1. My parents never interfered with my plans too much. They advised me, but never forced me into doing anything I didn‟t want to do.
参考译文：我的父母从来不会过分干涉我的计划。他们会给我一些建议，但是从来不会强迫我做不喜欢的事情。
2. Weddings in the United States vary greatly, there are weddings in the church，on mountain tops or even on the ocean floor with oxygen tanks for the guests. But no matter where and how, they all include certain traditional customs.
参考译文：在美国有各种不同的婚礼形式，有的在教堂和或是山顶举行，甚至有的在海底举行，为各位客人提供氧气罐。但是无论在何地以何种方式举行婚礼，其中都会包含一些传统风俗。
3. According to government statistics, in 1990, there were twice as many men smokers as women smokers in the country. But now, women smokers have far outnumbered men smokers.
参考译文：根据政府的数据显示，在1990，男性烟民的数量是女性烟民数量的两倍。但是现在，女性烟民的数量已经远远超过了男性烟民数量。
4. Since it is a big order, I‟ll accept your price of $ 8.50. However, it is a very special offer and it leaves us little profit.
参考译文：既然这份订单很大，我接受你们8.5美元的出价。但是必须要说，我们已经给了很大的优惠，利润很小了。
5. Communication is much more than speaking and reading. True communication takes place when an understanding has been transferred from one party to another. Therefore, communication can be defined as the transfer of information.
参考译文：交流远不止于说和读。真正的交流是将语言含义含义从一方转换到另一方。因此，我们可以把交流定义为信息的转换。
1. America is a nation on wheels. Most Americans are car owners, and some are even obsessive about the subject. They can spend hours discussing whether to buy a foreign car or an American car, and deciding on the best family car or the best sports car. Car repair is also a popular topic. You can participate in their discussion by talking about cars you have
owned or by sharing information you‟ve read in automotive magazines such as “car and driver” or “popular mechanics”.
参考译文：美国是一个车轮上的国家，几乎每一个人都拥有自己的车，有些人甚至对此充满了狂热。美国人可以花上数小时讨论是要买进口车还是国产车，怎样的车型最适合家用，怎样的车型最适合运动。汽车修理也是非常流行的话题，你可以参与他们有关汽车的讨论，你可以谈谈自己的车，或者和大家分享从汽车杂志上读来的信息，比如《人车志》或者《大众机械》
2. Not long ago, individuals joined an organization and often stayed with it for their entire working career. And organizations frequently rewarded loyal employees. However, this concept of organizational loyalty has already faded. Starting in the mid-1980s the average 20-year old employees were expected to change jobs approximately six or seven times during his or her lifetime. According to current statistics, today‟s college graduates will, on average, have eight to ten jobs and as many as three careers in their lifetimes. 参考译文：在不久之前，老百姓加入一个组织，并且在其整个就职期间都会是作为这个组织的成员，此组织会经常奖励忠诚的员工。然而，这样的职业忠诚已经渐渐小。时自20世纪80年代中期开始，20岁的年轻人平均一生可能会更换6~7次工作。目前有数据表明，现在的大学毕业生，平均每人一生可能做过8~10份工作，拥有3份事业。
2010年3月中级口译听力部分原文（完整版）
Spot dictation
The Internet is an excellent source for finding many types of information and for keeping up with new developments in the world. Today, an ever increasing number of people are using the Internet to dig up related information, conduct business, or personal activities, access electronic databases, send e-mail, and network with relatives, colleagues or friends. Frequently referred to as the Information Super Highway, the Internet is actually a network of computer networks. You may
think of the Internet as analogous to the inter-state highway system, Just as the inter-state system connects to different cities via many different routes, the Internet connects computers around the world via a number of different electronic pathways. At the most basic level, a computer, a modem, and a right type of software can get a person onto the Internet. Through the Internet you can access massive amounts of information by accessing computers that are linked together.
Generally speaking, two types of information are available on the Internet, are the most useful for people. That is ,conversational resources, and reference resources.
Conversational resources allow users to have conversations with individuals anywhere in the world. Mailing lists and news groups are the primary types of conversational resources. Mailing lists include electronic mail, whereby the user can read messages, send to any other individual, or group of individuals, who have subscribed by having their name and electronical mail address placed on the center‟s list of addresses.
