CATTI英语笔译实务(2级)2014年11月考试真题 _ 翻译硕士(MTI)真题网
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WATERLOO, 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 reenact 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.”
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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. （原文地址： /2013/09/24/world/europe/200-years-after-battle-some-hard-feelingsremain.html 注） Passage 2 Bayer 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.”
2014--2016-CATTI-英语二级笔译试题
2016.11 CATTI 英语二级笔译实务科目试题E-CPassage 1Everyone knows that weddings—the most elaborate and costly form of old school pageantry still acceptable in modern society—are stupid expensive. But it turns out Americans are now blowing even more money than ever before on what’s supposed to be the most magical day of any couple’s life together. Money that, to be honest, could be spent on much, much cooler stuff.The Knot released its annual wedding survey this week, with findings showing that couples are spending a mind-numbing average of $32,641 on matrimonial celebrations. The study includes data from nearly 18,000 pairs across the country. While the cost of a wedding varied greatly from city to city—reaching a nauseating high of $82,300 in Manhattan—the price was steep no matter where couples chose to get hitched. All this despite the fact that weddings (and marriages in general, honestly) can be a fairly impractical thing to invest in. Seriously, even 50 Cent doesn’t spend as much in a day as you’re spending on a reception band alone. Think about that.So rather than buying into the Marriage Industrial Complex on a union that may or may not work out, wouldn’t it make more sense to save your hard-earned money by forgoing the big ceremony for the major expenses you’re likely to face in married life? You know, like a mortgage. Or braces for your wallet-draining children-to-be. And if your fianceé is dead set on a fairytale wedding? You could always just blow your financial load on a plenty fulfilling single life.With nearly $33,000 to spend in the life of a singledom, you could get pretty far when it comes to amenities and entertainment. Perhaps the best part of being free from the shackles of wedding planning is the opportunity to treat yourself. Like, why drop $1,400 on a frilly dress you’ll wear once before it turns to moth food when you can rock the most expensive shoes of the season and look great doing it?And while weddings are supposed to be all about the happy couple, everyone knows that’s bull, because you have to feed your guests and provide them entertainment and put a roof over their heads for a couple of hours and likely go into debt doing it.In addition to simply having fun, there are some more practical ways to spend your wedding purse as well. For instance, purchasing and providing for a nice house cat rather than dropping major dough on finger bling intended for fending off hotties for the rest of your life. Fluffy won’t care if you bring home someone new every weekend—he’ll just hate everyone i ndiscriminately.Passage 2My teenage son recently informed me that there is an Internet quiz to test oneself for narcissism. His friend had just taken it. “How did it turn out?” I asked. “He says he did great!” my son responded. “Hegot the maximum scor e!”When I was a child, no one outside the mental health profession talked about narcissism. People were more concerned by inadequate self-esteem, which at the time was thought to lurk behind nearly every issue. Like so many excesses of the 1970s, the self-love cult spun out of control and is now