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1、GZH:Bluce 学英语 整理 上海外国语大学 2012 年翻译硕士 MTIk 考研真题 I. Phrase Translation 1. Austerity measures: 财政紧缩措施 2. UNESCO: 联合国教科文组织( United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization ) 3. The US Senate: (美国)参议院 4. APEC: 亚 太 经 济 合 作 组 织 亚 太 经 合 组 织 (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) 5. Washington Po
2、st: (美国)华盛顿邮报 6. NATO: 北大西洋公约组织(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) 7. Arab Spring: 阿拉伯之春 8. Gary Locke: 骆家辉 (原美国驻华大使) 9. Reuters:(英国)路透社 10. Wall Street Journal:(美国)华尔街日报 II. 中文词汇翻译成英文 十二五规划:Twelfth Five-Year Plan 十七届六中全会: the Sixth Plenary Session of the seventeenthCentral Committee 全国人大:NPC ( Nat
3、ional Peoples Congress ) 新华社:the Xinhua News Agency 软实力: Soft Power 中美战略经济对话:China-US Strategic and EconomicDialogue 上海合作组织:SCO ( Shanghai Cooperation Organization ) GZH:Bluce 学英语 整理 珠江三角州:Pearl River Delta 西气东输:project of natural gas transmission from West to East China; West East Gas Pipeline 北京共识
4、: Beijing Consensus II. Passage translation Section A English to Chinese Reforming education -The great schools revolution Education remains the trickiest part of attempts to reform the public sector. But as ever more countries embark on it, some vital lessons are beginning to be learned Sep 17th 20
5、11 | DRESDEN, NEW YORK AND WROCLAW| from the print edition FROM Toronto to Wroclaw, London to Rome, pupils and teachers have been returning to the classroom after their summer break. But this September schools themselves are caught up in a global battle of ideas. In many countries education is at th
6、e forefront of political debate, and reformers desperate to improve their national performance are drawing examples of good practice from all over the world. Why now? One answer is the sheer amount of data available on performance, not just within countries but between them. In 2000 the Programme fo
7、r International Student Assessment (PISA) at the OECD, a rich-country club, began tracking academic attainment by the age of 15 in 32 countries. Many were shocked by where they came in the rankings. (PISAs latest figures appear in table 1.) Other outfits, too, have been GZH:Bluce 学英语 整理 measuring ho
8、w good or bad schools are. McKinsey, a consultancy, has monitored which education systems have improved most in recent years. Technology has also made a difference. After a number of false starts, many people now believe that the internet can make a real difference to educating children. Hence the s
9、uccess of institutions like Americas Kahn Academy (see article). Experimentation is also infectious; the more governments try things, the more others examine, and copy, the results. Above all, though, there has been a change in the quality of the debate. In particular, what might be called “the thre
10、e great excuses” for bad schools have receded in importance. Teachers unions have long maintained that failures in Western education could be blamed on skimpy government spending, social class and cultures that did not value education. All these make a difference, but they do not determine outcomes
11、by themselves. The idea that good schooling is about spending money is the one that has been beaten back hardest. Many of the 20 leading economic performers in the OECD doubled or tripled their education spending in real terms between 1970 and 1994, yet outcomes in many countries stagnatedor went ba
12、ckwards. Educational performance varies widely even among countries that spend similar amounts per pupil. Such spending is highest in the United Statesyet America lags behind other developed countries on overall outcomes in secondary education. Andreas Schleicher, head of analysis at PISA, thinks th
13、at only about 10% of the variation in pupil performance has anything to do with money. GZH:Bluce 学英语 整理 Many still insist, though, that social class makes a difference. Martin Johnson, an education trade unionist, points to Britains “inequality between classes, which is among the largest in the weal
14、thiest nations” as the main reason why its pupils underperform. A review of reforms over the past decade by researchers at Oxford University supports him. “Despite rising attainment levels,” it concludes, “there has been little narrowing of longstanding and sizeable attainment gaps. Those from disad
15、vantaged backgrounds remain at higher risks of poor outcomes.” American studies confirm the point; Dan Goldhaber of the University of Washington claims that “non- school factors”, such as family income, account for as much as 60% of a childs performance in school. Yet the link is much more variable
16、than education egalitarians suggest. Australia, for instance, has wide discrepancies of income, but came a creditable ninth in the most recent PISA study. China, rapidly developing into one of the worlds least equal societies, finished first. Culture is certainly a factor. Many Asian parents pay much more attention to their childrens test results than Western