News groups are essentially electronic bulletin boards. Any one with Internet access can post an article to the board, and any one with Internet access can read the board. The reference resources you most frequently encounter are the World Wide Web(www) or the web for short. The web uses HTML(hypertext markup language) to transfer text, sound, graphics and video. Of course, you need browsers to view documents, and navigate through the intricate links structure. The most popular and well-known browser is the Microsoft Internet Explorer. Statements
1.Our firm is planning to start up a new branch in Australia early next year. And we are making a feasibility study of the proposal.
2.You would like me to describe our chief accountant? Well, I could never stay awake and any of his briefings without first drinking at least three cups of coffee.
3.Ms Brown has intact any previous working experience. She graduated from college 3 years ago, and started to work for us right away.
4.When the secretary said that the memorandum will be ready on Wednesday, the General Manager told her to take her time.
5.If you give us a 10 per cent discount on this product, we‟ll place a second order immediately after we‟ve received the first one next month.
6.Scientists believe that some animals become extinct because of changes in climate. When the places they live become hotter or colder and they can‟t adapt to the new surroundings, hey die.
7.I‟ve been looking into the question of having the products delivered by air. It‟s quick. The goods are less liable to damage than by sea. And there is less risk of holdups.
8.Today, with the rapid social and economic changes of modern times, generation gap is found within the same generation, between people of different ge groups-sometimes, with only a few years apart.
9.Last year‟s annual sales conference was a great success. We have an attendance of almost 100 agents and influential customers. This time, we are counting on more than 180. 10.Originally, we have planned to invest 3.5 million in that project, but just look at this figure, it almost doubled that amount! Part 2 Q11-Q14
Now, what seems to be the trouble?
I don‟t know. I often get dizzy when I climb any stairs and I feel that as though I‟m going to faint.
Uhm, well, your blood pressure is up. Is it?
Do your parents have hypertension problems?
Well, my father used to have low blood pressure. But after his retirement, he‟s got kind of hypertension problem. My mother is okay. You have to be more careful as it is in the family. What can I do about it?
Well, you have to stay off fatty or fried foods, less salty, and less spicy, if possible. Can I have fish and chips? I like it ever since my childhood.
Not any more, I‟m afraid. One more thing, no more smoking and alcohol drinking. It‟s important for you to eat properly, and keep regular time and healthy styles.
I see. I don‟t smoke. But I sometimes drink a bit of red wine. Is that okay?
Yes. And I‟ll give you some tablets to take twice a day. I‟ll put all these down in your case history. Come back in a week or so.
Q11: What is the most likely relationship between the man and the woman? Q12: According to the man, who used to have low blood pressure? Q13: What kind of foods does the man like most? Q14: What does the woman give the man? Q17-Q18
The Universal Expo, also known as World‟s Fair, is one of the three largest events in the world, in terms of economic and cultural impact. However, compared with the other great events, the Modern Olympic Games, and the World Cup, the Expo has the longest history. In 1851, the 1st Expo was held in London under the title “Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations”. At the Expo, participating countries will set up their national pavilions in distinctive architectural styles, with a view to attracting business people, and tourists all over the world. The cost for building such a pavilion could amount to millions of dollars. But it is often far outweighed by benefits and potential revenues thus generated. Usually an Expo will last between three and six months. The character of World Exhibitions has developed through history. Three stages are identified, namely, the eras of industrialization, of cultural exchange, and of nation branding.
The 1st era covered roughly the period from 1800 to 1950. In these days, World Exhibitions were especially focused on trade and famous for the display of scientific and technological advancements.
The 2nd era stared with the 1939 New York World‟s Fair. From then on, World‟s Fairs became more strongly based on a specific theme of cultural significance. Technology and inventions remains important, but no longer as the principal subjects. The defining elements of the Expos were cross-cultural communications and exchanges.
Finally, in the early 1990s, countries started to use World Expo more widely and strongly as a platform to improve their national images.
A study shows that improving national image was the primary participation goal for 73% of the countries at Expo, 2000. Today‟s World‟s Exhibitions embody elements of all three eras. They present new inventions, facilitate cultural exchange, and are used for city, region, and nation branding.
Q15: When was the 1st World Expo held?
Q16: According to the talk, why do participating countries build their national pavilions at the Expo?