rampaging through our culture like Godzilla through Tokyo.A 2010 study in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science found that the proportion of college students exhibiting narcissistic personality traits –based on their scores on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, a widely used diagnostic test – has increased by more than half since the early 1980s, to 30 per cent.In their book, The Narcissism Epidemic, psychology professors show that narcissism has increased as quickly as obesity has since the 1980s. Even our egos are getting fat. This is a costly problem. While full-blown narcissists often report high levels of personal satisfaction, they create havoc and misery around them. There is overwhelming evidence linking narcissism with reduced honesty and increased aggression. It’s notable for occasions like Valentine’s Day that narcissists struggle to stay committed to romantic partners, in no small part because they find themselves superior.The full-blown narcissist might reply, “So what?” But narcissism isn’t an either-or characteristic. It’s more of a set of progressive symptoms (like alcoholism) than an identifiable state (like diabetes). Millions of Americans exhibit symptoms, but still have a conscience and a hunger for moral improvement. At the very least, they really do not want to be terrible people.A healthy self-love that leads to true happiness builds up one’s intrinsic well-being, as opposed to feeding shallow cravings to be admired. Cultivating amour de soi requires being fully alive at this moment, as opposed to being virtually alive while wondering what others think. The soulful connection with another person, the enjoyment of a beautiful hike alone, or a prayer of thanks over your sleeping child could be considered expressions of self-love.C—EPassage 1浙江杭州是风景秀美之地，也是创新活力之城。
2014年catti二级口译实务试题(二)
catti二级口译实务试题(二)一、English-Chinese Translation （本大题2小题．每题25.0分，共50.0分。
Translate the following passage（s） into Chinese ）第1题【正确答案】：我很高兴来到这里与大家一起通过《美国环境之窗》这个节目纪念第一个地球日。
虽然我还没有看过这个电视系列片。
但我通过配套的介绍材料知道这是一个大手笔。
节目制作者采访了很多美国环保运动领袖，从七十年代的早期创始人到当代环保运动的参与者。
//我确信你们在这里会听到许多不同的观点，因为美国环保运动的多样性正是其强大影响力的部分原因。
个人以及非政府组织能够表达自己的观点并在新闻媒体及选举过程中发表看法，这些正是美国环保运动的基础，也是其至今长盛不衰的原因。
1970年那个地球日仍然让我记忆犹新。
当时我在上小学，那天我和同学们走到室外通过观察学校后面池塘里的生物来了解我们的环境。
那是第一个地球日，口号是“心系全球，从我做起”。
我们年轻的老师希望我们更好地了解周围的环境。
//现在的老师们有各种各样精彩的教材来帮助学生们了解环境，学习诸如生物多样性、气候变化和臭氧层保护等概念。
而在七十年代，这些概念对我们来说仍是陌生的。
但是我们听说过有毒化学物质、荒漠化以及我们那次池塘研究的题目——水污染，还有土地使用问题。
我们当时通过学习去了解这些对我们的未来会产生多大的影响。
//1970年地球日的创意是由个人，而不是政府提出的，因此它依靠其自身的力量发展壮大。
在第一年就有2千万美国人参与到活动中来。
我们说“心系全球”，但那时美国人还没有像现在这样真正的想到美国本土以外的情况。
同样，在1970年的中国，播出一部22集有关美国的电视系列片也是不可想象的。
又过了两年之后，美国总统尼克松访华的画面才在美国的电视里播出，我们才开始有机会相互了解。
//今天，美国和中国在地球日这一天有许多共同的庆祝活动。
11月翻译资格考题二级英语笔译实务试卷及答案
11月翻译资格考题二级英语笔译实务试卷及答案第一部分英译汉必译题This week and next, governments, international agencies and nongovernmental organizations are gathering in Mexico City at the World Water Forum to discuss the legacy of global Mulhollandism in water - and to chart a new course.They could hardly have chosen a better location. Water is being pumped out of the aquifer on which Mexico City stands at twice the rate of replenishment. The result: the city is subsiding at the rate of about half a meter every decade. You can see the consequences in the cracked cathedrals, the tilting Palace of Arts and the broken water and sewerage pipes.Every region of the world has its own variant of the water crisis story. The mining of groundwaters for irrigation has lowered the water table in parts of India and Pakistan by 30 meters in the past three decades. As water goes down, the cost of pumping goes