2010年11月CATTI_二级笔译实务英翻汉真题及详解(精)

1、第一篇Offshore supply vessels resembling large, floating flat-backed trucks fill Victoria Dock, unable tofind charters in a sign of the downturn in Britains oil industry.With UK North Sea oil and gas production 44 percent below its peak, self-styled oil capital of EuropeAberdeen fears the slowdown is n

2、ot simplycyclical .The oil industry that at one stage sparked talk of Scotland as the Kuwait of the West has alreadyoutlived most predicti ons.Tourism, life sciences, and the export of oil services around the world are amongAberdeens targeted substitutes for North sea oil and gas - but for many the

3、biggestprize would be to use its offshore oilexpertise to build a ren ewable en ergy in dustry asbig as oil.The city aims to use its experience to become a leader in offshore wind, tidal power and carb ondioxide capture and storage.Alex Salm ond, head of the devolved Scottish gover nment, told a con

4、ference in Aberdee nlast month the market for wind power could be worth 130 billion pounds, while Scotland could be theSaudi Arabia of tidal power.Were see ing the emerge nce of an offshore en ergy market that is comparable in scaleto the market weve see n in offshore oil and gas in the last 40 year

5、s, he said.Ano ther area of focus, tourism, has previously bee n hin dered by the prese nce of oil.Eager to put Aberdee n on the intern ati onal tourist map, local bus in ess has stro nglybacked a plan by U.S. real estate tycoon Donald Trump for a luxury housing and golf project 12 km(8 miles) north

6、 of the city, even though it means building on a nature reserve.The city also hopes to reorientate its vibrant oil services industry toward emerging offshore oilcenters such as Brazil. Just because the production in the North Sea starts to decli ne does ntmean that Aberdee n as a global cen ter also

7、 decli nes, said Robert Collier, Chamber of CommerceChief Executive. That expertise can still stay here and be exported arou nd the world.第二篇We mark the pass ing of 800 years, and that is in deed a remarkable spa n for anyinstitution. But history is never an even-flowing stream, and the most remarka

8、ble thing aboutmodern Cambridge has been its enormous growth over the past half century. Since I came up as anun dergraduate in 1961 the stude nt populati on has more tha n doubled. More stude nts havemeant more teachers, and, eve n more sig nifica ntly, more scholars devoted solely to research:ever

9、y category has more tha n doubled in n umbers. This huge in crease has bee n partly absorbedby an expa nsion of the colleges: they all have more stude nts and more Fellows tha n they did 50years ago; and, since 1954, no fewer tha n 11 of the 31 colleges are either bra nd new foun dati ons,or have be

10、e n con jured up as new creati ons from existi ng but quite differe nt bodies. From being auniversity primarily driven by undergraduate education, Cambridges reputation is now overwhelmin gly tied to its research achieveme nts, which can be simply represe nted by the fact that moretha n three-quarte

11、rs of its curre nt ann ual in come is devoted to research. This has brought not justnew laboratories but new build ings to house wholefaculties and departme nts: in the mid-20th cen tury few faculties had a physical manifestationbeyond, perhaps, a library and a couple of administrative offices.Cambr

12、idge attracts the best stude nts and academics because they find the Uni versity andthe colleges stimulating and enjoyable places in which to live and work. The stude nts are throw n inwith similarly able min ds, lear ning as much from each other as from their teachers; the good senioracademics know

13、 better than to be too or to cut themselves off from intellectual criticism and debate.One gen erati on dismisses ano ther: not eve n Erasmus or Newt on, Darwin or Keynes sta nd unscathed by the passage of time; nor can we be but humbled, especially in our day when so muchinformation is so easily accessible, by the vast store of knowledge which we can approach but never really con trol. Our library and museum collecti ons br ing us in to con tact with many lives livedin the past. They serve as symbols of the con tin uity of lear ning, or the diversity of