dainty and lovable he finds hints for his own combinations, and thus is Nature ever his resource and always at his service, and to him is naught refused.Through his brain, ad through the last alembic, is distilled the refined essence of that thought which began with the Gods, and which they left him to carry out.Set apart by them to complete their works, he produces that wondrous thing called the masterpiece, which surpasses in perfection all that they have contrived in what is called Nature; and the Gods stand by and marvel, and perceive how far away more beautiful is the Venus of Melos than was their own Eve.---from the Oxford Book of English Prose5. China’s 4 Major Economic RegionsIn recent years, China has formed four major economic regions: the Pearl River Delta area, Yangtze River Delta area, Beijing Tianjin Hebei cities, and the large Northeastern China cities. Each of these regions, with its own specific strengths, has become an important engine propelling the economy’s rapid growth. Aggregate Economy RankingsGDP has become the main index for assessment of aggregate economic development. The Yangtze River Delta region ranked first among the four regions in terms of GDP, reaching RMB2379.8 billion in 2003, an increase of RMB 381.5 billion over the previous year. The 16 cities that comprise this area realized an average growth of 14.8% over the prior year. The Beijing Tianjin Hebei cluster of cities’ GDP ranked second at RMB 1309.4 billion in 2003, posing an increase of 12.2% over 2002. The Northeastern China cluster of cities (three Northeast Chinese provinces) realized RMB1295.7 billion in GDP, presenting an average growth of 10.7%. The Pearl River Delta area’s GDP was RMB 1133.5 billion in 2003, ranking fourth among the four, and RMB191.6 billion more than that of the previous year, achieving the fastest average growth rate of 15.5%.Investment in fixed assetsAmong the four economic regions, the Yangtze River Delta area had the highest level of fixed asset investments in 2003 at RMB1097.4 billion, up 38.9% year on year. Investment in the Pearl River Delta area was up 27.8% to RMB373.1 billion. The growth of the Beijing Tianjin Hebei cluster of cities and the big Northeast China cluster of cities, however, was 6.5% lower than the national average. Investment in fixed assets of the Beijing Tianjin Hebei cluster of cities came in at RMB452.9 billion in 2003, down2.1% year on year; the Northeast China cluster of cities had RMB352.9 billion in investments, up 1.2%. The total fixed asset investment of the four economic areas reached RMB2276.2 billion in 2003, rising 20.2% over 2002, accounting for 41.3% of the national total.Consumer goods marketConsumer goods’ retail sales of the Yangtze River Delta area reached RMB718.6 billion, an increase of 12.1% year on year; retail sales of the Pearl River Delta area were up 11.8% to RMB 396.6 billion; the Beijing Tianjin Hebei cluster of cities, RMB501.7 billion, up 12.1%; and the big Northeast China cluster of cities, RMB481.7 billion, up 11.5%. Thanks to the geographical location of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, the area ranked first with the Yangtze Delta area in growth of retail sales of consumer goods among the four, while the Northeast China area was at the bottom, posing slow development. The total of the four economic areas topped RMB2098.6 billion, accounting for 45.8% of the national total.Foreign TradeThe four economic area’s interaction in foreign trade was marked by large-scale imports and exports. Total import and export of the Yangtze River Delta area reached US$277 billion, rising 56.1%; the Pearl River Delta area, US$271.3 billion, up 31.1%; the Beijing Tianjin Hebei cluster of cities, US$106.8 billion, up 30.3%; and the Northeast China cluster of cities, US$38.1 billion, up 27.8%. Total import andexport of the four economic areas reached US$693.2 billion, accounting for 81.5% of the national total, 29.3 percentage points higher than the proportion of GDP.The Yangtze River Delta area has been a target for both domestic and overseas investors. The area has seen an inflow of funds from multinational companies. Shanghai Municipality, the center of the Yangtze River Delta area, has become a prime location of headquarters and R&D centers of many big companies and banks, and is growing into a center for international economy, finance, trade, and navigation. Fixed asset investment of 16 cities in the Yangtze River Delta area reached RMB1097.4 billion in 2003, accounting for 19.9% of the national total, 12.2 percentage points higher than the growth of the national average, 2.9 times that of the total of the Pearl River Delta area, 2.4 times that of the Beijing Tianjin Hebei clusters of cities and 3.1 times that of the Northeast China cluster of cities.The Pearl River Delta area, whose economic development has benefited from the processing trade, has seen the highest degree of economic internationalization and development of an export oriented economy. Total import and export of the Pearl River Delta area topped US$271.3 billion in 2003, 32.1% of the national total. Of the total, US$145.1 billion was export, 33% of the national total and up 28.9% year on year, and US$126.2 billion was import, up 33.7%The Beijing Tianjin Hebei cluster of cities has developed into one of the largest developed and mature modern logistics centers and consumption markets in China. The total retail sales of consumer goods in this region reached US$501.7 billion in 2003, 10.9% of the national total.The three northeastern provinces’ economic development has formed a consumption oriented growth by relying on their transportation facilities and tourism resources. Total retail sales of consumer goods in this region reached RMB481.7 billion in 2003, 10.5% of the national total, much larger than the proportion of investment and export in the national total.6.1 Hour in the SunJohn H. Bradley―…I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days.‖--- Henry David ThoreauWhen Thoreau wrote that line, he was thinking of the Walden Pond he knew as a boy. Woodchoppers and the Iron Horse had not yet greatly damaged the beauty of its setting. A boy could go to the pond and lie on his back against the seat of a boat, lazily drifting from shore to shore while the loons dived and the swallows dipped around him. Thoreau loved to recall such sunny hours and summer days ―when idleness was the most attractive and productive business.‖I too was once a boy in love with a pond, rich in sunny hours and summer days. Sun and summer are still what they always were, but the boy and the pond changed. The boy, who is now a man, no longer finds much time for idle drifting. The bond has been annexed by a great city. The swamps where herons once hunted are now drained and filled with houses. The bay where water lilies quietly floated is now a harbor for motor boats. In short, everything that the boy loved no longer exists – except in the man’s memory of it.Some people insist that only today and tomorrow matter. But how much poorer we would be if we really lived by that rule! So much of what we do today is frivolous and futile and soon forgotten. So much of what we hoped to do tomorrow never happens.The past is the bank in which we store our most valuable possession—the memories that give meaning and depth to our lives.Those who truly treasure the past will not bemoan the passing of the good old days. Because days enshrined in memory are never lost. Death itself is powerless to still a remembered voice or erase a remembered smile. And for one boy who is now a man, there is a pond which neither time nor tide can change, where he can still spend a quiet hour in the sun.6.2 Love Your LifeHenry David ThoreauHowever mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have cheering thoughts, as in a palace. The town’s poor seems to me often to live the most independent live of any. Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old, return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.7. The Return of the NativeThomas HardyA SATURDAY afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor.The heaven being spread with this pallid screen, the earth with the dark vegetation, their meeting-line at the horizon was clearly marked. In such contrast the heath wore the appearance of an installment of night which had taken up its place before its astronomical hour was come: darkness had to a great extent arrived hereon while day stood distinct in the sky. Looking upwards, a furze-cutter would have inclined to continue work; looking down, he would have decided to finish his faggot and go home. The distant rims of the world and of the firmament seemed to be a division in time no less than a division in matter. The face of the heath by its mere complexion added half-an-hour to eve: it could in like manner retard the dawn, sadden noon, anticipate the frowning of storms scarcely generated, and intensify the opacity of a moonless midnight to a cause of shaking and dread.In fact, precisely at this transitional point of its nightly roll into darkness the great and particular glory of the Egdon waste began, and nobody could be said to understand the heath who had not been there atsuch a time. It could be best felt when it could not clearly be seen. Its complete effect and explanation lay in this and the succeeding hours before the next dawn: then and only then did it tell its true tale. The spot was, indeed, a near relation of night; and when night showed itself an apparent tendency to gravitate together could be perceived in its shades and the scene. The somber stretch of rounds and hollows seemed to rise and meet the evening gloom in pure sympathy, the heath exhaling darkness as rapidly as the heavens precipitated it. The obscurity in the air and the obscurity in the land closed together in a black fraternization towards which each advanced half way.The place became full of a watchful intentness now. When other things sank brooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen. Every night its Titanic form seemed to await something; but it had waited thus, unmoved, during so many centuries, through the crises of so many things, that it could only be the imagined to await one last crisis---the final Overthrow.It was a spot which returned upon the memory of those who loved it with an aspect of peculiar and kindly congruity. Smiling champaigns of flowers and fruit hardly do this, for they are permanently harmonious only with an existence of better reputation as to its issues than the present. Twilight combined with the scenery of Egdon Heath to evolve a thing majestic without severity, impressive without showiness, emphatic in its admonitions, grand in its simplicity. The qualifications which frequently invest the façade of a prison with far more dignity than is found in the façade of a palace double its size lent to this heath a sublimity in which spots renowned for mere prettiness are utterly wanting. Gay prospects wed happily with gay times; but alas if times be not gay. Men have oftener suffered from the mockery of a place too smiling for their reason than from the oppression of surroundings over-sadly tinged. Haggard Egdon appealed to a subtler and scarcer instinct, to a more recently learnt emotion, than that which responds to the sort of beauty called charming.To recline on a stump of thorn in the central valley of Egdon, between afternoon and night as now, where the eye could reach nothing of the world outside the summits and shoulders of heath-land which filled the whole circumference of its glance, and to know that everything around and underneath had been from prehistoric times as unaltered as the stars overhead, gave ballast to the mind adrift on change, and harassed by the irrepressible New. The great inviolate place had an ancient permanence which the sea cannot claim. Who can say of a particular sea that it is old? Distilled by the sun, kneaded by the moon, it is renewed in a year, in a day, or in a hour. The sea changed, the fields changed, the rivers, the villages, and the people changed, yet Egdon remained. Those surfaces were neither so steep as to be destructible by weather, nor so flat as to be the victims of floods and deposits. With the exception of an aged highway, and a still more aged barrow presently to be referred to---themselves almost crystallized to natural products by long continuance---even the trifling irregularities were not caused by pickaxe, plough, or spade, but remains as the very finger-touches of the last geological change.8. Still Not There--Big Gap between China’s top 500 and the F ortune 500The Chinese Federation of Enterprises (CFE) and the China Association of Entrepreneurs (CAE) have jointly announced China’s top 500 companies for 2005 among which there are 112 new entrants. Also announce were China’s top 500 manufacturing ente rprises as well as the top 500 service enterprises, thefirst rankings of their kind in the country. China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (CPCC), Shanghai BaoSteel Group, and the State Power Grid Corporation headed the list of China’s top 500.The changes to the main list, which has been published for the past 4 years, indicate the rising competitiveness of large enterprises in China. In addition, their important role as the backbone of the national economy has become increasingly apparent. The income of the top 500 accounted for 63.64% of the country’s GDP in 2002, a percentage which has continued to rise from 67.99% in 2003 to 77.04% in 2004 and to 86.04% in 2005.Also notable was the consistent increase in the scale of their balance sheets. Income of the China top 500 reached RMB11.75 trillion in 2005 surging 92.62% from 2002, an average annual growth rate of 24.37 percent. Total assets of the top 500 topped RMB33.51 trillion, rising 28.73% and posting an average annual increase of 8.78 percent.The thre shold for entering the list of China’s top 500 enterprises has been raised to about RMB4.6 billion in assets, 1.3 times higher than in 2002. The top 10 on that list are China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (CPCC); the State Power Grid corporation; China National Petroleum and Natural Gas Corporation; China Mobile Communications Group; The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC); China Life Insurance (Group) Corp; China Telecommunications Group; China Petrochemical Group; Shanghai BaoSteel Group; and China Construction Bank Company, Ltd.The top 10 of the 500 manufacturing enterprises are; Shanghai BaoSteel Group; China First Automotive Works Group (FAW); Haier Group; the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation; Dongfeng Motor Corporation; the Philips (China) Investment Company, Ltd; Motorola (China) Electronics Company, Ltd; China National Ordinance Equipment Group; China National Ordinance Industry Corp; and Anshan Iron and Steel Group.The companies filling out the top 10 of the list of 500 service enterprises are: the State Power Grid Corporation; China Mobile Communications Group; Industrial and Commercial Bank of China; China Life Insurance (Group) Corporation; China Telecommunication Group; China Sino-Chem Group; China Construction Bank Company, Ltd; South China Power Grid Company, Ltd; Bank of China; and Agricultural Bank of China.Although China’s large enterprises have made much progress vis a vis competitiveness, they continue to lag far behind Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies in the United States in terms of scale, profitability, and productivity. The total revenue, profit and assets of China’s top 500 in 2005 were 8.4%, 7%, and 6% respectively of that of Fortune 500 companies and 17.2%, 12.5%, and 18.2% of that of S&P 500 companies.Accounting for the gap between the bottom-line performances of companies listed in the Chinese indices and those included in the Western indices is the difference in systems, mechanisms, and overall competitiveness which is manifest most obviously in the absence of intellectual property rights and lack of proprietary core technology on the Chinese side. Factors that may have been used in ranking China’s top 500 were: Monopoly of resources, scale of operation, brand, management capability of supply chain, and core technology (of which the last is the weakest).In an analysis prepared by CFE and CAE it was concluded that 80% of research and development (R&D) and 71% of technical innovation in the world are done by the Fortune 500. In addition, 62% of technology transfers were conducted between Fortune 500 companies. Even though, as a percentage of GDP, capital expenditure research by Chinese companies increased over the previous year, it was still very small –only 1.36 percent. The latest statistics on the 2005 China 500 show that, of the 373 companies that submitted figures on R&D spending for 2004, the average was RMB247 million, accounting for 1.05% of。
