能与一个人的工作相关或者纯粹的是出于兴趣娱乐而上课。[/cn] 【解析】 本句话难度不大，如果考生一时没有反映出vocational和recreational的意思，也不必慌张，因为之后就是对这两个单词的解释，如果记下来，完全可以倒推出这两个单词的意思。 关键词： vocational：adj. 职业的，行业的 recreational：adj. 娱乐的，消遣的 [en]2. To overcome their fear of unknown attackers on the cities’ streets, many Americans now take instruction in Sun Swordof Oriental Self Defense such as karate and martial arts, commonly known as Gongfu or Wushu.[/en][cn]参考译文：为了克服对城市街道上陌生的攻击者的恐惧，很多美国人采取《太阳之剑》中的东方自卫术，诸如空手道和技击，它们通常又被成为功夫或者武术。[/cn] 【解析】 本句话稍有难度，sword, karate等词需要考生平时的积累，但是通过attackers，Gongfu，Wushu这样的词语，考生应该能判断出句子的大意。 instruction：n. 指令，教导 sword：n. 剑 karate：n. 空手道 martial arts：武术，技击 [en]3. Drinking tea has been a long tradition of a typical British family. Recent studies suggest that tea can cut the risk of cancer and heart disease and retard the aging process.[/en][cn]参考译文：喝茶一直以来都是典型英国家庭的传统。近期的研究显示，茶能够降低罹患癌症和心脏病的风险，还能延缓衰老。[/cn] 【解析】 本句带有科普性质，但是内容并不陌生，也没有太多的难词、生词，唯一的难点可能是retard，解释为“减慢，延迟”。 关键词： retard：v. 延迟，减慢 aging process：衰老 [en]4. I’ve been looking into the question of having the goods sent by air. It’s quick. The goods are less liable to damage than by sea and there’s less risk of hold-ups.[/en][cn]参考译文：我一直在研究空运货物的问题。它很快，而且相比海运，空运的货物不宜损坏，延误的风险也较小。[/cn] 【解析】 本句稍有难度，诸如be liable to...和hold-up可能对不少考生有点陌生。 关键词： be less liable to：不易…… hold-up：n. 停顿，耽误 [en]5. If you lost two percent of your body weight in water, your brain power and performance level may start to weaken. Another four to seven percent may leave youfeeling dizzy.[/en][cn]参考译文：如果你身体中的水份减少2%，你的头脑开始迟钝，表现力开始下降。如果再减少4-7%，你会感到眩晕。[/cn] 【解析】 这译句话难度适中，但是考生要注意听的同时，快速反应所提及的数字，好在这句话中的数字比较简单。另外诸如dizzy这样的词也需要平时的积累。 关键词： weaken：v. 减少，衰弱 dizzy：adj. 眩晕的

2013年秋季上海中高级口译考试于今日9月15日开考，沪江英语在考后第一时间提供真题、解析、答案信息，本文为2013年9月中级口译听力真题 Spot Dictation 部分，由沪江网校提供。 Spot dictation Good afternoon, folks! Today's topic is try jogging for fitness. When we run for fitness, exercise and pleasure, it is commonly called jogging. Jogging has become very popular in recent years. The popularity of jogging today stems from several factors. First, jogging is one of the most efficient forms of exercise. As a rule, a person jogging burns up more calories per minute than in most other sports. Running, like biking, swimming, and brisk walking, is an aerobic exercise. Such an exercise uses a great deal of oxygen. In addition, it increases the heart rate. Aerobic exercise strengthens the heart muscle so that it pumps more efficiently. This kind of exercise is also one of the best ways to improve our general health and capacity of our lungs. Jogging is also popular because almost every oneof us can take part. Jogging is an activity that doesn't require any unusual skills or special coordination. Jogging is relaxing and fun. Finally, it can be done alone, with another person or in a group. For anyone who runs more than 20 miles a week, it is important to have good running shoes. Tennis shoes or sneakers won't do. Running produces stress that is three times greater than the stress of walking. With this added stress to our feet and legs, we need good shoes. The shoes should be replaced when they are worn out or worn unevenly. Cold weather poses a few problems for us joggers. The main hazard in winter-running is slipping on ice or snow. There is no danger of freezing our lungs, because our body warms the air before it reaches our lungs. In winter, we should be sure to cover the head and keep our feet as dry and warm as possible. It's best to wear layers of clothing. In summer, we must be careful not to dry out. So it is important for us to drink plenty of water on hot, humid days. The best summer wear is loose-fitting and light-colored. 【解析】 本文属于一个小演讲类文章，主要围绕慢跑健身try jogging for fitness的话题展开，后面进一步详细分析了慢跑流行的三个原因，最后演讲者也对选择合适的跑鞋和分季节穿衣进行慢跑给出了相关建议。纵观全文，难度不大，文章选材（jogging）也很贴近生活，每个人都会经历的话题，考生理解起来相级口译对较容易。文章的逻辑结构也很清晰，总说一个现象，然后具体分析原因。通篇基本没有生难词，抓住核心词jogging是理解本文的关键所在。

