2013年翻译口译高级口译听力复习策略13

　　1、Why does the author begin the article with the description of one’s flying experience?

　　第1题是例子功能题：不需要看懂例子，重点是第二段的第一句：This is to compare the flying accident/experience with the global economic situation. Just as theflying accident, the worldwide economic slowdown will probably lead to a globaleconomic crisis without proper management and control.

　　Think of yourself flying across the country. An engine starts sputtering; cause for alarm, sure, but the pilot does that folksy number—"Aw, shucks, little problem here"—and assures you the others can take the strain. Then a second engine goes out; the sweat trickles down your neck, but your reckon you’ll make it to the ground safely. But if the third, and then the fourth, flame out

　　Think of通常会引出一个具体的例子

　　flame out突然冒火

　　The global economy hasn’t crashed just yet. But a world—wide slowdown is giving analysts everywhere a bad case of the jitters. The key reason: this, says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, is "the first synchronized downturn since the 1980s," when high interest rates squeezed the world economy like an orange. During the last U.S. recession, 10years ago, Europe was in its post—cold war euphoria, while the Asian economies were the stuff of miracle. By the time a financial crisis declared the Asian tigers in 1997—98, the U.S. economy was in the middle of its technology boom.

　　从本段看出，文章讲的不是飞行问题而是经济问题。

　　Why does the author begin the article with the description of one’s flying experience?

　　This is to compare the flying accident/experience with the global economic situation.Just as the flying accident, the worldwide economic slowdown will probably lead to aglobal economic crisis without proper management and control.

　　This time around, both the U.S. and German economies are flatlining, while that of Japan continues its slow, downward spiral. The Japanese unemployment rate has risen to 5%, while the Nikkei stock market index last week touched lows not seen since 1984. The world’s three most powerful engines are out of juice. Worry.

　　2、Explain the sentence from paragraph 4 "But globalization, it turns out, has a reverse gear."

　　第2题词义句义题：考句子功能，找上下文抽象句, 关键是体现时间强对比。

　　Why are this year’s economic woes so widespread? Blame globalization, the increase in cross—border trade and investment, that has bound the world economy closer together than ever before. In good times, globalization spreads the wealth. The astonishing growth of the U.S. economy in the lat 1990s spilled over into countries from Taiwan (which makes the microchips that power your computer) to Ireland (a prime destination for U.S. firms outsourcing manufacturing). But globalization, it turns out, has a reverse gear. Once it was plain—by last winter—that technology firms had vastly overestimated demand, the consequent retrenchment spread far beyond the Bay Area. Last week, for example, Baltimore Technologies, the jewel in Ireland’s high—tech sector, slashed jobs in an effort to achieve profitability.

　　2、Explain the sentence from paragraph 4 "But globalization, it turns out, has a reverse gear."

　　When the economy is good， the globalization has positive effects on it， but during bad times globalization also has the negative influences on it。

　　答题技巧：把时间强对比表现在自己的答案中，可以获取较高的分数。