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Section 1: English-Chinese Translation (50 points) 英译中〔选自 2021 年 11 月纽约时报〕 Old people in Widou Thiengoly say they can remember when there were so many trees t hat youcouldn’t see the sky.Now, miles of reddish-brown sand surround this village in nor thwesternSenegal, dotted with occasional bushes and trees. Dried animal dung is scatter ed everywhere,but hardly any dried grass is. Overgrazing and climate change are the major causes of the Sahara’s advance, said Gille sBoetsch, an anthropologist who directs a team of French scientists working with Senegal eseresearchers in the region.“The local Peul people are herders, often nomadic. But the pressure ofthe herds on the land has become too great, 〞 Mr. Boetsch said in an intervie w. “The vegetationcan’t regenerate itself.〞 Since 2021, however, Senegal has been fighting back against the encroaching desert. Ea ch yearit has planted some two million seedling trees along a 545-kilometer, or 340-mile, ribbon of landthat is the country’s segment of a major pan-African regeneration project, the Great proposed in 2005, the program links Senegal and 10 other Saharan states in a n allianceto plant a 15 kilometer-wide, 7,100-kilometer-long green belt to fend off the manycountries have still to start on their sections of the barrier, Senegal has taken the lead, with thecreation of a National Agency for the Great Green Wall. “This semi-arid region is becoming less and less habitable. We want to make it possible f orpeople to continue to live here, 〞 Col. Pap Sarr, the agency’s technical director, said in aninterview here. Colonel Sarr has forged working alliances between Senegalese researc hers andthe French team headed by Mr. Boetsch, in fields as varied as soil microbiology, ecology,medicine and anthropology.“In Senegal we hope to experiment with different wa ys of doingthings that will benefit the other countries as they become more active, 〞 the colonel since 2021, from May to June, about 400 people are employed in eight nurser