2014年catti二级笔译综合能力试题及答案解析(三)
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。
2004-2014.CATTI笔译实务三级标准答案
2004-2014.CATTI笔译实务三级参考答案2004.5如果你从未见过一座发电厂，你可能很难想象发电设备是多么复杂，锅炉能产生多么巨大的热量，而炉子每天又是需要烧多少煤。
举例说，我们的一座发电厂——摩根顿发电厂——的各台锅炉一天中就能把二千四百万加仑的水化为蒸汽。
这座电厂的炉子一天之内就消耗九千九百吨煤。
波多马克电力公司(PEPCO)用煤量如此巨大，以致我们专门购置了两列八十节车皮的火车以加速输送煤的过程。
仅仅一座摩根顿电厂就能每天生产二千五百万千瓦小时的电。
电是靠使大型磁铁在发电机内的线圈里面转动而产生的。
磁铁转速愈高，产生的电压就愈高。
电流从波多马克电力公司的发电机出来时，其电压在13,800伏至24,000伏之间。
下一道程序是使电流通过一个变压器，把电压提升，并使电继续向前进。
一根导线就象一根小口径的水管。
把电压升高就象给水加压一样，这样一来就会使这个系统中能量的运动加快。
由于飞机制造工业需要越来越多的铝板，已设计了新的设备把制造铝板的工序自动化。
这套设备包括一个巨型的热处理炉，一架可以起吊热的金属板而不至于损坏它们的吊车和一套能控制整个工艺流程的计算机系统。
五年前，欧洲的飞机制造工业每年只需要8,000吨铝板。
去年这个数字增加到21,800吨。
到2004年它将达到30,000吨。
每架民航飞机就含有180吨铝板。
因此正在对这套设备进行改建，以便提高产品的质量和产量。
铝与其他金属一起被制成合金，铸成锭子，并且把锭子的表面光洁化。
预热之后，锭子在一架可以容纳3.75米宽的平板的轧机中进行轧制。
这套新设备可使这个工序提高效率，并能改进产品的质量。
举例说，铝板加热的温度，铝板通过轧机的速度，以及用水对它进行冷却的速度等等，都由计算机控制。
由于工序全部自动化和使用计算机控制，这套新设备能够处理两倍于被它代替的旧设备的产量。
On the Cultivation of the ImaginationI address these words in favor of the cultivation of the imagination.In what sense, then, do I use th6 word "imagination"? The meaning of "imagination" is "the power of forming ideal pictures"; "the power of representing absent things to ourselves and to others."That is the sense in which I shall use the word "imagination" in the course of my address.Now follow out this thought and I think I can make my meaning clear. Absent things! Take history. History deals with the things of the past. They are absent in a sense, from your minds -- that is to say you cannot see them; but the study of history qualifies you and strengthens your capacity for understanding things that are not present to you, and thus I wish to recommend history to you as a most desirable course of study.2004.5修正版按照法律规定，在英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士，家长一定要使自己的孩子在5岁至16岁期间在学校或其它地方接受全日制教育，在北爱尔兰则为4岁至16岁。
catti 2014真题
当前，全球能源版图出现重大变化，页岩气等非常规油气异 军突起，美国和西半球成为能源重要供应地。 A:Now,the global energy territory changes a lot,and with the appearance of uncommon gas which includes shale gas the United States and the western hemisphere have become the important places of energy supply. B:Major changes are taking place in the global energy landscape. With the emergence and rapid growth of nonconventional sources of oil and gas such as shale gas, the United States and the western hemisphere have become major energy producers.
同时，各国应改善能源结构，加强先进能源技术的研发和推 广，大力发展清洁和可再生能源，在相关领域积极开展国际 合作。 A:Meanwhile,countries should improve the structure of energy, enhance the research and extension of advanced energy technology,develop clean and renewable energy,and cooperate in the relevant fields.
国际社会应树立互利合作、多元发展、协同保障的新能源安全观， 共同稳定能源等大宗商品价格、防止过度投机和炒作，保障各国特 别是发展中国家能源需求，维护能源市场正常秩序。 A:The international society should set up a new energy security concept of mutually cooperation,diverse development and synergia guarantee.And it should stabilize the prices of energy and prevent excessive speculation and hype to guarantee the energy supply of all countries particularly developing countries and to maintain normal order of energy market. B:The international community should foster a new energy security outlook featuring mutually beneficial cooperation, diversified development and coordinated supply. Joint efforts should be made to stabilize the prices of energy and other commodities and prevent excessive speculation and market hype, so as to meet the energy demands of all countries, particularly the developing countries, and maintain order in the energy market.
2014年catti二级笔译实务考试试题(三)
catti二级笔译实务考试试题(三)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The Dreadlock DeadlockIn the fall of 1993 Christopher Polk transferred from FedEx's hub in Indianapolis to take over a delivery route in Flatbush District, Brooklyn, N.Y. But moving to the country's largest community of Caribbean and African immigrants only precipitated a far more profound journey. "I was becoming culturally aware of the history of the black people," says Polk, now 31, "and that gave me these spiritual questions." His answer came providentially, by way of a music video featuring Lord Jamai, who raps about the Rastafarian belief in the sanctity of dreadlocks —the cords of permanently interlocked strands first worn by African chiefs perhaps 6,000 years ago.Now a practicing Rastafarian, Polk sports thick garlands that gently cascade onto his shoulders. "Your hair is your covenant," he says. "Once you grow your locks, it puts you on a path."Unfortunately, that path was a collision course with Federal Express's grooming policy, which requires men to confine their dos to "a reasonable style". After years of deliberation, Polk's bosses gave him a choice: shear his locks or be transferred to a lower-paid job with no customer contact. He refused both options and was terminated in June 2000.His tale is not unique. Although Rastafarians number about 5,000 nationally, today dreadlocks, twists or braids are at the height of fashion, nearly as common as Afros were 30 years ago. If Afros symbolized militancy, dreads signal a more spiritual self-declaration, a figurative locking with African ancestors. As Stanford professor Kennell Jackson, who teaches a course called "African Coiffures and Their New World Legacies" puts it, "There's a divinity to these locks."Divine or not, some employers consider them unacceptably outré. Six other New York-area FedEx employees have lost their jobs because of dreadlocks. They have sued, alleging religious discrimination; the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and New York's attorney general have also charged FedEx with violating religious protections in the Civil Rights Act.The dreadlock deadlock may be easing. FedEx altered its policy slightly a few weeks ago: in the future, observant employees who seek a waiver may wear their locks tucked under uniform hats, says a company spokeswoman. The concession isn't enough to settle the lawsuits yet. The EEOC also wants reinstatement for the fired drivers, says trial attorney Michael Ranis. He's optimistic. Some new styles, he knows, grow more appealing over time.【正确答案】：“骇人”长发绺的僵局1993年秋季，联邦快递职员克里斯托夫·波尔科由印地安诺波利斯市的公司总部调职到纽约市的布鲁克林，负责弗拉特布什区的一个投递线路。
2014年11月二级笔译CATTI真题英译汉出处 2014.11.09
2014年11月二级笔译CATTI真题英译汉出处出自纽约时报WATERLOO, Belgium — The region around this Belgian city is busily preparing to commemorate the 200th anniv ersary in 2015 of one of the major battles in European military history. But weav ing a path through the preparations is prov ing almost as tricky as making one‟s way across the battlef ield was back then, when the Duke of Wellington, as commander of an international alliance of f or ces, crushed Napoleon.A rambling though dilapidated f armstead called Hougoumont, which was crucial to the battle‟s outcome, is being painstakingly restored as an educational center. Nearby, an underground v isitor center is under construction, and roads and monuments throughout the rolling f armland where once the sides f ought are being ref urbished. More than 6,000 military buffs are expected to re-enact indiv idual skirmishes.While the battle ended two centuries ago, howev er, hard f eelings hav e endured. Memories are long here, and not ev ery one here shares Britain‟s enthusiasm for celebrating Napoleon‟s def eat.Ev ery y ear, in districts of Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium, there are f etes to honor Napoleon, according to Count Georges Jacobs de Hagen, a prominent Belgian industrialist and chairman of a committee responsible f or restoring Hougoumont. “Napoleon, f or these people, was v ery popular,” Mr. Jacobs, 73, said ov er coffee. “That is why, still today, there are some e nemies 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, Mr. Jacobs said, Napoleon had a “huge inf luence —the administration, the Code Napoléon,” or ref orm of the legal system. While Dutch-speaking Belgians f ought under Wellington, French speakers