MBA联考 英语 历年翻译真题及翻译
MBA(英语)翻译练习试卷11(题后含答案及解析)
MBA（英语）翻译练习试卷11(题后含答案及解析)全部题型 4. TranslationSection IV TranslationDirections: In this section there is a passage in English. Translate the passage into Chinese and write your translation on ANSWER SHEET 2.1．The world’s richest countries, which have contributed by far the most to the atmospheric changes linked to global warming, are already spending billions of dollars to limit their own risks from its worst consequences, like drought and rising seas. But despite longstanding treaty commitments to help poor countries deal with warming, these industrial powers are spending just tens of millions of dollars on ways to limit climate and coastal hazards in the world’s most vulnerable regions—most of them close to the equator and overwhelmingly poor. Over the last few decades, as scientists have intensified their study of the human effects on climate and of the effects of climate change on humans, a common theme has emerged: in both respects, the world is a very unequal place. In almost every instance, the people most at risk from climate change live in countries that have contributed the least to the atmospheric buildup of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases linked to the recent warming of the planet. Those most vulnerable countries also tend to be the poorest. And the countries that face the least harm—and that are best equipped to deal with the harm they do face—tend to be the richest.正确答案：世界上那些最富有的国家是造成全球变暖这一气候变化的最大罪人，他们目前正花费几十亿美元不惜血本地试图将如干旱或海平面升高等气候灾害发生的可能性降到最低。
MBA(英语)翻译练习试卷3(题后含答案及解析)
MBA（英语）翻译练习试卷3(题后含答案及解析)全部题型 4. TranslationSection IV TranslationDirections: In this section there is a passage in English. Translate the passage into Chinese and write your translation on ANSWER SHEET 2.1．The hardest hit of all that week were Wall Street’s specialist firms, the traders who were charged with maintaining orderly markets. That task required them to purchase stocks when there were no other buyers and to make sales when other sellers disappeared. Until the end of that week, a total 52 specialist firms had worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange: each had handled the shares of 20 to 30 specified Big Board companies. On Black Monday, the specialists grimly fulfilled their responsibilities, buying millions of shares as prices plunged all around them. Their losses could amount to as much as $750 million. Securities firms outside Wall Street also felt mortal pain. The 4 500 accounts of the New York Stock Exchange member were taken over by Rodman & Renshaw, a Chicago firm.正确答案：那个星期受打击最大的是华尔街上的特种基金经营商，他们是为了保持市场秩序而受损失的交易商。
MBA考试《英语》历年真题精选及详细解析0809-7
MBA考试《英语》历年真题精选及详细解析0809-71、I wish( )to Stockholm when I was in Sweden.I hear it's a beautiful city.【单选题】A.I wentB.I had goneC.I have goneD.having gone正确答案:B答案解析:【译文】我听说斯德哥尔摩是座美丽的城市。
真希望在瑞典时去过那里。
【解析】wish后面的宾语从句常用虚拟语气，以表示与事实相反的情况，针对现在时间段的愿望，宾语从句常用“过去时”的虚拟形式，针对将来时间段的愿望，宾语从句常用“过去将来时”的虚拟形式，而针对过去时间段的愿望，宾语从句则常用“过去完成时”。
本题根据“I was in Sweden”可以看出是最后者，表示与过去事实相反的情况，故选B。
A项是针对“现在时间段”的虚拟形式；C项不是虚拟形式，不能与前面I wish形成对应搭配；D项是现在分词短语，属于非谓语形式，不能直接与wish连用。
2、( )the fog, we should have reached our destination.【单选题】A.Because ofB.In spite ofC.In case ofD.But for正确答案:D答案解析:【译文】若不是因为大雾，我们应该早就抵达我们的目的地了。
【解析】根据后半句的should have done结构可看出这是一个虚拟语气，but for意为“要不是”“倘若不是因为”的意思，常用于虚拟语气，符合下文语义和形式的要求，选D。
A项：“因为大雾”对应的语义应是“所以我们（结果）无法到达”，但下文reached ourdestination却语义相反；此外，because of引导的原因状语所对应的句子主干不用虚拟语气。
B项：“尽管有雾”对应的语义应是“但是（事实上）我们仍然到达”，但下文should have reachedour destination (应早已抵达目的地）表述的却是一种虚拟的“遗憾”；此外，in spite of引导的让步状语所对应的句子主干不用虚拟语气。
MBA考试《英语》历年真题精选及详细解析0808-26
MBA考试《英语》历年真题精选及详细解析0808-261、Excellent films are those which（）national and cultural barriers.【单选题】A.transcendB.traverseC.abolishD.suppress正确答案:A答案解析:transcend意思是“超越，跨越”。
译：那些超越国家和文化界限的电影才是优秀的电影。
traverse横渡，横越：The railway traverses hundreds of miles of desert，这条铁路贯穿数百英里的沙漠；abolish废除；suppress抑制，镇压。