Q17: At Expo 2000, what was the primary goal for the majority of participating countries? Q18: Which of the following is not an element presented in the Expo? Q19-Q22
2624344, David Carter speaking. Hello, David. It‟s Joyce, Joyce Cook. Hello, Joyce. How are you? I‟m very well, thanks. How are you? Oh, not so bad, you know.
Good. I rang to ask if you know anything about hotels on the Costa Brava. No, I‟m afraid I can‟t be very much helpful to you there. Why?
Well, it‟s just that we‟ve been thinking of taking the family to Spain summer. And at this rather late stage, we‟re trying to organize ourselves a suitable hotel. But I thought that you‟ve been to the Costa Brava.
I have several times. But I‟ve always taken a tent and do it the hard way. Oh, I see. I didn‟t realize that.
Yes. Great one for the open area, you know.
Oh, it must be nice. But we could never contemplate it with our lot. We are terribly disorganized as a family, you know, and we‟d be in chaos at no time. And in any case, the
car isn‟t big enough to get all of us in and camping equipment as well. So we simply must find ourselves a nice hotel where they‟ll put up with noisy kids.
Uhm. You have got a problem. I‟ll tell you what, Joyce. It‟s just occurred to me Mr. and Mrs. Simpson from over the road have been to that part of Spain several times and I seem to remember them saying they always use some hotel. Do they?
Yes. At least I think that‟s what they said. I‟ll pop round later this evening and if they do know anything that might be of use to you, I‟ll get one or the other of them to give you a ring.
Would you? That‟s very kind of you. Q 19: Why did Joyce telephone David?
Q 20: Which of the following is true about the man? Q 21: What is Joyce‟s problem according to the man? Q 22: What does David promise to do in the evening? Q23-Q26
We are so used to our life on the surface on the earth that it‟s not easy for our minds to break free of all the ideas that we take for granted. For example, we can feel things are heavy so we think of weight as a fixed quality in an object. But actually, it is not fixed at all. If you could take a one-pound packet of butter, 4,000 miles out from the earth, it would weigh only a quarter of a pound. The reason for such change of weight is this: all objects have a natural attraction for all other objects. This is called the gravitational attraction. But this power of attraction between two objects gets weaker as they get farther apart. So the weight of an object on the surface of the earth is not the same as its weight 4,000 miles out in space. What about the weight of one-pound of butter on the surface of the moon? There will be attraction between the butter and the moon, but the butter will weigh only about one-sixth as much as it does on earth. This is because the moon is so much smaller than the earth. The amount of the gravitational pull that a body produces depends on the amount of material in it. A packet of butter has a gravitation pull of its own, but it is very small in relation to the pull of something as large as the moon, or the earth.
Q23: According to the speaker, what quality of an object is taken for granted by people?
Q24: How much will a pound of butter weigh if it is brought 4,000 miles into space? Q25: What is the gravitational attraction?
Q26: Why does an object weigh much less on the moon than it does on the earth? Q27-Q30
Helen, come and look at this. Oh, is this the new catalogue?
Yes, it is. I had a design by an advertising agency this year.
It‟s beautiful. I love the colors. It‟s certainly going to make everybody take notice about our products.
Well, I think they did a good job. I‟m going to get several thousand extra copies printed for the Expo that is coming up this spring.
I‟m sure we can use them at the Expo. But do we have enough money in the budget for them?
No, but I think I can get the finance office to approve our budget supplement.
When they see this, they‟ll certainly be impressed. Are you going to be able to get all the colors we produced?
Oh yes, it wouldn‟t be nearly as effective without them. When will it be ready? Are you going to have it in time?
I‟m going to see Mrs. Carter in the finance office this afternoon. If she says we can go over the budget, I‟ll get the catalogue printed right away. They‟ll be ready in a couple of days. You have to mail most of those to our regular customers, won‟t you?
We‟ll need a lot of them for the mailing, but there‟ll be enough left for you to give out at the Expo.
I hope so, because this catalogue is a real eye-catcher.
But don‟t worry about it. I‟m sure I can make Mrs. Carter see why we need a little more money for the extra copies.
I think anyone will be able to see what a wonderful catalogue this is. Q27: what are the man and woman talking about? Q28: what is the speaker‟s major concern?
