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1、翻译二级笔译实务分类模拟题23英译汉请特别注意划线部分的译法。1. Before the car was towed to a wrecking yard, Morris went through to（江南博哥） see it one more time. 正确答案：车拖运到废车堆放场之前，毛利斯又到那儿去看了它一眼。2. Unlike officers who eat off crockery, enlisted sailors and marines are served on sectional plastic trays. 正确答案：当官的拿餐具吃饭，水兵与海军陆战队士兵则用分格塑料
2、盘就餐。3. Smith cradled the back of his head with his hand. 正确答案：斯密司用一只手托住了后脑勺。4. She pulls meat from the claw, dips it into a silver pot of butter and pops it into her mouth. 正确答案：她从(螃蟹)爪子里扒出肉来，在银制黄油罐里蘸了蘸，“啪”的一声送进了嘴里。5. Sometimes half the drop-offs at the local U-Haul rental places come from Californi
3、a. 正确答案：有时候，当地的“友好”卡车出租公司租车点接受的归还车辆有半数是从加利福尼亚开过来的。6. A Western intelligence agency estimates between 20 to 30 people have died in the power struggle between military groups and the government. 正确答案：一家西方通讯社估计，在军事集团与政府的权力斗争中有大约20至30人丧生。7. But the official of the UN said that the talk of financial aid
4、is premature. 正确答案：但是，联合国一位官员说，现在就经济援助进行会谈还为时过早。8. Local newspaper editorials are demanding an inquiry into what has happened. 正确答案：当地报纸新闻要求对事件真相进行调查。9. I can flatly tell you we know how we will do that. 正确答案：我可以明确地告诉大家，我们知道应该如何去做。10. The two attackers escaped in a car and there has been no claim fo
5、r responsibility. 正确答案：两名袭击者乘车逃逸，截至目前还没有人声明对袭击事件负责。11.About Archives At some point1 most of us realize that having a personal archival strategy is an inescapable aspect of modem life: one has to draw the line somewhere. What should the policy be toward childrens drawings and report cards? Toward per
6、sonal letters and cancelled checks2? Toward family photographs and wedding mementos? Toward favorite but no longer usable articles of clothing? People work out ad hoc answers to such questions, usually erring, I suspect, on the side of overaccrual3. My father who is an artist, still has all his art
7、school sketchbooks from when he was in his early teens, and he has some 10,000 Polaroid photographs of himself that he took over the years in order to capture details of lighting and drapery. He has a field of newspaper clippings about Fordham football games from the 930s. Almost everyone seems to s
8、aveto curate, as archaeologists sayissues of National Geographic. That is why in garbage landfills copies of that magazine are rarely found in isolation; rather they are found in herds, when an entire collection has been discarded after an owner has died or moved. I happen to be an admirer of the ar
9、chiving impulse and an inveterate archivist at the household level.4 Though not quite one of those people whom public-health authorities seem to run across every few years, with a house in which neatly bundled stacks of newspaper occupy all but narrow aisles. I do tend to save almost everything that
10、 is personal and familial, and even to supplement this private hoard with oddities of a more public naturea calling card of Thomas Nasts, for instance, and a baseball bat of Luis Aparicios and Kim Philbys copy of The Joy of Cooking. I cannot help wondering, though, whether as a nation we are compili
11、ng archives at a rate that will exceed anyones ability ever to make sense of them. A number of observers have cited the problem of information overload as if it were a recent development, largely the consequence of computers. In truth, the archive backlog5 has been a problem for millennia. The excav
12、ation of thousands of cuneiform tablets in the ancient archives of Ebla, in what is now Syria, was hugely important, but it will be many decades before the tablets are fully translated, and by then further discoveries will no doubt have dug scholars more deeply as it were, into a hole6. A few years
13、ago a Vatican official spent a morning taking me through the rich labyrinths and frescoed recesses of the Vatican Library: Do you even know what you have? I asked at one point. He shrugged and said that although the name of every item probably existed in the records somewhereHere, like this, he said
14、, pulling out an 18th century ledger and pointing to an entry in an elegant handhe guessed that no one had actually opened up and looked at two-thirds of the collection.7 Writings great advantage over memory has ever been that it allows one to remember what one can then forget aboutan invitation to
15、warehousing. The process keeps speeding up, and Roy Williams, a researcher at the California Institute of Technologys Center for Advanced Computing Research, has attempted to calculate how fast. He notes that the amount of information now stored in all printed sources everywhere in the world is roug
16、hly equivalent to two hundred petabytes, a petabyte being one quadrillion bytes. In contrast, Williams has calculated, the amount of information that will have accumulated in online media alone by the year 2000that is in the course of a mere couple of decadesis two and a half times as much as that, and he conceded that this figure may
