1、 2010年英译汉真题 （英语二） “Sustainability“ has become a popular word these days, but to Ted Ning, the concept will always have personal meaning. Having endured a painful period of unsustainability in his own life made it clear to him that sustainability-oriented values must be expressed through everyday act
2、ion and choice. Ning recalls spending a confusing year in the late 1990s selling insurance. Hed been through the dot-com boom and burst and, desperate for a job, signed on with a Boulder agency. It didnt go well. “It was a really bad move because thats not my passion,“ says Ning, whose dilemma about
3、 the job translated, predictably, into a lack of sales. “I was miserable. I had so much anxiety that I would wake up in the middle of the night and stare at the ceiling. I had no money and needed the job. Everyone said, “ Just wait, youll turn the corner, give it some time. 2011年英译汉真题 （英语二） Who woul
4、d have thought that, globally, the IT industry produces about the same volumes of greenhouse gases as the worlds airlines doroughly 2 percent of all CO emissions? Many everyday tasks take a surprising toll on the environment. A Google search can leak between 0.2 and 7.0 grams of CO , depending on ho
5、w many attempts are needed to get the “right” answer. To deliver results to its users quickly, then, Google has to maintain vast data centres around the world, packed with powerful computers. While producing large quantities of CO , these computers emit a great deal of heat, so the centres need to b
6、e well air-conditioned, which uses even more energy. However, Google and other big tech providers monitor their efficiency closely and make improvements. Monitoring is the first step on the road to reduction, but there is much to be done, and not just by big companies. 2012年英译汉真题 （英语二） When people i
7、n developing countries worry about migration, they are usually concerned at the prospect of their best and brightest departure to Silicon Valley or to hospitals and universities in the developed world. These are the kind of workers that countries like Britain, Canada and Australia try to attract by
8、using immigration rules that privilege college graduates. Lots of studies have found that well-educated people from developing countries are particularly likely to emigrate. A big survey of Indian households carried out in 2004 found that nearly 40% of emigrants had more than a high-school education
9、, compared with around 3.3% of all Indians over the age of 25. This “brain drain” has long bothered policymakers in poor countries. They fear that it hurts their economies, depriving them of much-needed skilled workers who could have taught at their universities, worked in their hospitals and come u
10、p with clever new products for their factories to make. 2013年英译汉真题 （英语二） I can pick a date from the past 53 years and know instantly where I was, what happened in the news and even the day of the week. Ive been able to do this since I was four. I never feel overwhelmed with the amount of information
11、 my brain absorbs. My mind seems to be able to cope and the information is stored away neatly. When I think of a sad memory, I do what everybody does try to put it to one side. I dont think its harder for me just because my memory is clearer. Powerful memory doesnt make my emotions any more acute or
12、 vivid. I can recall the day my grandfather died and the sadness I felt when we went to the hospital the day before. I also remember that the musical Hair opened on Broadway on the same day they both just pop into my mind in the same way. 2014年英译汉真题（英语二） Most people would define optimism as being en
13、dlessly happy, with a glass thats perpetually half full. But thats exactly the kind of false cheerfulness that positive psychologists wouldnt recommend. “Healthy optimism means being in touch with reality,” says Tal Ben-Shahar, a Harvard professor. According to Ben-Shahar, realistic optimists are th
14、ose who make the best of things that happen, but not those who believe everything happens for the best. Ben-Shahar uses three optimistic exercises. When he feels downsay, after giving a bad lecturehe grants himself permission to be human. He reminds himself that not every lecture can be a Nobel winn
15、er, some will be less effective than others. Next is reconstruction. He analyzes the weak lecture, learning lessons for the future about what works and what doesnt. Finally, there is perspective, which involves acknowledging that in the grand scheme of life, one lecture really doesnt matter. 2015年英译
16、汉真题（英语二） Think about driving a route thats very familiar. It could be your commute to work, a trip into town or the way home. Whichever it is, you know every twist and turn like the back of your hand. On these sorts of trips its easy to lose concentration on the driving and pay little attention to t
17、he passing scenery. The consequence is that you perceive that the trip has taken less time than it actually has. This is the well-travelled road effect: people tend to underestimate the time it takes to travel a familiar route. The effect is caused by the way we allocate our attention. When we trave
18、l down a well-known route, because we dont have to concentrate much, time seems to flow more quickly. And afterwards, when we come to think back on it, we cant remember the journey well because we didnt pay much attention to it. So we assume it was shorter. 2016年英译汉真题（英语二） The supermarket is designe
19、d to lure customers into spending as much time as possible within its doors. The reason for this is simple: The longer you stay in the store, the more stuff youll see, and the more stuff you see, the more youll buy. And supermarkets contain a lot of stuff. The average supermarket, according to the F
20、ood Marketing Institute, carries some 44,000 different items, and many carry tens of thousands more. The sheer volume of available choice is enough to send shoppers into a state of information overload. According to brain-scan experiments, the demands of so much decision-making quickly become too mu
21、ch for us. After about 40 minutes of shopping, most people stop struggling to be rationally selective, and instead began shopping emotionallywhich is the point at which we accumulate the 50 percent of stuff in our cart that we never intended buying. 2017年 英译汉 真题（ 英语 二 ） My dream has always been to w
22、ork somewhere in an area between fashion and publishing. Two years before graduating from secondary school, I took a sewing and design course thinking that I would move on to a fashion design course. However, during that course I realized I was not good enough in this area to compete with other crea
23、tive personalities in the future, so I decided that it was not the right path for me. Before applying for university I told everyone that I would study journalism, because writing was, and still is, one of my favourite activities. But, to be honest, I said it, because I thought that fashion and me together was just a dreamI knew that no one could imagine me in the fashion industry at all! So I decided to look for some fashion-related courses that included writing. This is when I noticed the course “Fashion Media & Promotion.”
