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2016 年11 月英语三级笔译实务真题

英译汉

Harper Lee was an ordinary woman as stunned as anybody by the extraordinary success of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

“It was like being hit over the head and knocked cold,” Lee — who died Friday at age 89，said during a 1964 interview. “I didn’t expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers but at the same time I sort of hoped that maybe someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.”

哈珀?李(Harper Lee)是个普通的女人，和其他人一样，她惊叹于《杀死一只知更鸟》所取得的非凡成就。

哈珀?李周五去世，享年89 岁。她在1964 年接受采访时说道：“就像头部受打击后，晕过去了一样。一开始没料想这本书会上市，只希望审稿人对我仁慈些，快点把它毙掉，同时我又有点希望有人会喜欢这本书，并给我鼓励。”

“To Kill a Mockingbird” may not be the Great American Novel. But it’s likely the most universally known work of fiction by an American author over the past 70 years, Lee was cited for her subtle, graceful style and gift for explaining the world through a child’s eye, but the secret to the novel’s ongoing appeal was also in how many books this single book contained. 《杀死一只知更鸟》或许算不上伟大的美国小说，却很可能是过去70 年来美国作家创作的最广为人知的小说作品。哈珀?李笔触细腻，文风优美，善于透过孩子的视角描述世界，因而为人称道。而这部小说之所以能一直吸引读者，恐怕也是因为其涵盖了许多书的话题。

“To Kill a Mockingbird” was a coming-of-age story, a courtroom thriller, a Southern novel, a period piece, a drama about class, and — of course —a drama of race.” All I want to be is the Jane Austen of South Alabama,” she once observed.

The story of Lee is essentially the story of her book, and how she responded to it. She was a warm, vibrant and witty woman who played golf, fished, ate at McDonald’s, fed ducks by tossing seed corn out of a Cool Whip tub, read voraciously, and got about to plays and concerts. She just

didn’t want to talk about it before an audience.

《杀死一只知更鸟》是一本成长小说，一本法庭惊险小说，一部美国南方小说，一部历史剧，一部阶级戏剧，当然也是一部种族戏剧。李曾说，“我只想成为南亚拉巴马州的简?奥斯汀。”

这部小说所经历的故事以及她对这部小说的回应基本上李的人生写照。李热情活泼、诙谐风趣，她打高尔夫、钓鱼、吃麦当劳、拿清凉维普冰激凌杯里的玉米喂鸭子、贪婪地阅读、去剧院看戏听音乐会，只是她不愿在别人面前提及这些事情。

“To Kill a Mockingbird” was an instant and ongoing hit, published in 1960, as the civil rights m ovement was accelerating. It’s the story of a girl nicknamed Scout growing up in a Depression-era Southern town. A black man has been wrongly accused of raping a white woman, and Scout’s father, the resolute lawyer, defends him despite threats and the scorn of many.

the book won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a memorable movie in 1962.

“Mockingbird” inspired a generation of young lawyers and social workers, was assigned in high schools all over the country and was a popular choice for citywide, or nationwide, reading programs, although it was also occasionally removed from shelves for its racial content and references to rape.

《杀死一只知更鸟》在1960 年出版时一炮打响，并随着民权运动的不断发展而持续走红。小说讲述了大萧条时期在美国南方小镇上长大的一个绰号斯格特(Scout)的女孩的故事。一个黑人被诬告强奸一名白人女性，而斯格特的父亲则是一位坚定的律师，尽管受到许多人的

威胁和嘲讽，仍坚持为那个黑人辩护。

《纽约客》称赞该书“技巧娴熟，朴实无华，构思新颖”，该小说获普利策奖，并于1962年制作成传世电影。

《杀死一只知更鸟》这部小说激励了一代年轻律师和社会工作者，是全美高中的指定阅读书目，并成为全城甚至全国读者阅读计划的热门选择，虽然有时会因其含有种族内容、强奸情节而被下架。

By 2015, sales topped 40 million copies. When the Library of Congress did a survey in 1991 on books that have affected people’s lives, “To Kill a Mockingbird” was second only to the Bible.

famous. At first, she dutifully promoted her work. She spoke frequently to the press, wrote about herself and gave speeches, once to a class of cadets at West Point.

