2013年CATTI三级笔译实务

2013年11月三级笔译实务真题
Section 1： English-Chinese Translation (50points)
Stroll through the farmers’ market and you will heara plethora of languages and see a rainbow offaces. Drive down Canyon Road and stop for halalmeat or Filipino pork b elly at adjacent markets.Along the highway, browse the aisles of a giant Asian super market stocking fresh napa cabbageand mizuna or fresh kimchi. Head toward downto wn and you’ll see loncheras — taco trucks —on street corners and hear Spanish banda music. On the city’s northern edge, you can sample Indian chaat.
Welcome to Beaverton, a Portland suburb that is home to Oregon’s fastest growing im migrant population. Once a rural community, Beaverton, population 87,000, is no w the sixth largestcity in Oregon — with immigration rates higher than those of Portla nd, Oregon’s largest city.
Best known as the world headquarters for athletic shoe company Nike, Beaverton ha s changeddramatically over the past 40 years. Settled by immigrants from northern E urope in the 19thcentury, today it is a place where 80 languages from Albanian to Urd u are spoken in the publicschools and about 30 percent of students speak a language besides English, according toEnglish as a Second Language program director Wei Wei Lou.
Beaverton’s wave of new residents began arriving in the 1960s, with Koreans and Tej anos(Texans of Mexican origin), who were the first permanent Latinos. In 1960, Bea verton’s population of Latinos and Asians was less than 0.3 percent. By 2000, Beaver ton hadproportionately more Asian and Hispanic residents than the Portland metro are a. Today, Asianscomprise 10 percent and Hispanics 11 percent of Beaverton’s popula tion.
Mayor Denny Doyle says that many in Beaverton view the immigrants who are rapidly reshapingBeaverton as a source of enrichment.
“Citizens here especially in the arts and culture community think it’s fantastic that w e have all these different possibilities here,” he says.
Gloria Vargas,
50, a Salvadoran immigrant, owns a popular small restaurant, Gloria’s SecretCafé, in downtown Beaverton. “I love Beaverton,” she says.
“I feel like I belong here.” Hermother moved her to Los Angeles as a teenager in 1973 , and she moved Oregon in 1979. Shelanded a coveted vendor spot in the Beaverton Farmers Market in 1999. Now in addition torunning her restaurant, she has one of th e most popular stalls there, selling up to 200Salvadoran tamales — wrapped in bana na leaves rather than corn husks — each Saturday.
“Once they buy my food, they always come back for more,” she says.
“It’s pretty relaxed here,” says Taj Suleyman,
28, born and raised in Lebanon, and recentlytransplanted to Beaverton to start a job working with immigrants from many countries. HalfMiddle Eastern and half African, Su
leyman says he was attracted to Beaverton specificallybecause of its diversity. He se rves on a city-sponsored Diversity Task Force set up by MayorDoyle.
Mohammed Haque, originally from Bangladesh, finds Beaverton very welcoming. His d aughter,he boasts, was even elected her high school’s homecoming queen.
South Asians such as Haque have transformed Bethany, a neighborhood north of Be averton.It is dense with immigrants from Gujarat, a state in India and primary sourc e for the first waveof Beaverton’s South Asian immigrants.
The first wave of South Asian immigrants to Beaverton, mostly Gujaratis from India, a rrived inthe 1960s and 1970s, when the motel and hotel industry was booming. Many bought smallhotels and originally settled in Portland, and then relocated to Beaverton for better schools andbigger yards. The second wave of South Asians arrived during t he high-tech boom of the1980s, when the software industry, and Intel and Tektronix, really took off.
Many of Beaverton’s Asians converge at Uwajimaya, a 30,000-square-foot supermar ket nearcentral Beaverton. Bernie Capell, former special events coordinator at Uwajim aya, says thatmany come to shop for fresh produce every day. But the biggest group of shoppers atUwajimaya, she adds, are Caucasians.
Beaverton’s Asian population boasts a sizable number of Koreans, who began to arri ve in thelate 1960s and early 1970s.
According to Ted Chung, a native of Korea and Beaverton resident since 1978, three t hingsstand out about his fellow Korean immigrants. Upon moving to Beaverton, they j oin a Christianchurch — often Methodist or Presbyterian — as a gathering place; they push their children to excel in school; and they shun the spotlight.
Chung says he and his fellow Korean émigrés work hard as small businessmen — own inggroceries, dry cleaners, laundromats, delis, and sushi shops — and are frugal so t hey can sendtheir children to a leading university.
Most recently, immigrants from Central and South America, as well as refugees from I raq andSomalia, have joined the Beaverton community.
Many Beaverton organizations help immigrants.
