2008年5翻译资格考试三级笔译真题.docVIP

2008年5月翻译资格考试三级笔译真题 第一部分：英译汉 A year ago, this lush coastal field near Rome was filled with orderly rows of delicate durum wheat, used to make high quality Italian pasta. Today it overflows with rapeseed, a tall, gnarled weedlike plant bursting with coarse yellow flowers that has become a new manna for European farmers: rapeseed can be turned into biofuel. Lured by generous new subsidies to develop alternative energy sources - and a measure of concern about the future of the planet - European farmers are plunging into growing crops that can be turned into fuels meant to produce fewer emissions than gas or oil when burned. They are chasing after their counterparts in the Americas who have been cropping for biofuel for more than five years. This is a much-needed boost to our economy, our farms, said Marcello Pini, a farmer, standing in front of the sea of waving yellow flowers he planted for the first time this year. Of course we hope it helps the environment, too. In March, the European Commission, disappointed by the slow growth of the biofuels industry in Europe, approved a directive that included a binding target requiring member states to use 10 percent biofuel for transport by 2020 - the most ambitious and specific goal in the world. Most EU states are currently far from achieving the target, and are introducing new incentives and subsidies to boost production. As a result, bioenergy crops have now replaced food as the most profitable crop in a number European countries. In this part of Italy, for example, the government guarantees the purchase of biofuel crops at €2 per 100 kilograms, or $13.42 per 100 pounds - nearly twice the €1-to-€2 rate per 100 kilograms of wheat on the open market last year. Better still, European farmers are allowed to plant biofuel crops on set-aside fields, land that EU agriculture policy would otherwise require them to leave fallow to prevent an oversupply of food. But an expert panel convened by the UN Food and Agriculture Org