2010年上海外国语大学翻译硕士真题及答案.doc

2010年上海外国语大学翻译硕士真题及答案 真题是考研复习中含金量最高的辅导材料，真题的利用对于提高复习效率具有至关重要的作用。一般来说，时间和精力有限，建议考生重点做近十年的真题。凯程考研整理各高校历年考研真题，希望能帮大家更好的复习! 　　2010年上海外国语大学翻译硕士真题及答案 　　I. Phrase Translation 　　MDGS Millennium Development Goals：千禧年发展计划 　　Ban Ki-moon：联合国秘书长潘基文 　　国务卿：Secretary of State 　　雷曼兄弟：Lehman Brothers 　　次贷危机：subprime lending crisis 　　西部大开发战略：strategy of western development 　　II. Passage translation 　　Section A English to Chinese 　　China’s bubbles 　　A lot of things in China carry a whiff of excess. The cost of garlic is among them: wholesale prices have almost quadrupled since March. A halving of the planting area last year, and belief in the bulb’s powers to ward off swine flu, provide some justification for the surge. But anecdotes of unbridled trading activity in Jinxiang county, home to China’s largest garlic plant, suggest that the most likely cause is the most obvious – the abundant liquidity swilling through the system. New loans in China may top Rmb10,000bn this year, double the run-rate of the preceding years; 2010 should bring another Rmb7-8,000bn. 　　In the week that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, said asset bubbles were a cost worth paying for reviving growth through loose monetary policy, China needs to distinguish between good ones and bad ones. A bubble in garlic is small, financed by private speculators, and relatively harmless when it bursts. Bubbles in productive assets – roads, bridges, telecom lines – are also tolerable; capital has been put in place that can be exploited by somebody. 　　But bubbles in property – financed by banks, on non-productive assets – are doubly destructive. Zhang Xin, chief executive of Soho China, one of the country’s most successful privately owned developers, believes that rampant wasteful investment in commercial property has already undermined China’s long-term prospects. As for housing, which China began privatising just 11 years ago, prices rose at an annualised rate of 9 per cent between September and