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1、2012年河南省翻译竞赛翻译竞赛英译中参赛原文Over-regulatedAmericaThehomeoflaissez-faireisbeingsuffocatedbyexcessiveandbadlywrittenregulationAmericanslovetolaughatridiculousregulations.AFloridalawrequiresvending-machinelabelstourgethepublictofileareportifthelabelisnotthere.TheFederalRailroadAdministrationinsiststhatall
2、trainsmustbepaintedwithan“F”atthefront,soyoucantellwhichendiswhich.BureaucraticbusybodiesinBethesda,Maryland,haveshutdownchildren’slemonadestandsbecausetheenterprisingyoungmoppetsdidnothavetradinglicences.Thelistgoeshilariouslyon.ButredtapeinAmericaisnolaughingmatter.Theproblemisnottherulesthatare
3、self-evidentlyabsurd.Itistheonesthatsoundreasonableontheirownbutimposeahugeburdencollectively.Americaismeanttobethehomeoflaissez-faire.UnlikeEuropeans,whoseliveshavelongbeencircumscribedbymeddlinggovernmentsanddiktatsfromBrussels,Americansaresupposedtobefreetochoose,forbetterorforworse.Yetforsomet
4、imeAmericahasbeenstrayingfromthisideal.ConsidertheDodd-Franklawof2010.Itsaimwasnoble:topreventanotherfinancialcrisis.Itsstrategywassensible,too:improvetransparency,stopbanksfromtakingexcessiverisks,preventabusivefinancialpracticesandend“toobigtofail”byauthorisingregulatorstoseizeanybig,totteringfi
5、nancialfirmandwinditdown.Thisnewspapersupportedthesegoalsatthetime,andwestilldo.ButDodd-Frankisfartoocomplex,andbecomingmoreso.At848pages,itis23timeslongerthanGlass-Steagall,thereformthatfollowedtheWallStreetcrashof1929.Worse,everyotherpagedemandsthatregulatorsfillinfurtherdetail.Someoftheseclarif
6、icationsarehundredsofpageslong.Justonebit,the“Volckerrule”,whichaimstocurbriskyproprietarytradingbybanks,includes383questionsthatbreakdowninto1,420subquestions.HardlyanyonehasactuallyreadDodd-Frank.Thosewhohavestruggletomakesenseofit,notbecausesomuchdetailhasyettobefilledin:ofthe400rulesitmandates
7、,only93havebeenfinalised.SofinancialfirmsinAmericamustpreparetocomplywithalawthatispartlyunintelligibleandpartlyunknowable.Flamingwater-skisDodd-Frankispartofawidertrend.Governmentsofbothpartieskeepaddingstacksof
