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1、2013年11月三级笔译实务真题Section 1: English-Chinese Translation (50 points)Stroll through the farmers’ market and you will hear a plethora of languages and see arainbow of faces. Drive down Canyon Road and stop for halal meat or Filipino pork belly atadjacent markets. Along the highway, browse the
2、 aisles of a giant Asian supermarket stockingfresh napa cabbage and mizuna or fresh kimchi. Head toward downtown and you’ll seeloncheras — taco trucks — on street corners and hear Spanish bandamusic. On the city’snorthern edge, you can sample Indian chaat.Welcome to Beaverton, a Portland
3、suburb that is home to Oregon’s fastest growing immigrantpopulation. Once a rural community, Beaverton, population 87,000, is now the sixth largestcity in Oregon — with immigration rates higher than those of Portland, Oregon’s largest city.Best known as the world headquarters for athletic
4、 shoe company Nike, Beaverton has changeddramatically over the past 40 years. Settled by immigrants from northern Europe in the 19thcentury, today it is a place where 80 languages from Albanian to Urdu are spoken in the publicschools and about 30 percent of students speak a language besid
5、es English, according toEnglish as a Second Language program director Wei Wei Lou.Beaverton’s wave of new residents began arriving in the 1960s, with Koreans and Tejanos(Texans of Mexican origin), who were the first permanent Latinos. In 1960, Beaverton’spopulation of Latinos and Asians w
6、as less than 0.3 percent. By 2000, Beaverton hadproportionately more Asian and Hispanic residents than the Portland metro area. Today, Asianscomprise 10 percent and Hispanics 11 percent of Beaverton’s population.Mayor Denny Doyle says that many in Beaverton view the immigrants who are rap
7、idly reshapingBeaverton as a source of enrichment.“Citizens here especially in the arts and culturecommunity think it’s fantastic that we have all these different possibilities here,” he says.Gloria Vargas,50, a Salvadoran immigrant, owns a popular small restaurant,