2013年11月翻译资格考试二级英语笔译实务真题

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2013 年 11 月翻译资格考试二级英语笔译实务真题

1. 英译汉第一篇：节选自 The New York Times，原文标题为：Paris Employs a Few

Black Sheep to Tend, and Eat, a City Field

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 in 2001, 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.

2. 英译汉第二篇：同样节选自 The New York Times，原文标题为：N. Joseph Woodland,

Inventor of the Bar Code, Dies at 91

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

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