翻译二级笔译综合能力2003年12月及答案解析.doc
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1、翻译二级笔译综合能力 2003 年 12 月及答案解析(总分:70.00,做题时间:90 分钟)一、BPart 1 Summary (总题数:2,分数:60.00)1.Deceptively small in column inches, a recent New York Times article holds large meaning for us in business. The item concerned one Daniel Provenzano, 38, of Upper Saddle River, N.J. Here is the relevant portion: When
2、 he owned a Fort Lee printing company called Advice Inc., Mr. Provenzano said he found out that a sales representative he employed had stolen $9,000. Mr. Provenzano said he told the man that “if he wanted to keep his employment, I would have to break his thumb.“ He said another Advice employee drove
3、 the sales representative to Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, broke the thumb with a hammer outside the hospital, and then had a car service take the man home after the thumb was repaired. Mr. Provenzano explained that he “didnt want to set an example“ that workers could get away with stealing. The wo
4、rker eventually paid back $4,500 and kept his job, he said. I know that youre thinking: This is an outrage. I, too, was shocked that Provenzano was being prosecuted for his astute management. Indeed, I think his “modest proposal“ has a lot to teach managers as they struggle with the problems of our
5、people-centered business environment. Problems such as BDealing with the bottom 10%./B GE made the system famous, but plenty of companies are using it: Every year you get rid of the worst-evaluated workers. Many managers object that this practice is inhumane, but not dealing with that bottom 10% lea
6、ds to big performance problems. Provenzano found a kinder, gentler answer. After all, this employee would have been fired virtually anywhere else. But at Advice Inc., he stayed on the job. And you know what? I bet he became a very, veryveryproductive employee. For most managers Provenzanos innovativ
7、e response will be a welcome new addition to their executive tool kit. And by the way, “executive tool kit“ is clearly more than just a metaphor at Advice Inc. BBeing the employer of choice./B With top talent scarce everywhere, most companies now want to be their industrys or their communitys most d
8、esirable employer. Advice Inc. understood. The employee in question wasnt simply disciplined in his supervisors office and sent home. No, thats how an ordinary employer would have done it. But at Advice Inc., another employeethe HR manager, perhaps? took time out his busy day and drove the guy right
9、 to the emergency room. And thenthe detail that says it allthe company provided a car service to drive the employee home. The message to talented job candidates comes through loud and clear: Advice Inc. is a company that cares. BSetting an example to others./B An eternal problem for managers is how
10、to let all employees know what happens to those who perform especially well or badly. A few companies actually post everyones salary and bonus on their intranet. But pay is so one-dimensional. At Advice Inc., a problem that would hardly be mentioned at most companiesembezzlement was undoubtedly the
11、topic of rich discussions for weeks, at least until the employees cast came off. Any employee theft probably went way, waywaydown. When the great Roberto Goizueta was CEO of Coca-Cola he used to talk about this problem of setting examples and once observed, “Sometimes you must have an execution in t
12、he public square!“ But of course he was speaking only figuratively. If he had just listened to his own words, Goizueta might have been an even better CEO. BDifferentiation./B This is one of Jack Welch s favorite conceptsthe idea that managers should treat different employees very differently based o
13、n performance. Welch liked to differentiate with salary, bonus, and stock options, but now, in what must henceforth be known as the post-Provenzano management era, we can see that GEs great management thinker just wasnt thinking big enough. This Times article is tantalizing and frustrating. In just
14、a few sentences it opens a whole new world of management, yet much more surely remains to be told. We must all urge Provenzano to write a book explaining his complete managerial philosophy.(分数:30.00)_2.越是对原作体会深刻,越是欣赏原文的美妙,越觉得心长力绌,越觉得译文远远的传达不出原作的神韵。返工的次数愈来愈多,时间也花得愈来愈多,结果却总是不满意。例如句子的转弯抹角太生硬,色彩单调,说理强而描
15、绘弱,处处都和我性格的缺陷与偏差有关。自然,我并不因此灰心,照样“知其不可为而为之”,不过要心情愉快也很难了。工作有成绩才是最大的快乐:这一点你我都一样。 另外有一点是肯定的,就是西方人的思想方式同我们距离太大了。不做翻译工作的人恐怕不会体会到这么深切。他们刻画心理和描写感情的时候,有些曲折和细腻的地方,复杂繁琐,简直与我们格格不入。我们对人生琐事往往有许多是认为不值一提而省略,有许多只是罗列事实而不加分析的;如果要写情就用诗人的态度来写:西方作家却多半用科学家的态度,历史学家的态度(特别巴尔扎克),像解剖昆虫一般。译的人固然懂得了,也感觉到它的特色,妙处,可是要叫思想方式完全不一样的读者领会
16、就难了。思想方式反映整个的人生观,宇宙观,和几千年文化的发展,怎能一下子就能和另一民族的思想沟通呢?你很幸运,音乐不像语言的局限那么大,你还是用音符表达前人的音符,不是用另一种语言文字,另一种逻辑。(傅雷家书)(分数:30.00)_二、BPart 2 Reading (总题数:1,分数:5.00)BPASSAGE 1/BBTo Err Is Human/Bby Lewis ThomasEveryone must have had at least one personal experience with a computer error by this time. Bank balances
17、are suddenly reported to have jumped from $379 into the millions, appeals for charitable contributions are mailed over and over to people with crazy sounding names at your address, department stores send the wrong bills, utility companies write that theyre turning everything off, that sort of thing.
18、 If you manage to get in touch with someone and complain, you then get instantaneously typed, guilty letters from the same computer, saying, “Our computer was in error, and an adjustment is being made in your account.“These are supposed to be the sheerest, blindest accidents. Mistakes are not believ
19、ed to be the normal behavior of a good machine. If things go wrong, it must be a personal, human error, the result of fingering, tampering a button getting stuck, someone hitting the wrong key. The computer, at its normal best, is infallible.I wonder whether this can be true. After all, the whole po
20、int of computers is that they represent an extension of the human brain, vastly improved upon but nonetheless human, superhuman maybe. A good computer can think clearly and quickly enough to beat you at chess, and some of them have even been programmed to write obscure verse. They can do anything we
21、 can do, and more besides.It is not yet known whether a computer has its own consciousness, and it would be hard to find out about this. When you walk into one of those great halls now built for the huge machines, and standing listening, it is easy to imagine that the faint, distant noises are the s
22、ound of thinking, and the turning of the spools gives them the look of wild creatures rolling their eyes in the effort to concentrate, choking with information. But real thinking, and dreaming, are other matters. On the other hand, the evidence of something like an unconscious, equivalent to ours, a
23、re all around, in every mail. As extensions of the human brain, they have been constructed the same property of error, spontaneous, uncontrolled, and rich in possibilities.(分数:5.00)(1).The title of the writing “To Err Is Human“ implies that(分数:1.00)A.making mistakes is confined only to human beings.
24、B.every human being cannot avoid making mistakes.C.all human beings are always making mistakes.D.every human being is born to make bad mistakes.(2).The first paragraph implies that(分数:1.00)A.computer errors are so obvious that one can hardly prevent them from happening.B.a computer is so capable of
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