affluence英语二笔翻译真题2009年5月

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2009
年
5
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）

There
was,
last
week,
a
glimmer

of
hope
in
theworld
food
crisis.
Expecting
a
bumperharvest,Ukraine
relaxed

restrictions
on
exports.
Overnight,
global

wheat
prices
fell
by 10percent.
By
contrast
, traders in Bangkok
quote
rice prices around $$1,000 a ton, up from
$$460twomonths ago.
Such is the
volatility
of today's markets. We do not know how high food prices
might
go,norhow
far
they
could
fall.
But
one
thing
is
certain
:
We
have
gone
from
an
era
of
plenty to
oneof
scarcity
. Experts agree
that
food prices
are
not
likely to return to the levels the worldhadgrown
accustomed
to any time soon.
Imagine
the
situation
of
those
living
on
less
than
$$1
a
day
-
the
“
bottom
billion,
”

thepoorest
ofthe
world's
poor
.
Most
live
in
Africa,
and
many
might
typically spend two-thirds oftheir incomeon food.
In Liberia last week, I heard how people have stopped purchasing imported rice
by
d,
they
increasingly
buy
it
by
the
cup,
because
that's
all
they
can afford.
Traveling
though
West
Africa,
I
found
good
reason
for
optimism
.
In
Burkina
Faso, I sawagovernment working to
import

drought

resistant
seeds and better
manage
scarce

watersupplies,helped
by
nations
like
Brazil.
In
Ivory
Coast,
we
saw
a
women's
cooperative
running
achickenfarm
set up
with UN
funds
.
The
project
generated
income
-
and
food
-
for
villagers
inways
thatcan
easily
be
replicated.
Elsewhere,
I
saw
yet
another
women's
group
slowly
expanding

their
localagriculturalproduction,
with
UN
help.
Soon
they
will
replace

World
Food
Program rice with theirownhome-grown
produce
,
sufficient
to cover the needs
of their school feeding program.
These
are
home-grown,
grass-roots
solutions
for
grass-roots
problems
-
precisely the kindofsolutions that Africa needs.
Part B Optional Translation
（二选一题）

Topic 1
（选题一）

For a
decade
, metallurgists studying the hulk of the Titanic have argued that the
storiedoceanliner
went
down
quickly
after
hitting
an
iceberg
because
the
ship's
builder
usedsubstandardrivets
that
popped
their
heads
and
let
tons
of
icy
seawater rush in. More than 1,500people died.
Now a team of scientists has moved into deeper waters, uncovering
evidence
in
thebuilder'sown
archives
of
a
deadly
mix
of
great
ambition

and
use
of
low-
quality
iron thatdoomed theship, which sank 96 years ago Tuesday.
The
scientists
found
that
the
ship's
builder
,
Harland
and
Wolff,
in
Belfast,
struggled foryears to
obtain

adequate
supplies of rivets and riveters to build the
world's
three
biggest
ships
atonce:the
Titanic
and
two
sisters,
Olympic
and
Britannic.
Each
required
three
million
rivets,
and
shortages
peaked
during
Titanic's
construction
.

mode
,
teamthatstudied the company's
archive
and other
evidence
.
constant

stress
.
Everymeeting it
was,'There's
problems
with
the rivets,
and
we
need
to
hire more people.'
The
team
collected
other
clues
from
48
Titanic
rivets,
using
modern
tests,
computersimulations,comparisons
the art.
The scientists say the troubles began when the colossal plans forced Harland and
Wolff toreachbeyond its usual suppliers of
rivet
iron and include smaller forges,
as
disclosed
incompany
andBritish
government
papers.
Small
forges
tended
to
have less skill and experience.
Adding to the
threat
, the company, in buying iron for Titanic's rivets, ordered No.
3
bar
,knownas

not
No.
4,
known
as

the
scientists
found.
to
century-old
metals
and
careful
documentation
of what engineersandshipbuilders of the era considered state of