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Originally call

Description of the World

,

Travels

aims for geographical completeness,

not the immediacy and excitement of personal encounter. It’s not a travelogue. Consistent

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英语一级笔译实务试卷

Part 1

English-Chinese Translation (

英译汉

) (30 points)

Translate the following passage into Chinese.

The Travels of Marco Polo

was conceived in a prison cell in Genoa, Italy, in 1298. A few

years earlier Polo had returned to the West after an epic journey that lasted some 24 years. He

then saw action in a naval battle between the Venetian and Genoese fleets, and was captured.

It was in jail that he met and befriended Rustichello of Pisa, a well-known writer and

collector of Arthurian romances. Their collaboration yielded a book that would give Europe

its first authoritative account of the Middle and Far East, in particular China, and reveal the

presence of a vast empire and advanced civilization far greater than anything Europeans

could achieve or even imagine.

More than 100 copies of that long-lost original exist, many dating from the 14

th

and 15

th

centuries. There is no definitive manuscript, however, and all existing versions have been

embellished, doctored or censored by the Christian establishment over the years. Modern

editions are thus collations and translations of imperfect copies. This murky history helps

explain why the book describes what the Venetian could not possibly have seen, and

overlooks sights that any traveler to China must have witnessed

–

like the Great Wall,

foot-binding and chopsticks. Skeptics say that Polo never ventured to China and that he and

Rustichello used second- hand information from other travelers, especially Arab traders.

Certainly, there is no hard historical evidence that Polo actually visited all the places he

describes. But most of the detail has since been corroborated by historians and geographers,

confounding critics and confirming the importance of the book as the fullest and most

accurate account of Asia in its time.

Travels

is a book of liberal and enlightened humanism. No one can fail to appreciate its

celebration of the heterogeneity of nature, geography and, above all, people. His work

expresses wonder and joy in what is unfamiliar. Races are differentiated but not denigrated,

and the customs of different cultures are met with enthusiastic curiosity, not the conformism

and prejudice prevalent in Europe at the time.

Travels

had a moral for medieval Europe: let

diversity and tolerance replace division and xenophobia

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a moral no less relevant today than

in Marco Polo’s time.

The Venetian literally changed the Western view of the world. European maps in his

time were based on Biblical interpretations and classical mythology. Jerusalem was at the

center. Then came Polo’s book, describing great civilizations in the East, and a world not

centered on Jerusalem, politically or geographically. This recasting of the world into a more

dynamic and multi-centered geographical space was the first step toward what we now call

globalization.

with the possibility that Polo was not an eyewitness, his book is not “on

-the-

spot” reporting,

and only loosely follows an itinerary. To modern audiences, the book may seem dull and

repetitive, to be dipped into, not read cover to cover. Yet

Travels

was a revolutionary piece of

writing. It radically altered European understanding of Asia by forcing the West to recognize

a superior culture in the East, and, by describing with such verve the luxuries and

sensuousness of Chinese cities, it impressed the idea of an exotic East on the European

psyche.

Part 2 Chinese-English Translation (

汉译英

) (30 points)

笔译实务（英语

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一级）试卷

Translate the following passage into English.

建立和完善刑事缺席审判制度是惩治和预防腐败犯罪的需 要。腐败是人类社会的一个痼疾。

随着经济全球化进程的加快 ，腐败犯罪越来越猖獗，给当今世界各国造成许多严重问题。腐败

还同有组织犯罪和包括洗钱在内的经济犯罪之间有着千丝万缕的联系。