2012年20篇英译汉强化

一、英翻汉（一）短文/段落全文翻译模拟训练（20篇）1 已讲One by one，economies around the world are stumbling．By cutting interest rates again this week—for the seventh time this year—the Federal Reserve hopes it can keep America out of recession．But in an increasing number of economies，from Japan to Taiwan to Mexico and Brazil，GDP is already shrinking. Global industrial production fell at an annual rate of 6 percent in the first half of 2001. Early estimates suggest that gross world product, as a whole, may have contracted in the second quarter. for possibly the first time in two decades. Welcome to the first global recession of the 21st century. (104 words)参考译文：全球经济接二连三受挫。

美国联邦储备委员会希望通过本星期的再次降息(即今年的第七次降息)力挽狂澜，避免美国陷入衰退。

但是从日本到台湾、从墨西哥到巴西，国内生产总值(GDP)萎缩的国家和地区愈来愈多。

2001年上半年全球工业生产的年下降率已达6％的幅度。

初步估计表明，全球的生产总值总体上可能会在第二季度出现20年来的第一次负增长。

21世纪第一次全球性经济衰退已正式降临。

2已讲Proverbs are the popular sayings that brighten so much Latin American talk, the boiled-down wisdom thatand colorful,以是从教授那里，也可以从农夫那里，可以是从乞丐那里，也可以从贵妇那里。

