2014年catti二级笔译实务精选模拟试题(一)
catti二级笔译综合能力模拟试题（一）
catti二级笔译综合能力模拟试题（一）模考吧网提供最优质的模拟试题，最全的历年真题，最精准的预测押题！catti 二级笔译综合能力模拟试题(一)一、Vocabulary Selection （本大题20小题．每题1.0分，共20.0分。
In this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are four words or phrases respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. There is only one right answer. ）第1题The jury gave a______of "not guilty".A sentenceB judgementC chargeD verdict【正确答案】：D 【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】[解析] 近义辨析。
verdict 裁决，判决，判断(指陪审团的裁决)：The verdict was that the prisoner was guilty ．判决犯人有罪。
sentence 判决，宣判(指法庭的判决，尤其指对已判决有罪的人加以处罚的法院的刑罚决定)：He received a heavy sentence ．他被判重刑。
judgement 判断，审判，裁判(指法庭的判决，法官的决定)：The judgement set a new precedent ．那次判决树立了一个新的判例。
charge 指控，控告(指提出对不法行为的指控)：a charge of murder 指控犯谋杀罪。
第2题I wouldn't trust such a______person.A deceitfulB deceptiveC decisiveD deceive模考吧网提供最优质的模拟试题，最全的历年真题，最精准的预测押题！【正确答案】：A 【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】[解析] 形近识别。
全国翻译专业资格(水平)英语二级笔译实务模拟试卷一
全国翻译专业资格（水平）英语二级笔译实务模拟试卷一[问答题]1.Passage 1What exactly does gl（江南博哥）obalization mean? Concepts related to globalization include “internationalization”, “multidomestic marketing”, and “multinational or divansnational marketing”, suggesting that the basic criterion is divansactions across national boundaries.In the marketing and sdivategic management literature, globalization is conceptualized as a means to gain competitive advantage by locating different stages of production in different geographic regions according to the particular region’s comparative advantage.This conceptualization focuses only on the economic aspects of globalization; social, cultural and political factors are only considered in the context of achieving economic advantage.Thus, being “culturally sensitive” in global markets is being able to sell one’s product with enough ingenuity to avoid possible pitfalls arising from the seller’s ignorance of local customs.International marketing textbooks discuss such cultural pitfalls in great detail; however, the cultural contest of globalization is always framed by the economy.Broader conceptualization of globalization can be found in other disciplines such as sociology and anthropology.Waters defined globalization as “a social process in which the consdivaints of geography on social and cultural arrangements recede and in which people become increasingly aware that they are receding.” This conceptualization with its much broader scope, allows for the examination of a number of consequences of globalization, not jut economic but social, cultural and political ones.While there are a few different conceptualizations of globalization, researchers seem to be in agreement that there are at least three dimensions of globalization: economic, political and cultural.The economic aspects of globalization stem from the spread of the capitalist world economy and the resulting expansion of goods and services.The need for cheap raw materials, cheap labor and new markets saw the expansion of the capitalist world economy from one that was primarily Eurocendivic to one that encompassed the entire world.This process was achieved by various means and often involved overcoming political resistances in the new markets.The political aspects of globalization involved establishing condivol over marketsand raw materials through either the use of direct military power or the establishment of international institutions that condivol such markets.The rise of the nation-state is an example of the political aspect of globalization, although it is argued that advances in telecommunications and information systems and the resulting consdivuctions of institutions that divansience territorial boundaries are making the nation-state obsolete.If the economic and political aspects of globalization involve material and power exchanges, the cultural of globalization involves the expression of symbols that represents facts, meanings, beliefs, preferences, tastes and values.In fact, these symbolic exchanges are increasingly displacing economic and political exchanges in the spread of global mass culture.Traditional barriers of language pose no problems to modem means of cultural production such as satellite television and film.However, the new “global culture”, despite its manifestations through consumption of global products and symbols in different part of the globe, is essentially the culture of dominant groups centered in the West.参考答案：参考译文全球化到底意味着什么?与全球化有关的概念包括“国际化”、“国内多国市场”以及“多国或跨国市场”意味着全球化的基本标准是跨国际的交易。
英语二级笔译2014年真题+答案解析
2014年11月CATTI二级笔译实务真题英译汉passage1WATERLOO, Belgium—The region around this Belgian city is busily preparing to commemorate the 200th anniversary in 2015 of one of the major battles in European military history. But weaving a path through the preparations is proving almost as tricky as making one’s way across the battlefield was back then, when the Duke of Wellington, as commander of an international alliance of forces, crushed Napoleon.比利时滑铁卢——2015年，这座比利时小镇热闹非凡，人们正在紧锣密鼓地筹备滑铁卢战役200周年的纪念活动。
滑铁卢战役是欧洲军事史上重大战役之一。
在筹备现场迂回行进，其难度决不亚于在滑铁卢战场上奋勇前进。
当时，联军统帅威灵顿公爵击败了拿破仑。
1. “The region around this Belgian city/ is busily preparing to commemorate the 200th anniversary in 2015 /of one of the major battles in European military history.”这句话很长，需要划分。
我们看到时间一般可以最先翻译，所以2015年可以先翻出来，“这座比利时小镇热闹非凡”是译者添加了一些形容词。
也可以像韩刚老师翻译的：“比利时滑铁卢的周边地区正在为2015年滑铁卢战役200周年纪念活动进行紧锣密鼓的筹备”但是感觉这句话稍微有一点长。
catti二级口译实务试题精选(一)
模考吧网提供最优质的模拟试题，最全的历年真题，最精准的预测押题！catti 二级口译实务试题精选(一)一、English-Chinese Translation （本大题2小题．每题25.0分，共50.0分。
Translate the following passage （s ） into Chinese ）第1题【正确答案】：我想谈一下全球经济增长与宏观政策作用之间的关系。
我先来回顾一下全球经济。
全球经济的表现比一年前人们所担心的要好得多了，现在预计全球经济增长今年将达到4.5%，为五年以来的最高水平。
美国再一次成为全球经济增长的主动力，但是中国急速的工业化进程也刺激了全球的经济增长。
为什么会比预期要好?有两个解释。
第一个解释是市场动力的全球化。
现在的经济活动越来越多地由市场调控。
仅仅在过去的15年时间内，一些实行计划经济的大国通过重大的经济改革，已转变为市场经济，这些都为增长带来了活力，中国、印度和俄罗斯的增长尤为明显。
但是第二个解释不太令人放心。
我们看到全球经济大规模的增长都是在极其扩张的宏观经济政策的指导下实现的，例如：美国采取了大量的财政刺激手段，主要经济体的政策性利率都维持在几乎是二战以来的最低水平，一些亚洲国家对外汇进行了前所未有的干预。
与结构性改革不同的是，这些政策的刺激效果只是暂时的，这种政策性的做法是不可能无限制地使用的。
我们应该采取一些有效的措施以确保全球经济稳定增长。
越来越多的迹象表明，全球需要采取紧缩的宏观政策，当然了，不能牺牲来之不易的成果。
财政政策、货币政策和汇率政策都应该加以考虑。
先说说发达国家吧。
美国财政预算赤字曾在2000年超出GDP 的1%，今年赤字将达到GDP 的5%，财政赤字达到了二战以来最糟糕的程度。
日本财政赤字仍然占到其 GDP 的8%，欧元区许多主要经济体的赤字状况也令人不安。
因此尽早采取措施防止财政状况的恶化是十分重要的。
虽然高失业率限制了名义工资的增长，全球制造业产能的过剩也使物价上涨受压，但是我们仍然可以看到一些通货膨胀的迹象。
英语翻译二级笔译实务模拟试题及答案解析(1)
