1月MBA翻譯真題

1、2010年一月MBA聯(lián)考英語翻譯真題Section Translation $ JuLA1qq   “Sustainability" has become a popular word these days. But to Ted Ning, the concept will always have personal meaning. Having endured a painful period of unsustainability in his own life made it clear to him that sustainability-oriented val

2、ues must be expressed through everyday actions and choice. Ning recalls spending a confusing year in the late 1990s selling insurance. He had been through the dot-com boom and burst and, desperate for a job, signed on with a Boulder agency. It didn't go well. "It was a really bad move becau

3、se that's not my passion'', says Ning, whose dilemma about the job translated, predictably, into a lack of sales.” I was miserable. I had so much anxiety that I would wake up in the middle of night and stare at the ceiling. I had no money and needed the job. Everyone said, "Just wai

4、t, you will turn the corner, give it some time."* iity  2009年一月MBA聯(lián)考英語翻譯真題（1）With the nations financial system teetering on a cliff. The compensation arrangements for executives of the big banks and other financial firms are coming under close examination again.Bankers excessive risk- taki

5、ng is a significant cause of this financial crisis and has continued, to others in the past, in this case, it was fueled by low interest rates and kept going by a false sense of security created by a debt-fueled bubble in the economy.（2）Mortgage lenders gladly lent enormous sums to those who could n

6、ot afford to pay them back dividing the laws and selling them off to the next financial institution along the chain, advantage of the same high-tech securitization to load on more risky mortgage-based assets.（3）Financial regulation will have to catch up with the most irresponsible practices that led

7、 banks down in this road, in hopes averting the next crisis, which is likely to involve different financial techniques and different sorts of assets. But it is worth examining the root problem of compensation schemes that are tied to short-term profits and revenues, and thus encourage bankers to tak

8、e irresponsible risks.2008年一月MBA聯(lián)考英語翻譯真題Section 4 Translation (20 points) Direction: in this section there is a paragraph in English. Translate it into Chinese and write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET. The term "business model" first came into widespread use with the invention of per

9、sonal computer and the spreadsheet(空白表格程序). Before the spreadsheet, business planning usually meant producing a single forecast. At best, you did a little sensitivity analysis around the projection. （1）The spreadsheet ushered in a much more analytic approach to planning because every major line item

10、 could be pulled apart, it components and subcomponents analyzed and tested. （2）You could ask what-if questions about the critical assumptions on which your business depended-for example, what if customers are more price-sensitive than we thought? And with a few keystrokes, you could see how any cha

11、nge would play out on every aspect of the whole. In other words, you could model the behavior of business. Before the computer changed the nature of business planning, most successful business models were created more by accident than by elaborate design. （3）By enabling companies to tie their market

12、place insights much more tightly to the resulting economics, spreadsheet made it possible to model business before they were launched.2007年一月MBA聯(lián)考英語翻譯真題Section IV Translation (20 points) Directions: In this section there is a passage in English Translate the passage into Chineseand write your transl

13、ation on the ANSWER SHEET. （1）Powering the great ongoing changes of our time is the rise of human creativity as the defining feature of economic life. Creativity has come to be valued, because new technologies, new industries and new wealth flow from it. And as a result, our lives and society have b

14、egun to echo with creative ideas. （2）It is our commitment to creativity in its varied dimensions that forms the underlying spirit of our age. （3）Creativity is essential to the way we live and work today, and in many senses always has been. The big advances in standard of living -not to mention the b

15、ig competitive advantages in the marketplace-always have come from" better recipes, not just more cooking." One might argue that's not strictly true. （4）One might point out, for instance, that during the long period from the early days on the Industrial Revolution to modern times, much

16、 of the growth in productivity and material wealth in the industrial nations came not just from creative inventions like the steam engine, but from the widespread application of "cooking in quantity" business methods like massive division of labor ,concentration of assets, vertical integra

17、tion and economies of scale. But those methods themselves were creative developments.2006年一月MBA聯(lián)考英語翻譯真題Section IV Translation（20 point）Directions：in this section there is a passage in English. Translate the five underlined sentences into Chinese and write your translation on the ANSWER SHEETThe smoo

