2013到2011年CATTI二级笔译真题及参考答案

2013

年

11

月英语 二级《笔译实务》试题

Part A Compulsory Translation

（必译题）

The

archivists

requested

a

donkey,

but

what

they

got

from

the

mayor‘s

office

were four wary black sheep, which, as of Wednesday morning, were chewing away at

a lumpy field

of

grass

beside the

municipal archives building as

the City of Paris‘s

newest, shaggiest lawn mowers. Mayor Bertrand Delano? has made the environment a

priority since his

election in

2001, with

popular bike-

and car- sharing programs,

an

expanded

network

of

designated

lanes

for

bicycles

and

buses,

and

an

enormous

project to pedestrianize the banks along much of the Seine.

The

sheep,

which

are

to

mow

(and,

not

inconsequentially,

fertilize)

an

airy

half-acre patch in the 19th District intended in the same spirit. City Hall refers to the

project as ―eco

-

grazing,‖ and it notes that the four ewes will prevent the use of noisy,

gas-guzzling mowers and cut down on the use of herbicides.

Paris has plans for a slightly larger eco-grazing project not far from the archives

building,

assuming

all

goes

well;

similar

projects

have

been

under

way

in

smaller

towns in the region in recent years.

The sheep, from a rare, diminutive Breton breed called Ouessant, stand just about

two

feet

high.

Chosen

for

their

hardiness,

city

officials

said,

they

will

pasture

here

until October inside a three-foot-high, yellow electrified fence.

―This is really not a one

-

shot deal,‖ insisted René Dutrey, the adjunct mayor for

the

environment

and

sustainable

development.

Mr.

Dutrey,

a

fast-talking

man

in

orange-striped Adidas Samba sneakers, noted that the sheep had cost the city a total of

just about $$335, though no further economic projections have been drawn up for the

time being.

A metal fence surrounds the grounds of the archives, and a security guard stands

watch at the gate, so there is little risk that local predators

—

large, unleashed dogs,

for instance

—

will be able to reach the ewes.

Curious

humans,

however,

are

encouraged

to

visit

the

sheep,

and

perhaps

the

archives, too. The eco-grazing project began as an initiative to attract the public to the

archives, and informational panels have been put in place to explain what, exactly, the

sheep are doing here.

But the archivists have had to be trained to care for the animals. In the unlikely

event that a ewe should flip onto her back, Ms. Masson said, someone must rush to

put her back on her feet.

Part B Optional Translation

（二选一题）

Topic 1

（选题一）

Norman Joseph Woodland was born in Atlantic City on Sept. 6, 1921. As a Boy

Scout he learned Morse code, the spark that would ignite his invention.

After spending World War II on the Manhattan Project , Mr. Woodland resumed

his

studies

at

the

Drexel

Institute

of

Technology

in

Philadelphia

(it

is

now

Drexel

University), earning a bachelor‘s degree in 1947.

As

an

undergraduate,

Mr.

Woodland

perfected

a

system

for

delivering

elevator

music efficiently. He planned to pursue the project commercially, but his father, who

had come of age in ―Boardwalk Empire‖

-era Atlantic City, forbade it: elevator music,

he

said,

was

controlled

by

the

mob,

and

no

son

of

his

was

going

to

come

within

spitting distance.

The younger Mr. Woodland returned to Drexel for a master‘s degree. In 1948, a

local supermarket executive visited the campus, where he implored a dean to develop

an

efficient

means

of

encoding

product

data.

The

dean

demurred,

but

Mr.

Silver,

a

fellow

graduate

student

who

overheard

their

conversation,

was

intrigued.

He

conscripted Mr. Woodland.

An

early

idea

of

theirs,

which

involved

printing

product

information

in

fluorescent ink and reading it with ultraviolet light, proved unworkable.

But

Mr.

Woodland,

convinced

that

a

solution

was

close

at

hand,

quit

graduate

school

to

devote

himself

to

the

problem.

He

holed

up

at

his

grandparents‘

home

in

Miami Beach, where he spent the winter of 1948-49 in a chair in the sand, thinking.

To represent

information visually, he

realized, he would need a

code. The only

code he knew was the one he had learned in the Boy Scouts.

What

would

happen,

Mr.

Woodland

wondered

one

day,

if

Morse

code,

with

its

elegant simplicity and limitless combinatorial potential, were adapted graphically? He

began trailing his fingers idly through the sand.

―What

I‘m

going

to

tell

you

sounds

like

a

fairy

tale,‖

Mr.

Woodland

told

Smithsonian

magazine

in

1999.

―I

poked

my

four

fing

ers

into

the

sand

and

for

whatever reason

—

I didn‘t know —

I pulled my hand toward me and drew four lines.

Now I have four lines, and they could be wide lines and narrow lines instead of dots

and dashes.‘ ‖

Today, bar codes appears on the surface of almost every product of contemporary

life. All because a bright young man, his mind ablaze with dots and dashes, one day

raked his fingers through the sand.

