笔译二级实务（综合）模拟试卷54
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1. Mexico City’s Roma has long been a place of secrets and spells, where the boundary between real and imaginary dances like clothes fluttering in the breeze on the barrio’s rooftop washing-lines.
Those celestial laundries feature in Roma, Alfonso Cuarón’s cinematic memoir, a movie that transports its viewers to the then-faded district a couple of miles to the west of the ancient centre of the vast sprawl that is Mexico City. It has already won four Baftas and received a rapturous 10 nominations for this year’s Oscars, including for best director and best film.
Roma has a grand hinterland, as its ornate, fin de siecle mansions, with their shuttered French windows and intricate balconies, suggest. Some of them have been redeveloped, of which the best-known is Casa Lamm, now an upmarket arts centre-cum-restaurant-cum-bookshop. The area’s heyday was in the first half of the 2oth century, when it became the desirable neighbourhood for wealthy Europeans; by the time Leonora and her fellow emigre artists arrived, refugees from the second world war, it was beginning to fade.
That continued through Cuaron’s childhood; perhaps the director’s decision to shoot his movie in black and white reflects it. But the spacious houses were there, as Roma’s lingering shots depict: open-plan living rooms, internal courtyards, Bauhaus-style windows, open-air iron staircases leading to the rooftop laundries.
Leonora’s house is five minutes’ walk from Cuaron’s; the movie was shot on the street where he grew up, Tepeji, in the house opposite his family’s own.
The biggest blow to Roma’s fortunes came suddenly and without warning, 15 years or so after the year in which the film is set. An 8.1-magnitude earthquake devastated the city, killing 5,000, and Roma was one of the barrios that was hardest-hit. The disaster’s legacy remains: the churned-up, uneven pavements on some side roads; the occasional still-ruined building, usually housing stray cats. The area’s rehabilitation was slow, and in some ways it continues, but the run-down ambience led to cheap rents and a way of life that was affordable for a new generation of artists, and their influence has helped shape its current air of bohemianism.
Roma’s cafes and bars are lively places. The most popular ones include Buna Cafe, great for people-watching; Borola Cafe with its airy interior and wide range of delicious coffees; and the tiny roadside shacks, where you can buy a beverage to go or linger in the sunshine, drinking it all in.
Roma is the area’s stylish eclecticism that gives it the edge. It seems to have taken the essence of this complicated, busy, gritty, art-fixated, colourful, musical city and made it its own: but it’s not touristy like Coyoacán, where Frida Kahlo lived, or high-rise like Polanco, where American business people flock. It’s not expensive like ultra-fashionable Condesa, or crowded like the Zocalo, the city’s historic heart. And it’s a proper neighbourhood, where frequent visitors know the bartenders and the baristas, the porters in the hotel hallway and the friendly staff in the local launderette.
墨西哥城的罗马区一直是充满着神秘与魔力的地方。在那里，真实与想象的界限并不分明，就像街区屋顶晾衣绳上的衣服随风飘动一般。
这一场景在阿方索.卡隆(Alfonso Cuarón)的电影回忆录《罗马》(Roma)中亦占据重要地位。这部电影把观众带到距离墨西哥城这片广阔土地的历史中心以西几英里处，当时这个地区已经衰落了。《罗马》已经赢得了4项英国电影学院奖(Bafta)。令人欣喜的是，它还获得了包括最佳导演
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