2013年5月翻译资格英语三级笔译实务真题及答案
【Section 1】 English-Chinese Translation (50 points)
Translate the following passage into Chinese.
It didn’t take long for Manuel García Murillo, a bricklayer who took over as mayor here last June, to realize that his town was in trouble. It was 800,000 euros, a little more than $1 million, in the red. There was no cash on hand to pay for anything — and there was work that needed to be done.
But then an amazing thing happened, he said. Just as the health department was about to close down the day care center because it didn’t have a proper kitchen, Bernardo Benítez, a construction worker, offered to put up the walls and the tiles free. Then, Maria José Carmona, an adult education teacher, stepped in to clean the place up. And somehow, the volunteers just kept coming. Every Sunday now, the residents of this town in southwest Spain — young and old — do what needs to be done, whether it is cleaning the streets, raking the leaves, unclogging culverts or planting trees in the park. “It was an initiative from them,” said Mr. García. “Day to day we talked to people and we told them there was no money. Of course, they could see it. The grass in between the sidewalks was up to my thigh. “ Higuera de la Serena is in many ways a microcosm of Spain’s troubles. Just as Spain’s national and regional governments are struggling with the collapse of the construction industry, overspending on huge capital projects and a pileup of unpaid bills, the same
problems afflict many of its small towns.
But what has brought Higuera de la Serena a measure of fame in Spain is that the residents have stepped up where their government has failed. Mr. García says his phone rings regularly from other town officials who want to know how to do the same thing. He is serving without pay, as are the town’s two other elected officials. They are also forgoing the cars and phones that usually come with the job. “We lived beyond our means,” Mr. García said. “We invested in public works that
weren’t sensible. We are in technical bankruptcy.” Even some money from the European Union that was supposed to be used for routine operating expenses and last until 2013 has already been spent, he said.
Higuera de la Serena, a cluster of about 900 houses surrounded by farmland, and traditionally dependent on pig farming and olives, got swept up in the giddy days of the construction boom. It built a cultural center and invested in a small nursing home. But the projects were plagued by delays and cost overruns.
The cultural center still has no bathrooms. The nursing home, a whitewashed building sits on the edge of town, still unopened. Together, they account for some $470,000 of debt owed to the bank. But the rest of the debt is mostly the unpaid bills of a town that was not keeping up with its expenses. It owes for medical supplies, for diesel fuel, for road repair, for electrical work, for musicians who played during holidays.
Higuera de la Serena is not completely without workers. It still has a half-time librarian, two half-time street cleaners, someone part-time for the sports complex, a secretary and an administrator, all of whom are paid through various financing streams apart from the town. But the town once had a work force twice the size. And when someone is ill, volunteers have to step in or the gym and sports complex — open four hours a day — must close.
【参考译文】
在西班牙小镇伊格拉德拉塞雷纳，铺砖匠Manuel García Murillo当选镇长不久，他便意识到小镇已陷入了危机。小镇财政赤字达80万欧元，近100万美元。现在已没有现金做任何事情了，但是还有许多工作需要完成。
但是此后，令人惊奇的事情发生了。由于厨房条件太差，小镇卫生部关闭了日常看护中心。不久，建筑工人Bernardo Benítez无偿为看护中心搭了墙铺了瓷砖，之后青年教师Maria José Carmona打扫了这里的卫生，也没有索要一分钱。
不知为什么，做志愿工作的人越来越多。现在，每个周末西班牙西南小镇的居民们无论男女老少，或是清理街道或清理下水道，或是修建枝叶，或是在公园里植树，都在义务作者所需要做的事情。
García说：“这完全是他们自发的，每天我们都和他们聊天，告诉他们我们没钱给他们。当然，情况他们也看得到。人行道之间草越长越高。
总体上说，小镇正是西班牙窘境的缩影。西班牙建筑业崩溃，无论是国家政府还是区级政府都苦苦挣扎，而资本项目开支过高，债务堆积成山。这样的问题牵连着这个的各个小镇，它们也因此而痛苦不堪。
但小镇伊格拉德拉塞雷纳所发生的事情却为窘境中的西班牙带来了解决方案，尽管政府无力回天，人们却可以采取行动。García说，时常其他镇上的官员会打来电话，询问怎么去调动人民的积极性。与镇上的另外两名官员一样，García也是无偿为小镇工作。他们都放弃了各自职位上应匹配的汽车和手机。
“我们现在无计可施了，”García说到，“我们的投资是不明智的，从技术层面上说，我们要破产了。欧盟下拨了一些钱，用于镇政府日常运作，但是到2013年末，这些钱就会被用光。
伊格拉德拉塞雷纳有900多住户，周围都是农田。自古以来，小镇以养猪和种橄榄为生。当西班牙建筑产业繁荣的时候，小镇改变了往常的局面，建筑了一所农业中心和一所护理院。但由于成本超支经费延迟，这两个项目仍还未完成。
农业中心现在还没有浴室。坐落于小镇边缘的白色护理院也仍未投入使用。这两个项目总共拖欠银行47万美金。但是，余下的债务对于一个入不敷出的小镇而言，基本上是无法偿付了。小镇的未付账单包括，医疗药品、柴油燃料、道路维修、电器维护，此外，及拖欠了许多音乐人在假期间的演出费用。
小镇也有自己的工作人员，包括一名半天班的图书管理员、两名钟点街道清洁工，还有几名体育场的兼职人员、一名政府秘书和一名行政人员。这些人员薪金除了小镇政府支付之外，还有着许多其他的渠道。之前，小镇的工作人员近乎是现在的两倍。而现在，如果有些人员生病了，就得有人志愿来做他们的工作，要么就得关闭每天开放4个小时的体育运动场所。
