翻译大赛决赛卷

1、2009东方正龙杯广西翻译大赛(决赛卷(2009年10月31日上午10:0011:00院校名称:系别/专业:姓名:参赛号:总分:参赛注意事项:一、9:50入场完毕;比赛时间一个小时,上午10:00至11:00;二、入场后严格按照监考老师安排的座位坐下;三、不许携带和翻看任何形式的词典或其他工具书和参考书籍;四、严格遵守考场纪律,不许交头接耳,不许偷看抄袭他人答案;五、需用圆珠笔或钢笔来答题,尽可能书写清晰、整齐;六、参赛选手答题完毕或比赛时间结束时须上交赛卷,不许带走赛卷;七、凡严重违反考场纪律者被取消参赛资格。Part I Passage Translation from English i

2、nto Chinese(60%Direction: Translate the Following Passage into ChineseAN OBSERV ATION AND AN EXPLANATION It is worth looking at one of two aspects of the way a mother behaves towards her baby. The usual fondling, cuddling and the cleaning require little comment, but the position in which she holds t

3、he baby against her body when resting is rather revealing. Careful studies have shown the fact that 80 percent of mothers hold their infants in their left arms, holding them against the left side of their bodies. If asked to explain the significance of this preference, most people reply that it is o

4、bviously the result of the predominance of right-handedness in population. By holding the babies in their left arms, the mothers keep their dominant arm free for manipulations. But a detailed analysis shows that this is not the case. True, there is slight difference between right-handed and left-han

5、ded females; but not enough to provide an adequate explanation. It emerges that 83 percent of right-handed mothers hold the baby on the left side, but so do 78 percent of left-handed mothers. In other words, only 22 percent of the left-handed mothers have their dominant hands free for actions. Clear

6、ly there must be some other, less obvious explanations.The only other clue comes from the fact that the heart is on the left side of the mothers body. Could it be that the sound of her heart-beat is vital factor? And in what way? Thinking along these lines it was argued that perhaps during its exist

7、ence inside the body of the mother the unborn baby gets used to the sound of the heart beat. If this is so, then the re-discovery of this familiar sound after birth might have a calming effect on the infant, especially as it has just been born into a strange and frighteningly new world. If this is s

8、o, then the mother would, somehow, soon arrive at the discovery that her baby is more at peace if held on the left against her heart than on the right.Translation:_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Part II Passage Translation from Chinese into English(60% Direction: Translate the Following Passage into English中华人民共和国声明一九七八年十二月十六日中华人民共和国和美利坚合众国自一九七九年一月一日起互相承认并建立外交关系,从而结束了两国关系长期不正常状态。这是中美两国关系中的历史性事件。总所周知,中华人民共和国是中国的唯一合法政府,台湾是中国的一部分。台湾问题曾经是阻碍中美两国实现关系正常化的关键问题。根据上海公报的精神,经过中美双方的共同努力。现在这个问题在中美两国之间得到了解决,从而使中美两国人民热切期望的关系正常化得以实现。至于解决台湾回归祖国、