《商务翻译》第1次翻译练习
商务英语翻译 I 练习(2015-16)
2015-2016学年第一学期商务英语翻译（I）练习1. Germany's recovery grinds to a haltEconomic recovery in the eurozone lost steam in the closing months of last year as Germany’s upturn ground to a halt, in a blow to the country’s new Government under Angela Merkel, the Chanc ellor.An abrupt slowdown in Europe’s biggest economy saw Germany’s growth stagnate in the final quarter of 2005, after a robust expansion of 0.6 per cent in the previous three months, official figures showed.The disappointing sudden standstill in Germany contributed to a halving in fourth- quarter GDP growth across the eurozone to a modest pace of only 0.3 per cent.However, despite the bad news economists, investors and eurozone politicians all expressed confidence that both Germany and the eurozone would still enjoy a renewed acceleration in the opening months of this year.A survey of 25,000 German companies by the country’s chamber of industry and commerce (DIHK) reported that the outlook for corporate investment was at its strongest for 11 years, while expectations for exports surged to a six-year high. The mood among services firms also brightened, with companies’ spirits buoyed by expectation of a boost for consumer spending from this year’s World Cup.In a further counter to the gloomy GDP data, the closely-watched ZEW survey of sentiment among Germany’s investors dipped only slightly in February, with a headline confidence index of 69.8 — only a little below the two-year high of 70.0 set in January.The ZEW economic think-tank said the results showed that optimism in German financial markets had ―stabilized at a high level‖, while the investment climate remained positive.David Brown, an economist with Bear Stearns, backed the view of many other analysts yesterday that most of the ingredients for a strong revival in German economic activity this year remained in place. “Business confidence is still operating at a high level, consumer optimism is building as the jobless rate trends lower, and real activity levels are continuing to pick up,‖ he said.For now, yesterday’s official figures continued to show scant sign of any resurgence in German consumers’ willingness to spend. The country’s statistics office noted that domestic demand had―contributed little‖ to the economy’s fourth-quarter showing.It was unclear to what extent consumer spending may have been depressed at the end of last year by political uncertainties surrounding the creation of Germany’s ―grand coalition‖ Government of left and right under Frau Merkel.In the meantime, fourth-quarter growth relied instead on what was described as ―highly dynamic‖ net trade, and on strong investment spending.European finance ministers, meeting in Brussels, sought to brush aside the lackluster economic news and strike an optimistic tone over prospects for this year.2.1What I Have Lived For By Bertrand RussellThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy --- ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness --- that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what --- at last --- I have found.With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much I have achieved.Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.2.2 Youth Samuel UllmanYouth is not a time of life; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bow the heart and turn the spirit back to dust.Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, you and I will remain young.When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may have a young heart at 80.3. Genius Sacrificed for Failure Dr. William N. BrownDuring my youth in America’s Appalachian mountains, I learned that farmers preferred sons over daughters, largely because boys were better at heavy farm labor (though what boys anywhere could best the tireless Hui’an girls in the field of Fujian!)With only 3% of American in agriculture today, brain has supplanted brawn, yet cultural preferences, like bad habits, are easier to make than break. But history warns repeatedly of the tragic cost of dismissing too casually the gifts of the so-called weaker sex.About 150 years ago, a village church vicar in Yorkshire, England, had three lovely, intelligent daughters but his hopes hinged entirely on the sole male heir, Branwell, a youth with remarkable talent in both art and literature.Branwell’s father and sisters hoarded their pennies to pack him off to London’s Royal Academy of Arts, but if art was his calling, he dialed a wrong number. Within weeks he hightailed it home, a penniless failure.Hopes still high, the family landed Branwell a job as a private tutor, hoping this would free him to develop his literary skills and achieve the success and fame that he deserved. Failure