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2012 2012 翻译资格考试二级笔译模拟试题集 PartACompulsoryTranslation(必译题)(30 points) TheDreadlock Deadlock In thefall of1993 ChristopherPolktransferred from FedEx‘shub in Indianapolis to take over a delivery route in Flatbush District, Brooklyn, N.Y. But moving to the country’s largest community of Caribbean andAfrican immigrants only precipitated a far more profound journey. I was becoming culturally aware of the history of the black people, says Polk, now 31, and that gave me these spiritual questions. His answer came providentially, by way of a music video featuring Lord Jamal, who raps about the Rastafarian belief in the sanctity of dreadlocks - the cords of permanently interlocked strandsfirstworn byAfricanchiefs perhaps 6,000yearsago. Now a practicing Rastafarian, Polk sports thick garlands that gently cascade onto his shoulders. Your hair is your covenant, he says. Once you grow your locks, it putsyou onapath. Unfortunately, that path was a collision course with Federal Express‘s grooming policy, which requires men to confine their dos to a reasonable style.After years of deliberation, Polk’s bosses gave him a choice: shear his locks or be transferred to a lower-paid job with no customer contact. He refused both options and was terminated inJune2000. His tale is not unique. Although Rastafarians number about 5,000 nationally, today dreadlocks, twists or braids are at the height of fashion, nearly as common as Afros were 30 years ago. IfAfros symbolized militancy, dreads signal a more spiritual self-declaration, a figurative locking with African ancestors. As Stanford professor Kennell Jackson, who teaches a course called African Coiffures and Their New WorldLegacies,putsit,There‘sadivinitytotheselocks. Divine or not, some employers consider them unacceptably outré. Six other New York-area FedEx employees have lost their jobs because of dreadlocks. They have sued, alleging reli