英语翻译二级笔译实务模拟试题及答案解析（1）(1/2)Section ⅠEnglish-Chinese TranslationTranslate the following two passages into Chinese.Part A Compulsory Translation第1题"Wisdom of the Crowd": The Myths and RealitiesAre the many wiser than the few? Phil Ball explores the latest evidence on what can make groups of people smarter—but can also make them wildly wrong.Is The Lord of the Rings the greatest work of literature of the 20th Century? Is The Shawshank Redemption the best movie ever made? Both have been awarded these titles by public votes. You don't have to be a literary or film snob to wonder about the wisdom of so-called "wisdom of the crowd",In an age routinely denounced as selfishly individualistic, it's curious that a great deal of faith still seems to lie with the judgment of the crowd, especially when it can apparently be far off the mark. Yet there is some truth underpinning the idea that the masses can make more accurate collective judgments than expert individuals. So why is a crowd sometimes right and sometimes disastrously wrong?The notion that a group's judgement can be surprisingly good was most compellingly justified in James Surowiecki's 2005 book The Wisdom of Crowds, and is generally traced back to an observation by Charles Darwin's cousin Francis Galton in 1907. Galton pointed out that the average of all the entries in a "guess the weight of the ox" competition at a country fair was amazingly accurate—beating not only most of the individual guesses but also those of alleged cattle experts. This is the essence of the wisdom of crowds: their average judgment converges on the right solution.Still, Surowiecki also pointed out that the crowd is far from infallible. He explained that one requirement for a good crowd judgement is that people's decisions are independent of one another. If everyone let themselves be influenced by each other's guesses, there's more chance that the guesses will drift towards a misplaced bias. This undermining effect of social influence was demonstrated in 2011 by a team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. They asked groups of participants to estimate certain quantities in geography or crime, about which none of them could be expected to have perfect knowledge but all could hazard a guess—the length of the Swiss-Italian border, for example, or the annual number of murders in Switzerland. The participants were offered modest financial rewards for good group guesses, to make sure they took the challenge seriously.The researchers found that, as the amount of information participants were given about each other's guesses increased, the range of their guesses got narrower, and the centre of this range could drift further from the true value. In other words, the groups were tending towards a consensus, to the detriment of accuracy.This finding challenges a common view in management and politics that it is best to seek consensus in group decision making. What you can end up with instead is herding towards a relatively arbitrary position. Just how arbitrary depends on what kind of pool of opinions you start off with, according to subsequent work by one of the ETH team, Frank Schweitzer, and his colleagues. They say that if the group generally has good initial judgement, social influence can refine rather than degrade their collective decision.No one should need warning about the dangers of herding among poorly informed decision-makers: copycat behaviour has been widely regarded as one of the major contributing factors to the financial crisis, and indeed to all financial crises of the past.The Swiss team commented that this detrimental herding effect is likely to be even greater for deciding problems for which no objectively correct answer exists, which perhaps explains how democratic countries occasionally elect such astonishingly inept leaders.There's another key factor that makes the crowd accurate, or not. It has long been argued that the wisest crowds are the most diverse. That's a conclusion supported in a 2004 study by Scott Page of the University of Michigan and Lu Hong of Loyola University in Chicago.They showed that, in a theoretical model of group decision-making, a diverse group of problem-solvers made a better collective guess than that produced by the group of best-performing solvers.In other words, diverse minds do better, when their decisions are averaged, than expert minds. In fact, here's a situation where a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. A study in 2011 by a team led by Joseph Simmons of the Yale School of Management in New Haven, Connecticut found that group predictions about American football results were skewed away from the real outcomes by the over-confidence of the fans' decisions, which biased them towards alleged "favourites" in the outcomes of games.All of these findings suggest that knowing who is in the crowd, and how diverse they are, is vital before you attribute to them any real wisdom.Could there also be ways to make an existing crowd wiser? Last month, Anticline Davis-Stober of the University of Missouri and his co-workers presented calculations at a conference on Collective Intelligence that provide a few answers.They first refined the statistical definition of what it means for a crowd to be wise—when, exactly, some aggregate of crowd judgments can be considered better than those of selected individuals. This definition allowed the researchers to develop guidelines for improving the wisdom of a group. Previous work might imply that you should add random individuals whose decisions are unrelated to those of existing group members. That would be good, but it's better still to add individuals who aren't simply independent thinkers but whose views are "negatively correlated"—as different as possible—from the existing members. In other words, diversity trumps independence.If you want accuracy, then, add those who might disagree strongly with your group. What do you reckon of the chances that managers and politicians will select such contrarian candidates to join them? All the same, armed with this information I intend to apply for a position in the Cabinet of the British government. They'd be wise not to refuse.下一题(2/2)Section ⅠEnglish-Chinese TranslationTranslate the following two passages into Chinese.Part A Compulsory Translation第2题How much money can be made from trying to extract oil and gas from the layers of shale that lie beneath Britain?Answering that is proving to be a surprisingly difficult scientific question because knowing the basic facts about shale is not enough.The layers have been well mapped for years. In fact until recently geologists tended to regard shale as commonplace, even dull—a view that has obviously changed.The key tool is a seismic survey: sound waves are sent into the ground and the reflections reveal the patterns of the rocks. This describes where the shale lies but not much more.So we know, for example, that the Bowland Shale—which straddles northern England—covers a far smaller area than the massive shale formations of the United States but it is also much thicker than they are.That may mean that it is a potentially richer resource or that it is harder to exploit. Britain's geological history is long and tortured, so folds and fractures disrupt the shale layers, creating a more complex picture than across the Atlantic.To assess what the layers hold involves another step: wells have to be drilled into the rock to allow cores to be extracted so the shale can be analysed in more detail.As Ed Hough of the British Geological Survey told me: "We know the areas under the ground which contain gas and oil—what we don't know is how that gas and oil might be released from the different units of rock and extracted.""There's a lot of variability in these rocks—so their composition, their history and the geological conditions all come into play and are all variable."That means that neighbouring fracking operations might come up with very different results.In a lab at the BGS near Nottingham, I'm shown a simple but effective proof that shale does contain the hydrocarbons—gas and oil—at the heart of the current surge in interest.A few chunks of the rock are dropped into a beaker of water and gently heated until they produce tiny bubbles which rise like strings of pearls to the surface.It is a sight which is both beautiful and significant—the bubbles are methane, which the government hopes will form a new source of home grown energy.The gas and oil were formed millions of years ago when tiny plants and other