汉译英中国矿业大学版研究生翻译答案

1.Sometimes it is interpersonal skills rather than professional skills that really counts in your career. Interpersonal skills are nothing but the ability to be good listener, to be sensitive toward others' needs, to take criticism well. People with skill in social relations admit their mistakes, and take their share of blame, which is a mature and responsible way to handle an error. That's why many mediocre employees survive violent corporate upheavals while people of great talent are being laid off. Sensitive in their dealings with others, they are well liked everywhere. People with poor interpersonal skills have trouble taking criticism. When confronted with a mistake, they let their ego get in the way. They deny responsibility and 16 became moody or angry. They mark themselves as "prickly". 2. Honesty Rewarded Recently, some newspapers and magazines in the United States have focused on a moving story concerning an unemployed couple. Poverty-stricken and unable to pay the rents, the couple and their young son had to move out of the house they had lived so long and had been sheltered only by their own automobile for the past several weeks. One day on the road, they came across a wallet with 2500 dollars in it-- a sum of money the destitute family was in burning need of! The husband suggested, however, that the money be handed over to the police station immediately. And the wife agreed after a "wavering second", though. Soon the wallet was claimed by the loser, According to the conventional practice in the United States, the owner of the wallet should pay the couple 20% of the amount of the recovered money as remuneration. Regrettably, the wallet owner left the police station without giving a cent. The police thought it was unfair and therefore informed the press circle of the whole story about the couple and the wallet, which then became publicly known through newspaper and TV reports. Shortly afterwards, the police station was invaded with an avalanche of letters from all of the country, praising the honest couple. Some letters were stuffed with 100 or 200-dollar bank notes or checks, a gentleman, after making sure that the lost and found wallet had contained 2500 dollars, remitted the exact amount of money to the couple. The total amount of money the couple received in this fashion exceeded 6000 dollars. There is another person who volunteered to provide the couple with accommodation free of charge until they are financially capable. Moreover, about 200 companies have since kindly offered the couple job opportunities. All these had been least expected in the first place. When interviewed by a journalist, the wife, looking back on what they had experienced, burst into tears. "Honesty is the best policy" is what the saying goes in the United States. And what the couple have encountered helps prove, once again, that it is so. 3.Shanghai, known as Paris of the Orient, has long since been famous for its girls—of all kinds. Xie Bingying wrote in the 1940s, “People say that Shanghai is like a young lady in a world of vanity; Hangzhou, a girl from a prestigious family; Suzhou, a pretty girl from a well-off family; while Chongqing is a middle-aged but still good-looking woman.” After she arrived in Taiwan, she wrote “In memory of Jeffery Street of Shanghai,” in which she described the street as a slim, lively, mysterious and graceful young woman. If I were to close my eyes, the images of Shanghai girls in my mind would be mostly modern, seductive, coquettish and heavily made up. I would not be able to relate them to such descriptions as “calm and aloof” and “kind-hearted and good-natured.” However, these girls are most likely the creation of literature and media, reflecting the modern metropolitan life of Shanghai, for the sake of commercialism. Such images are often seen in calendars of the past as well as 17 the present. 4.Honor to those who love the motherland, and shame on those who harm the motherland; Honor to those who serve the people, and shame on those who betray people; Honor to thosewho quest for science, and shame on those who refuse to be educated; Honor to those who are hardworking, and shame on those who indulge in comfort and hate work; Honor to those who help each other, and shame on those who seek gains at the expense of others; Honor to those who are trustworthy, and shame on those who trade integrity for profits; Honor to those who abide by law and discipline, and shame on those who break law and discipline Honor to those who uphold plain living and hard struggle, and shame on those who wallow in extravagance and pleasures. 5． Like students from other Asian countries and regions, most Chinese students who come to pursue further education in the United States work on their studies most diligently and assiduously. Even on weekends, they would frequently spend one day, or even two days, to work overtime in their laboratories. Therefore, compared with their American counterparts, they are more academically fruitful. My supervisor ( advisor / tutor) is of Asian origin who is addicted to alcohols and cigarettes, with a sharp (an irritable) temper. Nevertheless, he highly appreciates the industry and the solid foundational knowledge of Asian students and has a particularly keen insight into the psychology of Asian students. Hence, of all the students recruited by his laboratory, except for one German, the rest five were all from Asia. He even put a striking notice on the door of his lab, which read, "All the research assistants of this laboratory are required to work 7 days a week, from 10 AM to 12 PM. Nothing but work during the working hours." This supervisor is reputed on the entire campus for his severity and harshness. In the course of the 3 and half years that I stayed there, a total of 14 students were recruited into his laboratory and only 5 of them stayed on until they graduated with their Ph. D. degrees. In the summer of 1990, ignoring the remonstrations (admonishments / dissuasions) from others, I accepted my supervisor's sponsorship and embarked on the difficult journey of academic pursuit (undertaking further studies in the United States). 