Passage 1： 【原文】 While the rest of the world played soccer or the British football, Americans played basketball and baseball. But now soccer is rapidly becoming a major sport in the United States for reasons as simple as the game itself. School officials like it and kids like it. For the school authorities, it’s much cheaper to set up a soccer team. And for the kids, they don’t need to be big or tall to play soccer. All they need is the desire to run. 【参考译文】 当世界其他地方都在踢足球或英式足球的时候，美国人在打篮球和棒球。但是现在，足球已经快速成为美国一个主要的运动项目，其中的缘由和这项运动本身一样简单。校领导喜欢足球，孩子们也喜欢足球。对于校方来说，成立一个足球队成本更少。而对孩子们来说，踢足球并不要求他们长得高高壮壮。他们所需要的就是对奔跑的渴望。 【评析】 这篇文章还是很容易的。话题是我们非常熟悉的体育。平时注意体育话题相关词汇积累。 翻译的时候，注意表达。本篇语气篇口语化。因此翻译一篇文章弄清楚文章的风格也很重要，这样表达时，就知道到底是正式语气表达还是非正式语气表达。有时也有必要了解文章的体材：议论性、说明性还是描述性，从整体把握译文的风格。 1.“as simple as …itself”一般译为“正如…本身一样简单或纯粹” 2.“big or tall”。在这里我们形象地译为“高高壮壮”或“高高大大” Passage 2： 【原文】 What really makes me mad is the attitude towards morals. Some people are really shocked because actors are allowed to walk about the stage with little clothes on these days. But these same people are not shocked by advertisements which persuade the public to buy things which can do real harm to people, like cigarettes and alcohol for example. I think a lot of advertisements are much more immoral than so-called pornographic or dirty plays and books because they lie or at least disguise the truth. 【参考译文】 真正让我发狂的是人们对道德的态度。演员可以着装暴露，在台上走来走去，这让一些人感到惊讶，然而同样是这批人，却不会因为广告劝说公众购买如烟酒等对他们有害的产品而震惊。我认为比起那些所谓的色情或黄色节目和书刊，很多广告更不道德，因为它们在说谎，至少在掩盖真相。 【评析】 本段话共由4句话组成，后三个句子都略微偏长，但是并不复杂，所以难度一般。较难把握的几个词组如下： 1. little clothes连用。little如果作为“少”修饰的是不可数名词，很明显这里不合适，可以考虑little表示“短的”意思，意译为“着装暴露”。 2. pornographic对学生词汇量要求较高。这个单词表示“色情的、黄色的”。同时，dirty这里不能直译为“脏的”，而应该采用它的引申义“下流的、色情的”。 3. disguise较难，表示“掩饰、掩盖”，disguise the truth也就可以翻译为“掩盖真相”。

数学符号 + 　 表示“多”: many, lots of, a great deal of, a good many of, etc. ++(+2) 　 表示“多”的比较级：more + 　 表示“多”的最高级：most － 　 表示“少”: little, few, lack ,in short of/ be in shortage of etc. × 　 表示“错误”、“失误”和“坏”的概念：wrong/incorrect，something bad，notorious，negative, etc. > 　 表示“多于”概念：bigger/larger/greater/more than/better than, etc. 表示“高” 概念：superior to，surpass, etc. < 　 表示“少于”概念：less/smaller，etc. 表示“低”概念：inferior to，etc. = 　 表示“同等”概念：means，that is to say， in other words，the same as，be equal to, etc. 表示“对手”概念：a match, rival, competitor, counterpart, etc. ( ) 　 表示“在......之间”：among, within, etc. ≠ 　 表示“不同”概念：be different from, etc. 表示“无敌”概念：matchless, peerless, etc. ～ 　 表示“大约”概念：about/around，or so， approximately, etc. / 　　 表示“否定”，“消除”等概念：cross out, eliminate, etc. 标点等 : 　 表示各种各样“说”的动词：say, speak, talk, marks, announce, declare, etc. ? 　 表示“问题”：question，issue，例如：台湾问题：tw? . (dot) 　 这个“.”点的位置不同表示的概念也不一样 “.d”表示yesterday, “.y”表示last year, “.2m”表示two month ago。Wk表示week “y” 表示this year, “y2.” two year later “next week”, 可以表示为“wk.” ∧ 　 表示转折but yet however √ 　 表示“好的”状态，right/good，famous/well-known，etc. 表示“同意”状态，stand up for，support， agree with sb, certain/ affirmative, etc. ☆ 　 表示“重要的”状态：important，exemplary（模范的） best，outstanding，brilliant，etc. n 　 表示“交流”状态：exchange，mutual, etc. & 　 表示“和”，“与”：and，together with，along with， accompany，along with，further more，etc. ∥ 　 表示“结束”：end，stop，halt，bring sth to a standstill/stop, etc. 声明：沪江网高度重视知识产权保护，发现本网站发布的信息包含有侵犯其著作权的链接内容时，请联系我们，我们将做相应处理。

