-
2011
年
5
月
英语二级
《
笔译实务
》试题
Section 1: English-
Chinese Translation
(
英译汉
)
Part A Compulsory
Translation
(必译题)
Farms
go
out
of
business
for
many
reasons,
but
fewfarms
do
merely
because
the soil has failed. That isthe
miracle
of farming. If you
care for the soil, it will
last
—
and
yield
—
nearly forever
.
Americais such a young country that we have
barely tested that. For most of our
history, there hasbeen new land to farm, and
we still farm as though there always
will be.
Still, there are some very old
farms out there. The oldest is the Tuttle farm,
near
Dover
,
N.H.,which
is
also
one
of
the
oldest
business
enterprises
in
America.
It
made the news last weekbecause its
owner
—
a lineal descendant
of John Tuttle,
the
original
settler
—
has decided togo out of
business. It was founded in 1632.
I
hear its sweet
corn
is
legendary.
The year 1632 is
unimaginably distant. In 1632, Galileo was still
publishing, and
John Locke wasborn.
There were perhaps 10,000 colonists in all of
America, only
a
few
hundred
of
them
in
NewHampshire.
The
Tuttle
acres,
then,
would
have
seemed
almost
as
surrounded
as
they
do
in2010,
but
by
forest
instead
of
highways and houses.
It
was
a
precarious
operation
at
the
start
—
as
all
farming
was
in
the
new
colonies
—
and
itbecame
precarious
enough
again
in
these
past
few
years
to
peter out at last. The
land isprotected by a
conservation
easement so it
can
’
t
be
developed, but no one knows whetherthe next owner
will farm it.
In a letter on their Web
site, the Tuttles
cite
“
exhaustion of
resources
”
as the
reason to sell thefarm. The exhausted
resources they list include bodies, minds,
hearts,
imagination,
equipment,
machinery
and
finances.
They
do
not
mention
soil,
which
has
been
renewed
and
redeemedrepeatedly.
It
’
s
as
though
the
parishioners
of
the
First
Parish
Church
in
nearby
Dover
—
erectednearly
200
years
later
,
in
1829
—
had
rebuilt
the
structure
on
the
same
spot
every
few
years.
It is
too simple to say, as the Tuttles have, that the
recession killed a farm that
had
survived
fornearly
400
years.
What
killed
it
was
the
economic
structure
of
food
production.
Each
year
it
hasbecome
harder
for
family
farms
to
compete
with
industrial
scale
agriculture
—
heavilysubsidized
by
the
government
—
underselling
them at every turn. In a system
committed
tothe health of
farms
and
their
integration
with
local
communities
,
the
result
would
have
beendifferent.
In
1632,
and
for
many
years
after
,
the
Tuttle
farm
was
a
necessity
. In
2010, it issuddenly
superfluous
, or so we like
to
pretend
.
Part
B Optional Translation
(二选一题)
Topic 1
(选题一)
The
global
youth
unemployment
rate has
reached its highest level on record,
and is expectedto increase through
2010, the International Labour Organization
(ILO) says in a new report thatwas
issued to
coincide
with the
launch of the UN
International Youth
Year
.
The report: ILO Global
Employment Trends for Youth 2010 says that of some
620
millioneconomically
active
youth
aged
15
to
24
years,
81
million
were
unemployed
at
the
end
of
2009
--the
highest
number
ever
.
This
is
7.8
million
more than the
global
number in 2007. The
youth
unemployment
rate
increased
from 11.9 percent in 2007 to
13.0 percent in 2009.
The
global
youth
unemployment
rate
is
expected
to
continue
its
increase
through
2010,
to13.1
per
cent,
followed
by
a
moderate
decline
to
12.7
per
cent in
2011. The report also pointsout that the
unemployment
rates of youth
have proven to be more
sensitive
to the crisisthan
the rates of adults and that
the
recovery
of the job market
for young men and women islikely to
lag
behind
that
of adults.
It adds that these trends
will have
“
significant
consequences for young people
as
upcomingcohorts of new entrants join the ranks of
the already unemployed
and
warns
of
the
”
risk
of
acrisis
legacy
of
a
?
lost
generation5
comprised
of
young people who have dropped out of
thelabour market, having lost all hope of
being able to work for a
decent
living
The
ILO
report
points
out
that
in
developing
economies,
youth
are
more
vulnerable
tounderemployment
and
poverty
.
Topic 2
(选题二)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
上一篇:五年级上册新湘少版英语教案模式精选版
下一篇:英语笔译,词汇实战,专业翻译