上海外国语大学2013年翻译硕士MTI考研真题
I. Phrase Translation
1. Great Depression: 大萧条(美国经济大萧条时期)
2. IMF: 国际货币基金组织(international monetary fund)
3. QE3: 第三轮量化宽松政策 (Quantitative Easing 3)
4. America pivot to Asia: 美国重返亚太;美国战略转移到亚洲
5. The 18th CPC Congress：中国共产党第十八次代表大会 (The 18th Congress Communist Party of China)
6. Gaza Strip： 加沙地带
7. CNN： 美国有线电视新闻网络(Cable News Network)
8. ASEAN： 东南亚国家联盟(Association of South East Asian Nations); 东盟
9. Capitol Hill： (美国华盛顿)国会山; [口语]美国国会[亦称作 the Hill]
10. Euro Zone Crisis： 欧元区危机;欧元危机
II. 短语汉译英 (15)
科学发展观：Scientific Outlook on Development
独立自主和平外交政策：an independent foreign policy of peace
钓鱼岛争端：The Diaoyu Islands dispute
可持续发展：sustainable development;Sustainability
中等收入陷阱：Middle Income trap(指当一个国家的人均收入-per capita income-达到中等水平，由于不能顺利实现经济发展方式-economic development model-的转变，导致经济增长动力不足，最终出现经济停滞的一种状态)
长江三角洲：the Yangtze River Delta; the Yangtze Delta
纳米技术：nanotechnology
小康社会：a moderately prosperous society
II. Passage translation
Section A English to Chinese
Broken BRICs: Why the Rest Stopped Rising
By Ruchir Sharma
November/December 2012
The Rising of the Rest
Over the past several years, the most talked-about trend in the global economy has been the so-called rise of the rest, which saw the economies of many developing countries swiftly converging with those of their more developed peers. The primary engines behind this phenomenon were the four major emerging-market countries, known as the BRICs: Brazil, Russia, India, and China. The world was witnessing a once-in-a-lifetime shift, the argument went, in which the major players in the developing world were catching up to or even surpassing their counterparts in the developed world.
These forecasts typically took the developing worlds high growth rates from the middle of the last decade and extended them straight into the future, juxtaposing them against predicted sluggish growth in the United States and other advanced industrial countries. Such exercises supposedly proved that, for example, China was on the verge of overtaking the United States as the worlds largest economy-a point that Americans clearly took to heart, as over 50 percent of them, according to a Gallup poll conducted this year, said they think that China is already the worlds leading economy, even though the U.S. economy is still more than twice as large (and with a per capita income seven times as high).
As with previous straight-line projections of economic trends, however-such as forecasts in the 1980s that Japan would soon be number one economically-later returns are throwing cold water on the extravagant predictions. With the world economy heading for its worst year since 2009, Chinese growth is slowing sharply, from double digits down to seven percent or even less. And the rest of the BRICs are tumbling, too: since 2008, Brazils annual growth has dropped from 4.5 percent to two percent; Russias, from seven percent to 3.5 percent; and Indias, from nine percent to six percent.
None of this should be surprising, because it is hard to sustain rapid growth for more than a decade. The unusual circumstances of the last decade made it look easy: coming off the crisis-ridden 1990s and fueled by a global flood of easy money, the emerging markets took off in a mass upward swing that made virtually every economy a winner. By 2007, when only three countries in the world suffered negative growth, recessions had all but disappeared from the international scene. But now, there is a lot less foreign money flowing into emerging markets. The global economy is returning to its normal state of churn, with many laggards and just a few winners rising in unexpected places. The implications of this shift are striking, because economic momentum is power, and thus the flow of money to rising stars will reshape the global balance of power. (节选自Foreign Affairs 全文网址?harma/broken-brics?page=show )
Section B Chinese to English
美中经济与安全评估委员会星期三出具了一份156页的报告，对中国公司的在美投资做了充满警惕的描述。它宣称来自中国的大型投资给美国制造的经济和安全风险就像潜在的特洛伊木马，这样的比喻颇令我们震惊。
一个简单的反应是：美国在华投资规模要大得多，很多公司同美国政府关系密切，按照上述报告提供的逻辑，中国境内现在已经有了多少潜在的特洛伊木马呢?