up, undermining the livelihoods of poor farmers.What is driving the global water crisis? Physical availability is part of the problem. Unlike oil or coal, water is an infinitely renewable resource, but it is available in a finite quantity. With water use increasing at twice the rate of population growth, the amount available per person is shrinking - especially in some of the poorest countries.Challenging as physical scarcity may be in some countries, the real problems in water go deeper. The 20th-century model for water management was based on a simple idea: that water is an infinitely available free resource to be exploited, dammed or diverted without reference to scarcity or sustainability.Across the world, water-based ecological systems - rivers, lakes and watersheds - have been taken beyond the frontiers of ecological sustainability by policy makers who have turned a blind eye to the consequences of over- exploitation.We need a new model of water management for the 21st century. What does that mean? For starters, we have to stop using water like there"s no tomorrow - and that means using it more efficiently at levels that do not destroy our environment. The buzz- phrase at the Mexico Water forum is "integrated water resource management." What it means is that governments need to manage the private demand of different users and manage this precious resource in the public interest.参照译文：本周，世界水论坛在墨西哥城开幕，论坛将一直持续到下周。
2014年catti二级笔译综合能力试题及答案解析(三)
catti二级笔译综合能力试题及答案解析(三)一、Vocabulary Selection（本大题14小题．每题1.0分，共14.0分。
In this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are four words or phrases respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. There is only one right answer. ）第1题The explanation given by the manager yesterday was not at all ________ to us.A satisfyB satisfiedC satisfactoryD satisfying【正确答案】：C【本题分数】：1.0分【答案解析】同义辨析。
satisfactory令人满意的：The result of the match was highly satisfactory．比赛结果非常令人满意。
satisfy使满足：I offered him $1,000 to keep quiet，but that did not satisfy him and he wanted even more．我给了他一千美元让他保持沉默，但他并不满足，他还要更多的钱。
satisfied满意的，满足的：I'm not fully satisfied with the standard of your work．我对你的工作水准不太满意。
satisfying令人满意的，使人满意的：It's an immensely satisfying job．这是一个非常令人满意的工作。
2014年catti二级口译实务试题精选(二)
catti二级口译实务试题精选(二)一、English-Chinese Translation （本大题2小题．每题25.0分，共50.0分。
Translate the following passage（s） into Chinese ）第1题【正确答案】：如果你认为多媒体只是可以在家中单独享用的东西，你应该再想一想。
银行处在“信息高速公路”的前沿，因为它们对这种技术比任何其他类型的民用企业投资更多。
以资产在美国银行中排列第四的摩根公司为例。
它开发了一种系统，借助一支电子笔就能在计算机屏幕上快速完成交易和文件。
公司在伦敦的证券分析员以及在东京的交易商可以通过同一屏幕进行交谈。
建立客户信用、成交都比通过电话线路要快，何况电话还无法传送图像。
这种电子新玩意儿，目前正被引入到摩根公司在纽约的交易所采用，最终会在包括亚洲在内的全球范围内使用。
这样一来，就可以在吉隆坡和曼谷等首都建立较经济的小型交易室，而把摩根公司开销大的事务部门集中在新加坡。
摩根公司开拓性的举措表明，美国银行正在利用高科技和大量资金来打开亚洲市场。
欧洲和日本的竞争对手们也在这么干，但它们不像美国银行那样，能够得到大量的储蓄资金。
例如，美国养老基金资产总计达四万四千亿美元，是日本的三倍多。
美国机构在亚洲日益增长的资金需求和世界其他地区可提供的资金之间充当桥梁最为合适。
当然，这座桥梁也可能摇晃，就像二十世纪八十年代拉美债务危机发生时那样，但在二十世纪九十年代亚洲经济基本条件如此良好的情况下，难以想象这种类似事情还会发生。
美国银行花了近十年的时间才从拉丁美洲的窘境中逃脱出来，但它们现在已经成为强大的竞争者。
它们处理了坏账，削减员工，做得比日本同行们更大胆。
日本银行因无法从挥金如土的房地产投机商那儿收回贷款而陷入了困境。
美国商业银行在亚洲跨境业务中最棘手的竞争对手很可能不是日本人，而是它们本国投资银行的同胞。
亚洲的资本市场，像其他地方一样，将成为他们争夺的战场。
catti 2014真题
当前，全球能源版图出现重大变化，页岩气等非常规油气异 军突起，美国和西半球成为能源重要供应地。 A:Now,the global energy territory changes a lot,and with the appearance of uncommon gas which includes shale gas the United States and the western hemisphere have become the important places of energy supply. B:Major changes are taking place in the global energy landscape. With the emergence and rapid growth of nonconventional sources of oil and gas such as shale gas, the United States and the western hemisphere have become major energy producers.
