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Translation 6 Passage 1 Intermediate Level of S.H. Interpreting Test Sept., 2014 ROBOTS came into the world as a literary device whereby the writers and film-makers of the early 20th century could explore their hopes and fears about technology, as the era of the automobile, telephone and aero-plane picked up its reckless jazz-age speed. 起初机器人是以虚幻的文学形象出现的，它是20世纪早期作家和电影人表达对科技憧憬和畏惧的一种方式。当时，汽车、电话和飞机迅猛发展如同“爵士乐时代”一般，肆无忌惮、不计后果。Since moving from the page and screen to real life, robots have been a mild disappointment. They do some things that humans cannot do themselves, like exploring Mars, and a host of things people do not much want to do, like dealing with unexploded bombs or vacuuming floors. And they are very useful in bits of manufacturing. 机器人后来走出书本和荧屏成为现实，而且大体十分能干。他们既做了很多人类做不了的事情，例如火星探测，也做了很多人类不想做的事情，例如拆除炸弹、清扫地板。此外，他们在制造业里也发挥了巨大作用。 But reliable robots—especially ones required to work beyond the safety cages of a factory floor—have proved hard to make, and robots are still pretty stupid. 但要制造出经久耐用的机器人并非易事，特别是可以在工厂车间安全范围外、去更危险地方工作的机器人。并且机器人仍然不够聪明。So although they fascinate people, they have not yet made much of a mark on the world. That seems about to change. 因此，尽管人们对机器人着迷，但它们还不足以令世界惊叹。然而这一状况似乎即将得到改变。The dramatic growth in the power of silicon chips, digital sensors and high bandwidth communications improves robots just as it improves all sorts of other products. 硅芯片、数字传感器以及高带宽通信技术的极速发展，使机器人和其他各种产品不断升级和优化。 Passage 2 Advanced Level of S.H. Interpreting Test Sept., 2014 Charles Dickens observed of revolutionary France that it was the best of times and the worst of times, the spring of hope and the winter of despair. More recently, the US National Intelligence Council borrowed from A Tale of Two Cities for the title page in a report about how the world may look in 2030. 在查尔斯.狄更斯的眼中，革命时期的法国即是最好的时代也是最坏的时代，那是充满希望的春天也是深陷绝望的冬天。近日，美国国家情报委员会在它的一篇有关《2030年的世界看起来会怎样》的预测报告标题页中引用了《双城记》的这一名言。 You can see why the authors alighted on Dickens’s observation. The tumultuous upheavals i