翻译二级口译实务-会议致辞(Ceremonial+Speeches)及答案解析.doc
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1、翻译二级口译实务-会议致辞(Ceremonial+Speeches)及答案解析(总分:200.00,做题时间:90 分钟)一、B英译汉/B(总题数:4,分数:100.00)1.B Passage 1 /B Thank you, Mr. Bishop, Assistant Vice Minister Li, Chinese Peoples Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries President Lu Qiutian, and Vice President Li Xiaolin, All China Federation of Ret
2、urned Overseas Chinese Vice President Tang Wensheng, distinguished guests representing the Peoples Republic of China, your excellencies and other colleagues in the diplomatic corps, honored guests, friends and my fellow Americans. / This year, as you can see, our focus is on the great American state
3、 of Florida. I wish to thank the terrific American companies that have joined us in sponsoring todays event. Sarah and I hope that you will join us in enjoying their fine products. I also want to thank acting administration consular Terry Wong and his team for organizing and decorating for todays ev
4、ent. / Over the long Independence Day holiday in the United States, many of the visitors to Washington are driving into nearby Virginia to visit the home of George Washington, Mount Vernon. Others are traveling a short distance farther along the same highway to visit the home of his neighbor, George
5、 Mason. Masons home is called Gunston Hall. / These neighboring Virginia farmers are now recognized as two of the leading men of the founding generation. George Washington University in the District of Columbia honors our first president. A few miles away in Virginia is George Mason University. A vi
6、sit to Gunston Hall is rewarding. It is a brick building in the early Georgian style of the eighteenth century. A modern visitor is delighted to find that Mason chose to decorate one of the rooms in what was then the Chinese style, or “Chinoiserie. “ There he and his wife displayed some Chinese plat
7、es and vases. / The walls were painted with what English decorators then imagined to be scenes of China. You can also see this same style in the diplomatic entrance foyer off the south entrance to the white house. What do these items in Masons “Chinoiserie“ room tell us? They show that the trade bet
8、ween china and Europe in the reign of Emperor Qianlong had reached America. They demonstrate how Chinese art, then as now, exerted a powerful influence on the western imagination. But they also tell us that while Americans knew something of china and the wonders of its civilization, there was not ye
9、t much contact between China and America. / What did George Mason and others of his generation know of China? That china was a powerful and wealthy civilization. That it pioneered such innovations in government as the civil service examinations. But no doubt they also knew that china under the Manch
10、us faced severe problems, especially from arbitrary rule and corruption. These were problems that Americans of the time knew at first hand because they faced similar problems as a colony. / Masons contribution to American independence was the drafting of the Virginia Bill of Rights, adopted by the s
11、tate of Virginia just three weeks before the Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence. It guaranteed the rights to life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness and safety. / Please join me in an Independence Day toast. To President Hu and President Bush. May the friendship
12、 and mutual understanding between china and the United States continue to expand and prosper not only to the benefit of our two great nations and peoples but also to the benefit of all nations and peoples. And, may human dignity and liberty flourish. / (Excerpts from the speech presented to the gues
13、ts of the July 4th Celebration by Clark T. Randt, Jr, former US Ambassador to China in Beifing on July 4th, 2004)(分数:25.00)_2.B Passage 2 /B Chief Justice Li, Ladies and gentlemen, Thank you for giving me the privilege of attending this historic dedication and for asking me to speak to you this morn
14、ing. / Universities, like most other human institutions and enterprises, must be always in search of new systems, new models, new ways to perform their essential mission. That is why it is of paramount importance for this school to prosper and succeed. And when it does, your model can inspire dynami
15、c changes in legal education throughout your great nation. Your success is important for China. And your school is important for other nations who want to rely upon law and the legal profession to find common goals to achieve common progress. / In the United States our law school professors have imm
16、ense talent, and law schools are influential in government and in society at large. As some of you know, our law review system relies on students who are just beginning to study and to explore the law to engage in formal criticism of decisions made by judges. Judges, of course, are senior to student
17、s in years and in experience. But the judges respect and welcome the criticism from those who are just beginning to study the law. / Judges do not view student and faculty criticism simply as a necessary way to train the next generation of legal thinkers. Judges and indeed the whole profession embra
18、ce the criticism as a crucial check on the power of the bench and bar. We rely on criticism from law students to see if we can find new insights to express new principles that strengthen the Rule of Law. So our law professors and our law students can be proud of their work, even when that work criti
19、cizes authority. / Sometimes we hear law professors say: “we teach our students how to think. “ In one sense this should not be at all surprising. Any teacher in any subject at any level wants to teach students how to think. So in some respects the law professors boast is nothing more than a commonp
20、lace observation. Successful teachers always seek to inspire students to be precise and clear. / Too often, however, the suggestion or connotation is that professors at law schools have some sort of a monopoly on clear thinking. That, of course, is pretentious, narrow, and simply wrong. And to prove
21、 that law has no monopoly on thinking, one need only notice those law schools which now hire law professors with a rich, diverse interdisciplinary background. Our law professors come to law school with degrees not only in law but other fields as well. / The thirst for interdisciplinary diversity has
22、 had an effect on the ranks of law students as well. It used to be that desks in law school classrooms were manned by pupils with a more or less homogeneous background. Most had undergraduate majors in pre-law or political science and had come straight to law school after completing their undergradu
23、ate studies. Today we see a different dynamic. Alongside the political science undergrad we find economics, chemistry and literature majors, or even find students have made a professional mark on the world in one field or who have an advanced degree and who are now eager to bring that experience to
24、our venerable profession. / The law professors selfimportant claim that he or she teaches students how to think is in need of some revision, some refinement. We can discard that unwarranted pretension, yet we can continue to capture the vital and unique societal function law schools perform. We can
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