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精品名师归纳总结高级口译补充翻译练习答案一、中翻英1. The return of Taiwan to the embrace of the Motherland and the accomplishment of national renunification is the great and glorious historical mission of us this generation.The reunification of China and her prosperity and power not only representthe vital interests of the people of different nationalities on the mainland and those of the compatriots of various nationalities in Taiwan,but also favor the peace in the Far East and the world.2. Over the last two decades,no country in the world has expanded its foreign trade as fast as China.Japan took more than 20 years to double its foreign trade,while China,for the same length of time,has quadrupled its.Alreadythe thirdlargest producer of electric appliances,China is nowplayinga majorrolein the globalmarket of the electric wares.China has also become a major producer of labor-intensive manufactured goods in the world.3. Manypeople thinkmostofthe present InternetcompaniesinChinaare only ”Bubble Networks ”.Theywillnotliveverylongduetoweakinfrastructureandmeager investment.Actually China snatural that the Internet market is unstable/shaky.But I am confident about the future of China s Internet development.4. Bynowthe worstformofcompetitioninschools is the disproportionateemphasis on examinations.It is a rare school that allows pupils to concentrate on those things they do well.The merits of competition by examinations are somewhat questionable,but competition in the certain knowledge of failureis positive harmful.Schoolhave an importantduty to try to fita child s personality to his possible future employment.Its is top management.5. Cultural exchange,through the medium of holding of cultural festivals between local people of differentcountries,is the best means to promote better regionalunderstanding throughout the world.Through such spectacles many cities in China have raised their reputation in the world.Such events as has been shown have not been confined to culture alone,but extended to increased trade and other fields of commercial endeavor.6. We should tighten and improve financial control,lift control on the loan ceilings in exclusivelystate-owned commercial banks,gradually shift to granting loans in accordance with the assets-liabilities ratio and improve the pattern of lending.We should continue to carry out an appropriately stringent monetary policy and make timely and proper slight readjustment.While maintaining the current level of bank savings deposits of residents and inderect financing as the main form of financing,we should develop direct financing such as the issurance of stocks and bonds,and strengthen supervision and control of the securities market.7. The environmentalists say it is vital to protect the wildlife so that mankind can still survive onthe earth.According to these specialists,we have to realize the crucial relationship between us and wild animals and plants within this ecological system.They also point out that nobody knows可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结surely which of animals or plants would be useful for us in the future.8. Breathing other peoples cigatette smoke can do real harm to your lungs.The American Lung Association estimates that about 3000 people killed by lung cancer each year are involuntary smokers.According to a survey,a woman who doesnt smoke will have double the chance of suffering from lung cancer if she was exposed to a smoking family environment for 40 years ormore of household tobacco smoke.9. Actually the last fifty years may not have been the golden age of invention and innovation.From 1900to1950,humanlifewastransformedbysuchinventionsas cars,aeroplances,telephones ,radios and television sets,not to mention nuclear weapons and the computer of course.In the recent 50 years since then only a few inventions have been made.Wasthe well-spring of invention drying up.Not likely.Indeed,a new age of inventions is just beginning.10. Haier Inc. is a leading household elctrical appliance manufacturer in China.Its products enjoy a good reputation inits home market.But20 years ago,this company didn t even exist.Zhang Ruimin,itscurrentCEO,wasasked to rescue a refrigeratorplantthat was on the brinkof bankruptcy in Qindao.He succeeded.Today,Haier has 30,000 employeesmore than 10% of them in research and development,and 13 foreign factories,including one in the United States,managed by Americans.Its export business is thriving.11.I foundthe custom of arranged marriage unbearable/oppressive.Howcould any intelligent young person agree to such a marriage withouta wordofcomplaint/greatreluctance.It was contrary to everything I believed about the importance of romantic love as the only basis of a happy marriage.It aslo clashed with my consistent/strongly held notions that the choice of such an intimate