2011年5月翻译资格考试三级英语笔译真题及答案

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2011 年 5 月翻译资格考试三级英语笔译真题及答案

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Section 1: English-Chinese Translation (英译汉) Translate the following passage

into Chinese.

Stonehenge, England——The prehistoric monument of Stonehenge stands tall in

the British countryside as one of the last remnants of the Neolithic Age.

Recently it has also become the latest symbol of another era: the new fiscal

austerity.

Renovations — including a plan to replace the sites run-down visitors center

with one almost five times bigger and to close a busy road that runs along the

5,000-year-old monument had to be mothballed in June. The British government

had suddenly withdrawn ￡ 10 million, or $16 million, in financing for the

project as part of a budget squeeze.

Stonehenge, once a temple with giant stone slabs aligned in a circle to mark

the passage of the sun, is among the most prominent victims of the

government’s spending cuts. The decision was heavily criticized by local

lawmakers, especially because Stonehenge, a UnescoWorld Heritage site, was part

of London’s successful bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games. The shabby visitors

center there now is already too small for the 950,000 people who visit

Stonehenge each year, let alone the additional onslaught of tourists expected

for the Games, the lawmakers say.

Stonehenge is the busiest tourist attraction in Britain’s southwest, topping

even Windsor Castle. But no major improvements have been made to the facilities

there since they were built 40 years ago. For now, portable toilets lead from a

crammed parking lot, via a makeshift souvenir shop in a tent, to a ticket

office opposite a small kiosk that sells coffee and snacks.

The overhaul was scheduled for next spring. Plans by the architectural firm

Denton Corker Marshall would keep the stone monument itself unchanged. But the

current ticket office and shop would be demolished and a new visitors center

would be built on the other side of the monument, about two and a half

kilometers, or 1.5 miles, from the stones. The center would include a shop

almost five times the size of the current one, a proper restaurant, three times

as many parking spots and an exhibition space to provide more information about

Stonehenge’s history.

A transit system would shuttle visitors between the center and the stones while

footpaths would encourage tourists to walk to the monument and explore the

surrounding burial hills. The closed road would be grassed over to improve the

surrounding landscape.

Last year, the ￡ 27 million project won the backing of former Prime Minister

Gordon Brown. After more than 25 years of bickering with local communities

about how and where to build the new center, planning permission was granted in

January. Construction was supposed to start next year and be completed in time

for the Olympics, but the economic downturn has changed those plans.

The new prime minister, David Cameron, has reversed many of his predecessor’s

promises as part of a program to cut more than ￡99 billion annually over the

next five years to help close a gaping budget deficit. The financing for

Stonehenge fell in the first round of cuts, worth about ￡ 6.2 billion, from

the budget for the current year, along with support for a hospital and the

British Film Institute.

English Heritage, a partly government-financed organization that owns

Stonehenge and more than 400 other historic sites in the country, is now

aggressively looking for private donations. But the economic downturn has made

the endeavor more difficult.

Hunched over architectural renderings of the new center, Loraine Knowles,

Stonehenge’s project director, said she was disappointed that the government

had withdrawn money while continuing to support museums in London, like the

Tate and the British Museum. But Ms. Knowles said she was hopeful that English

Heritage could raise the money elsewhere. Stonehenge, she said, could then also

become “a shining example of how philanthropy could work.”

Section 2: Chinese-English Translation (汉译英) Translate the following passage

into English.

坚持对外开放基本国策，坚定不移地发展开放型经济、奉行互利共赢的开放战略，是改革

开放 30 多年来中国经济持续快速发展的一条成功经验。招商引资、择优选资，促进

“引资” 与“引智”相结合，是中国对外开放的重要内容。

截至 2010 年 7 月，中国累计设立外商投资企业 69.8 万家，实际使用外资 1.05 万亿美

元。目前中国 22 的税收、28 的工业增加值、55 的进出口、50 的技术引进、约 4500 万人

的就业，都来自外商投资企业的贡献。对外开放、吸引外资是互利共赢的。对中国来说，通

过持续吸引外资为国家现代化建设提供了必要的资金、先进的技术和宝贵的管理经验以

及众多国际化人才。对外商投资企业来说，则赢得了可观的投资回报，不少在华外商投

资企业成为其母公司全球业务的增长亮点和利润中心。联合国贸发会议最新调查显示，

目前中国依然是全球最具吸引力的投资东道国。

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