2007年11月翻譯資格考試三級筆譯真題.doc

2007年11月翻譯資格考試三級筆譯真題第一部分：英譯漢 One of the biggest decisions Andy Blevins has ever made, and one of the few he now regrets, never seemed like much of a decision at all. It just felt like the natural thing to do. In the summer of 1995, he was moving boxes of soup cans, paper towels and dog food across the floor of a supermarket warehouse, one of the biggest buildings here in southwest Virginia. The heat was brutal. The job had sounded impossible when he arrived fresh off his first year of college, looking to make some summer money, still a skinny teenager with sandy blond hair and a narrow, freckled face. But hard work done well was something he understood, even if he was the first college boy in his family. Soon he was making bonuses on top of his $6.75 an hour, more money than either of his parents made. His girlfriend was around, and so were his hometown buddies. Andy acted more outgoing with them, more relaxed. People in Chilhowie noticed that. It was just about the perfect summer. So the thought crossed his mind: maybe it did not have to end. Maybe he would take a break from college and keep working. He had been getting Cs and Ds, and college never felt like home, anyway. I enjoyed working hard, getting the job done, getting a paycheck, Mr. Blevins recalled. I just knew I didnt want to quit. So he quit college instead, and with that, Andy Blevins joined one of the largest and fastest-growing groups of young adults in America. He became a college dropout, though nongraduate may be the more precise term. Many people like him plan to return to get their degrees, even if few actually do. Almost one in three Americans in their mid-20s now fall into this group, up from one in five in the late 1960s, when the Census Bureau began keeping such data. Most come from poor and working-class families. That gap had grown over recent years. We need to recognize that the most serious domestic problem in the United States today is the widening gap between the children of the rich and the children of the poor, Lawrence H. Summers, the president of Harvard, said last year when announcing that Harvard would give full scholarships to all its lowest-income students. And education is the most powerful weapon we have to address that problem. Andy Blevins says that he too knows the importance of a degree. Ten years after trading college for the warehouse, Mr. Blevins, 29, spends his days at the same supermarket company. He has worked his way up to produce buyer, earning $35,000 a year with health benefits and a 401(k) plan. He is on a path typical for someone who attended college without getting a four-year degree. Men in their early 40s in this category made an average of $42,000 in 2000. Those with a four-year degree made $65,000. Mr. Blevins says he has many reasons to be happy. He lives with his wife, Karla, and their year-old son, Lucas, in a small blue-and-yellow house in the middle of a stunningly picturesque Appalachian valley. Looking back, I wish I had gotten that degree, Mr. Blevins said in his soft-spoken lilt. Four years seemed like a thousand years then. But I wish I would have just put in my four years. Why so many low-income students fall from the college ranks is a question without a simple answer. Many high schools do a poor job of preparing teenagers for college. Tuition bills scare some students from even applying and leave others with years of debt. To Mr. Blevins, like many other students of limited means, every week of going to classes seemed like another week of losing money. The system makes a false promise to students, said John T. Casteen III, the president of the University of Virginia, himself the son of a Virginia shipyard worker. 第二部分：漢譯英 提起東盟國家，我就想起去年在東盟會議上，馬哈蒂爾先生和吳作棟先生曾經(jīng)形象地把中國比喻成一個友好的大象。 他們說，中國的崛起不會對其他們存在任何威脅。中國有5000年的文明史，有過輝煌的過去，也有過屈辱的往事。中國的崛起是多少代中國人的夢想。中國和平崛起的要義在什么地方？ 第一， 中國和平崛起就是要充分利用世界和平的大好時機，努力發(fā)展和壯大自己。同時又以自己的發(fā)展，維護世界和平。 第二， 中國的崛起應(yīng)把基點主要放在自己的力量上，獨立自 主、自力更生，艱苦奮斗，依靠廣闊的國內(nèi)市場、充足的勞動力資源和雄厚的資金儲備，以及改革帶來的機制創(chuàng)新。 第三， 中國的崛起離不開世界。中國必須堅持開 放的政策，在平等互利的原則上，同世界一切友好國家發(fā)展經(jīng)貿(mào)往來。 第四， 中國的崛起需要很長的時間，恐怕要多少代人的努力奮斗。 第五， 中國的崛起不會妨礙 任何人，也不會威脅任何人，也不會犧牲任何人。