(完整版)笔译实务真题及答案.docxVIP

2017 年下半年英语三级笔译实务试题 It was just one word in one email, but it triggered huge financial losses for a multinational company. 区区 子 件里的一个 ， 致一家跨国公司遭受巨大 失。 The message, written in English, was sent by a native speaker to a colleague for whom English was a second language. Unsure of the word, the recipient found two contradictory meanings in his dictionary. He acted on the wrong one. 封 子 件是由一位英 母 人士用英 所写，而 件接收人 是一位以英 第二 言的同事。 同事收到 件后， 在字典里有两个截然相反的意思，他拿捏不准，并最 了那个 的意思。 Months later, senior management investigated why the project had flopped, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. “It all traced back to this one word, ” says Chia Suan Chong, a UK-based communications skills and intercultural trainer, who didnt reveal the tricky word because it is highly industry-specific and possibly identifiable. “Things spiralled out of control because both parties were thinking the opposite.  ” 数月 去， 跨国公司的高管开始 个 目失 并 失几十万美元的原因。 宣童（  Chia Suan Chong  ）是一名交流技能 和跨文化培 ，供 于一家 部 在英国的机构，她 ：“所有的 索最 指向 个 ”。 宣童没有透露具体 个 ，因 是某行 用 ，透露 可能暴露 家跨国公司的身份。她 ：“由于双方的理解截然相反，事件 不断升 ，最 失控。” When such misunderstandings happen, it ’s usually the native speakers who are to blame. Ironically, they are worse at delivering their message than people who speak English as a second or third language, according to Chong. 出 此 解， 任在于英 母 人士。 宣童 ，耐人 味的是，英 母 人士在 信息方面比以英 第二 言或第 三 言的人士要糟糕。 A lot of native speakers are happy that English has become the world  ’ s global language. They feel they don  ’t have to spend time learning another language,  ”  says Chong. 宣童 ：“众多英 母 人士 于英 成 世界通用 感到窃喜，因 他 得 省去了学 其他 言的麻 。” The non-native speakers, it turns out, speak more purposefully and carefully, typical of someone speaking a second or third language. Anglophones, on the other hand, often talk too fast for others to follow, and use jokes, slang and references specific to their own culture, says Chong. 宣童 ，事 上，非英 母 人士，特 是会 第二 言或者第三 言的人士，在 信息 更加 慎、目的性更 ，而英 母 人士在 通常 速 快 致 人听不懂，并且他 中 着笑 、俚