英汉口译高级 Unit four

课外练习

Passage 1 Chinese-English Interpretation

北京观光客自然都会游览故宫和长城，这是因为故宫和长城是举世闻名的旅游景点。而今天我却想向各位推荐北京第三大旅游场所，北京世界公园。北京世界公园于90年代初在北京兴建，是北京的最新旅游景点。这里游客那种“一日游尽天下景”的梦想便可成真。

北京世界公园的规模雄踞亚洲同类公园之冠，所收微缩复制品的数量也堪称亚洲之最。世界七大奇观以及50个国家的约100处历史名胜和自然景观均以微缩模型展出。占地面积46.7公顷的世界公园分为17处风景区，收集了亚洲、非洲、欧洲。南北美洲以及大洋洲的主要名胜景点。游客可以在这里观赏法国的凯旋门、埃菲尔铁塔、罗浮宫玻璃金字塔、凡尔赛宫和巴黎圣母院；英国伦敦的塔桥和白金汉宫；意大利的比萨斜塔、罗马大斗兽场、威尼斯水城和圣可马广场；西班牙的阿卡沙堡；德国的科隆大教堂；荷兰的风车和郁金香田园风光；希腊的雅典卫城；俄罗斯的克里姆林宫墙及钟楼；印度的泰姬陵；泰国的泰王宫；柬埔寨的吴哥窟；缅甸的仰光大金塔；新加坡的狮头鱼身像；埃及的基萨金字塔群和阿布辛伯勒神庙；美国的大峡谷和自由女神像；澳大利亚的悉尼歌剧院；墨西哥的巨石头像；智利的复活节岛巨人石像；秘鲁的那斯卡线画；中国的长城和故宫等景物复制品。

这些旅游景观制作精巧，工艺精湛，其中大多为原作的精确复制品，用料均为白玉、理石、上乘花岗岩石或其他优质石料。例如，莫斯科的红场是以500块比麻将牌还小的红砖铺就而成。而埃及的金字塔则以20万块大理石砌成。美国的科罗拉多河和大峡谷的微缩景观高达32米，一条“巨型瀑布”从16米的高处飞流直冲谷底。

公园的东北角有一条300米长的国际街，这条具有欧美建筑风格的国际街集餐饮、购物和娱乐于一体，游客可以在这里领略各国情调，品尝他乡风味，购买纪念礼品，参加各种娱乐活动。

北京世界公园自开放以来已吸引了许多海内外游客前来观赏美景。如果您在北京逗留的时间仅够您游览3个景点，那么您一定得把故宫、长城和世界公园作为您的最佳选择。

While the Palace Museum and Great Wall, the two world-famous scenic spots, are known to all a must tourist destination for people visiting Beijing, today, I’d like to introduce to you the Beijing World Park, the third major tourist site in Beijing. Completed in the early 1990s, the Beijing World Park boasts the newest scenic spot in Beijing, and here the visitors may realize their dream of “touring around the world in a day.”

The Beijing World Park is the largest scale in Asia. The Seven Wonders of the World and some 100 famous historical and natural sights from 50 countries are on display in miniature. The 46.7-hectare World Park feature 17 scenic areas staging all the major tourist sites of Asia, Africa, Europe, America and Oceania. Here tourists can appreciate a variety of replicas of famous sights, such as the Arc of Triumph, and the Eiffel Tower, the Glass Pyramid of Louvre, Versailles Palace and Notre Dame de Paris in France; London’s Tower of Bridge and Buckingham, Venice and St. Mark’s Square in Italy; the Alcazar Castle in Spain; the Cologne Cathedral in Germany; the Idyllic Sights of Windmills and Tulips in Holland; the Acropolis of Athens in Greece; the Wall and Clock Towers of Kremlin in Russia; the TajMahal in India; the Grand Palace in Thailand; the Angkor Wat in Cambodia; Shwe Dagon Pagoda in Burma; the Merlion in Singapore; the Pyramids of Giza and the Great Temple of Abu Simbel in Egypt; the Grand Canyon and the Statue of Liberty in the United States; Sydney Opera House in Australia; the Globose in Mexico; the Statues of Easter Island in Chile; the Linear Drawings at Nasca in Peru; and the Great Wall and the Imperial Palace

in China.

The exquisitely constructed scenic spots offer fine examples of excellent workmanship. Most of them feature the exact replicas of the original, with white jade, marble , top-grade grade granite and other superior quality stone. For example, Moscow’s Red Square was constructed with five million red bricks smaller than China’s mahjong pieces, and the Egyptian Pyramid was built with 200,000 pieces of marble. The replica of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon in the United States stands 32 meters high, with a 16-meter-high “giant waterfall” plunging to the bottom.

Located in the northeastern corner lies the 300-meter-long International Street with its European and American architectural styles encompassing services of catering, shopping and amusement. Tourists can experience the obvious exotic atmosphere, taste the inviting foreign food, purchase attractive souvenirs and enjoy a wide variety of recreational activities.

Since its opening to visitors, the Beijing World Park has attracted many tourists from home and abroad with its splendid sights. If you had time for only three places of tourist attraction in Beijing, your best choices would certainly be the Palace Museum, the Great Wall and then the Beijing World Park.

Passage 2 English-Chinese Interpretation

Welcome to the world’s first national park, the Yellowstone Park of United States.

In this paradise, nature puts on a spectacular display. Geysers sand water shooting into the air. Mud pots boil and bubble. Hot springs display brilliant colors of blue, yellow, and orange. You won’t find any place else like it on Earth.

Scientific expeditions visited this northwest corner of Wyoming in 1870 and 1871. People who observed the wonders of the area saw the need to protect them. Though their persistent efforts, Yellowstone National Park was born in 1872.

The park’s thermal areas make it unique. Geysers are also found in New Zealand and Iceland, but Yellowstone has more geysers than the rest of the earth combined. More than 200 geysers and 10,000 other thermal features dot the park. All are protected. The park does not allow visitors to wander off the walkways or touch the thermal feature.

Now follow me to the most spectacular sights in the park: the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. It’s 37 kilometers long and 366 meters deep. At the bottom you’ll see Yellowstone River winding through the colorful canyon. We’ll stop on both the south and north sides for different views.

At Artist’s Point, you will take pictures of Yellowstone’s magnificent Lower Falls. Or if you’re ready for some exercise, you may walk down the trail that leads to the bottom of the falls, and then look up at the plunging water.

South of the canyon lies the Yellowstone Lake, one of the world’s largest freshwater lakes. Don’t plan on going for a dip—the water is too cold! But from the Fishing Bridge you can take a boat excursion on the lake.

Take you time exploring the park. Walk around the thermal areas, look for wildlife along rivers and streams, have a picnic under a big tree, listen to the wild roar and feel the spray on your face. Nothing can take you away from the sights.

The Park was created for the benefit and enjoyment of all. So have a good time.