2021年全国翻译专业资格（水平）考试英语二级笔译实务模拟试题

1、全国翻译专业资格（水平）考试英语二级笔译实务模拟试题 Section 1: English-Chinese Translation (英译汉) This section consists of two parts, Part A - Compulsory Translation and Part B - Choi _ of Two Translations consisting of two sections Topic 1 and Topic 2. For the passage in Part A and your choi _ of passages in Part B, transla

2、te the underlined portions, including titles, into Chinese. Above your translation of Part A, write Compulsory Translation and above your translation from Part B, write Topic 1 or Topic 2 and write your translations on the ANSWER SHEET (60 points, 100 minutes). Part A Compulsory Translation (必译题)（30

3、 points） The Dreadlock Deadlock In the fall of 1993 Christopher Polk transferred from FedExs hub in Indianapolis to take over a delivery route in Flatbush District, Brooklyn, N.Y. But moving to the countrys largest munity of Caribbean and African immigrants only precipitated a far more profound jour

4、ney. I was being culturally aware of the history of the black people, says Polk, now 31, and that gave me these spiritual questions. His answer came providentially, by way of a music video featuring Lord Ja _l, who raps about the Rastafarian belief in the sanctity of dreadlocks - the cords of per _n

5、ently interlocked strands first worn by African chiefs perhaps 6,000 years ago. Now a practicing Rastafarian, Polk sports thick garlands that gently cascade onto his shoulders. Your hair is your covenant, he says. On _ you grow your locks, it puts you on a path. Unfortunately, that path was a collis

6、ion course with Federal Expresss grooming policy, which requires men to confine their dos to a reasonable style. After years of deliberation, Polks bosses gave him a choi _: shear his locks or be transferred to a lower-paid job with no customer contact. He refused both options and was terminated in

7、June 2000. His tale is not unique. Although Rastafarians number about 5,000 nationally, today dreadlocks, twists or braids are at the height of fashion, nearly as mon as Afros were 30 years ago. If Afros symbolized militancy, dreads signal a more spiritual self-declaration, a figurative locking with

8、 African an _stors. As Stanford professor Kennell Jackson, who teaches a course called African Coiffures and Their New World Legacies, puts it, Theres a divinity to these locks. Divine or not, some employers consider them unaeptably outr. Six other New York-area FedEx employees have lost their jobs

9、because of dreadlocks. They have sued, alleging religious discrimination; the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and New Yorks attorney general have also charged FedEx with violating religious protections in the Civil Rights Act. The dreadlock deadlock _y be easing. FedEx altered its polic

10、y slightly a few weeks ago: in the future, observant employees who seek a waiver _y wear their locks tucked under uniform hats, says a pany spokeswo _n. The con _ssion isnt enough to settle the lawsuits yet. The EEOC also wants reinstatement for the fired drivers, says trial attorney Michael Ranis.

11、Hes optimistic. Some new styles, he knows, grow more appealing over time. Part B Choi _ of Two Translations (二选一题)（30 points） Topic 1 (选题一) Eurasians: The New Fa _ of Asia Fusion is in, not only as an abstract fashion con _pt, but in that most grounded of realities: mixed-blood people who walk, talk

12、, and produ _ even more multiracial progeny. Most strange of all, these hybrids are finding themselves hailed as role models for vast _sses in Asia with no mixed blood at all. When I think of Asia, I dont ne _ssarily think of people who look like me, says Declan Wong, a Chinese-Dutch-American actor

13、and produ _r, But somehow weve bee the fa _ that sells the new Asia. So _ybe Asias Eurasian craze is driven by the theories of that whitest of white men, economist Adam Smith. As the world gets s _ller, we look for a global _rketing mien, a one-size-fits-all fa _ that helps us sell Nokia _ll phones

14、and Palmolive shampoo across the world. For any business, you cant think locally anymore, says Paul Lau, general _nager at Elite Model Management in Hong Kong, who has built up a stable of Eurasians for his internationally minded clients. At the very least, you need to think regionally. Ideally, you

15、 should think globally. A global i _ge helps sell products, even if no one but Filipinos would ever want to buy duck-fetus eggs or Thais the most pungent variety of shrimp paste. Yanto Zainal, president of Macs909, a boutique ad agency in Jakarta, used all indos for a campaign for the local Matahari

16、 department store chain. The store wanted to promote a more co _opolitan i _ge, he says. Indos have an international look but can still be aepted as Indonesian. Channel V, the Asia-wide music television channel, was one of the first to broadcast the message of homogenized hybridi _. We needed a mess

17、enger that would fit in from Tokyo to the Middle East. Says Jonnifer Seeto, regional sales _rketing _nager for the channel, which began beaming its border-busting i _ges in 1994. Star Veejay Asha Gill personifies the global look. When asked what her ethnic heritage is, Gill, a Malaysian citizen, sim

18、ply shrugs. Oh, who knows, she says. Im half Punjabi, mixed with some English, a little French and dribs and drabs of God knows what else. The 29-year-old speaks crisp British English, fluent Malay, and a _idgen of Punjabi. She grew up in a Kuala Lumpur neighborhood that was mostly Chinese, attended

19、 an English-speaking school and was pals with Malay and Indian kids. Gills Channel V show, broadcast in English, has a strong following in Malaysia, Japan and the United Arab Emirates. Im Hitlers worst night _re, she says. My ethnicity and profession _ke me a global person who cant be defined in jus

20、t one category. Topic 2 (选题二) Matter Look at all the things around us: chairs, desks, cupboards, papers and pens in our classroom; motor cars, bicycles and buses in the streets; trees, plants and ani _ls in the countryside; birds, aeroplanes and clouds in the sky; fishes, seaweeds and corals in the

21、sea; stars, the moon and the sun in outer spa _. These and all other things including the hu _n body, are examples of _tter. Matter is anything that takes up spa _ and has weight. What is Matter Made of? Sin _ ancient times, learned men or philosophers have thought about _tter and what it is _de up

22、of. One group of philosophers thought that _tter was _de up of a substan _ called hyle (实质). Another group of philosophers said that _tter was _de up of four substan _s, namely earth, water, air and fire. A third group believed that _tter was _de up of very tiny particles which were too s _ll to be

23、seen. These particles were so s _ll that they could never be further divided into s _ller particles. They gave the particles the name atoms which means those which cannot be divided. The differen _ between the various kinds of atoms and the ways in which they were joined were supposed to result in t

24、he different kinds of _tter. All these ideas arose purely from the mind and were not based on investigation. For _ny years, people believed in the second idea. But actually it is the third idea that is nearer to our present con _pt of _tter. Daltons Atomic Theory In the early nieenth _ntury, Dalton,

25、 an English school teacher, stated in this atomic theory that _tter was _de up of tiny, indivisible particles, which he also called atoms. His laboratory work showed him that atoms could neither be divided into s _ller parts nor could they be destroyed. He pictured _tter as being _de up of tiny soli

26、d spherical atoms. Today the idea of the atoms has been aepted. But further work has shown that contrary to Daltons findings, atoms are _de up of even s _ller particles. Section 2: Chinese-English Translation (汉译英) This section consists of two parts, Part A - Compulsory Translation and Part B - Choi

27、 _ of Two Translations consisting of two sections Topic 1 and Topic 2. For the passage in Part A and your choi _ of passages in Part B, translate the underlined portions, including titles, into English. Above your translation of Part A, write Compulsory Translation and above your translation from Part B, write Topic 1 or Topic 2 and write your translations on the ANSWER SHEET (40 points, 80 minutes). Part A Compulsory Translation (必译题)（20 points） 中国 _高度重视人口与发展问题