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1、欢迎共阅 2010年一月MBA联考英语翻译真题 Sect ion 川 Tran slati on? Susta in ability has become a popular word these days. But to Ted Ning, the con cept will always have pers onal meaning. Having en dured a painful period of un susta in ability in his own life made it clear to him that sustainability-oriented values

2、must be expressed through everyday actions and choice. Ning recalls spe nding a confusing year in the late 1990s selli ng in sura nee. He had bee n through the dot-com boom and burst and, desperate for a job, sig ned on with a Boulder age ncy. -J 1 It did nt go well. It was a really bad move because

3、 thats not my passi on ”, says Ning, whose dilemma about the job translated, predictably, into a lack osales. ”vds miserable. I had so much an xiety that I would wake up in the middle of ni ght and stare at the ceili ng. I had no money and n eeded I 尹 JT.-fr” 丿 the job. Every one said, Just wait, yo

4、u will turn the corner, give it some time. r _ I - y / / t ? 2009年一月MBA联考英语翻译真题 II I (1) With the nation s financial system teetering on a cliff. The compensation arrangements for executives of the big banks and other finan cial firms are coming un der close exam in ati on aga in. Bankers excessive

5、risk- taking is a significant cause of this financial crisis and has continued, to others in the past, i n this case, it was fueled by low in terest rates and kept going by a false sense of security created by a debt-fueled bubble in the economy. (2) Mortgage lenders gladly lent enormous sums to tho

6、se who could not afford to pay them back - I* I dividing the laws and selling them off to the next financial institution along the chain, advantage of the same high-tech securitizati on to load on more risky mortgage-based assets. (3) Financial regulation will have to catch up with the most irrespon

7、sible practices that led banks down in this road, in hopes averting the next crisis, which is likely to involve different financial tech niq ues and differe nt sorts of assets. But it is worth exam ining the root problem of compe nsati on schemes that are tied to short-term profits and reve nusj, an

8、d thus en courage ban kers to take irresp on sible risks. 2008年一月MBA联考英语翻译真题 欢迎共阅 Section 4 Translation (20 points) Directi on: in this secti on there is a paragraph in En glish. Tran slate it into Chin ese and write yo ur tra nslatio n on the ANSWER SHEET. The term bus in ess model first came into

9、widespread use with the inven ti on of pers onal computer and the spreadsheet 白表格程序).Before the spreadsheet, bus in ess pla nning usually meant produc ing a single forecast. At best, you did a little sensitivity analysis around the projection. (1) The spreadsheet ushered in a much more analytic appr

10、oach to planning because every major line item could be pulled apart, it components and subcomponents analyzed and teste(.2) You could ask what-if questions about the critical assumptio ns on which your bus in ess depe nded-for example, what if customers are more price-se nsitive tha n we thought? A

11、nd with a few keystrokes, you could see how any cha nge would play . :zl I out on every aspect of the whole. In other words, you could model the behavior of bus in ess. Before the computer cha nged the n ature of bus in ess pla nning, most successful bus in ess models were created more by -I 严严l acc

12、ide nt tha n by elaborate desig n. (3) By en abli ng compa nies to tie their marketplace in sights much 上 一 . J/ more tightly to the result ing econo mics, spreadsheet made it possible to model bus in ess before they were laun ched. 2007年一月MBA联考英语翻译真题 Section IV Translation (20 points) l一1 Direction

13、s: In this secti on there is a passage in En glish Tran slate the passage into Chin esea nd write your II I tran slatio n on the ANSWER SHEET. (1) Powering the great ongoing changes of our time is the rise of human creativity as the defining feature of econo mic life. Creativity has come to be value

14、d, because new tech no logies, new in dustries and new wealth flow from it. And as a result, our lives and society have begun to echo with creative ideas. (2) It is our commitment to creativity in its varied dimensions that forms the underlying spirit of our age. (3) Creativity is essential to the w

15、ay we live and work today, and in many senses always has been. The big advances in standard of living -not to mention the big competitive advantages in the marketplace-always have come from better recipes, not just more cook in g. One might argue thats not strictly true. ( 4)One might point out, for

16、 instanee, that during the long period from the early days on the In dustrial Revoluti on to modern times, much of the growth in productivity and material wealth in the in dustrial n ati ons came not just from creative inven ti ons like the steam engine, but from the widespread applicati on of cook

17、ing in qua ntity bus in ess methods like massive divisi on of labor ,concen trati on of assets, vertical in tegrati on and econo mies of scale. But those methods themselves were creative developme nts. 欢迎共阅 2006年一月MBA联考英语翻译真题 Sectio n IV Tran slation (20 poi nt) Directi ons： in this secti on there i

18、s a passage in En glish. Tran slate the five un derl ined sen ten ces into Chi nese and write your tran slation on the ANSWER SHEET The smooth landing of shuttle (航天飞机)Discovery ended a flight that was successful in almost every respect but on ethe dislodg ing of a big chunk of foam, like the one th

