宫东风老师英汉对照A计划(6月1日——6月31日).doc

附件1：宫东风老师英汉对照A计划（6月1日6月31日）宫东风老师英汉对照A计划第1篇Holiday Shopping Sprees: China Challenging the U.S.?1Chinas consumers are at risk of ruining their “saving for a rainy day” reputation with all the cash they burned through during the Lunar New Year, but are they capable of replacing Americans as the worlds most profligate holiday spenders? 2The seven-day Lunar New Year holiday, also known as Golden Week, is typically one of the biggest spending periods of the year in China. Like Americans at Thanksgiving and Christmas, Chinese consumers greet the arrival of the new year by opening their wallets to stock refrigerators, buy luxury gifts for friends, get new outfits for themselves and splurge on quantities of fireworks large enough to threaten the existence of significant structures. 3With leaders in Beijing encouraging domestic consumption in a bid to balance the countrys export-dependent economy, this years holiday period sparked unprecedented indulgence. Consumer spending over the seven days of Golden Week surged 19% to 404.5 billion yuan, or roughly $61.3 billion, over the same period a year earlier, according to statistics recently released by the Ministry of Commerce. In other words, Chinese shoppers managed to rip through an average of $8.75 billion per day over the break. 4American shoppers, meanwhile, managed to spend only $7.57 billion per day during their own holiday spree, according to the National Retail Federation. 5Does that mean Chinese consumers are showing up their American counterparts?6Not quite. While the Chinese appear to have spent more, its important to remember that the U.S. holiday season lasts two full monthsa shopping mall marathon to Chinas sprint. And, then, of course, there is the vast difference in population. Per capita, Americans spent $24.50 a day over 61 daysand this in the midst of a glacially slow economic recovery. Chinese consumers, despite the countrys intimidating GDP growth numbers, doled out only $6.73 per capita each day of Golden Week. 7With incomes rising in China (42% of Chinese people got raises in the last year), the countrys consumers are bound to continue spending more, especially as the government encourages a more profligate lifestyle. Still, leaders in Beijing will have to find a way to control hefty inflation and mend the countrys broken social safety net before its consumers are likely to feel comfortable gobbling up goods the way Americans do.中国人节假日消费堪比美国？ 1中国消费者一向有勤俭节约、未雨绸缪的美德，但他们在春节期间的大肆挥霍却可能令这一声名毁于一旦。中国消费者能否取代美国人、成为在节日期间世界上花钱最大手大脚的人？ 2为期七天的春节“黄金周”长假通常是中国一年中开支最大的一段时间。与美国人过感恩节和圣诞节一样，中国消费者在农历新年到来之际纷纷慷慨解囊，把冰箱塞得满满的，给亲朋好友购买价格不菲的礼品，自己也从头到脚装扮一新，还狂买一堆大得足以威胁重要建筑物安全的烟花爆竹。 3中国领导人为平衡本国依赖出口的经济而鼓励国人消费，因此今年的春节长假引发了史无前例的挥霍狂潮。商务部前不久公布的数据显示，黄金周的七天时间里，消费者开支较上年同期飙升19%，至人民币4,045亿元(约合613亿美元)。换句话说，2011年春节期间，中国消费者平均每天挥霍掉87.5亿美元。 4全美零售联合会(National Retail Federation)的统计数据显示，美国人在节假日期间，每天疯狂购物也只消费掉了75.7亿美元。 5这是否意味着中国消费者在假日购物方面把美国人比了下去？ 6也不尽然。虽然中国消费者看似花钱更多，但有一点别忘了，美国的假日季节可是整整延续两个月，简直就是一场购物马拉松，相比之下，中国只能算是短跑冲刺而已。当然，还有就是两国在人口数量上的巨大差异。美国在61天的假日季节里人均每天要花24.5美元，而这一数字的背景是美国尚处于极其缓慢的经济复苏过程中。尽管中国的GDP听起来吓人，但中国消费者在春节黄金周期间人均每天才挥霍掉6.73美元。 7随着中国国民收入不断提高(去年42%的中国人加了薪)，中国人的消费水平肯定还会再上新台阶，特别是在中国政府鼓励更加大手大脚花钱的情况下。尽管如此，中国领导人仍需找到办法来抑制高企的通胀率、修补漏洞百出的社会保障体系，只有这样中国人才可能像美国人一样大肆消费而无后顾之忧。 