上海外国语大学高级翻译学院《翻译实践（英汉互译）》历年考研真题及详解.pdf

2009年上海外国语大学高级翻译学院841翻译实践（英汉互译）考研真题及详解 I. Tra
late the following into Chinese（75分） The Short March By BILL POWELL/SHANGHAI Thu
day, Feb. 14, 2008 Locals sell produce outside the gates of one of Songjiang’s new developments On a cold, gray afternoon a year ago, I stood on the deck of our newly purchased, half-co
tructed house about an hour outside Shanghai, wondering what, exactly, I had gotten myself into. My wife, a Shanghai native, and I had moved back to China from New York City in the spring of 2004, and 21/2 yea
later we had decided to take the plunge. We bought a three-story, five-bedroom townhouse way out in the suburbs, in a town called New Songjiang, a place that was then—and remai
now—very much a work in progress. We had come here that day to see how co
truction was progressing. Our house, along with about 140 othe
, was going up in a development called Emerald Rive
ide. It sits on the banks of a tributary that dumps into the Huangpu, the river that cuts Shanghai in two about 28 miles (45 km) to the northeast. On that dreary afternoon I gazed out to the other side of the river, looking at the only significant patch of land for miles that was not yet being developed—about five acres (20,000 sq. m) of green that local farme
still used to grow watermelo
, which they then sold to the migrant worke
building this town. On the far bank there was a ramshackle one-room brick house, where three of the farme
lived—a husband, wife and teenage son. They had no running water—they bathed and washed their clothes in the river—and the place was lit by a single bulb. In every direction just beyond the watermelon patch, office parks and houses and apartment complexes were going up, forming a cordon around the farmland that was drawing inexorably tighter. As it is in vast swathes of China, the new was replacing the old, and it was not doing so slowly. It was doing so in the blink of an eye. I stood on the deck that day and watched one of the farme
who worked the waterm