实训翻译材料.doc

实训翻译材料 所 在 系： 英 语 系 年 级： 08 级 专 业： 应用英语专业 班 级： 应用英语4班 学 号： 200801020402 姓 名： 李 秋 思 时 间： 2011.3.1---2011.5.30 成 绩： 指导教师： 杨 波 英译汉原文 Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the 44th president of the United States (2009-) and the first African-American to hold this office. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. He grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British. Although reared among Muslims, Obama, Sr., became an atheist at some point. Obamas mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita, Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he signed up for service in World War II and marched across Europe in Pattons army. Dunhams mother went to work on a bomber assembly line. After the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved to Hawaii. Meantime, Baracks father had won a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya pursue his dreams in Hawaii. At the time of his birth, Obamas parents were students at the East–West Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Obamas parents separated when he was two years old and later divorced. Obamas father went to Harvard to pursue Ph.D. studies and then returned to Kenya. His mother married Lolo Soetoro, another East–West Center student from Indonesia. In 1967, the family moved to Jakarta, where Obamas half-sister Maya Soetoro Ng was born. Obama attended schools in Jakarta, where classes were taught in the Indonesian language. Four years later when Barack (commonly known throughout his early years as Barry) was ten, he returned to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, and later his mother (who died of ovarian cancer in 1995). He was enrolled in the fifth grade at the esteemed Punahou Academy, graduating with honors in 1979. He was on