2014.11-2015.5 CATTI 英语二级笔译实务试题

2015年5月CATTI英语二级笔译实务试题

英译汉第一篇

Along a rugged,wide North Sea beach here on a recent day,children formed teams of eight to10, 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(about1.25percent of gross domestic product),the Netherlands has averted catastrophe since a flooding disaster in1953.

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 Raimond Hafkenscheid,the lead organizer of the competition and a water expert with the Foreign Ministry.

Before the competition,the children,ages6to11,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.The finding did much to get the sand castle contest off the ground.‘

英译汉第二篇

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.

Even though the majority of the population now lives in cities,much of New Zealand’s art, literature,film and humor has rural themes.

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.Māori developed traditional chants and songs from their ancient South-East Asian origins,and after centuries of isolation created a unique“monotonous”and“doleful”sound.

Our vision recognises that our distinctive culture is core to what makes New Zealand a great place to live.Cultural expression,engagement and understanding are fundamental to a vibrant and healthy society and help define what it is to be a New Zealander.

Māori culture makes New Zealand unique in a globalised world and is central to our sense of place,identifying us as a nation.Active participation by Māori in distinct te ao Māori activity,will ensure Māori culture is protected and flourishes.

ManatūTaonga/the Ministry for Culture and Heritage(the Ministry)is the Government’s leading advisor on cultural matters;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 the Government on where to focus its interventions in the cultural sector.The Ministry seeks to ensure that Vote funding is invested as effectively and efficiently as possible,and that the Government’s priorities are met.

The Ministry has a strong track record of delivering high quality publications(including websites), managing our significant heritage and commemorations,and acting as guardian of New Zealand’s culture and kaitiaki of New Zealand’s taonga.Our work prioritises cultural outcomes and supports educational,economic,and social outcomes linking with the work of a range of other government agencies.

汉译英第一篇

改革开放30多年来，西藏通过深化改革和扩大开放积极推动全区商业、对外贸易和旅游产业加快发展，不仅增强了与内地的交流，同时也加强了与世界的联系和合作。1993年，西藏与全国一道开始建立“框架一致、体制衔接”的社会主义市场经济体制，深化物资、粮食、日用消费品等领域价格流通改革并全面进入市场。

目前，西藏已经深深融入全国统一的市场体系，来自全国和世界各地的商品源源不断地进入西藏，丰富着城乡市场和百姓生活。西藏的名、优、特产品及民族手工业产品，大量进入全国市场。

西藏与世界的经济联系日益密切。2012年，全区进出口总额为34.24亿美元，是1953年0.04亿美元的850多倍，年均增长12.1％。西藏立足区位优势，实施面向南亚的陆路贸易大通道建设，大力发展边境贸易。

汉译英第二篇

频发的自然灾害让全球深受其害，炎热的酷暑、狂暴的飓风、刺骨的严寒以及滔天的洪水近乎成了“常客”，风调雨顺已被视为“奢侈品”。

气象学家对此众说纷纭。有的说是全球变暖所致，有的说是大气环流异常，还有的认为厄尔尼诺是罪魁祸首。

尽管如此，大多数学者都认同这样一个观点：全球气候变化速度正在加剧，极端灾害天气今后无疑将更加频繁，并且其强度和范围都将走强。面对日益脆弱的全球气候，人类需要更认真地思考，如何切实有效地规范自身活动，珍爱我们共同的家园。

未来极端危害天气将对相关的行业，如水利、农业、林业、能源、健康和旅游业等有更大影响。同时，上述因素为全球经济复苏带来更多变数。

2014年11月CATTI英语二级笔译实务试题

英译汉第一篇

The region around this Belgian city is busily preparing to commemorate the200th anniversary in 2015of 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 than6,000military 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 in1815.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 June18,1815,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,a writer and publicist who is president of a committee representing four townships that own the land where the battle raged.

英译汉第二篇

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 roughly16miles 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.

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 was banned 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.

"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."

汉译英第一篇

矿产资源是自然资源的重要组成部分，是人类社会发展的重要物质基础。新中国成立五十多年来，矿产资源勘查开发取得巨大成就，探明一大批矿产资源，建成比较完善的矿产品供应体系，为中国经济的持续快速协调健康发展提供了重要保障。目前，中国92%以上的一次能源、80%的工业原材料、70%以上的农业生产资料来自于矿产资源。

中国现已发现171种矿产资源,查明资源储量的有158种，矿产地近18000处，其中大中型矿产地7000余处。目前，中国92%以上的一次能源、80%的工业原材料、70%以上的农业生产资料来自于矿产资源。中国资源总量全球第三,可是人均全球第53,只有全球人均量的58%。

矿产资源是自然资源的重要组成部分，是人类生存和社会发展的重要物质基础。矿产资源远景评价和战略性矿产勘查，为全面建设小康社会提供资源基础保障。矿产资源为全面建设小康社会提供资源基础保障。

汉译英第二篇

我们将深入实施区域发展总体战略，加快中西部地区开发开放。地区差别和不平衡发展是中国一大问题，中西部地区地域辽阔、资源丰富、潜力巨大，是中国重要的战略发展空间、回旋余地和新的经济增长点。

