5月最新catti二级笔译实务真题(完整解析版)

1、2013年5月二级笔译真题二级笔译实务1. 英译汉第一篇：节选自the new york times，原文标题为：ancient arab shipwreck yields secrets of ninth-century trade原文地址：for more than a decade, archaeologists and historians have been studying the contents of a ninth-century arab dhow that was discovered in 1998 off indonesias belitung island. the

2、 sea-cucumber divers who found the wreck had no idea it eventually would be considered one of the most important maritime discoveries of the late 20th century.the dhow was carrying a rich cargo 60,000 ceramic pieces and an array of gold and silver works and its discovery has confirmed how significan

3、t trade was along a maritime silk road between tang dynasty china and abbasid iraq. it also has revealed how china was mass-producing trade goods even then and customizing them to suit the tastes of clients in west asia.“shipwrecked: tang treasures and monsoon winds,” at the new, lotus-shaped art sc

4、ience museum designed by moshe safdie, presents items from the belitung wreck. curated by the asian civilisations museum here and the arthur m. sackler gallery in washington, the show is expected to travel to museums around the world over the next five to six years.“this exhibition tells us a story

5、about an extraordinary moment in globalization,” said julian raby, director of the smithsonians freer gallery of art and arthur m. sackler gallery. “it brings to life the tale of sinbad sailing to china to make his fortune. it shows us that the world in the ninth century was not as fragmented as we

6、assumed. there were two great export powers: the tang in the east and the abbasid based in baghdad.”until the belitung find, historians had thought that tang china traded primarily through the land routes of central asia, mainly on the silk road. ancient records told of persian fleets sailing the so

7、utheast asian seas but no wrecks had been found, until the belitung dhow. its cargo confirmed that a huge volume of trade was taking place along a maritime route, said heidi tan, a curator at the asian civilisations museum and a curator of the exhibition.mr. raby said: “the size of the find gives us

8、 a sense of two things: a sense of china as a country already producing things on an industrialized scale and also a china that is no longer producing ceramics to bury.” he was referring to the production of burial pottery like camels and horses, which was banned in the late eighth century. “instead

9、, kilns looked for other markets and they started producing tableware and they built an export market.”2. 英译汉第二篇：同样节选自the new york times，原文标题为：e.u. signals big shift on genetically modified crops原文地址：madeira is more than 500 kilometers from the african coast and is officially one of the “outermost r

10、egions” of the european union. despite that far-flung status, madeira catapulted into the center of the unions agricultural and environmental affairs last year when portugal asked the european commission for permission to impose an unprecedented ban on growing biotech crops there.last week, the comm

11、ission quietly let the deadline pass for opposing portugals request, allowing madeira, which is one of portugals autonomous regions, to become the first e.u. territory to get formal permission from brussels to remain entirely free of genetically modified organisms. madeira now will probably go ahead

12、 and implement the ban, a spokeswoman for the portuguese government said friday.individual european countries and regions have banned certain genetically modified crops before. many consumers and farmers in countries like austria, france and italy regard the crops as potentially dangerous and likely

13、 to contaminate organically produced food. but the case of madeira represents a significant landmark, because it is the first time the commission, which runs the day-to-day affairs of the european union, has permitted a country to impose such a sweeping and definitive rejection of the technology.the

14、 madeirans main concerns focused on preserving the archipelagos biodiversity and its forest of subtropical laurel trees. such forests, known as laurisilva, were once widespread on the european mainland but were wiped out thousands of years ago during an earlier period of climate change. that has lef

15、t madeira with “much the largest extent of laurel forest surviving in the world, with a unique suite of plants and animals,” according to the united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization, which named the madeiran laurisilva a world heritage site in 1999. the forest also is a grow

16、ing attraction for tourists, who make up a significant portion of madeiras earnings.in seeking to ban biotechnology on madeira, the portuguese government told the commission that it would be impossible to separate crops containing genetically engineered material from other plant life. the “risk to n

17、ature presented by the deliberate release of gmos is so dangerous and poses such a threat to the environmental and ecological health of madeira, that it is not worthwhile risking their use, either directly in the agricultural sector or even on an experimental basis,” the portuguese told the commissi

18、on.3. 汉译英第一篇：稀土是不可再生的重要自然资源，在经济社会发展中的用途日益广泛，如光学、电子信息、航空航天、核工业等尖端科技领域。目前我国的稀土储量占世界的30%，却长期以来供应了国际97%的市场需求。rare earth is a nonrenewable important natural resources. it is widely used in the most advanced technology field with the development of economical society, such as sunshine, digital information

19、, aviation and aerospace , nuclear industry and etc. at present, rare earth deposits is 30% in the world, however, in the long run, it provides to the 97% of the national market. 我国的稀土储量全球最高。2010年，中国稀土储量达到3600万吨，占到全球稀土储量的36.4%。同时中国也是全球最大的稀土生产国，中国稀土矿产量达到12.9万吨，占到全球产量的97%。our deposits is the highest i

20、n the world. in 2010, chinas deposits adds up to 36000 thousands ton, of the worlds 36.4%. at the same time, china is the largest of the rare producing country. chinas rare earth mineral production is 129 thousands ton, of the worlds 97%.中国稀土行业的快速发展，为全球稀土供应作出了重要贡献。但同时也为此付出了巨大代价。由于稀土资源的稀缺性和开采高污染性，全球稀土储量国许多厂都关闭了，直接从中国进口稀土。with the rapidly development of chinas rare earth industry, it makes great contribution to the supply of rare earth. however, it also pays great price for it. as for the rare and highly exploit, many of the rare earth deposits countries has been stopped running and change to