1、翻译二级笔译实务-24 及答案解析(总分：95.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Section English-Ch(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Part A Compulsory Tr(总题数：1，分数：25.00)1.Its no surprise that Jennifer Seniors insightful, provocative magazine cover story, “I Love My Children, I Hate My Life,“ is arousing much chatter-nothing gets people talking like the sug
2、gestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-mo
3、ment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that “the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight. “The magazine cove
4、r showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptiveand newly single-morn Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant“ news. Practically every week features at least o
5、ne celebrity morn, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing? It doesnt seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to
6、 the regrets of the children. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldnt have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size
7、 holes in their lives.Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single p
8、arents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their “own“ (read: with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.Its hard to imagine that many people are dumb enou
9、gh to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But its interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress -free, happiness -enhancing parenthood arent in some small, subconscious way contributing to our
10、 own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “the Rachel“ might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.（分数：25.00）_三、Part B Choice of Two(总题数：1，分数：25.00)2.When Liam McGee departed as president of Bank of America in August, his e
11、xplanation was surprisingly straight up. Rather than cloaking his exit in the usual vague excuses, he came right out and said he was leaving “to pursue my goal of running a company. “ Broadcasting his ambition was “very much my decision,“ McGee says. Within two weeks, he was talking for the first ti
12、me with the board of Hartford Financial Services Group, which named him CEO and chairman on September 29.McGee says leaving without a position lined up gave him time to reflect on what kind of company he wanted to run. It also sent a clear message to the outside world about his aspirations. And McGe
13、e isnt alone. In recent weeks the No. 2 executives at Avon and American Express quit with the explanation that they were looking for a CEO post. As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who dont get the nod also may wish to move on. A turbulent business e
14、nvironment also has senior managers cautious of letting vague pronouncements cloud their reputations.As the first signs of recovery begin to take hold, deputy chiefs may be more willing to make the jump without a net. In the third quarter, CEO turnover was down 23% from a year ago as nervous boards
15、stuck with the leaders they had, according to Liberum Research. As the economy picks up, opportunities will abound for aspiring leaders.The decision to quit a senior position to look for a better one is unconventional. For years executives and headhunters have adhered to the rule that the most attra
16、ctive CEO candidates are the ones who must be poached. Says Kom/Ferry senior partner Dennis Carey: “I cant think of a single search Ive done where a board has not instructed me to look at sitting CEOs first. “Those who jumped without a job havent always landed in top positions quickly. Ellen Marram
17、quit as chief of Tropicana a decade age, saying she wanted to be a CEO. It was a year before she became head of a tiny Internet-based commodities exchange. Robert Willumstad left Cifigroup in 2005 with ambitions to be a CEO. He finally took that post at a major financial institution three years late