again.For years the selfless sisters squelched their own goals, farming themselves out as teachers and governesses in support of their increasingly indebted brother, convinced the world must eventually recognize his genius. As failures multiplied, Branwell turned to alcohol, then opium, and eventually died as he had lived: a failure. So died hope in the one male – but what of the three anonymous sisters? During Branwell’s last years, the girls published a book of poetry at their own expense (under a pseudonym, for fear of reviewer’s bias against females).Even Branwell might have snickered: they sold only 2 copies.Undaunted, They continued in their spare time, late at night by candlelight, to pour out their pent-up emotion, writing of what they knew best, of women in conflict with their natural desires and social condition – in reality, less fiction than autobiography! And 19th century literature was transformed by Anne’s Agnes Grey, Emily’s Wuthering Heights and Charlotte’s Jane Eyre.But years of sacrifice for Banwell had taken their toll. Emily took ill at her brother’s funeral and died within 3 months, aged 29; Anne died 5 months later, aged 30; Charlotte lived only to age 39.If only they had been nurtured instead of sacrificed.No one remember Branwell’s name, much less his art or literature, but Bronte sisters’ tragically shot lives teach us even more of life than of literature. Their sacrificed genius cries out to us that in modern society we must value children not by their physical strength or sexual gender, as we would any mere beast of burden, but by their integrity, strength, commitment, courage--spiritual qualities abundant in both boys and girls. China, a nation blessed by more boys and girls than any nation, ignores at her own peril the lesson of the Bronte tragedy.Patrick Bronte fathered Branwell, but more importantly, he fathered Anne, Emily and Charlotte. Were he alive today he would surely urge us to put away our passé prejudices and avoid his own tragic and irrevocable error of putting all of his eggs in one male basket!4. Nature and ArtJames WhistlerNature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music.But the artist is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful---as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony.To say to the painter, that nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player, that he may sit on the piano.The dignity of the snow-capped mountain is lost in distinctness, but the joy of the tourist is to recognize the traveler on the top. The desire to see, for the sake of seeing, is, with the mass, alone the one to be gratified, hence the delight in detail.And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us---then the wayfarer hastens home; the working man and the cultured one, the wise man and the one of pleasure, cease to understand, as they have ceased to see, and Nature, who, for once, has sung in tune, sings her exquisite song to the artist alone, her son and her master---her son in that he loves her, her master in that he knows her.To him her secrets are unfolded, to him her lessons have become gradually clear. He looks at her flower, not with the enlarging lens, that he may gather facts for the botanist, but with the light of the one who sees in her choice selection of brilliant tones and delicate tints, suggestions of future harmonies.He does not confine himself to purposeless copying, without thought, each blade of grass, as commended by the inconsequent, but, in the long curve of the narrow leaf, corrected by the straight tall stem, he learns how grace is wedded to dignity, how strength enhances sweetness, that elegance shall be the result.In the citron wing of the pale butterfly, with its dainty spots of oranges, he sees before him the stately halls of fair gold, with their slender saffron pillars, and is taught how the delicate drawing high upon the walls shall be traced in tender tones of orpiment, and repeated by the base in notes of graver hue.In all that is dainty and lovable he finds hints for his own combinations, and thus is Nature ever his resource and always at his service, and to him is naught refused.Through his brain, ad through the last alembic, is distilled the refined essence of that thought which began with the Gods, and which they left him to carry out.Set apart by them to complete their works, he produces that wondrous thing called the masterpiece, which surpasses in perfection all that they have contrived in what is called Nature; and the Gods stand by and marvel, and perceive how far away more beautiful is the Venus of Melos than was their own Eve.