f ought 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 def ending its narrow North Gate at a critical moment on June 18, 1815, when Wellington carried the day. “Ev ery discussion in the committee was f illed with high sensitiv ity,” Mr. Jacobs recalled. “I said, …This is a condition f or the help of the British,‟ so the North Gate won the battle, and we got the monument.”If Belgium was reluctant to get inv olv ed, France was at f irst totally uninterested. “They told us, …We don‟t want to take par t in this British triumphalism,‟ ” said Countess Nathalie du Parc Locmaria, a writer and publicist who is president of a committee representing f our townships that own the land where the battle raged. As in the case of the North Gate memorial, howev er, persistence paid off.Prince Charles Napoleon, 62, a French politician and direct descendant of Jerome Napoleon —Bonaparte‟s brother, who also f ought at Waterloo —agreed to join a ceremony on the f irst of four day s of ev ents, to shake hands with the eighth Duke of Wellington, the 98-y ear-old head of his f amily, and Prince Blücher v on Wahlstatt, a direct descendant of the f ield marshal who commanded Prussian f orces in the battle. The French ambassador to Belgium was won ov er as an honorary member of the organizing committee.Now the North Gate is but a wire mesh enclosure in a rambling brick and stone wall, though its wooden doors —the f amed “chestnut barrier” —will be reconstructed exactly as they were when French and British troops f ought f uriously for control, which meant also control of the f arm buildings. Ev entually, after bloody, hand-to-hand combat, the British troops managed to shut the doors, ultimately breaking Napoleon‟s adv ance and ensuring Wellington‟s victory. Next to them, the controv ersial British memorial, a dark marbl e copy of the gate, will arise.The word triumphal, or v ariations thereof, comes up frequently in discussions here, but the Britons inv olv ed v igorously deny hav ing entertained a single triumphalist thought.“In no way will this be Anglocentric or triumphalist in any way,” said Michael Mitchell, an aircraft consultant who v olunteers as secretary of the organizing committee. “We nev er talk about a celebration, but a commemoration,” said Mr. Mitchell, the son of a Britis h f ather and Belgian mother whose ancestor Col. Hugh Mitchell f ought on Wellington‟s right f lank. “Many brav e men died,” he said. “All the belligerents play ed an incredibly impressiv e role.”If the temptation to triumphalism did exist on the British side, it would be odd, since most of the soldiers who f ough t under Wellingtonwere not British. Though he commanded 25,000 English, Scottish and Irish regulars, his f orce also consisted of 26,000 Germans and 17,000 Dutch, while Field Marshal Blücher mustered 50,000 Prussian troops.For Germany, the ev ents are welcome. Next year, commemorations will mark the 100th anniv ersary of the outbreak of World War I, but unlike that war the Napoleonic wars are not something the Germans may f eel they hav e to apologize f or. Margaret Pollmeier, a spokeswoman f or the German Embassy in Brussels, said in an e-mail that “in any ev ent, the embassy plans to participate in the commemoration on June 18, 2015.” Since 2011, the German ambassador has been an honorary member of the Hougoumont committee; his military attaché hopes to restore some or all of f our memorials to German units on the battlef ield.Ov er the centuries, the Wellington f amily has taken a keen interest in the battlef ield. The present duke, said Mr. Mitchell, “in f ine f amily tradition, takes, I won‟t say a proprietary, but a close ey e on the battlef ields.” Sev eral times, most recently in 1973, the duke interv ened successf ully when the local authorities planned to extend a superhighway across the battlef ields.In 2000, a group of Belgian taxpay ers brought suit, demanding that the gov ernment rescind an agreement dating back to just after the battle under which the Duke of Wellington was giv en the rights to 2,600 acres around the battlef ield. The lands were bringing in about $160,000 annually f or the Wellington f amily, and the taxpay ers argued it was time to end the arrangement. The case stagnated until 2009, when the f inance minister, Didier Rey nders, told Parliament that the gov ernment had no intention of backing out of its commitment, which was anchored in the 1839 Treaty of London guaranteeing the independence of Belgium.Of course, if the Wellingtons continue to benef it f rom the lands, so do the communities around Waterloo. In good y ears about 300,000 people v isit the battlef ield, though recently the number has f allen as word of the restoration work got out. Clearly, the organizers hope that the f arm‟s rev iv al and the new v isitor center will raise the numbers, perhaps as high as 500,000 a y ear. In discussions, organizers f requently mention Gettysburg, which attracts more than two million people a y ear.But the economy is only part of the picture. “Our concern is the experience of the v isitor,” Ms. Du Parc said. “What is the m essage? What is the legacy, what purpose does it serv e?” She contrasted the Napoleonic wars with World W ar I, which was f ollowed only two decades later by an ev en greater war.Mr. Jacobs agreed. “Still today, y ou f ind Belgians on both sides,” he said, “but thanks to the British this f oolish Napoleoni c experience was brought to an end. It changed the history of Europe.”“It brought a hundred y ears of peace,” he said.第二篇Bay er cares about the bees.Or at least that‟s what they tell y ou at the company‟s Bee Care Center on its sprawling campus here between Düsseldorf and Cologne. Outside the cozy two-story building that houses the center is a whimsical y ellow sculpture of a bee. Inside, the same image is f ashioned into paper clips, or printed on napkins and mugs.“Bay er is strictly committed to bee health,” said Gillian Mansf ield, an official specializing in strategic messaging at the c ompany‟s Bay er CropScience div ision. She was sitting at the center‟s s emicircular coff ee bar, which has a f ormidable espresso maker and, if y ou ask, homegrown Bay er honey. On the surrounding walls, bee f un facts are written in English, like “A bee can f ly at roughly 16 miles an hour” or, it takes “nectar f rom some two million f lowers in order to produce a pound of honey.” Next y ear, Bay er will open another Bee Care Center in Raleigh, N.C., and has not ruled out more in other parts of the world.There is, of course, a slight cav eat to all this buzzy good will.Bay er is one of the major producers of a ty pe of pesticide that the European Union has linked to the large-scale die-off s of honey bee populations in North America and Western Europe. They are known as neonicotinoids, a relativ ely new nicotine-deriv ed class of pesticide. The pesticide was banned this y ear f or use on many f lowering crops in Europe that attract honey bees.Bay er and two competitors, Sy ngenta and BASF, hav e disagreed v ocif erously with the ban, and are f ighting in the European courts to ov erturn it —leading o ne adv ocacy group, Corporate Europe Observ atory, to call the three companies “the bee killers.”The Env ironmental Protection Agency has said its “scientif ic conclusions are similar to those expressed” by European regulato rs, but has not seen enough grounds to put into effect its own ban. An internal E.P.A. document leaked in 2010 said the “major risk concern” ofone of the pesticides, Bay er‟s clothianidin, which is used to coat cotton and mustard seeds, “is to nontarget insects (that i s, honey bees),” calling it “highly toxic.” A coalition of beekeepers and env ironmental groups is suing the agency to press f or a ban.Not ev ery one believ es Bay er cares about bees.Hans Muilerman, a chemicals expert at Pesticide Action Network Europe, an env ironmental group, ac cused Bay er of doing “almost any thing that helps their products remaining on the market. Massiv e lobby ing, hiring P.R. f irms to f rame and spin, inv iting commissioners to show their plants and their sustainability.”