同时，各国应改善能源结构，加强先进能源技术的研发和推 广，大力发展清洁和可再生能源，在相关领域积极开展国际 合作。 A:Meanwhile,countries should improve the structure of energy, enhance the research and extension of advanced energy technology,develop clean and renewable energy,and cooperate in the relevant fields.
国际社会应树立互利合作、多元发展、协同保障的新能源安全观， 共同稳定能源等大宗商品价格、防止过度投机和炒作，保障各国特 别是发展中国家能源需求，维护能源市场正常秩序。 A:The international society should set up a new energy security concept of mutually cooperation,diverse development and synergia guarantee.And it should stabilize the prices of energy and prevent excessive speculation and hype to guarantee the energy supply of all countries particularly developing countries and to maintain normal order of energy market. B:The international community should foster a new energy security outlook featuring mutually beneficial cooperation, diversified development and coordinated supply. Joint efforts should be made to stabilize the prices of energy and other commodities and prevent excessive speculation and market hype, so as to meet the energy demands of all countries, particularly the developing countries, and maintain order in the energy market.
2014年catti二级笔译实务考试试题(三)
catti二级笔译实务考试试题(三)一、English-Chinese Translation （本大题3小题．每题30.0分，共90.0分。
Translate the following passage（s） into Chinese ）第1题The Dreadlock DeadlockIn the fall of 1993 Christopher Polk transferred from FedEx's hub in Indianapolis to take over a delivery route in Flatbush District, Brooklyn, N.Y. But moving to the country's largest community of Caribbean and African immigrants only precipitated a far more profound journey. "I was becoming culturally aware of the history of the black people," says Polk, now 31, "and that gave me these spiritual questions." His answer came providentially, by way of a music video featuring Lord Jamai, who raps about the Rastafarian belief in the sanctity of dreadlocks —the cords of permanently interlocked strands first worn by African chiefs perhaps 6,000 years ago.Now a practicing Rastafarian, Polk sports thick garlands that gently cascade onto his shoulders. "Your hair is your covenant," he says. "Once you grow your locks, it puts you on a path."Unfortunately, that path was a collision course with Federal Express's grooming policy, which requires men to confine their dos to "a reasonable style". After years of deliberation, Polk's bosses gave him a choice: shear his locks or be transferred to a lower-paid job with no customer contact. He refused both options and was terminated in June 2000.His tale is not unique. Although Rastafarians number about 5,000 nationally, today dreadlocks, twists or braids are at the height of fashion, nearly as common as Afros were 30 years ago. If Afros symbolized militancy, dreads signal a more spiritual self-declaration, a figurative locking with African ancestors. As Stanford professor Kennell Jackson, who teaches a course called "African Coiffures and Their New World Legacies" puts it, "There's a divinity to these locks."Divine or not, some employers consider them unacceptably outré. Six other New York-area FedEx employees have lost their jobs because of dreadlocks. They have sued, alleging religious discrimination; the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and New York's attorney general have also charged FedEx with violating religious protections in the Civil Rights Act.The dreadlock deadlock may be easing. FedEx altered its policy slightly a few weeks ago: in the future, observant employees who seek a waiver may wear their locks tucked under uniform hats, says a company spokeswoman. The concession isn't enough to settle the lawsuits yet. The EEOC also wants reinstatement for the fired drivers, says trial attorney Michael Ranis. He's optimistic. Some new styles, he knows, grow more appealing over time.【正确答案】：“骇人”长发绺的僵局1993年秋季，联邦快递职员克里斯托夫·波尔科由印地安诺波利斯市的公司总部调职到纽约市的布鲁克林，负责弗拉特布什区的一个投递线路。
2024英语二级笔译(CATTI 2)实务真题及参考译文
