译之灵翻译培训:2015年5月CATTI二级口译真题(回忆版)
2015年5月二口汉译英 第1篇

2015年5月二口汉译英第1篇第一段:作为中国残疾人的代表,我很高兴有机会出席关于保护残疾人权益的国际研讨会。
并向各位介绍中国在保护残疾人权益方面取得的进展。
中国有8500万残疾人,位列世界第一。
占世界残疾人总数的9%,中国总人口的6.3%左右。
这一数字也超过了德国人口的总数。
因为你可以想象中国政府在保护残疾人合法权益方面面临的挑战是多么巨大。
As a delegate of Chinese disabled people, I am honored to participate in the international symposium on the protectionof the rights of disabled person and introduce to you the progress China has made in this regard. China has 85 million disabled people, which ranks the first in the world. It accounts for 9 percent of the world’s disabled people and 6.3% of those in China. The number is great than the total population in Germany. Therefore, it is easy to imagine how great the challenge Chinese government faces in protecting the legal rights of the disabled people.第二段:正是由于这个原因,中国政府高度重视保护残疾人的权益,并采取了一系列措施。
1987年,中国政府对全国残疾人状况进行了抽样调查,在此基础上1991年的通过了残疾人保障法,为在中国推动保护中国残疾人合法权益奠定了法律基础。
2015年外交学院英语口译专业真题凯程学员回忆版

2015年外交学院英语口译专业真题凯程学员回忆版基础英语1. 20个单项选择。
考词汇和语法,专八水平,比较基础,有一道很老的题,还有一道其他学校考过的,只是句子稍改了一下。
2. 10个改错。
给出一小篇文章,在10行画线句子中找错。
比专八改错简单写。
3. 6篇阅读。
外院每年都是6篇阅读,前五篇是选择,题目难度不大,基本上都可以从原文中找到,但要细心。
其中还有一篇是要在几个句子里,选出填到原文空缺处的考题。
最后一篇有变化,去年是考的问答,今年是给文章的每一段选一个可以概括该段的句子,总共需要选出5个,但给出了10个选项,需要认真分析,仔细阅读。
4.作文。
The function of a university (at least 400 words)前面给了几句不同人的看法,关于大学要不要提供和工作有关的课程。
翻译基础1.QE、API、FTAAP、UNCCC、ISIS、escape velocity、零和关系、零碳和低碳技术、集体供暖体系、贸易代表团、非约束性原则、部长级会议……总共是30个,其余的想出来再补充吧。
2.英译汉从网上搜了一下,没有找到原文,大概讲的就是奥巴马支持民权运动,与其他政治领袖的不同、以及讲述了马丁路德金是怎么影响奥巴马的。
总共是9小段。
3.汉译英从网上找到了原文,543字。
作者是美国加州圣玛利亚学院教授,首发刊载于9月4日发售的《中国新闻周刊》。
人们对不美好的、令人失望的事物可能抱三种态度:理想主义、现实主义和犬儒主义。
有研究者发现,这三种人生态度会分别在青年、中年、老年时期特别有影响。
人在十几、二十来岁的年轻时期,往往倾向于理想主义,特别有正义感。
一旦碰到不公不义、龌龊丑恶之事,便充满了愤怒,理想化地想要对它进行彻底的纠正。
打倒孔家店,推翻封建礼教,消灭封、资、修,占领华尔街,都是年轻人在那里冲锋陷阵。
中年的务实理想主义者希望能尽自己的力量做一些有益的事情:公益活动、议论时事、参与民间团体的活动等等。
2015年5月CATTI二级笔译综合真题

Section 1 V ocabulary and Grammar (60 points)This section consists of 3 parts. Read the direction for each part before answering the questions.Part 1 V ocabulary SelectionIn this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are 4 choices marked by letters A, B, C, and D respectively. Choose the word which best completes each sentence. There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.1. From a young age, children begin a continuous process of evaluating themselves in the _____ of the opinions and comments of those around them.a. contrastb. returnc. lightd. spite2. If you’re forced outside for hours ____ end, especially doing something physical, consider dumping water over your head or on your neck.a. atb. toc. ind. on3. One reason for the cost of wave power is the need to make the equipment _____ to storm damage and corrosion.a. impassableb. impertinentc. imperiousd. impervious4. The study found that one in four people has missed an important appointment, and that nearly one in five has fallen ____ with a friendover a forgotten date.a. outb. inc. throughd. across5. Neil made a thrust at the person who was holding a knife towards him and violently overthrew him horse and ______.a. dogb. footc. toed. cart6. These fish excrete nitrates that develop plankton – the enemy of corals, for they make the sea water ____ and block sunlight which is an essential ingredient for coral survival.a. shakyb. huskyc. riskyd. murky7. It’s the ____ of ad that is intended to appeal to teachers, lawyers, doctors, and other professionals.a. sampleb. sortc. shaped. set8. The _______ secretary is very conscientious about correcting even the smallest errors.a. mediocreb. meticulousc. meand. mendacious9. The doctor has made an initial ______, but there will be an additional examination by a specialist.a. dosageb. disposalc. diagnosisd. detection10. Instead of making the same old New Year resolutions, it would be more meaningful to _____ the pump with the very qualities you would like to see in your life.a. primeb. strikec. drived. hit11. A share price represents the value of the share – it tells you next to _____ about the value of the stock of a company in an unregulated market.a. everythingb. nothingc. anythingd. something12. It is _____ for anyone to make any irresponsible remarks on a country’s national defense building aimed at safeguarding national security and territorial integrity.a. unsettledb. unreservedc. unshakeabled. untenable13. The “smoothie” theory contends that people save for a rainy day in a boom and then _____ out savings to maintain living standards during a recession.a. cutb. getc. drawd. lay14. The cost of living in the city is greater, but salaries are supposed to be _______ higher.a. respectivelyb. proportionatelyc. correspondinglyd. accordingly15. To make everyone develop in every