粘着语英语二笔翻译真题2007年11月

2021年1月7日发(作者：寇湄)
2007年11月英语二级《笔译实务》试题
Section 1: English- Chinese Translation（英译汉）
Part A Compulsory Translation（必译题）
Milton Friedman, Free Markets Theorist, Dies at 94.
Milton Friedman, the grandmaster of free-market economic theory in the postwar
era and aprime force in the movement of nations toward less government and
greater reliance onindividual responsibility, died today in San Francisco, where
he lived. He was 94.
Conservative and liberal colleagues alike viewed Mr. Friedman, a Nobel prize
laureate, as one ofthe 20th century’s leading economic scholars, on a par with
giants like John Maynard Keynesand Paul Samuelson.
Flying the flag of economic conservatism, Mr. Friedman led the postwar
challenge to thehallowed theories of Lord Keynes, the British economist who
maintained that governments hada duty to help capitalistic economies through
periods of recession and to prevent boom timesfrom exploding into high
inflation.
In Professor Friedman’s view, government had the opposite obligation: to
keep its hands offthe economy, to let the free market do its work.
The only economic lever that Mr. Friedman would allow government to use was
the one thatcontrolled the supply of money — a monetarist view that had gone
out of favor when heembraced it in the 1950s. He went on to record a signal
achievement, predicting theunprecedented combination of rising
unemployment and rising inflation that came to becalled stagflation. His work
earned him the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 1976.
Rarely, his colleagues said, did anyone have such impact on both his own
profession and ongovernment. Though he never served officially in the halls of
power, he was always aroundthem, as an adviser and theorist.
“Among economic scholars, Milton Friedman had no peer,” Ben S. Bernanke,
the FederalReserve chairman, said today. “The direct and indirect influences of
his thinking oncontemporary monetary economics would be difficult to
overstate.”
Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, said of Mr. Friedman in
an interview onTuesday. “From a longer-term point of view, it’s his
academic achievements which will havelasting import. But I would not
dismiss the profound impact he has already had on theAmerican public’s
view.”
Mr. Friedman had a gift for communicating complicated ideas in simple and
lucid ways, and itserved him well as the author or co-author of more than a
dozen books, as a columnist forNewsweek from 1966 to 1983 and even as the
star of a public television series.
Part B Optional Translation（二选一题）
Topic 1 （选题一）
Panama goes to polls on upgrade for canal
PANAMA CITY: Voters were expected Sunday to approve the largest
modernization project inthe 92-year history of the Panama Canal, a $$5.25
billion plan to expand the waterway to allowfor larger ships while alleviating
traffic problems.
The government of President Martín Torrijos has billed the referendum as
historic, saying thework would double the capacity of a canal already on pace
to generate about $$1.4 billion inrevenue this year. Critics claim the expansion
would benefit the canal's customers more thanPanamanians, and worry that
costs could balloon, forcing this debt- ridden country to borroweven more.
The project would build a third set of locks on the Pacific and Atlantic ends of the
canal by2015, allowing it to handle modern container ships, cruise liners and
tankers too large for itslocks, which are 33 meters, or 108 feet, wide.
The Panama Canal Authority, the autonomous government agency that runs the
canal, saysthe project would be paid for by increasing tolls and would generate
$$6 billion in revenue by2025.
There is nothing Panamanians are more passionate about than the canal.