2、Typical of the new type of the youth（）, who set a shining example to the whole nation.【单选题】A.was Lei FengB.were Lei FengC.Lei Feng wasD.Lei Feng were正确答案:A答案解析:【译文】雷锋是新一代青年的典型代表，他为整个国家树立了光辉的榜样。
【解析】分析句子可知，Typical of the new type of the youth是形容词短语作表语，类似的形容词短语作表语置于句首时，句子需要做“表→系→主”倒装处理，在考虑到主谓一致的因素，本题答案选A。
【点睛】“表→系→主”倒装：adj...+ be + S.3、Though her parents（）her musical ability, Judy\'s piano playing is really terrible.【单选题】A.pour scorn onB.heap praise uponC.give vent toD.cast light upon正确答案:B答案解析:heap praise upon意思是“大加赞赏”。
MBA考试《英语》历年真题精选及详细解析0809-91
MBA考试《英语》历年真题精选及详细解析0809-911、Mike just discovered that his passport had（）three months ago.【单选题】A.abolishedB.expiredC.amendedD.constrained正确答案:B答案解析:expire不及物动词，意思是“（契约等）期满，终止”。
译：迈克刚发现自己的护照三个月前已经到期了。
abolish及物动词，废止，废除；amend及物动词，修正，修改，修订；constrain及物动词，强迫，抑制，限制。
2、A hush fell over the guests who had（）for the wedding celebration.【单选题】A.assembledB.participatedC.attendedD.summoned正确答案:A答案解析:assemble意思是“集合，聚集；装配”。
译：聚集参加婚礼的客人们安静下来。
participate (后接in)参加；attend 出席；summon召唤，传唤。
3、It's high time you( ).【单选题】A.goes wrongB.would start to workC.started to workD.had started to work正确答案:C答案解析:【译文】你开始工作的时间到了。
【解析】It is (high) time that...后面的从句谓语常使用虚拟形式，动词要用过去式或用should加动词原形，但should不可省略，故选C。
4、Anti-hunger campaigns are successful in【阅读理解B】A.poor countriesB.all the worldC.the Climate Adaptation FundD.the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and MalariaE.BangladeshF.MalawiG.the U. S. and Europe正确答案:F答案解析:根据信号词Anti-hunger campaigns are successful可回文定位到第3段: The first is to scale-up the dramatic success of Malawi, a famine-prone country in southern Africa, which three years ago established a special fund to help its farmers get fertilizer and high-yield seeds:首先要推广马拉维的成功举措——马拉维是非洲南部的一个经常闹饥荒的国家，三年前，该国设立了一项特别基金来资助农民购买肥料和高产种子。
MBA(英语)翻译练习试卷9(题后含答案及解析)
MBA（英语）翻译练习试卷9(题后含答案及解析)全部题型 4. TranslationSection IV TranslationDirections: In this section there is a passage in English. Translate the passage into Chinese and write your translation on ANSWER SHEET 2.1．Being late is a habit—but no one can cure himself of it until he determines the cause of his tardiness. (1) Most people are continually attempting to crowd too many chores, amusements and social or business engagements into an inexorable number of hours and minutes. Some people have stopwatch minds: some are sundial beings to whom time is a fuzzy thing, particularly after dark. (2) There are others who are deliberately late, to make a dramatic entrance or to show an imagined superiority. In Hollywood, it’s been said, everyone important is usually late for everything but studio conferences. At a party, each star arrives late—in order of status. The top box-office attraction is allotted the final arrival. A psychiatrist tells me that sometimes tardiness is a form of subconscious sulking, an attempt to get even with another person. It is also a sign of immaturity. (3) People who are habitually late are in a sense still infants to whom time and the other person’s convenience mean nothing. Some unfortunates will always be incapable of being punctual. (4) A movie star noted for continually being late was invited to christen a destroyer, and pointedly informed that the Navy does things on time. She arrived promptly, then kept the admiral and his staff waiting while she spent almost an hour in the powder room. Subsequently she decided to undergo psychiatric treatment to correct her habitual lateness. But she had to give up the sessions. She was always too late for her appointments with the psychiatrist. (5) Fortunately, being punctual, like being late, is also a habit—easy to cultivate once you have decided what has made you so careless of time in the past. It is a most rewarding habit: after you have attained it you will find how greatly it simplifies living.正确答案：1．大多数人不断试图把太多的杂事、娱乐活动和社交或商务约会，塞进不容变更的分分秒秒中。
MBA考试《英语》历年真题精选及详细解析0810-41
