17届非英决赛试题(笔译)

湖北省第十七届外语翻译大赛英语非专业笔译组决赛试题

姓 名： 学校 ： 电话： I.Translate the following English passage into Chinese:

The Earth is full! Four billion people have crammed into every desirable and fruitful area and have spilled over into all the barren and inhospitable areas. Under the pressure of the fullness, the wilderness is disappearing, competing plants and animals are dying out; the weather is changing and the soil is failing. And yet there is perhaps an even more fundamental danger to humanity in the Earth’s fullness than is represented by any sort of physical deterioration. Humanity began as a thin cluster of primitive hominids in East Africa about four million years ago. About two million years ago, the first hominids appeared who were sufficiently close in structure to the human being to be placed into genus Homo. It was not until 150,000 years ago that the hominid brain developed to a size sufficient to produce the first organisms we can classify as Homo sapiens, and it was only 50,000 years ago that “modern man”, Homo sapiens, made his appearance on the Earth. (I. Asimov: Our Destiny in Space)

II.Translate the following Chinese passage into English:

奥运会是具有多项竞技项目的国际性体育赛事，分为夏季奥运会和冬季奥运会，每隔四年举行一次。在1992年之前，夏季和冬季奥运会是同年召开的；自1992年以后，则改为相隔两年召开。

夏季奥运会有20多个体育比赛项目，包括游泳、篮球、足球、体操、拳击、举重、帆船、自行车、马术。滑雪、滑冰和冰球是冬季奥运会7个项目中的3项。比赛者必须是他或她所代表的国家的公民。一个国家参加任何一项比赛的选手不能超过3名（冬奥会不超过4名），并且只能派一个代表队参加团体体育比赛项目。

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