中国人这些年居然还睡得着觉，中国各地政府仍在积极对外招商引资，他们大概都该立刻警觉起来，抓美国在中国的特洛伊木马。
重要的是，中国没有美中经济与安全评估委员会这种专门拆两国经济合作台的机构设置，即使有哪个组织管闲事拿出类似的报告，告诉中国人微软和IBM等等都可能是潜在的颠覆中国的机构，写这些报告的人一定会在舆论场上被唾沫淹没。
中美的互视心态的确在出现历史性转变，过去时时刻刻担心美国亡我之心不死的中国人，开始变得或者豁达了，或者盲目乐观了。而原来什么都不在乎的美国人，突然有了草木皆兵的紧张，不仅中国间谍多多，而且在美的中资公司也都像是鬼鬼祟祟。
我们的确搞不清楚，这些警惕里面有多少成分是美国人的真实担忧，有多少成分是那些管事的美国人装蒜，那些奇奇怪怪的莫须有罪名或许只是他们搞经济保护的幌子。
全球化进程不断对国际分工的格局施加新压力，长期处在产业链最上游的美国渐渐有了危机感。过去帮助美欧跨国企业完成最佳性价比制造环节的中国公司，如今有一些开始了技术创新竞争以及投资竞争，它们被认为触动了美欧利益最肥厚的那一块，对一些国家的核心竞争力构成潜在威胁。
这样的情绪同星期三的那份报告有多少直接联系我们不清楚，但它们的确在西方世界、包括在美国精英中蔓延。我们可以体谅它们的出现，但为平息它们，决不能以中国的单方面让步做代价。如果我们纵容这些情绪肆无忌惮地转化成行动，那将意味着世界自由贸易体系倒下一张关键的多米诺骨牌，意味着中国坐视中资企业被肆意欺侮，坐视国家利益被随意侵犯。
美国需要克制在竞争和挑战面前的惊慌，克制用安全手段帮助本国公司解困的邪门歪道。美国需要以诚实的态度应对新兴国家的产业升级，美国如此强大，回旋空间充裕，美国要想永保世界第一位置，必须靠真功夫，而不能靠损人利己的投机取巧。
作为GDP总量刚到美国一半的发展中国家，要对美国苦口婆心讲如何正确竞争的道理，这真让我们意外，甚至都不好意思。美国实在不应耍赖皮，它有堂堂正正的资本，它应当像个超级大国的样子。
无独有偶，美国国际贸易委员会星期三决定对中国光伏产品征收反补贴和反倾销关税，中国的报复措施必将出现。如果说美国真的在衰落，本文说到的两个委员会决不是这种衰落的阻止者，而是推波助澜者。
作为GDP总量刚到美国一半的发展中国家，要对美国苦口婆心讲如何正确竞争的道理，这真让我们意外，甚至都不好意思。美国实在不应耍赖皮，它有堂堂正正的资本，它应当像个超级大国的样子
参考译文：An American committee, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (UCESRC) issued a 156-page report Wednesday, which gives detailed descriptions of Chinese companies investments in the US. It claims the security and economic risks posed by Chinas large-scale investments as a potential Trojan horse, which shocked us.
The US investment in China is of a much larger scale. Many companies have close ties with Washington. If we use the logic in the report, there are a great number of Trojan horses in China. If so, Chinese people should be wary of these Trojan horses, as local governments in China are busy courting foreign investment.
China doesnt have an organization like the UCESRC, which does nothing but destroy opportunities for mutual economic cooperation. Even if there was such a commission which issued a similar report, saying that Microsoft and IBM may overthrow China, those who wrote the report would be condemned.
The mentality with which China and the US see each other is changing. The Chinese, who have worried about US ambitions of subjugating China, have become positive, if not blindly so, while the Americans, who had no fear in the past, have become oversensitive, speculating as to the motives of Chinese companies.
We dont know whether these concerns are genuine, or whether the accusations are just a disguise for trade protectionism.
Globalization has affected the international distribution of industries. The US, which used to be at the top of the chain, is gradually feeling a sense of crisis. Chinese companies, which used to help their Western counterparts lower costs and boost efficiency, began to compete with them in terms of technology and investment. They are considered to be taking away the very interests of the West and posing a threat to their core competitiveness.
Such a mentality is spreading throughout the West. China cannot make one-sided sacrifices to eliminate it. If these suspicions became actions, we would expect that the free trade environment would be affected. If the US wants to remain the worlds No.1, it can only rely on its real strength rather than opportunism.
On Wednesday, the US International Trade Commission decided to issue anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders against Chinas photovoltaic industry. China will certainly respond. If the US is indeed in decline, then these two commissions are accomplices to this.