aspect with complete freedom is the ideal that human beings have been _______ pursuing.a. indefatigablyb. necessarilyc. completelyd. exceptionally16. Communal nests have advantages and disadvantages for animals like mice: they enable the animals to maintain body heat, but leave them more ____ to discovery by predators.a. flexibleb. vulnerablec. delicated. insensitive17. One by one, she ______ almost all of her supporters until, in the end, only a handful of her closest allies really wanted her to stay in office.a. liberatedb. representedc. decomposedd. alienated18. Everyone in my office pays the same tax, irrespective ____ whether they’re married or single.a. ofb. withc. tod. from19. The number of stay-at-home fathers reached a record high last year as families saw a rise in that of female ____.a. awardwinnersb. breadwinnersc. cashwinnersd. prizewinners20. Traditional fairytales are being ditched by parents because they are too ____ for their young children.a. scantyb. stylishc. scaryd. stingyPart 2 V ocabulary ReplacementThis part consists of 20 sentences. In each of them one word or phrase is underlined, and below each, there are 4 choices marked by letters A, B, C and D respectively. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part without causing any grammatical error or changing the basic meaning of the sentence. There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.21. One problem is that these changes add to the already exorbitant costsof MBA courses.a. extravagantb. excessivec. extensived. expedient22. The World Health Organization says that despite great progress in preventing malaria in many countries, a shortage of funds could lead to a resurgence of the disease.a. regressionb. recessionc. revivald. renovation23. Beef, pork, and chicken are staples for the local people, but some diners also tuck into other exotic animals in the belief that they have medicinal qualities.a. strangeb. outboundc. tamed. diverse24. Samsung is not the first company to come under government scrutiny for its warranty practices.a. investigationb. arbitrationc. censorshipd. review25. The idea that beauty is capital epitomizes the idea that good looks are the key to increased opportunities for social and career success.a. employsb. empowersc. emulatesd. embodies26. Some researchers set out to explore claims that warm indoor temperatures have helped to bring about rising obesity levels.a. contributed tob. emerged withc. searched ford. benefited from27. Several studies have found that chemical compounds can be sued to subdue or even delete memories in mice (and maybe someday inhumans).a. supportb. supplantc. suppressd. supply28. Education can help students carve out a better future for themselves, but studying abroad can come with a high price tag sometimes.a. attainb. obtainc. retaind. entertain29. Scientists still don’t understand what parts of the brain linked to deviant social behaviors associated with conditions like autism and schizophrenia.a. abnormalb. ambientc. ambitiousd. acute30. If you are habitually later for routine business and for events that don’t cause you much discomfort, then the problem is mainly self-discipline.a. rhythmicallyb. intermittentlyc. customarilyd. momentarily31. Ecologists have worriedly predicted the extent to which water and air pollution will seriously endanger the environment.a. confidentlyb. angrilyc. sadlyd. entirely32. Although the jobs on offer do not appear overly appealing, they have become quite sought after.a. inadequatelyb. exceedinglyc. moderatelyd. reasonably33. If is difficult to discern the stains on the sample unless the microscope is adjusted properly.a. disposeb. definec. discardd. detect34. They bestowed the gift to the person who rescued their child from a big fire.a. precededb. presentedc. presumedd. preserved35. Rapid thawing of the Arctic could trigger a catastrophic “economic time bomb”which would cost trillions of dollars and weaken the global financial system.a. undercutb. underminec. underscored. underpin36. Sally Verner, a former state senator who preached judicial restraint, was expected to align herself with conservatives when she was appointed to the United States Supreme Court.a. advocatedb. admiredc. adoptedd. advanced37. Whether the giant panda belonged to the bear or cat families was a matter of zoological contention for years.a. controversyb. confusionc. conceptiond. complication38. If you have a great goal in mind, don’t give it up, no matter how apathetic, exhausted, or frustrated you might feel.a. indifferentb. inadvertentc. intolerantd. indulgent39. Malnutrition, so often caused by sheer poverty, can