CATTI 英语一级笔译实务考前模拟试题.docx

CATTI 英语一级笔译实务考前模拟试题 Section 1 Translation Part 1 English-Chinese Translation (英译汉) Translate the following passage into Chinese.? The Travels of Marco Polo was?conceived?in a prison cell in Genoa, Italy, in 1298. A few years earlier Polo had returned to the West after?an epic journey?that lasted?some 24 years. He then saw action in a naval battle between the Venetian and?Genoese fleets, and was captured. It was in jail that he met and befriended Rustichello?of Pisa, a well-known writer and collector of?Arthurian romances. Their collaboration?yielded a book that would give Europe its first authoritative account of the Middle and?Far East, in particular China, and reveal the presence of a vast empire and advanced?civilization far greater than anything Europeans could achieve or even imagine. More than 100 copies of that long-lost original exist, many dating from the 14th?and 15th centuries. There is no definitive manuscript, however, and all existing?versions have been embellished, doctored or censored by the Christian establishment?over the years. Modern editions are thus?collations?and translations of?imperfect?copies.?This murky history helps explain why the book describes what the Venetian?could not possibly have seen, and overlooks sights that any traveler to China must?have witnessed — like the Great Wall,?foot-binding?and chopsticks. Skeptics say that?Polo never ventured to China and that he and Rustichello used second-hand?information from other travelers, especially Arab traders. Certainly,?there is no hard?historical evidence?that Polo actually visited all the places he describes. But most of?the detail has since been corroborated by historians and geographers, confounding?critics and confirming the importance of the book as the fullest and most accurate?account of Asia in its time. Originally called Description of the World, Travels aims for geographical completeness, not the immediacy and excitement of personal encounter. It’s not a?travelogue. Consistent