“Since they learned people care about bees, they are happy to start the ty pe of actions y ou mention, …bee care centers‟ and such,” he said.There is a bad guy lurking at the Bee Care Center —a killer of bees, if y ou will. It‟s just not a pesticide.Bay er‟s culprit in the my sterious mass deaths o f bees can be f ound around the corner f rom the coffee bar. Looming next to another sculpture of a bee is a sculpture of a parasite known as a v arroa mite, which resembles a gargantuan cooked crab with spiky hair.The v arroa, sometimes called the v ampire mite, appears to be chasing the bee next to it, which already has a smaller mite stuck to it. And in case the message was not clear, images of the mites, which are actually quite small, f lash on a screen at the center.While others point at pesticides, Bay er has f unded research that blames mites f or the bee die-off. And the center combines resources f rom two of the company‟s div isions, Bay er CropScience and Bay er Animal Health, to f urther study the mite menace.“The v arroa is the biggest threat we hav e” said Manuel Tritschler, 28, a third-generation beekeeper who works f or Bay er. “It‟s v ery easy see to them, the mites, on the bees,” he said, holding a test tube with dead mites suspended in liquid. “They suck the bee bl ood, f rom the adults and f rom the larv ae, and in this way they transport a lot of diff erent pathogens, v irus, bacteria, fungus to the bees,” he said. Conv eniently, Bay er markets products to kill the mites too — one is called CheckMite —and Mr. Tritschler‟s work at the center included helping desi gn a “gate” to affix to hiv es that coats bees with such chemical compounds.There is no disputing that v arroa mites are a problem, but Mr. Muilerman said they could not be seen as the only threat.The v arroa mite “cannot explain the massiv e die-off on its own,” he said. “We think the bee die-off is a result of exposure to multiple stressors.”While some bees die in the winter, unusually large-scale die-offs were f irst noticed in 2006 and hav e been called “colony collapse disorder” by scientists. In 2007, a United States gov ernment panel said in that first y ear‟s winter, “as much as 50 percent of all colonies were reportedly lost, demonstrating sy mptoms inconsistent with mite damage, or any other known causes of death.”Western Europe also experienced steep declines and banned neonicotinoids in settings mostly likely to contaminate bees after the European Food Saf ety Authority raised concerns. The ban will be rev iewed af ter two y ears.While honey bees are susceptible to many threats, like beetles and bacterial diseases, a growing body of research has focused on neonicotinoids. In October, a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined how Bay er‟s clothianidin “adv ersely affects the insect immune response and promotes replication of a v iral pathogen in honey bees bearing cov ert inf ections.”Ms. Mansf ield, the Bay er official, did not broadly dispute such studies. “But they are, at the end of the day, laboratory res ults,” she said. “They are carried out in the laboratory quite of ten at doses that are not replicable or appropriate f or use in the f ield, in v ery laboratory controlled conditions.”Back at the center — which has its own T witter f eed — there is the bee, and there is the mite.Mr. Tritschler, who learned beekeeping f rom his f ather and grandf ather, took a reporter through an apiary that houses nine colonies of Bay er bees, hibernating last month in wooden boxes, some 10,000 to 15,000 a colony. He pulled out one of the head-to-toe body suits associated with beekeepers, but he does not wear one. His unif orm was dark jeans and a turtleneck sweater.Twenty v arroa mites, he said, can turn into 1,200 in a matter of months. “Only one mite is necessary to kill more or less a whole colony,” he added.Standing nearby, Utz Klages, a corporate spokesman, said “we hav e all the experts here.”红色为真题部分有少量删改。
catti二级笔译综合能力试题精选及答案解析
catti二级笔译综合能力试题精选及答案解析一、Vocabulary Selection（本大题1小题．每题1.0分，共1.0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 less the surface of the ground yields to the weight of the body of a runner, ________ to the body.A the stress it is greaterB greater is the stressC greater stress isD the greater the stress【正确答案】：D【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】固定用法。
the+比较级，the+比较级。
二、Vocabulary Replacement（本大题11小题．每题1.0分，共11.0分。
This part consists of 15 sentences in which one word or phrase is underlined. Below each sentence, there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. You are to select the ONE choice that can replace the underlined word without causing any grammatical error or changing the principal meaning of the sentence. There is only one right answer. ）第1题The thief was apprehended, but his accomplice had disappeared.A people who saw himB the person who helped himC guns and knivesD stolen goods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】：B【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】名词辨析。
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。
2014年catti二级口译综合能力试题精选(三)
catti二级口译综合能力试题精选(三)一、Part Ⅰ（A）（共10小题,共20.0分）Listen to the following passage and then decide whether the statements below are true or false. After hearing a short passage, tick the circle of "True" on the answer sheet if you think the statement is true, or tick the circle for "False" if it is false. There are 10 statements in this part of the test, with 1 point each. You will hear the passage only once. At the end of the recording, you will have 2 minutes to finish this part.第1题Millions of books and an Internet-based campus network are available for the University staff and students.【正确答案】：√【本题分数】：2.0分【答案解析】[听力原文]To support research and scholarship, the University has a library of two million books. A high-speed campus network connects thousands ofinter-working computers and servers used by staff and students with each other and with the Internet.[分析] 语义的理解和判断。
2014年英语二t3翻译
2014年英语二t3翻译2014年英语二T3翻译题目要求考生根据所给的中文材料，将其翻译成英文。
以下是我根据你提供的题目要求给出的一个可能的翻译示例：中文材料：中国的旅游业发展迅速，成为全球最大的旅游市场。
根据最新数据，去年中国接待了超过1.3亿国际游客。
这一数字创下历史新高，也证明了中国作为旅游目的地的吸引力。
中国丰富的文化遗产、壮丽的自然风光以及独特的美食文化吸引了越来越多的游客。
英文翻译：China's tourism industry has been developing rapidlyand has become the largest tourism market in the world. According to the latest data, China received over 130million international tourists last year. This number reached a historic high, demonstrating China's appeal as a tourist destination. China's rich cultural heritage,magnificent natural landscapes, and unique culinary culture have attracted an increasing number of visitors.这个翻译示例尽量遵循了题目要求，从多个角度全面介绍了中国旅游业的发展情况以及其吸引力的原因。
希望能够满足你的需求。
如果你还有其他问题，我会继续为你提供详细回答。
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。
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。
人事部翻译资格证书（CATTI）《笔译综合能力》试题及参考答案
