考研

翻译硕士英语

第一题八篇阅读，四选一形式。关于儿童的boredom，维生素的功能，二战时德国船舰被苏联击沉事件，第九篇阅读是谷歌的创建过程，此题为简答类型。
第二题，选择，有句法语法词汇题。
第三题，完形填空，讲的是职业选择。
上述三题一共有85个题目。
第四题英语作文，“知之者不如好之者，好之者不如乐之者”，写一篇comment，不少于四百字。

翻译基础

中国特色社会主义
基础设施建设
节能市场机制
醉驾
新兴经济
经济增长模式
国际惯例

clean energy
rule of law
capacity building
hit-and-run
global climate change
green house emission
peaceful coexistence
media publicity
improve people's livelihood
incentive policy


英译汉 是关于housing bubble,选自TIME，如下。

Homeownership has let us down. For generations, Americans believed that owning a home was an axiomatic good. Our political leaders hammered home the point. Herbert Hoover argued that homeownership could "change the very physical, mental and moral fiber of one's own children." Franklin Roosevelt held that a country of homeowners was "unconquerable." Homeownership could even, in the words of George H.W. Bush's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Jack Kemp, "save babies, save children, save families and save America." A house with a front lawn and a picket fence wasn't just a nice place to live or a risk-free investment; it was a way to transform a nation.

Houses owned by the people who lived in them, we believed, created social and financial stability — more-involved citizens, safer neighborhoods, kids who did better in school. No wonder leaders of all political stripes wanted to spend more than $100 billion a year on subsidies and tax breaks to encourage people to buy.

The dark side of homeownership is now all too apparent: foreclosures and walkaways, neighborhoods plagued by abandoned properties and plummeting home values, a nation in which families have $6 trillion less in housing wealth than they did just three years ago. Indeed, easy lending stimulated by the cult of homeownership may have triggered the financial crisis and led directly to its biggest bailout, that of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Housing remains a drag on the economy. Existing-home sales in July dropped 27% from the prior month, exacerbating fears of a double-dip

And all that is just the obvious tale of a housing bubble and what happened when it popped. The real story is deeper and darker still