2024年英语二级笔译（CATTI 2）实务真题及参考译文Section 1: English-Chinese Translation【原文】①Mortgage rates dropped again this week, after plunging nearly half a percentage point last week. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6. 58 percent in the week ending November 23, down from 6. 61 percent the week before. A year ago, the 30-year fixed rate was 3. 10 percent. Mortgage rates rose throughout most of 2022, spurred by the Federal Reserve's unprecedented campaign of hiking interest rates in order to tame soaring inflation. But last week, rates tumbled aimed reports that indicated ion may have finally reached its peak.This volatility is making it difficult for potential home buyers to know, when to get into the market, and that is reflected in the latest data which shows existing home sales slowing across all price points. Mortgage rates tend to track the yield on 10-year US Treasury bonds. As investors see or anticipate rate hikes, they make moves which send yields higher and mortgage rates rise. The 10-year Treasury has been hovering in a lower range of 3. 7 percent to 3. 85 percent. That has led to a big reset in investors expectations about future interest rate hikes. Prior to that, the 10-year Treasury had risen above 4. 2 percent. However, the market maybe be a bit too quick to celebrate the improvement in inflation.At the Fed's November meeting, chairman Jerome Powell to the need for ongoing rate hikes to tame inflation. This could mean that mortgage rates may climb again, and that risk goes up if next month's inflation reading comes in on the higher side while it's difficult to time the market in order to get a low mortgage rate, plenty of would be home buyers are seeing a window of opportunity. Following generally higher mortgage rates throughout the course of 2022, the recent swing in buyers favor is welcome and could save the buyer of a median-priced home more than Us s100 per month relative to what they would have paid when rates were above 7 percent justtwo weeks ago.As a result of the drop in mortgage rates, both purchase and refinance applications picked up slightly last week. But refinance activity is still more than 80 percent below last years pace when rates were around 3. However, with week-to-week swings in mortgage rates averaging nearly three times those seen in a typical year and home prices still historically high, many potential shoppers have pulled back. A long-term housing shortage is keeping home prices high, even as the number of homes on the market for sales has increased, and buyers and sellers may find it more challenging align expectations on price.【参考译文】①继上周大幅下降近半个百分点之后，本周抵押贷款利率再度走低。
2014年11月二级笔译CATTI真题英译汉出处 2014.11.09
2014年11月二级笔译CATTI真题英译汉出处出自纽约时报WATERLOO, Belgium — The region around this Belgian city is busily preparing to commemorate the 200th anniv ersary in 2015 of one of the major battles in European military history. But weav ing a path through the preparations is prov ing almost as tricky as making one‟s way across the battlef ield was back then, when the Duke of Wellington, as commander of an international alliance of f or ces, crushed Napoleon.A rambling though dilapidated f armstead called Hougoumont, which was crucial to the battle‟s outcome, is being painstakingly restored as an educational center. Nearby, an underground v isitor center is under construction, and roads and monuments throughout the rolling f armland where once the sides f ought are being ref urbished. More than 6,000 military buffs are expected to re-enact indiv idual skirmishes.While the battle ended two centuries ago, howev er, hard f eelings hav e endured. Memories are long here, and not ev ery one here shares Britain‟s enthusiasm for celebrating Napoleon‟s def eat.Ev ery y ear, in districts of Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium, there are f etes to honor Napoleon, according to Count Georges Jacobs de Hagen, a prominent Belgian industrialist and chairman of a committee responsible f or restoring Hougoumont. “Napoleon, f or these people, was v ery popular,” Mr. Jacobs, 73, said ov er coffee. “That is why, still today, there are some e nemies 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 inf luence —the administration, the Code Napoléon,” or ref orm of the legal system. While Dutch-speaking Belgians f ought under Wellington, French speakers f ought 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 def ending its narrow North Gate at a critical moment on June 18, 1815, when Wellington carried the day. “Ev ery discussion in the committee was f illed with high sensitiv ity,” Mr. Jacobs recalled. “I said, …This is a condition f or the help of the British,‟ so the North Gate won the battle, and we got the monument.”If Belgium was reluctant to get inv olv ed, France was at f irst totally uninterested. “They told us, …We don‟t want to take par t in this British triumphalism,‟ ” said Countess Nathalie du Parc Locmaria, a writer and publicist who is president of a committee representing f our townships that own the land where