作业2翻译练习

1. Thank you, Mr. Black. It’s a great honor to be appointed as Overseas Sales Manager. To be honest, this promotion came as quite a surprise to me. I’d like to think it’s mainly the contribution of the whole team. I’d like to thank all my colleagues in the company for their support and hard work. Due to their efforts, we’ve started some overseas projects successfully. Looking to the future, I’d still like to maintain contact with everyone, even though I’ll be working at the management level.

2. The city government recognizes that citizens have certain new needs. To better meet your needs, we have made several changes in community facilities in 2009. Three stations for the suburbs have been added to the western train service. Broadband cable is available for all parts of the city. 5,000 new books were bought for the City Library. Some new facilities at the city hospitals have been installed. Next year, we will try our best to make your life even better.

3 The sales service includes installation and training within one week of receiving the order. On the day of installation, our training engineer will train your secretary, providing instructions on the operation of this easy-to-use photocopier. You may call us for help at any time in the future. If necessary, our trainer will go to your company to help you with the operation of the machine.

4. The regulations make it safer for you to use your credit card for shopping on the Internet or over the phone. If someone else makes dishonest use of your credit card, you can cancel the payment and the card issuer must refund the money to your account. The card issuer will want you to tell them as soon as possible if your card has been lost or that someone has used your card details dishonestly.

5. On July 10th the company will hold its first worldwide video conference. All twenty facilities will be linked by a satellite broadcasting system so that employees can see and speak with each other. Mr. Black will begin the conference by telling US about our goals for the next five years. Next, each manager will speak about current challenges. The last hour is devoted to questions from all locations. If it proves successful，we hope to schedule worldwide video conferences annually.

6. Now people have a choice about where they work an d what kind of work they’ll do. They are faced with the challenge of deciding where to go. They need to know what standard to use in making their decisions. This book provides them with practical advice for making their choices. Meanwhile, they will know what questions to ask, what jobs to look for, and how to make their final decisions.

7. Worktrain is a website for jobs and learning services. It puts the most popular services for job seekers online. This makes it easy for you to get the information you ne ed. At this site, you’ll find over 300,000 jobs, plus thousands of training opportunities and information on job markets. And because Worktrain uses the power of the Internet, it gives you what you need faster and more easily than ever before.

8. Television is one of the means by which these feelings are created and conveyed-and perhaps never before has it served so much to connect different peoples and nations as in the recent events in Europe.

9. In Europe, as elsewhere, multi-media groups have been increasingly successful; groups which bring together television, radio, newspapers, magazines and publishing house that work in relation to one another.

10. In dealing with a challenge on such a scale, it is no exaggeration to say, “United we stand, divided we fall”.在应付一个如此规模之挑战过程中，我们可以毫不夸张地说，团结，我们就会站起来；分裂，我们就会倒下去。