Q29: when will the man see Mrs. Carter in the finance office? Q30: what is the finance office expected to do? 句子听译：
1.My parents never interfered with my plans too much. They advised me, but never forced me into doing anything I didn't want to do.
2.Weddings in the United States vary greatly. There are wedding in the church, on mountain tops, or even on the ocean floor with oxygen tanks for the guests. But no matter where and how, they all include certain traditional customs.
3.According to government statistics,in 1990,there were twice as many men smokers as women smokers in the country. But now, women smokers have far outnumbered men smokers.
4.Since it is a big order, I'll accept your price up 8 dollars 30 cents. However it's a very special offer and that leaves us little profit.
5. Communication is much more than speaking and reading. True communication takes place when an understanding has been transfered from one party to another. Therefore, communication an be defined as the transfer of information. 段落听译：
America is a nation on wheels. Most Americans are car-owners and some are even obsessive about the subject. They can spend hours discussing whether to buy a foreign car or an American car, and deciding on the best family car or the best sports car. Car-repair is also a popular topic. You can participate in their discussion by talking about cars you have owned or by sharing information you read in automotive magazines such as Car And Driver or Popular Mecanics.
Not long ago, individuals joined in an organisation and often stayed with it in their entire working career, and organisations often rewarded workers and employees. However, this concept of organisational loyalty has already faded. Starting in the mid 1980s, the average 20-year old employees were expected to change jobs approximately 6 or 7 times during his life time. According to current statistics, today's college graduates will, on average, hace 8-10 jobs and as many as 3 careers in their life times.
2010年3月中口听力Talk部分第四篇解析
这是一篇科技背景的talk, 话题关于gravitational attraction 即“重力吸引”。 虽然是科技背景，但考生们完全可以用常识猜出一些科学现象的理由。而且文章非常规范，通过一些列连接词指引，所以我们能够排除大量junk information而直接解题。
We are so used to our life on the surface of the earth that it is not easy for our minds to break free of all the ideas that we take for granted. For example, we can feel things are heavy, so we think of weight as being a fixed quality in an object. But actually, it is not fixed at all. If you could take a one-pound packet of butter four thousand miles out from the earth, it would weigh only a quarter of a pound. The reason for such a change of weight is this: all objects have a natural attraction for all other objects. This is called gravitational attraction, but this power of attraction between two objects gets weaker as they get farther apart. So the weight of an object on the surface of the earth is not the same as its weight 4000 miles out in space. What about the weight of a one-pound of butter on the surface of the moon? There won‟t be attraction between the butter and the moon, but the butter will weigh only about 1/6 as much as it does on the earth. This is because the moon is so much smaller than the earth. The amount of a gravitational pull that a body produces depends on the amount of material in it. A packet of butter has a gravitational pull of its own, but it is very small in relation to the pull of something as large as the moon or the earth.
Q23: According to the speaker, what quality of an object is taken for granted by people? 文章开篇即引入说很多事情被我们想当然了，take for granted这个词汇即时没听懂，也可以记下一笔。接下来for example就引出了考点，例举说明前面的问题。然后我们听到了fixed一词，迅速可以做出选择。
Q24: How much will a pound of butter weigh if it is brought 4000 miles into space? 中段出现了问句what about …，一般这都是考点的出现。只要集中一般都能轻松拿下，听到1/6。即可选择。
Q25: What is the gravitational attraction?
