CATTI二级笔译真题及答案

CATTI英语笔译实务(2级)2015年5月考试真题与参考答案

Part?1：English-Chinese?Translation

Passage?1

Along?a?rugged,?wideNorth?Sea?beach?here?on?a?recent?day,?children?forme d?teams?of?eight?to?10,taking?their?places?beside?mounds?of?sand?careful ly?cordoned?by?tape.?They?hadone?hour?for?their?sand?castle?competition. ?Some?built?fishlike?structures,complete?with?scales.?Others?spent?their ?time?on?elaborate?ditch?and?dikelabyrinths.?Each?castle?was?adorned?on? top?with?a?white?flag.

近日，北海沿岸崎岖而宽广的海滩上，孩子们八人一组，十人一队，在用隔离带精心围起来的沙堆旁各就各位。他们要在一个小时内完成堆沙堡的比赛。有些人打造鱼形的主体建筑，再配上鳞片。其余的人修建复杂的沟渠和迷宫式的堤坝。每个沙堡的顶部都插有一面白旗。

Then?they?watched?thesea?invade?and?devour?their?work,?seeing?whose?cast le?could?with?stand?the?tidelongest.?The?last?standing?flag?won.

然后，孩子们等待着大海涨潮，吞没沙堡，看谁的沙堡在潮水中持续的时间最久。白旗最后倒下的沙堡获胜。

It?was?no?ordinary?dayat?the?beach,?but?a?newly?minted,?state-sanctioned ?competition?forschoolchildren?to?raise?awareness?of?the?dangers?of?risi

ng?sea?levels?in?a?countryof?precarious?geography?that?has?provided?less ons?for?the?world?about?watermanagement,?but?that?fears?that?its?next?ge neration?will?grow?complacent.

孩子们在海滩上度过的这一天意义非凡。荷兰地理环境不稳定，海平面不断上升，因此，当地政府决定，为小学生们举办一次别开生面的比赛，以此来提高孩子们的危险意识。尽管荷兰一直是世界各国仿效的水利大国，仍然担心下一代会因此变得骄傲自大。

Fifty-five?percent?ofthe?Netherlands?is?either?below?sea?level?or?heavil y?flood-prone.?Yet?thanks?toits?renowned?expertise?and?large?water?manag ement?budget?(about1.25?percent?ofgross?domestic?product),?the?Netherlan ds?has?averted?catastrophe?since?aflooding?disaster?in?1953.

荷兰境内55%的土地，要么低于海平面，要么存在严重的水患。然而，由于水利专业技术久负盛名，水利专项拨款又十分庞大（约占国内生产总值的1.25%），所以1953年洪灾过后，荷兰再也没有遭受过严重的水灾。

Experts?here?say?thatthey?now?worry?that?the?famed?Dutch?water?managemen t?system?actually?works?toowell?and?that?citizens?will?begin?to?take?for ?granted?the?nation’s?success?instaying?dry.?As?global?climate?change?threatens?to?raise?sea ?levels?by?as?muchas?four?feet?by?the?end?of?the?century,?the?authoritie s?here?are?working?tomake?real?to?children?the?forecasts?that?may?seem?f ar-off,?but?that?will?shapetheir?lives?in?adulthood?and?old?age.

专家称，他们担心，由于荷兰现有的水利系统太完善了，国民开始想当然地以为，荷兰在水利方面已经取得了成功。全球气候变暖，预示着到本世纪末，荷兰的海平面会上升四英尺。当地政府试图通过本次比赛，让孩子们明白，这些看似遥不可及的预示，将会决定孩子们的中老年生活。

“Everything?works?sosmoothly?that?people?don’t?realize?anymore?that?they?are?taking?a?risk?indeveloping?urban?areas?i n?low-lying?areas,”?said?Raimond?Hafkenscheid,?the?leadorganizer?of?the ?competition?and?a?water?expert?with?the?Foreign?Ministry.

本次竞赛的主要组织者雷蒙德·哈肯什德是外交部的水利专家，他说：“荷兰的水利工程太安全了，人们意识不到，在低洼地区拓展城市面积是在冒天下之大不韪。”Before?the?competition,the?children,?ages?6?to?11,?were?coached?by?exper ts?in?dike?building?and?watermanagement.?Volunteers?stood?by,?many?of?th em?freshly?graduated?civilengineers,?giving?last-minute?advice?on?how?be st?to?battle?the?rising?water.

专家在赛前对6到11岁的儿童进行了培训，传授筑坝和治水知识。志愿者在现场观战，他们大都是刚刚毕业的土木工程师。比赛的最后一刻，他们会把抵抗水势上涨的绝招告诉给孩子们。

A?recently?releasedreport?by?the?Organization?for?Economic?Cooperation?a nd?Development?on?watermanagement?in?the?Netherlands?pointed?to?an?“awareness?gap”?among?Dutchcitizens.?The?finding?did?much?to?get?the?s