2017下半年翻译考试中级口译模拟试题（28）
【中译英】
我总以为，在中国效率最高的会议要数学校召集的家长会。家长会完全符合“廉政建设”的要求，与会的家长绝不会像参加行业、单位的一些会议，先看看会议地点是不是设在风景旅游区，会后发不发纪念品之类，然后方决定是否参加。其他会议都难得准时，惟有家长会绝对正点召开。在家长会上，家长们个个全神贯注地倾听、记录，生怕漏掉一点内容。不少会议都可列入可开可不开之列，但对于学校和家长而言，家长会则是必不可少的。
【参考译文】
I always believe that the most efficient meeting in China is the parents’ meeting called by the school. The parents’ meeting, is in full conformity with the requirements for the “building of an honest and clean government”. With respect to meetings organized by a certain trade or the unit where one works, the person wants to know whether the venue of a meeting is in a scenic area frequented by tourists and whether gifts of souvenirs will be handed out after the meeting before he decides whether to go or not to go. But for the parents’ meeting, nobody will ever think of that. While other meetings are rarely convened on time, the parents’ meeting invariably starts with punctuality. At the parents’ meeting, every parent listens and takes notes with rapt attention lest he or she might miss anything. For many meetings, it does not really matter whether they are to be held or not, but to the school and the parents, the parents’ meeting is absolutely necessary.
