2016年5月英语三级译真题及答案大师兄版.pdfVIP

2016 年5 月和2015 年11 月英语三级笔译真题及译文 2016年5 月全国翻译专业资格 （水平）考试 英语三级 《笔译实务》试卷 Section 1:English-ChineseTranslation (50points) Translatethefollowingpassage intoChinese. Oldpeoplein Thiengoly saythey canremember when therewere somany treesthat you couldn’t seethe sky. Now, miles of reddish-brown sand surround this village in northwestern Senegal, dotted with occasional bushes andtrees.Driedanimal dung isscatteredeverywhere,but hardly any dried grassis. Overgrazing and climate change are the major causes of the Sahara’s advance, said Gilles Boetsch, an anthropologist who directs a team of French scientists working with Senegalese researchers in the region.“The localPeul people areherders,often nomadic.But thepressure oftheherds on the landhasbecome too great,” Mr. Boetsch saidin an interview.“Thevegetation can’tregenerateitself.” Since 2008,however, Senegalhasbeen fightingback against the encroaching desert.Each year it hasplanted some twomillion seedlingtreesalong a 545-kilometer,or 340-mile,ribbon of landthat isthe country’ssegment of amajor pan-African regeneration project,the Great Green Wall.Firstproposed in 2005,theprogram links Senegal and 10other Saharan statesin an alliancetoplant a 15kilometer-wide,7,100-kilometer-long green belt to fend off thedesert.Whilemany countrieshave still to start on their sections ofthebarrier, Senegalhastaken the lead,with the creation of aNationalAgency for theGreat GreenWall. “This semi-arid region is becoming less and less habitable. We want to make it possible for people to continue to live here,” Col. Pap Sarr,the agency’s technical director, said in an interview here. Colonel Sarr has forged working alliancesbetween Senegaleseresearchersandthe French team headed by Mr.Boetsch, in fieldsas varied as soil microbiology, ecology, medicine and anthropology. “In Senegal we