中國現(xiàn)在不稱霸，將來即使強大了也永遠不會稱霸。 韓老師參考譯文： 安迪布萊文斯曾做過許多重大決定，也很少會為做出的決定感到后悔，但有一個決定至今讓他難以釋懷。不過，這個決定當(dāng)時看來根本就算不上什么決定，感覺只是順勢而為。 1995年的夏天，安迪布萊文斯來到一家超市倉庫工作。這個倉庫是弗吉尼亞西南部最大的建筑之一，他在這里負(fù)責(zé)搬運成箱的湯罐頭、紙巾和狗糧。這里悶熱難當(dāng)，對于剛剛讀完大一前來打工的他來說似乎是一份難以接受的差事。安迪布萊文斯當(dāng)時骨瘦如柴，頭發(fā)呈沙金色，臉龐瘦削長有雀斑。他來這里打工就是想趁暑假賺點錢。 雖然安迪布萊文斯是家里的第一個大學(xué)生，但是他很清楚，哪怕再苦再累也要把工作做好。一開始他的小時工資是6.75美元，這比父母的小時工資還高，而且他很快就拿到了獎金。當(dāng)時身邊有女朋友和老鄉(xiāng)陪伴，他整個人更加開朗樂觀，奇洛威的人們也注意到了他的這一變化。 整個夏天他過得非常愜意，有個想法不由劃過心頭：也許不必結(jié)束這份工作，休學(xué)接著工作也不失為一個選擇。當(dāng)時他在大學(xué)里的考試成績很不理想，不是C就是D，而且在學(xué)校里感覺一點也不自在。 “我很享受這種過程：辛勤工作，完成任務(wù)，然后領(lǐng)取工資”，安迪布萊文斯回想當(dāng)時的感受時說，“當(dāng)時我只是不想放棄這份工作。” 后來他選擇退學(xué)，加入了輟學(xué)就業(yè)的青年大軍。在美國這是一個較為龐大的青年群體，而且仍以較快的速度不斷壯大。就這樣，他成了大學(xué)輟學(xué)生，或者更準(zhǔn)確來說是非大學(xué)畢業(yè)生。 許多像他這樣大學(xué)退學(xué)的人計劃重返校園獲取學(xué)位，但是真正能付諸行動者仍是少數(shù)。美國人口普查局從二十世紀(jì)六十年代晚期開始統(tǒng)計大學(xué)輟學(xué)就業(yè)群體的情況，當(dāng)時在二十五六歲上下的年輕人中大學(xué)輟學(xué)就業(yè)者的比例為五分之一，而現(xiàn)在這一比例已上升至約三分之一，其中大部分人來自于貧困和工薪家庭。 近些年來富裕和貧困家庭背景的學(xué)生之間差距不斷拉大。去年哈佛大學(xué)校長勞倫斯 H 薩默斯宣布將向所有低收入家庭的學(xué)生提供全額獎學(xué)金。他說，“我們必須認(rèn)識到，美國當(dāng)今最為嚴(yán)重的國內(nèi)問題是富裕家庭子女與貧困家庭子女之間的差距越來越大，縮小差距最有效的途徑就是教育?！?安迪布萊文斯說他也知道大學(xué)學(xué)位很重要。安迪布萊文斯今年二十九歲，從十年前輟學(xué)到現(xiàn)在，他一直都在這家超市連鎖公司工作。他現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)晉升為公司采購員，年薪3.5萬美元，有醫(yī)療保險和養(yǎng)老保險。他現(xiàn)在的狀況是大學(xué)輟學(xué)就業(yè)群體的一個縮影。根據(jù)2000年的統(tǒng)計，對于四十出頭的男性而言，沒有大學(xué)學(xué)位的人平均年薪為4.2萬美元，有大學(xué)學(xué)位的人則為6.5萬美元。 安迪布萊文斯說，他現(xiàn)在過得還算比較幸福。他的家坐落在風(fēng)光旖旎的阿巴拉契亞山谷中，他現(xiàn)在與妻子卡拉和剛一歲的兒子盧卡斯住在一所藍黃相間的小房子里。 “現(xiàn)在回想起來，當(dāng)時要是能拿到大學(xué)學(xué)位就好了，” 安迪布萊文斯以柔和又不失活潑的口吻說道，“那時大學(xué)四年感覺遙遙無期。當(dāng)時要是熬過那四年就好了?！?這么多有經(jīng)濟困難的大學(xué)生選擇輟學(xué)確實是個問題，但解決這個問題也絕非易事。許多高中教學(xué)質(zhì)量不盡如人意，大學(xué)學(xué)費高昂令很多學(xué)生望而卻步，那些申請就讀的學(xué)生則要花數(shù)年時間才能還清貸款。對于像安迪布萊文斯這樣家庭條件不好的學(xué)生而言，上一星期課等于少賺一星期錢。 身為弗吉尼亞大學(xué)校長的約翰T卡斯汀三世出身于弗吉尼亞一個造船工人的家庭。他說，“教育體系給學(xué)生做了一個虛假的承諾?！?官方參考譯文： Your mention of ASEAN reminds me of an ASEAN meeting I attended last year. I remember on that occasion Mr. Mahathir and Mr. Goh Chok Tong drew a vivid analogy between China and a friendly elephant. They told me the rise of China would not pose a threat to their countries. To answer your question, let me say China has a history of 5,000 years. We had a glorious past, but we also suffered humiliation and subjugation. The rise of China and its rejuvenation are the dreams of the Chinese people for many generations. What are the connotations of Chinas peaceful rise? Let me make the following points. Firstly, in promoting Chinas peaceful rise, we must take full advantage of the very good opportunity of world peace to endeavor to develop and strengthen ourselves, and at the same time safeguard world peace with our own development. Secondly, the rise of China can only be based on our own strength and on our independent, self-reliant and hard efforts. It also has to be based on the broad market of China, the abundant human resources and capital reserves as well as the innovation of our systems as a result of reform. Thirdly, Chinas rise could not be achieved without the rest of the world. We must always maintain the opening up policy and develop economic and trade exchanges with all friendly countries on the basis of equality and mutual benefit. Fourthly, Chinas rise will require a long period of time and probably the hard work of many generations of Chinese people. Fifthly, the rise of China will not stand in the way of any other country or pose a threat to any other country, or be achieved at the expense of any particular nation. China does not seek hegemony now. Nor will we ever seek hegemony even after China becomes more powerful. 韓老師參考譯文： The very mention of ASEAN leads me back to the ASEAN summit meeting last year when Mr. Mahathir and Mr. Goh Chok Tong compared China to a friendly elephant. They argued that Chinas rise wont pose any threat to anyone. China has witnessed both glorious moments and humiliating episodes in its history of over 5,000 years. The rise of China has been a dream cherished by many generations of the Chinese nation. What is Chinas peaceful rise all about? First, it means we must seize upon the exciting o