6. The last twenty years has brought nearly half a million Chinese intellectuals into the Western world, especially into the United States. 2) It is said that Shanghai's musicians abroad could form a world-class symphony orchestra. 3) A similar story has been told in science, medicine and sports circles. 4) Chinese intellectuals emigrate because they believe they cannot bring their talent into full play in the homeland. 5) They often feel depressed and frustrated for a variety of reasons. 6, 7) The situation was so grim that once we suffered an acute shortage of talent, as one batch of gifted people after another had gone abroad. 8, 9) It didn't change much until the early 1990 when the efforts was made by the government to upgrade the status of the intellectuals, both social and economic. 7． A Tale Of Two Figures Two figures caught my attention while I did some reading: Within a year, eighty billion yuan (RMB) of public funds have been eaten up and during the past three years barely a little more than a hundred million yuan have been collected as donations to the "Hope Project" which aims at bringing back to school millions of children deprived of education in China 18 because of poverty. TO enjoy food and drink on public funds is something both banned by the central government and criticized by the masses for a long time. However, there are still places that dare to by-pass the ban and make merry of feasting and wine. This kind of eating drama goes on even in some of China's poorest regions. I don't know whether, between courses, it ever occurred to those eating lavishly that what they had eaten up is not just some fine food, but, far more painfully,China's hope. "Hope Project" is an unprecedented project in China, to which our beloved Comrade Deng Xiao--ping has given his personal inscription and made a donation in the name of "a communist veteran". Numerous men and women of vision have also offered their assistance with money to those children who, though thin and weak, are eager to go to school. Unfortunately, the total sum of donated money during the past three years amounts to only one hundred million yuan, a far cry from the burning need. Eighty billion versus one hundred million -- what a contrast! It implies, among other things, that what should be banned has not been banned in reality, while what should be enhanced is largely ignored. The reason behind this ironical situation is nothing but the corruption tendency now rampant in some areas and government departments, which is eroding the healthy body of the nation as well as the nation's education endeavor, It is only too obvious that the "Hope Project" will be hardly hopeful unless the "eat-- on -- tile -- public-- funds" tendency and, for that matter, the corruption tendency is effectively checked. It must be noted, however, that eat-on-tile-public-funds never enjoys popular support. What a rewarding philanthropic act it would have been had the eighty billion yuan been saved for the "Hope Project" so as to enable the millions of education-deprived children to go back to the classrooms to read and write! 8. “ Master of Space” is what Bill Gates is referred to By Time magazine. The space Gates rules is in fact the so-called cyberspace. Gates and the Microsoft Corp. he is leading started their venture by inventing DOS (disk of operation system) and now, with a new and sophisticated windows system which 8 out of 10 computers in the world are operating on, Microsoft boasts the lion's share in the world software market. Gates's wealth, as a result, has now exceeded 10 billion US dollars, making him arguably the No.1 rich man of the United States. The great achievements by Gates and the Microsoft under him are little short of legend in the information industry. Perhaps we are too familiar with the story of how Gates stopped his academic study before he began his software pioneering efforts. But one thing that has not been known to all is that Gates is as much a genius as he is a workaholic. He has personally acknowledged that he had hardly had a day off before he was thirty years old. For fear of missing appointments with his clients, it is said, he often stayed in the company 24 hours a day. Not until he reached 31 when Microsoft was listed on stock did Gates have a few days off in the true sense of the word. Of the magnates that are world renown, Gates turns out to be the least fastidious. Young and rich as he is, he leads a life typical of man--in--the--street. It is true that he does spend 40 million dollars to build a luxurious residence with a multimedia screen wall in it and a basement spacious enough to park 20 cars. This however is quite a recent affair. Since Gates' dream is a "computer for every family and on every office desk", Microsoft's goal is to make the personal computer easy to master and convenient to use, enabling every one to eventually embark on the information superhighway a wonderful digital space. Gates was selected as last year's "Man of The World" by The Financial Times in Britain, which also described him as the "architect" of the next industrial revolution. What Gates has done will, in all probability, have a positive impact on the combination of computer technology, the communications technology and the entertainment technology so as to reshape the life style of mankind as it is today. 19 9. Dear Students of the Graduating Class, As you are leaving your alma mater, I have nothing to offer you as a gift except a word of advice. My advice is, "Never give up the pursuit of learning." You have perhaps finished your college courses mostly for obtaining the diploma, or, in other words, out of sheer necessity. However, from now on you are free to follow your own bent in the choice of studies. While you are in the prime of life, why not devote yourselves to a special field of study? Youth will soon be gone never to return. And it will be too late for you to go into scholarship when in your declining years. Knowledge will do yoga good turn even as a means of subsistence. If you give up studies while holding a