无锡市第二届“小天鹅”杯翻译比赛决赛试题及答案
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中译英试题:
这是我第一次访问智利。站在这片神奇的土地上，放眼远眺，一边是绵延不断的安第斯山脉，一边是一望无际的太平洋。是高山铸造了智利人民坚韧不拔的民族精神，是大海孕育了智利人民海纳百川的宽广胸怀。在勤劳智慧的智利人民的不懈努力下，今天的智利已经成为综合竞争力、经济自由化程度、市场开放度、国际信用等级均居拉美前列的国家。中国人民对智利人民取得的成就感到由衷的高兴，衷心祝愿智利共和国繁荣昌盛、人民幸福。
中国始终坚持走和平发展道路。中华文明历来崇尚和为贵、和而不同，己所不欲、勿施于人。中国人民曾饱受列强的欺压凌辱，曾经历长期的动荡战乱，更加懂得和平的珍贵。不管国际风云如何变幻，中国将始终奉行独立自主的和平外交政策，始终坚持维护世界和平、促进共同发展的外交政策宗旨，致力于建立公开、公正、合理、透明、开放的国际多元贸易体制，致力于推动经济全球化朝着实现共同繁荣的方向发展，致力于营造和平合作和谐的地区和国际环境。
后注：本题目选自2006年9月6日***总理在智利访问的讲话，为避免网上可查，出题时将智利改成了秘鲁。
中译英答案：
This is my first visit to Chile. Standing on this splendid land and looking far into the distance, I am impressed by the Mountain Andes extending endlessly on the one side and the Pacific Ocean stretching to the horizon on the other side. It is the high mountain that forges the unyielding spirit and it is the vast ocean that nurtures the generosity of the Chilean people. With the relentless efforts of the industrious and intelligent Chilean people, today the comprehensive competitiveness, economic liberalization, market openness and international credit rating of Chile all rank among the best among Latin American countries. The Chinese people are deeply glad to see the achievements of the Chilean people and sincerely wish the Republic of Chile prosperous and the Chilean people happy.
China always adheres to the road of peaceful development. The Chinese civilization cherishes peace and advocates maintaining harmony while allowing for difference and that never do to other what you would not like them to do to you. The Chinese people once suffered from the humiliation imposed by imperialist forces and years of turbulence and wars and especially understand the value of peace. No matter how the international situation fluctuates, China will always follow the independent foreign policy of peace, pursue the diplomatic policy and purpose of maintaining world peace and promoting common development and be committed to establishing an open, fair, just and transparent international multi-trade system, pushing the economic globalization toward the direction of common prosperity and building the regional and international environment of peace, cooperation and harmony.
英译中试题:
GONE WITH THE WIND
Almost eight months to the day after Hurricane Wilma passed directly over Jack McCabe’s house near Boca Raton, Fla., he finally breathed a sign of relief. “God, it’s good to see you,” McCabe told the insurance adjuster who came to assess the damage after Wilma blew hundreds of concrete tiles off his roof, downed trees, and flattened the screen enclosure around his pool.
But with another active hurricane season now in full swing, McCabe’s thankfulness was just a fleeting reprieve from a growing sense of panic gripping him and thousands of other residents living along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. After enduring upwards of $60 billion in natural-disaster losses in 2005 alone-double the record set just the previous year-people who live and do business in Hurricane Alley are now facing a new financial hangover: skyrocketing rates on home and business insurance. That is, if they can get coverage at all.
Insurers have been unnerved by long-range meteorological forecasts of increased hurricane activity in the region, combined with their ballooning exposure as the property they insure has surged in value in many coastal areas. And so they are desperately trying to trim their potential losses from the sort of big storm that left the company that insured McCabe’s home, Poe Financial Group, insolvent after last year’s storms.
More than a dozen small insurers have recently pulled out of Florida, and even big insurers like Allstate are declining to renew policies in many coastal areas, including in New York. Those still offering insurance are increasing deductibles, setting tighter limits on what they’ll cover, and pushing for rate increases on homeowners insurance of 79 percent or more.
英译中答案:
随 风 飘 走
亚历克斯·马克尔斯
在飓风威尔马直接袭击邻近佛罗里达州博卡尔顿的杰克·麦凯布的家宅以后差不多八个月的一天，他终于发出了如释重负的轻叹声。“老天，看见你来了真高兴，”麦凯布对保险公司理算员说。飓风威尔马刮掉了麦凯布的屋顶上的数百块水泥瓦，吹倒了一些树木，还把游泳池的围屏夷为平地。保险公司理算员是来评估损失程度的。
当前，正值又一个飓风频发季节的活跃时期，麦凯布的欣慰之情，在严重困扰着他和生活在大西洋和墨西哥湾沿岸的数千居民的不断加剧的恐惧感之中，不过是瞬间即逝的缓解而已。仅仅在2005年一年中因自然灾害遭受600亿美元以上的损失——与前一年的记录相比，增加了一倍——后，在飓风带居住和办产业的人们正面临着一个新的经济上的头痛问题：就家宅和工商产业保险来说，即使他们能获得一定的承保范围，其费率犹如火箭式的上升。
该地区飓风活动频繁的长期气象预报，加上许多沿海地区保险公司所承保的财产的价值激升后他们的风险大增，使得众多的保险公司怯步不前，信心大挫。因此，他们想尽一切办法减少巨风暴雨所造成的可能的损失。这类巨风暴雨使得承保麦凯布家宅的保险公司——波金融集团——在去年多次巨风暴雨后处于资不抵债的境地。
最近，十多家小型保险公司已撤出佛罗里达。甚至像全州保险公司这样的大型保险公司正在许多沿海地区（包括纽约州的）拒绝续签保险单。那些还在承接业务的保险公司正在增加扣除条款，拟订更严格的承保限制，对79%或更多的住宅业主保险坚持要求提高费率。