实施西部大开发战略10多年取得了显著成绩。我们将以更大的力度推进中西部特别是西部开发开放，搞好规划布局，完善政策措施，加快大通道建设，大力发展优势特色产业，推进绿色、循环、低碳发展，把资源优势转化为经济优势，支持东部地区部分产业有序向中西部地区转移，统筹东中西、协调南北方，积极稳妥推进城镇化，发挥城镇化对扩内需、促发展、惠民生的潜力作用。可以相信，随着新一轮西部开发开放向纵深推进，中国经济将会增添强大活力，也可以逐步解决不平衡不协调不可持续问题。

2014年5月CATTI英语二级笔译实务试题

英译汉第一篇

Marlene Castro knew the tall blonde woman only as Laurene,her mentor.They met every few weeks in a rough Silicon Valley neighborhood the year that Ms.Castro was applying to college, and they e-mailed often,bonding over conversations about Ms.Castro’s difficult childhood. Without Laurene’s help,Ms.Castro said,she might not have become the first person in her family to graduate from college.

It was only later,when she was a freshman at University of California,Berkeley,that Ms.Castro read a news article and realized that Laurene was Silicon Valley royalty,the wife of Apple’s co-founder,Steven P.Jobs.

“I just became10times more appreciative of her humility and how humble she was in working with us in East Palo Alto,”Ms.Castro said.

The story,friends and colleagues say,is classic Laurene Powell Jobs.Famous because of her last name and fortune,she has always been private and publicity-averse.Her philanthropic work, especially on education causes like College Track,the college prep organization she helped found and through which she was Ms.Castro’s mentor,has been her priority and focus.

Now,less than two years after Mr.Jobs’death,Ms.Powell Jobs is becoming somewhat less private.She has tiptoed into the public sphere,pushing her agenda in education as well as global conservation,nutrition and immigration policy.

“She’s been mourning for a year,”said Larry Brilliant,who is an old friend of Mr.Jobs.“Her life was about her family and Steve,but she is now emerging as a potent force on the world stage, and this is only the beginning.”

But she is doing it her way.

“It’s not about getting any public recognition for her giving,it’s to help touch and transform individual lives,”said Laura Andreessen,a philanthropist and lecturer on philanthropy at Stanford who has been close friends with Ms.Powell Jobs for two decades.

While some people said Ms.Powell Jobs should have started a foundation in Mr.Jobs’name after his death,she did not,nor has she increased her public giving.

Instead,she has redoubled her commitment to Emerson Collective,the organization she formed about a decade ago to make grants and investments in education initiatives and,more recently, other areas.

“In the broadest sense,we want to use our knowledge and our network and our relationships to try to effect the greatest amount of good,”Ms.Powell Jobs said in one of a series of interviews with The New York Times.

英译汉第二篇

In the past few years,I’ve taught nonfiction writing to undergraduates and graduate students at Harvard,Yale,and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.Each semester I hope,and fear, that I will have nothing to teach my students because they already know how to write.And each semester I discover,again,that they don’t.

The teaching of the humanities has fallen on hard times.So says a new report on the state of the humanities by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,and so says the experience of nearly everyone who teaches at a college or university.Undergraduates will tell you that they’re under pressure—from their parents,from the burden of debt they incur,from society at large—to choose majors they believe will lead as directly as possible to good jobs.Too often,that means skipping the humanities.

In other words,there is a new and narrowing vocational emphasis in the way students and their parents think about what to study in college.

There is a certain literal-mindedness in the recent shift away from the humanities.It suggests a number of things.

One,the rush to make education pay off presupposes that only the most immediately applicable skills are worth acquiring.Two,the humanities often do a bad job of explaining why the humanities matter.And three,the humanities often do a bad job of teaching the humanities.

What many undergraduates do not know—and what so many of their professors have been unable to tell them—is how valuable the most fundamental gift of the humanities will turn out to be.That gift is clear thinking,clear writing and a lifelong engagement with literature.

Writing well used to be a fundamental principle of the humanities,as essential as the knowledge of mathematics and statistics in the sciences.But writing well isn’t merely a utilitarian skill.It is about developing a rational grace and energy in your conversation with the world around you.

汉译英第一篇

上海合作组织成立12年来，成员国结成紧密的命运共同体和利益共同体。面对复杂的国际和地区形势，维护地区安全稳定和促进成员国共同发展，过去、现在乃至将来相当长时期内都是上海合作组织的首要任务和目标。

安全上，成员国要继续坚定支持彼此维护国家安全和社会稳定的努力，加大打击“三股势力”和毒品犯罪力度。值得注意的是，当前，地区恐怖主义和毒品犯罪相互勾结的现象愈演愈烈，反恐和禁毒成为需要双管齐下的系统工程。中方认为有必要赋予上海合作组织地区反恐怖机构禁毒职能，加强其综合打击“毒恐勾结”的能力。