MBA考试《英语》历年真题精选及详细解析0810-411、The advertisement says this material doesn't( )in the wash, but it has.【单选题】A.contractB.shrinkC.slimD.dissolve正确答案:B答案解析:shrink意思是“缩水，收缩”。
译：广告说该材料洗时不缩水，但实际上已缩水。
contract收缩，感染；slim变细，减肥；dissolve溶解。
2、Generally, it is only when animals are trapped that they（）to violence in order to escape.【单选题】A.proceedB.submitC.resortD.incline正确答案:C答案解析:resort to意思是“求助，诉诸”。
译：通常动物只有在落入陷阱时才会借助暴力以便逃脱。
proceed(with/to)进行，继续；submit to屈服于；incline (to)愿意，倾向。
3、He attends to the（）of important business himself.【单选题】A.transactionB.transitionC.transmissionD.transformation正确答案:A答案解析:transaction意思是“办理，处理”。
译：他亲自处理重要的生意。
transition转变，过渡；transmission 播送，传播；transformation 变形，转变，改造。
4、In the past ten years skyscrapers have developed（）in Chicago and New York City.【单选题】A.homogeneouslyB.simultaneouslyC.spontaneouslyD.harmoniously正确答案:B答案解析:simultaneously意思是“同时”。
MBA(英语)翻译练习试卷1(题后含答案及解析)
MBA（英语）翻译练习试卷1(题后含答案及解析)全部题型 4. TranslationSection IV TranslationDirections: In this section there is a passage in English. Translate the passage into Chinese and write your translation on ANSWER SHEET 2.1．Success in improving students’thinking skills will require long-term commitment and a continuing emphasis on those proven teaching methods and activities that engage students in thinking, explicitly focus on specific thinking skills, and help students become more aware of their own thought processes. Instruction in thinking skills will have lasting benefits--students better able to acquire new information, to examine complex issues critically, and to solve new problems. In a world of rapid change and increasing complexity, it is difficult to imagine skills that are more fundamental. Like the ability to fish in the Chinese proverb, the ability to think lasts a lifetime.正确答案：成功地提高学生的思维技能要求长期的努力和不断地重视那些已被证明行之有效的教学方法和教学活动，这些方法和活动使学生参与思维，明确地将重点放在某一具体的思维技巧上，并帮助学生更好地意识到他们自己的思维过程。
MBA考试《英语》历年真题精选及详细解析0808-45
MBA考试《英语》历年真题精选及详细解析0808-451、（）is the volume of chemical goods.【单选题】A.Constantly growing tooB.Too constantly growingC.Growing constant toD.Too growing constant正确答案:A答案解析:【译文】化学产品的生产量也在不断增长。
【解析】本句的正常语序应是：The volume of chemical goods is growing constantly too,但出于对growing constantly too 的强调，本句采用全倒装：Constantly growing too is the volume of chemicalgoods,此类倒装结构在形式上颇类似于“表→系→主”例装，故可归为一类进行学习。
【点睛】广义上的“表→系→主”倒装：Doing.../Done...+ be + S.2、Every member of society has to make a（）to struggle for the freedom of the country.【单选题】A.pledgeB.warrantyC.resolveD.guarantee正确答案:A答案解析:pledge n.意思是“保证，誓言”，常用搭配是make a pledge发誓。
译：社会每个成员都必须发誓为了祖国的自由而奋斗。
warranty n.担保书，保单；resolve v.决心；guarantee v.保证，担保。
3、A budget of five dollars a day is totally（）for a trip round Europe.【单选题】A.inadequateB.incapableC.incompatibleD.invalid正确答案:A答案解析:inadequate意思是“不充分的，不适当的”。
MBA考试《英语》历年真题精选及详细解析0810-52
MBA考试《英语》历年真题精选及详细解析0810-521、The policeman declared that the blow on the victim's head( )from behind.【单选题】A.should have been madeB.must have been madeC.would have been madeD.ought to have been made正确答案:B答案解析:must have been made表示“对过去发生事情的有根据的推测”。
译：警察宣布受害人头上的一击肯定是从后面来的。
should have been made表示“对过去发生事情的推测”，语气相对于must较弱，不能与declare相呼应。
would have been made是表示“假设”的虚拟语气形式。
ought to have beenmade = should have been made。
2、Computer technology will( )a revolution in business administration.【单选题】A.bring aroundB.bring aboutC.bring outD.bring up正确答案:B答案解析:bring about意思是“引起，导致”。
译：计算机技术将给商业管理带来一场革命。
bring around使信服，使复苏；bring out出版，生产；bring up抚养。
3、American women were（）the right to vote until 1920 after many years of hard struggle.【单选题】A.ignoredB.neglectedC.refusedD.denied正确答案:D答案解析:deny意思是“否认，拒绝给予”，表示“拒绝给予”之意时，常接双宾语：deny sb.sth.。
MBA(英语)翻译练习试卷26(题后含答案及解析)
MBA（英语）翻译练习试卷26(题后含答案及解析)全部题型 4. TranslationSection IV TranslationDirections: In this section there is a passage in English. Translate the passage into Chinese and write your translation on ANSWER SHEET 2.1．我们发现他是一位很有能力、很负责的工作人员。
我们和他的关系非常和谐。
