英语二笔翻译真题2011年5月

2011

年

5

月

英语二级

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笔译实务

》试题

Section 1: English- Chinese Translation

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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）