主人公先是谈到自己刚来西班牙时的恐惧状况，然后谈了自己因喜欢西班牙的食物，从而摆脱了不

能够理解这位委托人，也就能够更好地完成工作。 4. Researchers suggest that playing video games has similar effects to observing violent television content. Children imitate the aggressive actions from a video game just as they imitate violent television content. 译文：有研究表明，玩电子游戏产生的负面影响和观看暴力电视节目产生的影响有些类似。小孩子会像模仿电视节目中的暴力行为一样模仿电子游戏中的过激行为。 5. Every day, Americans use 450 billion gallons of water, such amount would cover New York City to a depth of 96 feet. We must remember that water is not inexhaustible on earth. 译文：美国人每天要使用4500亿加仑的水。这个用水量可以把纽约市淹没至译高达96英尺的水位。我们必须谨记，地球的水资源不是取之不尽用之不竭的。 解析：这一部分总体难度适中，所涉内容基本与日常生活相关，几乎没有出现生僻的词汇。句型都比较简单，对理解题意不会造成影响。第四题的句式较其他几句稍复杂，需要理顺句中进行对比的两部分的关系，才能很好地理解题意并翻译出来。

2014年春季上海中高级口译考试于今日3月16日开考，沪江英语在考后第一时间提供真题、解析、答案信息，本文为2014年3月中级口译听力真题Talks and Conversations 部分，由沪江网校提供。 Talks and Conversations 1 Questions 11 to 14 are based on the following conversation. W: Jack, where is the memorandum? M: Which memorandum? W: The one from the executive vice president's

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Music affects us as profoundly as anything we experience. Very many people say that music is a big part of their everyday life. We can hear evidence of this in the blurring car radio and see the jogger with his personal stereo. That is the new portability of music. That brings it everywhere people live, play and work. There are different kinds of music , for all tastes – classical, pop, rock, rap, jazz, folk – each culture has its own style. Different parts of the body resonate to different sounds and pitches, and most significantly, certain kinds of music resound powerfully in the human spirit.  We can listen to music anywhere and everywhere. Listening to music can change your mood – sometimes dramatically. Sometimes, if you’re feeling low, it’s tempting to play slow sad music, but this would make you feel worse. And lifting tune or cheerful song can instantly improve your energy levels and your emotional well being.  Music in film and television shows us how music can affect mood. A romantic drama would have a very different film score to a thriller. The old “silent” films originally had a pianist in the cinema playing along, trying to strike the right mood. At times, when watching a film or TV programme, you know what’s about to happen because of the music being played – you can anticipate the terror, such as in “Jaws”. There’re many times when I’ve turn down the sound during a TV programme and use subtitles because the music unsettles means so much. Playing Mozart when studying is said to increase our IQ. A recent study has showed that children who learn a musical instrument are much quicker at developing spatial awareness and problem solving skills. Relaxation music has a slow rhythm. Sounds are often synthesised and there may be added natural sounds, such as whalesong, birdsong, waves or gentle rain to help produce a feeling of calm and relaxation. 点评：这是一篇关于各种音乐与人之间的关系的文章。音乐在现今社会因为移动终端设备而变得在生活中无时不在，无处不在。不同的音乐对人的精神和情绪影响也各有不同。悲伤时，如果我们听慢调而悲伤的音乐，我们会更悲伤。而那些快乐的歌曲则能让我们的情绪迅速恢复过来。电影和电视剧中的音乐同样能够影响我们的情绪，例如恐怖片和浪漫爱情片的音乐是如此不同，另外还举了默片时代的音乐以及看电影电视剧时我们配着背景音乐时会做出的一些反应。最后谈到研究表明音乐能提高智商。舒缓的音乐节奏缓慢。同时，音乐中越来越多地加入原生态、大自然的元素来帮住人们获得更多平静和放松。 文章属于考生日常生活中都会接触到的娱乐休闲类的话题，正如文中所说，音乐在我们现今的社会无时、无处不在，相信考生对文中谈及的音乐及其作用都感同身受，从而能够比较轻松地完成这篇听写题目。