---from the Oxford Book of English Prose5. China’s 4 Major Economic RegionsIn recent years, China has formed four major economic regions: the Pearl River Delta area, Yangtze River Delta area, Beijing Tianjin Hebei cities, and the large Northeastern China cities. Each of these regions, with its own specific strengths, has become an important engine propelling the economy’s rapid growth. Aggregate Economy RankingsGDP has become the main index for assessment of aggregate economic development. The Yangtze River Delta region ranked first among the four regions in terms of GDP, reaching RMB2379.8 billion in 2003, an increase of RMB 381.5 billion over the previous year. The 16 cities that comprise this area realized an average growth of 14.8% over the prior year. The Beijing Tianjin Hebei cluster of cities’ GDP ranked second at RMB 1309.4 billion in 2003, posing an increase of 12.2% over 2002. The Northeastern China cluster of cities (three Northeast Chinese provinces) realized RMB1295.7 billion in GDP, presenting an average growth of 10.7%. The Pearl River Delta area’s GDP was RMB 1133.5 billion in 2003, ranking fourth among the four, and RMB191.6 billion more than that of the previous year, achieving the fastest average growth rate of 15.5%.Investment in fixed assetsAmong the four economic regions, the Yangtze River Delta area had the highest level of fixed asset investments in 2003 at RMB1097.4 billion, up 38.9% year on year. Investment in the Pearl River Delta area was up 27.8% to RMB373.1 billion. The growth of the Beijing Tianjin Hebei cluster of cities and the big Northeast China cluster of cities, however, was 6.5% lower than the national average. Investment in fixed assets of the Beijing Tianjin Hebei cluster of cities came in at RMB452.9 billion in 2003, down2.1% year on year; the Northeast China cluster of cities had RMB352.9 billion in investments, up 1.2%. The total fixed asset investment of the four economic areas reached RMB2276.2 billion in 2003, rising 20.2% over 2002, accounting for 41.3% of the national total.Consumer goods marketConsumer goods’ retail sales of the Yangtze River Delta area reached RMB718.6 billion, an increase of 12.1% year on year; retail sales of the Pearl River Delta area were up 11.8% to RMB 396.6 billion; the Beijing Tianjin Hebei cluster of cities, RMB501.7 billion, up 12.1%; and the big Northeast China cluster of cities, RMB481.7 billion, up 11.5%. Thanks to the geographical location of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, the area ranked first with the Yangtze Delta area in growth of retail sales of consumer goods among the four, while the Northeast China area was at the bottom, posing slow development. The total of the four economic areas topped RMB2098.6 billion, accounting for 45.8% of the national total.Foreign TradeThe four economic area’s interaction in foreign trade was marked by large-scale imports and exports. Total import and export of the Yangtze River Delta area reached US$277 billion, rising 56.1%; the Pearl River Delta area, US$271.3 billion, up 31.1%; the Beijing Tianjin Hebei cluster of cities, US$106.8 billion, up 30.3%; and the Northeast China cluster of cities, US$38.1 billion, up 27.8%. Total import andexport of the four economic areas reached US$693.2 billion, accounting for 81.5% of the national total, 29.3 percentage points higher than the proportion of GDP.The Yangtze River Delta area has been a target for both domestic and overseas investors. The area has seen an inflow of funds from multinational companies. Shanghai Municipality, the center of the Yangtze River Delta area, has become a prime location of headquarters and R&D centers of many big companies and banks, and is growing into a center for international economy, finance, trade, and navigation. Fixed asset investment of 16 cities in the Yangtze River Delta area reached RMB1097.4 billion in 2003, accounting for 19.9% of the national total, 12.2 percentage points higher than the growth of the national average, 2.9 times that of the total of the Pearl River Delta area, 2.4 times that of the Beijing Tianjin Hebei clusters of cities and 3.1 times that of the Northeast China cluster of cities.The Pearl River Delta area, whose economic development has benefited from the processing trade, has seen the highest degree of economic internationalization and development of an export oriented economy. Total import and export of the Pearl River Delta area topped US$271.3 billion in 2003, 32.1% of the national total. Of the total, US$145.1 billion was export, 33% of the national total and up 28.9% year on year, and US$126.2 billion was import, up 33.7%The Beijing Tianjin Hebei cluster of cities has developed into one of the largest developed and mature modern logistics centers and consumption markets in China. The total retail sales of consumer goods in this region reached US$501.7 billion in 2003, 10.9% of the national total.The three northeastern provinces’ economic development has formed a consumption oriented growth by relying on their transportation facilities and tourism resources. Total retail sales of consumer goods in this region reached RMB481.7 billion in 2003, 10.5% of the national total, much larger than the proportion of investment and export in the national total.6.1 Hour in the SunJohn H. Bradley―…I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days.