[英语四六级]08成规翻译练习E-C_C-E共6篇原文 - 副本

1、精品文档2021-2021学年第一学期 08成规 综合翻译 练习Passage 1San FranciscoSan Francisco, open your Golden Gate, sang the girl in the theatre. She never finished her song. That date was 18th April, 1906. The earth shook and the roof suddenly divided, buildings crashed to the ground and people rushed out into the streets

2、. The dreadful earthquake destroyed the city that had grown up when men discovered gold in the deserts of California. But today the streets of San Francisco stretch over more than forty steep hills, rising like huge cliffs above the blue waters of the Pacific Ocean.The best way to see this splendid

3、city, where Spanish people were the first to make their homes, is to take one of the old cable cars which run along the nine main avenues. Fares are cheap; they have not risen, Im told, for almost a hundred years.You leave the palm trees in Union Square - the heart of San Francisco - and from the sh

4、op signs and the faces around you, you will notice that in the city live people from many nations - Austrians, Italians, Chinese and others - giving each part a special character. More Chinese live in China Town than in any other part of the world outside China. Here, with Chinese restaurants, Chine

5、se post-boxes, and even odd telephone-boxes that look like pagodas, it is easy to feel you are in China itself.Fishermans Wharf, a place all foreigners want to see, is at the end of the ride. You get out, pause perhaps to help the other travelers to swing the cable car on its turntable (a city custo

6、m), and then set out to find a table in one of the gay little restaurants beside the harbor. As you enjoy the fresh Pacific seafood you can admire the bright red paint of the Golden Gate Bridge in the harbor and watch the traffic crossing beneath the tall towers on its way to the pretty village of T

7、iberon.Passage 2 NY City Seeks to Expand Lower-Cost UnitsThe City Council yesterday approved the first major overhaul of the most popular tax break for apartment building developers, adopting a plan intended to induce them to build tens of thousands of apartments for people other than the wealthy.Th

8、e changes, which Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg supported and which would go into effect4 in 2021, significantly increase the areas of the city in which developers who want the tax break must make one out of every five apartments they build affordable to lower-income people. The boundaries of those area

9、s would be reconsidered every two years in light of trends in the housing market. In addition, and for the first time in the 35-year history of the program, those lower-priced apartments would have to be included in each building and could not be built elsewhere in the city. There would be a cap on

10、the size of the tax break given for market-rate apartments, to limit the degree to which the program might be said to subsidize gentrification. The revised program would also include a $400 million trust fund for developing low and moderately priced housing, especially in the citys 15 poorest neighb

11、orhoods in the city. Housing officials estimate that the program, which is said to have fueled the construction of 110,000 units since 1971, will generate 20,000 new units of lower-priced housing over the first 10 years. The apartments, for rent or sale, will be set aside for low-income New Yorkers.

12、 Passage 3Spare That SpiderWhy, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends? Because they destroy so many insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the human raceInsects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they would devour all our crops and kill our flocks and

13、 herds, if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animalsWe owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyed by spidersMoreover, unlike some of the other insect eaters, spiders never do the least harm to us

14、or our belongings.Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly  related to themOne can tell the difference almost at a glance, for a spider always has eight legs and an insect never more than six.How many spiders are engaged in this work on our behalf? One authority on spiders

15、 made a census of the spiders in a grass field in the south of England, and he estimated that there were more than 2,250,000 in one acre; that is something like 6,000,000 spiders of different kinds on a football pitchSpiders are busy for at least half the year in killing insectsIt is impossible to m

16、ake more than the wildest guess at how many they kill, but they are hungry creatures, not content with only three meals a dayIt has been estimated that the weight of all the insects destroyed by spiders in Britain in one year would be greater than the total weight of all the human beings in the coun

17、try.Passage 4就像北京欢庆赢得2021年奥运会的主办权一样，当上海挫败其竞争对手取得2021年世博会的主办权时，成千上万的中国人沸腾了，欢呼声、歌声汇成一片，人们的脸上挂满了喜悦的泪水。申办世博会的成功又为上海增添了新的光荣，有可能使中国这座繁华的商业中心再过10年之后成为巨大型都市。世博会是一个促进世界各国交流和开展的全球性的大型非商业性活动，被誉为经济和科技领域的“奥运会。首届世博会于1851年在伦敦举行，但从未在开展中国家举办过。上海已在实施重大的扩建方案，由此会兴起一轮建筑热潮，其中包括世界上最高的建筑和世界上第一条商业化的磁悬浮列车系统。分析人士说，新的扩建方案和预计到达

