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第四届“华政杯”全国法律翻译大赛初赛试题 试题一 (239 words) Few informed observers of Americas civil justice system would dispute that Americans who cannot afford legal representation in court routinely forfeit basic rights, not due to the facts of their case or the governing law, but due to the absence of counsel. 很少有消息灵通的美国民事司法体系的观察员会质疑，那些无法负担法律代理的美国人在法庭上常常丧失基本权利并不是出于案件事实或治法原因，而是由于缺少大律师。 Forging a solution to this serious problem, however, has proven elusive, with the United States now lagging far behind other advanced industrial democracies in ensuring access to justice for its low-income population. 然而，要提炼出一个解决这个严重问题的方法，已被证明是难以捉摸的，在确保低收入人群能够获得公正这一方面，美国现在远远落后与其它先进工业民主国家。 Litigation strategies aimed at achieving the recognition of a constitutionally based right to counsel have foundered as judges have hesitated to establish new rights that would likely be onerous for the government to support and enforce. 诉讼策略，旨在实现承认宪法基础上的权利，以像法官毫不犹豫的建立新权利般，要支持和执行这些新权利对于政府来说可能是有些繁重的。 Meanwhile, legislators have been reluctant to commit substantial additional public funds to make a civil justice system already regarded as wasteful and dysfunctional even more litigious. 同时，立法者一直不愿投入大量额外的公共资金来完善民事司法制度已经被视为浪费和有排斥性甚至是好诉讼的。 Against this background, it is noteworthy that all three branches of Californias politically fractured state government recently rallied around a new approach to the problem in the form of Assembly Bill (AB) 590. 在此背景下，值得注意的是，处于政治分裂下的加州政府的三个部门最近正召集在一起，对590号议会法案存在的问题讨论新的解决方法。 The legislation, signed into law in the fall of 2009, establishes pilot programs that will begin to give low-income Californians access to counsel in civil matters involving critical issues affecting basic human needs. 2009年秋，立法机构签署法律，将建立试点项目，这将开始给低收入加州人民通道来参与进各项涉及到影响人类基本需求的关键问题的民事事务中去。 Defined by three key elements—legislative as opposed to judicial line-drawing, targeted experimentation, and an emphasis on pragmatism over judicially enforceable guarantees—AB 590 represents an important new model for expanding