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2014年11月CATTI二级笔译实务 英译汉Passage 1 Waterloo Anniversary John Tagliabue, the New York Times Waterloo, Belgium?— The region around this Belgian city is busily preparing to observe the 200th anniversary in 2015 of one of the major battles in European military history. But weaving a path through the preparations is proving almost as tricky as making one’s way across the battlefield where the Duke of Wellington威灵顿公爵, as commander of an international alliance of forces, crushed Napoleon. A rambling though dilapidated farmstead called Hougoumont霍高蒙特农庄, which was crucial to the battle’s outcome, is being painstakingly restored as an educational center. Nearby, an underground visitor center is under construction, and roads and monuments throughout the rolling (地势) 起伏的，高低不平的，崎岖的farmland where once the sides fought are being refurbished. More than 6,000 military buffs are expected to re-enact individual skirmishes. While the battle ended two centuries ago, however, hard feelings have endured. Memories are long here, and not everyone here shares Britain’s enthusiasm for celebrating Napoleon’s defeat. Every year, in districts of Wallonia比利时南部, 瓦隆, the French-speaking part of Belgium, there are fetes 祭祀, 庆祝 to honor Napoleon, according to Count(法、德、南非)伯爵(欧洲贵族头衔)Georges Jacobs雅各布斯de Hagen, a prominent Belgian industrialist and chairman of a committee responsible for restoring Hougoumont. “Napoleon, for these people, was very popular,” Mr. Jacobs, 73, said over coffee. “That is why, still today, there are some enemies of the project.” Belgium, of course, did not exist in 1815. Its Dutch-speaking regions were part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, while the French-speaking portion had been incorporated into the French Empire. Among French speakers, Mr. Jacobs said, Napoleon had a “huge influence — the administration, the Code Napoléon拿破仑法典,” or reform of the legal system. While Dutch-speaking Belgians fought under Wellington 惠灵顿 (新西兰首都), French speakers fought with Napoleon. That d