be ameliorated with nutritious easy-to-grow vegetables to augment the starchy local diet.a. underminedb. improvedc. exterminatedd. repealed40. By afternoon I was all sweated out and parched up, but still we sawno sight of water.a. consortedb. burnishedc. dosedd. scorchedPart 3 Error CorrectionThis part consists of 20 sentences. In each of them there is an underlined part that indicates a grammatical error, and below each, there are 4 choices marked by letters A, B, C and D respectively. Choose the word and phrase that can replace the underlined part so that the error is corrected. There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.41. During severe winter snowstorms, schools would close, the same as post offices and other government agencies.a. as shouldb. as wouldc. as dod. as did42. Early musical training does more good to kids than only to make it easier for them to enjoy music.a. only makingb. making onlyc. makingd. to make43. Eating popcorn in the cinema may be irritated not just for fellow moviegoers, but for advertisers: a group of researchers have concluded that chewing makes us immune to film advertising.a. may be to irritateb. may be irritatingc. may have irritatedd. may irritate44. A report found a quarter of men have fallen asleep while driving, making them almost twice likely as women (13 percent) to do so.a. twice as likely asb. likely as twicec. as twice as likelyd. as twice likely。
2015年5月二笔

第一部分英译汉Part 1 English to Chinese TranslationPassage 1(关于毛利人的介绍,原文选自:/maori.html)Early Maori adapted the tropically based east Polynesian culture in line with the challenges associated with a larger and more diverse environment, eventually developing their own distinctive culture. The British and Irish immigrants brought aspects of their own culture to New Zealand and also influenced Maori culture. More recently American, Australian, Asian and other European cultures have exerted influence on New Zealand.New Zealand music has been influenced by blues, jazz, country, rock and roll and hip hop, with many of these genres given a unique New Zealand interpretation. Maori developed traditional chants and songs from their ancient South-East Asian origins, and after centuries of isolation created a unique "monotonous" and "doleful" sound.The number of New Zealand films significantly increased during the 1970s. In 1978 the New Zealand Film Commission started assisting local film-makers and many films attained a world audience, some receiving international acknowledgement.New Zealand television primarily broadcasts American and British programming, along with a large number of Australian and local shows. The country's diverse scenery and compact size, plus government incentives, have encouraged some producers to film big budget movies in New Zealand.The Ministry for Culture and Heritage i s government’s leading adviser on cultural matters. The Ministry funds, monitors and supports a range of cultural agencies and delivers a range of high-quality cultural products and services.The Ministry provides advice to government on where to focus its interventions in the cultural sector. It seeks to ensure that Vote funding is invested as effectively and efficiently as possible, and that government priorities are met.The Ministry has a strong track record of delivering high-quality publications, managing significant heritage and commemorations, and acting as guardian of New Zealand’s culture. The Ministry’s work prioritizes cultural outcomes and also supports educational, economic and social outcomes, linking with the work of a range of other government agencies.Passage 2Awakening the ‘Dutch Gene’ of Water SurvivalBy CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZEJUNE 29, 2014Along a rugged, wide North Sea beach here on a recent day, children formedteams of eight to 10, taking their places beside mounds of sand carefully cordoned by candy-cane striped tape. They had one hour for their sand castle competition. Some built fishlike structures, complete with scales. Others spent their time on elaborate ditch and dike labyrinths. Each castle was adorned on top with a white flag.Then they watched the sea invade and devour their work, seeing whose castle could withstand the tide longest. The last standing flag won.Theirs was no ordinary day at the beach, but a newly minted,state-sanctioned competition for schoolchildren to raise awareness of the dangers of rising sea levels in a country of precarious geography that has provided lessons for the world about water management, but that fears that its next generation will grow complacent.Fifty-five percent of the Netherlands is either below sea level or heavily flood-prone. Yet thanks to its renowned expertise and large water management budget (about 1.25 percent of gross domestic product), the Netherlands has averted catastrophe since a flooding disaster in 1953.Experts here say that they now worry that the famed Dutch water management system actually works too well and that citizens will begin to take for granted the nation’s success in staying dry. As global climate change threatens to raise sea levels by as much as four feet by the end of the century, the authorities here are working to make real to children the forecasts that may seem far-off, but that will shape their lives in adulthood and old age.