2004年11月翻译资格考试二级英语笔译实务真题及答案

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2004 年 11 月翻译资格考试二级英语笔译实务真题及答案

Section 1: English-Chinese Translation （英译汉）（ 60 point ）

This section consists of two parts: Part A "Compulsory Translation" and Part B

"Optional Translations" which comprises "Topic 1" and "Topic 2". Translate the

passage in Part A and your choice from passage in Part B into Chinese. Write

"Compulsory Translation" above your translation of Part A and write "Topic 1"

or "Topic 2" above your translation of the passage from Part B. The time for

this section is 100 minutes.

Part A Compulsory Translation （必译题）（30 points）

Until recently, scientists knew little about life in the deep sea, nor had they

reason to believe that it was being threatened. Now, with the benefit of

technology that allows for deeper exploration, researchers have uncovered a

remarkable array of species inhabiting the ocean floor at depths of more than

660 feet, or about 200 meters. At the same time, however, technology has also

enabled fishermen to reach far deeper than ever before, into areas where bottom

trawls can destroy in minutes what has taken nature hundreds and in some cases

thousands of years to build.

Many of the world's coral species, for example, are found at depths of more

than 200 meters. It is also estimated that roughly half of the world's highest

seamounts - areas that rise from the ocean floor and are particularly rich in

marine life - are also found in the deep ocean.

These deep sea ecosystems provide shelter, spawning and breeding areas for fish

and other creatures, as well as protection from strong currents and predators.

Moreover, they are believed to harbor some of the most extensive reservoirs of

life on earth, with estimates ranging from 500,000 to 100 million species

inhabiting these largely unexplored and highly fragile ecosystems.

Yet just as we are beginning to recognize the tremendous diversity of life in

these areas, along with the potential benefits newly found species may hold for

human society in the form of potential food products and new medicines, they

are at risk of being lost forever. With enhanced ability both to identify where

these species-rich areas are located and to trawl in deeper water than before,

commercial fishing vessels are now beginning to reach down with nets the size

of football fields, catching everything in their path while simultaneously

crushing fragile corals and breaking up the delicate structure of reefs and

seamounts that provide critical habitat to the countless species of fish and

other marine life that inhabit the deep ocean floor.

Because deep sea bottom trawling is a recent phenomenon, the damage that has

been done is still limited. If steps are taken quickly to prevent this kind of

destructive activity from occurring on the high seas, the benefits both to the

marine environment and to future generations are incalculable. And they far

outweigh the short-term costs to the fishing industry.

Part B Optional Translations （二选一题）（ 30 points ）

Topic 1 （选题一）

Most of the world's victims of AIDS live - and, at an alarming rate, die - in

Africa. The number of people living with AIDS in Africa was estimated at 26.6

million in late 2003. New figures to be published by the United Nations Joint

Program on AIDS （ UNAIDS ）， the special UN agency set up to deal with the

pandemic, will probably confirm its continued spread in Africa, but they will

also show whether the rate of spread is constant, increasing or falling.

AIDS is most prevalent in Eastern and Southern Africa, with South Africa,

Zimbabwe and Kenya having the greatest numbers of sufferers; other countries

severely affected include Botswana and Zambia. AIDS was raging in Eastern

Africa - where it was called "slim", after the appearance of victims wasting

away - within a few years after its emergence was established in the eastern

Congo basin; however, the conflicting theories about the origin of AIDS are

highly controversial and politicized, and the controversy is far from being

settled.

Measures being taken all over Africa include, first of all, campaigns of public

awareness and device, including advice to remain faithful to one sexual partner

and to use condoms. The latter advice is widely ignored or resisted owing to

natural and cultural aversion to condoms and to Christian and Muslim teaching,

which places emphasis instead on self-restraint.

An important part of anti- AIDS campaigns, whether organized by governments,

nongovernmental organizations or both, is the extension of voluntary counseling

and testing （ VCT ） .In addition, medical research has found a way to help

sufferers, though not to cure them.

Funds for anti- AIDS efforts are provided by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,

Tuberculosis and Malaria, a partnership between governments, civil society, the

private sector and affected communities around the world; the fund was launched

following a call by the UN Secretary-General in 2001. However, much more is

needed if the spread of the pandemic is to be at least halted.

Topic 2 （选题二）

As a leader of a least developed country, I speak from experience when I say

that poverty is too complex a phenomenon, and the strategies for fighting it

too diverse and dependent on local circumstances, for there is no single silver

bullet in the war on poverty.

We have learned the hard way over the years. We have experimented with all

kinds of ideas.

Yet a report recently released by the World Economic Forum shows that barely a

third of what should have been done by now to ensure the world meets its goals

to fight poverty, hunger and disease by 2015 is done. I am now convinced that

the Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations in 2000 can only be

attained through a global compact, anchored in national policies that take into

account local circumstances.

Aid and trade are both necessary, but they are not enough on their own. Neither

is good governance enough in itself. Above all, nothing can move without the

direct participation of local communities. I fear that we lecture too much.

This is not the best way.

I will give an example of how such a compact worked in Tanzania to achieve

universal basic schooling.

In the mid-1990s, almost all indicators for basic education were in free fall.

The gross enrollment rate had fallen from 98 percent in the early 1980s to 77.6

percent in 2000. The net enrollment rate had likewise fallen, from over 80

percent to only 58.8 percent.

Then several things happened. We decided at the top political level that basic

education would be a top priority, and adopted a five-year Primary Education

Development Plan to achieve universal basic education by 2006 - nine years

ahead of the global target.

Good governance produced more government revenues, which quadrupled over the

last eight years. In 2001, we received debt relief under the World Bank's

enhanced HIPC （ heavily indebted poor countries ） Initiative. Subsequently,

more donors put aid money directly into our budget or into a pooled fund for

the Primary Education Development Program （ PEDP ） .

The government's political will was evidenced by the fact that over the last

five years the share of the national budget going to poverty reduction rose by

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