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2010 年联合国委托人事部选拔译员开卷考试参考译文 北京外国语大学高级翻译学院李长栓 按：2010 年，联合国委托中国人事部选拔译员，通过者可参加联合国的译员招聘考试。 以下为选拔试题及笔者提供的参考译文和评论。注意：本人没有参加与考试相关的任何 工作，也不了解阅卷情况。以下译文，纯粹出于翻译教学目的。 Passage 1 Pulling a sickie is not something Im prone to do. And, while Id like to say I feel sick, I dont. Not unless prewedding nerves, last-minute jitters, and horrific amounts of stress count. 我这个人不喜欢装病请假。也想装，可从来没装过——除非到了结婚的前夕，紧张、焦 虑、压力搅得人坐卧不安。 But nevertheless this morning, I decided I deserved a day off -- hell, possibly even two -- so I phoned in first thing, knowing that as bad a liar as I am, it would be far easier to lie to Penny, the receptionist, than to my boss. 不管怎么说吧，今天早上，我决定该给自己放一天假啦——管他呢！也许是两天。所以， 早起第一件事就是打电话请假。由于自知不善撒谎，还是打给前台接待员佩尼比较容易； 没敢给老板打。 I did think vaguely about doing something delicious for myself today, something Id never normally do. Manicures, pedicures, facials, things like that. But of course guilt has managed to prevail, and even though I live nowhere near my office in trendy Soho, I still know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that should I venture outside on the one day Im pretending to be sick, someone from work will just happen to be at the end of my street. 我隐隐约约有种想法，就是趁着今天为自己做件爽事。美甲啦、修脚啦、面部护理啦， 诸如此类。可是，负罪的念头挥之不去。尽管住的地方离那时尚的Soho 办公楼十万八 千里，但我敢肯定，这一天只要我胆敢出门，肯定会在街头撞见哪位同事。 So here I am. Watching dreadful daytime television on a cold January morning (although I did just manage to catch an item on updos for weddings, which may turn out to be incredibly useful), eating my way through a packet of custard creams (my last chance before the wedding diet goes into full acceleration), and wondering whether there would be any chance of finding a masseuse -- a proper one -- to come to the house at the last minute to soothe the knots of tension away. 所以，我只好呆在家里。隆冬腊月的早上，一个人观看味同嚼蜡的日间电视节目（不过， 也确实在“婚礼盘头”节目中看到一个发型，说不定能派上大用场！）；边看边吃蛋奶 饼干（这可是最后机会；婚前节食计划马上要全面升级啦！）；心里还胡思乱想： 能不能找个按摩女郎——技术好的——到家里来，在这最后一刻纾解一下那打 的神经。 The problem with feeling