angle什么意思CATTI Level 1 Translation (Sample)

2020年11月25日发(作者：齐威王)
英语一级笔译实务试卷
Section 1 Translation
Part 1 English-Chinese Translation (英译汉) (30 points)
Translate the following passage into Chinese.
The Travels of Marco Polo was conceived in a prison cell in Genoa, Italy, in 1298. A few
years earlier Polo had returned to the West after an epic journey that lasted some 24 years. He
then saw action in a naval battle between the Venetian and Genoese fleets, and was captured.
It was in jail that he met and befriended Rustichello of Pisa, a well-known writer and
collector of Arthurian romances. Their collaboration yielded a book that would give Europe
its first authoritative account of the Middle and Far East, in particular China, and reveal the
presence of a vast empire and advanced civilization far greater than anything Europeans
could achieve or even imagine.
More than 100 copies of that long-lost original exist, many dating from the 14
th
and 15
th

centuries. There is no definitive manuscript, however, and all existing versions have been
embellished, doctored or censored by the Christian establishment over the years. Modern
editions are thus collations and translations of imperfect copies. This murky history helps
explain why the book describes what the Venetian could not possibly have seen, and
overlooks sights that any traveler to China must have witnessed – like the Great Wall,
foot-binding and chopsticks. Skeptics say that Polo never ventured to China and that he and
Rustichello used second-hand information from other travelers, especially Arab traders.
Certainly, there is no hard historical evidence that Polo actually visited all the places he
describes. But most of the detail has since been corroborated by historians and geographers,
confounding critics and confirming the importance of the book as the fullest and most
accurate account of Asia in its time.
Originally call Description of the World, Travels aims for geographical completeness,
not the immediacy and excitement of personal encounter. It’s not a travelogue. Consistent
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with the possibility that Polo was not an eyewitness, his book is not “on-the-spot” reporting,
and only loosely follows an itinerary. To modern audiences, the book may seem dull and
repetitive, to be dipped into, not read cover to cover. Yet Travels was a revolutionary piece of
writing. It radically altered European understanding of Asia by forcing the West to recognize
a superior culture in the East, and, by describing with such verve the luxuries and
sensuousness of Chinese cities, it impressed the idea of an exotic East on the European
psyche.
The Venetian literally changed the Western view of the world. European maps in his
time were based on Biblical interpretations and classical mythology. Jerusalem was at the
center. Then came Polo’s book, describing great civilizations in the East, and a world not
centered on Jerusalem, politically or geographically. This recasting of the world into a more
dynamic and multi- centered geographical space was the first step toward what we now call
globalization.
Travels is a book of liberal and enlightened humanism. No one can fail to appreciate its
celebration of the heterogeneity of nature, geography and, above all, people. His work
expresses wonder and joy in what is unfamiliar. Races are differentiated but not denigrated,
and the customs of different cultures are met with enthusiastic curiosity, not the conformism
and prejudice prevalent in Europe at the time. Travels had a moral for medieval Europe: let
diversity and tolerance replace division and xenophobia – a moral no less relevant today than
in Marco Polo’s time.
Part 2 Chinese-English Translation (汉译英) (30 points)
Translate the following passage into English.
建立和完善刑事缺席审判制度是惩治和预防腐败犯罪的需要。腐败是人类社会的一个 痼疾。
随着经济全球化进程的加快，腐败犯罪越来越猖獗，给当今世界各国造成许多严重问题。腐败还同有组织犯罪和包括洗钱在内的经济犯罪之间有着千丝万缕的联系。
惩治和预防腐败是社会各界 和世界各国政府的共同要求。就目前我国的司法实践来看，我
国反腐败形势依然严峻，腐败案件仍处在多 发高发期，部分贪官携款外逃现象屡屡发生。由于
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