在既简洁又生动的同时，它们往往还是“带着刺”的。

（直译较多）谚语是凝聚着智慧的通俗话语，是它使得拉丁美洲人的言语常常显得那么生动活泼。

从大学教授到田野农夫，从市井乞丐到摩登女郎，大家都在使用谚语。

谚语简洁明快，丰富多彩，但也往往带着刺。

（比较经典）3What makes Silicon V alley such a unique entity? There are several crucial factors.First and foremost, it has the largest concentration of brilliant computer professionals and the best supporting services in the world, and easy access to world-class research institutions, like Stanford University, which continually nurtures would-be geniuses which the industry needs in order to move forward. Without these advantages, the V alley would be a different place.Secondly, it actively encourages, or even exalts, risk-taking. Hence, failure holds no terror and there is no stigma attached to a failed effort. On the contrary, they will try even harder next time round. (101 words)4Rich American parents, it seems, try to toughen up their children by making them do household chores. According to US Trust, 99% of the poor little dears are expected to tidy their own rooms, 85% to take out the rubbish, 83% to set the table and do the dishes. Perhaps more significantly, 77% are expected to take part-time or summer jobs while at high school, and 81% to contribute to the cost of college education by working part-time. Parents are also waiting until their children are more mature before handing over wealth. (92 words)5Earlier this year, when America first sneezed, the European Central Bank(along with most private-sector economists) argued that the euro area was insulated from America’s slowdown and had little to worry about. This seems to have been wrong. In Germany there are fears about recession as business investment and retail sales tumble.Recent figures confirmed that Germany’s GDP stagnated in the second quarter. Italy’s GDP fell in the second quarter, and although growth has held up better in France and Spain, the growth in the euro area as a whole was close to zero in the quarter. Nobody is forecasting an actual recession in the euro area this year, but it is no longer expected to provide an engine for world growth. (122 words)6Silicon V alley is a magnet to which numerous talented engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs from overseas flock to insearch of fame, fast money and to participate in a technological revolution whose impact on mankind will surely surpass the epoch-making European Renaissance and Industrial Revolution of the bygone age.With the rapid spread of the Internet and the relentless technological innovations generated through it, the information era is truly upon us, profoundly influencing and changing not only our lifestyle, but also the way we work, do business, think and communicate with others. (91 words)7Scientists have known since 1952 that DNA is the basic stuff of heredity. They’ve known its chemical structure since 1953. They know that human DNA acts like a biological computer program some 3 billion bits long that spells out the instructions for making proteins, the basic building blocks of life.But everything the genetic engineers have accomplished during the past half-century is just a beginning. Researchers are conducting a biomedical revolution. DNA in their hands has become both a blueprint and a drug. (83 words)8For more than 150 years, photography has had an extraordinary impact on the way we live. From the start, it changed the way people saw themselves, and it launched innovations in nearly every field. The sciences, the arts, politics, history—all were transformed. Suddenly, too, the world must have seemed a much smaller place.With his invention of the stroboscopic flash in the early 1930s, MIT engineer Harold Edgerton was able to photograph events previously too quick to capture including his famous picture of a milk drop’s splash in l957. Though majestic in appearance, the splash is only half an inch across. (101 words)9From time to time, we need an expert. In such situations, the Internet has been like a gift from the gods. In the old days, authorities were near at hand for expert advice: the village seamstress on how to make a button hole, the blacksmith on how to take care of a horse’s hooves, etc. On the Internet, advice and answer sites are popping up all over the place, with self-proclaimed experts at the ready.It’s said that expert sites or knowledge networks represent the latest stage in the Internet’s evolution, a “democratization of expertise.” However, if your question is about something other than “Who invented the light bulb?” the answers are likely to be a wild potpourri of personal opinions. (121 words)10According to a recent survey of the richest l% of Americans by US newspapers, around half fea r that their children’s initiative and independence will be destroyed by having material advantages. Some 80% want their kids to find a satisfying career, and 65% want them to earn enough to support themselves entirely through their own work. But most of them accept that this is an uphill struggle. How can a child be taught that money is a scarce commodity when the most clinching reason for turning down a request, “We can’t afford it”, patently does not apply? (96 words)11Early in the seventeenth century English settlers brought the Eng1ish language within the borders of the present United States. In using the language in this new environment they began immediately and necessarily to modify it. As time passed more colonists came and the settled areas along the Atlantic coast became larger. Modifications in the English language brought from the homeland multiplied. For a long time neither the users of this changed from of English nor those who remained in England paid particular attention to what was happening to the language here. (91 words)12If more animal life is somehow produced, it will strip down the plant life, reduce the food supply, and then enough animals will starve to restore the balance. If one species of animal life increases in mass, it can only be because other species correspondingly decrease. For every additional pound of human flesh on Earth, a pound of some other form of flesh must disappear. The total mass of humanity now on Earth may be estimated at about 200 million tons, or one ten-thousandth the mass of all animal life. (90 words)13The English language is spoken or read by the largest number of people in the world, for historical, political, andeconomic reasons; but it may also be true that it owes something of its wide appeal to qualities and characteristics inherent in itself. What are the these characteristic features which outstand in making the English language what it is, which give it its individuality and make it of this worldwide significance?First and most important is extraordinary receptive and adaptable — it has taken to itself material from almost everywhere in the world and has made the new elements of language its own. English, which when the Anglo-Saxons first conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries was almost a “pure” or unmixed language — which could make new words for new ideas from its own compounded elements. (135 words)14In fact, the probable losses from any greenhouse warming are modest: l to 2 percent of our economy’s output by the year 2050, smaller compared with the expected growth of the economy (a doubling) over the same period.No environmental problem threatens the “planet’’or rates with the danger of a nuclear war. No oil spill ever caused suffering on a par with today’s civil wa r in Y ugoslavia. World War II left more than 35 million dead. Cambodia’s ci vil war resulted in l million to 3 million deaths. The great disasters of humanity remain what they have always been: war, natural disaster, oppressive government, crushing poverty and hate. On any scale of tragedy, environmental distress is a featherweight. (118 words)15Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.The great and good do not die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens. (103 words)16Tea, that most quintessential of English drinks, is a relative latecomer to British shores. Although the custom of drinking tea dates back to the third millennium BC in China, it was not until the mid-17th century that the beverage first appeared in England.The use of tea spread slowly from its Asian homeland, reaching Europe by way of V enice around 1560，although Portuguese trading ships may have made contact with the Chinese as early as 1515.It was the Portuguese and Dutch traders who first imported tea to Europe, with regular shipments by 1610. England was a latecomer to the tea trade, as the East India Company2 did not capitalize on tea's popularity until the mid-18th century.17The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event2 subdivided into summer and winter games. They are each held every four years. Until 1992，they were both held in the same year. Since then, they have been separated two years apart3.There are more than 20 Summer Olympics sports, including swimming, basketball, soccer, gymnastics, boxing, weight-lifting, yachting, cycling and equestrian events. Skiing, ice-skating and ice hockey are among the 7 Winter Game sports.A competitor must be the citizen of the country he or she represents. No more than three entries from any country are permitted in each event (4 in the winter games). Only one team per country is allowed in a team sport4.18The Olympic Games should be a good occasion to promote world sports，understanding and friendship among different nations, but unfortunately the Games were frequently affected by politics resulting in the boycotts of the Games. The 1956 Melbourne Olympics were the first Olympics that were boycotted by the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland.In 1980 and 1984, the Cold War opponents12 boycotted each other's games. Sixty-five nations refused to compete at the Moscow Olympics13 in 1980 because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The boycott reduced the number of nations participating to only 81，the lowest number of nations to compete since 1956. The Soviet Union and 14 of its Eastern Bloc14 partners (except Romania) countered by skipping the Los Angeles Olympics15 in 1984.19If a heavy reliance on fossil fuels makes a country a climate ogre, then Denmark — with its thousands of wind turbines sprinkled on the coastlines and at sea — is living a happy fairy tale.Viewed from the United States or Asia, Denmark is an environmental role model. The country is "what a global warmi ng solution looks like," wrote Frances Beinecke, the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a letter to the group last autumn. About one-fifth of the country's electricity comes from wind, which wind experts say is the highest proportion of any country.But a closer look shows that Denmark is a far cry from a clean-energy paradise.20The building of wind turbines has virtually ground to a halt since subsidies were cut back. Meanwhile, compared with others in the European Union, Danes remain above-average emitters of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. For all its wind turbines, a large proportion of the rest of Denmark's power is generated by plants that burn imported coal.The Danish experience shows how difficult it can be for countries grown rich on fossil fuels to switch to renewable energy sources like wind power. Among the hurdles are fluctuating political priorities, the high cost of putting new turbines offshore, concern about public acceptance of large wind turbines and the volatility of the wind itself.3参考译文：硅谷与众不同，究竟秘诀何在呢?这里面有若干至关重要的因素。