2014年11月翻译资格考试二级英语笔译实务真题

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2014 年 11 月翻译资格考试二级英语笔译实务真题

Part 1：English-Chinese Translation

Passage 1

　　 WATERLOO ， Belgium — The region around this Belgian city is busily

preparing to commemorate the 200th anniversary in 2015 of one of the major

battles in European military history. But weaving a path through the

preparations is proving almost as tricky as making one’s way across the

battlefield was back then， when the Duke of Wellington， as commander of an

international alliance of forces， crushed Napoleon.

　　 A rambling though dilapidated farmstead called Hougoumont ， which was

crucial to the battle’s outcome ， is being painstakingly restored as an

educational center. Nearby ， an underground visitor center is under

construction ， and roads and monuments throughout the rolling farmland where

once the sides fought are being refurbished. More than 6 ，000 military buffs

are expected to re-enact individual skirmishes.

　　 While the battle ended two centuries ago ， however ， hard feelings have

endured. Memories are long here ， and not everyone here shares Britain’s

enthusiasm for celebrating Napoleon’s defeat.

　　 Every year ， in districts of Wallonia ， the French-speaking part of

Belgium， there are fetes to honor Napoleon， according to Count Georges Jacobs

de Hagen ， a prominent Belgian industrialist and chairman of a committee

responsible for restoring Hougoumont. “Napoleon， for these people， was very

popular，” Mr. Jacobs， 73， said over coffee. “That is why， still today，

there are some enemies of the project.”

　　 Belgium ， of course ， did not exist in 1815. Its Dutch-speaking regions

were part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands， while the French-speaking portion

had been incorporated into the French Empire. Among French speakers ， Mr.

Jacobs said， Napoleon had a “huge influence — the administration， the Code

Napoléon ， ” or reform of the legal system. While Dutch-speaking Belgians

fought under Wellington， French speakers fought with Napoleon.

　　 That distaste on the part of modern-day French speakers crystallized in

resistance to a British proposal that ， as part of the restoration of

Hougoumont ， a memorial be raised to the British soldiers who died defending

its narrow North Gate at a critical moment on June 18， 1815， when Wellington

carried the day. “Every discussion in the committee was filled with high

sensitivity，” Mr. Jacobs recalled. “I said， ‘This is a condition for the

help of the British ， ’ so the North Gate won the battle ， and we got the

monument.”

　　 If Belgium was reluctant to get involved ， France was at first totally

uninterested. “They told us ， ‘ We don’t want to take part in this British

triumphalism ， ’ ” said Countess Nathalie du Parc Locmaria ， a writer and

publicist who is president of a committee representing four townships that own

the land where the battle raged.

Passage 2

　　Bayer cares about the bees.

　　Or at least that’s what they tell you at the company’s Bee Care Center on

its sprawling campus here between Düsseldorf and Cologne. Outside the cozy two-

story building that houses the center is a whimsical yellow sculpture of a bee.

Inside， the same image is fashioned into paper clips ， or printed on napkins

and mugs.

　　“Bayer is strictly committed to bee health ，” said Gillian Mansfield，

an official specializing in strategic messaging at the company’s Bayer

CropScience division. She was sitting at the center’s semicircular coffee

bar， which has a formidable espresso maker and， if you ask， homegrown Bayer

honey. On the surrounding walls， bee fun facts are written in English， like

“A bee can fly at roughly 16 miles an hour” or， it takes “nectar from some

two million flowers in order to produce a pound of honey.” Next year ， Bayer

will open another Bee Care Center in Raleigh ， N.C. ， and has not ruled out

more in other parts of the world.

　　There is， of course， a slight caveat to all this buzzy good will.

　　 Bayer is one of the major producers of a type of pesticide that the

European Union has linked to the large-scale die-offs of honey bee populations

in North America and Western Europe. They are known as neonicotinoids ， a

relatively new nicotine-derived class of pesticide. The pesticide wasbanned

this year for use on many flowering crops in Europe that attract honey bees.

　　Bayer and two competitors， Syngenta and BASF， have disagreed vociferously

with the ban， and are fighting in the European courts to overturn it.

　　Hans Muilerman， a chemicals expert at Pesticide Action Network Europe， an

environmental group， accused Bayer of doing “almost anything that helps their

products remaining on the market. Massive lobbying， hiring P.R. firms to frame

and spin ， inviting commissioners to show their plants and their

sustainability.”

　　“Since they learned people care about bees， they are happy to start the

type of actions you mention， ‘bee care centers’ and such，” he said.

　　There is a bad guy lurking at the Bee Care Center — a killer of bees ， if

you will. It’s just not a pesticide.

　　Bayer’s culprit in the mysterious mass deaths of bees can be found around

the corner from the coffee bar. Looming next to another sculpture of a bee is a

sculpture of a parasite known as a varroa mite ， which resembles a gargantuan

cooked crab with spiky hair.

　　The varroa， sometimes called the vampire mite， appears to be chasing the

bee next to it， which already has a smaller mite stuck to it. And in case the

message was not clear， images of the mites， which are actually quite small，

flash on a screen at the center.

　　While others point at pesticides ， Bayer has funded research that blames

mites for the bee die-off. And the center combines resources from two of the

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