But she began declining interviews in the mid-1960s and, until late in her life, firmly avoided making any public comment about her novel or her career.

Her novel, while hugely popular, was not ranked by many scholars in the same category as the work of other Southern authors. Decades after its publication, little was written about it in scholarly journals. Some critics have called the book naive and sentimental, whether dismissing the Ku Klux Klan as a minor nuisance or advocating change through personal persuasion rather than collective action.

截止2015 年，该小说销量达4,000 万册。在1991 年美国国会图书馆做的一项关于影响人们生活的图书调查中，《杀死一只知更鸟》位列第二，仅次于《圣经》。

李的小说越来越出名，可是她本人却越来越少露面了。最初，她认真地推广过这部小说，经常上媒体，撰写自身经历，做演讲，并曾到西点军校的一个班上做过演讲。

然而，从20 世纪60 年代中期到她晚年，她渐渐谢绝媒体采访，并且坚决不发表有关她的小说或作家生涯的公开评论。

虽然李的小说广为流传，但是许多学者并未将其列入美国南方作家小说之列。在面世后的几十年里，学术期刊甚少提及这部小说。有些评论家称这部小说幼稚、感情用事，居然弱化了三K 党的恶行，还宣扬倚靠个人信念而非集体行动来改变现状。

本公司是一家大型国有房地产上市公司，国家一级房地产开发资质企业，连续五年荣膺中国房地产行业领导公司品牌。2006 年7 月，公司股票在上海证券交易所上市，截止至2014 年底，公司总资产突破3600 亿元，实现签约金额1366.76 亿元。本公司成立于1992 年，经过十年扎实发展，2002 年成功完成股份制改造，遂开始实施全国化战略，加强专业化运作，连续实现跨越式发展。

As a large state-owned listed real estate developer with national first class qualification, we have been standing out/ honored as a leading brand in China’s real estate sector for 5 consecutive years. We got listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in July 2006. By the end of 2014, we boasted total assets of more than RMB 360 billion and accumulated the value of signed contracts to RMB 136.676 billion. With 10 years of steady growth since the establishment in 1992, we completed the transformation to become a joint-stock enterprise in 2002. And then we began to implement a national marketing strategy and strengthen our professional operation, achieving continued leapfrog development.

目前，公司已完成以广州、北京、上海为中心，覆盖57 个城市的全国化战略布局，拥有292 家控股子公司，业务拓展到房地产开发、建筑设计、工程施工、物业管理、销售代理以及商业会展、酒店经营等相关行业。

Up to now, we have established a nation-wide strategic marketing network radiating from Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai to other 54 cities. Backed by 292 subsidiaries, we have expanded our business to include real estate development, building design, construction engineering, property management, sales agency service, commercial convention and exhibition service, hotel management, etc.

本公司坚持以商业住宅开发为主，适度发展持有经营性物业。在住宅开发方面，逐渐形成了四大产品系列，多元化优质住宅物业的先进创新格局，覆盖中高端住宅、公寓、别墅多种物业形态。囊括商业写字楼、高端休闲地产、星级酒店、商贸会展、购物中心、城市综合体等，具备多品类物业综合开发的实力。

We always prioritize the commercial housing development while keep moderate development in self-owned business properties. In terms of housing development, we have developed four advanced and innovative

property series characterized by diversity and high-quality, covering various properties including mid-to-high end residential buildings, apartments and villas. In terms of commercial property development, we operate office buildings, high-end leisure properties, star-rated hotels, convention & exhibition centers, shopping centers, urban complexes, etc., which demonstrates our capability of developing a wide range of real estate.

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