人事部翻译资格证书（CATTI）《笔译综合能力》试题及参考答案04.5笔译综合能力.docSection 1: Vocabulary and Grammar (25 points)Part 1 Vocabulary SelectionIn this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are 4 choices 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. Blacken the corresponding letter as requires on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.1 The explanation given by the manager yesterday was not at all _____ to us.A. satisfyB. satisfiedC. satisfactoryD. satisfying2 Part of the funds will be used to ____ that old library to its original splendor.A. restB. recoverC. replaceD. restore3 This silk has gone right _____ and we have not sold a single piece of it for weeks.A. out of fadB. out of patternC. out of customD. out of fashion4 The new Personal Digital Assistance contained a large ___ of information about an individual life.A. dealB. amountC. numberD. account5 Primitive superstitions that feed racism should be _____ through education.A. ignoredB. exaltedC. eradicatedD. canceled6. _____ pollution control measures are expensive, many local governments hesitate to adopt them.A. AlthoughB. HoweverC. BecauseD. Moreover7. The less the surface of the ground yields to the weight of the body of a runner, _____ to the body.A. the stress it is greaterB. greater is the stressC. greater stress isD. the greater the stress8. Annie Jump Cannon, _____ discover ed so many stars that she was called “the census taker of the sky.”A. a leading astronomer,B. who, as a leading astronomer,C. was a leading astronomer,D. a leading astronomer who9. Kingdom of Wonders, _____ in 1995 in Fremont, Calif., became an industry legend for two toys: a talking bear and a ray-gun game.A. findB. foundC. foundedD. founding10. Over a very large number of trials, the probability of an event _____ is equal to the probability that it will not occur.A. occurringB. to occurC. occursD. occur11. Only one-fifth of Americans saw oil as the chief reason that the U.S. made a war on Iraq, but 75 percent of the French and of the Russians believed _____.A. toB. soC. goD. do12. Sadly, while the academic industry thrives, the practice of translation continues to _____.A. stackB. stageC. stagnateD. stamp13. Your blunt treatment of disputes would put other people in a negative frame of _____, with the result that they would not be able to accept your proposal.A. mindB. ideaC. intentionD. wish14. If you are an energetic person with strong views as to the right way of doing things, you find yourself _____ under pressures.A. variablyB. invariablyC. invaluablyD. invalidly15. Uncle Vernon, quite unlike Harry Potter who looked nothing like the rest of the family, was large, very fat, and _____, with an enormous black mustache.A. neck-lessB. neck-laceC. recklessD. rack-less16. Home to _____ and gangsters, officials and laborers, refugees and artists, the city was, in its prime, a metropolis that exhibited all the hues of the human character.A. magnatesB. magnetsC. machineD. magnitudes17. His _____ behavior made everyone nervous. He was always rushing to open doors and perform other small tasks, apologizing unnecessarily for any inconvenience that he might have caused.A. obliviousB. observantC. obsequiousD. obsolescent18. He was completely __________ by her tale of hardship.A. taken awayB. taken downC. taken inD. taken up19. Americans who consider themselves _____ in the traditional sense do not usually hesitate to heap criticism in domestic matters over what they believe is oppressive or wasteful.A. pedestrianB. penchantC. patriarchD. patriotic20. As technological advances put more and more time between early school life and the young person's final access to specialized work, the stage of _____ becomes an even more marked and conscious period.A. adolescenceB. adjacencyC. advantageD. adventurePart 2 Vocabulary ReplacementThis part consists of 15 sentences in which one word or phrase is underlined. Below each sentence, there are 4 choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part without causing any grammatical error or changing the basic meaning of the sentence. There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.21. That boy is suffering from unrequited love and pines away.A. ferventB. obsessiveC. secretD. unreturned22. For a long time in that vast region, this law was in abeyance.A. active useB. doubtC. discussionD. disuse23. A court-martial has but recently decided to acquit him.A. declare he is not guiltyB. upwardly mobileC. excessively overweightD. privately educated24. There are more people who are obese today than 20 years ago.A. gainfully employedB. upwardly mobileC. excessively overweightD. privately educated25. As a conductor, Leonard Bernstein is famous for his intensely vigorous and exuberant style.A. enthusiasticB. nervousC. painfulD. extreme26. When insects feed on decaying plant material in acompost pile, they help turn it into useful garden soil.A. availableB. organicC. distastefulD. decomposing27. Researchers have discovered that dolphins are able to mimic human speech.A. importB. imitateC. impairD. humor28. The dichotomy postulated by many between idealism is one of the standar d clichés of the ongoingdebate over international affairs.A. divisionB. combination of two partsC. disparityD. contradiction29. Attempts have been made for nearly three decades to increase the amount of precipitation from clouds by seeding them with salt or silver iodide.A. DevicesB. HypothesesC. EffortsD. Suggestions30. Justices of the peace have jurisdiction over the trials of some civil suits and of criminal cases involving minor offenses.A. supremacyB. authorityC. guidanceD. obedience31. The feeling of competition among the students in all the classrooms where the test was going on wasnoticeable to everyone.A. discordB. discoveryC. rivalryD. cooperation32. The artist spent years on his monumental painting, which covered the whole roof of the church, the biggest in the country.A. archaicB. sentimentalC. outstandingD. entire33. Many of the electric and electronic products we purchase and consume today are what some industrial experts call “homogeneous toys”.A. identicalB. homosexualC. unrelatedD. distinguishable34. Anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff furthered her reputation as an authority on Native American culture with her study of the symbols, myths, and rituals of the Huichol people.A. deservedB. retainedC. renewedD. Advanced35. This reflects the priority being attached to economic over political activity, partly caused by a growing reluctance to enter acalling blighted by relentless publicity that all too often ends in destroying careers and reputations.A. powerfulnessB. unwillingnessC. renaissanceD. apologeticnessPart 3 Error CorrectionThis part consists of 15 sentences in which there is an underlined part that indicates an error. Below each sentence, there are 4 choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part so that the error is corrected. There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.36. An epigram is usually defined being a bright or witty thought that is tersely and ingeniously expressed.A. asB. as beC. as beenD. to being37. Upon completing his examination over the patient, the doctor offered his judgment of her conditions.A. ofB. offC. aboutD. around38. If they spend some time on Chinese history, they will be more able to predict China’s future.A. moreB. ableC. betterD. better able39. When she returned back by abroad, she told us all about her experience as an illegal immigrant.A. byB. backC. fromD. back from40. He was looking impatient at the visiting salesman, who showed no signs of getting readyto leave.A. patientB. patienceC. impatienceD. impatiently41. The recent conference on the effective use of the seas and ocean was another attempt resolving major differences among countries with conflicting interests.A. resolveB. resolvesC. to resolveD. being resolved42. Life insurance, before available only to young, healthy persons, can now be obtained for old people, and even for pets.A. before young, healthy persons available only,B. available only to young, healthy persons before,C. available only to persons young, but more healthy,D. before young and healthy persons only available to,43. Following a year of fast development, by the first quarter of this year, China has had about 1,100e-commerce websites.A. China had about 1,100 e-commerce websites by the end of last MarchB. by the end of the first quarter of this year, China has had about 1,100 e-commerce websitesC. by the end of this recent past March, China has about 1,100 e-commerce websitesD. by the end of this first quarter, China had about 1,100 or so e-commerce