正确答案：We have found him a most capable and responsible worker and our relations with him have been entirely cordial．涉及知识点：汉译英2．他的工作是完全令人满意的。
我们的关系一向是非常真诚的。
在任何的意义上来说，他是绝对忠实的，是一位辛勤劳动者和有才智的人。
正确答案：His work was perfectly satisfactory and our relations were always most cordial．He is strictly honest，a hard worker and art intelligent man in the best sense of the world．涉及知识点：汉译英3．她有作为一位十全十美的秘书的品质。
她工作效率高而谨慎/无论工作多么困难，需要多少时间，从不拖延。
正确答案：She has all the qualities of a perfect secretary．She is efficient and discreet/has never left a job undone，regardless of how difficult or time-consuming it may be．涉及知识点：汉译英4．在本公司服务期间，他的工作表现相当出色。
MBA英语翻译真题和答案_5
MBA英语翻译真题和答案2001年翻译PART ⅣTranslation (15%)Directions:.In this part there is a passage in English.Translate the five sentences underlined into Chinese and write your translation on the Answer Sheet . .(56)The types of daydreams, whether they are pleasant and hopeful or filled with despair take shape in childhood when everyone develops one of three basic daydreaming styles: positive, negative and scattered, American Health reports. Although everyone lapses occasionally into each of these types, positive daydreamers are more likely to imagine happy, playful or entertaining of these types, positive daydreamers are more likely to imagine happy, playful or entertaining scenarios. (57)Negative daydreamers tend to dwell on life’s darker side, imagining dangerous and/or life threatening situations, such as theappearance of a fatal or weakening disease or becoming a victim of violence. Scattered day dreamers are easily bored and distracted. “Their mental images tend to be fleeting, repetitive and shallow, like variations on the same fairy tales, “explains Yale psychologist Ron Tower.(58)While all three types are common, positive imaginations are likeliest to serve as springboards(跳板)for problem solving, while negative and scattered daydreams may leave a person feeling anxious. Negative daydreamers are waiting for the other shoe “to fall”. Their imaginations are often guilty ridden or obsessive.There are times when drifting away can cause problems, according to Blodin. “If daydreaming gets in the way of daily function because the person is doing it all day, the person won’t be very productive,” she says. “The amount of time and the frequency that a person daydreams is what’s important. It should not take up all of your time. (59)If people find their daydreaming is becoming excessive( 过多的)，they should take a realistic look at what’s going on in theirlife and ask themselves what they are trying to avoid. Then they can assess what steps they need to take to cor rect the situation.”(Anyone who has a hard time discriminating between reality and imagination or starts replacing real life family and friends with imagined people should seek professional help.)(60)Professor Singer sums up the advantages of daydream s to the average person: “by sitting quietly and letting your daydreams emerge instead of squelching(抑制)them, you may find there are parts of yourself you haven’t been listening to. Instead of fearing them, you’ll gain access to tremendous range of interes ting, creative ideas.”(56)《美国健康》杂志报道说：人们的白日梦类型，不管是令人愉快、充满希望的，还是令人绝望的，在童年时代就已形成，那时候每个人就形成了三种基本白日梦类型中的一种，即积极型的、消极型的或支离破碎型的。
MBA英语翻译真题和答案_1
MBA英语翻译真题和答案2005年翻译Section IV TranslationDirections: In this section there is a passage in English. Translate the five sentences underlined into Chinese and write your translation on ANSWER SHEET 2. (15 points)People in business can use foresight to identify new products and services, as well as markets for those products and services. An increase in minority populations in a neighborhood would prompt a grocer with foresight to stock more foods linked to ethnic tastes. (56) An art museum director with foresight might follow trends in computer graphics to make exhibits more appealing to younger visitors.Foresight may reveal potential threats that we can prepare to deal with before they become crises. (57) For instance, a capable corporate manager might see an alarming rise in local housing prices that could affectthe availability of skilled workers in the region.The public’s changing values and priorities, as well as emerging technologies, demographic shifts, as well as emerging technologies, demographic shifts, economic constraints (or opportunities), and environmental and resource concerns are all parts of the increasingly complex world system in which leaders must lead.