It was just one word in one email, but it triggered huge financial losses for a multinational company.
The message, written in English, was sent by a native speaker to a colleague for whom English was a second language. Unsure of the word, the recipient found two contradictory meanings in his dictionary. He acted on the wrong one. 继续阅读 CATTI英语笔译实务(3级)2017年11月考试真题与参考译文
All Luciano Faggiano wanted when he purchased the seemingly unremarkable building at 56 Via Ascanio Grandi, was to open a restaurant. The only problem was the toilet. Sewage kept backing up. So Mr. Faggiano enlisted his two older sons to help him dig a trench and investigate. He predicted the job would take about a week. “We found underground corridors and other rooms, so we kept digging,” said Mr. Faggiano, 60. His search for a sewage pipe, which began in 2000, became one family’s tale of discovery. 继续阅读 CATTI英语笔译实务(3级)2017年5月考试真题与答案
Harper Lee was an ordinary woman as stunned as anybody by the extraordinary success of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
“It was like being hit over the head and knocked cold,” Lee — who died Friday at age 89，said during a 1964 interview. “I didn’t expect the book to sell in the first place. 继续阅读 CATTI英语笔译实务(3级)2016年11月考试真题及答案
Old people in Widou Thiengoly say they can remember when there were so many trees that you couldn’t see the sky.Now, miles of reddish-brown sand surround this village in northwestern Senegal, dotted with occasional bushes and trees. Dried animal dung is scattered everywhere, but hardly any dried grass is. 继续阅读 CATTI英语笔译实务(3级)2016年5月考试真题与答案
The Republic of Ireland is a sovereign state in Western Europe, occupying about five-sixths of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, whose metropolitan area is home to around a third of the country’s 4.6 million inhabitants. 继续阅读 CATTI英语笔译实务(3级)2015年11月考试真题及答案
For generations, coal has been the lifeblood of this mineral-rich stretch of eastern Utah. Mining families proudly recall all the years they toiled underground. Supply companies line the town streets. Above the road that winds toward the mines, a soot-smudged miner peers out from a billboard with the slogan “Coal = Jobs.” 继续阅读 CATTI英语笔译实务(3级)2015年5月考试真题
Section 1： English–Chinese Translation (50points)
Stroll through the farmers’ market and you will heara plethora of languages and see a rainbow offaces. Drive down Canyon Road and stop for halalmeat or Filipino pork belly at adjacent markets.Along the highway, browse the aisles of a giant Asian supermarket stocking fresh napa cabbageand mizuna or fresh kimchi. Head toward downtown and you’ll see loncheras — taco trucks —on street corners and hear Spanish bandamusic. On the city’s northern edge, you can sampleIndian chaat. 继续阅读 CATTI英语笔译实务(3级)2013年11月考试真题及答案
Section 1: English-Chinese Translation (英译汉)(50 points)
HIGUERA DE LA SERENA, Spain — It didn’t take long for Manuel García Murillo, a bricklayer who took over as mayor here last June, to realize that his town was in trouble. It was 800,000 euros, a little more than $1 million, in the red. There was no cash on hand to pay for anything — and there was work that needed to be done. 继续阅读 CATTI英语笔译实务(3级)2013年5月考试真题及答案