‖--- Henry David ThoreauWhen Thoreau wrote that line, he was thinking of the Walden Pond he knew as a boy. Woodchoppers and the Iron Horse had not yet greatly damaged the beauty of its setting. A boy could go to the pond and lie on his back against the seat of a boat, lazily drifting from shore to shore while the loons dived and the swallows dipped around him. Thoreau loved to recall such sunny hours and summer days ―when idleness was the most attractive and productive business.‖I too was once a boy in love with a pond, rich in sunny hours and summer days. Sun and summer are still what they always were, but the boy and the pond changed. The boy, who is now a man, no longer finds much time for idle drifting. The bond has been annexed by a great city. The swamps where herons once hunted are now drained and filled with houses. The bay where water lilies quietly floated is now a harbor for motor boats. In short, everything that the boy loved no longer exists – except in the man’s memory of it.Some people insist that only today and tomorrow matter. But how much poorer we would be if we really lived by that rule! So much of what we do today is frivolous and futile and soon forgotten. So much of what we hoped to do tomorrow never happens.The past is the bank in which we store our most valuable possession—the memories that give meaning and depth to our lives.Those who truly treasure the past will not bemoan the passing of the good old days. Because days enshrined in memory are never lost. Death itself is powerless to still a remembered voice or erase a remembered smile. And for one boy who is now a man, there is a pond which neither time nor tide can change, where he can still spend a quiet hour in the sun.6.2 Love Your LifeHenry David ThoreauHowever mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have cheering thoughts, as in a palace. The town’s poor seems to me often to live the most independent live of any. Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old, return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.7. The Return of the NativeThomas HardyA SATURDAY afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor.The heaven being spread with this pallid screen, the earth with the dark vegetation, their meeting-line at the horizon was clearly marked. In such contrast the heath wore the appearance of an installment of night which had taken up its place before its astronomical hour was come: darkness had to a great extent arrived hereon while day stood distinct in the sky. Looking upwards, a furze-cutter would have inclined to continue work; looking down, he would have decided to finish his faggot and go home. The distant rims of the world and of the firmament seemed to be a division in time no less than a division in matter. The face of the heath by its mere complexion added half-an-hour to eve: it could in like manner retard the dawn, sadden noon, anticipate the frowning of storms scarcely generated, and intensify the opacity of a moonless midnight to a cause of shaking and dread.In fact, precisely at this transitional point of its nightly roll into darkness the great and particular glory of the Egdon waste began, and nobody could be said to understand the heath who had not been there atsuch a time. It could be best felt when it could not clearly be seen. Its complete effect and explanation lay in this and the succeeding hours before the next dawn: then and only then did it tell its true tale. The spot was, indeed, a near relation of night; and when night showed itself an apparent tendency to gravitate together could be perceived in its shades and the scene. The somber stretch of rounds and hollows seemed to rise and meet the evening gloom in pure sympathy, the heath exhaling darkness as rapidly as the heavens precipitated it. The obscurity in the air and the obscurity in the land closed together in a black fraternization towards which each advanced half way.The place became full of a watchful intentness now. When other things sank brooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen. Every night its Titanic form seemed to await something; but it had waited thus, unmoved, during so many centuries, through the crises of