and permanent relationship could be made only by the individuals involved.Had anyone tried to arrange my marriage,I would have been defiant and rebellious.12. Speech is the mostconvenientformofcommunication.Inthe futurewewant essentially natural conversation with computers.The primary point of contact will bea simple device that willact as our windowon the world.Itwillhave to be samll enough to slip into your pocket,so there will be a screen but no keyboard;you will simply talk to it.The device will be permanently connected to the internet and willbeep relevant information up to you as it comes in.Such devices will evolve naturally in the next five to ten years.13. Want-adFriendship Hotel needs receptionists-Female,age under 22.-High school graduate preferred.-Ability to know a little English.-Experience not required.Applicationin Chinese resume with recent photo to local P.O.Box 375,by August 15.14. InParis,Cocktailpartiesand buffetreceptionsofdifferentkindsoffergreat可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结opportunities for making friends.On such occasions,stangers may get to know each other.If they are Asians,theywill,veryrespectfullyand withboth hands,present calling cards to their interlocutors before any conversations starts.This seems to be the required courtesy on their part.However the French usually are not so ready with such a formality.Both sides will greet each other,and even chat casually about any topic and then excuse themselves.Only when they find they likeeach other and hope to further the relationship,will they exchange cards.It will seem very unnaturalto do so before any real conversations gets under way.s hospitality and promised right away, ”Its not fair that you have been so ignored.I must write an article for a key newspaper to recommend your works.The merits of your works are”Mr.L.hastily cut in,shaking his head and waving his hands,”No.No.Ionly beg you towrite a very severe criticismagainst me.From my years of experience,I have come to the conclusion that all aritcles you criticize will become popular not only in our country but alsoin the world.Meanwhile,yougain greater fame and interests through your criticism.Thisisindeed”extremes meet”and will only end up with mutual help and benefit.”16. Chances to compete for championship are few and far between.Life is short.Still shorter isthe time for an athlete trying to win games.None other than an athlete contestant feels so keenlyabouttherarityofopportunityandthefleetingoftime.Hecherishes every minute,makes full use of it and tries to grasp any chance coming his way.He gets as much as he gives,winning honours not only for himself but also for his country.To participate and towin-that is the Olympic spirit.it finds expression in the weak daring to defy the strong,and the strong strivingfor ever better performance.Ever better-the ideal always luring a sportsman forward.He will do everything he can for it,never relax,never give up.17. This year,a new minor has been added to the choices at our University.The minor is called InformationTechnology and is supported by 11 defferent departments,ranging from art to computer engineering.The possibilities of this minor are endless,because there are so many options to explore,and today s society is so enthralled with computers and new developments in technology.Even if your school does not have a minor that corresponds to the classes that I am taking,itwould be a worthwhileendeavor to try to develop a program.Not only would you benefit from the informationlearned,but the rest of the students at your school would benefit also.18. There are four main objectives ofthe minor.Thefirstis to learn practicalskillsin computing,communicationsandnetworking,ordatastorage/retrieval.Theschoolisto understand the impact of information technology on social communities.The third is to gain knowledgeof howinformationtechnologycan be used in imaginativeways.The fourth objective is to learn applications of informationtechnology that contribute to the common good.These fourobjectivesnotonlyshowthatthisprogramreallyteaches valuable information to the students,but also demonstrate that this minor can be complementary to any major.