(58) People in government also need foresight to keep systems running smoothly, to plan budgets, and to prevent wars. Government leaders today must deal with a host of mew problems emerging rapid advances in technology.Even at the community level, foresight is critical: school officials, for example, need foresight to assess numbers of students to accommodate, numbers of teachers to hire, new educational technologies to deploy, and new skills for students (and their teachers) to develop.(59) many of the best-known techniques for foresight were developed by government planers, especially in the military, “thinking about theunthinkable”. Pioneering futurists at the RAND corporation (the first “think tank”) began seriously considering what new technologies might emerge in the future and how these might affect U.S security. These pioneering futurists at RAND, along with others elsewhere, refined a variety of new ways for thinking about the future.(60) The futurists recognized that the future world is continuous with the present world, so we can learn a great deal about what about what may happen in the future by looking systematically at what is happening now.(56) 具有远见的艺术博物馆馆长可能会紧跟/顺应电脑图形图像的流行趋势，使展品对较年轻的参观者更具吸引力。
MBA英语翻译真题和答案_2
MBA英语翻译真题和答案2004年翻译Section V Translation (10 points)Directions: In this section there is a passage in English. Translate the five sentences underlined into Chinese and write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET2.March 27, 1997, dawned as a normal day at the Collins’ home. By the middle of the morning, Jack Collins was at his desk, writing checks, paying bills the way he always had: on time. Then the phone rang, and the nightmare began.(71) An investigator for a bank was on the line, asking in a severe voice why Collins, a university physicist, was late on payments for a $27,000 car, bought in Virginia the previous year. “I don’t have a car like this,” Collins protested. The last time he had set foot in Vir~nia was as an officer at a submarine base, three decades ago. But his name was on thecontract, and so was his Social Security Number.During the months that ensued, he and his wife learned that someone had bought four more cars and 28 other items -- worth $113,000 in all m in their name. Their hitherto good credit record had been destroyed.(72) “After a lifetime of being honest,” says Collins, “all of a sudden I was basically being accused of stealing and treated like a criminal.”This is what it means to fall prey to a nonviolent but frightening and fast-growing crime: identity theft. It happens to at least 500,000 new victims each year, according to government figures.(73) And it happens very easily because every identification number you have m Social Security, credit ca rds driver’s license, telephone m “is a key that unlocks some storage of money or goods,” says a fraud (欺诈) program manager of the US Postal Service. “So if you throw away your credit card receipt and I get it and use the number on it, I’m not becoming you, but to the credit card company I’ve become your account.”