2013年考研英语复习资料：读译参考

kyfive

        　　Klinsmann's castle
        　　克林斯曼的去留(陈继龙 编译)
        　　(译者按：“castle”一词乍一看是“城堡”的意思，但似乎与全文主旨并无多大关系。所以，需要注意“castle”另一个意思，那就是指国际象棋中的“车”，它可以顺着平行于棋盘边的路随便走多少方格,假如没有其它棋子阻挡的话，也可译为“rook”。而文章的中心思想恰好就是“改革遭遇阻力的克林斯曼何去何从”。另外，注意中国象棋中的“车”为“chariot”。)
        　　Jun 8th 2006 | BERLIN
        　　From The Economist print edition
        　　EVERY time Germany wins football's World Cup, some pundits[1] assert, the country takes a turn for the better. Thus 1954 saw the start of the economic miracle, 1974 the birth of modern Germany and 1990 unification. The causality seems implausible, although some economists are talking up the 2006 t________①, which starts this weekend, and is being staged (like 1974's) in Germany. (1)A clearer link exists between the country and its football association (DFB), since they display similar strengths and weaknesses.
        　　权威人士断言，每逢德国赢得世界杯足球赛冠军，这个国家的状况就会好转，例如，1954年开始的经济奇迹，1974年现代化德国的诞生以及1990年实现统一。某些经济学家现在正大肆宣扬本周末将在德国举行(与1974年一样)的2006年世界杯(译者按：talk up意为“to make something appear more important, interesting, successful etc than it really is”，即“大加吹捧，大肆宣扬”)，但这里面的因果联系看似并不可信，倒是该国与其足协(DFB)之间存在一种较为明显的联系，因为它们有着相似的优缺点。

kytwo

        　　Hard to digest
        　　不好消化(陈继龙 编译)
        　　Jun 2nd 2006
        　　From The Economist print edition
        　　BACTERIA, like people, can be divided into friend and foe. Inspired by evidence that the friendly sort may help with a range of ailments[1], many people c________① bacteria in the form of yogurts and dietary supplements.(1) Such a smattering[2] of artificial additions, however, represents but a drop in the ocean. There are at least 800 types of bacteria living in the human gut. And research by Steven Gill of the Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Maryland, and his colleagues, published in this week's Science, suggests that the collective genome of these organisms is so large that it contains 100 times as many genes as the human genome itself.
        　　细菌和人一样也有敌我之分。有益的细菌有助于防治多种疾病已经得到证实，这使得许多人都食用细菌制成的酸奶以及补品。然而，人为地补充这么一点点，只能是杯水车薪。人消化道内生活着至少800种细菌。马里兰州洛克威尔基因组研究中心的史蒂文·吉尔及其同事们在本周《科学》杂志上发表的一篇研究报告认为，这些生物体有着庞大的宏基因组，所包含的基因总数是人类基因组的100倍。
        　　Dr Gill and his team were able to come to this conclusion by extracting bacterial DNA from the faeces of two volunteers. Because of the complexity of the samples, they were not able to reconstruct the e_______② genomes of each of the gut bacteria, just the individual genes. But that allowed them to make an estimate of numbers.
        　　吉尔博士和他的研究小组是通过提取两位志愿者粪便中的细菌DNA后得出这一结论的。鉴于标本的复杂性，他们无法重建消化道所有细菌的全部基因组，而只构建了个别基因。但这使得他们能够对基因总数作出估计。

kyone

        　　Investing in art
        　　Monet1-maker
        　　摇钱画(陈继龙 编译)
        　　(译者按：Monet-maker可能谐形谐义自money-maker，后者指“会赚大笔大笔钱的人”或“赚钱的东西”又或“赚钱的生意”，而本文所分析的艺术品投资也正是指的是当前人们将印象派创始人Monet等名家的作品作为投资对象，以获取高额利润。)
        　　Jun 1st 2006
        　　From The Economist print edition
        　　EVER since the 1870s, when a group of French landscape painters produced work d__________① unacceptable for the Paris Salon but went on to sell rather well, malnourished artists have comforted themselves with the thought that the market would one day put a proper value on their work. For many (mostly long-dead) artists, this finally appears to be happening. (1)Investors in financial assets may have had a jumpy few weeks, but salesrooms have notched up[1] record prices in May.
        　　19世纪70年代，一群法国风景画家的作品被认为登不了巴黎画展的大雅之堂，可销路却一直很好。从那以后，“营养不良”的画家们就总是想“市场早晚会给他们的作品一个合适的估价”，聊以自慰。对于许多画家而言，最后好像确实梦想成真了(大多数是在去世多年以后)。过去几周，金融资产投资者们的日子也许过得心惊肉跳，可拍卖行却拍出了5月份的最高成交价。

