2024年全国翻译专业资格（水平）英语二级笔译实务试题（网友回忆版）
二级笔译实务
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更新于 2026-09-29
一、英译汉
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Mortgage rates dropped again this week , after plunging nearly half a percentage point last week. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6. 58 percent in the week ending November 23 , down from 6. 61 percent the week before. A year ago , the 30-year fixed rate was 3. 10 percent. Mortgage rates rose throughout most of 2022 , spurred by the Federal Reserve's unprecedented campaign of hiking interest rates in order to tame soaring inflation. But last week , rates tumbled aimed reports that indicated ion may have finally reached its peak.
This volatility is making it difficult for potential home buyers to know , when to get into the market , and that is reflected in the latest data which shows existing home sales slowing across all price points. Mortgage rates tend to track the yield on 10-year US Treasury bonds. As investors see or anticipate rate hikes , they make moves which send yields higher and mortgage rates rise. The 10-year Treasury has been hovering in a lower range of 3. 7 percent to 3. 85 percent. That has led to a big reset in investors expectations about future interest rate hikes. Prior to that , the 10-year Treasury had risen above 4. 2 percent. However , the market maybe be a bit too quick to celebrate the improvement in inflation.
At the Fed's November meeting , chairman Jerome Powell to the need for ongoing rate hikes to tame inflation. This could mean that mortgage rates may climb again , and that risk goes up if next month's inflation reading comes in on the higher side while it's difficult to time the market in order to get a low mortgage rate , plenty of would be home buyers are seeing a window of opportunity. Following generally higher mortgage rates throughout the course of 2022 , the recent swing in buyers favor is welcome and could save the buyer of a median-priced home more than Us s100 per month relative to what they would have paid when rates were above 7 percent just two weeks ago.
As a result of the drop in mortgage rates , both purchase and refinance applications picked up slightly last week. But refinance activity is still more than 80 percent below l ast years pace when rates were around 3. However , with week-to-week swings in mortgage rates averaging nearly three times those seen in a typical year and home prices still historically high , many potential shoppers have pulled back. A long-term housing shortage is keeping home prices high , even as the number of homes on the market for sales has increased , and buyers and sellers may find it more challenging align expectations on price.
This volatility is making it difficult for potential home buyers to know , when to get into the market , and that is reflected in the latest data which shows existing home sales slowing across all price points. Mortgage rates tend to track the yield on 10-year US Treasury bonds. As investors see or anticipate rate hikes , they make moves which send yields higher and mortgage rates rise. The 10-year Treasury has been hovering in a lower range of 3. 7 percent to 3. 85 percent. That has led to a big reset in investors expectations about future interest rate hikes. Prior to that , the 10-year Treasury had risen above 4. 2 percent. However , the market maybe be a bit too quick to celebrate the improvement in inflation.
At the Fed's November meeting , chairman Jerome Powell to the need for ongoing rate hikes to tame inflation. This could mean that mortgage rates may climb again , and that risk goes up if next month's inflation reading comes in on the higher side while it's difficult to time the market in order to get a low mortgage rate , plenty of would be home buyers are seeing a window of opportunity. Following generally higher mortgage rates throughout the course of 2022 , the recent swing in buyers favor is welcome and could save the buyer of a median-priced home more than Us s100 per month relative to what they would have paid when rates were above 7 percent just two weeks ago.
As a result of the drop in mortgage rates , both purchase and refinance applications picked up slightly last week. But refinance activity is still more than 80 percent below l ast years pace when rates were around 3. However , with week-to-week swings in mortgage rates averaging nearly three times those seen in a typical year and home prices still historically high , many potential shoppers have pulled back. A long-term housing shortage is keeping home prices high , even as the number of homes on the market for sales has increased , and buyers and sellers may find it more challenging align expectations on price.
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I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates good will between the nations, and that if only the common people of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield. Even if one didn't know from concrete examples that international sporting contests lead to orgies of hated, one could deduce it from general principles.
Nearly all sports nowadays are competitive. You play to win, and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win. On the village green, where you play and no fading of local patriotism is invaded , it is possible to play simply for fun and exercise; but as soon as the question of prestige arises, as soon as fell that you and same larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are aroused. Anyone who has played even in a school football match knows this.
At the international level sport is frankly mimic warfare. But the significant thing is not the behavior of the players but the attitude of the spectators; and behind the spectators, of the nations who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe, at any rate for short periods, that running, jumping and kicking
a ball are tests of national virtue.
As soon as strong feelings of rivalry are aroused, the nation of playing the game according to the rules ate always vanishes. People want to see the one side on top and the other side humiliated and they forget that victory gained through cheating or through intervention of the crowd is meaningless. Even when the spectators don ’ t intervene physically they try to influence the game by cheering their own side and rating opposing players with boos and insults. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words, it is war minus the shooting.
I do not, of course, suggest that sport is one of the main causes of international rivalry; big-scale sport is itself, I think, merely another effect of the causes that have produced nationalism. Still, you do make things worse by sending forth a team of eleven men, labeled as national champions, to do battle against some rival team, and allowing it to be felt on all sides that whichever nation is defeated will“lose face There are quite enough real cause of trouble already, and we need not add to them by encouraging young men to kick each other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators.