“Everything works so smoothly that people don’t realize anymore that they are taking a risk in developing urban areas in low-lying areas,” said Hafkenscheid, the lead organizer of the competition and a water expert with the Foreign Ministry.Before the competition, the children, ages 6 to 11, were coached by experts in dike building and water management. Volunteers stood by, many of them freshly graduated civil engineers, giving last-minute advice on how best to battle the rising water.A recently released report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on water management in the Netherlands pointed to an “awareness gap” among Dutch citizens.第二部分汉译英Part 2 Chinese to English TranslationPassage 3(选自2013年政府白皮书《西藏的发展与进步》,译之灵翻译培训课堂指定阅读材料。
2015年二级笔译真题及答案汇总

CATTI英语笔译实务(2级)2015年5月考试真题与参考答案Part 1:English-Chinese TranslationPassage 1Along a rugged, wideNorth Sea beach here on a recent day, children form ed teams of eight to 10,taking their places beside mounds of sand carefull y cordoned by tape. They hadone hour for their sand castle competition. S ome built fishlike structures,complete with scales. Others spent their time on elaborate ditch and dikelabyrinths. Each castle was adorned on top wit h a white flag.近日,北海沿岸崎岖而宽广的海滩上,孩子们八人一组,十人一队,在用隔离带精心围起来的沙堆旁各就各位。
他们要在一个小时内完成堆沙堡的比赛。
有些人打造鱼形的主体建筑,再配上鳞片。
其余的人修建复杂的沟渠和迷宫式的堤坝。
每个沙堡的顶部都插有一面白旗。
Then they watched thesea invade and devour their work, seeing whose ca stle could with stand the tidelongest. The last standing flag won.然后,孩子们等待着大海涨潮,吞没沙堡,看谁的沙堡在潮水中持续的时间最久。
白旗最后倒下的沙堡获胜。
It was no ordinary dayat the beach, but a newly minted, state-sanctioned c ompetition forschoolchildren to raise awareness of the dangers of rising s ea levels in a countryof precarious geography that has provided lessons for the world about watermanagement, but that fears that its next generation will grow complacent.孩子们在海滩上度过的这一天意义非凡。
2015年5月二口汉译英 第2篇 - Copy

2015年5月二口汉译英第2篇人民币国际化是国际社会普遍关心的问题,尤其是各位金融界的朋友们。
你们关心的问题是中国对于人民币国际化是否制订了一个时间表,我讲对这一问题谈谈我的看法。
人民币国际化主要指的是在贸易和投资方面人民币的跨境使用。
2008年金融危机的发生,使许多人对现有的国际货币体系失去信心。
越来越多的人开始使用人民币进行国际贸易,这给人民币的国际化进程提供了一个非常好的机遇。
The globalization of RMB has become a common concern for the international community, particularly the friends of the finance circle. What you care most is whether China has formulated a timetable for the globalization of RMB. I want to share with you my view on that matter. The Globalization of RMB mainly refers to the cross-border use of RMB in trade and investment. After the outbreak of financial crisis in 2008, many people lose their confidence in the current international currency system and start to trade with RMB. This has given RMB a good opportunity toward its globalization.现在中国政府在对外贸易方面使用人民币的频率越来越高。
根据中国人民银行2013年的数据,人民币跨境结算达到了5.16万亿元,同比增长61%。
英语二级笔译真题+答案解析

2015年5月CATTI二级笔译实务真题英译汉passage1Along a rugged, wide North Sea beach here on a recent day, children formed teams of eight to 10,taking their places beside mounds of sand carefully cordoned by tape. They had one hour for their sand castle competition. Some built fishlike structures, complete with scales. Others spent their time on elaborate ditch and dike labyrinths. Each castle was adorned on top with a white flag.近日,北海沿岸崎岖而宽广的海滩上,孩子们八人一组,十人一队,在用隔离带精心围起来的沙堆旁各就各位。
他们要在一个小时内完成堆沙堡的比赛。
有些人打造鱼形的主体建筑,再配上鳞片。
其余的人修建复杂的沟渠和迷宫式的堤坝。
每个沙堡的顶部都插有一面白旗。
1.“taking their places/ beside mounds of sand /carefully cordoned by tape.”这句话划分一下知道了大概意思是这些小朋友各就各位在自己的沙堆旁边,这些沙堆被隔离带精心的围着。
2.a mound of [something]一堆某物3.cordonA. noun警戒线to throw a cordon around [something]在某物周围设置警戒线B. transitive verbcordon off[cordon off something], [cordon something off]封锁4.ditchA. noun沟B. transitive verb①(get rid of)抛弃‹partner, friend›; 丢弃‹car, machinery›to ditch one's boyfriend甩掉男友②Aviation(crash-land)«pilot, crew»使…在海上迫降‹plane›Then they watched the sea invade and devour their work, seeing whose castle could with stand the tide longest. The last standing flag won.然后,孩子们等待着大海涨潮,吞没沙堡,看谁的沙堡在潮水中持续的时间最久。
