[摘要]
2008同等学力考试翻译部分练习
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The worlds third largest producer of electronics China is already the worlds third largest producer of electronics, and becoming a player in the global applian...
2008同等学力考试翻译部分练习
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The worlds third largest producer of electronics China is already the worlds third largest producer of electronics, and becoming a player in the global appliance market. Twenty years ago, U.S., European and Japanese companies started moving into China to supply the local market with household goods. Now those same companies are getting whipped by Chinese competitors. Over te past six years, the market share of foreign TV makers in China has dropped from 70 percent to less than 20 percent. Matsushita opened the first microwave-oven plant in China in 1995. Two years later the Chinese company Galanz started making microwaves and selling them for half Matsushitas price. Chinese companies now make more than 43 million TVs yearly. Konka, one of Chinas largest TV makers, sells its branded TVs in the United States, and has set up factories in Mexico to service the American market; While TCL, another major TV maker, exported 11 million units from its Chinese factories last year. It has more Southeast Asian factories than any other Chinese company. (164 words)
中国已经是世界第三大电器生产国,并且正在成为全球电器市场上的主角。20年前,美国、欧洲和日本公司开始进入中国,向当地市场提供了家用电器。如今这些公司却被中国竞争对手搞得焦头烂额。在过去六年中,外国电视生产厂家在中国市场上所占的份额已经从70%下降到不足20%。松下公司1995年在中国开办第一家生产微波炉的工厂。两年之后,中国格兰仕公司开始生产微波炉,其销售价格仅为松下微波炉的一半。
中国公司现在每年可以生产4300多万台电视机。深圳康佳电子(集团)股份有限公司是中国生产电视机的最大厂家之一,其产品已经远销美国,并且在墨西哥建立了几家工厂,以便向美国市场提供产品。TCL是中国又一家生产电视机的大型公司。去年,它出口了1100万台电视机。它在东南亚设立的工厂要比中国内地的还要多。
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The China boom is by now a well-documented phenomenon. Who hasnt heard of the Middle Kingdoms astounding economic growth (8 percent annually), its mesmerizing consumer market (1.2 billion people), the investment ardor of foreign suitors ($40 billion in foreign direct investment last year alone)? China is an economic juggernaut. According to Nicholas Lardy of the Brookings Institution, a Washington D.C.-based think tank, "No country has expanded its foreign trade as fast as China over the last 20 years. Japan doubled its foreign trade over a 20-year period; Chinas foreign trade as quintupled. Theyve become the pre-eminent producer of labor-intensive manufacturing goods in the world." But theres been something missing from the dazzling China growth story-namely, the Chinese multinational. No major Chinese companies have yet established themselves, or their brands, on the global stage. But as Haier shows, that is starting to change. After 100 years of poverty and chaos, of being overshadowed by foreign countries and multinationals, Chinese industrial companies are starting to make a mark on the world. (170 words)
如今中同的经济繁荣已经批一种得到充分证实的现象了。难道还有谁还没有听说过中国令人目眩的经济发展(年增长率高达8%)、颇具魅力的消费市场(拥有12亿消费者)和外国投资者的投资热情(仅去年一年的外国直接投资就高达400亿美元)吗?中国的经济力量已经势不可挡。华盛顿一家智囊机构布鲁金斯学会的尼占拉斯?拉迪说:"在过去20年中,世界上没有任何一个国家的外贸发展速度像中国那么快。日本用了20多年时间才将其外贸总额翻了一番,而中国却翻了两番。他们已经成为世界上劳动密集型产品的主要生产商了。"不过,在这个令人目眩的中国发展故事中似乎缺少了一种什么东西,即中国跨国公司所扮演的角色。中国还没有一家大型公司在全球舞台上确立了自己的地位或品牌。但是,正如海尔公司所显示的那样,这种情况正在开始发生变化。经受了长达100年的贫穷、动乱以及长期笼罩在外国及其跨国公司的阴影下之后,中国工业公司开始对世界产生影响了。
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Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. It was , of course, a perfect day 70 deg and flawless skies, perfect for a nervous pilot who has stolen a huge jet and intends to turn it into a missile. It was a Boeing 767 from Boston, American Airlines Flight 11 bound for Los Angeles with 81 passengers, that first got the attention of air traffic controllers. The plane took off at 7:59 a.m. and headed west, over the Adirondacks, before taking a sudden turn south and diving down toward the heart of New York City. Meanwhile American Flight 757 had left Dulles; United Flight 175 left Boston at 7:58, and United Flight 93 left Newark three minutes later, bound for San Francisco. All climbed into beautiful clear skies, all four planes on transcontinental flights, plump with fuel, ripe to explode. "The