so many things, that it could only be the imagined to await one last crisis---the final Overthrow.It was a spot which returned upon the memory of those who loved it with an aspect of peculiar and kindly congruity. Smiling champaigns of flowers and fruit hardly do this, for they are permanently harmonious only with an existence of better reputation as to its issues than the present. Twilight combined with the scenery of Egdon Heath to evolve a thing majestic without severity, impressive without showiness, emphatic in its admonitions, grand in its simplicity. The qualifications which frequently invest the façade of a prison with far more dignity than is found in the façade of a palace double its size lent to this heath a sublimity in which spots renowned for mere prettiness are utterly wanting. Gay prospects wed happily with gay times; but alas if times be not gay. Men have oftener suffered from the mockery of a place too smiling for their reason than from the oppression of surroundings over-sadly tinged. Haggard Egdon appealed to a subtler and scarcer instinct, to a more recently learnt emotion, than that which responds to the sort of beauty called charming.To recline on a stump of thorn in the central valley of Egdon, between afternoon and night as now, where the eye could reach nothing of the world outside the summits and shoulders of heath-land which filled the whole circumference of its glance, and to know that everything around and underneath had been from prehistoric times as unaltered as the stars overhead, gave ballast to the mind adrift on change, and harassed by the irrepressible New. The great inviolate place had an ancient permanence which the sea cannot claim. Who can say of a particular sea that it is old? Distilled by the sun, kneaded by the moon, it is renewed in a year, in a day, or in a hour. The sea changed, the fields changed, the rivers, the villages, and the people changed, yet Egdon remained. Those surfaces were neither so steep as to be destructible by weather, nor so flat as to be the victims of floods and deposits. With the exception of an aged highway, and a still more aged barrow presently to be referred to---themselves almost crystallized to natural products by long continuance---even the trifling irregularities were not caused by pickaxe, plough, or spade, but remains as the very finger-touches of the last geological change.8. Still Not There--Big Gap between China’s top 500 and the F ortune 500The Chinese Federation of Enterprises (CFE) and the China Association of Entrepreneurs (CAE) have jointly announced China’s top 500 companies for 2005 among which there are 112 new entrants. Also announce were China’s top 500 manufacturing ente rprises as well as the top 500 service enterprises, thefirst rankings of their kind in the country. China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (CPCC), Shanghai BaoSteel Group, and the State Power Grid Corporation headed the list of China’s top 500.The changes to the main list, which has been published for the past 4 years, indicate the rising competitiveness of large enterprises in China. In addition, their important role as the backbone of the national economy has become increasingly apparent. The income of the top 500 accounted for 63.64% of the country’s GDP in 2002, a percentage which has continued to rise from 67.99% in 2003 to 77.04% in 2004 and to 86.04% in 2005.Also notable was the consistent increase in the scale of their balance sheets. Income of the China top 500 reached RMB11.75 trillion in 2005 surging 92.62% from 2002, an average annual growth rate of 24.37 percent. Total assets of the top 500 topped RMB33.51 trillion, rising 28.73% and posting an average annual increase of 8.78 percent.The thre shold for entering the list of China’s top 500 enterprises has been raised to about RMB4.6 billion in assets, 1.3 times higher than in 2002. The top 10 on that list are China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (CPCC); the State Power Grid corporation; China National Petroleum and Natural Gas Corporation; China Mobile Communications Group; The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC); China Life Insurance (Group) Corp; China Telecommunications Group; China Petrochemical Group; Shanghai BaoSteel Group; and China Construction Bank Company, Ltd.The top 10 of the 500 manufacturing enterprises are; Shanghai BaoSteel Group; China First Automotive Works Group (FAW); Haier Group; the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation; Dongfeng Motor Corporation; the Philips (China) Investment Company, Ltd; Motorola (China) Electronics Company, Ltd; China National Ordinance Equipment Group; China National Ordinance Industry Corp; and Anshan Iron and Steel