201211Passage 1

Tucked

away

in

this

small

village

in

Buckinghamshire

County

is

the

former

Elizabethan coaching inn where William Shakespeare is said to have penned part

of

Dating

from

1534,

the

inn,

now

called

Shakespeare

House,

is

thought

to

have

been

built

as

a

Tudor

hunting

lodge.

Later

it

became

a

stop

for

travelers

between

London and Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shakespeare was born and buried.

It was

Aubrey,

that

linked

Shakespeare

to

the

inn,

saying

that

he

had

stayed

there

and

drawn

inspiration for the comedy while in the village.

One

of

the

current

owners,

Nick

Underwood,

said

the

local

lore

goes

even

further:

house

on April 23 every year -- the date he is said to have been born and to

have died.

but,

over time, pieces were sold off,

it was

owned by two

American families.

and his

co-owner, Roy Elsbury,

have

put the seven-bedroom property on the market at

￡

1.375 million, or $$2.13 million.

Despite

its

varied

uses

and

renovations

over

the

years,

the

4,250-square-foot,

or

395-square-meter,

inn

has

retained

so

much

of

its

original

character

that

the

organization

English

Heritage

lists

it

as

a

Grade

II*

property,

indicating

that

it

is

particularly

important

and

of

than

special

interest.

Only

27

percent

of

the

1,600 buildings on the organization's register

have this designation.

We knew of the house before we bought it and were very excited when it came

up for sale. It is so unusual to find an Elizabethan property of this size, in

this area,

and when we saw it, we absolutely fell in love with it,

Underwood said.

have taken great pleasure in working on it and living here.

This house is all about

the history.

In addition to being the owners' home, the property currently is run as a

luxury

guest house, with rooms rented for ?99 to ?250 a night.

Heaviside, the national sales director of Fine real estate agency, which is representing

the

owners.

has

been

beautif-

ully

restored

and

offers

a

unique

lifestyle,

which

brings a taste of the past together with modern-day comfort. It

is rare to find a home

like this on the market.

Passage 2

The ancient frozen dome cloaking Greenland is so vast that pilots have crashed

into what they thought was a cloud bank spanning the horizon. Flying over it, you can

scarcely imagine that it could erode fast enough to dangerously raise sea levels any

time soon.

Along the flanks in spring and summer, however, the picture is very different. For

an

increasing

number

of

warm

years,

a

network

of

blue

lakes

and

rivulets

of

melt-water has been spreading ever higher on the icecap.

The melting surface darkens, absorbing up to four times as much energy from the

sun

as

snow,

which

reflects

sunlight.

Natural

drainpipes

called

moulins

carry

water

from the surface into the depths, in some places reaching bedrock.

The process slightly, but measurably, lubricates and accelerates the grinding passage

of ice towards the sea.

Most important, many glaciologists say, is the break-up of huge semi-submerged

clots of ice where some large Greenland

glaciers, particularly

along the

west

coast,

squeeze

through

fiords

as

they

meet

the

warming

ocean.

As

these

passages

have

cleared, this has sharply accelerated the flow of many of these creeping, corrugated

and frozen rivers.

Some glaciologists fear that the rise in seas in a warming world could be much

greater

than

the

upper

estimate

of

about

60

centimetres

this

century

made

by

the

Intergovernmental

Panel

on

Climate

Change

last

year.

(Seas

rose

less

than

30

centimetres last century.)

The panel's assessment did not include factors known to contribute to ice flows

but not understood well enough to estimate with confidence. SCIENTIFIC scramble is

under way to clarify whether the erosion of the world's most vulnerable ice sheets, in

Greenland and west Antarctica, can continue to accelerate. The effort involves field

and satellite analyses and sifting for clues from past warm periods,

Things are definitely far more serious than anyone would have thought five years ago.

Passage 1

中国是一个发展 中国家。多年来，中国在致力于自身发展的同时，始终坚持

向经济困难的其他发展中国家 提供力所能及的援助，

承担相应国际义务。

中国的

对外援助，

发展巩固了与广大发展中国家的友好关系和经贸合作，

作，为人类社会共同发展作出了积极贡献。

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中国的对外援助政策具有鲜明的时代特征，符合自身国情和受援国发展需

要。中国是世界上最大的发展中国家，人口多、底子薄、经济发展不平衡。发展

仍然是中国长期面临的艰巨任务，这决定了中国的对外援助属于南南合作范畴，

是发展中国家间的相互帮助。

当前，

全球发展环境依然十分严峻。

国际金融危机影响尚未消退，

气候 变化、

粮食危机、

能源资源安全、

流行 性疾病等全球性问题给发展中国家带来新的挑战。

新形势下，

中国对外援助事业任重道远。中国政府将着力优化对外援助结构，

提高对外援助质量，

进一步增强受援国自主发展能力，提高 援助的针对性和实

效性。

Passage 2

作为远古人类留给我们的宝贵的文化遗产 ，

岩画堪称是记载人类早期社会生

活的百科

全书，

它不仅传承着源远流长的古代文明，

也是史前人类文化、

宗教、

民俗以及原始艺