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1、2021 下半年 CATTI 二级笔译实务真题2021 下半年 CATTI 二级笔译实务真题英译汉-第一篇英译汉-第一篇A spectre haunts this book the spectre of Europe. Just as the 700 pages of Tony Blairs autobiography couldnot escape the shadow of Iraq, so the 700 pages of David Camerons memoir are destined to be read through a singlelens: Brexit.For all
2、its detailed accounts of coalition talks with Nick Clegg or anxious Syria debates with Barack Obama, Brexitis the story. Cameron acknowledges as much, writing several times that he goes over the events that led to theleave vote of 2016 every day, “over and over again. Reliving and rethinking the dec
3、isions, rerunning alternativesand what-might-have-beens.” Later he writes: “My regrets about what had happened went deep. I knew then thatthey would never leave me. And they never have.”Its this which gives the book its narrative arc, one it shares with Blairs. Both tell the story of a man whoseprev
4、iously charmed path to success is suddenly interrupted, running into a catastrophe that will haunt him tohis last breath. The build-up is the same in both cases, a series of consecutive victories winning his partysleadership, rebranding and modernising that party to appeal to the centre ground, reac
5、hing Downing Street, winningre-election only to make a decision that will wreak lasting havoc.Cameron offers the same defence for Brexit that Blair gave for Iraq: yes, things might have turned out disastrously,but my mistake was honest, I acted in good faith, I only did what I truly believed was rig
6、ht.Memoirist David Cameron . The Cameron YearsTV tonight: the rise and plummeting fall of David CameronRead moreWhich is not to say that For the Record is not self-critical. On the contrary, Cameron scolds himself throughoutand not only on Brexit. He writes that he often misses the wood for the tree
7、s, getting lost in policy detail andfailing “to see the bigger, emotional picture”.On Brexit, he is scathing, counting off the judgments he got wrong. He raised expectations too high on hisrenegotiation of Britains membership of the EU, so that whatever concessions he did extract were bound to lookp
8、altry. He did not fight to grant 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote, even though it would have helped theremain cause and had already happened in the Scottish referendum.He did not push back on the wording of the referendum question, even though he knew the recommendation of theElectoral Commissi
9、on meant his side had lost “the positive word Yes and Leave sounded dynamic in contrastto Remain”. When George Osborne urged him to go hard against leave leaders, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove,Cameron feared such “blue on blue attacks would just make the campaign look like a Conservative spat”.At f
10、irst, all this makes Cameron an appealing narrator. The self-deprecating toff is an established type itmade Hugh Grant a star and Cameron plays it well. But after a while, it grates. Thats partly because it toooften amounts to a humblebrag. Witness the moment when the leave campaign suggested Britai
11、n was about to openits doors to 76 million Turkish immigrants. Advisers urged Cameron to say that could never happen because he wouldveto Turkey joining the EU. But Cameron felt that would be unfair, snuffing out Turkeys legitimate aspirationto be an EU member. “I was caught between being a campaign
12、er and being a prime minister, and I chose the latter I made the wrong choice.” If I had a flaw, its that I was too responsible.But thats not the chief reason why this litany of confessed errors gradually loses its charm. At a certain point,the reader stops feeling sympathy for the author and conclu
13、des that he was just serially and unforgivably wrong.For the Record is meant to be the case for the defence. In fact, Cameron has written his own indictment.Thats most apparent when the author is unaware that he is laying bare his mistakes. He decries the fact thatBritish anti-EU sentiment had been
14、in gestation for decades and could not be turned around in a matter of weeks.Yet his own book is full of EU-bashing hardly surprising for a politician who had cheerfully surfed theEurosceptic wave to reach the top of his party. Cameron, like many others, only articulated or perhaps onlyfully realise
15、d the value of Britains EU membership when it was too late.He describes how he could see Boris Johnson who emerges on these pages as chaotic, vain and utterly devoidof principle becoming ever more tempted by the leave cause. After all, the Brexit side would be “loaded withimages of patriotism, indep
16、endence and romance”. But if Cameron could see that ahead of the referendum campaign,why did he not construct a remain message that would match leaves emotional appeal, instead of consciously relyingon, as he puts it, “arguments of the head, not the heart”?Indeed, if he understood the deep emotional
17、 pull Brexit was bound to exert, and given that he believed leavingthe EU would spell calamity for Britain, what on earth was he doing risking that outcome by calling a referendumin the first place?Cameron addresses that implicit objection throughout the book, repeatedly insisting that such a ballot
18、 was“inevitable” and could not be avoided. That he makes this point so often citing a letter from John Majorto that effect on the penultimate page conveys not confidence in his case but rather a nagging anxiety. Ifhe does have doubts, one can hardly blame him. Its true that Ukip was snapping at the
19、Tories heels, but thenotion that public demand for an in/out referendum had reached a deafening clamour just does not square with thefacts. When Britons were asked one year before the vote to list the issues that concerned them most, “Europe”did not make the top 10.The best political memoirs involve
20、 an honest reckoning with mistakes as well as the inevitable recital oftriumphs David Cameron, whose memoir has just been published.As David Cameron tells all, a guide to the best political memoirsRead moreNevertheless, For the Record reminds you why Cameron dominated British politics for so long. T
