2015北外高翻英汉互译(英汉同传)真题.pdf

北外英汉同传2015年考研英汉互译真题 一、英译汉 1.“Millions of people belonging to national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities are trapped in a cycle of discrimination, exclusion,poverty andunderdevelopment from which they cannotbreak freewithouttargetedattentionbeinggiventotheir situations,”saidUNIndependent Expertonminorityissues,duringthepresentationofherlatestreporttotheHumanRightsCouncil inGeneva. “Disadvantaged minorities should be among the first targets of development strategies, yet toooftentheyhavebeen amongthelast,”sheinsisted,challengingStatesanddevelopmentactors to do more to ensure that the new post-2015 development goals and strategies respond to the situationofthemostdeprivedminorities. Her report singles out lack of attention to the situation of minorities as one of the most serious deficiencies of the Millennium Development Goals, a set of targets agreed by world leaders atthe startofthe new centuryto drastically diminishthe number ofpeople affectedby a raftofpoverty,healthanddevelopmentchallengesby2015. “The rise of inequality has severely undermined the achievements in many States,” she warned.“Futuredevelopmentgoalsmustincludededicatedattentiontominoritiestocontributeto closingtheinequalitygap.” 2.Rapidly declining fertility– especially ifrates go very low– doespose challenges.Yet it alsocanprovidesubstantialbenefitsthathavereceivedlessattention. First, as noted, fertility decline is associated nearly everywhere with greater rights and opportunitiesforwomen.Thedeferralofmarriage andthereductionofbirthstotwo,oneornone across somuch of the world – and, again, in countries that are still far from rich – are broadly consistentwiththehigher educationalattainmentandcareeraspirationsofyoungwomen.Itisno surprisethatthehand-wringersoverfertilitydeclineareusuallymen. Second,theworkforces of societieswith low-to-moderate fertilityrates oftenachievehigher levels of productivity than do h