unit1商务翻译 (1)
1译：现代科学的一切成就不仅提供了能够承受高温、高压的材料，而且也提供了新的工艺流程。
依靠现代科学的这些成就，相信完全可以制造出这样的人造卫星。
2.译：了解英语原义是一个大问题，现代汉语文言口语兼收并蓄，怎么用这样丰富多彩的文字来表达英语原义也是一个大问题。
这两个问题都要在翻译中得到解决。
3.对于以往的几代人来说，旧式的体力劳动是一种用以摆脱贫困的手段，而技术的进步则摧毁了穷人赖以为生的体力劳动。
因此，首先体验到技术进步之害的是穷人。
4.译：必须把大量时间花在确保关键人物均根据同一情报和目的行事，而这一切对人的体力和洞察力都是一大考验。
因此，一旦考虑成熟，就应迅速做出决策。
5.译：史密斯医生于1945年开始着手由联邦政府资助的抗癌实验。
他由于屡遭失败而感到沮丧，被迫终止了实验工作。
现在他又重新振作起来，恢复了抗癌实验活动。
6.因为距离远，交通工具缺乏，造成了农村社会与外界的隔绝，这种隔绝，又由于信息媒介不足，而变得更加严重。
7.人们之所以关注历史研究的方法论，主要是因为史学界内部意见不一，其次是因为外界并不认为历史是一门学问。
8.当我们观看体操运动员惊心动魄的表演时，最鼓舞我们的莫过于凯利的最后一跳，因为这一跳使得美国女孩们登上了冠军的领奖台。
9.铝总是和其他元素结合在一起，最普遍的适合氧结合，因为铝对氧气有很强的亲和力。
由于这个原因，在自然界中任何地方都找不到游离状态的铝，因而铝一直到19世纪才为人们所知。
10. [译]人脑认识和解决复杂问题的能力与现实世界中需要通过客观的推理，或者通过这种客观推理的应有的近似值来求解的问题规模相比，是非常渺小的。
11.周末，当成千上万进城上班的人回到了他们的乡间寓所之后，空旷的街市笼罩着一种宁静的气氛，没有什么比此时的宁静更令人难忘了。
12.译文：因此，某些银行已采用把储户姓名印在支票上的作法，这种作法对储户毫无风险。
13.译：我们不得不严肃的问问我们自己：随着日益增长的知识力量，如果我们继续利用知识的这种双重性，将会发生什么样的情况呢？14.如果我们瞥见了只可意会不可言传的事物，企图把它说出来，那是不明智的；对于我们不理解的事物，我们也不应该赋予它某种意义。
《商务翻译》第1次翻译练习
《商务翻译》第1次翻译练习及参考译文（一）句子翻译练习1.Nippon Steel Corp. and Shanghai Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., China’s largest steelmaker,signed an agreement to set up a joint venture to manufacture sheet steel for automobiles.2.Buyers have to bear all risks of the goods from the time when they shall have effectivelypassed the ship’s rail at the port of shipment.3.The two airlines plan to use the loans mainly to finance their planned capital investment andbond redemptions for the first half of fiscal 2009.4.The Bank of Japan decided to implement special loans to the bank to enable it to maintainsufficient cash flow.5.Currently, cell phone users are required to change the phone numbers if they switch their cellphone service provider.6.We all understand that Chinese slippers are very popular in your market on account of theirsuperior quality and competitive price.7.Customer value is the unique combination of benefits received by target buyers, such asquality, price, convenience, on-time delivery, and both before-sale and after-sale service.8.The European Union and other seven nations were determined to impose retaliatory tariffs onU.S. imports if Washington refused to abide by the WTO decision.9.Executives of the two companies repeatedly held talks to consider tie-ups limited to productdevelopment and sales activities.10.The critical issue is how to expand the sale of cultivation in order to streamline the farmingmanagement and enhance its international competitiveness.（二）篇章翻译练习These are tough times for Wal-Mart, America’s biggest retailer. Long accused of wrecking small-town America and condemned for the stinginess of its pay, the company has lately come under fire for its meanness over employees’ health-care benefits.The charge is arguably unfair: the firm’s health cover age, while admittedly less extensive than the average for big companies, is on a par with other retailers’. But bad publicity, coupled with rising costs, has stirred the Bentonville giant to action. Wal-Mart is making changes that should shift the ground i n America’s health-care debate.One strategy is to slash the prices of many generic, or out-of-patent, prescription drugs. Wal-Mart recently announced that its Florida stores would sell a list of some 300 generic drugs at $4 for a month’s supply; other st ates will follow. That is above cost but far less than the prices charged by many pharmacy chains, which get profits from fat margins on generics.Wal-Mart’s critics dismiss the move as a publicity stunt. The list of drugs includes only 143 different medicines and excludes many popular generics. True, but short-sighted. Wal-Mart has transformed retailing by using its size to squeeze suppliers and passing the gains on to consumers. It could do the same with drugs. Target, another big retailer, has already announced that it will match the new pricing. A “Wal-Mart effect” in drugs will not solve America’s health-costs problem: generics account for only a small share of drug costs, which in turn make up only 10% of overall health spending.But it would help. (High risk, high reward (excerpt), The Economist, Oct 12th 2006)。
商务英语第一次翻译练习题
商务英语第一次翻译练习题在当今全球化的商业环境下，掌握商务英语已成为现代商务人士不可或缺的技能之一。
为了帮助大家提高商务英语水平，以下是一些商务英语翻译练习题，希望能对你的商务英语学习有所助益。
1. "我们计划与该公司达成一项战略合作伙伴关系。
"We plan to establish a strategic partnership with the company.2. "我们需要一份详细的市场调研报告，以了解该行业的发展趋势。
"We need a detailed market research report to understand the industry's development trends.3. "请将最新的销售数据发送给我们。
"Please send us the latest sales data.4. "我们公司致力于提供高品质的产品和卓越的客户服务。
"Our company is committed to providing high-quality products and excellent customer service.5. "我们将在下个月举办一次国际业务峰会，请确认您的出席及相关细节。
"We will be hosting an international business summit next month. Please confirm your attendance and provide relevant details.6. "以提高市场份额为目标，我们正在制定新的营销战略。
"With the goal of increasing market share, we are developing a new marketing strategy.7. "为了更好地满足客户需求，我们将推出一款全新的产品线。
电子商务英语、第一次翻译作业
you are store has to be relevant to your market. the objective is to create你已经得到有关你的市场,目标是创造an attractive web site which will promote the merchant and encourage visitors to purchase一个有吸引力的网站，这将促进商家和鼓励游客购买a catalog that will attract visitors一个目录，将吸引游客an efficient catalog, which will allow visitors to find the products they want easily and quickly一个有效的目录，这将让游客方便，快捷地找到他们想要的产品a site that sells, by demonstrating value and quality一个网站，销售，展示的价值和质量to achieve the best result you need to understand your market为了达到最好的效果，你需要了解你的市场region : are you targeting domestic U.K. or U.S. business ?地区：你是针对国内英国或美国的业务？remember the bulk of the internet market is U.S.-based记住大部分的互联网市场是美国的基础type: are you selling to the general public or to businesses?类型：你是销售给一般公众或企业？technology: will your customers be technology-aware? will they have up to date and efficient technology available?技术：将您的客户是科技意识？他们将有最多的日期和有效的技术？awareness: is your target market likely to understand the process of electronic payment and be comfortable with it?意识：是你的目标市场可能了解电子支付过程和舒服呢？payment methods: what will be the preferred payment method?付款方式：什么是首选的付款方式？on-line credit card信用卡在线faxed credit card传真信用卡cheque支票customers account number and PO number客户帐户号码和订单号currency: what currency will your target market be comfortable paying with?货币：货币将你的目标市场是舒适的付出？。
《商务英语翻译1》练习一
《商务英语翻译1》课后练习一（2012.9.12）一、试译下面的例句。
例1 Home improvements have taken what little of my spare time.改善家庭关系占用了我很少的空余时间例2 E-commerce is still in its early stages, but the future of it looks rosy.电子商务上处于初级发展阶段，但是，例3 The research work is being done by a group of dedicated and imaginative scientists who specialize in extracting from various sea animals substances that may improve the health of the human race.研究工作是由一批敬业，富有想象力的科学家，专门研究从各种海洋动物中提取可以改善人类健康的的物质，例4 The World Travel and Tourism Council claimed th at tourism was the world’s largest industry. Along with growth in travel, the number of tourism destination choices has also increased as many decision-makers have recognized the value of tourism to the economies of their regions.世界旅行和旅游协会声称是世界上最大的工业旅游。