Group.The companies filling out the top 10 of the list of 500 service enterprises are: the State Power Grid Corporation; China Mobile Communications Group; Industrial and Commercial Bank of China; China Life Insurance (Group) Corporation; China Telecommunication Group; China Sino-Chem Group; China Construction Bank Company, Ltd; South China Power Grid Company, Ltd; Bank of China; and Agricultural Bank of China.Although China’s large enterprises have made much progress vis a vis competitiveness, they continue to lag far behind Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies in the United States in terms of scale, profitability, and productivity. The total revenue, profit and assets of China’s top 500 in 2005 were 8.4%, 7%, and 6% respectively of that of Fortune 500 companies and 17.2%, 12.5%, and 18.2% of that of S&P 500 companies.Accounting for the gap between the bottom-line performances of companies listed in the Chinese indices and those included in the Western indices is the difference in systems, mechanisms, and overall competitiveness which is manifest most obviously in the absence of intellectual property rights and lack of proprietary core technology on the Chinese side. Factors that may have been used in ranking China’s top 500 were: Monopoly of resources, scale of operation, brand, management capability of supply chain, and core technology (of which the last is the weakest).In an analysis prepared by CFE and CAE it was concluded that 80% of research and development (R&D) and 71% of technical innovation in the world are done by the Fortune 500. In addition, 62% of technology transfers were conducted between Fortune 500 companies. Even though, as a percentage of GDP, capital expenditure research by Chinese companies increased over the previous year, it was still very small –only 1.36 percent. The latest statistics on the 2005 China 500 show that, of the 373 companies that submitted figures on R&D spending for 2004, the average was RMB247 million, accounting for 1.05% of。
unit1商务翻译 (1)
1译：现代科学的一切成就不仅提供了能够承受高温、高压的材料，而且也提供了新的工艺流程。
依靠现代科学的这些成就，相信完全可以制造出这样的人造卫星。
2.译：了解英语原义是一个大问题，现代汉语文言口语兼收并蓄，怎么用这样丰富多彩的文字来表达英语原义也是一个大问题。
这两个问题都要在翻译中得到解决。
3.对于以往的几代人来说，旧式的体力劳动是一种用以摆脱贫困的手段，而技术的进步则摧毁了穷人赖以为生的体力劳动。
因此，首先体验到技术进步之害的是穷人。
4.译：必须把大量时间花在确保关键人物均根据同一情报和目的行事，而这一切对人的体力和洞察力都是一大考验。
因此，一旦考虑成熟，就应迅速做出决策。
5.译：史密斯医生于1945年开始着手由联邦政府资助的抗癌实验。
他由于屡遭失败而感到沮丧，被迫终止了实验工作。
现在他又重新振作起来，恢复了抗癌实验活动。
6.因为距离远，交通工具缺乏，造成了农村社会与外界的隔绝，这种隔绝，又由于信息媒介不足，而变得更加严重。
7.人们之所以关注历史研究的方法论，主要是因为史学界内部意见不一，其次是因为外界并不认为历史是一门学问。
8.当我们观看体操运动员惊心动魄的表演时，最鼓舞我们的莫过于凯利的最后一跳，因为这一跳使得美国女孩们登上了冠军的领奖台。
9.铝总是和其他元素结合在一起，最普遍的适合氧结合，因为铝对氧气有很强的亲和力。
由于这个原因，在自然界中任何地方都找不到游离状态的铝，因而铝一直到19世纪才为人们所知。
10. [译]人脑认识和解决复杂问题的能力与现实世界中需要通过客观的推理，或者通过这种客观推理的应有的近似值来求解的问题规模相比，是非常渺小的。
11.周末，当成千上万进城上班的人回到了他们的乡间寓所之后，空旷的街市笼罩着一种宁静的气氛，没有什么比此时的宁静更令人难忘了。
12.译文：因此，某些银行已采用把储户姓名印在支票上的作法，这种作法对储户毫无风险。
13.译：我们不得不严肃的问问我们自己：随着日益增长的知识力量，如果我们继续利用知识的这种双重性，将会发生什么样的情况呢？14.如果我们瞥见了只可意会不可言传的事物，企图把它说出来，那是不明智的；对于我们不理解的事物，我们也不应该赋予它某种意义。
《商务翻译》第1次翻译练习
《商务翻译》第1次翻译练习及参考译文（一）句子翻译练习1.Nippon Steel Corp. and Shanghai Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., China’s largest steelmaker,signed an agreement to set up a joint venture to manufacture sheet steel for automobiles.2.Buyers have to bear all risks of the goods from the time when they shall have effectivelypassed the ship’s rail at the port of shipment.3.The two airlines plan to use the loans mainly to finance their planned capital investment andbond redemptions for the first half of fiscal 2009.4.The Bank of Japan decided to implement special loans to the bank to enable it to maintainsufficient cash flow.5.Currently, cell phone users are required to change the phone numbers if they switch their cellphone service provider.6.We all understand that Chinese slippers are very popular in your market on account of theirsuperior quality and competitive price.7.Customer value is the unique combination of benefits received by target buyers, such asquality, price, convenience, on-time delivery, and both before-sale and after-sale service.8.The European Union and other seven nations were determined to impose retaliatory tariffs onU.S. imports if Washington refused to abide by the WTO decision.9.Executives of the two companies repeatedly held talks to consider tie-ups limited to productdevelopment and sales activities.10.The critical issue is how to expand the sale of cultivation in order to streamline the farmingmanagement and enhance its international competitiveness.