GONG DONG FENG宫东风老师英汉对照A计划第2篇Granddad Bandit duped others with heroic image1Francis Mara is so mild mannered, authorities say, that even as he was robbing a bank, the teller recalled he looked like he was somebodys granddaddy. This week, the so-called Granddad Bandit met a day of reckoning.2The 53-year-old Mara pleaded guilty Thursday in a Virginia courtroom to two bank robberies and admitted to two dozen more heists in 14 states. 3Lunsford, the investigator in that case, said Mara was polite, cooperative and disarming, and quickly confessed. Mara directed police to his van, where they found police badges, a firefighter helmet and emergency gear, knives and duct tape. Lunsford said a notebook in Maras van contained a half-dozen backstories. In each, Mara was an emergency worker.4The Granddad Bandit bank robberies began a week before Christmas in 2008. Over the next 20 months, the man who became known as the Granddad Bandit stole more than $83,000, crisscrossing the eastern and southern U.S. 美“爷爷强盗”认罪 1当局称,弗朗西斯马拉的举止十分文雅,即便是在抢银行时也是如此。银行职员称,“他看上去就像谁家的老爷爷一样”。本周,这个所谓的“爷爷强盗”要为自己的行为负责。253岁的马拉周四在弗吉尼亚的法庭上对两起银行抢劫案认罪,并对其他14个州发生的多起抢劫事件认罪。3此案的调查人员伦斯福德说,马拉很有礼貌,很配合,并且爽快认罪,很容易让人消除警惕性。马拉带警方到他的货车前,警方在那里发现了警徽、消防员头盔以及应急设备、刀具和银色宽胶布。伦斯福德称,马拉货车里的一本笔记本上记录了6个背景故事。在每一个故事中,马拉都是一名急救人员。4这位抢银行的“爷爷强盗”在2008年圣诞节前一周开始作案。在接下来的20个月里,在美国东部和南部偷窃超过83000美元。GONG DONG FENG宫东风老师英汉对照A计划第3篇Julie Andrews, Ramones receive lifetime Grammys1Punk pioneers the Ramones, British actress and singer Julie Andrews and jazz drummer Roy Haynes received Grammy Awards for lifetime achievement.2They were honored alongside country musics Dolly Parton, the Juilliard String Quartet, folk revivalists the Kingston Trio, and gospel legend George Beverly Shea, whose rich baritone is still intact at age 102. The event took place a day before the 53rd annual Grammy Awards are handed out, and the honorees will be acknowledged during the telecast. 3It was a bittersweet moment for the Ramones, a group whose stripped-down, fast-paced songs such as Blitzkrieg Bop and Sheena Is a Punk Rocker paved the way for bands like the Sex Pistol and Green Day.4But they never achieved commercial success, and three of the founding members died in the past decade: bassist Dee Dee Ramone and guitarist Johnny Ramone, as well as Joey Ramone. The members were not related, and took fraternal stage names.5Still recording and touring is Haynes, a seminal figure in the postwar jazz scene. Now that the days are short, were in the winter of the year, and I think of my life as vintage wine in fine old kegs, he said, waxing poetic. 6He was a rookie compared with Shea, who is confined to a wheelchair but full of one-liners. The Canadian native, who composed the popular hymn The Wonder Of It All，said he was reminded of the farmer who wanted to race a mule in the Kentucky Derby. When asked why, the farmer replied, Look at the company hes keeping.7Andrews, 75, used the occasion to draw attention to budget cuts affecting school music programs. She became one of Hollywoods biggest stars by playing in the 1960s hit movie musicals Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music.8Parton, 65, was unable to attend because of a family commitment, she said in a recorded video message. Noting she had already won seven Grammys, she said she was working on new music and expected to double her collection.第53届格莱美终生成就奖揭晓1朋克先锋雷蒙乐队、英国女演员兼歌手朱莉安德鲁斯和爵士鼓手罗伊海恩斯等乐坛明星获得格莱美终生成就奖。2与他们同时获奖的还有乡村天后多莉帕顿、“朱莉亚弦乐四重奏”、民谣复兴倡导者“金士顿三重唱”和102岁仍保持着浑厚男中音的圣歌传奇歌手薛贝利。终生成就奖在第53届格莱美颁奖典礼前一天颁发,在格莱美颁奖典礼的电视转播中将提到这些获奖者。3这对雷蒙乐队来说是一个既苦又甜的时刻。该乐队以闪电战波普和希娜是个朋克摇滚歌手等极简的快节奏歌曲为“性手枪”和“绿日”等乐队铺平道路。4但是,他们从未取得商业上的成功,而且三位创建者10年来相继去世,包括贝斯手迪迪雷蒙、吉他手约翰尼雷蒙和乔伊雷蒙。