随着旅游人数的增长，旅游目的地的选择也增加许多决策者已经认识到旅游业对经济地区的价值，例5 Mankind will never stop using conventions as a means of communication. Just as they never stop eating and drinking. For in a way participating in a conference is eating knowledge and drinking understanding.人类从未停止使用公约作为一种通信手段。
商务英语翻译试题一试卷及答案.doc
商务英语翻译试题一试卷及答案.doc商务英语翻译试题（一）Ⅰ词汇测试题：（2 题，每题 10 分，共 20 分）BBCCB1．该组有10 个商务英语英文词或词组，下面均有英文词或词组来进行解释。
请将正确的选项标出，要求英英转换意义准确，符合商务英语规范。
（10 分）(1) to concludeA. to give one’ s place to eachB.to end or judge after someconsiderationC. to explainD. to contain(2) to enforceA. to break or act against a lawB. to cause a law or rule tobe obeyedC. to prevent movement from happeningD. to direct something into a particular place(3) to appointA. to take back propertyB. to meet someone’s needsC. to choose someone officially for a jobD. to claim forsomething(4) to approveA. to abide byB. to comply withC. to have a positive opinionD. to come up with(5) obviateA. to violateB. to remove a difficulty,toavoidC. to allow sb to doD. to be apparent(6)to violateA.to break or act against a law, principleB.to beat or threaten someoneC. to obey a lawD. to cause a rule to be obeyed.(7) with respect toA. comply withB. in relation toC. conform toD. coincide with(8) to entertain a clientA. to cater forB. to treat sb. at the tableC. to launch a productD. to shorten a vacation(9)temptationA.trying to attract peopleB.to encourage the popularity, sales and developmentC.to allow the value of money to varyD.to judge or decide the amount(10)advanceA.to support by giving moneyB.to go or move sth. forward, to develop or improveC. to improve or increaseD. to produce or provide2.有 10 个商英英文或，下面均有或来行解，将正确出，要求英意准确，符合商英范。
商务翻译 汉英练习1
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餐厅：
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全日供应中式茶艺服务。
白云豪宴中餐厅
现代豪华的多功能厅可容纳四百人，是大型宴会、国际性会议、专业展览的最佳选择；十一间由名师设计的厅房是商务宴请或家庭聚会的理想选择。
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餐厅位于三十楼，环境优美雅致，提供品种丰富、口味地道的全球经典美食。
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商务英语第一次翻译练习题
商务英语第一次翻译练习题商务英语翻译练习是一项重要的学习活动，它可以帮助学习者提高语言技能，同时熟悉商务环境下的专业术语和表达方式。
以下是一份商务英语翻译练习题，旨在提高学生的翻译能力。
商务英语翻译练习题一、词汇翻译1. 合同 (Contract)2. 报价 (Quotation)3. 交货 (Delivery)4. 销售合同 (Sales Agreement)5. 信用证 (Letter of Credit)二、句子翻译1. 我们收到了贵公司的报价单，并对其内容进行了仔细的审查。
(Translate to English)2. 根据我们的市场研究，这种产品有很大的销售潜力。
(Translateto English)3. 请提供贵公司的详细地址和联系方式。
(Translate to English)4. 我们希望与贵公司建立长期的业务关系。
(Translate to English)5. 我们公司提供多种付款方式，以满足客户的需求。
(Translate to English)三、段落翻译1. 尊敬的客户，我们很高兴通知您，您的订单已成功下单。
我们将尽快安排发货，并确保货物按时到达。
如果有任何问题，请随时联系我们的客服团队。
(Translate to English)2. Dear Customer, we are pleased to inform you that your order has been successfully placed. We will arrange for the shipment as soon as possible and ensure that the goods arrive on time. Should you have any issues, please feel free to contact our customer service team. (Translate to Chinese)四、商务信函翻译1. 翻译以下商务信函的开头和结尾部分：尊敬的先生/女士，我们对贵公司的产品非常感兴趣，并希望建立业务关系。
商英翻译练习参考答案 (1)
Unit 1 Applying for a JobTranslation Practice1. 从你的简历和应聘申请书来看，你对营销工作已有相当多的经验。
I see from your résumé and application that you’ve had quite a lot of experiencein marketing already.2. 如果你处在我的位置，你希望你的雇员应具备哪些素质？If you were in my shoes, what sort of qualities you’d look for in your employees?3. 部门经理应该能够主动处理很多事情。
A department manager has to be able to do a lot of things on your own initiative.4. 作为秘书，我做过大量的文字工作，如拟写报告、作会议记录等，而且似乎我的记忆力比一般人强。
As a secretary, I’ve had to d o quite a lot of paper work, such as handling reportwriting, keeping minutes at meetings, and I seem to have a better memory thanaverage.5. 从秘书角度看，我认为和上司共用一个办公室更好，这样她的上司不太有可能忘记告诉她一些重要的事情。
From the secretary’s point of view I think it’s better to share an office room withher boss so that there’s not much chance of her superior forgetting to let her knowabout important matters.6. 我工作过的那家公司是一家做营销和公共关系的公司，主要是为在中国投资的外国公司提供咨询。
商务英语阅读1翻译练习
Unit 11. A: We are thinking of placing an order for Chinese tea from your company.B: Which would you prefer, black tea or green tea?A: Both are very popular in my country. Could I have a look at your samples and taste them?B: Sure. This is Oolong Tea from Fujian and Longjing Tea from Xihu…A: They are very good in color and flavor. No wonder so many people enjoy your tea. Could you give me some indication of your price?B: Here is our price list. All the prices on the list are subject to our final confirmation.2. A: Good morning, sir.B: Good morning. I’ve seen your catalogue and I’m interested in your Flying Pigeon Bicycle. I think this type of bicycle will have a ready market in Canada. This is a list of my requirements. Could you quote us your lowest price CIF Vancouver?A: We generally quote on an FOB basis. Just a moment, I’ll work it out for you.3. A: Hello!B: Hello! I’ve seen your catalogue and I’m interested in theseproducts.A: You chose well. These products are selling well in your neighboring countries. I believe they will have a ready market at your end.B: Could I have a look at your samples?A: Sure. Here you are.B: Your products are very good. I’m considering placing an order as long as your terms and conditions are acceptable.A: Here is our price list. These products are in great demand at present. So place your order early if at all possible.Unit 21. A: Here is our offer for 1000 cases of jasmine tea.B: Well, your price is too high. It’ll be difficult for us to make any sales.A: You must be aware that the price of jasmine tea has been increasing.B: But Vietnamese suppliers give a lower price than yours. A: Every one in the trade knows that Chinese jasmine tea is far more superior.B: I don’t deny the quality of your jasmine tea. Butcompetition is keen. Many suppliers are in fact cutting their prices to try to attract more customers and get a larger market share.A: So far, our product can handle the competition well. We’ve had many orders and more are coming. It just shows that our product is competitive and our price is attractive.2. A: Here is our price list. All the prices are subject to our final confirmation.B: By the way, do you allow any commission?A: Well, our prices are quoted on an FOB net basis. As a rule, we don’t allow any commission.B: But you know, we’re a commissioned agent. We do business on a commission basis. Commission transactions will surely help to push the sales of your products.A: Yet your order is really not large enough.B: What quantity would you consider to be a large order?A: USD 500 000 or above.B: W ow, really substantial. Well, My Chen, this is our first transaction. Can you be more flexible and offer us more favorable terms? It might be possible for us to establish a long-term relationship.A: OK. We would grant you a 3% commission if you place an order of USD 400 000.B: W e appreciate your concession very much. However, we can usually get a 5% commission from our European suppliers.A: Mr. Green, our price itself is already favorable. It’s for our long-term business relationship that we make this exception. This is the best we can do.B: All right, we’ll have to accept it.3. A: Mr. Wright, here is our offer for 5000 metric tons of GradeA red beans, USD175 per metric ton, CIFC5% Rotterdam.B: Your price is on the high side, Mr. Zhang. It’s impossible for us to conclude any transactions at this price.A: I don’t know why you think so. Frankly speaking, we wouldn’t quote you such a low price if you were not our regular customer. I bet you cannot get such a favorable price from other suppliers.B: W e got an offer from a Thailand supplier yesterday. Their price is 3% lower.A: You must take the quality of the red beans into consideration. Every one in this trade is well aware that Chinese Grade A red beans is of superior quality. So the price of Grade A commodities of course must be higher than those of inferiorquality. Besides, there is a strong demand for Grade A red beans.A lot of orders are pouring in from all over the world. Most of the importers think that