organisms accumulated on the floor of an ancient and warm ocean—at one stage Britain lay in the tropics. This organic matter was then compacted and cooked by natural geological warmth which transformed it into the fuels in such demand now.So one question is the "total organic content" of the shale—how much organic material is held inside—and there can be large variations in this.But establishing that the shale is laden with fossil fuels is only one part of the story. The samples, extracted from deep underground, then need to be studied to see how readily they would release the fuels.So the BGS scientists fit small blocks of the shale into devices that squeeze it and heat it—trying to mimic the conditions that would be experienced during a fracking operation, when high pressure water and chemicals are injected into the shale to break it apart.Understanding how the shale behaves is essential to forming a judgment on how lucrative it might prove to be—or how unyielding or difficult, as some shale can turn out to be.Dr Caroline Graham, a specialist in geomechanics with the BGS, explained what the research into the rock samples was trying to achieve: "We'll be able to understand better how likely they are to produce certain amounts of gas, how easily they will frack and therefore it will give us a far better idea of how viable the UK deposits are economically speaking."These are early days for the science. And hopes that Britain will be able to copy America's shale revolution may be unrealistic.A senior executive from a global energy company once said a decision on whether to exploit a new shale "play" or area would only be made after 40-60 exploration wells had been dug. Professor Paul Stevens, an energy expert with the Royal Institute for International Affairs, said: "It's going to take a lot more wells to be drilled and a lot more wells to be fractured before we even get an idea of the extent to which we might expect a shale gas revolution and over what time period."So establishing that British shale is rich in oil and gas is only one step of a long journey. The current state of the science only goes so far. How much money can be made from trying to extract oil and gas from the layers of shale that lie beneath Britain?上一题下一题(1/2)Section ⅡChinese-English TranslationThis section consists of two parts, Part A—"Compulsory Translation" and Part B— "Choice of Two Translations" consisting of two sections "Topic 1" and "Topic 2". For the passage in Part A and your choice of passages in Part B, translate the underlined portions, including titles, into English. Above your translation of Part A, write "Compulsory Translation" and above your translation from Part B, write "Topic 1" or "Topic 2".第3题基础设施互联互通是融合发展的基本条件。
2005-2014年CATTI英语二级《笔译实务》真题全集
2005年11月英语二级《笔译实务》试题Section 1: English-Chinese Translation（英译汉）Part A Compulsory Translation（必译题）Hans Christian Andersen was Denmark's most famous native son. Yet even after his fairy tales won him fame and fortune, he feared he would be forgotten. He need not have worried. This weekend, Denmark began eight months of celebrations to coincide with the bicentenary of his birth, and Denmark is eager that the world take note as it sets out to define the pigeon-holed writer in its own way.The festivities began in Copenhagen on Saturday, Andersen's actual birthday, with a lively show of music, dance, lights and comedy inspired by his fairy tales before a crowd of 40,000people -- including Queen Margre the II and her family -- at the Parken National Stadium. The opening, called Once Upon a Time, will be followed by a slew of concerts, musicals, ballets, exhibitions, parades and education programs costing over US$40 million.So more than in recent memory, Danes -- and, they hope, foreigners -- will be reliving the humor, pain and lessons to be found in evergreen stories like The Little Mermaid, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Ugly Duckling, The Little Match-Seller, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Shadow, The Princess and the Pea and others of Andersen's 150 or so fairy tales.In organizing this extravaganza, of course, Denmark is also celebrating itself. After all, Andersen is still this country's most famous native son. Trumpeting his name and achievements not only draws attention to Denmark's contribution to world culture, but could also woo more foreign tourists to visit his birthplace in the town of Odense and to be photographed beside the famous bronze statue of the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen's harbor.And Denmark has even more in mind. Local guardians of the Andersen legacy evidently feel his stories have lost ground in recent years to the likes of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. Andersen's fairy tales may remain central to the Danish identity, serving as homespun guides to the vagaries of human behavior, but what about the rest of the world? "What we really need is a rebirth of Andersen," noted Lars Seeberg, secretary general of the Hans Christian Andersen 2005 Foundation. "Two centuries after his birth, he still fails to be universally acknowledged as the world-class author he no doubt was.Part B Optional Translation（二选一题）Topic 1（选题一）Independent Information and Analysis from the USAThe Gap between Rich and Poor Widened in U.S. Capital Washington D.C. ranks first among the40 cities with the widest gap between the poor and the rich, according to a recent report released by the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute on July 22nd. The top 20 percent of household in D.C. have an average yearly income of $186,830, 31 times that of the bottom 20 percent, which earns only $6,126 per year. The income gap is also big in Atlanta and Miami, but the difference is not as pronounced.The report also indicates that the widening gap occurred mainly during the 1990s. Over the last decade, the average income of the top 20 percent of households has grown 36 percent, while the average income of the bottom 20 percent has only risen 3 percent."I believe the concentration of the middle- to high-income families in the D.C. area will continue, therefore, the income gap between rich and poor will be hard to bridge," David Garrison told the Washington Observer. Garrison is a senior researcher with the Brookings Institution, specializing in the study of the social and economic policies in the greater Washington D.C. area.The report attributed the persistent income gap in Washington to the area's special job opportunities, which attract high-income households. Especially since the federal government is based in Washington D.C., Government agencies and other government related businesses such as lobbying firms and government contractors constantly offer high-paying jobs, which contribute to the trend of increasing high-income households in the D.C. area. For example, a single young professional working in a law firm in D.C. can earn as much as $100,000 in his or her first year out of law school."In addition, high-quality housing available in Washington D.C. is one of the main reason swhy high-income families choose to live here, while middle and low-income families, if they can afford it, choose to move out of Washington D.C. to the Virginia and Maryland suburbs so that their kids can go to better schools," stated Garrison."As rich families continue to move into D.C. and middle and low-income families are moving out, the