2009年5月人事部三级笔译真题及参考答案

ds2009年5月人事部三级笔译真题

第一部分英译汉

Last Friday an advisory panel to the European Environment Agency issued an extraordinary scientific opinion: The European union should suspend its goal of having 10 percent of transportation fuel made from biofuel by 2020.

上周五，欧洲环境委员会的一咨询小组发表了不同寻常的科学观点：到2020年，欧盟应暂停其来源于生物燃料供给的交通量达到10%这一目标。

The European Union's biofuel targets were increased and extended from 5.75 percent by 2010 to 10 percent by 2020 just last year. Still, Europe's well-meaning rush to biofuels, the scientists concluded, had produced a slew of harmful ripple effects- from deforestation in Southeast Asia to higher prices for grain.

欧盟的生物燃料目标在去年得以增长，计划从2010年的5.75%增长到2020的10%。然而，科学家们总结，欧洲急于发展生物燃料的初衷是良好的，但带来了一系列负面影响，包括东南亚的滥伐森林和更高的谷物价格。

In a recommendation released last weekend, the 20-member panel, made up of some of Europe's most distinguished climate scientists, called the 10-percent target "overambitious" and an "experiment" whose "unintended effects are difficult to predict and difficult to control."

上周发表的一项提议指出，由欧洲的一些最为著名的气候科学家组成的小组，共有20位成员，他们认为这一10%的目标是脱离现实，并且这一尝试所造成的影响是很难预测和控制的。

"The idea was that we felt we needed to slow down, to analyze the issue carefully and then come back at the problem," Laszlo Somlyody, the panel's chairman and a professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, said in a telephone interview.

该小组的组长，Laszlo Somlyody，他是布达佩斯技术与经济大学的一名教授，他在一次电话采访中说：“我们感觉到了我们需要减慢速度，从而认真分析这一问题，然后回过头来解决这一问题。”

He said that part of the problem was that when it set the target, the European Union was trying desperately to solve the problem of rising transportation emissions "in isolation," without adequately studying the effects of other sectors like land use and food supply.

他说，问题的一方面是当它设定这个目标的时候，欧盟急于想独解决日益增长的交通排放的问题，并没有充分研究其他方面的影响，例如陆地使用与食物供给。

"The starting point was correct: I'm happy that the European Union took the lead in cutting greenhouse gases and we need to control traffic emissions," Somlyody said. "But the basic problem is it thought of transport alone, without considering all these other effects. And we don't understand those very well yet."

Somlyody说：“出发点是正确的：我们很高兴欧盟带头减少温室气体这一举动，我们需要控制交通排放，但是根本问题在于于它只是单一地考虑了交通这一因素，而没有思考其他方面。并且我们对于此并不是非常了解。”

The panel's advice is not binding and it is not clear whether the European Commission will follow the recommendation.

这一小组的建议并不具有法律约束力，并且它也不清楚欧洲委员会是否同意这一声明。

It has become increasingly clear that the global pursuit of biofuels --encouraged by a rash of targets and subsidies in both Europe and the United States - has not produced the desired effect.

受欧洲和美国大量的目标和补贴金所鼓励，全球对于生物燃料的呼吁日益清晰，但是还没有产生期望的效果。

Investigations have shown, for example, rain forests and swamps are being cleared to make way for biofuel plantations, a process that produces more emissions than the biofuels can save.

Meanwhile, land needed to produce food for people to eat is planted with more profitable biofuel crops, and water is diverted from the drinking supply.

例如，据调查显示，，热带雨林和湿地已被开发用于种植生物燃料作物，该过程所带来的污染物排放量比生物燃料所避免的排放量还要大。与此同时，要用来为人们提供食物的土地越来越多地种植有利可图的生物燃料作物，用于饮用供给的水源也被转移了。

In Europe and the United States, food prices for items like pizza and bread have increased significantly as grain stores shrink and wheat prices rise. The prices of wheat and rice are double those of a year ago, and corn is a third higher, the Food and Agriculture Organization said this week.

在欧洲和美国，由于谷物储量的锐减和小麦价格的提升，披萨和面包等食物的价格明显增长。本周，联合国粮农组织公布：小麦和大米的价格与去年相比增长了一倍，玉米价格比原来提高了三分之一，

"Food price inflation hits the poor hardest, as the share of food in their total expenditures is much higher than that of wealthier populations," said Henri Josserand of the Food and Agriculture Organization.