《商务翻译》第8次翻译练习

《商务翻译》第8次翻译练习

（一）句子翻译练习

1.Of these job seekers, the number of people who lost their jobs involuntarily due to companies

collapsing and restructuring was 1.05 million, down 130,000 from the previous month.

2.If a contract to set forth the parties’ final agreemen ts is not executed by the parties hereto by

_____ for any reason, this Letter of Intent may be terminated by either party without obligation, upon 10 days’ written notice to the other party.

3.The plaintiffs took the action because they believe that the automaker failed to take

appropriate measures to prevent the recurrence of similar accidents.

4.The current appreciation of the yen, if left unabated, would slow the recovery of the economy,

causing the stock market to weaken.

5.Amid the economic slowdown, many major U.S. companies have been forced to review their

strategies after the mergers and acquisitions they pursued failed to produce the expected synergy.

6.Unrealized gains in stockholdings of major companies and banks will push up their finances

by a wide margin thanks to the buoyant stock market.

7.Unsought goods are consumer goods that the consumer either does not know about or knows

about but does not normally think of buying.

8.Since your order covers so big a quantity we are unable to meet your requirements for the

moment, but we will do our utmost to secure supply for you, and where the position improves we will not fail to let you know.

9.They should lose no time in adopting further measures to restore market confidence, expand

demand and promote an early recovery and development of the regional and global economy.

10.While in the growth stage, advertising and public relations continue to be powerful influences,

whereas sales promotion can be reduced because fewer incentives are needed.

（二）篇章翻译练习

When anyone opens a current account at a bank, he is lending the bank money, repayment of which he may demand at any time, either in cash or by drawing a cheque in favour of another person. Primarily, the banker-customer relationship is that of debtor and creditor – who is which depending on whether the customer’s account is in credit or is overdrawn. But, in addition to that basically simple concept, the bank and its customer owe a large number of obligations to one another. Many of these obligations can give rise to problems and complications but a bank customer, unlike, say, a buyer of goods, cannot complain that the law is loaded against him.

The bank must obey its customer’s instructions, and not those of anyone else. When, for example, a customer first opens an account, he instructs the bank to debit his account only in respect of cheques drawn by himself. He gives the bank specimens of h is signature, and there is a very firm rule that the bank has no right or authority to pay out a customer’s money on a cheque on which its customer’s signature has been forged. It makes no difference that the forgery may have been a very skilful one: the bank must recognize its customer’s signature. For this reason there is no risk to the customer in the practice, adopted by banks, of printing the customer’s name on his cheques. If this facilitates forgery, it is the bank which will lose, not the customer. (Barrie,

G. and Diamond, A. L.: The Customer Society and the Law)