这些乐队成员并没有亲属关系,只是取了兄弟般的艺名。5战后爵士乐坛重量级人物海恩斯仍在录音和巡回演唱。“现在白天短了,是一年中的冬季,我把自己的生命看作装在老木桶里的陈年美酒,”他用富有诗意的语言说。6跟薛贝利相比,他只能算新手。前者虽然坐着轮椅,但却满口俏皮话。这位生于加拿大、为著名圣歌最美善的事作曲的音乐人说,他想起那个要在肯塔基赛马会赛骡子的农夫。有人问农夫为什么,他回答说,看看他和什么人为伍。775岁的安德鲁斯利用这个场合提醒人们注意,削减预算影响到中小学的音乐课。她在上世纪60年代因出演音乐剧音乐之声和欢乐满人间而成为好莱坞巨星。865岁的帕顿在一段致感谢辞的录像中说,她因为家事不能出席颁奖典礼。她提到自己得过7个格莱美奖,目前正在创作新歌,并希望自己获得的格莱美奖再增加一倍。GONG DONG FENG宫东风老师英汉对照A计划第4篇Elizabeth Taylor treated in hospital for heart failure1Dame Elizabeth Taylor, the eight-time married screen legend, is being treated in hospital in Los Angeles for congestive heart failure. 2The actress was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in America earlier in the week but her latest medical setback was only reported on Friday evening. 3London-born Dame Elizabeth, 78, has been in bad health and wheelchair-bound for several years. 4Elizabeth Taylor was hospitalised earlier this week . suffering from symptoms caused by congestive heart failure, an ongoing condition, her spokeswoman Sam Morrison said in a statement. This issue is being addressed. She is currently being kept in the hospital for monitoring. 5Dame Elizabeth had heart surgery in 2009 to replace a leaky valve and has a long history of health problems. 6She was too frail to attend a celebration of her work with her long-standing Aids charity in New York on Wednesday evening. A special award honouring her achievements was presented in her absence. 7The actress won two Oscars in the 1960s, for her roles in Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Butterfield 8. 8But she is now as well known for a colourful personal life that included two tempestuous marriages to Welsh film star Richard Burton as her screen career. 伊丽莎白泰勒心力衰竭入院1结过八次婚的银幕传奇人物伊丽莎白泰勒女爵士因充血性心力衰竭正在洛杉机入院治疗。 2这名女演员于本周早些时候被美国锡达斯西奈医疗中心收治入院，但人们周五晚才得知她的病情最近又有了反复。 3伦敦山生的伊丽莎白女爵士现年78岁。多年来，她的健康状况一直不佳，整日坐着轮椅。 4泰勒的发言人萨姆莫里森在一份声明中说：“伊丽莎白泰勒本周早些时候因出现充血性心力衰竭引发的症状而入院。她已经得到救治目前正在医院接受监护。” 5伊丽莎白女爵士长期以来都受到健康问题的困扰。她在2009年曾接受手术置换其有漏洞的心脏瓣膜。 6她因过于虚弱而未能出席周三晚在纽约举行的一个表彰其长期资助艾滋病防治慈善之举的庆典。GONG DONG FENG宫东风老师英汉对照A计划第5篇Reagans favorite quotes coming1Like any good after-dinner speaker, when in need of wisdom or simply a good joke, Ronald Reagan liked to consult his note cards.2Sayings from Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and others, a letter received, or anecdotes read or overheard were duly handwritten down on note cards over the decades, as Reagan rose from an actor-turned spokesman for General Electric Co., then California governor and a two-term president. With his letters and diaries already best-sellers, Reagans personal collection of ready-made expressions is being published May 10, part of the ongoing centennial of his birth.3Ronnie was always collecting quotes and sayings that he might want to include in a speech, Reagans widow, former first lady Nancy Reagan, said in a statement released by HarperCollins. He started when he was on the road with GE, and continued throughout his term as governor of California and his years in the White House even after he left Washington. He kept these handwritten cards in his desk and used them as he personalized and edited all of his speeches.4Edited by historian Douglas Brinkley, who also worked on Reagans diaries, the new book cites the famous and the anonymous, the profound and the whimsical. 5According to the books introduction, the index cards were found last year, in a box marked in pen RRs desk, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Calif. They will be displayed at the library upon the books release.