2014年5月翻译资格考试三级英语笔译真题及答案

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2014 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.

NARSAQ, Greenland — as icebergs in the Kayak Harbor pop and hiss while melting

away, this remote Arctic town and its culture are also disappearing in a

changing climate.

Narsaq’s largest employer, a shrimp factory, closed a few years ago after the

crustaceans fled north to cooler water. Where once there were eight commercial

fishing vessels, there is now one.

As a result, the population here, one of southern Greenland’s major towns, has

been halved to 1,500 in just a decade. Suicides are up.

“Fishing is the heart of this town,” said Hans Kaspersen, 63, a fisherman.

“Lots of people have lost their livelihoods.”

But even as warming temperatures are upending traditional Greenlandic life,

they are also offering up intriguing new opportunities for this state of 57,000

— perhaps nowhere more so than here in Narsaq.

Vast new deposits of minerals and gems are being discovered as Greenland’s

massive ice cap recedes, forming the basis of a potentially lucrative mining

industry. One of the world’s largest deposits of rare earth metals —

essential for manufacturing cellphones, wind turbines and electric cars —

sits just outside Narsaq. It has long been known that Greenland sat upon vast

mineral lodes, and the Danish government has mapped them intermittently for

decades. Niels Bohr, Denmark’s Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist and a

member of the Manhattan Project, visited Narsaq in 1957 because of its uranium

deposits.

But previous attempts at mining mostly failed, proving too expensive in the

inclement conditions. Now, warming has altered the equation.

Greenland’s Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum, charged with managing the boom,

currently has 150 active licenses for mineral exploration, up from 20 a decade

ago. Altogether, companies spent $100 million exploring Greenland’s deposits

last year, and several are applying for licenses to begin construction on new

mines, bearing gold, iron and zinc and rare earths. There are also foreign

companies exploring for offshore oil.

The Black Angel lead and zinc mine, which closed in 1990, is applying to reopen

this year, said Jorgen T.Hammeken-Holm, who oversees licensing at the

country’s mining bureau, “because the ice is in retreat and you’re getting

much more to explore.”

The Greenlandic government hopes that mining will provide new revenue. In

granting Greenland home rule in 2009, Denmark froze its annual subsidy, which

is scheduled to be decreased further in the coming years.

Here in Narsaq, a collection of brightly painted homes bordered by spectacular

fjords, two foreign companies are applying to the government for permission to

mine.

That proximity promises employment, and the company is already schooling some

young men in drilling and in English, the international language of mine

operations. It plans to build a processing plant, a new port and more roads.

(Greenland currently has none outside of settled areas.) Narsaq’s tiny

airport, previously threatened with closure from lack of traffic, could be

expanded. A local landlord is contemplating converting an abandoned apartment

block into a hotel.

“There will be a lot of people coming from outside and that will be a big

challenge since Greenlandic culture has been isolated,” said Jasper Schroder,

a student home in Narsaq from university in Denmark.

Still, he supports the mine and hopes it will provide jobs and stem the rash of

suicides, particularly among his peers; Greenland has one of the highest

suicide rates in the world. “People in this culture don’t want to be a burden

to their families if they can’t contribute,” he said.

But not all are convinced of the benefits of mining. “Of course the mine will

help the local economy and will help Greenland, but I’m not so sure if it will

be good for us,” said Dorothea Rodgaard, who runs a local guesthouse. “We are

worried about the loss of nature.”

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

into English.

中华民族历经磨难，自强不息，从未放弃对美好梦想的向往和追求。实现中华民族伟大复

兴的中国梦是近代以来中华民族的夙愿。

在新的历史时期，中国梦的本质是国家富强、民族振兴、人民幸福。我们的奋斗目标是，到

2020 年国内生产总值和城乡居民人均收入在 2010 年基础上翻一番，全面建成小康社会。

到本世纪中叶，建成富强民主文明和谐的社会主义现代化国家，实现中华民族伟大复兴的

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