历年英语翻译资格考试中级笔译英译汉真题(网友版)

历年英语翻译资格考试中级笔译英译汉真题（网友版）

Passage 1

Farms go out of business for many reasons, but few farms do merely because the

soil has failed. That is the miracle of farming. If you care for the soil, it will last

—

and

yield

—

nearly forever. America is such a young country that we have barely tested

that. For most of our

history, there has

been 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 week because its owner

—

a lineal descendant of John Tuttle, the original

settler

—

has decided to go 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 was born. There were perhaps 10,000 colonists in all of America, only a

few hundred of them in New Hampshire. The Tuttle acres, then, would have seemed

almost as surrounded as they do in 2010, 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 it became precarious enough again in these past few years to peter out

at last. The land is protected by a conservation easement so it can

’

t be developed, but

no one knows whether the next owner will farm it.

In a letter on their Web site, the Tuttles cite “exhaustion of resources” as the reason

to

sell

the

farm.

The

exhausted

resources

they

list

include

bodies,

minds,

hearts,

imagination, equipment, machinery and finances. They do not mention soil, which has

been renewed and redeemed repeatedly. It

’

s as though the parishioners of the First

Parish

Church

in

nearby

Dover

—

erected

nearly

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

for

nearly

400

years.

What

killed

it

was

the

economic

structure

of

food

production. Each year it has become harder for family farms to compete with industrial

scale

agriculture

—

heavily

subsidized

by

the

government

—

underselling

them

at

every

turn.

In

a

system

committed

to

the

health

of

farms

and

their

integration

with

local communities, the result would have been different. In 1632, and for many years

after, the Tuttle farm was a necessity. In 2010, it is suddenly superfluous, or so we like

to pretend.

出处：

尽管导致农民破产的原因有很多， 但很少农民仅仅是因为土地失去肥力而破

产，这可以算是一个农业奇迹。如果能很好地料 理土地，那么它几乎可以永远保

持持续的产出。而对美国这样一个年轻的国家而言，人们 很少能意识到这点。在

我们历史的大部分时间里，人们有土地去耕作，而且不停地开垦新 的土地似乎土

地资源是无穷无尽的。

然而，还是有一些老农场破产了。 其中历史最为悠久的便是位于美国新罕布

什尔州丹佛市附近的

T uttle

farm

。同时也是美国最顾老的商业公司之一。 在上周

的新闻中，

公司的所有者，

原始 移民

John Tuttle

的直系后代，

宣布公司破产。

Tuttle

farm

< br>成立于

1632

年的。我听说他的鲜玉米非常出名。