18、r.Many recruiters say the old disgrace is fading for top performers. The financial crisis has made it more acceptable to be between jobs or to leave a bad one. “The traditional rule was its safer to stay where you are, but thats been fundamentally inverted,“ says one headhunter. “The people whove be
19、en hurt the worst are those whove stayed too long. /（分数：25.00）_四、Section Chinese-En(总题数：0，分数：0.00)五、Part A Compulsory Tr(总题数：1，分数：20.00)3.40年前，黄河入海口曾经是鸟类的乐园。后来，随着黄河三角洲地区河水水量的减少以及人为的开垦，这里的湿地面积减少了，来访鸟儿的数量也减少了。近年来，黄河三角洲湿地生态系统明显改善。现在，每年都有近百万只鸟到这里越冬栖息，它们中有许多是世界珍稀种类。黄河三角洲湿地保护只是中国在保护湿地方面的一个成功例子。它反映中国在保护湿地方
20、面取得了很大成效。中国现已建立 353个湿地自然保护区。湿地自然保护区的建立还保护了中国大江大河的源头，主要河流入海口，以及候鸟繁殖和越冬栖息地。目前，湿地保护仍然是中国生态建设中的一个薄弱环节。中国政府将采取有力措施制止掠夺性开发湿地资源的行为，以保证湿地资源的可持续利用。（分数：20.00）_六、Part B Choice of Two(总题数：1，分数：25.00)4.凡事应该适度。适度是最安全的。以学生生活为例，有些学生学习太努力，而玩得太少；还有些学生玩得太多，而学习得太少。前者由于缺少体育锻炼弄坏了身体，后者玩得太多而损坏了智力。在饮食方面，也必须要适度。不要吃得太多或太少，吃得太
21、多你会生病，而吃得太少你会虚弱。能取得进步的人是那些思想既不太保守而又不太激进的人。太保守的人，他裹足不前，而太激进的人，他就东闯西闯没有明确的目标。心胸宽的人总是在合理的范围内活动。在生活中，无论什么样的活动，适度是通向享受幸福的最好途径之一。（分数：25.00）_翻译二级笔译实务-24 答案解析(总分：95.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Section English-Ch(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Part A Compulsory Tr(总题数：1，分数：25.00)1.Its no surprise that Jennifer Seniors insightful, prov
22、ocative magazine cover story, “I Love My Children, I Hate My Life,“ is arousing much chatter-nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or
23、miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes th
24、at “the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight. “The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptiveand n
25、ewly single-morn Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant“ news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity morn, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having
26、children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing? It doesnt seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the children. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldnt have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message t
27、hat children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents
28、are single mothers like Bullock. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it,
29、 raising a kid on their “own“ (read: with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.Its hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But its interesting to wonder if th
30、e images we see every week of stress -free, happiness -enhancing parenthood arent in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “the Rachel“ might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer
31、 Aniston.（分数：25.00）_正确答案：(毫无疑问，Jennifez Senior 在有深刻见解的、煽动性的杂志封面故事中表达了她的想法“我爱我的孩子，我讨厌我的生活”，此想法引来很多议论。谈到养孩子，人们就会觉得是件完全令人高兴、生活充实的事情。Jennifer Senior 没有指出抚养孩子会使父母快乐还是痛苦，而是建议我们需要重新定义幸福：我们不应该认为幸福是可以衡量的瞬间快乐的组合，而应该把它看成一种过去的状态。尽管每天抚养孩子的经历是那么难熬，但 Jennifer Senior在故事中说，“正是那些使我们心情沮丧的时刻，日后却成了快乐的源泉”。杂志的封面是一位怀抱可爱婴儿的
32、魅力母亲(麦当娜和婴儿)，此封面在这周的杂志上不可能成为唯一的“圣母和圣子”的形象。杂志上还有好多关于最近刚收养孩子的母亲，刚变成单身的母亲，如桑德拉布洛克，以及常见的“詹妮弗安尼斯顿怀孕了”的故事。实际上，每周至少有一位名人母亲或准妈妈微笑地出现在杂志上。在一个一直庆祝生育的社会，承认后悔生孩子就像承认支持杀小猫一样，这难道不值得反思吗?把父母和孩子的后悔作比较，这看上去并不公平。没人会让不想抚养孩子的父母去反思自己是否不该养孩子，但那些不幸福的没孩子的人却为这样的事情所困扰：“孩子是世上唯一最重要的东西”，很显然，他们的痛苦必须通过生儿育女才能解除。当然，像美国周刊与人物这样的名人杂志展示
33、的父母形象是非常不现实的，特别是当父母是单亲妈妈时更是如此，就像布洛克。根据多项研究结果，有孩子的父母不如没孩子的夫妇快乐，单亲父母是最不快乐的。不要对此感到震惊，想一想，没有人依靠，自己抚养一个孩子需要做多少工作啊!但是，听听桑德拉和布兰妮说的话，“自己养孩子，简直小菜一碟!”(她们当然认为容易了，因为她们周围有群人帮忙。)很难想象，许多人很愚蠢地想生孩子，只是因为Reese 和 Angelina使这种事情变得看起来很光彩，其实大多数成年人了解养孩子可不像剪头发那么容易。但是，反思一下：我们每周看到的没压力、幸福地为人父母的例子会不会潜意识里加剧我们对实际生活的不满。这就好像：我们有一种想成
34、为“瑞秋”(老友记中的单身妈妈)的想法，这种想法使我们看上去有点像瑞秋的扮演者詹妮弗安尼斯顿。)解析：1Its no surprise that Jennifer Seniors insightful，provocative magazine cover story，“I Love My Children，I Hate My Life，”is arousing much chatter-nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely ful
35、filling, life-enriching experience该句句子主干为：story is arousing much chatter。第一个 that引导的是主语从句，it 是形式上的主语。破折号后是对 chatter的解释。第二个 that引导的是定语从句，修饰前面的 suggestion。2Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserableSenior suggests we need to redefine happiness：instead of thinking of it