The Beaverton Resource Center helps all immigrants with health and literacy services . TheSomali Family Education Center helps Somalis and other African refugees to get settled. Andone Beaverton elementary school even came up with the idea of a “sew in”— parents ofstudents sewing together — to welcome Somali Bantu parents and bri dge major culturaldifferences.
Historically white churches, such as Beaverton First United Methodist Church, offer im migrationministries. And Beaverton churches of all denominations host Korean- or Spa nish-languageservices.
Beaverton’s Mayor Doyle wants refugee and immigrant leaders to participate in the t own’s decision-making. He set up a Diversity Task Force whose mission is “to build in clusive andequitable communities in the City of Beaverton.” The task force is working to create amulticultural community center for Beavertonians of all backgrounds.
The resources and warm welcome that Beaverton gives immigrants are reciprocated in the affection that many express for their new home.
Kaltun Caynan,
40, a Somali woman who came to Beaverton in 2001 fleeing civil war, is anoutreach c oordinator for the Somali Family Education Center.
“I like it so much,” she said,cheerfully.
“Nobody discriminate[s against] me, everybody smiling at me.”
2013年5月三级笔译实务真题
Section 1： English-Chinese Translation (50points)
It didn’t take long for Manuel García Murillo, a bricklayer who took over as mayor her e last June,to realize that his town was in trouble. It was800,000 euros, a little more t han $1 million, in thered. There was no cash on hand to pay for anything — and there was work that needed to bedone.
But then an amazing thing happened, he said. Just as the health department was abo ut toclose down the day care center because it didn’t have a proper kitchen, Bernard o Benítez, a construction worker, offered to put up the walls and the tiles free. Then, Maria José Carmona,an adult education teacher, stepped in to clean the place up. And somehow, the volunteers just kept coming. Every Sunday now, the residents of t his townin southwest Spain — young and old — do what needs to be done, whether it is cleaning thestreets, raking the leaves, unclogging culverts or planting trees in the p ark.
“It was an initiative from them,” said Mr. García.
“Day to day we talked to people and we toldthem there was no money. Of course, the y could see it. The grass in between the sidewalks wasup to my thigh. “
Higuera de la Serena is in many ways a microcosm of Spain’s troubles. Just as Spain’s nationaland regional governments are struggling with the collapse of the constructi on industry,overspending on huge capital projects and a pileup of unpaid bills, the sa me problems afflict many of its small towns.
But what has brought Higuera de la Serena a measure of fame in Spain is that the re sidentshave stepped up where their government has failed. Mr. García says his phone rings regularlyfrom other town officials who want to know how to do the same thing. He is serving withoutpay, as are the town’s two other elected officials. They are also f orgoing the cars and phonesthat usually come with the job.
“We lived beyond our means,” Mr. García said.
“We invested in public works that weren’t sensible. We are in technical bankruptcy.” Even some money from the European Union thatwas supposed to be used for routin e operating expenses and last until 2013 has already beenspent, he said.
Higuera de la Serena, a cluster of about 900 houses surrounded by farmland, and trad itionally dependent on pig farming and olives, got swept up in the giddy days of the c
onstructionboom. It built a cultural center and invested in a small nursing home. Bu t the projects wereplagued by delays and cost overruns.
The cultural center still has no bathrooms. The nursing home, a whitewashed building sits onthe edge of town, still unopened. Together, they account for some $470,000 of debt owed tothe bank. But the rest of the debt is mostly the unpaid bills of a town tha t was not keeping upwith its expenses. It owes for medical supplies, for diesel fuel, for road repair, for electricalwork, for musicians who played during holidays.
Higuera de la Serena is not completely without workers. It still has a half-time libraria n, two half-time street cleaners, someone part-time for the sports complex, a secret ary and an administrator, all of whom are paid through various financing streams a part from the town.But the town once had a work force twice the size. And when som eone is ill, volunteers have tostep in or the gym and sports complex— open four hou rs a day — must close.
Section 2： Chinese-English Translation (50 points)
10年来，中国经济持续快速发展，经济实力、综合国力、人民生活水平迈上新的台阶，国家面貌发生举世瞩目的历史性变化，为促进亚洲和世界经济增长作出了重要贡献。

中国虽然取得了举世瞩目的发展成就，但仍然是世界上最大的发展中国家，经济社会发展面临巨大的人口、资源、环境压力，发展中不平衡、不协调、不可持续问题依然突出。

2011年，中国开始实施国民经济和社会发展第十二个五年规划纲要，提出了今后5年中国经济社会发展的总体任务。

未来5年，中国将着力实施扩大内需特别是消费需求的战略，建立长效机制，释放消费潜力，着力促进经济增长向依靠消费、投资、出口协调拉动转变。

中国将着力实施“走出去”战略，引导各类所有制企业有序到境外投资，积极开展有利于改善当地基础设施和人民生活的项目合作。

中国将着力参与全球经济治理和区域合作，推动国际经济金融体系改革，推动建立均衡、普惠、共赢的多边贸易体制，反对各种形式的保护主义，促进国际经济秩序朝着更加公正合理的方向发展。