2015年二级笔译真题及答案.doc

CATTI英语笔译实务(2级)2015年5月考试真题与参考答案 Part?1：English-Chinese?Translation Passage?1 Along?a?rugged,?wideNorth?Sea?beach?here?on?a?recent?day,?children?formed?teams?of?eight?to?10,taking?their?places?beside?mounds?of?sand?carefully?cordoned?by?tape.?They?hadone?hour?for?their?sand?castle?competition.?Some?built?fishlike?structures,complete?with?scales.?Others?spent?their?time?on?elaborate?ditch?and?dikelabyrinths.?Each?castle?was?adorned?on?top?with?a?white?flag. 近日，北海沿岸崎岖而宽广的海滩上，孩子们八人一组，十人一队，在用隔离带精心围起来的沙堆旁各就各位。他们要在一个小时内完成堆沙堡的比赛。有些人打造鱼形的主体建筑，再配上鳞片。其余的人修建复杂的沟渠和迷宫式的堤坝。每个沙堡的顶部都插有一面白旗。 Then?they?watched?thesea?invade?and?devour?their?work,?seeing?whose?castle?could?with?stand?the?tidelongest.?The?last?standing?flag?won. 然后，孩子们等待着大海涨潮，吞没沙堡，看谁的沙堡在潮水中持续的时间最久。白旗最后倒下的沙堡获胜。 It?was?no?ordinary?dayat?the?beach,?but?a?newly?minted,?state-sanctioned?competition?forschoolchildren?to?raise?awareness?of?the?dangers?of?rising?sea?levels?in?a?countryof?precarious?geography?that?has?provided?lessons?for?the?world?about?watermanagement,?but?that?fears?that?its?next?generation?will?grow?complacent. 孩子们在海滩上度过的这一天意义非凡。荷兰地理环境不稳定，海平面不断上升，因此，当地政府决定，为小学生们举办一次别开生面的比赛，以此来提高孩子们的危险意识。尽管荷兰一直是世界各国仿效的水利大国，仍然担心下一代会因此变得骄傲自大。 Fifty-five?percent?ofthe?Netherlands?is?either?below?sea?level?or?heavily?flood-prone.?Yet?thanks?toits?renowned?expertise?and?large?water?management?budget?(about1.25?percent?ofgross?domestic?product),?the?Netherlands?has?averted?catastrophe?since?aflooding?disaster?in?1953. 荷兰境内55%的土地，要么低于海平面，要么存在严重的水患。然而，由于水利专业技术久负盛名，水利专项拨款又十分庞大（约占国内生产总值的1.25%），所以1953年洪灾过后，荷兰再也没有遭受过严重的水灾。 Experts?here?say?thatthey?now?worry?that?the?famed?Dutch?water?management?system?actually?works?toowell?and?that?citizens?will?begin?to?take?for?granted?the?nation’s?success?instaying?dry.?As?global?climate?change?threatens?to?raise?sea?levels?by?as?muchas?four?feet?by?the?end?of?the?century,?the?authorities?here?are?working?tomake?real?to?children?the?forecasts?that?may?seem?far-off,?but?that?will?shapetheir