翻译二级口译实务模拟13_练习题.docVIP

模拟四 Test for Interpreters of Level 2 Speeches for Consecutive Interpreting Transcripts for the Recorded Speeches Part Ⅰ Interpret the following passages from English into Chinese. Start interpreting at the signal and stop it at the signal. You may take notes while you are listening. You will hear the passage only once. Now lets begin. Passage 1 下面你将听到一位美国前总统在北京大学的一段讲话。 I am delighted to be with you. I first visited China 22 years ago, but this is my first visit to your university, in a city whose students have helped shape the development of modem China. So I am privileged to have the opportunity to share ideas about U.S.-China relations in the modem era of globalization with people who will, I expect, help write Chinese history -- through deeds and words -- in the 21st century.// It was the students of Beijing who in May 1919 protested the Treaty of Versailles failure to expel Japanese occupiers from China. In that action, the source of the May 4 Movement, Beijings students not only made a bold statement about Chinas freedom from foreign occupation and right to self-determination. They also ushered in the era of modern China, taking a decisive step toward Chinas emergence from imperial rule and stagnation. I think it is useful to begin our exchanges about the future from the vantage point of what happened almost a century ago in this historic city.// Chinese are rightly proud of the history of the worlds oldest continuous civilization, and look to it for lessons. America is a young nation by comparison, but suggestion that we live exclusively in the present, unshaped by history, is a misleading caricature. So I would like to share with you my perceptions about what this last century has meant to our two countries, how we have perceived each other, and where we are going. Many people talk about this new millennium as an unprecedented age of globalization. Extraordinary it is, but unprecedented it is not. // In 1902, the automobile was just coming int