2015年11月-2006年5月CATTI二笔真题(汉译英部分)

2015年11月-2006年5月CATTI二笔真题(汉译英部分)目录2015年11月 (3)Passage 1 (3)Passage 2 (3)2015年5月 (4)Passage 1 (4)Passage 2 (5)2014年11月 (6)Passage 1 (6)Passage 2 (7)2014年5月 (8)Passage 1 (8)Passage 2 (9)2013年11月 (10)Passage 1 (10)Passage 2 (10)2013年5月 (11)Passage 1 (11)Passage 2 (12)2012年11月 (13)Part A必译题 (13)Part B 选译题 (14)【试题一】 (14)2012年5月 (14)Passage 1 (14)Passage 2 (15)2011年11月 (16)Passage 1 (16)Passage 2 (17)2011年5月 (17)Part A必译题 (18)Part B选译题 (18)【试题二】 (18)2010年11月 (19)Passage 1 (19)Passage 2 (20)2010年5月 (20)Passage 1 (20)Passage 2 (22)2009年11月 (23)Part A必译题 (23)Part B选译题 (23)【试题一】 (23)2009年5月 (25)Part A必译题 (25)Part B选译题 (25)【试题一】 (25)2008年11月 (26)2008年5月 (27)Part A必译题 (27)Part B选译题 (28)【试题一】 (28)2007年11月 (28)Part A必译题 (28)Part B选译题 (29)【试题二】 (29)2007年5月 (30)Part A必译题 (30)Part B选译题 (31)【试题一】 (31)2006年11月 (32)Part A 必译题 (32)Part B 选译题 (32)【试题一】 (32)【试题二】 (33)2006年5月 (34)Part A 必译题 (34)Part B 选译题 (35)【试题一】 (35)【试题二】 (36)2015年11月Passage 1Apple may well be the only technical company on the planet that would dare compare itself to Picasso.In a class at the company's internal university, the instructor likened the 11 lithographs that make up Picasso's The Dull to the way Apple builds its smartphones and other devices. The idea is that Apple designers strive for simplicity just as Picasso eliminated details to create a great work of art.Steven P. Jobs established the Apple University as a way to inculcate employees into Apple's business culture and educate them about its history, particularly as the company grew and the technical business changed. Courses are not required, only recommended, but getting new employees to enroll is rarely a problem.Randy Nelson, who came from the animation studio Pixar, co-founded by Mr. Jobs, is one of the teachers of "Communicating at Apple." This course, open to various levels of employees, focuses on clear communication, not just for making products intuitive, but also for sharing ideas with peers and marketing products.In a version of the class taught last year, Mr. Nelson showed a slide of The Bull, a series of 11 lithographs of a bull that Picasso created over about a month, starting in late 1945. In the early stages, the bull has a snout, shoulder shanks and hooves, but over the iterations, those details vanish. The last image is a curvy stick figure that is still unmistakably a bull."You go through more iterations until you can simply deliver your message in a very concise way, and that is true to the Apple brand and everything we do," recalled one person who took the course.In "What Makes Apple, Apple," another course that Mr. Nelson occasionally teaches, he showed a slide of the remote control for the Google TV, said an employee who took the class last year. The remote control has 78 buttons. Then, the employee said, Mr. Nelson displayed a photo of the Apple TV remote control, a thin piece of metal with just three buttons.How did Apple's designers decide on three buttons? They started out with an idea. Mr. Nelson explained, and debated until they had just what was needed — a button to play and pause a video, a button to select something to watch, and another to go to the main menu.The Google TV remote control serves as a counterexample. It had so many buttons, Mr. Nelson said, because the individual engineers and designers who worked on the project all got what they wanted.Passage 2Equipped with the camera extender known as a selfie stick, occasionally referred to as "the wand of narcissism," tourists can now reach for flattering selfies wherever they go.Art museums have watched this development nervously, fearing damage to their collections or to visitors, as users swing their slicks with abandon. Now they are taking action. One by one, museums across the United States have been imposing bans on using selfie sticks for photographs inside galleries (adding them to existing rules on umbrellas, backpacks and tripods), yet another example of how controlling crowding has become part of the museum mission.The Mirshhom Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington prohibited the sticks this month, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston plans to impose a ban. In New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has been studying the matter for some time, has just decided that it will forbid selfie slicks, too. New signs will be posted soon."from now on ,you will be asked quietly to put it away," said Sree Sreenivasan, the chief digital officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "It's one thing to take a picture at arm's length, but when it is three times arm's length, you are invading