笔译二级实务（综合）模拟试卷43
必做题
1.The men in the woods do not call home with the truth, though. They send pictures of themselves posing next to Mercedes cars parked on the street, the kind of pictures that Mr. Jallow says he fell for so many years ago.
即便如此，住在森林里的这些人打电话回家时也不会坦露实情。他们寄回家的照片，都是跑去街上，站在梅赛德斯汽车旁拍的。贾洛说。多年前他自己也对这类照片信以为真。
解析：也许考生对fall for sth. 这一搭配较为陌生，但结合前文提到的关键词truth。移民们不会对家人坦露实情，可推断贾洛也曾经被这些照片欺骗，对它们信以为真。实际上fall for sth. 就是指to be tricked into believing sth that is not true，对某物信以为真。
2.If this history only later became clear, what was immediately obvious was that finding the pipe would be a much bigger project than Mr. Faggiano had anticipated.
即使法贾诺是之后才了解清楚这些历史，但他当时立刻就明白，寻找下水管道的工程量远远超出了自己的预期。
解析：第2个Was后的内容是表语从句，翻译时直接按原文语序译出即可。
3.People who receive clean water are much less likely to die from water-borne diseases.
如果人们能获得清洁干净的水，死于水传染疾病的概率就会大大降低。
解析：are much less likely to…直译为“更少可能……”，这里可以将likely转换成名同，译为“……的概率(或可能性)大大降低”。
4.In the past two quarters, gross domestic product has risen by more than 3％, the stock market is soaring and unemployment is down to a 17-year low of 4.1％.
在过去2个季度，国内生产总值(GDP)增长超3％，股市飙升，失业率降至4.1％，创17年来新低。
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5.Her finding, published in Nature in 1964, that chimpanzees use tools—extracting insects from a termite mound with leaves of grass—drastically altered humanity’s understanding of itself; man was no longer the natural world’s only user of tools.
1964年，她的研究成果在《自然》杂志上发表，该成果证明黑猩猩也能使用工具，能够用草叶从白蚁丘中挖食白蚁，这使得人类对自身的认知由此发生了翻天覆地的变化——人类不再是地球上唯一能使用工具的物种。
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6.The country’s diverse scenery and compact size, plus government incentives, have encouraged some producers to film big-budget movies in New Zealand.
新西兰国土狭小而风光多姿多彩，再加上政府推行多种激励措施，因此吸引了一批电影制片商到新西兰拍摄大制作电影。
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7.What would happen, Mr. Woodland wondered one day, if Morse code, with its elegant simplicity and limitless combinatorial potential, were adapted graphically?
有一天伍德兰先生想，摩尔斯电码巧妙简洁，还可以进行无限次的组合，如果将这种密码改编成图形会怎么样呢?
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8.The Turtle acres, then, would have seemed almost as surrounded as they do in 2010, but by forest instead of highways and houses.
那时的塔特尔农场四周森林环绕，而如今到了2010年，取而代之的则是一条条公路和一座座房屋。
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必做题
9.但令人沮丧的是。这是一位游客用黑色马克笔潦草书写的涂鸦，他用这种挑衅的方式来嘲讽其上方写着同样一句话的塑料指示牌。(scrawl；mock)
Unfortunately, the instruction, scrawled in black marker, was the defiant graffiti of a visitor who had decided to mock the plastic sign just above it by saying the same thing.
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10.其中一位开拓者欧内斯特.加斯顿(Ernest Gaston)写道，在那里他们将建造“一座山上的城市，把它的仁慈之光洒向全世界”。(shedding its beneficent light to…)
There, wrote one of the founders, Ernest Gaston, these pioneers would build \\
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11.在大致勾勒戴安娜一生的过程中，影片穿插了对两位王子的采访。(move in and out. of…)
The film moves in and out of the interview with the princes as it loosely sketches Diana’s life.
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12.他们中的许多人每天通过分享自己的想法、照片和糗事，获得来自数百名“好友”的赞扬或嘲笑来消磨时光。(while away)
Many of them while away their days broadcasting their thoughts, photos and lapses in judgment for immediate praise or scorn from hundreds of \\
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13.心理疾病除了给员工带来巨大的痛苦外，它还不可避免地导致缺勤和不佳的表现。(as well as：lead to)
As well as severe distress, mental health problems inevitably lead to absente
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