18、th landing of shuttle（航天飛機(jī)）Discovery ended a flight that was successful in almost every respect but one：the dislodging of a big chunk of foam，like the one that doomed the Columbia. This flight was supposed to vault the shuttle fleet back into space after a prolonged grounding for repairs. But given

19、the repeat of the very problem that two years of retooling was supposed to resolve，the verdict is necessarily mixed.（61）Once again，the space agency has been forced to put off the flight until it can find a solution to the problem，and no one seems willing to guess how that may take .The Discovery ast

20、ronauts performed superbly during their two-week mission，and the shuttle looked better than ever in some respects.（62）space officials were justifiably happy that so much had gone well，despite daily worries over possible risks. The flight clearly achieved its prime objectives.The astronauts transferr

21、ed tons of cargo to the international space station，which has been limping along overhead with a reduced crew and limited supplies carried up on smaller Russian spacecraft .（63）They replaced a broken device .repaired another and carted away a load of rubbish that had been left on the station，showing

22、 the shuttle can bring full loads back down from space.This was the most scrutinized shuttle flight ever. With the vehicle undergoing close inspection while still in orbit.（64）New sensing and photographic equipment to look for potentially dangerous damage to the sensitive external skin proved valuab

23、le. A new back flip maneuver allowed station astronauts to photograph the shuttles underbelly .and an extra-long robotic arm enabled astronauts see parts of the shuttle that were previously out of sight.（65）The flood of images and the openness in discussing its uncertainties about potential hazards

24、sometimes made it appear that the shuttle was about to fall apart，In the end the damage was clearly tolerable . A much-touted spacewalk to repair the shuttles skin the first of its kind moved an astronaut close enough to pluck out some protruding material with his hand Preliminary evidence indicates

25、 that Discovery has far fewer nicks and gouges than shuttles on previous flights，perhaps showing that improvements to reduce the shedding of debris from the external fuel tank have had some success.2005年一月MBA聯(lián)考英語翻譯真題Section IV Translation (20 points)Directions:In this section there is a passage in E

26、nglish. Translate the five sentences underlined into Chinese and write your translation on ANSWER SHEET 2. (56)An  art  museum  director  with  foresight  might  follow  trends  in  computer 

27、0;graphics  to  make  exhibit  more  appealing  to  younger  visitor.  (57)For  instances,  capable  corporate  manager  might  see  alarmin

28、g  rise  in  local  housing  price  that  could  affect  availability  of  skilled  workers  in  the  region.(58) People  in  

29、;government  also  need  foresight  to  keep  system  running  smoothly,  to  play  budget  and  prevent  war.  (59)Many  of  the&

30、#160; best  known  technique  for  foresight  were  developed  by  government  planner,  especially  in  the  military, “ thinking  about &#

31、160;the  unthinkable”.  (60)The  futurist  recognized  that  the  future  world  is  continuing  with  preset  world.  We  can  learn &

32、#160;a  great  deal  about  what  many  happen  in  the  future  by  looking  systematically  at  what  is  happy  now.2004年一月MBA聯(lián)

33、考英語翻譯真題section v translation （10 points）directions： in this section there is a passage in English. Translate the five sentences underlined into Chinese and write your translation on the answer sheet2. March 27， 1997， dawned as a normal day at the Collins home. by the middle of the morning， jack Coll

34、ins was at his desk， writing checks， paying bills the way he always had： on time. then the phone rang， and the nightmare began.（71） An investigator for a bank was on the line， asking in a severe voice why Collins， a university physicist， was late on payments for a $27，000 car， bought in Virginia the

35、 previous year. “I dont have a car like this，” Collins protested. the last time he had set foot in Virginia was as an officer at a submarine base， three decades ago. but his name was on the contract， and so was his social security number. during the months that ensued， he and his wife learned that s

36、omeone had bought four more cars and 28 other items worth $113，000 in all m in their name. Their hitherto good credit record had been destroyed. （72） “After a lifetime of being honest，” says Collins， “all of a sudden I was basically being accused of stealing and treated like a criminal.” This is wha

37、t it means to fall prey to a nonviolent but frightening and fast-growing crime： identity theft.It happens to at least 500，000 new victims each year，according to government figures.（73） And it happens very easily because every identification number you have m social security， credit cards drivers license， telephone m “is a key that unlocks some storage of money or goods，” says a fraud （欺詐） program manager of the us postal service. “so if you