poorest families are left with nowhere to move, or cannot afford to move. This creates the situation we face now: a huge income gap between the rich and poor."The Washington D.C. area to which Garrison refers is the District of Columbia city itself, not including the greater Washington metro area. "The greater Washington metro area has a large population of about 5 million, but the low-income households are often concentrated in D.C. proper," Garrison explained. Tony Blalock, the spokesperson for Mayor Anthony Williams, said resignedly, "No matter what we seem to do to bring investment into the District, a certain population is not able to access the unique employment opportunities there. The gap between the rich and poor is the product of complex forces, and won't be fixed overnight."Garrison believes that the D.C. government should attract high-income families. By doing so, the District's tax base can grow, which in turn can help improve D.C.'s infrastructure. "But in the meantime, the District government should also take into consideration the rights of the poor, set up good schools for them, and provide sound social welfare. All these measures can alleviate the dire situation caused by income disparity. "Garrison, however, is not optimistic about the possibility of closing the gap between the rich and poor. He is particularly doubtful that current economic progress will be able to help out the poor. "Bush's tax-cut plan did bring about this wave of economic recovery, and the working professionals and rich did benefit from it. It is unfair to say that the plan did not help the poor at all… it just didn't benefit them as much as it did the rich, " Garrison said. "The working class in America, those who do the simplest work, get paid the least, and dutifully pay their taxes, has not benefited from Bush's tax-cut plan much." Garrison concludes, "A lot of cities in America did not enjoy the positive impact of the economic recovery. Washington D.C., on the other hand, has always been sheltered by the federal government. The wide gap between rich and poor in the District, therefore, deserves more in-depth study and exploration."Topic 2（选题二）Sometimes you can know too much. The aim of screening healthy people for cancer is to discover tum ours when they are small and treatable. It sounds laudable and often it is. But it sometimes leads to unnecessary treatment. The body has a battery of mechanisms for stopping small tum ours from becoming large ones. Treating those that would have been suppressed anyway does no good and can often be harmful.Take lung cancer. A report in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association, by Peter Bach of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York and his colleagues, suggests that, despite much fanfare around theuse of computed tomography (CT) to detect tum ours in the lungs well before they cause symptoms, the test may not reduce the risk of dying from the disease at all—indeed, it may make things worse.The story begins last year, when Claudia Henschke of Cornell University and her colleagues made headlines with a report that patients whose lung cancer had been diagnosed early by CT screening had excellent long-term survival prospects. Her research suggested that 88% of patients could expect to be alive ten years after their diagnosis. Dr Bach found similar results ina separate study. In his case, 94% of patients diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer were alive four years later.Survival data alone, though, fail to answer a basic question: “com pared with what?” People are bound to live longer after their diagnosis if that diagnosis is made earlier. Early diagnosis is of little value unless it results in a better prognosis.Dr Bach, therefore, interrogated his data more thoroughly. He used statistical models based on results from studies of lung cancer that did not involve CT screening, to try to predict what would have happened to the individuals in his own study if they had not been part of that study. The results were not encouraging.Screening did, indeed, detect more tum ours. Over the course of five years, 144 cases of lung cancer were picked up in a population of 3,200, compared with a predicted number of 44.Despite these early diagnoses, though, there was no reduction in the number of people who went on to develop advanced cancer, nor a significant drop in the number who died of the disease (38, compared with a prediction of 39). Considering that early diagnosis prompted at enfold increase in surgery aimed at removing the cancer (the predicted number of surgical interventions was 11; the actual number was 109), and that such surgery is unsafe—5% of patients die and another 20-40% suffer serious complications—the whole process seems to make things worse.Section 2: Chinese-English Translation（汉译英）Part A25年来，中国坚定不移地推进改革开放，社会主义市场经济体制初步建立，开放型经济已经形成，社会生产力和综合国力不断增强，各项社会事业全面发展，人民生活总体上实现了由温饱到小康的历史性跨越。
笔译二级实务模拟试卷1(题后含答案及解析)
笔译二级实务模拟试卷1(题后含答案及解析) 题型有：1. English-Chinese Translation 2. Chinese-English TranslationPART 1 English-Chinese Translation (60 points)This part consists of two sections: SECTIONA 1 “Compulsory Translation”and SECTION 2 “Optional Translation”which comprises “Topic 1”and “Topic 2”. Translate the passage in SECTION 1 and your choice from passages in SECTION 2 into Chinese. Write “Compulsory Translation”above your translation of SECTION 1 and write “Topic 1”or “Topic 2”above your translation of the passage from SECTION 2. The time for this part is 100 minutes.SECTION 1 Compulsory Translation (30 points)1． A few months back, Desalegn Godebo’s wife descended into a feverish delirium. “It was as if she were mad, “he said, shuddering at the memory.”she was scratching me like a crazy woman.”Before a new road was built through this village, Godebo would have loaded his wife onto his back and hiked six hours along narrow dirt paths to the small city of Awasa. Instead, he lifted her into a truck for the one-hour ride to town. Her condition was diagnosed as malaria and typhoid. She is well now and back home caring for their baby. The dirt-and-gravel road may look like a timeless feature of the Great Rift Valley (东非大裂谷). But it is part of a huge public road-building project that is slowly hauling one of the poorest, hungriest nations on earth into modernity. The people who live along it divide time into two eras: Before the Road and After the Road. Because of the road, people can take their sick to the hospital and their children to distant schools. Farmers like Godebo who had only their own feet or a donkey’s back for transport can now transport their crops to market. Ethiopia, an agricultural society where most farmers still live more than a half-day’s walk from roads, has been especially hobbled by their absence. Support for roads in Africa, particularly from the World Bank, is growing again after a decade of decline in the 1990s. Then the bank reduced lending for roads. Road-building is coming back in style as a way to combat rural poverty in Africa. While no one expects roads alone to end the chronic hunger faced by millions of Ethiopians or the famines that loom periodically, most development experts agree that they are a precondition for progress and are essential to the success of the Green Revolution, which produces abundance in much of Asia but bypasses Africa.正确答案：几个月以前，德撒林?高德宝的妻子因发烧而精神错乱。
英语翻译二级口译实务模拟试题及答案解析(1)