经济上，成员国要大力推动务实合作。我们维护地区安全稳定的最终目的是实现共同发展繁荣。各方有必要加快实施交通、能源、通信、农业等优势领域合作项目，加紧研究建立上海合作组织开发银行，以解决项目融资难题和应对国际金融风险。

汉译英第二篇

改革开放以来，中国金融业伴随现代化建设而快速成长，但实现持续发展依然任重道远。目前，中国金融业资产已超过１５０万亿元人民币，外汇储备达３．４万亿美元，盘活金融资产、激活金融市场潜力很大。

下一步，我们将坚定不移推进金融市场化改革，健全现代金融体系，加快发展多层次资本市场，稳步推进利率市场化、汇率市场化的改革。

同时，深化境外战略投资者与中资银行的合作，稳步推进股票、债券、保险市场对外开放，促进人民币跨境使用，逐步实现人民币资本项目可兑换，拓展金融业对外开放的广度和深度。以开放促改革发展、促转型创新，实现中国经济持续健康发展，也会给世界经济增长及金融业发展提供机遇。

2013年11月CATTI英语二级笔译实务试题

英译汉第一篇

The archivists requested a donkey,but what they got from the mayor’s office were four wary black sheep,which,as of Wednesday morning,were chewing away at a lumpy field of grass beside the municipal archives building as the City of Paris’s newest,shaggiest lawn mowers. Mayor Bertrand Delano?has made the environment a priority since his election in2001,with popular bike-and car-sharing programs,an expanded network of designated lanes for bicycles and buses,and an enormous project to pedestrianize the banks along much of the Seine.

The sheep,which are to mow(and,not inconsequentially,fertilize)an airy half-acre patch in the 19th District intended in the same spirit.City Hall refers to the project as“eco-grazing,”and it

notes that the four ewes will prevent the use of noisy,gas-guzzling mowers and cut down on the use of herbicides.

Paris has plans for a slightly larger eco-grazing project not far from the archives building, assuming all goes well;similar projects have been under way in smaller towns in the region in recent years.

The sheep,from a rare,diminutive Breton breed called Ouessant,stand just about two feet high. Chosen for their hardiness,city officials said,they will pasture here until October inside a three-foot-high,yellow electrified fence.

“This is really not a one-shot deal,”insisted RenéDutrey,the adjunct mayor for the environment and sustainable development.Mr.Dutrey,a fast-talking man in orange-striped Adidas Samba sneakers,noted that the sheep had cost the city a total of just about$335,though no further economic projections have been drawn up for the time being.

A metal fence surrounds the grounds of the archives,and a security guard stands watch at the gate, so there is little risk that local predators—large,unleashed dogs,for instance—will be able to reach the ewes.

Curious humans,however,are encouraged to visit the sheep,and perhaps the archives,too.The eco-grazing project began as an initiative to attract the public to the archives,and informational panels have been put in place to explain what,exactly,the sheep are doing here.

But the archivists have had to be trained to care for the animals.In the unlikely event that a ewe should flip onto her back,Ms.Masson said,someone must rush to put her back on her feet.

英译汉第二篇

Norman Joseph Woodland was born in Atlantic City on Sept.6,1921.As a Boy Scout he learned Morse code,the spark that would ignite his invention.

After spending World War II on the Manhattan Project,Mr.Woodland resumed his studies at the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia(it is now Drexel University),earning a bachelor’s degree in1947.

As an undergraduate,Mr.Woodland perfected a system for delivering elevator music efficiently. He planned to pursue the project commercially,but his father,who had come of age in “Boardwalk Empire”-era Atlantic City,forbade it:elevator music,he said,was controlled by the mob,and no son of his was going to come within spitting distance.

The younger Mr.Woodland returned to Drexel for a master’s degree.In1948,a local supermarket executive visited the campus,where he implored a dean to develop an efficient means of encoding product data.The dean demurred,but Mr.Silver,a fellow graduate student who overheard their

conversation,was intrigued.He conscripted Mr.Woodland.

An early idea of theirs,which involved printing product information in fluorescent ink and reading it with ultraviolet light,proved unworkable.

But Mr.Woodland,convinced that a solution was close at hand,quit graduate school to devote himself to the problem.He holed up at his grandparents’home in Miami Beach,where he spent the winter of1948-49in a chair in the sand,thinking.

To represent information visually,he realized,he would need a code.The only code he knew was the one he had learned in the Boy Scouts.

What would happen,Mr.Woodland wondered one day,if Morse code,with its elegant simplicity and limitless combinatorial potential,were adapted graphically?He began trailing his fingers idly through the sand.

“What I’m going to tell you sounds like a fairy tale,”Mr.Woodland told Smithsonian magazine in1999.“I poked my four fingers into the sand and for whatever reason—I didn’t know—I pulled my hand toward me and drew four lines.Now I have four lines,and they could be wide lines and narrow lines instead of dots and dashes.’”

Today,bar codes appears on the surface of almost every product of contemporary life.All because a bright young man,his mind ablaze with dots and dashes,one day raked his fingers through the sand.

汉译英第一篇中国式过马路（具体篇章暂未查到）

汉译英第二篇中国经济现状（工业、商业、金融、法制管理）