the battle raged. As in the case of the North Gate memorial, howev er, persistence paid off.Prince Charles Napoleon, 62, a French politician and direct descendant of Jerome Napoleon —Bonaparte‟s brother, who also f ought at Waterloo —agreed to join a ceremony on the f irst of four day s of ev ents, to shake hands with the eighth Duke of Wellington, the 98-y ear-old head of his f amily, and Prince Blücher v on Wahlstatt, a direct descendant of the f ield marshal who commanded Prussian f orces in the battle. The French ambassador to Belgium was won ov er as an honorary member of the organizing committee.Now the North Gate is but a wire mesh enclosure in a rambling brick and stone wall, though its wooden doors —the f amed “chestnut barrier” —will be reconstructed exactly as they were when French and British troops f ought f uriously for control, which meant also control of the f arm buildings. Ev entually, after bloody, hand-to-hand combat, the British troops managed to shut the doors, ultimately breaking Napoleon‟s adv ance and ensuring Wellington‟s victory. Next to them, the controv ersial British memorial, a dark marbl e copy of the gate, will arise.The word triumphal, or v ariations thereof, comes up frequently in discussions here, but the Britons inv olv ed v igorously deny hav ing entertained a single triumphalist thought.“In no way will this be Anglocentric or triumphalist in any way,” said Michael Mitchell, an aircraft consultant who v olunteers as secretary of the organizing committee. “We nev er talk about a celebration, but a commemoration,” said Mr. Mitchell, the son of a Britis h f ather and Belgian mother whose ancestor Col. Hugh Mitchell f ought on Wellington‟s right f lank. “Many brav e men died,” he said. “All the belligerents play ed an incredibly impressiv e role.”If the temptation to triumphalism did exist on the British side, it would be odd, since most of the soldiers who f ough t under Wellingtonwere not British. Though he commanded 25,000 English, Scottish and Irish regulars, his f orce also consisted of 26,000 Germans and 17,000 Dutch, while Field Marshal Blücher mustered 50,000 Prussian troops.For Germany, the ev ents are welcome. Next year, commemorations will mark the 100th anniv ersary of the outbreak of World War I, but unlike that war the Napoleonic wars are not something the Germans may f eel they hav e to apologize f or. Margaret Pollmeier, a spokeswoman f or the German Embassy in Brussels, said in an e-mail that “in any ev ent, the embassy plans to participate in the commemoration on June 18, 2015.” Since 2011, the German ambassador has been an honorary member of the Hougoumont committee; his military attaché hopes to restore some or all of f our memorials to German units on the battlef ield.Ov er the centuries, the Wellington f amily has taken a keen interest in the battlef ield. The present duke, said Mr. Mitchell, “in f ine f amily tradition, takes, I won‟t say a proprietary, but a close ey e on the battlef ields.” Sev eral times, most recently in 1973, the duke interv ened successf ully when the local authorities planned to extend a superhighway across the battlef ields.In 2000, a group of Belgian taxpay ers brought suit, demanding that the gov ernment rescind an agreement dating back to just after the battle under which the Duke of Wellington was giv en the rights to 2,600 acres around the battlef ield. The lands were bringing in about $160,000 annually f or the Wellington f amily, and the taxpay ers argued it was time to end the arrangement. The case stagnated until 2009, when the f inance minister, Didier Rey nders, told Parliament that the gov ernment had no intention of backing out of its commitment, which was anchored in the 1839 Treaty of London guaranteeing the independence of Belgium.Of course, if the Wellingtons continue to benef it f rom the lands, so do the communities around Waterloo. In good y ears about 300,000 people v isit the battlef ield, though recently the number has f allen as word of the restoration work got out. Clearly, the organizers hope that the f arm‟s rev iv al and the new v isitor center will raise the numbers, perhaps as high as 500,000 a y ear. In discussions, organizers f requently mention Gettysburg, which attracts more than two million people a y ear.But the economy is only part of the picture. “Our concern is the experience of the v isitor,” Ms. Du Parc said. “What is the m essage? What is the legacy, what purpose does it serv e?” She contrasted the Napoleonic wars with World W ar I, which was f ollowed only two decades later by an ev en greater war.Mr. Jacobs agreed. “Still today, y ou f ind Belgians on both sides,” he said, “but thanks to the British this f oolish Napoleoni c experience was brought to an end. It changed the history of Europe.”