Nearly all sports nowadays are competitive. You play to win, and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win. On the village green, where you play and no fading of local patriotism is invaded , it is possible to play simply for fun and exercise; but as soon as the question of prestige arises, as soon as fell that you and same larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are aroused. Anyone who has played even in a school football match knows this.
At the international level sport is frankly mimic warfare. But the significant thing is not the behavior of the players but the attitude of the spectators; and behind the spectators, of the nations who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe, at any rate for short periods, that running, jumping and kicking
a ball are tests of national virtue.
As soon as strong feelings of rivalry are aroused, the nation of playing the game according to the rules ate always vanishes. People want to see the one side on top and the other side humiliated and they forget that victory gained through cheating or through intervention of the crowd is meaningless. Even when the spectators don ’ t intervene physically they try to influence the game by cheering their own side and rating opposing players with boos and insults. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words, it is war minus the shooting.
I do not, of course, suggest that sport is one of the main causes of international rivalry; big-scale sport is itself, I think, merely another effect of the causes that have produced nationalism. Still, you do make things worse by sending forth a team of eleven men, labeled as national champions, to do battle against some rival team, and allowing it to be felt on all sides that whichever nation is defeated will“lose face There are quite enough real cause of trouble already, and we need not add to them by encouraging young men to kick each other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators.
二、汉译英
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2020年12月2日 , 教育部回应了全国人大代表提出的预防未成年人犯罪的速议。
教育部表示 , 随着我国经济社会的迅速发展 , 未成年人犯罪出现了低年龄、低学历的趋势。教育部非常重视预防未成年人犯罪的问题 , 将加强与有关部门协同配合、综合施策、共同发力 , 切实提高预防未成年人犯罪工作的针对性、实效性。具体措施如下：
一是积极推动有关法律法规的修订工作 , 为预防未成年人犯罪工作提供有利的法制保障。
二是持续开展法治教育 , 倡导各地强化品德修养和校规校纪教育 , 引导学生形成规则意识和法治观念。
三是有效发挥好家校协同作用 , 编制家庭教育指导手册 , 帮助家长树立科学的教育观念 , 营造良好的家庭教育环境。
四是为未成年人成长营造健康的网络环境。
五是加大教育惩戒力度 , 对施行欺凌和暴力的中小学生必须依法依规采取适当的矫治措施予以教育惩戒。
教育部表示 , 随着我国经济社会的迅速发展 , 未成年人犯罪出现了低年龄、低学历的趋势。教育部非常重视预防未成年人犯罪的问题 , 将加强与有关部门协同配合、综合施策、共同发力 , 切实提高预防未成年人犯罪工作的针对性、实效性。具体措施如下：
一是积极推动有关法律法规的修订工作 , 为预防未成年人犯罪工作提供有利的法制保障。
二是持续开展法治教育 , 倡导各地强化品德修养和校规校纪教育 , 引导学生形成规则意识和法治观念。
三是有效发挥好家校协同作用 , 编制家庭教育指导手册 , 帮助家长树立科学的教育观念 , 营造良好的家庭教育环境。
四是为未成年人成长营造健康的网络环境。
五是加大教育惩戒力度 , 对施行欺凌和暴力的中小学生必须依法依规采取适当的矫治措施予以教育惩戒。
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人类未来的命运在很大程度上取决于自然而不是人类自己。因此, 要从根本上解决环境危机, 就要改变那种人与自然对立的态度, 纠正以人为中心的观念, 树立人与自然统一的整体观, 尊重、敬畏自然, 与自然建立和谐共生的关系。
“天人合一”的思想是尊重和敬畏自然的思想。因为它把包括人在内的整个自然界作为统一的生命系统。我们要吸取中国古人“天人合一”的智慧, 明了人与自然为生命共同体, 对天地万物常怀感激感恩之情, 尊重自然, 顺应自然, 保护自然。
中国著名政治家管子认为, 人类与自然界保持协调, 就会产生天地之美。今天我们要“生”出天地之美, 就必须是绿色发展的现代化之路, 即人与自然和谐共生之路。
在对待自然方面, 我们要做的调整很多。一是要调整对自然的态度, 尊重和爱护自然, 把自然当朋友。二是要调整经济发展方式, 放弃消耗自然资源为主的发展模式, 多发展低能耗、低物耗、节能、环保产业。三是要调整生活方式, 引导人们抑制物欲, 倡导简约、低碳的生活方式, 防止奢侈浪费和不合理消费。
“天人合一”的思想是尊重和敬畏自然的思想。因为它把包括人在内的整个自然界作为统一的生命系统。我们要吸取中国古人“天人合一”的智慧, 明了人与自然为生命共同体, 对天地万物常怀感激感恩之情, 尊重自然, 顺应自然, 保护自然。
中国著名政治家管子认为, 人类与自然界保持协调, 就会产生天地之美。今天我们要“生”出天地之美, 就必须是绿色发展的现代化之路, 即人与自然和谐共生之路。
在对待自然方面, 我们要做的调整很多。一是要调整对自然的态度, 尊重和爱护自然, 把自然当朋友。二是要调整经济发展方式, 放弃消耗自然资源为主的发展模式, 多发展低能耗、低物耗、节能、环保产业。三是要调整生活方式, 引导人们抑制物欲, 倡导简约、低碳的生活方式, 防止奢侈浪费和不合理消费。
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