our offer is reasonable. I believe you’ll make a profit buying at this price.4. A: Your price is 5% higher than that of the last transaction. B: You know production cost has increased a great deal recently. We also need to consider upward trends when we fix the price. A: But it will be very difficult for us to persuade our clients to buy at such a price. You’ll have to reduce your price by at least 10%.B: Your counter-offer is far beyond my reach. We can’t stand such a big cut.A: We make this counter-offer based on the offers from other suppliers. We made enquiries to several suppliers at the same time and found that your price is higher than the other suppliers. B: Could we just put this problem aside? Could you give me an idea of the size of your order first?A: It will largely depend on the price you offer. If you could make a 10% reduction, we would place an immediate order of 100 000 pieces.B: All right. Shall we move together? We’ll reduce the price by 7% on the condition that you increase your order to 200 000pieces. This is our rock bottom price.A: Ok. Let’s call it a deal.Unit 31.A: We’ve received your enquiry, Mr. Smith. But we are sorryto tell you that the goods you asked about are out of stock.You’ll have to wait for two months.B: Two months is far too long. Our customers need the goods urgently.A: There is nothing we can do. Our products have been well received due to their high quality and reasonable prices. So demands often exceed supplies. Though we have tried to speed up production, we still cannot meet the increasing demand. So I’d like to recommend to you the HRF-279.B: Our clients are familiar with GBS-112, but not HRF-279. How do I know that it will sell well in our market?A: Don’t worry. The HRF-279 has been selling well in Europe and in Southeast Asian countries in recent years.I’m sure it will have a ready market at your end.B: I hope so.2.(On the phone)A: We have received your sample and are very satisfied with it. We plan to place a trial order for 5000 sets. The order form will reach you tomorrow.B: We’re glad to accept your order. May I remind you that the sample should be added as part of the first shipment?A: No problem. Whenever we place an order, we always ask for a sale by sample agreement, so we can be sure of the quality of the product.B: Don’t worry. Our products are always as good as the samples we send.A: Great. If they sell well I our market, I can promise you that substantial orders will follow.3.A: Hi! Long time, no see. How is business?B: Not bad. How is everything?A: It’s the off-season now, since spring festival has just passed. I found that your sales of bicycles have been falling off lately, haven’t they?B: That’s because we have switched to automobile accessories. A: Are you still handling bicycles?B: I am, but not on a large scale. Are you thinking of placing an order for some bicycles?A: I’m considering placing an order for 50 000 units if your price is fair.UNIT 41.A: When shall we open the L/C?B: The L/C must reach us one month before shipment. Since the goods are supplied from stock, you’d better open the L/C as soon as possible, otherwise it may delay the shipment.A: shipment, it’ll tie up our money. W ould 15 days do?B: I’m afraid not. It’ll take us a lot of time to get the goods ready and book shipping space. You can’t expect us to make delivery within 15 days.A: When are you going to ship the goods?B: The goods will be ready at the end of January. So if the L/Cwould reach us by January 1, we could deliver the goods in early February.A: Do you have any stipulations on the validity of the L/C?B: W e generally require the L/C to remain valid until the fifteenth day after shipment.A: Can we use Citibank as our opening bank?B: No problem at all.2.A: Mr. Smith, I’m Chen Qiang of the Guangdong Silk Import& Export Corporation. I’d like to talk to you regarding your order No.123-456.B: Is there anything wrong?A: Well, shipping space is all booked up. I’m afraid we can’t deliver the goods on time. Could you extend the L/C until the end of this month?B: No problem, but please try your best to solve the problem. The goods are seasonal commodities; we’ll have to meet the Christmas selling season.A: We’ll try our best to ensure delivery in Mid-October.B: Thank you very much.A: That’s all right.3.A:S O far we have already settled the problems of price,quality and quantity. Now what about the terms of payment? B: We only accept payment by irrevocable letter of credit payable against shipping documents.A: Could you be more flexible and accept D/A OR D/P?B: I’m afraid not.A: Frankly speaking, we have overstocked some other goods, and our floating funds are insufficient. It’ll tie up our money to open an L/C.B: I quite understand your position. But the problem is that the world economic situation is going downward and the financial market is fluctuating. We have to do business on an L/C basis so as to guarantee payment.A: Then could you accept 50% payment by L/C and the balance by D/P?B: Sorry, we are not in a position to do that, yet we could offer you more favorable terms of delivery instead.UNIT 51. A: The safety of packing is something we always pay a lot of attention to. Especially for fragile commodities, we’ve got to be extra careful. Otherwise, if something unexpected happened, we’d be responsible and it would cause you a lot ofinconvenience, too.B: You’re right. But wouldn’t it be safer to use wooden cases? A: Surely we can if you want us to, but the charge would be much higher.B: Then, let’s keep using cartons.A: Sure, no problem. Cartons are good enough for goods like this. You don’t have to worry about it.2. A: I’m so glad that we have the chance to do business together.B: Me, too.A: I made this special trip here this time hoping to have a look at the packing of our products because in the last shipment we received, there were a few items damaged by dampness.B: I’m sorry for that. But we have taken care of it and improved the packing.A: Could you be more specific?B: Although we are still using cartons, we have taken measures to prevent them from dampness. We have lined with with plastic sheets on the inside. In addition, we’ve put a “Keep Dry”sign on the outside.A: That sounds good.A: Do you mind if I give you a little suggestion about the inner packing of the products?B: Not at all. Go ahead.A: Packing affects the reputation of the products, and one important function of packing is to stimulate people’s desire to buy. In addition, packing should give the buyer an idea of what is packed inside. Your products are good, but your packing doesn’t look attractive enough to the buyer.B: Thank you very much. That’s a good suggestion and it happens to coincide with our own. We have just improved our packing.A: Great! W ould you let me have a look?B: Sure thing. Let’s go to the sample room.UNIT 61.The shipping facilities at this port have been much improved.There won’t be any trouble.2.The lengths of our containers range from 10 to 40 feet. Theycan take loads from 2 to 16 tons respectively.3.It is essential to choose the right means of transportation.4.Tankers are usually oil carriers, and are like bulk carrierswhich transport bulk consignments such as grain, wheat and ores.5.As your order is a large one, we are not in a position to bookenough shipping space, so we hope you will agree to partial shipment.6.Can we get our bill of lading now?7.Please fill out the Export Cargo Packing Instructions and theExport Cargo Packing Declaration here.8.When the goods are received on the dock, you will get a dockreceipt. Once the goods are on board the ship, you will get a mate’s receipt. And if the goods are taken on board in good condition, bills will be marked “clean”, otherwise, “dirty” or “claused”.9.We have various shipping facilities that can meet differentrequirements. What’s the weight and length of your consignment?10.W e advise the consignment be sent by express trains toensure prompt delivery.11.A: Hello, this is Tom Smith from ABC company. I’d like tohave a word with Mr. Lin Ming.B: Good morning, Mr. Smith. This is Lin Ming. Speaking,please.A: Well, I’d like to know when can you ship the goods?B: In February, I think.A: That’s too late, is there any possibility for you to advance the shipment to December?B: I’m afraid not, Mr. Smith. You know, there are only two direct steamers sailing for your port, and the shipping is booked up from now to the end of January.A: Oh, that’s too bad. We are in urgent need of the goods, you know. February is the selling season for this commodity. In order to meet the season, we hope you can deliver the goods before the end of December.B: Is there any chance of transshipment being allowed?A: Well, transshipment will prolong the delivery and is likely to cause damage. So, we still hope a direct shipment could be arranged.B: The trouble is that it is impossible to book shipping space. I’m afraid we can do nothing.A: Then, when is the earliest time we can expect shipment? B: The beginning of February, I’m afraid. But I’ll keep trying. We will keep contacting the shipping company. As soon asshipping space is available, we’ll let you know immediately. A: Thank you. Then, I won’t hold you up. Good-bye.B: Good-bye.UNIT 71.The purpose of insurance is to guarantee the safety ofgoods and to protect the interest of the insured.2.Total loss only (TLO) refers to the total loss of theconsignment of goods in transit because of natural disaster or accidents.3.With Particular Average (WPA) not only covers total lossunder the terms of TLO, but also covers partial loss. 4.According to international trade conventions, the buyer isresponsible for premiums for additional coverage / extraneous risks.5.As a rule, we don’t cover them unless you want to.6.Generally speaking, the buyer buys the additionalcoverage for extraneous risks only when he feels it necessary.7.The insurance is valid for only 60 days after the insuredgoods are unloaded at the final port of loading / discharge.8.An insurance claim must be made within nine monthsafter the goods are unloaded at the final port of loading / discharge.9.Since our price is based on CFR, you’ll take care of theinsurance yourself.10.Under the terms of FOB, the buyer buys the insurance onthe goods; or this can be done by an authorized seller. 11.Is insurance included in this price? / Does this priceinclude the insurance?12.Before we decide on the price, we would like to knowwhat kind of insurance you are going to buy.13.Our insurance coverage is for 110% of the invoice valueup to the port of destination.14.As you might know, China Commodity Inspection Bureauenjoys an international reputation for impartiality.15.All kinds of insurance can be provided by the People’sInsurance Company of China.Unit 81.A: The goods were in perfect condition when they lefthere.B: According to our survey report, the damage was caused by poor packing.2.A: Please look into the matter and have the case settledimmediately.B: We’ll get in touch with the shipping company and see what can be done.3.A: We have to file a claim against you for USD10,000. B: W e’ll certainly entertain a claim if it is supported by adequate documents.4.A: The goods you sent us are below our usual standard.B: Our products are up to the international standard. 5.A: The goods we received last month are inferior inquality to those you delivered in the past.B: I’m sorry that the quality of our goods did not turn out to be satisfactory.6.A: We are glad to have settled the claim in such a friendlyway and appreciate your kind assistanceB: I do hope this minor incident will not affect our future business.7.A: The quality of this lot of goods is so far below thestandard that we cannot use them for our purpose.B: This comes as a complete surprise. We have never had a complaint of this kind.8.A: Our analysis was made on the retained samples.B: W ell, I’m afraid we’ll have to have the retained samples re-checked before we settle it.9.A: Since we concluded the business on a CIF basis, I haveto file a claim with you for the losses.B: I’m sorry that we cannot accept your claim, as the loss is beyond your insurance coverage.10.A: Here’s the inspection report made by the HealthOfficers in London.B: This is a really unfortunate accident. But, all our goods had been certified as good in quality and well-packed.。
商务英语翻译练习1
Part One：汉译英（45分）1.大会的主题是：不忘初心，牢记使命。
中国共产党人的初心和使命,就是为中国人民谋幸福,为中华民族谋复兴。
（10分）2.毛主席写过：“多少事，从来急；天地转，光阴迫。
一万年太久，只争朝夕。
”（10分）3.京剧，被称为中国的国剧，起源于18世纪晚期。
在中国，京剧是最具影响力和代表性的戏曲，它有着200多年的历史，是中华民族的瑰宝。
（10分）4.这次交易额大，而且目前国际市场又不稳定，除信用证付款外，我们不接受别的付款方式。
（10分）5.我方将竭力履行贵方订单，让贵方完全满意。
（5分）Part Two：英译汉（55分）1. Before the payment of these tariffs, the imported goods will be in the custody of the customs and storage charges are for the importer's account. （10分）2. You must come back before nine. Period! （5分）3. The export trade is subject to many risks. Ships may sink or consignments be damaged in transit, exchange rates may alter, buyers default or governments suddenly impose an embargo. （10分）4. Please withhold the Letter of Credit for the time being. （5分）5. The final price increase due to a tariff may be less than, equal to, or more than the amount of the tariff. In many cases, though, the final price increase is reasonably close to the amount of the tariff. In contrast, The impact of a quota on price is much harder to predict. The effects are particularly uncertain with goods which are not produced at all domestically. For instance, many countries do not have their own car industry, so that an import quota can cause a considerable shift in automobile prices. （25分）。
《商务英语翻译》历年真题及答案[1].doc
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全国商务英语翻译统一考试初级笔译练习试题练习一Part I Translate the following sentences into English or Chinese1．迄今为止，各国的移民政策侧重于为低技能工人设置障碍，同时鼓励高技能专业人才、工程师、科学家和企业家前来工作，甚至定居。
2．Kasda是瑞士的汽车、能源和食品集团公司。
本年度第一季度，尽管它的总营业额下降了6%，但是利润却增加了12.1%。
3．“海洋城”以其绵延10英里（相当于16公里）的海滩而闻名，每年接待约800万游客4．当富人想到将财富传给子孙的时候，他们通常会有两种情绪：害怕和忧虑。
他们害怕或忧虑金钱会对子孙产生消极影响；害怕金钱会让子孙失去通过努力工作获得成功的人生动力。
5．关于我方第315号订单，由于到货质量低劣，我方被迫表达强烈不满。
6．China is fielding its largest-ever Olympic team at the upcoming Beijing Games, with 639 athletes competing in all 28 sports. The Chinese team will attempt to surpass the 32 gold medals won at the Athens Olympics, four less than the United States.7．A Japanese media report says Japan and China have reached a compromise and agreed to jointly develop gas fields and share profits in disputed areas of the East China Sea.8．The number of newly laid-off U.S. workers rose last week, the latest sign that the economic downturn is affecting the job market. A report Thursday from the Labor Department said the number of people applying for unemployment benefits for the first time rose 22–thousand, to 378–thousand.9. Chinese economy suffered only a mild setback in the first quarter of 2008, and remains resilient despiteinflation and worsening global credit crisis.10. Praise and encouragement also makes employees more likely to work hard and stay in their jobs, savingon the cost of finding replacements.Part II Translate the following passages into Chinese.Passage 1Most Americans believe someone isn’t grown up until age 26, probably with a completed education, a full-time job, a family to support and financial independence, a survey said.But they also believe that becoming an official grown-up is a process that takes five years from about the age of 20, concluded the report from the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center. The findings were based on a representative sample of 1398 people over age 18.The poll found the following ages at which people expect the transitions to grown-up status to be completed: age 20.9 self-supporting; 21.1 no longer living with parents; 21.2 full-time job; 22.3 education complete; 24.5 being able to support a family financially; 25.7 married; and 26.2 having a child.