翻译基础一

《英语翻译基础》模拟题一

I.I Directions:Translate the following words, abbreviations or

terminology into their target language respectively. There are altogether 30 items in this part of the test, 15 in English and 15 in Chinese, with one point for each. (30’)

1 EQ

2 IQ

3 IT

4 BT

5 DIY

6 OEM

7 BBS

8,PS

9 ID

10 VIP

11 PRC

12UN

13 WTO

14CEO

15隐形眼镜

16拳头产品

17方便面

18一国两制

19 如鱼得水

20 有智者事竟成

21 人民大会堂

22 任命英雄纪念碑

23 黄鹤楼

24承德避暑山庄

25 东方明珠塔

26 按劳分配

27 把眼光放远一些

28 Bureau of Economic Analysis

29 National Academy of Sciences

30 International Accounting Standards Committee

II. Directions: Translate the following two source texts into their target language respectively. If the source text is in English, its target language is Chinese. If the source text is in Chinese, its target language is English. (120’)

Source text 1

The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. For

life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment. The rabbis of old put it this way: “A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open.” Surely we ought to hold fast to our life. For it is wondrous, and f ull of a beauty that breaks through every pore of God’s own earth. We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward glance when we remember what it was and then suddenly realize that it is no more. We remember a beauty that faded, a love that waned. But we remember with far greater pain that we did not see that beauty when it flowered, that we failed to respond with love when it was tendered.

Hold fast to life——but not so fast that you cannot let go. This is the secon d side of life’s coin, the opposite pole of its paradox: we must accept our losses, and learn how to let go. This is not an easy lesson to learn, especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to command, that whatever we desire with the full force of our passionate being can, nay, will be ours. But then life moves along to confront us with realities, and slowly but surely this truth dawns upon us. At every stage of life we sustain losses——and grow in the process. We begin our independent lives only when we emerge from the womb and lose its protective shelter. We enter a progression of schools, then we leave our mothers and fathers and our childhood homes. We get married and have