2008年5月翻译资格考试二级英语笔译实务真题及答案

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2008 年 5 月翻译资格考试二级英语笔译实务真题及答案

【英译汉必译题】

If a heavy reliance on fossil fuels makes a country a climate ogre, then

Denmark — with its thousands of wind turbines sprinkled on the coastlines and

at sea — is living a happy fairy tale.

Viewed from the United States or Asia, Denmark is an environmental role model.

The country is "what a global warming solution looks like," wrote Frances

Beinecke, the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a letter

to the group last autumn. About one-fifth of the country's electricity comes

from wind, which wind experts say is the highest proportion of any country.

But a closer look shows that Denmark is a far cry from a clean-energy paradise.

The building of wind turbines has virtually ground to a halt since subsidies

were cut back. Meanwhile, compared with others in the European Union, Danes

remain above-average emitters of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. For all its

wind turbines, a large proportion of the rest of Denmark's power is generated

by plants that burn imported coal.

The Danish experience shows how difficult it can be for countries grown rich on

fossil fuels to switch to renewable energy sources like wind power. Among the

hurdles are fluctuating political priorities, the high cost of putting new

turbines offshore, concern about public acceptance of large wind turbines and

the volatility of the wind itself.

"Europe has really led the way," said Alex Klein, a senior analyst with

Emerging Energy Research, a consulting firm with offices in Cambridge,

Massachusetts.

Some parts of western Denmark derive 100 percent of their peak needs from wind

if the breeze is up. Germany and Spain generate more power in absolute terms,

but in those countries wind still accounts for a far smaller proportion of the

electricity generated. The average for all 27 European Union countries is 3

percent.

But the Germans and the Spanish are catching up as Denmark slows down. Of the

thousands of megawatts of wind power added last year around the world, only 8

megawatts were installed in Denmark.

If higher subsidies had been maintained, he said, Denmark could now be

generating close to one-third — rather than one-fifth — of its electricity

from windmills.

【参考译文】

如果说大量依赖石油燃料会让一个国家称为破坏环境的恶魔，那么丹麦，一个海岸线和海

上布满数千台风力涡轮机的国家，简直是一个快乐地生活在童话故事里的国家。

从美国或者亚洲国家的角度看，丹麦是环境保护的楷模。自然资源防护委员会主席弗朗西

斯于去年秋天在致该组织的信函中写道，该国(指丹麦)“正式解决全球变暖的方法所在”。

该国五分之一的发电来自风能，风力专家称，这是全欧洲比例最高的国家。

但是如果我们进一步观察的话就会发现丹麦离“洁净能源的天堂”还差的很远。

由于津贴消减，风力涡轮机的建设实际上已经停止。而与此同时，与欧盟其它国家相比，

丹麦排放的温室气体二氧化碳仍然超过平均值。尽管有许多风力涡轮机，丹麦大量的能源

都是由燃烧进口煤的工厂生产的。

丹麦的经历表明了，要让使用石油燃料变富的国家改为使用风力之类的可再生能源是多么

地困难。其中有许多的障碍，包括不断变化的政治优先权，将新涡轮建到海上成本高，担

心公众是否能接受大型的风力涡轮机，以及风力本身的不稳定性。

“欧洲的确是领先一步了”办公室设在马萨诸赛州剑桥的咨询公司，新兴能源研究会高级

分析员阿列克斯克雷恩这样说道。

在丹麦西部的某些地区，当刮起风时，能获得 100%的能源需求。以绝对值计算，德国与西

班牙产生的电能更多，但是这些国家风能发电仍只占总发电的很小一部分。欧盟 27 个国家

的风力发电平均只占总发电量的 3%。

但是，随着丹麦减缓步伐，德国人和西班牙人正在迎头赶上。去年全世界风力产生的数十

亿瓦电中，丹麦只贡献了 8百万千瓦。

他说，如果能保持较高的津贴，丹麦的风力发电占总发电的比率就不是五分之一了，而是

三分之一。

【英译汉二选一】

【试题一】

ONE DAY in February 1926 an unknown American writer walked out of a New York

snowstorm and into history. An important piece of that history is now in danger

of being lost forever, caught in the controversy over the US trade embargo

against Cuba.

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