09级 英汉基础翻译练习
Passage 1
San Francisco
毕业自我鉴定San Francisco, open your Golden Gate, sang the girl in the theatre. She never finished her song. That date was 18th April, 1906. The earth shook and the roof suddenly divided, buildings crashed to the ground and people rushed out into the streets. The dreadful earthquake destroyed the city that had grown up when men discovered gold in the derts of California. But today the streets of San Francisco stretch over more than forty steep hills, rising like huge cliffs above the blue waters of the Pacific Ocean.
The best way to e this splendid city, where Spanish people were the first to make their homes, is to take one of the old cable cars which run along the nine main avenues. Fares are cheap; they have not rin, I’m told, for almost a hundred years.
You leave the palm trees in Union Square --- the heart of San Francisco --- and from the sh
op signs and the faces around you, you will notice that in the city live people from many nations --- Austrians, Italians, Chine and others --- giving each part a special character. More Chine live in China Town than in any other part of the world outside China. Here, with Chine restaurants, Chine post-boxes, and even odd telephone-boxes that look like pagodas, it is easy to feel you are in China itlf.
Fisherman’s Wharf, a place all foreigners want to e, is at the end of the ride. You get out, pau perhaps to help the other travelers to swing the cable car on its turntable (a city custom), and then t out to find a table in one of the gay little restaurants beside the harbor. As you enjoy the fresh Pacific afood you can admire the bright red paint of the Golden Gate Bridge in the harbor and watch the traffic crossing beneath the tall towers on its way to the pretty village of Tiberon.
我和我的影子Passage 2
NY City Seeks to Expand Lower-Cost Units
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The City Council yesterday approved the first major overhaul of the most popular tax break for apartment building developers, adopting a plan intended to induce them to build tens of thousands of apartments for people other than the wealthy.
The changes, which Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg supported and which would go into effect4 in 2008, significantly increa the areas of the city in which developers who want the tax break must make one out of every five apartments they build affordable to lower-income people. The boundaries of tho areas would be reconsidered every two years in light of trends in the housing market.
In addition, and for the first time in the 35-year history of the program, tho lower-priced apartments would have to be included in each building and could not be built elwhere in the city. There would be a cap on the size of the tax break given for market-rate apartments, to limit the degree to which the program might be said to subsidize gentrification.
The revid program would also include a $400 million trust fund for developing low － an
苔干菜d moderately priced housing, especially in the city’s 15 poorest neighborhoods in the city.
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Housing officials estimate that the program, which is said to have fueled the construction of 110,000 units since 1971, will generate 20,000 new units of lower-priced housing over the first 10 years. The apartments, for rent or sale, will be t aside for low-income New Yorkers.
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A New Nation
At 受的组词the beginning of the 20th century, Australia was an open and democratic “new world” society. In the abnce of a strongly defined aristocracy or ruling class, there was a n that one person was as good as another. It was commonly held that people made what they could of themlves, given their abilities.
The Commonwealth of Australia was formed in 1901 through the proclamation of the Constitution for the Federation of six states. The founders of Federation believed that the
y were creating something new and were concerned to avoid the pitfalls of the old world. They wanted Australia to be harmonious, united and egalitarian. They had progressive ideas about human rights, obrvance of democratic procedures and the value of a cret ballot.
They drew the line on matters of race, however; one of the first acts of the new Commonwealth Parliament was to pass the Immigration Restriction Act 1901, which ensured that immigrants would be of primarily European origin. (The 'White Australia' policy was gradually dismantled after World War II until by the mid-1970s it was totally abolished. Australia now has a non-discriminatory migration policy.) Numerous diver links with Britain existed, which many people continued to regard as “the mother country”. Australia's constitutional links with Britain have been progressively looned since that time.
The great champion of Federation was Sir Henry Parkes, who believed that Australia was ready for unity becau of “the vigor, the industry, the enterpri, the foresight, and the creative skill of its people” .
Passage 4
Americans with Bad Habits Claim “Excellent” Health
Nearly one in five U.S. workers claims to be in excellent health despite being overweight, smoking, drinking excessively or ldom exercising, according to a newly published survey. In the nationwide study of 1,450 employed adults relead by Oxford Health Plans Inc., 17 percent described their health as excellent but displayed not-so-excellent habits. Of tho people, 55 percent claimed they were at least 25 pounds (11 kg) overweight, 31 percent smoked, 21 percent drank at least three glass of alcohol a day, 29 percent drank at least four cups of coffee or tea, and 36 percent never exercid, it said. In addition, a quarter of them said they were likely to eat fried foods and salty or sugary snacks. “Denial is dangerous when it comes to your health. It exacts a heavy toll down the road,” Alan Muney, executive vice-president of Oxford, said in a statement. The study also showed people with healthier habits such as frequent exerci and good diet are most motivated at work, ranking 8.9 on a 10-point scale, and most uful on the job, s
coring 9 on a 10-point scale. Tho with the healthiest habits were the least likely to lo sleep over their jobs and least likely to miss personal or family activities due to work. Of tho workers with the most detrimental habits, 37 percent said they sat at their desks all day, 41 percent took no breaks at work and 18 percent were most likely to lo sleep over work.
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