19、at doomed the Columbia. This flight was supposed to vault the shuttle fleet back into space after a prolonged grounding for repairs. But give n the repeat of the very problem that two years of retooli ng was supposed to resolyethe verdict is necessarily mixed.(61) Once again, the space agency has be

20、en forced to put off the flight until it can find a solution to the problem, and no one seems willing to guess how that may take . The Discovery astronauts performed superbly during their two-week mission and the shuttle looked better than ever in some respect62) space officials were justifiably hap

21、py that so much had gone we, despite daily worries over possible risks. The flight clearly achieved its prime objectives. The astr on auts tran sferred tons of cargo to the intern ati onal space statiprwhich has bee n limpi ng along overhead with a reduced crew and limited supplies carried up on sma

22、ller Russian spacecraft 63) They replaced a broke n device .repaired ano ther and carted away a load of rubbish that had bee n left on the station, showing the shuttle can bring full loads back down from space. This was the most scrutinized shuttle flight ever. With the vehicle undergoing close insp

23、ection while still in orbit. (64) New sensing and photographic equipment to look for potentially dangerous damage to the sen sitive exter nal ski n proved valuable. A new back flip man euver allowed stati on astr on auts to photograph the shuttlebe landed an extra-l ong robotic arm en abled astr on

24、auts see parts of the shuttle that were previously out of sight. (65) The flood of images and the ope nn ess in discuss ing its un certa in ties about pote ntial hazards ni1 sometimes made it appear that the shuttle was about to fall apart In the end the damage was clearly tolerable . A muchouted sp

25、acewalk to repair the shuttle s skin the first of its ki nd moved an astr ona close eno ugh to pluck out some protrud ing material with his hand Prelimi nary evide nce in dicates that Discovery has far fewer nicks and gouges than shuttles on previous flights perhaps showing that improveme nts to red

26、uce the shedd ing of debris from the exter nal fuel tank have had some success. 2005年一月MBA联考英语翻译真题 Section IV Translation (20 points) Directions: In this secti on there is a passage in En glish. Tran slate the five sen ten ces un derl ined into Chin ese and write your tran slatio n on ANSWER SHEET 2

27、. (56) A n? ?art?museum?director?with?foresight?might?follow?tre nds?i n?computer?graphics?t o?make?exhibit?more? appeali ng?to?you nger?visitor.? (57) For?i nsta nces,?c apable?corporate?ma nager?might?see?alarmi ng?rise?i n?local?housi ng? price?that?could?affect?availability?of?skilled?workers?i

28、n? ?the?regio n. (58) ?People?i n?governme nt?also? need?foresight?to?keep?system?ru nnin g?smoothly,?to?pl ay?budget?a nd?preve nt?war.? (59) Ma ny?of?the?best?k now n?tech nique?for?foresight?were?developed?by?governme nt?pl anner,?especially?in?the?military,?“ ?thinking?about?the?unthinkable” .?

29、(60) The?futurist?recog nized?that?the?future?world?is?co ntinuin g?with?preset?world.?We? can? ?learn?a?great?deal?about?what?ma ny?h appe n?i n? ?the?future?by?looki ng?systematica 欢迎共阅 lly?at?what?is?h appy? now. 2004年一月MBA联考英语翻译真题 sect ion v tran slati on (10 poin ts) direct ions：in this secti o

30、n there is a passage in En glish. Tran slate the five sen ten ces un derl ined into Chin ese and write your tran slatio n on the an swer sheet2. March 27, 1997, daw ned as a no rmal dy at the Colli ns home. by the middle of the mojaing Colli ns was at his desk writ ing checks, pay ing bills the way

31、he always had on time. the n the pho ne rang, and the ni ghtmare bega n. (71) An in vestigator for a bank was on the line ask ing in a severe voice why Colli ns a uni versity physicist, was late on payments for a $27 000 car, bought in Virginia the previous year. “I don t have a car like this, ” Col

32、li ns protested. theast time he had set foot in Virgi nia was as an officer at a submari ne base three decades ago. but his n ame was on the con tract and so was his social security nu mber. duri ng the mon ths that en sued he and his wife lear ned that some one had bought four more cars and 28 othe

33、r itemsworth $113, 000 in all m in their name. Their hitherto good credit record had been destroyed. (72)After a lifetime of being honest,” says Collins “all of a suddehwas basically being :,i - accused of steali ng and treated like a crim inal.” This is what it means to fall prey to a nonvi ole nt

34、but frighte ning and fast-growi ng crimeide ntity theft. It happens to at least 500 000 new victims each year according to government figures. (73) And it happe ns very easily because every ide ntificati on nu mber you have m social security a fraud (欺诈) program manager of the us postal service. so if you throw away your credit card receipt credit cards driver s licel none m is a key_that uni ocks some storage of money or goodsays | I,|r, and I get it and use the number on ijt I m not becoming you b