18、的7000万游客将使房地产业和旅游业前景看好。这一国际性的盛会将促进中国的对外开放并加速其现代化进程。有了中国政府和全国人民的大力支持，上海有信心、有能力使2021年世博会取得圆满成功。Passage 5 人类有史以来不断改变自然环境，以改善自己的生活方式。人类接着技术工具改变了地球的许多自然特征。他将林地和草原改造成农田，使江河变成湖泊和水库，用于灌溉和水力发电。人类还通过给沼泽地排水、凿石劈山、修建公路和铁路等方式，改变了地球的面貌。然而，人类改变自然环境并不总是带来有益的结果。今天，空气和水的污染给地球的健康造成了越来越严重的危害。每天机动车辆的排气管排出成千上万吨废气。工厂释放的烟雾污

19、染了工业区和周围乡村的空气。水污染同样有害， 海洋的整个生态平衡正在受到破坏，工业废水已使许多河流的生物死亡。现在，环境保护比以往任何时候都更为紧迫。我们知道，对环境的大规模破坏已经带来负面影响，甚至咄咄逼人地威胁到人类的生存。对这些问题漠不关心将意味着自我消灭。Passage 6中国2021年上海世界博览会参观须知2010年04月18日上海世博会事务协调局 二O一O年四月十八日公布 欢送参观中国2021年上海世界博览会下称“上海世博会。为了保护参观者的合法权益，维护平安、有序的参观环境，上海世博会组织者即上海世博会事务协调局，下称“组织者制定本须知。 第一条 适用对象 所有上海世博会参观者，

20、包括持上海世博会门票进入园区的参观者，以及入园时身高1.2米以下含1.2米的免票儿童，均应遵守本须知。 第二条 园区运行时间 园区的通常运行时间为9:00至24:00，园内展馆的通常开放时间为9:30至22:30。 参观者应在21:00前入园，并于入园当日24:00前离开园区。夜票参观者的入园时间为17:00至21:00。 第三条 有序入园 参观者应依次排队，经预检、平安检查和门票查验后进入园区。参观者不接受检查的，组织者可拒绝其入园。 为公共卫生和疾病防控需要，组织者可对进入园区的参观者采取必要的健康检测措施。 免票儿童及行动不便的参观者应由成年人陪同入园参观。醉酒人员及精神异常人员谢绝入园

21、。 第四条 禁带物品 除中国法律法规禁止的爆炸性、易燃性、放射性等危险物质、管制器具等物品外，参观者不得携带以下物品进入园区： 一软硬包装饮料、酒精饮品等液态物品，但婴儿所需的液态奶制品、疾病患者所需的液态药品可随身适量携带； 二打火机、火柴等点火器具； 三横幅、标语、广告牌、传单等宣传物品； 四代步工具，包括摩托车、助动车、自行车、电动自行车、机动轮椅车、踏板车、滑板、带轮鞋等，但婴儿车、手推轮椅、电动轮椅除外； 五动物，但导盲犬等效劳类动物除外； 六三角翼、滑翔伞、热气球、航空模型、风筝等可升空物品； 七无线电遥控玩具、对讲机等无线电发射设备； 八其他可能阻碍他人参观、造成他人人身伤害或财产损失、扰乱园区秩序和危害园区平安的物品。 第五条 观展和观演 除组织者或参展者另有规定外，参观者可进入园区内各展馆参观、观看园区内的文化演艺活动，无需另行支付费用。 组织者和参展者可对展示和文化演艺活动的时间、场地、内容进行调整，但应及时发布相关信息。 第六条 参观预约 对于提供预约效劳的展馆和文化演艺活动，参观者可按相关预约规那么进行预约，并应在预约时段凭预约证明从指定通道进入展馆和活动场所。 第七条 文明参观 参观者须遵守公共秩序，依次排队参观展馆、观看文化演艺活动