英语翻译二级口译实务模拟试题及答案解析（1）(1/2)Part ⅠInterpret the following passages from English into Chinese. You will hear this signal to tell you when you start interpreting. Now let's begin.Play00:0009:14Volume第1题Seventeen years after the fall of the Berlin wall, a reunified Germany will throw open its doors to the world. Germany 2006 will be a place where people from all around the word will be welcomed by friends. The tournament is being held on the finest stage in the world, one whose symbolism far transcends the boundaries of sport. Hark back to Germany"s triumph at the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland, which sealed the country"s return to the international fold in the most beautiful manner possible. //In 2006, Germans will have the opportunity to rectify certain clichés and preconceived ideas. The world will have the chance to see what a fantastic country Germany truly is: the beauty and diversity of its landscapes, its rich cultural heritage and the intelligence and good humor of its people. As for the legendary German work ethic and organizational skills, I am pleased to say those perennial qualities are alive and well—and we at FIFA are only too happy to take advantage of them. //For at all levels, the overall investment in any World Cup tournament is immense. The event is financially supported by the German state, but also by the "lender" and the Host Cities. I would like to take this opportunity to offer my heartfelt thanks to all those who are currently working with such passion and commitment to make the occasion a memorable one. Today"s efforts will bear fruit tomorrow. German football, for example, will boast twelve spanking new or vastly improved stadiums in 2006. The whole German population too will benefit in terms of better transport and reception infrastructures. //Football clubs, schools and people all over the land have really got behind this great event, providing further proof, if any were needed, of the prominent role football plays in all our lives. In this respect I would like to congratulate the German Football Association for inviting people from all walls of life to take part in this great event. Like Mexico, Italy and France, Germany is now organizing its second FIFA World Cup. Back in 1974 when it first held the World Cup, only sixteen sides took part, including the now-defunct German Democratic Republic (GDR) and Zaire. The latter were the only representative from the African continent and conceded fourteen goals with no reply. //The 2006 tournament will be a vastly different affair. Thirty-two teams will have qualified, including five from Africa, all of whom now perform at a far higher level. These performances bear witness to FIFA" s efforts in the last quarter of a century to help me nations of the football world to compete on an equal footing. I will have the immense pleasure of welcoming you amongst my friends in Germany. We look forward to seeing you in 2006 to celebrate this unity! // 下一题(2/2)Part ⅠInterpret the following passages from English into Chinese. You will hear this signal to tell you when you start interpreting. Now let's begin.Play00:0012:31第2题China is in the midst of a developmental stage where advanced management knowledge and techniques and advanced industrial automation technology and solutions are fundamental and necessary elements for China"s sustained growth and global competitiveness.There is no one good definition of what industrial automation is. Perhaps the best definition is a simple one: industrial automation is the use of electronics to control and monitor a process or machinery. While there are many steps that China must take to ensure the appropriate development of its industrial base and supporting infrastructure, the utilization of advanced industrial automation is a critical step. Increases in productivity and efficiency are not possible without a high level of industrial automation.If we were to look at the growth in productivity of U.S. industry from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, two pivotal factors stand out. The first is a revolution in management techniques and consequent restructuring of the American corporation. Management became results-focused, flatter and more distributed, with great participation by the work force.The second pivotal factor was the infusion of advanced industrial automation into manufacturing and other automated processes. Together these two elements led to significant increases in productivity and efficiency. These increases led the way to sustained growth in the U.S. economy, so that by the late 1980s and the early 1990s the U.S. economy was growing taster than that of Japan for the first time in several decades.China, which is now at its own critical industrial and management systems crossroads, can borrow from some of these experiences. China has an unparalleled opportunity to adopt advanced industrial automation as this technology moves into the new millennium and into the information era.The future of industrial automation will be a networked future with a great reliance on wireless connectivity. Utilization of effective and open networks such as DeviceNet, ControiNet and Ethernet/IP, with their ability to connect to the Internet, allows for continuous control and feedback from the factory floor to the management office and beyond.The factory floor and the management office can be linked continuously and in real time with suppliers, sales force and customers. Every part of this chain will be able to monitor, input to and adjust the manufacturing process and supporting activities.The future of industrial automation will also very much be linked to software that is an open platform and is multifunctional. The right software package provides tremendous flexibility and agility in the manufacturing process.Industrial software provides the operator interface and gateway from the factory floor to the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and even to the Internet to provide seamless flow of data and information so that the "Information Enabled Enterprise" can be managed in a more flexible, integrated, and efficient manner.上一题下一题(1/2)Part ⅡInterpret the following passages from Chinese into English. You will hear this signal to tell you when you start interpreting. Now let's begin.Play00:0011:23Volume下面你将听到一段有关中美贸易关系的讲话。
2014年catti二级综合能力口译考试试题及答案解析(一)
catti二级综合能力口译考试试题及答案解析(一)一、Part Ⅱ（共20小题,共40.0分）Listen to the following passages and then choose the best answer to each question by blackening the corresponding circle. You may need to scribble a few notes in order to answer the questions satisfactorily. There are three passages in this part, each with five questions. And each question carries two points. You will hear the passages only once.第1题Which of the following is the most appropriate title for the passage?A A New Trend in Global Tourism IndustryB Global Tourism Industry and EmploymentC Global Tourism Industry and Marketing CampaignsD Major Players in Global Tourism Industry【正确答案】：A【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】主旨题。
本题要求把握全文结构脉络。
全文讨论世界旅游业这一话题。
前半部分主要说全球旅游业离散的局面；后半部分以具体事实说明全球旅游业发展的一种新的变化趋势，即加强地区协作，共同开发旅游市场的趋势。
显然，选项a中的trend能够恰当概括全文主要内容，而选项b中提到的employment，选项c中提到的marketing campaigns和选项d中提到的major players只是相关的支持性细节。
翻译二级笔译实务2014年11月