someone else's personal space."The personal space of other visitors is just one problem. The artwork is another. "We do not want to have to put all the art under glass," said Deborah Ziska, the chief of public information at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, which has been quietly enforcing a ban on selfie sticks, but is in the process of adding it formally to its printed guidelines for visitors.Last but not least is the threat to the camera operator, intent on capturing the perfect shot and oblivious to the surroundings. "If people are not paying attention in the Temple of Dendur, they can end up in the water with the crocodile sculpture," Mr. Sreenivasan said. "We have so many balconies you could fall from, and stairs you can trip on."At the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thursday, Jasmine Adaos, a selfie-stick user from Chile, expressed dismay. "It's just another product," she said. "When you have a regular camera, it's the s ame thing. I don't see the problem if you‘re careful.‖ But Hai Lin student from Shandong, China, conceded that the museum might have a point. "You can hit people when they're passing by," she said.2015年5月Passage 1(关于毛利人的介绍,原文选自:/maori.html)Early Maori adapted the tropically based east Polynesian culture in line with the challenges associated with a larger and more diverse environment, eventually developing their own distinctive culture. The British and Irish immigrants brought aspects of their own culture to New Zealand and also influenced Maori culture. More recently American, Australian, Asian and other European cultures have exerted influence on New Zealand.New Zealand music has been influenced by blues, jazz, country, rock and roll and hip hop, with many ofthese genres given a unique New Zealand interpretation. Maori developed traditional chants and songs from their ancient South-East Asian origins, and after centuries of isolation created a unique "monotonous" and "doleful" sound.The number of New Zealand films significantly increased during the 1970s. In 1978 the New Zealand Film Commission started assisting local film-makers and many films attained a world audience, some receiving international acknowledgement.New Zealand television primarily broadcasts American and British programming, along with a large number of Australian and local shows. The country's diverse scenery and compact size, plus government incentives, have encouraged some producers to film big budget movies in New Zealand.The Ministry for Culture and Heritage is government‘s leading adviser on cultural matters. The Ministry funds, monitors and supports a range of cultural agencies and delivers a range of high-quality cultural products and services.The Ministry provides advice to government on where to focus its interventions in the cultural sector. It seeks to ensure that V ote funding is invested as effectively and efficiently as possible, and that government priorities are met.The Ministry has a strong track record of delivering high-quality publications, managing significant heritage and commemorations, and acting as guardian of New Zealand‘s culture. The Ministry‘s work prioritizes cultural outcomes and also supports educational, economic and social outcomes, linking with the work of a range of other government agencies.Passage 2Awakening the ‗Dutch Gene‘ of Water SurvivalBy CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZEJUNE 29, 2014Along a rugged, wide North Sea beach here on a recent day, children formed teams of eight to 10, taking their places beside mounds of sand carefully cordoned by candy-cane striped tape. They had one hour for their sand castle competition. Some built fishlike structures, complete with scales. Others spent their time on elaborate ditch and dike labyrinths. Each castle was adorned on top with a white flag.Then they watched the sea invade and devour their work, seeing whose castle could withstand the tide longest. The last standing flag won.Theirs was no ordinary day at the beach, but a newly minted, state-sanctioned competition for schoolchildren to raise awareness of the dangers of rising sea levels in a country of precarious geography that has provided lessons for the world about water management, but that fears that its next generation will grow complacent.Fifty-five percent of the Netherlands is either below sea level or heavily flood-prone. Yet thanks to its renowned expertise and large water management budget (about 1.25 percent of gross domestic product), the Netherlands has averted catastrophe since a flooding disaster in 1953.Experts here say that they now worry that the famed Dutch water management system actually works too well and that citizens will begin to take for granted the nation‘s success in staying dry. As global climatechange threatens to raise sea levels by as much as four feet by the end of the century, the authorities here are working to make real to children the forecasts that may seem far-off, but that will shape their lives in adulthood and old age.