中级口译英译汉模拟题

【中级口译】英译汉模拟题(1)(双语)Passage 1I think Chinese businesspeople tend to have business negotiations in a rather indirect manner, as opposed to the more direct style of American businesspeople, who are said to work with the “get-down-to-business-first” mentalit y. // The Chinese-type management encourages cooperation among employees, between the labor and the management, and gives employees a joy of participation and fulfillment, as well as a sense of pride in their work.// And most Chinese try to find the meaning of life through working in their jobs, and view work as essential for having membership in a community.// The American-type, or the top-down, management emphasizes efficiency, and competition among workers. The American work ethic seems to be more individual oriented. Traditionally, Americans work because it is the will of God, and often value the results and accomplishments of work more than its process.//我认为中国人在商务谈判时倾向于使用一种迂回婉转的方式，而那些被认为在工作时具有一种“公务为先”的心态的美国人则往往表现出较为直截了当的作风。

// 中国式的管理方式鼓励员工之间的合作，也鼓励普通员工和管理人员之间的合作，使员工有一种喜悦的参与感和成就感，使他们对自己的工作产生一种自豪感。

// 大多数中国人想从工作中找到生活的意义，他们将工作视为成为团体中一份子的必不可缺的条件。

//美国式的自下而上的管理方式注重效率，注重员工之间的竞争。

美国人的工作观有较强的个体取向性。

美国人一直认为，工作是秉承了上帝的意志，对工作成果的重视常常高于对工作过程的重视。

//Passage 2In the short period of six days, we have gone a longer distance than the world-renowned “Long March”. We have acquired a keen sense of thediversity, dynamism, and progress of China under your policies of reform and opening to the outside world.// My wife and I have a special regard and personal friendship for the people of China. Beijing is for us an old and nostalgic home. During our stay here ten years ago we spent a great deal of memorable time with the people here--working, shopping, sightseeing, and touring the city on our bicycles.// Those were happy days. They were good days, important days. We were part of the dramatic process which brought us back together and set us on the road to a genuine friendly and cooperative relationship.// Nonetheless, problems remain in our economic, education and strategic relations. While we are not so naive as to believe that there are no issues of difference between us, I also believe that our differences are greatly overshadowed by issues which bind us and strengthen our relationship.//在短暂的六天里，我们的行程超过了举世闻名的“长征”。

在改革开放政策引导下的中国，气象万千，充满活力，不断进步，这些我们都已强烈的感受到了。

//我和我夫人对中国人民怀有一种特殊的敬慕之情和个人友谊。

对我们两人来说，北京是我们思念的故乡。

十年前我们在此生活期间，我们与这里的人们一起度过了许多难忘的时光——我们在这里工作、购物、观光、骑自行车逛城。

//那是一些令人愉快的日子，一些美好的日子，一些意义重大的日子。

我们参与了富有戏剧性的转变过程，这种转变使我们重新走到一起，使我们踏上了一条通往建立一种真诚友好的合作关系的道路。

//然而，我们在经济、教育以及战略关系中仍然存在着问题。

一方面，我们不会天真的以为我们之间不存在分歧，另一方面，我也认为那些将我们联系在一起并且强化我们关系的事务，在很大程度上弱化了我们之间的差异。

//中级口译汉译英模拟题>>Passage 6The difference between a brain and a computer can be expressed in a single word, that is, complexity. The large mammalian brain is the most complicated thing, for its size, known to us. The human brain weights 3 ponds, but in that 3 ponds are 10 billion neurons and a hundred billion smaller cells.// Even the most complicated computer man has yet built can't compare in intricacy with the brain. Computer switches and components number in the thousands rather than in the billions. What's more, the computer switch is just an on-off device, whereas the brain cell is itself possessed of a tremendously complex inner structure.// It is frequently said that computers solve problems only because they are “programmed” to do so. They can only do what men have them do. One must remember that human beings also can only do what they are “programmed” to do. Our genes “program” us and our potentialities are limited by that “program”.// Our “program” is so much more enormously complex, though, that we might like to define “thinking” in terms of our creativity in literature, art, science and technology. In that sense, computers certainly can't think.//大脑与电脑的差别可以用“复杂性”这三个字来表明。

哺乳动物硕大的脑子就其体积而言是我们所知道的最为复杂的东西。

人脑的重量为3磅，而这3磅却包含着100亿个神经元和1000亿个更小的细胞。

//就复杂性而言，世界上已生产出的最为复杂的电脑也无法与大脑的复杂性相提并论。

电脑的开关和元件充其量只要数千个，而不是数千亿个。

此外，电脑开关只是亿个离合装置，而大脑细胞却有着极其复杂的内部结构。

//我们经常听到人们说，电脑处理问题是因为电脑设有能让其处理问题的程序，它们只能按人的指令行事。

我们应该知道，人类也设有程序。

我们的基因给我们编写了程序，我们的所作所为无不受制于这个“程序”。

//我们大脑的程序极其复杂，我们或许可以从人类的文学、艺术、科学和技术上的创造力这些角度给“思考”下定义。

从这个意义上说，电脑肯定无法思考。

//Passage 7In his book Brave New World, published in 1932, Aldous Huxley predicted a big biotechnological revolution about to take place: the hatching ofpeople not in wombs but in test tubes; the drug which gave people instant happiness; the sensation which was simulated by implanted electrodes; and modification of behavior through the administration of various artificial hormones.// With 70 years of separating us from the publication of this book, we can see that Huxley's technological predictions are surprisingly accurate. Many of the technologies that Huxley envisioned are already here or just over the horizon. But this revolution has only just begun.// According to Huxley, the most significant threat posed by contemporary biotechnology is the possibility that it will alter human nature and thereby move us into a “posthuman” stage of history. This is important because human nature exists and defines us as a species with a stable continuity. It is what defines our most basic values.// Medical technology offers us in many cases a devil's bargain: longer life, but with reduced mental capacity; freedom from depression, together with freedom form creativity or spirit. It will blur the line between what we achieve on our own and what we achieve because of the levels of various chemicals in our brains.//奥尔德斯.赫胥黎在其1932年出版的《奇妙新世界》一书中预言了一场即将发生的生物技术革命。