2017考研：历年英语翻译真题（10）
英语翻译规定是，将英汉短文或句子互译，译文达意。译文主要是长句和短句的翻译，有一定的难度，这就要求我们要够掌握足够的技巧，多加练习。往年的考研英语翻译试题可以作为练习题。
Section VI Chinese-English Translation
Translate the following sentences into English. (15 points)
1. 请乘客们系好安全带，以防碰伤。
2. 除非安装一条新的装配线，否则提高产量是没有指望的。
3. 有人提出，暑假期间安排一次到海南岛的考察旅行。
4. 为了把课文中的难点解释清楚，他举了许多例子。
5. 护士们通常毕生致力于照顾病人。
VI: Chinese-English Translation (15 points)
1. All travellers are advised to fasten their safety-belts to avoid being bumped.
2. No increase in output can be expected unless a new assembly line is installed.
3. It is suggested that an exploration tour to the Hainan Island (should) be arranged during the summer vacation.
4. He gave lots of examples in order to get the difficult points in the text fully explained.
5. Nurses often devote their whole lives to tending the sick.
Section VII English-Chinese Translation
Read the following passage carefully and then translate the sentences in heavy type into Chinese. (20 points)
When Jane Matheson started work at Advanced Electronics Inc. 12 years ago, (1) she laboured over a microscope, hand-welding tiny electronic computers and turned out 18 per hour. Now she tends the computerized machinery that turns out high capacity memory chips at the rate of 2,50 per hour. Production is up, profits are up, her income is up and Mrs. Matheson says the work is far less strain on her eyes.
But the most significant effect of the changes at AEI was felt by the workers who are no longer there. Before the new computerized equipment was introduced, there were 940 workers at the plant. Now there are 121. (2) A plant follow-up survey showed that one year after the layoffs only 38% of the released workers found new employment at the same or better wages. Nearly half finally settled for lower pay and more than 13% are still out of work. The AEI example is only one of hundreds around the country which forge intelligently ahead into the latest technology, but leave the majority of their workers behind.
(3) Its beginnings obscured by unemployment caused by the world economic slow-down, the new technological unemployment may emerge as the great socio-economic challenge of the end of the 20th century. One corporation economist says the growth of “machine job replacement”has been with us since the beginning of the industrial revolution, but never at the pace it is now. The human costs will be astonishing. (4) “It’s humiliating to be done out of your job by a machine and there is no way to fight back, but it is the effort to find a new job that really hurts.”Some workers, like Jane Matheson, are retrained to handle the new equipment, but often a whole new set of skills is required and that means a new, and invariably smaller set of workers. (5) The old workers, trapped by their limited skills, often never regain their old status and employment. Many drift into marginal areas. They feel no pride in their new work. They get badly paid for it and they feel miserable, but still they are luckier than those who never find it.
(6) The social costs go far beyond the welfare and unemployment payments made by the government. Unemployment increases the chances of divorce, child abuse, and alcoholism, a new federal survey shows. Some experts say the problem is only temporary... that new technology will eventually create as many jobs as it destroys. (7) But futurologist Hymen Seymour says the astonishing efficiency of the new technology means there will be a simple and direct net reduction in the amount of human labor that needs to be done. “We should treat this as an opportunity to give people more leisure. It may not be easy, but society will have to reach a new unanimity on the division and distribution of labor,”Seymour says. He predicts most people will work only six-hour days and four-day weeks by the end of the century. But the concern of the unemployed is for now. (8) Federally funded training and free back-to-school programs for laid-off workers are under way, but few experts believe they will be able to keep up with the pace of the new technology. For the next few years, for a substantial portion of the workforce, times are going to be very tough indeed.
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