“It brought a hundred y ears of peace,” he said.第二篇Bay er cares about the bees.Or at least that‟s what they tell y ou 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 y ellow sculpture of a bee. Inside, the same image is f ashioned into paper clips, or printed on napkins and mugs.“Bay er is strictly committed to bee health,” said Gillian Mansf ield, an official specializing in strategic messaging at the c ompany‟s Bay er CropScience div ision. She was sitting at the center‟s s emicircular coff ee bar, which has a f ormidable espresso maker and, if y ou ask, homegrown Bay er honey. On the surrounding walls, bee f un facts are written in English, like “A bee can f ly at roughly 16 miles an hour” or, it takes “nectar f rom some two million f lowers in order to produce a pound of honey.” Next y ear, Bay er 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 cav eat to all this buzzy good will.Bay er is one of the major producers of a ty pe of pesticide that the European Union has linked to the large-scale die-off s of honey bee populations in North America and Western Europe. They are known as neonicotinoids, a relativ ely new nicotine-deriv ed class of pesticide. The pesticide was banned this y ear f or use on many f lowering crops in Europe that attract honey bees.Bay er and two competitors, Sy ngenta and BASF, hav e disagreed v ocif erously with the ban, and are f ighting in the European courts to ov erturn it —leading o ne adv ocacy group, Corporate Europe Observ atory, to call the three companies “the bee killers.”The Env ironmental Protection Agency has said its “scientif ic conclusions are similar to those expressed” by European regulato rs, but has not seen enough grounds to put into effect its own ban. An internal E.P.A. document leaked in 2010 said the “major risk concern” ofone of the pesticides, Bay er‟s clothianidin, which is used to coat cotton and mustard seeds, “is to nontarget insects (that i s, honey bees),” calling it “highly toxic.” A coalition of beekeepers and env ironmental groups is suing the agency to press f or a ban.Not ev ery one believ es Bay er cares about bees.Hans Muilerman, a chemicals expert at Pesticide Action Network Europe, an env ironmental group, ac cused Bay er of doing “almost any thing that helps their products remaining on the market. Massiv e lobby ing, hiring P.R. f irms to f rame and spin, inv iting commissioners to show their plants and their sustainability.”“Since they learned people care about bees, they are happy to start the ty pe of actions y ou mention, …bee care centers‟ and such,” he said.There is a bad guy lurking at the Bee Care Center —a killer of bees, if y ou will. It‟s just not a pesticide.Bay er‟s culprit in the my sterious mass deaths o f bees can be f ound around the corner f rom the coffee bar. Looming next to another sculpture of a bee is a sculpture of a parasite known as a v arroa mite, which resembles a gargantuan cooked crab with spiky hair.The v arroa, sometimes called the v ampire mite, appears to be chasing the bee next to it, which already has a smaller mite stuck to it. And in case the message was not clear, images of the mites, which are actually quite small, f lash on a screen at the center.While others point at pesticides, Bay er has f unded research that blames mites f or the bee die-off. And the center combines resources f rom two of the company‟s div isions, Bay er CropScience and Bay er Animal Health, to f urther study the mite menace.