报刊选读课后翻译与练习

Chapter 1 Politics

Assignment: translation

1. 美国伊利诺伊州联邦参议员贝拉克·奥巴马28日晚在科罗拉多州丹佛举行的民主党全国代表大会

上宣布接受民主党总统候选人提名，由此成为美国历史上第一个少数族裔总统候选人。

2. 2007年2月，奥巴马正式宣布竞选总统。他在竞选中以“变革”为主题，强调结束伊拉克战争、实

现能源自给、停止减税政策和普及医疗保险等，并承诺实现党派团结、在国际上重建同盟关系、恢复美国领导地位。

Chapter 2 Education

Assignment: English to Chinese Translation

1. Maths lessons need to be more challenging if children are to develop the skills they need to equip them

for life, a leading mathematics academic said today.

今日，一位数学界知名学者说：“数学课应更具挑战性，以培养孩子适应生活的技能。

2.Tony Gardiner, reader in maths and maths education, at the University of Birmingham, said maths

teachers from primary through to secondary school have been teaching children to pass tests for the

past 1—15 years.

伯明翰大学高级讲师托尼.加德纳说，在过去的10到15年间，中小学教师一直在进行应试教育。

3. The study, based on 192 primary and secondary schools, said most of the problems with maths were

occurring in secondary schools, where pupils were making inadequate progress in about 10% of

lessons and 45% of maths lessons were only “satisfactory” (Ofsted-speak for not good enough) or

worse.

这项基于192所中小学的调查表明：数学教育问题主要出现在中学。中学数学课程中只有10% 能

让学生的能力得到提高（这是远远不够的), 而45%的数学课程仅为“满意”(教育水平评定办公室

将不够好称为“满意”）或更糟。

Chapter 3 Science and Technology

Chapter 4 Economy

Assignment: translation

1. 贷危机（subprimelending crisis）又称次级房贷危机，也译为次债危机。它是指一场发生在

美国，因次级抵押贷款机构破产、投资基金被迫关闭、股市剧烈震荡引起的风暴。它致使全

球主要金融市场隐约出现流动性不足危机。美国“次贷危机”是从2006年春季开始逐步显现的。

2007年8月席卷美国、欧盟和日本等世界主要金融市场.

Chapter 5 Sports

Chapter 6 Law

Assignment: Translation

1) After the death in 2000 of Elizabeth H. Shin, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

who had written several suicide notes and used the university counseling service before setting herself on fire, the Massachusetts Superior Court allowed her parents, who had not been told of her deterioration, to

sue administrators for $27.7 million. The case was settled for an undisclosed amount.

2) Last month, Virginia passed a law, the first in the nation, prohibiting public colleges and universities

from expelling or punishing students solely for attempting suicide or seeking mental-health treatment for suicidal thoughts.

Chapter 7 Disasters

Lead writing practice:

Example:

Thousands of people were reported killed today when China’s worst earthquake for 30 year struck a densely populated area in Sichuan province.

Practice:

1)今天凌晨，沈海高速盐城段(on the section in Yancheng on Shenhai Expressway) 发生60多辆机动

车追尾事故(be involved in the massive pileup)，共造成11人死亡。

11 people were reported killed this early morning when more than 60 vehicles are involved in the

massive pileup on the section in Yancheng on Shenhai Expressway.

2)尼日利亚一架客机周日下午在飞抵拉各斯机场附近时撞上了一座两层建筑物而坠毁，机上１５

３人全部遇难，其中有6名中国人。

All the 153 passengers including 6 Chinese were reported killed on Sunday afternoon when a Nigerian passenger plane crashed into a two-storey building near the Lagos airport.

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