2016年5月二级笔译真题试译.pdfVIP

2016 年5 月全国翻译专业资格 （水平）考试 英语二级 《笔译实务》试卷 Section 1: English-ChineseTranslation (50 points) Translatethefollowing two passages into Chinese. Passage 1 Jane Goodall was already on a London dock in March 1957 when she realized that her passport was missing. Injust afew hours,shewas due to depart on herfirst triptoAfrica.Aschoolfriend had moved to a farm outside Nairobi and, knowing Goodall’s childhood dream was to live among the Africanwildlife, invited her to stay with the family for a while. Goodall, then 22, saved for two years to pay for her passage to Kenya: waitressing, doing secretarial work, temping at the post office in her hometown, Bournemouth,on England’s southern coast. Now allthiswas for naught,it seemed. 1957年3 月，简.古多尔已在伦敦码头，突然简.古多尔意识到自己的护照丢失了。还有几个小时，间. 古多尔就要启程前往非洲进行第一次旅行。一位移居在内罗毕外一个农场的校友，知道古多尔的童年 梦想是要去非洲野外生活，邀请她与家人住一段时间。古多尔，那是才22 岁，积攒了两年的钱才支 付起她到肯尼亚的旅费：做服务员，做秘书，在自己家乡英格兰南海岸伯恩茅斯邮局做临时工。现在， 所有这些付出似乎都是白做了。 It’s hard not to wonder how subsequent events in her life — rather consequential as they have turned out to be to conservation, to science, to our sense of ourselves as a species — might have unfolded differently had someone not found her passport, along with an itinerary from Cook’s, the travel agency, folded inside, and delivered it to the Cook’s office. An agency representative, documents in hand, found her on the dock. “Incredible,” Goodall told me last month, recalling that day.“Amazing.” 很难不让人对她随后生活中发生的事情感到惊奇-对保护、对科学、对我们作为物种的一种自我意识 具有重要的影响力-可能会是另外一番生活，若不是有人发现她的护照，还找到护照内夹着的库克旅 游局的旅行路线，并把它交给库克办公室，一位旅游局代表手持文件在码头找到了她。“难以置信”， 古多尔上个月回忆那天的情景时对我说道。“太不可思议了”。 Within two months of her arrival, Goodall met the paleontologist Louis Leakey — Nairobi was a small town for its white population in those days — and he immediately offered her a job at the natural-history museum where he was curator. He spent much of the next three years testing her capacity for repetitivework. 在她抵达的两个