“The v arroa is the biggest threat we hav e” said Manuel Tritschler, 28, a third-generation beekeeper who works f or Bay er. “It‟s v ery 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 bl ood, f rom the adults and f rom the larv ae, and in this way they transport a lot of diff erent pathogens, v irus, bacteria, fungus to the bees,” he said. Conv eniently, Bay er markets products to kill the mites too — one is called CheckMite —and Mr. Tritschler‟s work at the center included helping desi gn a “gate” to affix to hiv es that coats bees with such chemical compounds.There is no disputing that v arroa mites are a problem, but Mr. Muilerman said they could not be seen as the only threat.The v arroa mite “cannot explain the massiv e die-off on its own,” he said. “We think the bee die-off is a result of exposure to multiple stressors.”While some bees die in the winter, unusually large-scale die-offs were f irst noticed in 2006 and hav e been called “colony collapse disorder” by scientists. In 2007, a United States gov ernment panel said in that first y ear‟s winter, “as much as 50 percent of all colonies were reportedly lost, demonstrating sy mptoms inconsistent with mite damage, or any other known causes of death.”Western Europe also experienced steep declines and banned neonicotinoids in settings mostly likely to contaminate bees after the European Food Saf ety Authority raised concerns. The ban will be rev iewed af ter two y ears.While honey bees are susceptible to many threats, like beetles and bacterial diseases, a growing body of research has focused on neonicotinoids. In October, a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined how Bay er‟s clothianidin “adv ersely affects the insect immune response and promotes replication of a v iral pathogen in honey bees bearing cov ert inf ections.”Ms. Mansf ield, the Bay er official, did not broadly dispute such studies. “But they are, at the end of the day, laboratory res ults,” she said. “They are carried out in the laboratory quite of ten at doses that are not replicable or appropriate f or use in the f ield, in v ery laboratory controlled conditions.”Back at the center — which has its own T witter f eed — there is the bee, and there is the mite.Mr. Tritschler, who learned beekeeping f rom his f ather and grandf ather, took a reporter through an apiary that houses nine colonies of Bay er bees, hibernating last month in wooden boxes, some 10,000 to 15,000 a colony. He pulled out one of the head-to-toe body suits associated with beekeepers, but he does not wear one. His unif orm was dark jeans and a turtleneck sweater.Twenty v arroa mites, he said, can turn into 1,200 in a matter of months. “Only one mite is necessary to kill more or less a whole colony,” he added.Standing nearby, Utz Klages, a corporate spokesman, said “we hav e all the experts here.”红色为真题部分有少量删改。
CATTI三级笔译英译汉真题2014年11月
CATTI三级笔译英译汉真题2014年11月(总分：100.00，做题时间：120分钟)一、PART 1 English-Chinese Translation (总题数：1，分数：100.00)1. It sounds so promising. A network of dedicated cycle routes running through a city with air pumps to fix flat tires, footrests to lean on while taking breaks and trash cans that are specially angled so you can throw in empty water bottles without stopping. Best of all, you can cycle on those routes for long distances without having to make way for cars and trucks at junctions and traffic lights, according to the official description of the Cycle Super Highways, which are under construction here as par t of the Danish capital’s efforts to become carbon-neutral by 2025. Are they as good as they sound? These days it is hard to find a big city that doesn’t make grandiose claims to encourage cycling, and harder still to find one that fulfills them. Redesigning congested traffic systems to add bike lanes to overcrowded roads is fiendishly difficult, especially in historic cities with narrow cobbled streets like Copenhagen. But as its cycling program sounds so ambitious, I went there to try it. Maybe I’d be less cynical if I lived in Amsterdam, Cologne or any other city with decent cycling facilities, but as a Londoner, I’ve learned the hard way to be suspicious whenever politicians promise to do anythingbike-friendly. London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, is a ke en cyclist, who issues policy papers with auspicious titles like “Cycling Revolution” and has continued his predecessor’s biking program by introducing a cycle-rental project and building new bike lanes. So far so good, you may think, unless you have braved the potholes, parked trucks and construction debris that obstruct those lanes, many of which appear to have been designed by someone who has never seen a bicycle, let alone ridden one. London cyclists swap horror stories of dysfunctional cycle routes that end without warning or maroon them on the wrong side of the road, though few can be more perilous than a new lane on Bethnal Green Road, which is blocked by a streetlight — anyone rash enough to use the lane has to brake sharply to avoid crashing into it.（分数：100.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：()解析：。