北京外国语大学2008年硕士研究生入学考试.doc

北京外国语大学2008年硕士研究生入学考试 英汉同声传译专业试卷 （参考译文） 一、将下列段落译为汉语（25分） ? Outside Europe, the most important powers in 1939 were undoubtedly Japan and the United States. Japan was at the time already deeply involved in hostilities with China. After seizing the northern provinces of that country in 1931 and organizing them into the puppet state of Manchukuo, Japan had tried to protect its rich loot and to expand its influence in China by a series of interventions, particularly in the rest of northern China. These steps had not surprisingly produced a rising tide of anti-Japanese sentiments in China, which in turn led the Japanese to embroil themselves even more deeply into Chinese affairs. When this tendency to interfere in China was combined with a degree of internal confusion and incoherence within the Japanese government that made the Chinese warlords of the time look well organized, new trouble was almost certain to follow. (141 words)? 译文： 1939年，欧洲以外最重要的国家毫无疑问是日本和美国。当时，日本已经深深卷入与中国的冲突之中。1931年，日本占领了中国北方数省，并在此基础上建立了满洲国傀儡政权。此后，日本在中国不断挑起事端，特别是侵犯东三省外的其他北方各省，以巩固其侵占的地区，扩大在华的影响。日本的这些行为自然导致中国国内反日情绪日益高涨，而这种情绪又反过来使得日本进一步卷入中国事务。在日本逐步扩大侵华行动的同时，其国内局势出现了一定程度的混乱，政府内部意见不一，这使得中国军阀政权相形之下显得组织有序。在这一背景下，中日之间新的冲突几乎在所难免。 ? 二、将下列短文译为汉语（50分） ? Inflation: China’s least wanted export When inflation starts to kill people then it is a serious problem. Three people died and 31 were injured on Saturday in a stampede to buy cut-price cooking oil in the western Chinese city of Chongqing. China can no longer explain away inflation as a short-term result of floods and epidemics of animal disease – nor can it ignore the strains its macroeconomic policies are producing. Cooking oil is a special case – its price influenced by demand from China’s glut of new biofuel refineries – but the broader price of food has risen in recent months by more than 15 per cent compared with a year earlier. Floods and other acts of God have had their effect, as has the global rise in wheat prices, but there are structural forces at wor