websites44. Sino-foreign educational program on business is popular in China now, and the demand for high level interpretation is great.A. programs in enterprises / high level interpretersB. programs in international business / senior interpretersC. program in international biz / senior interpretationsD. programs of business / high-level interpretations45. Many students agreed to come, but some students against because they said they don’t have time.A. were against because they said they did notB. were against because they say they don’tC. were against it because they said they did notD. were against coming because they said they don’t46. While it is essential that the text covers the subject adequately, it is also important that it is neither too detailed or too complex for the intended reader.A. forB. norC. noD. not47. Consumer porcelains in Jingdezhen are not selling well inexport market as compared with those made in Liling, Hunan Province and Zibo, Shandong Province.A. on export marketB. in exporting marketC. in exported marketD. in the export market48. It is a market which sales value might be more than 10 billion yuan.A. a market with a sales value that might beB. a market which might be sales valueC. a market with sale value might beD. market with sales might be a value49. As an English major student, I think business English is more practical than other fields.A. a English student / fieldB. a English major student / regionsC. a English major / coursesD. an English student major / sciences50. We should let more young parents and their children can enjoy scientific early education.A. provide more young parents and their children to enjoy early educationB. provide more young parents and their children to enjoy early education and scientificC. provide young parents and their children enjoy more scientific early educationD. provide young parents and their children with more early education servicesSection 2: Reading Comprehension (50 points)In this section you will find after each of the passage anumber of questions or unfinished statements about the passage, each with 4 (A, B, C and D) choices to complete the statement. You must choose the one which you think fits best. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET. The time for this section is 70 minutes.Questions 51 — 60 are based on the following passage.Social control refers to social processes, planned or unplanned, by which people are taught, persuaded, or forced to conform to norms. In every society, some punishments or negative sanctions are established for deviant behavior. Without deviant behavior there would not be need for social control and without social control there would not be a way of recognizing the boundary between the acceptable and the unacceptable.Social control may be either formal or informal. Informal mechanisms include expressions of disapproval by significant others and withholding of positive rewards for disapproved behavior. Most people internalize norms in the course of socialization. This is any group’s most powerful protection against deviance, in that t he individual’s own conscience operates as an agent of social control. When informal sanctions fail, formal agents of social control may be called upon. In contemporary society, such formal agents and agencies include psychiatry and other mental health professions; mental hospitals; police and courts of law; prisons; and social welfare agencies. All these formal agents function to limit,correct, and control violation of norms. Conflict theorists would also point out that social control agents and systems tend, in any society, to serve the interests of powerful groups and to enforce the norms most beneficial to those who make the rules and who, therefore, define unacceptable behavior.Social control, whether formal or informal, has a dual function. First, it punishes the wrongdoer and reaffirms the boundaries of acceptable behavior. Second, and less recognized, it regulates the manner in which deviants are treated.51. Social control refers to processes by which ____.A. norms are developedB. norms are enforcedC. people are educated and trainedD. people are rewarded and punished52. Every society has its own ____.A. planned systemsB. controlled normsC. recognized boundaryD. established sanctions53. Informal mechanisms of social control include the following EXCEPT ____.A. a high level of interest in ensuring conformityB. expression of disapproval by significant othersC. withholding of positive rewards for the deviantsD. people’s internalization of norms in socialization54. The most powerful protection against deviance is ____.A. negative sanctionsB. severe punishmentsC. the individual’s conscienceD. unrestrained suppression55. Formal agents of social control include the following EXCEPT ____.A. police stationsB. mental hospitalsC. welfare agenciesD. vocational schools56. The purpose of formal agents is to ____.A. make beneficial rulesB. preserve social ordersC. control violation of normsD. define acceptable behavior57. Which statement about social control agents is NOT true?A. They tend to serve the interest of those who enforce the norms.B. They tend to serve the interest of those who receive a benefit.C. They tend to serve the interest of those who make the rules.D. They tend to serve the interest of those who are powerful.58. According to conflict theorists, social control agents and systems are ____.A. liberalB. partialC. neutralD. overall59. In the third paragraph, “a dual function” refers to ____.A. formal and informalB. rewards and penalitiesC. approval and disapprovalD. clarification and regulation60. The perspective from which the author discusses social control is ____.A. biologicalB. sociologicalC. psychologicalD. anthropologicalEvery group has a culture, however uncivilized it may seem to us. To the professional anthropologist, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture over another, just as to the professional linguist, there is no intrinsic hierarchy among languages.People once thought of the languages of backward groups as undeveloped. While it if possible that language in general began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of “backward” languages that no spoken tongue answers that description today. Most languages of uncivilized groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely complex. They differ from Western languages not in their sound patterns or grammatical structures, which usually are fully adequate for all language needs, but only in their vocabularies, which reflect the objects and activities known to their speakers. Even in this aspect, two things are to be noted. First, all languages seem to possess themachinery for vocabulary expansion, either by putting together words already in existence or by borrowing them from other languages and adapting them to their own system. Second, the objects and activities requiring names and distinctions in “backward” languages, while different from the West, are often surprisingly numerous and complicated. A Western language distinguishes merely between two degre es of remoteness (“this” and “that”). But some languages of the American Indians distinguish between what is close to the speaker, or to the person addressed, or removed from both, or out of sight, or in the past, or in the future.61. Every group of human beings has ____.A. its own set of ideas, beliefs and ways of lifeB. an extremely complex and delicate languageC. its own elegant music, literature, and other artsD. the process of growing crops or raising animals62. To the professional linguists, ____.A. there is no intrinsic superiority of culturesB. there is no intrinsic hierarchy of languagesC. all languages came from grunts and groansD. all languages are most severe and standard63. Most languages of uncivilized groups are ____.A. adequateB. numerousC. ingeniousD. ingenuous64. “Backward” languages