2013年11月翻译资格考试三级英语笔译真题及答案

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2013 年 11 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.

Stroll through the farmers’ market and you will hear a plethora of languages

and see a rainbow of faces. Drive down Canyon Road and stop for halal meat or

Filipino pork belly at adjacent markets. Along the highway, browse the aisles

of a giant Asian supermarket stocking fresh napa cabbage and mizuna or fresh

kimchi. Head toward downtown and you’ll see loncheras — taco trucks — on

street corners and hear Spanish banda music. On the city’s northern edge, you

can sample Indian chaat.

Welcome to Beaverton, a Portland suburb that is home to Oregon’s fastest

growing immigrant population. Once a rural community, Beaverton, population

87,000, is now the sixth largest city in Oregon — with immigration rates

higher than those of Portland, Oregon’s largest city.

Best known as the world headquarters for athletic shoe company Nike, Beaverton

has changed dramatically over the past 40 years. Settled by immigrants from

northern Europe in the 19th century, today it is a place where 80 languages

from Albanian to Urdu are spoken in the public schools and about 30 percent of

students speak a language besides English, according to English as a Second

Language program director Wei Wei Lou.

Beaverton’s wave of new residents began arriving in the 1960s, with Koreans

and Tejanos (Texans of Mexican origin), who were the first permanent Latinos.

In 1960, Beaverton’s population of Latinos and Asians was less than 0.3

percent. By 2000, Beaverton had proportionately more Asian and Hispanic

residents than the Portland metro area. Today, Asians comprise 10 percent and

Hispanics 11 percent of Beaverton’s population.

Mayor Denny Doyle says that many in Beaverton view the immigrants who are

rapidly reshaping Beaverton as a source of enrichment. “Citizens here

especially in the arts and culture community think it’s fantastic that we have

all these different possibilities here,” he says.

Gloria Vargas, 50, a Salvadoran immigrant, owns a popular small restaurant,

Gloria’s Secret Café, in downtown Beaverton. “I love Beaverton,” she says.

“I feel like I belong here.” Her mother moved her to Los Angeles as a

teenager in 1973, and she moved Oregon in 1979. She landed a coveted vendor

spot in the Beaverton Farmers Market in 1999. Now in addition to running her

restaurant, she has one of the most popular stalls there, selling up to 200

Salvadoran tamales — wrapped in banana leaves rather than corn husks — each

Saturday. “Once they buy my food, they always come back for more,” she says.

“It’s pretty relaxed here,” says Taj Suleyman, 28, born and raised in

Lebanon, and recently transplanted to Beaverton to start a job working with

immigrants from many countries. Half Middle Eastern and half African, Suleyman

says he was attracted to Beaverton specifically because of its diversity. He

serves on a city-sponsored Diversity Task Force set up by Mayor Doyle.

Mohammed Haque, originally from Bangladesh, finds Beaverton very welcoming. His

daughter, he boasts, was even elected her high school’s homecoming queen.

South Asians such as Haque have transformed Bethany, a neighborhood north of

Beaverton. It is dense with immigrants from Gujarat, a state in India and

primary source for the first wave of Beaverton’s South Asian immigrants.

The first wave of South Asian immigrants to Beaverton, mostly Gujaratis from

India, arrived in the 1960s and 1970s, when the motel and hotel industry was

booming. Many bought small hotels and originally settled in Portland, and then

relocated to Beaverton for better schools and bigger yards. The second wave of

South Asians arrived during the high-tech boom of the 1980s, when the software

industry, and Intel and Tektronix, really took off.

Many of Beaverton’s Asians converge at Uwajimaya, a 30,000-square-foot

supermarket near central Beaverton. Bernie Capell, former special events

coordinator at Uwajimaya, says that many come to shop for fresh produce every

day. But the biggest group of shoppers at Uwajimaya, she adds, are Caucasians.

Beaverton’s Asian population boasts a sizable number of Koreans, who began to

arrive in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

According to Ted Chung, a native of Korea and Beaverton resident since 1978,

three things stand out about his fellow Korean immigrants. Upon moving to

Beaverton, they join a Christian church — often Methodist or Presbyterian —

as a gathering place; they push their children to excel in school; and they

shun the spotlight.

Chung says he and his fellow Korean émigrés work hard as small businessmen—

owning groceries, dry cleaners, laundromats, delis, and sushi shops — and are

frugal so they can send their children to a leading university.

Most recently, immigrants from Central and South America, as well as refugees

from Iraq and Somalia, have joined the Beaverton community.

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