2012年5月CATTI二级笔译真题

2012年5月CATTI二级笔译真题 笔译实务Sec tion 1 English-Chinese Trans 英译0汉)(50 poi nts)Translate the following two passages into Chinese.Passage 1The runaway success of Stieg Larssons “Millennium” trilogy suggests that when it comes to contemporary literatu in translatioAmericans are at leastwillingto read Scandinavian detectivfeictionB.utforwork fromotherregions,inothergenres, winnintgheinteresotfbig publishing houses and readers in the United States remains a steep uphill struggle.Among foreignculturalinstituteasnd publisherst,he traditionaAlmerican aversionto lit era tuin tr ansla ti on known as “t he percentproblem.” ut n ow, hoping to i ncreastheir minusculeshareoftheAmericanbook market about3 percent foreigngovernmentsand foundations, especially those on the margins of Europe, are taking matters into their own hands and plunging into the publishing fray in the United States.Increasingly, that campaign is no longer limited to widely spoken languages like French and German.From RomaniatoCataloniato Iceland, cultuirnasltituteasndagenciesaresubsidizing publication of books in English, underwriting the training of translators, encouraging their writ to tour in the United States, submitting to American marketing and promotional techniques they may have previously shunned and exploiting existing niches in the publishing industry.“We have established this as a strategic objec-tievrem, caomlmointgment to break through the American market,” said Corina Suteu, who leads otrhke bNreawncYh of the European Union National Institutes for Culture and directs the Romaniant iCtultteu. ra“l FIonrs nat ions in Europe, be they small or large, literature will always be one of the keys of their cultural existence, an recognize that this is the only way we are going to be able to make that literature present in th United States.”For instance, the Dalkey Archive Press, a small publishing house in Champaign, Ill., that for more than25 yearshasspecializeidntranslatewdorks, thisyearbeganaSlovenianLiterature Series, underwritten by official groups in Slovenia, uognocselapvairat. oTfheYseriess first book, “Necropolisb,y”BorisPahor, isa powerfulWorld War II concentrat-icoanmp memoir thathas beencomparedtothebestofElieWieselandPrimoLevi,andhasbeenfollowedbyAndrej Blatnik“sYouDo Understand, ”a ratherabsurdistbut st itloluchingcol lect ioonf sketchesand parables about love and intimacy.Dalkey has also begun or is about to begin similianrHseebrieewsand Catalan, and with Switzerland and Mexico, the last of which will consist of four books yearly for six years. In eac case a financingagency inthe hostcountryissubsidizingpublicatioannd participatinign promotion and marketing in the United States, an effort that can easily require $10,000 or more a book.Passage 2Just east of ArgentiAnnadeasn foothills, an oil field caVlalcead Mtuheerta“dead cow” in English has finally come to life.In May, the Argentine oil company YPF announced that it had found 150 million barrels of oilin the Patagonianfieldand PresidenCristinEerndidez de Kirchnerrushedontonational televisiotnopraisethediscoveryassomethingthatcouldgivenew impetustothecountrys long-stagnant economy.“The impo rt ance of t his discovery goes well beyond the volume,” ScEiskdSieizas tidn YPFs chief executive, as he announced the find. “The important thing is it is something new: n energy, a new future, new expectations.”Although there are significant hurdles, geologists ascaay MtuhearttathiesVa harbinger of a possible major expansion of global petroleum supplies over the next two decades as the industry uses advanced techniques to extract oil from shale and other tightly packed rocks.Oil experts caution that geologists have only just begun to study shale fields in much of the world, and thus can only guess at their potential. Little seismic work has been completed, and co samples need to be retrieved from thousands of feet below the surface to judge how much oil or gas can be retrieved.Argentinacertainlhyashighhopes forshaleoilfromthe southerPnatagonianprovinceof Neuquen. The 150 million barrels of recoverable shale oil focmcMiieirttdiere/presen ts an increase of 8 percent in Argentinas reserves, and the find was the biggest discovery of oil in country since the late 1980s.Oil experts say thaecaVMuerta is probably just a start for Argentina, long a middle-ranked oil producer. Mr. Lynch noted that YPF had explored only 100 square miles out of 5,000 square miles in the whole shale deposit, and other oil companies working in the area had not announced any discoveries yet.So far, nearly all of the oil exploration in the shale fields in Argentina and elsewhere has pursued with traditional vertical wells. Plans are just beginning for horizontal drilling.Some experts caution that the fast advance of oil production from shale in the United States no guarantee of similar successes abroad, at least not in the near future.Sec tion 2 Chinese-English Trans 汉译英英)(50 poi nts)Translate the following two passages into Chinese.Passage 1 和平稳定是发展的前提和基础。上个世纪，人类经历了两次世界大战，生灵涂炭，经济 社会发展遭受严重挫折。第二次世界大战结束以来，世界经济能够快速增长，主要得益于相 对和平稳定的国际环境。我们应该恪守联合国宪章宗旨和原则，充分发挥联合国及其安理会在维护和平、缔造和 平、建设和平方面的核心作用。坚持通过对话和协商，以和平方式解决国际争端。我们应该坚持国家不论大小、强弱、贫富都是国际社会平等一员，以民主、包容、合作、 共赢的精神实现共同安全，做到一国内部的事情一国自主办、大家共同的事情大家商量办， 坚定不移奉行多边主义和国际合作，推进国际关系民主化。我们应该营造支持各国根据本国国情实现和平、稳定、繁荣的国际环境。应该本着求同 存异的原则，尊重各国主权和选择发展道路和发展模式的权利，尊重文明多样性，在交流互 鉴、取长补短中相得益彰、共同进步。Passage 21882 年中国第一盏电灯在上海点亮，这使得中国逐渐告别了油灯和蜡烛照明的历史， 当时使用的电灯就是白炽灯，这一用就是130年，中国也成为白炽灯的生产和消费大国。早在1996年，中国就启动实施了“绿色照明工程”，中国绿色照明工程的实施，推动了 照明电器行业结构的优化升级和产品质量的整体提升，经过多年努力，中国节能灯产品质量 水平日益提高，一些企业产品质量和工艺水平已达到世界领先水平。高效照明产品及技术的 日益成熟为逐步淘汰白炽灯提供了重要保障。中国节能灯的全球市场占有率由1996年的20%提高到2010年的85% 。 笔译实务试题来源Sec tion 1 English-Chinese Trans 英译汉n)(50 poi nts)Passage 1The New York Times: Translation as Literary Ambassador Passage 2The New York Times: Argentina Hopes for a Big Payoff in Its Shale Oil Field Discovery busines/global/05shale.htmlSec tion 2 Chinese-English Trans l汉译英)(50 poi nts)Passage 1胡锦涛在金砖国家领导人第三次会晤时的讲话 ( 2 0 1 1年4月1 5日)Passage 2北京周报： 2011年第47期 11月24日出版