21、he prose is, likehim, smooth and efficient. There are welcome splashes of colour from wife Sam dancing in the Downing Streetkitchen to a moment over “kippers and kedgeree” at Balmoral that will doubtless make its way into The Crown and plenty of gossipy observations of colleagues. The chapter descri
22、bing the short life and death of theCamerons severely disabled son, Ivan, is almost unbearably moving. With admirable honestly, Cameron admits thatthe period of mourning did not only follow his sons death but his birth, “trying to come to terms with thedifference between the child you expected and l
23、onged for and the reality that you now face”. What had, untilthen, been a charmed life was interrupted by the deepest heartbreak.Even those readers with no affection for Cameron, including those who will bridle at the books unrepentant defenceof austerity, might empathise with his account of what it
24、 was like to fight against perhaps the first fullypost-truth, populist campaign. No matter how much evidence or expertise the remain camp mustered, leave wouldreply with an astonishing “mendacity”. Cameron was driving himself hoarse, advancing “reasonable, rational”arguments, while they were serving
25、 up 350m worth of lies and winning. Cameron writes: “It was like one ofthose dreams where youre trying to shout but no sound is coming out.”Camerons most unbending critics will put down this book as sure as ever that he was a hollow man lacking inany ideology or conviction beyond a vague, patrician
26、faith in public service and his own ability to do the jobof PM well. They will continue to see him as largely indifferent to the suffering his austerity programme inflictedon the country incredibly, he praises himself for empowering “council chiefs”, even though his cuts forcedlocal authorities to a
27、xe vital services for the most vulnerable. It should be possible to condemn all that andstill reflect that, while Cameron was a PR man and spin merchant to his fingertips, he did at least live in therealm of facts, proof and evidence. In the age of Johnson, perhaps that should not be taken for grant
28、ed.The problem with For the Record is not its honesty. As far as this most self-serving of genres the politiciansmemoir goes, it is a truthful account. The problem is that on the most important question of the age, DavidCameron got it wrong. That will haunt him forever indeed, it will haunt every la
29、st one of us.英译汉-第二篇英译汉-第二篇As satellites from NASA zipped over the planet Earth yesterday, they saw what they have seen every day for months:fires, hundreds of them, tearing through virgin rainforest and other vital ecosystems.Many of the blazes, which come at the tail end of a devastating fire seas
30、on, are believed to have been set byfarmers eager to clear land and sate the booming global demand for beef and soybeans.A new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report, jointly produced with the International Resource Panel,says that type of unbridled international trade is having a damagi
31、ng effect not only on rainforests but the entireplanet. The report, which called for a raft of new Earth-friendly trade rules, found that the extraction of naturalresources could spark water shortages, drive animals to extinction and accelerate climate change all of whichwould be ruinous to the glob
32、al economy.“The economic fallout of COVID-19 is just an overture to what we would see if the Earths natural systems breakdown. We have to make sure that our global trade policies protect the environment not only for the sake of ourplanet but also for the long-term health of our economies,” said Inge
33、r Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP.It found that in 2017, 35 billion tonnes of material resources, from oil to iron to potatoes, were extracted fromthe earth specifically for the purposes of trade. While that helped create millions of jobs, especially in poorcommunities, the report found it had
34、a profound effect of the planet. Resource extraction was responsible for90 per cent of species loss, 90 per cent of water stress and 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions in 2017.With the demand for natural resources set to double by 2060, the report called on policy makers to embrace whatis known
35、 as a “circular” economic model. That would see businesses use fewer resources, recycle more and extendthe life of their products. It would also put an onus on consumers to buy less, save energy and repair thingsthat are broken instead of throwing them away.“Theres this idea out there that we have t
36、o log, mine, and drill our way to prosperity. But thats not true.By embracing circularity and re-using materials we can still drive economic growth while protecting the planetfor future generations.”Those changes could pay big dividends for the planet, the report found. By conserving resources, huma
37、nity couldslash its greenhouse gas emissions by 90 per cent.While the circular model could have “economic implications” for countries that depend on natural resources,it would give rise to new industries devoted to recycling and repair. Overall, the report predicts, a greenereconomic model would boo
38、st growth by 8 per cent by 2060.“Theres this idea out there that we have to log, mine, and drill our way to prosperity,” said Inger Andersen.“But thats not true. By embracing circularity and re-using materials we can still drive economic growth whileprotecting the planet for future generations.”Some
39、 countries, both in the developed and developing world, have embraced the concept of a circular economy. Butthe report said international trade agreements can play an important role in making those systems more common.It called on the World Trade Organization, which has 164 member countries, to take
40、 the environment intoconsideration when setting regulations. It also recommended that regional trade pacts promote investments inplanet-friendly industries, eliminate “harmful” subsidies, like those for fossil fuels, and avoid undercuttingglobal environmental accords.“Re-orienting the global economy isnt an easy job,” said Inger Andersen. There are a lot of vested interestswe have to contend with. But with the Earths population expected to reach almost 10 billion by 2050, we needto find ways to relieve the pressure on the planet.”