翻译二级笔译实务2014年11月(总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、Section Ⅰ English-Chinese Translation(总题数：2，分数：60.00)1.The region around this Belgian city is busily preparing to commemorate the 200th anniversary in 2015 of one of the major battles in European military history. But weaving a path through the preparations is proving almost as tricky as making one"s way across the battlefield was back then, when the Duke of Wellington, as commander of an international alliance of forces, crushed Napoleon.A rambling though dilapidated farmstead called Hougoumont, which was crucial to the battle"s outcome, is being painstakingly restored as an educational center. Nearby, an underground visitor center is under construction, and roads and monuments throughout the rolling farmland where once the sides fought are being refurbished. More than 6,000 military buffs are expected to re-enact individual skirmishes.While the battle ended two centuries ago, however, hard feelings have endured. Memories are long here, and not everyone here shares Britain"s enthusiasm for celebrating Napoleon"s defeat. Every year, in districts of Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium, there are fetes to honor Napoleon, according to Count Georges Jacobs de Hagen, a prominent Belgian industrialist and chairman of a committee responsible for restoring Hougoumont. "Napoleon, for these people, was very popular," Jacobs, 73, said over coffee. "That is why, still today, there are some enemies of the project."Belgium, of course, did not exist in 1815. Its Dutch-speaking regions were part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, while the French-speaking portion had been incorporated into the French Empire. Among French speakers, Jacobs said, Napoleon had a "huge influence—the administration, the Code Napoleon," or reform of the legal system. While Dutch-speaking Belgians fought under Wellington, French speakers fought with Napoleon.That distaste on the part of modern-day French speakers crystallized in resistance to a British proposal that, as part of the restoration of Hougoumont, a memorial be raised to the British soldiers who died defending its narrow North Gate at a critical moment on June 18, 1815, when Wellington carried the day. "Every discussion in the committee was filled with high sensitivity," Jacobs recalled. "I said, "This is a condition for the help of the British," so the North Gate won the battle, and we got the monument."If Belgium was reluctant to get involved, France was at first totally uninterested. "They told us, "We don"t want to take part in this British triumphalism," " said Countess Nathalie du Parc Locmaria, a writer and publicist who is president of a committee representing four townships that own the land where the battle raged.（分数：30.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：()解析：比利时滑铁卢的周边地区正在为2015年滑铁卢战役200周年纪念活动进行紧锣密鼓的筹备。
英语翻译二级口译综合能力模拟试题及答案解析(1)
英语翻译二级口译综合能力模拟试题及答案解析（1）(1~5/共25题)Part ⅢListen to the following longer passages and then choose the best answer to each of the questions by blackening the corresponding circle. You may need to scribble a few notes in order to answer the questions satisfactorily. There are 20 questions in this part of the test, two points for each question.Passage OnePlay00:00…Volume第1题What is the passage mainly about?A.Unused vacation time.B.Too much leisure time.C.Work for free.D.Travel and work.第2题What can be inferred about the U. S. Travel Association?A.Nearly one fifth employees got paid vacation.B.Nearly 80% employees didn´t use off vacation days.C.The company has a vocation problem.D.The company persuades its employees to take a vacation.第3题What does the phrase "vanish into the ether" probably mean?A.Bank leisure time off year by year.B.Get payouts for not taking paid vacation.C.Let go of vacation without payment.D.Get lost in the dilemma of work and leisure.第4题Which of the following is NOT the reason for giving up vacation days?A.staycationB.fearC.dedicationD.money第5题What´s the percentage of workers who prefer work to vacation?A.40%B.60%C.20%D.52.4%下一题(6~10/共25题)Part ⅢListen to the following longer passages and then choose the best answer to each of the questions by blackening the corresponding circle. You may need to scribble a few notes in order to answer the questions satisfactorily. There are 20 questions in this part of the test, two points for eachquestion.Passage OnePlay00:00…Volume第6题Which word can best describe the freshmen?A.Over optimistic.B.Over pessimistic.C.Unreasonable.D.Daydreaming.第7题High school grades______.A.can exactly predicate college successB.accounts for a great portion of college successC.are relevant to college successD.have nothing to do with college success第8题Which of the following is NOT a difference between high-achievers and low-achievers?A.Socioeconomic status.B.Test scores.C.Personalities.D.Income.第9题What is the personality quiz designed to find out?A.Why students have different personality traits.B.Why discrepancies exist in college performance.C.What traits were correlated with college success.D.Who are "thrivers" and "divers".第10题What do "divers" refer to?A.College students who do better than before.B.College students who do worse than before.C.College students who like diving.D.College students who like driving.上一题下一题(11~15/共25题)Part ⅢListen to the following longer passages and then choose the best answer to each of the questions by blackening the corresponding circle. You may need to scribble a few notes in order to answer the questions satisfactorily. There are 20 questions in this part of the test, two points for each question.Passage OnePlay00:00…Volume第11题What is the unemployment rate in 2009?A.10.2%B.4%C.6.2%D.2.2%第12题What is the objective of Federal Reserve´s monetary policy?A.To fight against Great Recession.B.To stabilize the price.C.To assess employment rate.D.To change the structure of the labor market.第13题What is the theme of this year´s symposium?A.Depression.bor market dynamics.C.Federal Reserve´s monetary policy.D.Unemployment rate.第14题Which of the following topics is expected by the speaker?A.How to recover from recession.B.How to change monetary policy.C.What inflation will affect.D.What will affect the labor market.第15题What is the appropriate title for the speech?A.Our Understanding of the Economy.B.The Challenges We are Facing.bor Market Dynamics and Monetary Policy.D.Employment and Unemployment Rate.上一题下一题(16~20/共25题)Part ⅢListen to the following longer passages and then choose the best answer to each of the questions by blackening the corresponding circle. You may need to scribble a few notes in order to answer the questions satisfactorily. There are 20 questions in this part of the test, two points for each question.Passage OnePlay00:00…Volume第16题It can be inferred from the passage that______.A.there is little room for anybody mentally weakB.not all of us have mental strengthC.the dichotomy of mental strength is not rightD.people strong in mind need no improvement第17题The speaker suggests that improving mental strength has little to do with______.A.emotionB.thoughtsC.behaviorD.environments第18题What affects susceptibility to mental illness?A.Genetics.B.Personality.C.Experiences.D.Exercises.第19题How to develop mental strength?A.Erase your bad childhood experiences.B.Change your genetic predisposition.C.Focus on self-improvement exercises.D.Put in more time and energy.第20题What does the speaker try to explain?A.What influences mental strength.B.How to prevent mental disorder.C.Why are some people mentally strong.D.How to develop mental strength.