“There is a large degree of consensus across social groups on the relative importance of the seven transitions,” said Tom Smith, director of the survey. The only notable pattern of differences is on views about supporting a family, having a child and getting married. “Older adults and the widowed and married rate these as more important than younger adults and the never-married do,” he added. “This probably reflects in large part a shift in values across generations away from traditional family values.”The most valued step toward reaching adulthood, the survey found, was completing an education, followed by full-time employment, supporting a family, financial independence, living independently of parents, marriage and parenthood.Passage 2Spend less than you earn. This is perhaps the most worn out, overused phrase in the world of personal finance. But guess what? It’s also the single most important financial lesson you’ll ever learn. No matter how hard you work and how much money you earn, you’ll never achieve financial security if you spend more than you earn, so…… do whatever it takes to make sure that this doesn’t happen. This takes self-discipline, and might require constructing a budget, but if you ever want to get to a point where you can afford all the little niceties in life, you need to make it happen.Plan for the future. I’ve been where you are, and I know that “the future” seems like it’s a million miles away. Do yourself a favor. Sit down and define short, intermediate, and long-term goals and then put together a plan for getting there. It’s not easy, and you probably won’t get it right at first but once you do this, you’ll have something concrete to work from (and to modify in the future). Start small and work your way up.Be patient. Building a solid financial foundation takes time. Don’t look for shortcuts or try to strike it richovernight with the latest hot investment tip. Likewise, don’t make major financial decisions without fully considering the ramifications. This isn’t to say that you should be paralyzed fear. Rather, you need to do your homework. Turn those unknowns into knowns, and then make an informed decision.Learn form your mistakes. Nobody’s perfect. You’re bound to make mistakes, especially when you’re just starting out. The important thing is to learn from them and move forward. If you make a bad financial decision, make a note of it and get yourself back on track. Don’t beat yourself up , and don’t throw in the towel.Part III Translate the following passages into EnglishPassage 1亲爱的布莱克先生：从您5月16日来函获知我公司销售代表敷衍草率，我深感苦恼。
《商务英语翻译》课外翻译作业（第一次）
《商务英语翻译》课外翻译作业（第一次）2. The danger of Billion-Dollar ValuationsRecently, investors celebrated the birthday of the current bull market, which turned five years old. On this anniversary, it's worth reflecting on how valuations, particularly of technology companies, are being calculated.On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Airbnb, a travel rental company, which has not released information about its revenue or profitability, may be approaching a valuation of $10 billion. Other startups in the IPO pipeline include a number of unprofitable companies like Box and Square, with rumored valuations in the billions.Have billion-dollar or multibillion-dollar valuations become the norm? Is it all about hype and greed nowadays? Whatever happened to the wisdom of investors like Warren Buffet who evaluated companies based on their profits and fundamental performances?The value of any company is a function of the cash flow it will generate in the future. A healthy cash flow allows a company to repay its shareholders and initial investors who, understandably, expect their investment to be eventually reimbursed.Ordinary investors who rely on the hype surrounding a company rather than the company's fundamentals may make decisions that they regret later on. Just ask anyone who invested in the /doc/f813915065.html, IPO about the danger of falling for overvalued companies.Granted, everyone in the tech industry -- from startup founders to venture capitalists -- is eager to find and bet on the next big thing. Still, the money being thrown around is mind-boggling.Even a decent business model and the potential for growth do not justify a multibillion-dollar valuation. Yet, Facebook recently offered an astounding $19 billion to buy WhatsApp, a popular messaging service. Though WhatsApp has reportedly been able to turn a small profit, this overblown acquisition price is higher than the market cap of 275 companies in the S&P 500.Some market watchers have argued, as Michael Wolf did on /doc/f813915065.html,, that the WhatsApp acquisition is indicative of a fundamental shift, and that traditional "old world" methods of determining valuation have been replaced by "new world" metrics.For example, Wolf cited Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp at $42 per user, which is in line with price-per-user acquisitions of companies like YouTube, Tumblr and Instagram. This is one way of looking at things, but it's severely flawed.The value of a customer is in the revenue the customer provides, not in his or her mere existence.If we look at the price-per-user metric without evaluating revenue per customer, the analysis becomes eerily similar to the late 1990s, during the dotcom boom when, for example, number of "eyeballs" was a metric used to evaluate technology companies.Counting "eyeballs" or "user base" or "potential" only works in a bull market when market momentum can make poor decisions seem wise. Perhaps we remember the NASDAQ's high of 5048.62, during the height of the tech boom, and not when it fell to 1114.11 in 2002 when the tech bubble burst.But bull markets do not last forever, and it's important to make sure we're evaluating companies based on their long-termvalue, regardless of market cycle.Of course, not all overvalued companies are "bad" companies. Twitter, for example, has a sizable user base, solid revenue growth and an undeniably disruptive and innovative technology. It's safe to say that Twitter has a lot of potential. However, the company's valuation is simply not justified by its fundamental performance. Twitter's stock is trading at nearly 45 times its 2013 revenue, and its profit multiple (a company's market value expressed in terms of its earnings) is nonexistent, given that it has yet to establish a profitable business model.Sure, there are some companies, like Amazon, that don't meet traditional metrics of financial strength that end up performing incredibly well in the stock market. But they are the exception, not the rule.Consider the example of V onage, one of the hottest IPOs of 2006. Despite losing 97 cents of every dollar in sales, the company had a $2.6 billion valuation. The company's fundamentals did not match its valuation. The results speak for themselves, with Vonage shares currently trading at $4.53, down from their $17.00 IPO price.We are forced to accede to the most logical and rational valuation methods; otherwise, there is no structure to making investment decisions. For every Amazon, there are several V onages.Despite what some market watchers say, the "old world" method of valuing companies is still the best way of valuing companies.I suppose it's true that Christopher Columbus made a great discovery by sailing the wrong way around the earth trying to find India. Here is a case where somebody happened upon greatsuccess based on incorrect data and methods. However, investors placing their bets on tech companies without basic fundamentals are more likely to resemble Ponce de Leon: map-less and looking hopelessly for the Fountain of Youth.有大量资产的危险近来，投资者们庆祝了持续了五年的货币牛市的生日。
《商务英语翻译》第1次翻译练习