讲话中我们一定要锁定两个关键点，一是new information, 二就是文章的链接词。在新信息gravitational attraction出现后我们要特别小心，然后连续出现两个重要的链接词, but和so。 一般so之后都是对这一话题的总结，即考点。所以要特别关注。 这样我们迅速找到了重力引力的特点，即离得越远，引力越小
Q26: Why does an object weigh much less on the moon than it does on the earth? 最后部分出现的because, 对应了问题的why. 即可找到相关点，即引力大小不仅和物体本身有关，也和相对应物体的引力有关。这类表原因的词我们曾经专门总结过, 比如：conclusion; due to; attributable; thanks to等等
2010年3月中口听力Spot Dictation答案+原文+点评
因特网作为主题已经不是一次两次了，本文讲其比喻成信息高速公路，介绍了它的各种用途，并没有涉及尖端高新技术，甚至显得有些老旧，很有可能是数十年前的文章。作为科技文体， 上下文并无故事性可言，若在语段理解中出现，考生一不留神就会忽略考点。幸好作为第一大题，只需集中精力填写空格即可。 较难拼写的单词有： ever-increasing 不断增长的
information superhighway 信息高速公路 analogies to 类比
Interstate system 州际系统 subscribe 订购 bulletin boards 公告板 navigate 导航
intricate link structure 错综复杂的链接构造
虽说难词不多，但我们不能忽略了虚词。中口Spot部分的评分标准跟高口略有不同：高口每个实词0.5分，虚词2至3个加在一起0.5分；中口虚词的分值要高一些，一般都会占到0.5分一个。若小看了虚词，积少成多到最后扣的就不是小分了。我们课堂上反复强调的常见字笔记方式，如果考生能够熟练掌握的话，定能在“and, to, of, in, some, the”等词上节省时间，投入较长实词的填写中。 附原文：
The internet is an excellent source for finding many types of information and for keeping up with new developments in the world. Today, an ever-increasing number of people are using the Internet to dig up related information, conduct business or personal activities, access electronic data basis, send email and network with relatives, colleagues or friends. Frequently referred to as the information superhighway, the Internet is actually a network of computer networks. You may think of the Internet as analogies to the Interstate highway system. Just as the Interstate system connects to you different cities via many different routes, the Internet connects computers around the world via a number of different electronic pathways. At the most basic level, a computer, a modem and the right type of software can a person onto the Internet. Through the Internet, you can access massive amounts of information by accessing computers that are linked together. Generally speaking, two types of information available on the Internet are the most useful for people. That is conversational resources and reference resources. Conversational resources allow users to have conversations with individuals anywhere in the world. Mailing lists and news groups are the primary types of conversational resources. Mailing lists include electronic mail whereby the user can read messages, send to any other individual or group of individuals who have subscribed by having their names and electronic mail address placed on the sender‟s list of addresses. News groups are essentially electronic bulletin boards. Anyone with Internet access can post an article to the board, and anyone with Internet access can read the board. The reference resources you most frequently encounter are the worldwide web---www, or the web for short. The web uses HTML---hyper texted markup language to transfer text, sound, graphics and video. Of course, you need browsers to view documents, and navigate through the intricate link structure. The most popular and well known browser is Microsoft Internet Explorer.
2010年春季中级口译阅读部分题源
Question 6-10
选自剑桥通用英语FCE 2级考试。
Many trees in the Brackham area were brought down in the terrible storms that March. The town itself lost two great lime trees from the former market square. The disappearance of such prominent features had altered the appearance of the town centre entirely, to the annoyance of its more conservative inhabitants.
Among the annoyed, under more normal circumstances, would have been Chief Inspector Douglas Pelham, head of the local police force. But at the height of that week‟s storm, when the wind brought down even the mature walnut tree in his garden, Pelham had in fact been in no ?t state to notice. A large and healthy man, he had for the ?rst time in his life been seriously ill with an attack of bronchitis.
When he ?rst complained of an aching head and tightness in his chest, his wife, Molly, had tried to persuade him to go to the doctor. Convinced that the police force could not do without him, he had, as usual, ignored her and attempted to carry on working. Predictably, though he wouldn't have listened to anyone who tried to tell him so, this had the effect of fogging his memory and shortening his temper.
It was only when his colleague, Sergeant Lloyd, took the initiative and drove him to the doctor‟s door that he ?nally gave in. By that time, he didn‟t have the strength left to argue with her. In no time at all, she was taking him along to the chemist‟s to get his prescribed antibiotics and then home to his unsurprised wife who sent him straight to bed. When Molly told him, on the Thursday morning, that the walnut tree had been brought down during the night, Pelham hadn‟t been able to take it in. On Thursday evening, he had asked weakly about damage to the house, groaned thankfully when he heard there was none, and pulled the sheets over his head.
It wasn‟t until Saturday, when the antibiotics took effect, his temperature dropped and he got up, that he realised with a shock that the loss of the walnut tree had made a permanent difference to the appearance of the living-room. The Pelhams‟ large house stood in a sizeable garden. It had not come cheap, but even so Pelham had no regrets about buying it. The leafy garden had created an impression of privacy. Now, though, the storm had changed his outlook.
