中级口译最新笔译真题(
09.9-10.9
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09.9
1.
What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though
invented, has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows
life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the
adult, the grown-up reader.
Such
a
reader
has
outgrown
fairy
tales,
and
we
do
not
want
the
fantastic
and
the
impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.
You
may
say:
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If
one
wants
truth,
why
not
go
to
the
literally
true
book?
Biography
or
documentary,
these
amazing
accounts
of
amazing
experiences
which
people have.
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Yes, but I am suggesting to you that there is a distinction between truth
and so-called reality. The novel does not simply recount experience. And here comes
in
what
is
the
actual
livening
spark
of
the
novel:
the
novelist
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s
imagination
has
a
power
of
its
own.
It
does
not
merely
invent,
it
perceives.
It
intensifies,
therefore
it
gives
power,
extra
importance,
and
greater
truth
to
what
may
well
be
ordinary
and
everyday things.
2.
有两个大款附庸风雅,参加一个冷餐会?/p>
与会者自然不乏真正的名流学者?/p>
席间?/p>
一?/p>
学者与其中的大款甲闲聊,话题不知怎么扯到莎士比亚身上。学者问大款甲:
“先生是否对
莎士比亚最感兴趣?”大款甲顿了顿,随即正色说:
“相比之下,还是威士忌合我口味?/p>
”这
时,大家都暗自窃笑。大款乙也看出了苗头,悻悻然走开。在回来的小车上,大款乙教训?/p>
款甲说:
“你真一点都不懂,莎士比亚是饮料,你怎么把它当洋酒了?/p>
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10.3
1.
The
recession
has
hit
middle-income
and
poor
families
hardest,
widening
the
economic
gap
between
the
richest
and
poorest
Americans
as
rippling
job
layoffs
ravaged
household
budgets.
Household
income
declined
across
all
groups,
but
at
sharper percentage levels for middle-income and poor Americans. Median income fell
last
year
from
$52,163
to
$50,303,
wiping
out
a
decade's
worth
of
gains
to
hit
the
lowest level since 1997. Poverty jumped sharply to 13.2 percent, an 11-year high. No
one
should
be
surprised
at
the
increased
disparity.
Analysts
attributed
the
widening
gap to the wave of layoffs in the economic downturn that have devastated household
budgets. They said while the richest Americans may be seeing reductions in executive
pay, those at the bottom of the income ladder are often unemployed and struggling to
get by.
2.
2010
年翩然而至,全?/p>
24
个时区的万千钟声,此起彼伏,宣告在这人类新千年中?/p>
一?/p>
10
年代的终结,又是另一?/p>
10
年代的开始?/p>
在开局?/p>
10
年中,中国经济在?/p>
9
年连
?/p>
9
年保持着
9%
以上的增长。最后一年,虽受国际金融风暴影响,但依然能保?/p>
8%
的高
增长?/p>
中国犹如中流砥柱,力挽狂澜,使全球目光,再次聚焦于东方。一年多的实践,终使?/p>
光再现?/p>
全人类定能以集体的智慧,
攻坚克难?/p>
度过难关?/p>
必将是柳暗花明又一村的新局面?/p>
10.9