里根“名言录”将出版1和很多优秀的餐后演讲者一样,在需要智慧或幽默感的时候,罗纳德里根喜欢参考自己的小卡片。2在里根从一名演员到通用电气公司发言人、加利福尼亚州长,再到两任总统的几十年当中,从亚伯拉罕林肯、温斯顿丘吉尔以及其他人的名言、收到的来信、或是读到听到的轶闻趣事都被他及时地记在了小卡片上。里根的信件和日记已经非常畅销,他个人收集的名人名言也将于5月10日出版, 作为其诞辰100周年的纪念之一。3里根的遗孀、前第一夫人南希里根在哈泼-柯林斯公司发表的一篇声明中称:“龙尼总是在收集他认为自己可能会在演讲中用到的他人话语或名言。他从在通用电气公司工作开始,一直到加利福尼亚州长以及在白宫的岁月里一直这么做即便是在他离开华盛顿之后。他把这些手写的卡片存在抽屉里,他修改或编辑演讲稿时会用到这些卡片。”4历史学家道格拉斯布林克利编辑新书并且对里根的日记加以整理。新书引用了有名的和匿名的、深刻的和古怪的句子。5据这本书的介绍,这些卡片是去年在加利福尼亚罗纳德里根总统图书馆和博物馆的一个写有“罗纳德里根的书桌”的盒子里发现的。这些卡片将在本书出版之时在图书馆进行展览。GONG DONG FENG宫东风老师英汉对照A计划第6篇British shops will need Chinese currency amid China tourists surge1The influence of Chinese tourists and consumers will become so great over the coming years it will become routine for the Yuan, known officially as the renminbi, to be stocked alongside the Pound, euro and US Dollar. 2Dr Karl Gerth, from Oxford University, has studied the growing worldwide influence of the Chinese consumers in difficult economic times. 3He predicts that a growing number of UK and US brands will soon come under Chinese ownership. He also claims that British shops will soon need to stock renminbi due to unprecedented demand from Chinese tourists. 4He makes his predictions in a new book titled “As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything, which is based on five years of research and his experience in the Asian nation over the past 25 years. 5 “Already shops on Bond Street (central London) are accepting renminbi from Chinese tourists and in years to come the tastes and desires of Chinese consumers will have to be at the forefront of every successful shop owners commercial considerations,” he said. 6Many Chinese want Western experiences and lifestyles, and these desires are fuelled by intensive advertising. With Chinas huge population and spending power, it is no surprise that big firms are bending over backwards to meet the demands of the Chinese consumer. 7Dr Gerth said Chinas acquisition of Western firms has established them as the worlds next branding superpower. He said during his stay he found that Chinese people were very familiar with all these American brands. 8China doesnt simply want to buy Western goods, he said. Chinese want to create internationally competitive brands of their own, and if they cant spread brands which originated in China around the world, the natural alternative is to seek to take over brands which are already established. 9He added: Chinese want experiences like studying and higher education, especially overseas in the UK or America. They are interested in leisure travel and we are just beginning to see a huge number of Chinese tourists travelling all over the world. 10A recent study published in the journal Tourism Economics found that the Chinese made 3.67 million passenger trips to Europe last year, an increase of almost a fifth on the previous year. It also found that every Chinese package tour to Britain is now expected to include luxury shopping. 11Separate figures show that Chinese buyers now represent almost a third of luxury goods market in Britain. British shoppers only make up around 15 per cent. 12In less than a decade, China has gone from an almost insignificant consumer to a key consumer of global luxury brands, Dr Gerth said, adding that China had also become the worlds largest consumer of luxury cars.13Meanwhile, Dr Gerth said that exact number of British companies being taken over by Chinese firms was unknown but whatever the number, it will be a lot higher in the next few years. Recent takeovers of MG Rover and Volvo by Chinese companies are just the tip of the iceberg, he said. 