CATTI人事部翻译考试 三级笔译实务真题及答案2010.5

2010.5

Section 1

：

English- Chinese Translation (50 points)

LECCO, Italy

—

Each morning, about 450 students travel along 17 school bus routes

to 10 elementary schools in this lakeside city at the southern tip of Lake Como. There

are zero school buses.

In 2003, to confront the triple threats of childhood obesity, local traffic jams and

—

most

important

—

a

rise

in

global

greenhouse

gases

abetted

by

car

emissions,

an

environmental group here proposed a retro-radical

concept: children should

walk

to

school.

They set up a piedibus (literally foot-bus in Italian)

—

a bus route with a driver but no

vehicle.

Each

morning

a

mix

of

paid

staff

members

and

parental

volunteers

in

fluorescent yellow vests lead lines of walking students along Lecco’s twisting streets

to t

he schools’ gates, Pied Piper

-style, stopping here and there as their flock expands.

At

the

Carducci

School,

100

children,

or

more

than

half

of

the

students,

now

take

walking

buses.

Many

of

them

were

previously

driven

in

cars.

Giulio·

Greppi,

a

9-year-old

with

shaggy

blond

hair,

said

he

had

been

driven

about

a

third

of

a

mile

each

way

until

he

started

taking

the

piedibus.

“I

get

to

see

my

friends

and

we

feel

special because we know it’s good for the environment,” he said.

Although the routes are each gene

rally less than a mile, the town’s piedibuses have so

far

eliminated

more

than

100,000

miles

of

car

travel

and,

in

principle,

prevented

thousands of tons of greenhouse gases from entering the air, Dario Pesenti, the town’s

environment auditor, estimates.

The number of children who are driven to school over all is rising in the United States

and

Europe,

experts

on

both

continents

say,

making

up

a

sizable

chunk

of

transportation’s contribution to greenhouse

-

gas emissions. The “school run” made up

18

percent

of

car

trips

by

urban

residents

of

Britain

last

year,

a

national

survey

showed.

In 1969, 40 percent

of students in

the United States walked to

school; in

2001, the

most

recent

year

data

was

collected,

13

percent

did,

according

to

the

federal

government’s National Household Travel Survey. Lecco’s walking bus was the first in

Italy, but hundreds have cropped up elsewhere in Europe and, more recently, in North

America to combat the trend.

Towns

in

France,

Britain

and

elsewhere

in

Italy

have

created

such

routes,

although

few are as extensive and long-

lasting as Lecco’s.

Section 2

：

Chinese- English Translation (50 points)