36、 as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy，we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition该句句子主干为：Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness。Rather thanmiserable 在句子中作状语，冒号后内容是对 redefine happiness的具体解释，是对 happiness下的新定义。冒号后句子主干为：we should consider being happy as a past-te
37、nse condition，instead of介词短语作状语，something后的 that为主语从句。3Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldnt have had kids，but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world：obviously their misery must be a direct result
38、of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives该句为 but引导的两个并列句，第一个分句里含有一个 if引导的宾语从句，第二个分句里包含一个 that引导的同位语从句。冒号后内容是对 children are the single most important thing in the world的进一步解释说明。三、Part B Choice of Two(总题数：1，分数：25.00)2.When Liam McGee departed as president of Bank of America in August, his explanati
39、on was surprisingly straight up. Rather than cloaking his exit in the usual vague excuses, he came right out and said he was leaving “to pursue my goal of running a company. “ Broadcasting his ambition was “very much my decision,“ McGee says. Within two weeks, he was talking for the first time with
40、the board of Hartford Financial Services Group, which named him CEO and chairman on September 29.McGee says leaving without a position lined up gave him time to reflect on what kind of company he wanted to run. It also sent a clear message to the outside world about his aspirations. And McGee isnt a
41、lone. In recent weeks the No. 2 executives at Avon and American Express quit with the explanation that they were looking for a CEO post. As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who dont get the nod also may wish to move on. A turbulent business environme
42、nt also has senior managers cautious of letting vague pronouncements cloud their reputations.As the first signs of recovery begin to take hold, deputy chiefs may be more willing to make the jump without a net. In the third quarter, CEO turnover was down 23% from a year ago as nervous boards stuck wi
43、th the leaders they had, according to Liberum Research. As the economy picks up, opportunities will abound for aspiring leaders.The decision to quit a senior position to look for a better one is unconventional. For years executives and headhunters have adhered to the rule that the most attractive CE
44、O candidates are the ones who must be poached. Says Kom/Ferry senior partner Dennis Carey: “I cant think of a single search Ive done where a board has not instructed me to look at sitting CEOs first. “Those who jumped without a job havent always landed in top positions quickly. Ellen Marram quit as
45、chief of Tropicana a decade age, saying she wanted to be a CEO. It was a year before she became head of a tiny Internet-based commodities exchange. Robert Willumstad left Cifigroup in 2005 with ambitions to be a CEO. He finally took that post at a major financial institution three years later.Many r
46、ecruiters say the old disgrace is fading for top performers. The financial crisis has made it more acceptable to be between jobs or to leave a bad one. “The traditional rule was its safer to stay where you are, but thats been fundamentally inverted,“ says one headhunter. “The people whove been hurt
47、the worst are those whove stayed too long. /（分数：25.00）_正确答案：(8 月份，当 Liam McGee以美国银行总裁的身份离职时，他给出的解释直白得令人惊讶。他没有像以往那样以模棱两可的理由掩饰自己的离开，而是坦然说出自己即将离职“追求新的目标开家公司”。McGee说宣布这一目标正是自己的决定。两周内，他和哈特福德金融服务集团董事会进行了首次会谈，该公司于 9月 29日任命他为 CEO兼董事会主席。McGee说没有找好工作就离职可以给他时间反思自己到底想经营何种公司。这也使外界明确他的愿望和决心。并不只是 McGee一个人这样做。最近几周，
48、雅芳和美国快递这两家公司的一些高管们纷纷离职，并解释说想寻求一个 CEO的职位。当董事会迫于股东的压力仔细审查继任计划时，那些被否定的高管们也会想离开。混乱的商业环境同样使得高管们十分谨慎，害怕模糊的声明会有损他们的声誉。当经济开始复苏时，副职高管们可能更愿意在没有找到新工作时跳槽。据 Liberum调查，第三季度，CEO的换任比一年前减少了 23%，原因在于紧张的董事会抓住现有的领导层不放。随着经济逐渐好转，有抱负的领导们又会充满希望。辞去高层职位寻找一个更好的职位，此决定非同寻常。多年来，高管和猎头们一直坚持一个原则：最具吸引力的 CEO候选人是那些必须通过挖墙脚才能得到的人。Korn/Fe
