年05月翻译专业资格考试(英语三级笔译实务)真题及答案.doc
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1、试题下载 2013年05月翻译专业资格考试(英语三级笔译实务)真题及答案Section 1 English-Chinese Translation(英译汉) (50 points)Translate the following passage into Chinese.It didnt take long for Manuel Garcia Murillo, a bricklayer who took over as mayor here last June, to realize that his town was in trouble. It was 800,000 euros, a li
2、ttle more than $1 million, in the red. There was no cash on hand to pay for anything - and there was work that needed to be done.But then an amazing thing happened, he said. Just as the health department was about to close down the day care center because it didnt have a proper kitchen, Bernardo Ben
3、itez, a construction worker, offered to put up the walls and the tiles free. Then, Maria Jose Carmona, an adult education teacher, stepped in to clean the place up.And somehow, the volunteers just kept coming. Every Sunday now, the residents of this town in southwest Spain -young and old - do what n
4、eeds to be done, whether it is cleaning the streets, raking the leaves, unclogging culverts or planting trees in the park.It was an initiative from them, said Mr. Garcia. Day to day we talked to people and we told them there was no money. Of course, they could see it. The grass in between the sidewa
5、lks was up to my thigh.Higuera de la Serena is in many ways a microcosm of Spains troubles. Just as Spains national and regional governments are struggling with the collapse of the construction industry, overspending on huge capital projects and a pileup of unpaid bills, the same problems afflict ma
6、ny of its small towns.But what has brought Higuera de la Serena a measure of fame in Spain is that the residents have stepped up where their government has failed. Mr. Garcia says his phone rings regularly from other town officials who want to know how to do the same thing. He is serving without pay
7、, as are the towns two other elected officials. They are also forgoing the cars and phones that usually come with the job.We lived beyond our means, Mr. Garcia said. We invested in public works that werent sensible. We are in technical bankruptcy. Even some money from the European Union that was sup
8、posed to be used for routine operating expenses and last until 2013 has already been spent, he said.Higuera de la Serena, a cluster of about 900 houses surrounded by farmland, and traditionally dependent on pig farming and olives, got swept up in the giddy days of the construction boom. It built a c
9、ultural center and invested in a small nursing home. But the projects were plagued by delays and cost overruns.The cultural center still has no bathrooms. The nursing home, a whitewashed building sits on the edge of town, still unopened. Together, they account for some $470,000 of debt owed to the b
10、ank. But the rest of the debt is mostly the unpaid bills of a town that was not keeping up with its expenses. It owes for medical supplies, for diesel fuel, for road repair, for electrical work, for musicians who played during holidays.Higuera de la Serena is not completely without workers. It still
11、 has a half-time librarian, two half-time street cleaners, someone part-time for the sports complex, a secretary and an administrator, all of whom are paid through various financing streams apart from the town. But the town once had a work force twice the size. And when someone is ill, volunteers ha
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