fall behind Western languages in ____.A. ways to transfer ideasB. forms to satisfy needsC. abilities to answer descriptionD. systems to expand vocabulary65. All languages, whether civilized or not, have their own ____.A. ways to transfer ideasB. forms to satisfy needsC. abilities to answer descriptionD. systems to expand vocabulary66. Which of the following statements is implied in the passage?A. Anthropologists have nothing to do with linguists.B. Linguists have nothing to do with anthropologists.C. The study of languages casts light upon the study ofcultures.D. The study of cultures casts no light upon the study of languages.67. It is implied that all cultures have to be viewed ____.A. profoundlyB. intrinsicallyC. independentlyD. professionally68. According to this passage, to learn a foreign language would require one to ____.A. do more activitiesB. learn about a new cultureC. meet more peopleD. need more names69. The au thor’s attitude shown in this passage toward “backward” languages is ____.A. restrainedB. subjectiveC. objectiveD. resolute70. This passage is on the whole ____.A. narrativeB. instructiveC. prescriptiveD. argumentativeThe field of medicine has always attracted its share of quacks and charlatans — disreputable women and men with little or no medical knowledge who promise quick cures at cheap prices. The reasons why quackery thrives even in modern times are easy to find.To begin with, pain seems to be a chronic human condition.A person whose body or mind “hurts” will often pay any amount of money for the promise of relief. Second, even the best medical treatment cannot cure all the ills that beset men and women. People who mistrust or dislike the truths that their physicians tell them often turn to more sympathetic ears.Many people lack the training necessary to evaluate medical claims. Given the choice between (a) a reputable physician who says a cure for cancer will be long, expensive and may not work at all, and (b) asalesperson who says that several bottles of a secret formula “snake oil” will cu re not only cancer but tuberculosis as well, some individuals will opt for “snake oil”.Many “snake oil” remedies are high ly laced with alcohol or narcotic drugs. Anyone who drinks them may get so drunk or stoned that they drown their pains in the rising tide of pleasant intoxication. Little wonder that “snake oil” is a popular cure-all for minor aches and hurts! But let there be no misunderstandings.A very few “home remedies” actually work. However, most remedies sold by quacks are not only useless, but often can be harmful as well.71. In this passage, a quack or a charlatan is someone who ____.A. has a special abilityB. has little knowledgeC. is not a good doctorD. pretends to be a doctor72. The sentence “pain seems to be a chronic human condition” means pain seems to ____.A. be very seriousB. be very difficultC. last for a long timeD. be always happening73. Quackery thrives even in modern times because ____.A. patients pay any amount of moneyB. patients do not like their physiciansC. quacks say that they can help patientsD. best medical treatment costs very much74. People who seek the advice of quacks and charlatans are those who ____.A. are poorly educatedB. are highly educatedC. dislike medical treatmentsD. mistrust physicians’ truths75. To evaluate medical claims, one must ____.A. turn to reputable doctorsB. make an adequate choiceC. have the necessary trainingD. disbelieve promise of relief76. According to the author, a very few home remedies are ____.A. uselessB. harmfulC. pleasantD. effective77. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. Quacks are really sympathetic.B. “Snake oil” does not work.C. Doctors cannot cure all ills.D. Patients are often impatient.78. Many individuals opt for “snake oil” because they ____.A. are misled by a secret formulaB. cannot afford a treatmentC. lack medical knowledgeD. do not trust physicians79. “Snake oil” is a popular c ure-all for minor aches and hurts because it has ____.A. actually workedB. some fruit stonesC. been misunderstoodD. alcohol or narcotic drugs80. Which of the following would be the best title of this passage?A. Distrust of PhysiciansB. Medical TreatmentC. Snake Oil RemediesD. Guard Against QuackeryModern industrial society grants little status to old people. In fact, such a society has a system of built-in obsolescence. There is no formal system for continuing our education throughout our life in order to keep up with rapidly changing knowledge. When our education and job skills have grown obsolete, we are treated exactly like those who have never gained an education or job skills and are not encouraged or given the opportunity to begin anew.As a society becomes more highly developed, the overall status of older people diminishes. Improved health technology creates a large pool of old people, who compete for jobs with the young. However, economic technology lowers the demand for workers and creates new jobs for which the skills of the aged areobsolete, forcing older people into retirement. At the same time, young people are being educated in the new technology and are keeping pace with rapid changes in knowledge. Finally, urbanization creates age-segregated neighborhoods. Because the old live on fixed incomes, they mustoften live in inferior housing. All these factors — retirement, obsolete knowledge and skills, inferior standards of living —lower the status of the aged in society.A century ago, when one could expect to live only to 50 or so, the life span more or less coincided with the occupation and family cycle. But today the average life span allows for fifteen to twenty years of life after these cycles. It appears that our life span is outpacing our usefulness in society.81. By “a system of build-in obsolescence” the author means ___.A. no formal systems exist in modern industrial societyB. old people have no status in modern industrial societyC. young people have chances in modern industrial societyD. knowledge changes rapidly in modern industrial society82. According to the first paragraph, which of the following is true?A. People don’t have to gain education.B. People don’t have to learn job sk ills.C. People don’t have to be treated as equals.D. People don’t have chances to begin anew.83. The more highly developed a society is, ____.A. the more advanced technology will beB. the larger the number of people will beC. the more diminished old people’s status will beD. the lower the overall status of the people will be84. The high development of economic technology ____.A. makes job skills out of fashionB. lowers the demand for workersC. forces old people into retirementD. creates new jobs for older people85. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. Retired people could only live on fixed incomes.B. Retired people are more skillful than young people.C. Young people are educated in the new technology.D. Young people are keeping pace with rapid changes.86. According to this passage, the status of the aged is lowered by their ____.A. forced retirementB. inferior housingC. longer life spanD. fixed incomes87. The sentence “our life span outpaces our usefulness” m eans we can live longer ____.A. and make progressB. and do more workC. but move slowlyD. but become useless88. The author’s attitude toward the aged is ____.A. realisticB. optimisticC. pessimisticD. sympathetic89. It can be deduced from this passage that one should ____.A. learn new skillsB. be open-mindedC. have a good personalityD. keep pace with the times90. Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?A. The Problem of AgingB. Social StructuresC. Economic TechnologyD. Continuing EducationWhen you first drift off into slumber, your eyes will roll about a bit, your temperature will drop slightly, your muscles will relax, and your breathing will become quite regular. Your brain waves slow down a bit, with the alpha rhythm predominating for the first few minutes. This is the first stage of sleep. For the next 30 minutes or so, you will drift down through Stage 2 and Stage 3. The lower your stage of sleep, the slower your brain waves will be. About 40-60 minutes after you lose consciousness, you will reach the last stage. Your brain waves will show the delta rhythm. You may think that you stay at this deep stage all the rest of the night, but that turns out not to be the case. About 80 minutes after you fall into slumber, your activity cycle will increase slightly. The delta rhythm will disappear, to be replaced by the activity pattern of Rapid Eye Movements lasts for 8-15 minutes and is called REM sleep.During both light and deep sleep, the muscles in your body are relaxed but capable of movement. As you slip into REM sleep, a very odd thing occurs — most of the voluntary muscles in your body become paralyzed. Although your brain shows very rapid bursts of neural activity during REM sleep, your body is incapable of moving. REM sleep is accompanied by extensive muscular inhibition.91. On the part of an average sleeper, there ____ of sleep in cycles.A. is one stageB. are two stagesC. are six stagesD. are four stages92. When a person falls into the state of sleep, his ____.A. eyeballs will roll about a bitB. mind will relax more and moreC. breathing will slow for minutesD. temperature will increase slightly93. The lower your stage of sleep, ____.A. the faster your eyes will roll aboutB. the quieter your breath will becomeC. the slower your brain waves will beD. the higher your temperature will be94. After you have reached the deepest sleep, ____.A. you will stay at the fourth stage the rest of the nightB. you will lose your consciousness for 40-60 minutesC. your brain waves will show the delta rhythmD. your brain waves will show the alpha rhythm95. In the REM sleep, ____.A. the delta rhythm will disappearB. the activity pattern will appearC. something will occur in front of youD. your eyes will begin to dart around96. You will fall into the fourth stage of sleep ____.A. about 80 minutes after you fall into slumberB. some 10 minutes after you fall into REM sleepC. about 40 minutes after you lose consciousness。
2014CATTI_二级笔译真题加解析
2014年5月CATTI二笔真题完整版+解析翻译爱好者联盟提供本次考试中，英译汉的两个语篇均来自《纽约时报》：一篇是关于乔布斯夫人的介绍，另一篇是关于人文学科衰败的报道。
从词汇角度来看，这两篇文章属于中规中矩，不需要考生在考场上频繁查阅词典。
正如我们在三级笔译试题点评中所言，《纽约时报》的文章句子结构并不复杂，语句的表达更具有口语化的倾向。
从翻译技巧角度分析，第一篇根本上属于记叙文体，第二篇属于论说文体。
第一篇在翻译过程中需要考生适当注意在汉语选词及表达方式上的色彩性，第二篇那么需要考生在选词及表达方式上更侧重严谨性。
这两篇文章在语句理解方面不存在多少难度。
因此，我们在此只将文章给出译文，就不做进一步的讲解了。
英译汉第一篇〔出自2013年5月17日《纽约时报》关于乔布斯夫人的介绍〕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 ed 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.马勒尼·卡斯特罗当初只知道那位高挑身材，金发碧眼的女士名叫劳伦，是她的导师。
卡斯特罗女士准备申请大学那年，每隔几个星期，她们就会在硅谷附近的一个简陋的社区里见面，也会经常互通，常聊起卡斯特罗女士艰辛童年的话题。
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3月全国英语等级考试第二级试题,原文解析及答案
2014年3月全国英语等级考试第二级（公共英语PETS-2）笔试-听力理解答案1-51-5CBCAB 6-10CBABC 11-15 ACABC 16-20 AAABC 【听力原文及译文】Text 1W: Oh, what a pretty dress! My daughter would love it. But it seems a bit too large. Do you have a smaller size?裙子好漂亮!我女儿会喜欢的。
但是它看起来有点儿大，你们有小一点儿的么?M: Sorry, this is the only one left. But don’t worry. Children grow fast.不好意思，这是唯一剩下的一条，但是别担心，小孩儿长得快。
W: Yes, that’s true. I’ll take it.哦，确实是，那我买了。
(此处，take=buy)Text 2W: These DVDs will be due back on Thursday, the 7th.这些DVD在周四也就是7号以前要还回来。
(due adj. 到期的，应付的)M: How much more should we pay to keep them another week?再续借一周要付多少钱?Text 3M: What did you think of Dana’s speech today?你认为Dana今天的演讲如何?W: Well, she must have spent a lot time preparing it. I can’t believe I can sit for that long without feeling bored.呃，她一定花了很长时间来准备。
我不敢相信我竟然在那儿坐了那么长时间还没觉得厌烦。
(spend time/money doing something花费时间/金钱来做某事)Text 4W: Could you help us carry these boxes, sir?先生，您能帮我们搬箱子么?M: Oh, I would like to help yo u, but I’ve got a pain in my back.我也想帮你们，但是我背疼。
2014年11月CATTI英语二级笔译真题及答案
2014年11月CATTI英语二级笔译真题及答案2014年11月CATTI英语二级笔译真题及答案（英译汉）发表时间：2014-11-14 点击量：6816Part 1：English-Chinese Translation 第一部分：英译汉Passage 1 第一篇【参考译文】W ATERLOO, Belgium—The region around this Belgian cityis busily preparing to commemorate the 200th anniversary in 2015 of one of themajor battles in European military history. But weaving a path through thepreparations is proving almost as tricky as making one’s way across the battlefield was back then, when the Duke ofWellington, as commander of an international alliance of forces, crushedNapoleon.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。
A rambling though dilapidated farmsteadcalled Hougoumont, which was crucial to the battle’s outcome, is beingpainstakingly restored as an educational center. Nearby, an underground visitorcenter is under construction, and roads and monuments throughout the rollingfarmland where once the sides fought are being refurbished. More than 6,000military buffs are expected to re-enact individual skirmishes.霍高蒙特决定了滑铁卢战役的结局。
2013到2011年CATTI二级笔译真题及参考答案
2013年11月英语二级《笔译实务》试题Part A Compulsory Translation（必译题）The archivists requested a donkey, but what they got from the mayor’s office were four wary black sheep, which, as of Wednesday morning, were chewing away at a lumpy field of grass beside the municipa l archives building as the City of Paris’s newest, shaggiest lawn mowers. Mayor Bertrand Delano? has made the environment a priority since his election in 2001, with popular bike- and car-sharing programs, an expanded network of designated lanes for bicycles and buses, and an enormous project to pedestrianize the banks along much of the Seine.The sheep, which are to mow (and, not inconsequentially, fertilize) an airy half-acre patch in the 19th District intended in the same spirit. City Hall refers to the project as “eco-grazing,” and it notes that the four ewes will prevent the use of noisy, gas-guzzling mowers and cut down on the use of herbicides.Paris has plans for a slightly larger eco-grazing project not far from the archives building, assuming all goes well; similar projects have been under way in smaller towns in the region in recent years.The sheep, from a rare, diminutive Breton breed called Ouessant, stand just about two feet high. Chosen for their hardiness, city officials said, they will pasture here until October inside a three-foot-high, yellow electrified fence.“This is really not a one-shot deal,” insisted René Dutrey, the adjunct mayor for the environment and sustainable development. Mr. Dutrey, a fast-talking man in orange-striped Adidas Samba sneakers, noted that the sheep had cost the city a total of just about $335, though no further economic projections have been drawn up for the time being.A metal fence surrounds the grounds of the archives, and a security guard stands watch at the gate, so there is little risk that local predators — large, unleashed dogs, for instance — will be able to reach the ewes.Curious humans, however, are encouraged to visit the sheep, and perhaps the archives, too. The eco-grazing project began as an initiative to attract the public to the archives, and informational panels have been put in place to explain what, exactly, thesheep are doing here.But the archivists have had to be trained to care for the animals. In the unlikely event that a ewe should flip onto her back, Ms. Masson said, someone must rush to put her back on her feet.Part B Optional Translation（二选一题）Topic 1 （选题一）Norman Joseph Woodland was born in Atlantic City on Sept. 6, 1921. As a Boy Scout he learned Morse code, the spark that would ignite his invention.After spending World War II on the Manhattan Project , Mr. Woodland resumed his studies at the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia (it is now Drexel University), earning a bachelor’s degree in 1947.As an undergraduate, Mr. Woodland perfected a system for delivering elevator music efficiently. He planned to pursue the