kyone

        　　The kindest cut
        　　最友善的砍伐(陈继龙 编译)
        　　May 25th 2006
        　　From The Economist print edition
        　　DEPRESSING reports about how quickly the world's tropical forests are being f________① are commonplace. But depressing reports about the state of the trees that are still standing are much rarer. In fact, a new study from the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO), an offshoot of the United Nations, claims to be the first exhaustive survey of tropical-forest management ever undertaken. Its findings, although grim, do contain a kernel[1] of hope.
        　　有关全球热带森林遭到乱砍滥伐、令人痛心的报道极为常见，但是痛陈现存林木状况的报道却少之又少。事实上，联合国分支机构——国际热带木材组织(ITTO)新近开展的一项研究，据称是首次对热带森林管理现状进行深入调查。其发现虽然令人沮丧，但从中我们还是看到了一线希望。
        　　The ITTO examined “permanent forest estate”, meaning land that the governments of its 33 members have formally set aside for forests, and is therefore subject to some form of regulation or protection. The category includes both national parks and timber concessions, in both public and p________② hands. It covers 814m hectares, and accounts for roughly two-thirds of the world's tropical forests.
        　　ITTO调查的对象是“永久性森林地产”，也就是被ITTO所属33个成员国政府正式划作森林地域，从而受到某种形式的管理或保护的土地。它涉及国家森林公园和木材的特许经营，包括国营和私营。地产总面积达8.14亿公顷，约占全球热带森林面积的三分之二。

kytwo

        　　Another big hug
        　　另类热情拥抱(陈继龙 编译)
        　　May 18th 2006 | CAIRO
        　　From The Economist print edition
        　　“THE United States is a damned country that deserves only to be cursed. It declares its own occupation of our lands legitimate, but brands our resistance as terrorists.” This was not the Libyan leader, Muammar Qaddafi, speaking 20 years ago, when his country was a pariah[1] and he was the butt[2] of international scorn. The words were spoken only last month, by the Libyan parliament's deputy speaker, Ahmed Ibrahim, at a g________① in Tripoli, Libya's capital, to commemorate its bombing by American aircraft in 1986.
        　　“美国是一个可恶的国家，理所当然应该受到诅咒。它口口声声说占领我们的国土是合法的，却诬蔑我们的抵抗力量是恐怖分子。”这不是利比亚领导人穆阿迈尔 卡扎菲20前说的，那个时候利比亚是一个世所不容的国家，卡扎菲也被国际间当作嘲弄的对象。这话出自利比亚国会发言人艾哈迈德 易布拉希姆之口，他上个月刚刚在利比亚首都的黎波里举行的一次集会上说了这番话。此次集会旨在纪念1986年美国飞机轰炸利比亚事件。
        　　Mr Ibrahim's stridency[3] was, perhaps, inspired by America's decision, in March, to keep Libya on its official list of state sponsors of terrorism, a dubious distinction it has held since 1979. All the more striking, then, that the American administration should have decided, this week, to restore full diplomatic relations.
        　　易布拉希姆的话之所以如此不中听，可能是因为今年3月美国决定继续将利比亚列入官方的“支持恐怖主义国家”名单——从1979年起，利比亚就开始享有此项有争议的“殊荣”。可接下来让人错愕不已的是，本周美国政府竟然决定全面恢复同利比亚的外交关系。

kytwo

        　　Football fiasco
        　　一败涂地的足球(陈继龙 编译)
        　　May 18th 2006 | WASHINGTON, DC
        　　From The Economist print edition
        　　SILVIO BERLUSCONI says it was a rigged[1] contest that his side won. Not Italy's election: its football championship. His team, AC Milan, finished second in both the past two seasons to Juventus. (1)But the Turin team is at the centre of a match-fixing scandal that may be the biggest even this country has seen. On May 16th, less than a month before the start of the soccer World Cup in Germany, Italy's top sporting body, the Olympic committee, put the national football federation under emergency rule. The federation's president had q_______① after claims that he ignored evidence of misconduct by officials, referees and players. The committee chose a 75-year-old former stockmarket regulator, Guido Rossi, in his place.
        　　西尔维奥 贝鲁斯科尼说，他那一方赢的是一场被操纵的比赛。他这说的不是意大利选举，而是足球赛。他的AC米兰队在过去两个赛季都排在尤文图斯之后居于次席。但是尤文图斯(注：尤文图斯俱乐部位于意大利西北部城市都灵)目前正陷入意大利有史以来最大的一件操纵比赛的丑闻漩涡之中。(译者按：“fix”在这里是“操控，操纵”的意思，“this country has seen”本义是“该国所见证的”，意译为“有史以来”。)5月16日，亦即距德国世界杯开幕不到一个月的时候，意大利最高体育组织——奥委会对国家足协实行了紧急管制。由于被指称对比赛官员、裁判以及球员的不轨表现坐视不理，足协主席已经离任，奥委会挑选了75岁的前股市调节员吉多 罗西接替他的位置。
       
                （责任编辑 陈奕璇）