（二）篇章翻译练习These are tough times for Wal-Mart, America’s biggest retailer. Long accused of wrecking small-town America and condemned for the stinginess of its pay, the company has lately come under fire for its meanness over employees’ health-care benefits.The charge is arguably unfair: the firm’s health cover age, while admittedly less extensive than the average for big companies, is on a par with other retailers’. But bad publicity, coupled with rising costs, has stirred the Bentonville giant to action. Wal-Mart is making changes that should shift the ground i n America’s health-care debate.One strategy is to slash the prices of many generic, or out-of-patent, prescription drugs. Wal-Mart recently announced that its Florida stores would sell a list of some 300 generic drugs at $4 for a month’s supply; other st ates will follow. That is above cost but far less than the prices charged by many pharmacy chains, which get profits from fat margins on generics.Wal-Mart’s critics dismiss the move as a publicity stunt. The list of drugs includes only 143 different medicines and excludes many popular generics. True, but short-sighted. Wal-Mart has transformed retailing by using its size to squeeze suppliers and passing the gains on to consumers. It could do the same with drugs. Target, another big retailer, has already announced that it will match the new pricing. A “Wal-Mart effect” in drugs will not solve America’s health-costs problem: generics account for only a small share of drug costs, which in turn make up only 10% of overall health spending.But it would help. (High risk, high reward (excerpt), The Economist, Oct 12th 2006)。
商务英语第一次翻译练习题
商务英语第一次翻译练习题在当今全球化的商业环境下，掌握商务英语已成为现代商务人士不可或缺的技能之一。
为了帮助大家提高商务英语水平，以下是一些商务英语翻译练习题，希望能对你的商务英语学习有所助益。
1. "我们计划与该公司达成一项战略合作伙伴关系。
"We plan to establish a strategic partnership with the company.2. "我们需要一份详细的市场调研报告，以了解该行业的发展趋势。
"We need a detailed market research report to understand the industry's development trends.3. "请将最新的销售数据发送给我们。
"Please send us the latest sales data.4. "我们公司致力于提供高品质的产品和卓越的客户服务。
"Our company is committed to providing high-quality products and excellent customer service.5. "我们将在下个月举办一次国际业务峰会，请确认您的出席及相关细节。
"We will be hosting an international business summit next month. Please confirm your attendance and provide relevant details.6. "以提高市场份额为目标，我们正在制定新的营销战略。
"With the goal of increasing market share, we are developing a new marketing strategy.7. "为了更好地满足客户需求，我们将推出一款全新的产品线。
电子商务英语、第一次翻译作业
you are store has to be relevant to your market. the objective is to create你已经得到有关你的市场,目标是创造an attractive web site which will promote the merchant and encourage visitors to purchase一个有吸引力的网站，这将促进商家和鼓励游客购买a catalog that will attract visitors一个目录，将吸引游客an efficient catalog, which will allow visitors to find the products they want easily and quickly一个有效的目录，这将让游客方便，快捷地找到他们想要的产品a site that sells, by demonstrating value and quality一个网站，销售，展示的价值和质量to achieve the best result you need to understand your market为了达到最好的效果，你需要了解你的市场region : are you targeting domestic U.K. or U.S. business ?地区：你是针对国内英国或美国的业务？remember the bulk of the internet market is U.S.-based记住大部分的互联网市场是美国的基础type: are you selling to the general public or to businesses?类型：你是销售给一般公众或企业？technology: will your customers be technology-aware? will they have up to date and efficient technology available?技术：将您的客户是科技意识？他们将有最多的日期和有效的技术？awareness: is your target market likely to understand the process of electronic payment and be comfortable with it?意识：是你的目标市场可能了解电子支付过程和舒服呢？payment methods: what will be the preferred payment method?付款方式：什么是首选的付款方式？on-line credit card信用卡在线faxed credit card传真信用卡cheque支票customers account number and PO number客户帐户号码和订单号currency: what currency will your target market be comfortable paying with?货币：货币将你的目标市场是舒适的付出？。
《商务英语翻译1》练习一
《商务英语翻译1》课后练习一（2012.9.12）一、试译下面的例句。
例1 Home improvements have taken what little of my spare time.改善家庭关系占用了我很少的空余时间例2 E-commerce is still in its early stages, but the future of it looks rosy.电子商务上处于初级发展阶段，但是，例3 The research work is being done by a group of dedicated and imaginative scientists who specialize in extracting from various sea animals substances that may improve the health of the human race.研究工作是由一批敬业，富有想象力的科学家，专门研究从各种海洋动物中提取可以改善人类健康的的物质，例4 The World Travel and Tourism Council claimed th at tourism was the world’s largest industry. Along with growth in travel, the number of tourism destination choices has also increased as many decision-makers have recognized the value of tourism to the economies of their regions.世界旅行和旅游协会声称是世界上最大的工业旅游。
随着旅游人数的增长，旅游目的地的选择也增加许多决策者已经认识到旅游业对经济地区的价值，例5 Mankind will never stop using conventions as a means of communication. Just as they never stop eating and drinking. For in a way participating in a conference is eating knowledge and drinking understanding.人类从未停止使用公约作为一种通信手段。
商务英语翻译试题一试卷及答案.doc
商务英语翻译试题一试卷及答案.doc商务英语翻译试题（一）Ⅰ词汇测试题：（2 题，每题 10 分，共 20 分）BBCCB1．该组有10 个商务英语英文词或词组，下面均有英文词或词组来进行解释。
请将正确的选项标出，要求英英转换意义准确，符合商务英语规范。