―Everything works so smoothly that people don‘t realize anymore that they are taking a risk in developing urban areas in low-lying areas,‖ said Hafkenscheid, the lead organizer of the competition and a water expert with the Foreign Ministry.Before the competition, the children, ages 6 to 11, were coached by experts in dike building and water management. V olunteers stood by, many of them freshly graduated civil engineers, giving last-minute advice on how best to battle the rising water.A recently released report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on water management in the Netherlands pointed to an ―awareness gap‖ among Dutch citizens.2014年11月Passage 1WA TERLOO,Belgium —The region around this Belgian city is busily preparing to commemorate the 200th anniversary in 2015 of one of the major battles in European military history. But weaving a path through the preparations is proving almost as tricky as making one’s way across the battlefield was back then,when the Duke of Wellington,as commander of an international alliance of forces,crushed Napoleon.A rambling though dilapidated farmstead called Hougoumont,which was crucial to the battle’s outcome,is being painstakingly restored as an educational center. Nearby,an underground visitor center is under construction,and roads and monuments throughout the rolling farmland where once the sides fought are being refurbished. More than 6,000 military buffs are expected to re-enact individual skirmishes.While the battle ended two centuries ago,however,hard feelings have endured. Memories are long here,and not everyone here shares Britain’s enthusiasm for celebrating Napoleon’s defeat.Every year,in districts of Wallonia,the French-speaking part of Belgium,there are fetes to honor Napoleon,according to Count Georges Jacobs de Hagen,a prominent Belgian industrialist and chairman of a committee responsible for restoring Hougoumont. ‚Napoleon,for these people,was very popular,‛Mr. Jacobs,73,said over coffee. ‚That is why,still today,there are some enemies of the project.‛Belgium,of course,did not exist in 1815. Its Dutch-speaking regions were part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands,while the French-speaking portion had been incorporated into the French Empire. Among French speakers,Mr. Jacobs said,Napoleon had a ‚huge influence —the administration,the Code Napoléon,‛or reform of the legal system. While Dutch-speaking Belgians fought under Wellington,French speakers fought with Napoleon.That distaste on the part of modern-day French speakers crystallized in resistance to a British proposal that,as part of the restoration of Hougoumont,a memorial be raised to the British soldiers who died defending its narrow North Gate at a critical moment on June 18,1815,when Wellington carried the day.‚Every discussion in the committee was filled with high sensitivity,‛Mr. Jacobs recalled. ‚I said,‘This is a condition for the help of the British,’so the North Gate won the battle,and we got the monument.‛If Belgium was reluctant to get involved,France was at first totally uninterested. ‚They told us,‘We don’t want to take part in this British triumphalism,’‛said Countess Nathalie du Parc Locmaria,a writer and publicist who is president of a committee representing four townships that own the land where the battle raged.Passage 2Bayer cares about the bees.Or at least that’s what they tell you at the company’s Bee Care Center on its sprawling campus here between Düsseldorf and Cologne. Outside the cozy two-story building that houses the center is a whimsical yellow sculpture of a bee. Inside,the same image is fashioned into paper clips,or printed on napkins and mugs.‚Bayer is strictly committed to bee health,‛said Gillian Mansfield,an official specializing in strategic messaging at the company’s Bayer CropScience division. She was sitting at the center’s semicircular coffee bar,which has a formidable espresso maker and,if you ask,homegrown Bayer honey. On the surrounding walls,bee fun facts are written in English,like ‚A bee can fly at roughly 16 miles an hour‛or,it takes ‚nectar from some two million flowers in order to produce a pound of honey.