[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语(二)翻译分类模拟题32.docx

[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语(二)翻译分类模拟题32Translation问题:1. When I was young and free and my imagination had no limits, I dreamed of changing the world. As I grew older and wiser, I discovered the world would not change, so I shortened my sights somewhat and decided to change only my country. But it, too, seemed immovable. As I grew into my twilight years, in one last desperate attempt, I settled for changing only my family, those closest to me, but alas, they would have none of it. And now, as I lie on my death bed, I suddenly realize : If I had only changed myself first, then by example I would have changed my family. From their inspiration and encouragement, I would then have been able to better my country, and who knows, I may have even changed the world. 答案:当我年轻且自由的时候，我的想象力没有限制，我梦想改变世界。

随着年龄和智慧的增长，我发现这个世界不会改变，所以我稍微缩短了目光，决定只改变我的国家但它似乎也无法改变当我进入暮年，在最后一次绝望的尝试中，我决定只改变我的家庭，那些与我最亲近的人，但是，唉，他们不会接受改变的 现在，当我躺在我的死亡之床上时，我突然意识到：如果我先改变自己，那么我就会以身作则，改变我的家庭从他们的鼓舞和鼓励中，我可能为国家做一些事情然后谁知道呢，我甚至可能改变这个世界 问题:2. Imagine having a job that pays you 12,000 pounds to write a two-page report for a big company meeting where the document is never discussed. Or a job that requires you to rent a car and drive up to 500km to oversee a person's computer being moved five metres from one room to another. What about being a receptionist in a publishing company where the phone rings once a day and your only other tasks are filling a dish with candies and winding a grandfather clock once a week? These jobs are strewn through David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, a provocative, funny and engaging book that claims the world has been surrounded by a rising tide of pointless work. This is a curious charge to hear at a time of rising anxiety about keeping one's job safe from a robot, or the indignities of the gig economy and sweeping technological disruption. Yet it clearly has appeal. 答案:想象一下，你接了一项工作，为一个大型公司会议写一份两页的报告，你拿到了1.2万英镑的报酬，结果那次会议根本没有讨论这份报告。

或者这样一份工作：你需要租辆车开500千米去监督一个人的电脑从一个房间被搬到5米外的另一个房间或者在一家出版公司当前台，每天响一次，除此之外，你其他的工作仅仅是把盘子装满糖，以及每周给老爷钟上紧一次发条 这样的工作在戴维·格雷伯(David Graeber)的著作《无意义的工作》里比比皆是这本挑衅意味十足而又妙趣横生的书宣称，世界上到处都是没有意义的工作，而且越来越多当今人们越来越担心该如何在机器人、不体面的零工经济，以及科技带来的广泛破坏性影响下保住自己的工作，在这样的背景下，格雷伯(Graeber)的控诉听起来很奇怪然而，这本书显然是有吸引力的 问题:3. By the year 2100, global temperatures are expected to rise by between 0.8 and 3.5 degree Celsius. That may not seem like much, but such an increase in temperature would cause a rise in sea levels large enough to put the lives of up to 100 million people at risk. For the first time in the scientific community, there is total agreement that the activity of humans is at least partly responsible for the problem—specifically the emission of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, which is released by the burning of wood, coal and petroleum products. Reducing harmful emission is just one area in which the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel is decidedly optimistic. In the short term it might not prove that difficult. Efficiency improvements alone could cut energy needs by as much as 30 percent at virtually no extra cost and, in developed countries, emission reductions of up to 60 percent "are technically feasible". In the longer term, harmful emissions will be reduced as the world changes over to cheaper, less environmentally damaging energy sources. 答案:到2100年，地球的温度预计将上升0.8到3.5摄氏度。

这似乎不太多，但这样的升温将导致海平面大幅度上升，足以使多达一亿人的生命受到威胁 科学界首次达成共识：人类的行为至少要对这一问题负部分责任——尤其是像二氧化碳这样的温室气体的排放，二氧化碳是由木材、煤以及石油产品的燃烧释放的减少有害气体的排放只是联合国政府间专家小组明显感到乐观的一个方面短期内，没有证据证实那样做有困难只靠提高效率就能降低30%的能源需求，实际上也无需额外的花费，并且在发达国家，减少多达60%的有害气体排放“在技术上是可行的”从长远看，随着全球转向利用那些更便宜、对环境影响更小的能源，有害气体的排放将会减少 问题:4. As early as the 19th century, shoppers have viewed Thanksgiving Day as the traditional start to the holiday shopping season, an occasion marked by celebrations and sales. Department stores in particular locked onto this marketing notion, hosting parades to launch the start of the first wave of Christmas advertisements, chief among them, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, running in New York City since 1924. The holiday shopping craze became so important to retailers that during the Great Depression, they appealed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 to move Thanksgiving Day up in order to stretch out the holiday shopping season. Roosevelt obliged, moving Thanksgiving Day one week earlier, but didn't announce the change until October. As a result, Americans had two Thanksgivings Day that year—Roosevelt's, jokingly dubbed "Franksgiving," and the original. Because the switchover was handled so poorly, few observed it, and the change resulted in little economic boost.答案:早在19世纪，购物者就已经把感恩节看成是节日购物季的传统开端了，节日购物季以各种庆祝活动以及促销为特色。

百货公司尤其重视这个营销理念，它们举行各种游行来启动第一波圣诞节广告，这些游行中最重要的当数从1924年开始在纽约市举行的梅西感恩节大游行节日购物热对于零售商来说非常重要，1939年，当时正处在美国经济大萧条时期，零售商们呼吁富兰克林·罗斯福总统把感恩节提前以使节日购物季的时间延长罗斯福总统答应了这个请求，并把感恩节提前了一个星期，但直到10月才宣布这个变更结果，那一年美国人经历了两个感恩节——一个是罗斯福规定的感恩节，人们把它戏称为“Franksgiving”，另一个是原来的感恩节由于这次变更处理得不太妥当，因此很少有人关注到它，对于经济的促进作用甚微问题:5. Teenage smoking has 。