上一题下一题(21~25/共25题)Part ⅢListen to the following longer passages and then choose the best answer to each of the questions by blackening the corresponding circle. You may need to scribble a few notes in order to answer the questions satisfactorily. There are 20 questions in this part of the test, two points for each question.Passage OnePlay00:00…Volume第21题Who is likely to be choosy?A.A maximizer.B.A satisficer.C.A hesitator.D.A psychologist.第22题Which of the following is NOT true about "Satisficers"?A.They prefer quick decision.B.They meet the minimum criteria.C.They want good enough.D.They weigh many options.第23题Dr. Schwartz´s 13-level test suggests that______.A.A person can be both Maximizers and SatisficersB.The maximizers get higher scores at schoolC.Most people fail in the middle of the surveyD.Most people feel it difficult to make decisions第24题According to Dr. Schwartz´s study of college seniors______.A.the maximizers got worse jobsB.the maximizers felt better about their jobsC.satisficers made bad decisions more oftenD.the satisficers´ starting salaries were lower第25题What is the main idea of the passage?A.Maximizers and their behaviors.B.Satisficers and their behaviors.C.Decision making and sense of happiness.D.How to make decision and get jobs.上一题下一题(1/1)Part ⅣListen to the following passage. Write a short English summary of around 150-200 words of what you have heard. You will hear the passage only ONCE and you will have 25 minutes to finish you English summary. This part of test carries 20 points. You may need to scribble a few notes in order to write your summary satisfactorily.Play00:00…Volume第26题41．上一题交卷交卷答题卡答案及解析(1~5/共25题)Part ⅢListen to the following longer passages and then choose the best answer to each of the questions by blackening the corresponding circle. You may need to scribble a few notes in order to answer the questions satisfactorily. There are 20 questions in this part of the test, two points for each question.Passage OnePlay00:0023:12Volume[听力原文]听力原文： We represent a surprisingly potent threat to our own leisure time. Even the U. S. Travel Association has a vacation problem. In 2013 the company saw just 19% of its employees use all their time off. They joined the millions of American workers with access to paid time off。
2014年catti二级口译实务精品试题(一)
catti二级口译实务精品试题(一)一、English-Chinese Translation （本大题2小题．每题25.0分，共50.0分。
Translate the following passage（s） into Chinese ）第1题【正确答案】：来到中国伟大的学府之一进行演讲让我感到非常荣幸。
中国具有领先世界科技的历史传统，贵校正在帮助恢复并保持这一传统，贵校的毕业生在全国各地担任领导职位。
和在中国其他许多地方一样，凡是来到清华大学参观的人，都不由的对伟大中国突飞猛进的发展和每天带给人民的知识和机会而感到兴奋。
各位，你们尽可以为自己的国家和她25年来所取得的成就而感到骄傲。
// 看着听众席上一张张年轻的面孔，我不由的对这里的留学生充满羡慕之情。
我听说来自50多个国家的1000多名留学生有幸与大家一起在贵校同窗学习。
这使我想起了我自己的求学岁月，当时我的祖国加纳刚刚获得独立。
我们突然感到，我们的国家正在走向世界，我们每天都有新的发现。
但是，我也记得迅速变化的年代带来的不仅是进步和兴奋，它同样能带来痛苦和困惑，甚至是破坏。
// 变化越是迅速和令人兴奋。
就越需要谨慎把握和明智、人性化的领导。
我们必须维护秩序和稳定，但也不应扼杀探索、试验和表达意见的自由。
作为年轻的学者，．你们比任何人都更清楚地知道，在国家的发展中，知识和科学有着举足轻重的作用。
科技专业知识应该被用于全社会的发展和保障，不仅给少数人带来更大的财富，还要使全体公民感到更加安全，更加富裕。
//中国是一个伟大的国家，她不可能在孤立中实现发展。
中国的发展影响了全世界，也使中国与世界其他地区建立起了新的关系。
中国经济越来越依赖于与其他国家的交流，尤其是商品和资金的进出口。
外国投资对于中国的经济增长起到了关键作用，而中国的外汇储备及贵国对本国货币的管理将在国际货币体系中发挥重要作用。
这就是说，全世界的发展与繁荣对中国利害攸关。
中国的安全也离不开国际的和平和稳定。
2014年11月二级笔译真题 英译汉(讲解)
2014年11月CATTI二级真题英译汉Passage1【第4组做】（说明：文中的第一译文为CATTI考试中心的参考译文，阴影部分为老师的说明和翻译，并附两位学生的部分译文）The region around the Belgian city of Waterloo is busily preparing to commemorate the 200th of one of the major battles in European military history in 2015.//But weaving a path through the preparations is proving almost as tricky as making one's way across the battlefield back then, when the Duck of Wellington, as commander of an international alliance of forces, crushed Napoleon.weavetwist and turn from side to side while moving somewhere in order to avoid obstructions迂回穿行He had to weave his way through the crowds.他不得不在人群中穿行。
tricky:(of a task, problem, or situation) requiring care and skill because difficult or awkward（任务，问题，情况）需细心和技巧的，难对付的比利时滑铁卢市地区的人们正在紧锣密鼓地筹备定于2015年举行的欧洲军事史上一次重大战役二百年的纪念活动。
【翻译难点：名词术语翻译；厘清时间关系与逻辑关系】【另译：2015年将迎来欧洲军事史上一项重要的200周年战争纪念活动，比利时滑铁卢市地区的人们正在紧锣密鼓地筹备这次活动。
二级笔译考试模拟题及答案
二级笔译考试模拟题及答案【试题一】The first outline of The Ascent of Man was written in July1969and the last foot of film was shot in December 1972. An undertaking aslarge as this, though wonderfully exhilarating, is not entered lightly. It demands an unflagging intellectual and physical vigour, a total immersion, which I had to be sure that I could sustain with pleasure;for instance, Ihad to put off researches that I had already begun; and I ought to explai-n what moved me to do so.There has been a deep change in the temper of science in thelast20 years: the focus of attention has shifted from the physical tothe life sciences. As a result, science is drawn more and more to the study of in-dividuality. But the interested spectator is hardly awareyet how far-reaching the effect is in changing the image of man that science moulds. Asa mathematician trained in physics, I too would have been unaware, had not a series of lucky chances taken me into the life sciences in middle age. I owe a debt for the good fortune that carried me into two seminal fields of science in one lifetime; and though I do not know to whom the debt is due, I conceived The Ascent of Man in gratitude to repay it.The invitation to me from the British Broadcasting Corporation was to present the development of science in a series of television programmes to match those of Lord Clark on Civilisation. Television isan admirable medium- for exposition in several ways: powerful and immediate to the eye, able to take the spectator bodily into the places and processes that are described, and conversational enough to make him conscious that what he witnesses are not events but the actions of people. The last of these merits is to my mind the most cogent, and it weighed most with me in agreeing to cast a personal biography of ideasin the form of television essays. The point is that knowledge in general and science in particular does not consist of abstract but of man-made ideas, all the way from its beginnings to its modern and idiosyncratic models. Therefore the underlying concepts that unlock nature must be shown to arise early and in the simplest cultures of man from his basic and specific faculties. And the development of science which joins them in more and more complex conjunctions must be seen to be equally human: discoveries are made by men, not merely by minds, so that they are aliveand charged with individuality. If television is not used to make these thoughts concrete, it is wasted.参考答案：不是因为我们害怕看到他会因失误而给他辉煌的生涯画上遗憾的一笔。
2014年catti二级笔译综合能力试题及答案解析(一)
catti二级笔译综合能力试题及答案解析(一)一、Vocabulary Selection（本大题8小题．每题1.0分，共8.0分。
In this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are four words or phrases respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. There is only one right answer. ）第1题Since the shipment consists of seasonable goods, it is important that it is ________as soon as possible.A deletedB demandedC deliveredD detached【正确答案】：C【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】形近识别。
deliver递送，传送(包裹、货物)：We deliver(your order)to your door．我们送货上门。
delete删除或删略(文字)：The editor deleted the last paragraph from the article．编辑删除了文章的最后一段。
demand要求，请求：The workers are demanding better pay．工人要求提高工资。
detach拆开，分开：Detach a link from a chain．从链子上拆下一个链环。
第2题Primitive superstitions that feed racism should be ________ through education.A ignoredB exaltedC eradicatedD canceled【正确答案】：C【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】词义辨析。
