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外交学院2004年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试

外国语言学与应用语言学专业

考试科目：翻译 代码为：404

This test paper consists of two parts, namely, English into Chinese translation and Chinese into English translation. The total hours of work is 3 hours. 10×15＝150 points

Part One: English into Chinese Translation

Directions: Translate the following 2 passages into Chinese; read the whole textscarefully to get a general impression of the contents and give your translationsin the sheets locally provided. To facilitate grading, the texts have been broken into groups of sentences, each group being given a serial number, therefore, when you write your versions, you MUST QUOTE the serial number also, put the number before each version. Please write neatly and intelligibly.

Passage 1:

⑴ The new environmental health problems are multiple-created by radiation in all its forms, born of the never-ending stream of chemicals of which pesticides are apart , chemicals now pervading the world in which we live , acting upon us directly and indirectly , separately and collectively . Their presence casts a shadow thatis no less ominous because it is formless and obscure, no less frightening because it is simply impossible to predict the effects of lifetime exposure to chemical an d physical agents that are not part of the biological experience of man.

⑵ “We all live under the haunting fear that something may corrupt the environment to the point where man joins the dinosaurs as an obsolete form of life,” says Dr. David Price of the United States Public Health Service. “Andwhat makes these thoughts all the more disturbing is the knowledge that our fate could perhaps besealed twenty or more years before the development of symptoms.

⑶ Where do pesticides fit into the picture of environmental disease? We have seen that they now contaminate soil, water, and food, that they have the power to make our streams fishless and our gardens and woodlands silent and birdless. Man, however much he may like to pretend the contrary, is part of nature. Can he escape a pollution that is now so thoroughly distributed throughout our world?

⑷ We know that even single exposures to these chemicals ,if the amount is large enough, can precipitate acute poisoning .But this is not the major problem. Thesudden illness or death of farmers, spraymen, pilots, and others exposed to appreciable quantities of pesticides are tragic and should not occur . For thepopulation as a whole, we must be more concerned with the delayed effects of absorbing small amounts of the pesticides that invisibly contaminate our world.