《英语翻译三级笔译》资深教师编写：由北京外国语大学英语学院教师编写，他们具有多年的口译教学及实践经验，并参加过全国翻译证书考试的命题和阅卷工作，在实践中积累了丰富的指导备考经验。《英语翻译三级笔译》涵盖真题剖析，实战模拟演练：书中选取了与真题类似的模拟材料，内容涉及常考的各种领域，针对性、知识性和实用性都很强。在学习过程中，学习者可以积累应试经验，轻松提高应试能力。
【内容简介】
《英语翻译三级笔译》共分两个部分：*部分为英译汉，第二部分为汉译英。这两个部分又各分为三个板块：讲解篇（20篇）主要针对原文和译文进行详细的解释，对翻译的难点和重点进行分析；练习篇（10篇）主要用于学习者自己训练，根据所提示的要点更好地理解原文，更准确、忠实、流畅地用译语表达出原文的含义；点评篇（3篇）以考试真题为例，对译文的质量进行点评，并评出优良、及格或不及格等得分档次。
【作者简介】
编著：曾诚 王琼琼
【目录】
*部分 英译汉
一、讲解篇
*篇 HeadInjuries
第二篇 My Fight Against Junk E—mail
第三篇 Snowbirds
第四篇 TheLostFreedom
第五篇 Clothes
第六篇 Asia’S Ageing Crisis
第七篇 Family Roles ofMen and Women
第八篇 Wine andHealth
第九篇 Speeches Don’t Save Lives．Aid Does
第十篇 Savings
第十一篇 Jazz
第十二篇 Electronic Communications
第十三篇 The Rights ofAll
第十四篇 How to Beat the Export Slump
第十五篇 What is CD．ROM?
第十六篇 The Price of Peace
第十七篇 Eureka!Archimedes’Secret Death Ray Is Brought to Light
第十八篇 Cyberphobics
第十九篇 A Brief Introduction of Asia-Pacific EconomicCooperation(APEC)
第二十篇 Pompeii
二、练习篇
三、点评篇
第二部分 汉译英
一、讲解篇
二、练习篇
三、点评篇
附录 2009年5月三级笔译考试真题及参考译文
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Passage 1
Why Is it So Difficult to Swat a Fly?
The brains of flies are wired to avoid the swatter, US researcherssaid on Thursday.
At the mere hint of a threat, the insects adjust their preflightstance to flee in the opposite direction, en-suring a cleangetaway, they said in a finding that helps explain why flies can soeasily evade swipes fromtheir human foes.
"These movements are made very rapidly, within about 200milliseconds, but within that time the ani-mal determines where thethreat is coming and activates a set of movements to position itslegs and wings,"Michael Dickinson of the California Institute ofTechnology said in a statement.
"This illustrates how rapidly the fly's brain can process sensoryinformation into an appropriate motorresponse," said Dickinson,whose research appears in the journal Current Biology.
Dickinson's team studies this process in fruit flies usinghigh-speed digital imaging equipment and afancy fly swatter.
In response to a threat from the front, the fly moves its middlelegs forward, leans back and raises itsback legs for a backwardtakeoff. If the threat is from the side, the fly leans the otherway before takeoff.
The findings offer new insight into the nervous system of the fly,and lends a few clues on how to out-smart them.
Dickinson, a bioengineer, has devoted his life's work to the studyof insect flight. He has built a tiny ro-botic fly called Roboflyand a 3-D visual flight simulator called Fly-O-Vision.
Passage 2
The Truth about the Environment
For many environmentalists, the world seems to be getting worse.They have developed a hit-list of ourmain fears: that naturalresources are running out; that the population is ever growing,leaving less and less toeat; that species are becoming extinct invast numbers, and that the planet's air and water are becomingevermore polluted.
But a quick look at the facts shows a different picture. First,energy and other natural resources havebecome more abundant, notless so, since the book The Limits to Growth was published in 1972by a group ofscientists. Second, more food is now produced per headof the world's population than at any time in history.Fewer peopleare starving.