2014年catti二级口译实务考试试题及答案解析
catti二级口译实务考试试题及答案解析一、English-Chinese Translation （本大题2小题．每题25.0分，共50.0分。
Translate the following passage（s） into Chinese ）第1题【正确答案】：答案:当前在中国，艾滋病毒和艾滋病被视为正在上升的一大威胁。
据中国官方估计，中国已有约84万人感染了艾滋病毒。
但截止2003年底，仅有62159人经检查确诊为艾滋病毒阳性，其余780000或更多的艾滋病毒阳性人员的情况并不为公共卫生部门所知，当事人自己对此或许也不清楚，这就构成了艾滋病毒进一步传播的重大危险。
中国资深官员和在华国际专家都认为，艾滋病毒在中国正从一些特定群体，如注射吸毒人员和卖淫人员，向普通人群扩散。
不过，中国在观念、政策和资源投入方面已取得了重要的进步。
新就任的领导人对改善社会福利，特别是处理艾滋病毒和艾滋病问题加大了投入。
中国对艾滋病问题做出了更加积极的反应，包括了实行全国性的救治计划。
新的方针鼓励“四免一关怀”，即对贫困患者药品免费，检查和治疗免费，防止母婴传染治疗免费，艾滋病孤儿上学免费，以及关怀感染艾滋病毒和艾滋病的家庭等。
中国的高级领导人还承诺执行减轻危害的政策，比如鼓励吸毒者使用安全套，针具以旧换新，以及进行美莎酮替代疗法等。
严峻的挑战还在前面，尽管中国已取得很多积极进展，但要战胜艾滋病，在政治、技术和标准方面还面临着十分艰巨的挑战。
就规划、成本、后勤、人力资源、技术能力以及艾滋病羞耻所引起的普遍问题来看，其规模之大，问题之严重，无论如何强调都不过分。
这里仅举几例：脆弱和不完整的全国性艾滋病毒检查和监测系统，破败而难以发挥作用的公共卫生系统，特别在农村地区，以及在为艾滋病毒和艾滋病感染者提供正常的诊断、咨询、救治、监测和照顾方面严重缺少合格工作人员，必要的设备和技术。
在美国的评论家认为，解决好中国的艾滋病问题，需要中国国内和国际上的高层继续发挥领导作用。
2014年上半年笔译二级实务真题试卷(题后含答案及解析)
2014年上半年笔译二级实务真题试卷(题后含答案及解析)题型有：1. English-Chinese Translation 2. Chinese-English TranslationPART 1 English-Chinese Translation (60 points)This part consists of two sections: SECTIONA 1 “Compulsory Translation”and SECTION 2 “Optional Translation”which comprises “Topic 1”and “Topic 2”. Translate the passage in SECTION 1 and your choice from passages in SECTION 2 into Chinese. Write “Compulsory Translation”above your translation of SECTION 1 and write “Topic 1”or “Topic 2”above your translation of the passage from SECTION 2. The time for this part is 100 minutes.SECTION 1 Compulsory Translation (30 points)1．Marlene Castro knew the tall blonde woman only as Laurene, her mentor. They met every few weeks in a rough Silicon Valley neighborhood the year that Ms. Castro was applying to college, and they e-mailed often, bonding over conversations about Ms. Castro’s difficult childhood. Without Laurene’s help, Ms. Castro said, she might not have become the first person in her family to graduate from college. It was only later, when she was a freshman at University of California, Berkeley, that Ms. Castro read a news article and realized that Laurene was Silicon Valley royalty, the wife of Apple’s co-founder, Steven P. Jobs. “I just became 10 times more appreciative of her humility and how humble she was in working with us in East Palo Alto,”Ms. Castro said. The story, friends and colleagues say, is classic Laurene Powell Jobs. Famous because of her last name and fortune, she has always been private and publicity-averse. Her philanthropic work, especially on education causes like College Track, the college preparatory organization she helped found and through which she was Ms. Castro’s mentor, has been her priority and focus. Now, less than two years after Mr. Job’s death, Ms. Powell Jobs is becoming somewhat less private. She has tiptoed into the public sphere, pushing her agenda in education as well as global conversation, nutrition and immigration policy. “She’s been mourning for a year,”said Larry Brilliant, an old friend of Mr. Jobs. “Her life was about her family and Steve, but she is now emerging as a potent force on the world stage, and this is only the beginning.”But she is doing it her way. “It’s not about getting any public recognition for her giving, it’s to help touch and transform individual lives,” said Laura Andreessen, a philanthropist and lecturer on philanthropy at Stanford who has been close friends with Ms. Powell Jobs for two decades. While some people said Ms. Powell Jobs should have started a foundation in Mr. Jobs’s name after his death, she did not, nor has she increased her public giving. Instead, she has redoubled her commitment to Emerson Collective, the organization she formed about a decade ago to make grants and investments in education initiatives and, more recently, other areas. “In the broadest sense, we want to use our knowledge, our network and our relationships to try to affect the greatest amount ofgood,”Ms. Powell Jobs said in one of a series of interviews with The New York Times.正确答案：当初，马琳-卡斯特罗只知道这位身材高挑、一头金发的女士是她的导师劳伦。
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catti二级笔译实务精选模拟试题(一)
一、English-Chinese Translation （本大题3小题．每题30.0分，共90.0分。
Translate the following passage（s） into Chinese ）
第1题
Japan owes a lot to China. Chinese demand for Japanese goods has helped Japan's economy recover, while competition has pressured executives to start restructuring Japan's companies and banks.
Japan is an example of how China is offering two benefits to the global economy. One is the way in which China is acting as an economic engine, buying up ever-increasing amounts of goods and natural resources. The other is the flow of inexpensive Chinese goods that drag down consumer prices across the world.
There are downsides, like the decline of manufacturing industries from Detroit and Perth. Folks in developed economies losing jobs or taking pay cuts would hardly agree that China's rising influence is a good thing.
But at the moment, China's 9.5 percent growth rate is proving more of a blessing than a bane for countries like Japan.
Quietly, at the start of this decade, Japanese companies began shifting production abroad, cutting costs, selling off extraneous businesses and paying down debt. 'The government also stepped up efforts to attract more foreign direct investment, something Japan had little use for in the past.
Taken together, these actions largely prompted by China's advance, have led to the most organic and convincing recovery Japan has seen in years. While Japan has much further to got to make its economy more globally competitive, it is worth noting how far it has come from the dark days of the late 1990s.
There are many benefits inherent in China's advance. One of them was spelled out by Anatole Kaletsky, an editor and economic columnist at The Times of London. He wrote on August 18 that China's rise is making the richest nations even richer.
Along with pushing down global prices of mass-produced goods, China's influence may actually be pushing up the prices of products and services China does not or cannot make. That can be seen in the prices
of things that China consumes — oil, financial services, luxury goods and real estate.
Kaletsky said that as prices of luxury goods and financial services are driven higher, prosperous countries with service industries become wealthier, compared with manufacturing countries.
【正确答案】：
日本从中国得到的好处是很大的。
中国需要日本的商品，这就有助于日本经济的恢复，而竞争又迫使主管人员着手对日本的公司和银行进行结构性改革。
以日本为例，可以说明中国怎样为全球的经济带来两大好处。
一方面，中国买进越来越多的商品和自然资源，起着拉动经济的火车头作用。
另一方面，中国不断出口便宜的商品，使全世界的消费品价格下降。
不足之处也是有的，比如从底特律到珀斯的制造业日渐衰落。
在发达国家，有人丢了工作，有人减了工资，他们大概不会觉得中国的影响日益增长是什么好事。
不过，眼下中国百分之9.5%的增长率对日本这样的国家来说，与其说它是祸，不如说它是福。
本世纪一开始，日本的公司就悄悄地着手把生产转移到国外，降低成本，把没有直接联系的工商企业卖掉，偿还债务。
政府还加紧吸引更多的外国直接投资，而这是日本过去不怎么加以利用的。
这些举措大都是中国的进步所诱发的，其综合效果就是日本得到了多年不曾有过的最有组织的、最明显的恢复。
虽然日本要使自己的经济更有全球竞争力，还有很长的路要走，但是它摆脱二十世纪末的黑暗时期，取得了多大的进展，也是不容忽视的。
中国的进步必然带来许多好处。
其中有一条，《伦敦泰晤士报》编辑兼经济专栏作家阿纳托尔•卡莱茨基作了阐述。
8月18日他写道，中国的兴起正使得富国更富了。
中国的影响一方面压低了大规模生产的商品的全球价格，一方面可能实际上也抬高了中国不提供或无法提供的产品和服务的价格。
看一下中国消费品的价格，就一目了然了间——比如石油、金融服务、奢侈品和房地产。
卡莱茨基指出，由于奢侈品和金融服务的价格上升，服务业发达的国家比制造业国家获益更大。
[采分点解析]
1．Japan owes a lot to China. 日本从中国得到的好处是很大的。
[分析] 用词选词采分点。
owe sb. a lot“欠(债等)，感激，把……归功于”，可引申翻译为“得到很多好处”。
2．Chinese demand for Japanese goods has helped Japan's economy recover, while competition has pressured executives to start restructuring Japan's companies and banks. 中国需要日本的商品，这就有助于日本经济的恢复，而竞争又迫使主管人员着手对日本的公司和银行进行结构性改革。
[分析] 理解结构采分点及基本素质采分点。