《英语翻译基础》考研真题与典型题详解-3.3 英译汉典型题详解【圣才出品】

3.3 英译汉典型题详解

根据考试大纲要求以及各院校《英语翻译基础》历年考试真题，本部分精心整理了多篇英译汉练习及参考译文。这些文章内容新颖，语言地道，涵盖了政治、经济、文化、法律以及环保、科普、旅游、社会热点等多方面题材。练习时可灵活运用本书前面介绍的翻译技巧，从而提高翻译实战能力。

【政治类】

题1

The early 1990s heard much talk of regionalism and the regionalization of world politics. Regional conflicts replaced the global conflict on the world’s security agenda. Major powers, such as Russia, China, and the United States, as well as secondary powers, such as Sweden and Turkey, redefined their security interests in explicitly regional terms. Trade within regions expanded faster than trade between regions, and many foresaw the emergence of regional economic blocs, European, North American, East Asian, and perhaps others.

The term “regionalism,” however, does not adequately describe what was happening. Regions are geographical not political or cultural entities. As with the Balkans (巴尔干区域) or the Middle East, they may be riven by inter and intracivilization conflicts. Regions are a basis for cooperation among states only to the extent that geography coincides with culture. Divorced from culture, propinquity does not yield commonality and may foster just the reverse. Military

alliances and economic associations require cooperation among their members, cooperation depends on trust, and trust most easily springs from common values and culture. As a result, while age and purpose also play a role, the overall effectiveness of regional organizations generally varies inversely with the civilizational diversity of their membership. By and large, single civilization organizations do more things and are more successful than multicivilizational organizations. This is true of both political and security organizations, on the one hand, and economic organizations, on the other.

The success of NATO has resulted in large part from its being the central security organization of Western counties with common values and philosophical assumptions. The Western European Union is the product of a common European culture. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, on the other hand, includes countries from at least three civilizations with quite different values and interests which pose major obstacles to its developing a significant institutional identity and a wide range of important activities. The single civilization Caribbean Community, composed of thirteen English-speaking former British colonies, has created an extensive variety of cooperative arrangements, with more intensive cooperation among some sub-groupings.

参考译文：

20世纪90年代初，世界政治的地区主义和区域化引起众多讨论。地区冲突取代全球冲突，成为世界安全议程的重要议题。俄、中、美等世界主要大国和瑞典、土耳其等第二级国家都对本国的安全利益用明确的地区化术语重新定义。地区内部的贸易比地区之间的贸易