2017年catti二级笔译实务模拟题 完整版（第十七套）
【英译汉】
Europe is the home to symphonic music and also home to opera. It has been a cradle of many brilliant music composers. China has opera, too. That's Peking Opera, which originated from Beijing some 200 years ago during the Qing Dynasty. It's a performing art that embraces opera performance, singing, music, dancing and martial arts. The costume exposition will present 200 years of development of this "Oriental Opera" and the performance costumes dating to the late Qing Dynasty.
The costume design adopted exaggeration and symbolic means and bright colors. The materials are unique, so are the tailoring skills. Another exhibition will display a total of 600 sets of clothes, including the ancient clothes of different dynasties from the Qin and Han, the costumes of China's ethnic groups, and modern garments and accessories. Famous models from China will participate to present the achievements of the Chinese garment industry and Chinese designers.
【参考译文】
欧洲是交响乐之乡，也是歌剧之乡，是许多杰出作曲家的摇篮。中国也有歌剧，那就是京剧。京剧起源于200年前清朝时期的北京。京剧是一种集歌剧表演、歌唱、音乐、舞蹈和武术于一体的表演艺术。我们的服装展览会将展示这个“东方歌剧”历时200年的发展史，以及源自清朝后期的舞台服饰。
服饰设计采用了夸张性和象征性的手法，色彩明亮鲜艳，用料独特，裁剪别致。另一场展览将展出600套服饰，其中有秦汉以来不同朝代的古装，有我国少数民族服装，也有现代服饰。我国的名模将登台表演，展示我国服装业和服装设计师的成就。
【汉译英】
读书愉悦心灵，这几有点儿像运动。一个优秀的读者必须要有热情、知识、速度。读书之乐不在于，作者在告诉你什么，而在于它促使你思考。你跟随作者一起想象，有时你的想象甚至超越作者。你的经验加上他的经验，可以得到相同或者不同的结论。在理解作者想法的同时，也形成了自己的观点。
每本书都隔成体系，就像一家一户的住宅。而图书馆的藏书就像是城市里千家万户的居所。尽管他们相互独立，但相互结合才有意义。家家户户彼此相连，城市与城市彼此相依。相同或相似的思想在不同的地方涌现。人类生活中反复出现的问题在文学中也会不算重现。但因时代与作品的差异，答案也各不相同。
如果你希望的话，读书也能充满乐趣。倘若你只读别人告诉你应该读的书，那么就不会感觉有乐趣而言。但是如果你放下不喜欢的，尝试阅读另外的，直到找到中意的为止，然后轻轻松松的读下去，那一定会收获一段美好时光——而且如果你因为读书而变得更优秀，更睿智，更友善，更文雅时，你就不会觉得阅读是一种折磨。
【参考译文】
Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the author's or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.
Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate, together they all add up to something; they are connected with each other and with other cities. The same ideas, or related ones, turn up in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature, but with different solutions according to different writings at different times.
Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on books somebody tells you "ought" to read, you probably won't have fun. But if you put down a book you don't like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost certainly have a good time--and if you become as a result of reading, better, wiser, kinder, or more gentle, you won't have suffered during the process.