《商务英语翻译》第1次翻译练习《商务英语翻译》第1次翻译练习※请填写班级：寝室：请在每题下方写上译文句子翻译练习1. A 4.5 percent increase in social welfare spending reflects the costs involved in an agingsociety and declining birthrate.2.To boost the international competitiveness of domestic companies, the government isconsidering investing about 10 million dollars annually to help fund the development of new private sector products.3.But the countervailing arguments for the tax on fuel oil are equally strong, as Beijing is in themidst of a concerted push to force more efficient use of energy, something a tax rise would buttress.4.In the event （that）the seller should have quantities of the products available for sale, theseller shall notify the purchaser of such quantities.5.The steel industry’s success in increasing its profits was attributable to the sector’s reductionin expenditures through workforce cuts.6.Since sellers of fake products tend to disappear overnight after quickly selling their bogusgoods, it is impossible to file lawsuits against them.7.The Industrial Revitalization Corporation was created to revitalize industry and individualenterprises in conjunction with the accelerated disposal of bad loans held by banks.8.The former president of this company had stock market speculators trade the company’sshares by providing capital to manipulate the price upward.。
商务英语翻译实训chapter 1 Translation of Business Cards[精]
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3. 企业及企业各部门名称的翻译
• 中国企业名称一般由企业注册地址、企业 专名、企业生产对象或经营范围和企业的 性质四部分组成。
3. 企业及企业各部门名称的翻译
• 企业注册地址按地名翻译的原则处理；企 业专名可音译，也可意译，音译时可按汉 语拼音，也可按英语拼写方式；企业生产 对象或经营范围须意译，两个并列成份一 般用符号“&”连接起来，如“中国科学器 材公司”译为China Scientific Instruments & Materials Corporation
• 企业销售的部门 Sales Department 销售部 Marketing Department 营销部 Business Office 营业部 Import and Export Department International Department 国际部 After-sales Department 售后服务部
3. 企业及企业各部门名称的翻译
• 企业服务部门 Accounting Department 财务部 Personnel Department 人事部 Human Resources Department 人力资源部 Advertising Department 广告部 Public Relations Department 公关部 Technology Department 技术部 Training Department 培训部 Customer Service Department 客户服务部 Reception Desk 接待处
Translation for International Business
Chapter 1
Translation of Business Cards
商务英语翻译练习 1 词义的选择
Business Translation Exercise 11.It is not surprising, then, that the world saw a return to a floating exchange ratesystem. Central banks were no longer required to support their own currencies. 2.Floating policy is of great importance for export trade; it is, in fact, a convenientmethod of insuring goods where a number of similar export transactions are intended, e.g. where the insured has to supply an overseas importer under an exclusive sales agreement or maintains sales representatives or subsidiary companies abroad.3.The claim concerning the quality of the commodity shall be lodged within 30days after arrival of the cargo at the port of destination.4.Not only a panic run on banks, but snowballing deposit cancellation could triggeran ominous chain reaction leading to a financial crisis.5.Deposits are, so to speak, unsecured credit held by the people and kept atfinancial institutions.6.He bought the furniture on credit.7.There is no financial risk in selling to East European countries on credit.8.The amount of the minimum royalty paid by the Company to Licensor will becredited against the payment of running royalty accruing under this agreement.9.It is possible that more of the company’s stores will be closed.10.Stock prices of many major commercial banks closed lower, as they had inprevious trading.11.The number of bank accounts that are closed compulsorily has been increasingrapidly.12.A foreign business representative, neither overly sympathetic toward China noroverly disposed against it, would need to be convinced on a number of scores before he could commit his firm to taking an equity position in a Chinese enterprise.13.Part of the underwriter’s job is to ensure that people who attempt to buy policiesbecause they expect to “die” soon do not succeed in fooling him and his company.14.The home of your dreams awaits you behind this door. Whether your taste be acountry manor estate or a penthouse in the sky, you will find the following pages filled with the world’s most elegant residences.15.Assuming the laboratory tests go well, and you can quote us a competitive price,we’d certainly be able to place more substantial orders on a regular basis.16.China’s top industrial regular said on Tuesday that the country is unlikely to see a“double dip” in its economy in the second half of this year.17.The change in plan resulted from a misjudgment on the part of the firm’s topmanagement on what the company’s employees and business partners wanted. 18.Should the buyers have to lodge a claim against the sellers, it must be done within30 days after the arrival of the tanker at the port of destination.19.In order to protect vested interests and interfere with the entry of new businesses,some public interest corporations began setting their own standards and obliged private companies to undergo inspections and receive certifications.。
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《商务翻译》第1次翻译练习及参考译文
（一）句子翻译练习
1.Nippon Steel Corp. and Shanghai Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., China’s largest steelmaker,
signed an agreement to set up a joint venture to manufacture sheet steel for automobiles.
2.Buyers have to bear all risks of the goods from the time when they shall have effectively
passed the ship’s rail at the port of shipment.
3.The two airlines plan to use the loans mainly to finance their planned capital investment and
bond redemptions for the first half of fiscal 2009.
4.The Bank of Japan decided to implement special loans to the bank to enable it to maintain
sufficient cash flow.
5.Currently, cell phone users are required to change the phone numbers if they switch their cell
phone service provider.
6.We all understand that Chinese slippers are very popular in your market on account of their
superior quality and competitive price.
7.Customer value is the unique combination of benefits received by target buyers, such as
quality, price, convenience, on-time delivery, and both before-sale and after-sale service.
8.The European Union and other seven nations were determined to impose retaliatory tariffs on
U.S. imports if Washington refused to abide by the WTO decision.
9.Executives of the two companies repeatedly held talks to consider tie-ups limited to product
development and sales activities.
10.The critical issue is how to expand the sale of cultivation in order to streamline the farming
management and enhance its international competitiveness.
（二）篇章翻译练习
These are tough times for Wal-Mart, America’s biggest retailer. Long accused of wrecking small-town America and condemned for the stinginess of its pay, the company has lately come under fire for its meanness over employees’ health-care benefits.The charge is arguably unfair: the firm’s health cover age, while admittedly less extensive than the average for big companies, is on a par with other retailers’. But bad publicity, coupled with rising costs, has stirred the Bentonville giant to action. Wal-Mart is making changes that should shift the ground i n America’s health-care debate.
One strategy is to slash the prices of many generic, or out-of-patent, prescription drugs. Wal-Mart recently announced that its Florida stores would sell a list of some 300 generic drugs at $4 for a month’s supply; other st ates will follow. That is above cost but far less than the prices charged by many pharmacy chains, which get profits from fat margins on generics.
Wal-Mart’s critics dismiss the move as a publicity stunt. The list of drugs includes only 143 different medicines and excludes many popular generics. True, but short-sighted. Wal-Mart has transformed retailing by using its size to squeeze suppliers and passing the gains on to consumers. It could do the same with drugs. Target, another big retailer, has already announced that it will match the new pricing. A “Wal-Mart effect” in drugs will not solve America’s health-costs problem: generics account for only a small share of drug costs, which in turn make up only 10% of overall health spending.But it would help. (High risk, high reward (excerpt), The Economist, Oct 12th 2006)。