2022年翻譯二級(jí)筆譯實(shí)務(wù)練習(xí)題1

1、2022 年翻譯二級(jí)筆譯實(shí)務(wù)練習(xí)題 1英譯漢Jane Goodall was already on a London dock in March 1957 whenshe realized that her passport was missing. In just a few hours, she was due to depart on her first trip to Africa. A school friend had moved to a farm outside Nairobi and, knowing Goodalls childhood dream was to live

2、among the African wildlife, invited her to stay with the family for a while. Goodall, then 22, saved for two years to pay for her passage to Kenya: waitressing, doing secretarial work, temping at the post office in her hometown, Bournemouth, on England s southern coast. Now all this was for naught,

3、it seemed.Its hard not to wonder how subsequent events in her life rather consequential as they have turned out to be to conservation, to science, to our sense of ourselves as a species might have unfolded differently had someone not found her passport, along with an itinerary from Cooks, the travel

4、 agency, folded inside, anddelivered it to the Cook s office. An agency representative, documents in hand, found her on the dock. “Incredible,” Goodall told me last month, recalling that day. “Amazing. ”Within two months of her arrival, Goodall met the paleontologist Louis Leakey Nairobi was a small

5、 town for its white population in those days and he immediately offered her a job at the natural-history museum where he was curator. He spent much of the next three years testing her capacity for repetitive work.He believed in a hypothesis first put forth by Charles Darwin that humans and chimpanze

6、es share an evolutionary ancestor. Close study of chimpanzees in the wild, he thought, might tell us something about that common progenitor. He was, in other words, looking for someone to live among Africas wild animals. One night, he told Goodall that he knew just the place where she could do it: G

7、ombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve, in the British colony of Tanganyika (now Tanzania).In July 1960, Goodall boarded a boat and after a few hours motoring over the warm, deep waters of Lake Tanganyika, she stepped onto the pebbly beach at Gombe.Her finding, published in Nature in 1964, that chimpanzees

8、use tools extracting insects from a termite mound with leaves of grass drastically and forever altered humanitys understanding of itself; man was no longer the natural worlds only user of tools.After two and a half decades of living out her childhood dream, Goodall made an abrupt career shift, from

9、scientist to conservationist.1957 年 3 月，當(dāng)珍妮 古道爾(Jane Goodall)在倫敦碼頭候船時(shí)， 她發(fā)覺護(hù)照不見了。 再有幾個(gè)小時(shí)， 她就要?jiǎng)由淼谝淮吻巴侵蕖?古道爾 有個(gè)已經(jīng)遷往非洲內(nèi)羅畢郊外農(nóng)場(chǎng)生活的校友， 知道古道爾從小的愿望就 是要到非洲與野生動(dòng)物朝夕相伴， 遂邀請(qǐng)古道爾到內(nèi)羅畢自己家小住一陣。 那年，古道爾 22 歲，為了攢夠肯尼亞之行的旅費(fèi)，過去兩年，她在英國 南部海濱城市伯恩茅斯(Bournemouth)老家做過效勞生、文秘和郵局臨時(shí) 工?，F(xiàn)在，她的一切努力好像都要白費(fèi)了。幸虧有人撿到她的護(hù)照， 連同護(hù)照夾著折好了的由庫克(Cook)

10、旅行社 出具的行程單， 一并送回到了庫克旅行社。 一名庫克旅行社代表拿著這些 證件材料， 在碼頭找到了古道爾。 這才有了古道此后來的自然愛護(hù)工作和 科學(xué)討論， 并轉(zhuǎn)變了我們對(duì)人類自身這個(gè)物種的熟悉。 假如沒人撿到， 很 難想象古道爾的人生軌跡會(huì)是哪般， “失而復(fù)得， 真難以置信， ”古道爾上 個(gè)月告知我時(shí)說， “這太奇妙了?！眱?nèi)羅畢當(dāng)年還是一座小鎮(zhèn)。 在古道爾到達(dá)后不到兩個(gè)月， 她見到了時(shí) 任自然歷史博物館館長(zhǎng)的人類學(xué)家路易士李基(Louis Leakey)，李基請(qǐng)她 到館里工作。 在隨后的三年里， 李基花了很多時(shí)間， 檢驗(yàn)古道爾開展重復(fù) 性工作的力量。李基信任查爾斯達(dá)爾文最先提出的假設(shè)： 即人類與黑猩猩都由同一個(gè) 祖先進(jìn)化而來。 李基認(rèn)為， 在野外對(duì)黑猩猩進(jìn)展具體討論， 或許會(huì)有一些 關(guān)于這個(gè)共同祖先的發(fā)覺。 換句話說， 他正在查找一位可以與黑猩猩一起 生活的人。 一天晚上， 李基告知古道爾， 他知道一個(gè)剛好可以討論黑猩猩 的地方：位于英國殖民地坦噶尼喀 (今坦桑尼亞)的貢貝溪黑猩猩愛護(hù)區(qū) (Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve)。1960 年 7 月，古道爾登上了一艘小船，在暖和的坦噶尼喀深湖