可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结19. No one ever expected that a trip of water should have become so vast a distance.It is now 36 years since our brief rendezvous in Nanjing.From our childhood friendship to ourchats in the Soviet capital,everythingin the past is stillalive inmy memory.Butit s unfortunate that we haven t heard from each other for so manyyears.Recently I was told that you are somewhat indisposed and this has caused me much concern.Men in their seventies are often afflictedwith illness.I sincerely hope that you willtake good care ofyourself.You used to spur yourself on with the axiom: ”The interests to be consideredshould be the interests of all ;the fame to be sought should be a fame that would last forever.When”a decision needs to be made,irresolution is bound to bring trouble.I hope you willconsider this carefully.Dear brother.Your life has been marked by frustrations,which should not be attributed to fate.Everythingdepends on yourself.Thegood and illto be judged in the next thousand years hinges on the decision made in a moment.Time does not stay and brief is the day.A long nightinvites bad dreams;time does not wait for us.I hope you,my brother,would be good at making the choice and repair the house before it rains”.Vast is the expanse of sky and water.What are you waiting for,staying away from home.”For all the disasters the brotherhood has remained;a smile at meeting and enmity is banished. ”20. Those elder unmarried girls in cities are mostly the so-called“gifted girls ”,referring to those females who have been more highly educated.It is not a t all a newly-started thing for gifted young girls to choose their own ideal spouses.It is by no means a pure literary fiction for giftedgirlsto choose theire spouses by way of the inscriptonofa poem and the matchingofan antithetical couplet.It was true that in old times,some gifted young girls had a higher literary talent and nobler mindthan the average young girls,andtherefore they were dissatisfiedwiththe marriage pattern in which a girl was supposed to obey here parents order and follow the advice ofthe matchmakers.But this was after all the rarity of raritiesMost of them couldnt free themselvesfrom their destiny in marriage.That is,they had to marry the men chosen by their parents and match makers.Today,the situation is entirely defferent.Females have got more and more opportunities to be educated.In cities,there is a higher and higher percentage of girl students at primary and secondary schools.Over 50% of the students in some specialists at colleges are females.With their higher culturalattainments,femaleshave continuouslyenhanced theiresense ofindependence and independent personality.They have begun to dominate their own destiny.The influence of cultural factors which used to be of no importance to the choice of one s spouse has been gradually felt.21. In October 1995,another bridge flew to span the Huangpu River,connecting Punan with Fengxian.This Fengpu Bridgeis the fourthHuangpu River bridge completed and open to traffic after the Xupu,Nanpu and Yangpu bridges.The Fengpu Bridge is the first bridge across the Huangpu River built with funds totalling 446 million yuan jointly raised by the departments concerned and enterprises of Fengxian County and urban districts of the city.It was successfully completed in one year and 7 months only.The completion of the bridge has solved the problem of crossing the Huangpu River that bothered the residents in Fengxian and Punan for a long time.It has also improved the investment environment in the area and laid a good foundation for the development and construction on the north bank of可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品名师归纳总结the Hangzhou Bay.In the golden autumn of October,the Xupu,Nanpu,Yangpu and Fengpu Bridges on the Huangpu River,bathed in the golden sunshine,show their distinctive features and enhance eachothers magnificence,adding more luster to Shanghai,a cosmopolis that is full of charm and vitality.In the near future,shanghai is going to build more facilities across the river to link both banks of the Huangpu River closer.22. Like a bright pearl set on the Taihu Lake and situated in the center of the beautiful and fertile Changjiang Delta in southern Jiangsu Province,Wuxi is one of Chinas major tourist cities,with its pleasant climate,rich natural resources and picturesque scenery.Cutting through the city is the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal,an ancient project equal in fame to the Great Wall.A trip along the river will enable the visitor to get to know the customs and life styles of the local people.SevenkilometersfromdowntownWuxiisapopularscenicareaknownas Meiliang.There,theTaihu Lake is at its best:the vast expanse of blue waters is dotted by fishing boasts against an enchanting background of mist-shrouded hills.Of the scenic spots in the area,the huge rock name Yuantouzhu resembles a turtle s head.The rock commands a distant view of the boundless Taihu Lake.It is lauded by Guo Moruo,a renowned Chinese poet,as the “best spot of the Taihu Lake. ”23. For a very long period of historicaldevelopment,mankindcould onlypass on music though performance and oral instruction.When mankind invented musical scores,music started to break away from the boundaries of being merely a performing art,and develop into a system of “written symbols ”that can be recorded and spread.Undoubtedly,however,it was the scientists who shouldbe crowned as the foundersofthe r