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#备战18年5月CATTI三级笔译#20180413练习题目发布#

1. 英译汉

Effect of the great depression

It is difficult to measure the human cost of the Great Depression. The material hardships were bad enough. Men and women lived in lean-tos made of scrap wood and metal, and families went without meat and fresh vegetables for months, existing on a diet of soup and beans. The psychological burden was even greater: Americans suffered through year after year of grinding poverty with no letup in sight. The unemployed stood in line for hours waiting for relief checks, veterans sold apples or pencils on street corners, their manhood—once prized so highly by the nation—now in question. People left the city for the countryside but found no salvation on the farm. Crops rotted in the fields because prices were too low to make harvesting worthwhile; sheriffs fended off angry crowds as banks foreclosed long overdue mortgages on once prosperous farms.

2.汉译英

戴安娜·德隆佐尔在她的《不再迟到》一书中写道：虽然有些人会从让别人等待中找到乐趣，但正常人还是很讨厌迟到，纵然如此，迟到仍是你的克星。”

迟到的借口

一些迟到的借口，特别是事关紧急性迟到，已经被普遍接受——例如偶发事故或突发疾病。但其他借口就不太能让人接受。一些迟到的人会把它归因为自己思考太多，关注的事情优先度高于时间，这个可爱的举措是在压力之下做事情尽职尽责的体现，或者说其生物钟是“晚起猫头鹰型”而非“早起云雀型”。