《商务翻译》第12次翻译练习

《商务翻译》第12次翻译练习

（一）句子翻译练习

1.Since the collapse of the bubble economy in the early 1990s, this country has experienced

several phases of economic revival.

2. A mission statement is a formal statement in an organization’s strategic plan that describes the

overall purpose of the organization and what it intends to achieve in terms of its customers, products, and resources.

3.Diversification is a growth strategy that involves starting up or acquiring businesses outside

the company’s current products and markets, emphasizing both new products and new markets.

4.Although marketing research can produce few answers with complete assurance, it can reduce

risk and uncertainty to increase the likelihood of the success of marketing decisions.

5.Marketing researchers often want to know if consumers are changing their behavior over time,

and so they take successive measurements of the same people.

6. A common method for calculating area market potential is the market-factor index method,

which identifies market factors that correlate with market potential and combines them into a weighed index.

7.Under the discount cash flow system based on the U.S. model, loan values are calculated

based on projections of how profitable a borrower is likely to be in the future.

8.The rise in stock prices is merely because part of the market liquidity created by easy money

policies adopted by countries worldwide is flowing into the Japanese market.

9.In December 1998, trust funds became the first financial products offered by securities firms

and life insurers that banks were allowed to sell.

10.New PCs will appeal to consumers needing advanced functions, while secondhand PCs will

attract those wanting limited functions, such as Internet access.

11.We owe your name to the Bank of China, London, through whom we learned that you are the

manufacturers of textiles, piece goods and other general merchandise, and also that you are importers and exporters.

12.Nations will usually produce and export those goods in which they have the greatest

comparative advantage, and import those items in which they have the least comparative advantage.

（二）篇章翻译练习

In international trade, if a deal is to be clinched, both sellers and buyers must observe the contract stipulations. Sellers must send the export goods as required while buyers must accept the qualified goods. But sellers and buyers usually live a long distance apart from each other, so it is necessary that, besides the sellers and buyers, there be a third party, an authentic surveyor, to give an official inspection on the quality, quantity and packing of the export or import goods, and provide some authoritative certificates for the goods. This is called Commodity Inspection.

Commodity inspection is an indispensable part of international trade. It guarantees buyers the