project commercially, but his father, who had come of age in “Boardwalk Empire”-era Atlantic City, forbade it: elevator music, he said, was controlled by the mob, and no son of his was going to come within spitting distance.The younger Mr. Woodland returned to Drexel for a master’s degree. In 1948, a local supermarket executive visited the campus, where he implored a dean to develop an efficient means of encoding product data. The dean demurred, but Mr. Silver, a fellow graduate student who overheard their conversation, was intrigued. He conscripted Mr. Woodland.An early idea of theirs, which involved printing product information in fluorescent ink and reading it with ultraviolet light, proved unworkable.But Mr. Woodland, convinced that a solution was close at hand, quit graduate school to devote himself to the problem. He holed up at his grandparents’ home in Miami Beach, where he spent the winter of 1948-49 in a chair in the sand, thinking.To represent information visually, he realized, he would need a code. The only code he knew was the one he had learned in the Boy Scouts.What would happen, Mr. Woodland wondered one day, if Morse code, with itselegant simplicity and limitless combinatorial potential, were adapted graphically? He began trailing his fingers idly through the sand.“What I’m going to tell you sounds like a fairy tale,” Mr. Woodland told Smithsonian magazine in 1999. “I poked my four fingers into the sand and for whatever reason —I didn’t know — I pulled my hand toward me and drew four lines. Now I have four lines, and they could be wide lines and narrow lines instead of dots and dashes.’ ”Today, bar codes appears on the surface of almost every product of contemporary life. All because a bright young man, his mind ablaze with dots and dashes, one day raked his fingers through the sand.201211 Passage 1Tucked away in this small village in Buckinghamshire County is the former Elizabethan coaching inn where William Shakespeare is said to have penned part of "A Midsummer Night's Dream."Dating from 1534, the inn, now called Shakespeare House, is thought to have been built as a Tudor hunting lodge. Later it became a stop for travelers between London and Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shakespeare was born and buried.It was "Brief Lives," a 17th-century collection of biographies by John Aubrey, that linked Shakespeare to the inn, saying that he had stayed there and drawn inspiration for the comedy while in the village.One of the current owners, Nick Underwood, said the local lore goes even further: "It is also said he appears at the oriel window on the top floor of the house on April 23 every year -- the date he is said to have been born and to have died.""In later years, the house later became a farmhouse, with 150 acres of land, but, over time, pieces were sold off," Mr. Underwood said. "In the 20th century, it was owned by two American families." Now, he and his co-owner, Roy Elsbury, have put the seven-bedroom property on the market at ￡1.375 million, or $2.13 million. Despite its varied uses and renovations over the years, the 4,250-square-foot, or 395-square-meter, inn has retained so much of its original character that the organization English Heritage lists it as a Grade II* property, indicating that it is particularly important and of "more than special interest." Only 27 percent of the 1,600 buildings on the organization's register have this designation.We knew of the house before we bought it and were very excited when it came up for sale. It is so unusual to find an Elizabethan property of this size, in this area, and when we saw it, we absolutely fell in love with it," Mr. Underwood said. "We have taken great pleasure in working on it and living here. This house is all about the history."In addition to being the owners' home, the property currently is run as a luxury guest house, with rooms rented for ₤99 to ₤250 a night."Shakespeare House is a wonderful example of Elizabethan architecture," said DeanHeaviside, the national sales director of Fine real estate agency, which is representing the owners. "It has been beautif- ully restored and offers a unique lifestyle, which brings a taste of the past together with modern-day comfort. It is rare to find a home like this on the market."Passage 2The ancient frozen dome cloaking Greenland is so vast that pilots have crashed into what they thought was a cloud bank spanning the horizon. Flying over it, you can scarcely imagine that it could erode fast enough to dangerously raise sea levels any time soon.Along the flanks in spring and summer, however, the picture is very different. For an increasing number of warm years, a network of blue lakes and rivulets of melt-water has been spreading ever higher on the icecap.The melting surface darkens, absorbing up to four times as much energy from the sun as snow, which reflects sunlight. Natural drainpipes called moulins carry water from the surface into the depths, in some places reaching bedrock.The process slightly, but measurably, lubricates and accelerates the grinding passage of ice towards the sea.Most important, many glaciologists say, is the break-up of huge semi-submerged clots of ice where some large Greenland glaciers, particularly along the west coast, squeeze through fiords as they meet the warming ocean. As these passages have cleared, this has sharply accelerated the flow of many of these creeping, corrugated and frozen rivers.Some glaciologists fear that the rise in seas in a warming world could be much greater than the upper estimate of about 60 centimetres this century made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year. (Seas rose less than 30 centimetres last century.)The panel's assessment did not include factors known to contribute to ice flows but not understood well enough to estimate with confidence. SCIENTIFIC scramble is under way to clarify whether the erosion of the world's most vulnerable ice sheets, in Greenland and west Antarctica, can continue to accelerate. The effort involves fieldand satellite analyses and sifting for clues from past warm periods,Things are definitely far more serious than anyone would have thought five years ago. Passage 1中国是一个发展中国家。
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catti二级笔译综合能力试题及答案解析(三)
一、Vocabulary Selection（本大题14小题．每题1.0分，共14.0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 explanation given by the manager yesterday was not at all ________ to us.
A satisfy
B satisfied
C satisfactory
D satisfying
【正确答案】：C
【本题分数】：1.0分
【答案解析】
同义辨析。
satisfactory令人满意的：The result of the match was highly satisfactory．比赛结果非常令人满意。
satisfy使满足：I offered him $1,000 to keep quiet，but that did not satisfy him and he wanted even more．我给了他一千美元让他保持沉默，但他并不满足，他还要更多的钱。
satisfied满意的，满足的：I'm not fully satisfied with the standard of your work．我对你的工作水准不太满意。
satisfying令人满意的，使人满意的：It's an immensely satisfying job．这是一个非常令人满意的工作。
第2题
No one appreciated his work during his lifetime, but________it is clear that he was a great artist.
A in the aftermath
B by the time
C in retrospect
D in this eventuality
【正确答案】：C
【本题分数】：1.0分
【答案解析】
习语辨析。
in retrospect回顾，回顾往事：review one's work of the past years in retrospect回顾个人以往几年的工作。
aftermath(不幸事件造成的)后果，余波：the danger of disease in the aftermath地震后引发疫病的危险。
by the time到……的时候。
Eventuality可能发生的事或结果，不测事件：We must be prepared for all eventualities．我们必须做好应付各种情况的准备。
第3题
Americans who consider themselves ________in the traditional sense do not usually hesitate to heap criticism in domestic matters over what they believe is oppressive or wasteful.
A pedestrian
B penchant
C patriotic
D patriarch
【正确答案】：C
【本题分数】：1.0分
【答案解析】
形近识别。
patriotic爱国的；pedestrian行人；penchant爱好，嗜好；patriarch 极受尊重的年老男子。
第4题
This silk has gone right ________ and we have not sold a single piece of it for weeks.
A out of fad
B out of pattern
C out of custom
D out of fashion
【正确答案】：D
【本题分数】：1.0分
【答案解析】。