（10 分）(1) to concludeA. to give one’ s place to eachB.to end or judge after someconsiderationC. to explainD. to contain(2) to enforceA. to break or act against a lawB. to cause a law or rule tobe obeyedC. to prevent movement from happeningD. to direct something into a particular place(3) to appointA. to take back propertyB. to meet someone’s needsC. to choose someone officially for a jobD. to claim forsomething(4) to approveA. to abide byB. to comply withC. to have a positive opinionD. to come up with(5) obviateA. to violateB. to remove a difficulty,toavoidC. to allow sb to doD. to be apparent(6)to violateA.to break or act against a law, principleB.to beat or threaten someoneC. to obey a lawD. to cause a rule to be obeyed.(7) with respect toA. comply withB. in relation toC. conform toD. coincide with(8) to entertain a clientA. to cater forB. to treat sb. at the tableC. to launch a productD. to shorten a vacation(9)temptationA.trying to attract peopleB.to encourage the popularity, sales and developmentC.to allow the value of money to varyD.to judge or decide the amount(10)advanceA.to support by giving moneyB.to go or move sth. forward, to develop or improveC. to improve or increaseD. to produce or provide2.有 10 个商英英文或，下面均有或来行解，将正确出，要求英意准确，符合商英范。
商务翻译 汉英练习1
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KTV俱乐部；游泳池、旅行社、票务中心
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全日供应中式茶艺服务。
白云豪宴中餐厅
现代豪华的多功能厅可容纳四百人，是大型宴会、国际性会议、专业展览的最佳选择；十一间由名师设计的厅房是商务宴请或家庭聚会的理想选择。
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餐厅位于三十楼，环境优美雅致，提供品种丰富、口味地道的全球经典美食。
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《商务翻译》第1次翻译练习及参考译文
（一）句子翻译练习
1.Nippon Steel Corp. and Shanghai Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., China’s largest steelmaker,
signed an agreement to set up a joint venture to manufacture sheet steel for automobiles.
2.Buyers have to bear all risks of the goods from the time when they shall have effectively
passed the ship’s rail at the port of shipment.
3.The two airlines plan to use the loans mainly to finance their planned capital investment and
bond redemptions for the first half of fiscal 2009.
4.The Bank of Japan decided to implement special loans to the bank to enable it to maintain
sufficient cash flow.
5.Currently, cell phone users are required to change the phone numbers if they switch their cell
phone service provider.
6.We all understand that Chinese slippers are very popular in your market on account of their
superior quality and competitive price.
7.Customer value is the unique combination of benefits received by target buyers, such as
quality, price, convenience, on-time delivery, and both before-sale and after-sale service.
8.The European Union and other seven nations were determined to impose retaliatory tariffs on
U.S. imports if Washington refused to abide by the WTO decision.
9.Executives of the two companies repeatedly held talks to consider tie-ups limited to product
development and sales activities.
10.The critical issue is how to expand the sale of cultivation in order to streamline the farming
management and enhance its international competitiveness.
（二）篇章翻译练习
These are tough times for Wal-Mart, America’s biggest retailer. Long accused of wrecking small-town America and condemned for the stinginess of its pay, the company has lately come under fire for its meanness over employees’ health-care benefits.The charge is arguably unfair: the firm’s health cover age, while admittedly less extensive than the average for big companies, is on a par with other retailers’. But bad publicity, coupled with rising costs, has stirred the Bentonville giant to action. Wal-Mart is making changes that should shift the ground i n America’s health-care debate.
One strategy is to slash the prices of many generic, or out-of-patent, prescription drugs. Wal-Mart recently announced that its Florida stores would sell a list of some 300 generic drugs at $4 for a month’s supply; other st ates will follow. That is above cost but far less than the prices charged by many pharmacy chains, which get profits from fat margins on generics.
Wal-Mart’s critics dismiss the move as a publicity stunt. The list of drugs includes only 143 different medicines and excludes many popular generics. True, but short-sighted. Wal-Mart has transformed retailing by using its size to squeeze suppliers and passing the gains on to consumers. It could do the same with drugs. Target, another big retailer, has already announced that it will match the new pricing. A “Wal-Mart effect” in drugs will not solve America’s health-costs problem: generics account for only a small share of drug costs, which in turn make up only 10% of overall health spending.But it would help. (High risk, high reward (excerpt), The Economist, Oct 12th 2006)。