(74) One major problems experts say, is that theSocial Security Number (SSN) – originally meant only for retirement benefit and tax purposes -- has become the universal way to identify people. It is used as identification by the military, colleges and in billions of commercial transactions.Yet a shrewd thief can easily snatch your SSN, not only by stealing your wallet, but also by taking mail from your box, going through your trash for discarded receipts and bills or asking for it over the phone on some pretext.Using your SSN, the thief applies for a credit card in your name, asking that it be sent to a different address than yours, and uses it for multiple purchases.A couple of months later the credit card company, or its debt collection agency, presses you for payment.You don’t have to pay the debt, but you must clean up your damaged credit record. (75) Thatmeans getting a means getting a police report and copy of the erroneous contract, and then using them to clear the fraud from your credit reports which is held by a credit bureau. Each step can require a huge amount of effort.参考译文：(71) 家银行的调查员打来电话，用严厉的口吻质问柯林斯—一位在大学里工作的物理学家—为什么拖欠去年在弗吉尼亚买的一辆汽车所花的2.7万美元。
MBA联考英语翻译真题(2006年-2010年)讲解
The smooth landing of shuttle（航天飞机）Discovery ended a flight that was successful in almost every respect but one：the dislodging of a big chunk of foam，like the one that doomed the Columbia. This flight was supposed to vault the shuttle fleet back into space after a prolonged grounding for repairs. But given the repeat of the very problem that two years of retooling was supposed to resolve，the verdict is necessarily mixed.（61）Once again，the space agency has been forced to put off the flight until it can find a solution to the problem，and no one seems willing to guess how that may take .The Discovery astronauts performed superbly during their two-week mission，and the shuttle looked better than ever in some respects.（62）space officials were justifiably happy that so much had gone well，despite daily worries over possible risks. the flight clearly achieved its prime objectives.The astronauts transferred tons of cargo to the international space station，which has been limping along overhead with a reduced crew and limited supplies carried up on smaller Russian spacecraft .（63）They replaced a broken device .repaired another and carted away a load of rubbish that had been left on the station，showing the shuttle can bring full loads back down from space.This was the most scrutinized shuttle flight ever. with the vehicle undergoing close inspection while still in orbit.（64）New sensing and photographic equipment to look for potentially dangerous damage to the sensitive external skin proved valuable .A new back flip maneuver allowed station astronauts to photograph the shuttle's underbelly .and an extra-long robotic arm enabled astronauts see parts of the shuttle that were previously out of sight .（65）The flood of images and the openness in discussing its uncertainties about potential hazards sometimes made it appear that the shuttle was about to fall apart，In the end the damage was clearly tolerable . A much-touted spacewalk to repair the shuttle's skin the first of its kind moved an astronaut close enough to pluck out some protruding material with his hand Preliminary evidence indicates that Discovery has far fewer nicks and gouges than shuttles on previous flights.perhaps showing that improvements to reduce the shedding of debris from the external fuel tank have had some success .61）航天部门被迫再次推迟飞行，直到找到问题的解决办法。
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MBA英语翻译历年真题2007年参考答案2008-01-10 10:42:072007年翻译Section IV Transition (20 points)Directions：In this section there is a passage in English．Translate the passage into Chineseand with your translation on the ANSWER SHEET．Powering the great ongoing changes of our time is the rise of human creativity as thedefining feature of economic life．Creativity has come to be valued，because new technologies，new industries and new wealth flow from it．And as a result，our lives andSociety have begunto echo with creative ideas．