中国游客猛增，英国商店“需要人民币”1在未来的几年里，中国游客和消费者的影响力将非常巨大，中国的人民币将与英镑、欧元和美元一样，成为英国商店常用的储备货币。2牛津大学的卡尔格特博士对中国消费者在经济困难时期日益增强的国际影响力进行了研究。3他预计，中国将持有越来越多的英美品牌公司。他还说，随着中国游客猛增，中国游客的需求将前所未有地增加，英国的商店不久将需要储备人民币。4他是在其新书中提出上述预测的。其新书的题目是中国前进，世界也前进：中国消费者在改变一切。卡尔格特博士是根据他过去 25年在中国的经历以及5年的调查研究撰写此书的。5他说： “（伦敦市中心）邦德街的商店已经开始接受中国游客的人民币，在未来几年，如何满足中国消费者的品位和需求将成为每位成功店主进行商业考虑的首要问题。”6他说： “许多中国人向往到西方看看，享受西方的生活方式，而铺天盖地的广告进一步激起了他们的这种欲望。中国人口众多，购买力巨大，一些大公司竭尽全力满足中国消费者的需求这没什么好奇怪的。”7格特博士说，中国收购西方企业已使它成为“世界下一个品牌大国”。他说，他在中国期间发现，中国人对“所有美国品牌”都非常熟悉。8他说： “中国并非只想着购买西方商品。中国人想创立自己具有竞争力的国际品牌，如果他们无法在世界范围推出自创品牌，那他们自然而然地就会寻求收购西方已有品牌。”9他还说： “中国人希望到国外尤其是英美看看，譬如留学。他们喜欢到国外休闲旅行，我们已发现到世界各地旅行的中国游客越来越多。”10最近发表在旅游经济杂志上的一篇研究报告发现，去年到欧洲旅行的中国人多达367万人次，比前一年增加了近1/5。研究报告还发现，中国人到英国的包价旅行预计都包括奢华购物。11另外的数字显示，中国人对英国国内奢侈品的消费现在几乎占了英国整个奢侈品市场的1/3，英国人则只占15%左右。12格特博士说：“在不到十年的时间里，中国由一个全球奢侈品的微不足道的消费国变成了一个至关重要的消费国。”他还说，中国也已成为全球豪华汽车的最大消费国。13与此同时，格特博士说，被中国收购的英国公司到底有多少，现在还不确知，但“无论现在有多少，今后几年将会更多”。他说：“中国企业对欧洲汽车品牌罗孚和沃尔沃的收购只是冰山一角。”GONG DONG FENG宫东风老师英汉对照A计划第7篇Recruiting in China Pays Off for U.S. College1Dozens of American colleges and universities are seeing a surge in applications from students in China, where a booming economy means that more families can pursue the dream of an American higher education. 2But that success has created a problem for admissions officers. At Grinnell, for example, how do they choose perhaps 15 students from the more than 200 applicants from China? After all, the 11-member admissions committee cannot necessarily rely on the rubrics it applies to American applications. 3Then there is the challenge of assessing an applicants command of English, since some Chinese families have been known to hire “agents” to write the application essay. These are the same advisers who counsel families to spend money on the fancy brochures. “They should save their money,” Seth Allen, the dean of admission and financial aid at Grinnell said. 4Mr. Allen said that few would actually be read by the overworked admissions officers as they plowed through nearly 3,000 applications over all. In fact, the next stop for the brochures, said Jonathan C. Edwards, Grinnells coordinator of international admission, would be the recycling bin. 5Mr. Allen, Mr. Edwards and their colleagues said they spend most of their time on Chinese applications trying to parse the authentic voice and sensibility. 6The admissions officers sometimes reach out to teachers at the applicants high schools. During the last two summers, Mr. Allen barnstormed China stopping in Beijing, Zhengzhou, Changsha and Shanghai. 7For the colleges, such tours are motivated at least partly by money. 8Grinnell, for example, is “need-blind” when considering American students who are evaluated regardless of their ability to pay but its process for admitting international students is “need-aware.” 9So an applicant from China or another country could have an edge if he or she can pay full tuition. 10And yet, in the name of socioeconomic diversity, Grinnell also has a dozen full scholarships set aside for international applicants, including those from China, who need help paying tuition. 中国申请就读美高校人数猛增1美国数十所大学正在出现申请入学的中国学生人数猛增的情况，中国经济的繁荣意味着更多的家庭有能力追寻在美国接受高等教育的梦想。2但这种成功也给负责录取工作的人员带来了麻烦。以格林内尔学院为例，他们怎样从200多名中国申请者中挑选出15名学生?毕竟，由11人组成的招生委员会不能完全依赖适用于美国申请者的选拔原则。3评估申请者对英语的掌握程度也是一个挑战，因为众所周知，一些中国家庭雇