‛Next year,Bayer will open another Bee Care Center in Raleigh,N.C.,and has not ruled out more in other parts of the world.There is,of course, a slight caveat to all this buzzy good will.Bayer is one of the major producers of a type of pesticide that the European Union has linked to the large-scale die-offs of honey bee populations in North America and Western Europe. They are known as neonicotinoids,a relatively new nicotine-derived class of pesticide. The pesticide wasbanned this year for use on many flowering crops in Europe that attract honey bees.Bayer and two competitors,Syngenta and BASF,have disagreed vociferously with the ban,and are fighting in the European courts to overturn it.Hans Muilerman, a chemicals expert at Pesticide Action Network Europe,an environmental group,accused Bayer of doing ‚almost anything that helps their products remaining on the market. Massive lobbying,hiring P.R. firms to frame and spin,inviting commissioners to show their plants and their sustainability.‛‚Since they learned people care about bees,they are happy to start the type of actions you mention,‘bee care centers’and such,‛he said.There is a bad guy lurking at the Bee Care Center — a killer of bees,if you will. It’s just not a pesticide.Bayer’s culprit in the mysterious mass deaths of bees can be found around the corner from the coffee bar. Looming next to another sculpture of a bee is a sculpture of a parasite known as a varroa mite,which resembles a gargantuan cooked crab with spiky hair.The varroa,sometimes called the vampire mite,appears to be chasing the bee next to it,whichalready has a smaller mite stuck to it. And in case the message was not clear,images of the mites,which are actually quite small,flash on a screen at the center.While others point at pesticides,Bayer has funded research that blames mites for the bee die-off. And the center combines resources from two of the company’s divisions,Bayer CropScience and Bayer Animal Health,to further study the mite menace.‚The varroa is the biggest threat we have‛said Manuel Tritschler,28,a third-generation beekeeper who works for Bayer. ‚It’s very easy see to them,the mites,on the bees,‛he said,holding a test tube with dead mites suspended in liquid. ‚They suck the bee blood,from the adults and from the larvae,and in this way they transport a lot of different pathogens,virus,bacteria,fungus to the bees,‛he said.Conveniently,Bayer markets products to kill the mites too —one is called CheckMite —and Mr. Tritschler’s work at the center included helping design a ‚gate‛to affix to hives that coats bees with such chemical compounds.There is no disputing that varroa mites are a problem,but Mr. Muilerman said they could not be seen as the only threat.The varroa mite ‚cannot explain the massive die-off on its own,‛he said. ‚We think the bee die-off is a result of exposure to multiple stressors.‛2014年5月[翻译考试] 2014年5月份CATTI二级笔译考试,英译汉的两个语篇均来自《纽约时报》:第一篇是关于乔布斯夫人的介绍,第二篇是关于人文学科衰落的报道。
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译之灵翻译培训:2015年5月CATTI二级口译真题
(回忆版)
第一部分英译汉
Part 1 English to Chinese interpreting
Passage 1 如何应对人口增长的挑战
现在的世界人口已经超过了70多亿,而中国人口有13亿多,我们现在的世界和1945
年联合国刚成立时是十分不同的,当时的人口是世界的三分之一的比重。
但重要的是,在人口增长的过程中,对基础设施,医疗,健康,经济发展造成了一系列的挑战。
我们要特别注意对待男女平等问题,保证女孩接受教育的权力,保证他们获得工作机会的权力,使母婴得到关怀,和充足的营养供给,并降低婴儿死亡率,然而,在一些贫穷的国家,母婴并没有这些,我们应该为我们的下一代提供更多有利条件与保障。
Passage 2 调整水价对水资源进行管理
我经常到中国访问,但是我很少看到人们和水龙头里面的水,2014年中国瓶装水的销
量十分巨大!超过了美国。
···
我们今天的努力会为我们的后代带来实在的利益。
中国水资源需要建立完善的管理体系,清洁水是~~~中国水资源占世界多少,很少!现在大家都不敢直接饮用水龙头接出来
的水,
只增加供应量是不行的,所以中国需要更好的水资源管理系统。
那么有效的解决办法就是调整水价。
每立方米的水价格占中国人均可支配收入的比重为0.5%,而美国是2.5%。
5%的人口缴纳3倍的水价,15%的人口缴纳1.5倍的水价,剩下的80%人口缴纳最基本的水价。
人的日常用水,工业用水,和农业用水也占很大比重,我们应该使先进科学技术参与到水资源的管理之中,让自来水从水龙头中接出便可直接饮用。
调整价格是管理水资源的一种有效方式,但是与此同时,我们也要正确使用这样的一种方式。
第一部分汉译英
Part 2 Chinese to Englishinterpreting
Passage 3 保障残疾人的合法权益
大家好,作为残疾人代表,我很高兴参加关于保护残疾人权益的国际研讨会,接下来我将讨论中国在残疾人权益保护过程中的取得的一些进展。
中国残疾人口XX人,占世界以及中国%,这一数字比德国整个国家人口还要多,由此可见,这是一个急需解决的问题,这也是对经济发展,基础设施建设的一个挑战。
同时,世界地区的残疾人,包括中国的残疾人,都没有享受到社会经济发展的成果,没有参与到社会经济生活中来,然而,中国在这方面做得很好,我就是这样的受益者,我开了一家网店。
中国在2600个城市和乡镇中建立了6000多个社区残疾人康复中心。
建立了残疾人大约2400学校,有很多残疾人学生超过50W??!!~~并使2652万的残疾人受益,中国的这方面做得很好。
我今天来到这里的目的是为了和大家分享中国的在这方面取得的成就,并吸取其他国家在这方面的成功经验,以此更好保护残疾人的权益。
让我们一起携手,为更多的残疾人创造更加美好的生活。
Passage 4 人民币的国际化
当今,人民币的使用率越来越高,2008年的金融危机,使大家对于国际性的货币失去信心。
因此,在此之后,很多贸易投资都投资在了人民币上。
很多人关心,中国是否会列出人民币国际化时间表,我想要说的是,这是一个长期的过程。
所以,我们并没有一个时间表。
人民币国际化的进程需要很长时间,因为虽然人民币增长率很高,但是基数很小,所以在国际上的经贸投资方面,人民币的使用率仍然很低,我们并不应该去加快这一进程。
我认为,中国目前要做的不是推动人民币的使用,而是应该为人民币的国际化提供更有利的条件,来让人民币成为大家的选择,用不不用是市场选择的,
主要是有一些不可必要的限制,,不久要推动人民币在资本市场的可兑换,增加国际信心,总的来说,人民币可兑换的特点。
中国政府至今致力于减少国家法对于人民币的限制,
随着改革开放的深入,和社会经济的发展,更加与国际经济接轨,我相信,人民币国际化必然加速,而这一过程是不可逆转的。
可兑换增加,跨境资本结算,上海世贸区的建立也是人民币的国际化得到了推进。
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