It is our commitment to creativity in its varieddimensions thatforms the underlying spirit of our age．Creativity is essential to the way we live and work today，and in many senses always hasBeen. The big advances in standard of living--not to mention the bigcompetitive advantages inthe marketplace--always have come from“better recipes，not just morecooking．”One mightargue that’s not strictly true．One might point out，for instance，that during the long periodfrom the early days on the Industrial Revolution to modern times，much of the growth inproductivity and material wealth in the industrial nations came not just fromcreative inventions like the steam engine，but from the widespread application of“cooking in quantity”business methods like massive division of labor，concentration of assets，vertical integrationand economies of scale．But those methods themselves were creativedevelopments．推动当今社会巨大变化的动力是人类创造力的崛起。
作为经济生活的一个显著特征，创造力已开始受到重视，因为各种新技术、新产业和新财富源源不断地随之而生。
其结果是我们的生活和社会中充满了创造性思想。
正是我们在各个领域里各种各样的发明创造构成了当今社会的精神基础。
创造力对我们当今的生活和工作方式至关重要，而且从各种意义上来说，一向如此。
生活水平的显著提高-----更不用说市场经济的强大竞争优势，总是源于“更好地烹饪法，而不是更多的烹制品”。
也许有人认为这种说法不一定严谨。
比如他会指出，从最初的工业革命到现代社会这一漫长的时期内，工业化国家生产力的提高和物质财富的积累，很多都不是来自诸如蒸汽机之类的发明创造，而是来自“大量烹制”式的企业管理方法的广泛运用，如大规模的劳动力分工、资产的集中、纵向整合及规模经济等。
但是其实这些方法本身就是创新。
MBA英语翻译历年真题2006年参考答案2008-01-10 10:40:532006年翻译Section IV Translation (20 point)Directions: in this section there is a passage in English. Translate the fiveunderlined sentences into Chinese and write your translation on the ANSWER SHEETThe smooth landing of shuttle (航天飞机) Discovery ended a flight that was successful in almost every respect but one: the dislodging of a bigchunk of foam, like the one that doomed the Columbia. This flight wassupposed to vault the shuttle fleet back into space after a prolonged grounding for repairs. But given the repeat of the very problem that two years ofretooling was supposed to resolve, the verdict is necessarily mixed.(61) Onceagain, the space agency has been forced to put off the flight until it can find asolution to the problem, and no one seems willing to guess how long that may take .The Discovery astronauts performed superbly during their two-week mission, and the shuttle looked better than ever in some respects. (62) Spaceofficials were justifiably happy that so much had gone well, despite dailyworries over possible risks. The flight clearly achieved its prime objectives.The astronauts transferred tons of cargo to the international space station, which has been limping along overhead with a reduced crew and limitedsupplies carried up on smaller Russian spacecraft. (63) They replaced a broken device, repaired another and carted away a load of rubbish that had been left on the station, showing the shuttle can bring full loads back down from space.This was the most scrutinized shuttle flight ever, with the vehicleundergoing close inspection while still in orbit. (64) New sensing andphotographic equipment to look for potentially dangerous damage to thesensitive external skin proved valuable .A new back flip maneuver allowed station astronauts to photograph the shuttle's underbelly, and an extra-longrobotic arm enabled astronauts see parts of the shuttle that were previously out of sight.(65).The flood of images and the openness in discussing its uncertaintiesabout potential hazards sometimes made it appear that the shuttle was about to fall apart. In the end the damage was clearly tolerable. A much-toutedspacewalk to repair the shuttle's skin-the first of its kind- moved an astronaut close enough to pluck out some protruding material with his hand. Preliminary evidence indicates that Discovery has far fewer nicks and gouges than shuttles on previous flights, perhaps showing that improvements to reduce theshedding of debris from the external fuel tank have had some success.参考译文：(61)航天机构被迫再次推迟飞行，直到找到解决问题的方案。
似乎没有人愿意猜测这一推迟可能会持续多长时间。
(62)航天局的官员完全有理由为此感到高兴，虽然每天都在担心可能会发生危险，但这么多的工作都进展顺利。