Previously, the view from the living-room had featured the handsome walnut tree. This had not darkened the room because there was also a window on the opposite wall, but it had provided interesting patterns of light and shade that disguised the true state of the worn furniture that the family had brought with them from their previous house.
With the tree gone, the room seemed cruelly bright, its worn furnishings exposed in all their shabbiness. And the view from the window didn‟t bear looking at. The tall house next door, previously hidden by the tree, was now there, dominating the outlook with its unattractive purple bricks and external pipes. It seemed to have a great many upstairs windows, all of them watching the Pelhams‟ every movement.
“Doesn‟t it look terrible?” Pelham croaked to his wife. But Molly, standing in the doorway, sounded more pleased than dismayed. „That‟s what I‟ve been telling you ever since we came here. We have to buy a new sofa, whatever it costs.‟ Question 11-15
神经科学研究用于探测brain activity和intention之间的关系，此文选自2007年2月9日的英国《卫报》。
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/feb/09/neuroscience.ethicsofscience Question 21-25
报刊电子化使传统paper-and-ink newspapers的生存受到挑战，以New York Times为例。2009年10月3日的《曼谷邮报》(Bangkok Post)和2009年10月29日的China Daily分别刊登了这篇文章。
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2009-10/29/content_8864541.htm Question 26-30
Christophe Petyt 的介绍，选自2003年6月30日的《英国每日电讯报》。 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3597658/Fake-art-meets-real-money.html
2010年3月中级口译英译汉参考译文
The recession has hit middle-income and poor families hardest, widening the economic gap between the richest and poorest Americans as rippling job layoffs ravaged household budgets.
在经济衰退中，损失最为惨重的要数中等收入和贫困家庭。此外，衰退还造成最富裕和最贫困的美国人之间经济差距扩大，因为一波波裁员的侵袭使家庭可用开支遭受重创。
Household income declined across all groups, but at sharper percentage levels for middle-income and poor Americans. Median income fell last year from $52,163 to $50,303, wiping out a decade's worth of gains to hit the lowest level since 1997. Poverty jumped sharply to 13.2 percent, an 11-year high.
虽然全美各个群体的家庭收入普降，但是中低收入者的跌幅更大。去年，（家庭）收入的中位数从52163美元降低到50303美元，达到了1997年以来的最低点，相当于十年的财富收益蒸发殆尽。贫困人口的比例则飙升至13.2%，创下了11年来的新高。
No one should be surprised at the increased disparity. Analysts attributed the widening gap to the wave of layoffs in the economic downturn that have devastated household budgets. They said while the richest Americans may be seeing reductions in executive pay, those at the bottom of the income ladder are often unemployed and struggling to get by. 对于日益扩大的收入差距，我们不应大惊小怪。经济低迷时期的裁员风潮导致家庭的可用开支急剧减少，分析师认为这才是导致收入差距扩大的罪魁祸首。他们认为，虽然最富裕的美国人也可能发现收入缩水，但那些工资最低的人才是真正的受害者，因为他们经常遭到解雇，艰难度日。
2010年3月中级口译英译汉点评
翻译部分的难度适中，和过去的题目相比难度差别不大，英译汉的部分是关于经济衰退导致美国贫富差距进一步扩大的问题。英文原文选自09年9月20日的《今日美国》（U.S. Today），随后09年9月29日的《中国日报》（China Daily）转载了同一篇文章。在考前串讲的时候，我跟同学们说过，时事类话题的翻译难度相对而言是最低的，只要熟悉时事术语就可以很顺利地完成考题。
首先，这篇文章考察的经济类术语我们在课堂上不仅反复强调，而且还补充过很多同义表达。比如讲到economic recession（经济衰退）时，我们补充过economic turndown/ slump/ depression的表达；讲到economic gap（贫富差距）时，我们补充过polarization, disparity, income gap, gaps between haves and have-nots；讲到layoff（下岗）时，我们补充过downsizing, rightsizing, massive redundancy等。可以说我们在课程上归纳总结的经济类词汇比文章所考察的要丰富的多，因此这篇文章的经济术语是根本难不到我们的。
其次，整篇文章大量出现了“上升、下降”的句型，一共出现了５次。我们在考前预测时跟同学说，这类句型最重要的是掌握“趋势＋幅度”的两大词汇、以及表示“上升、下降”四大句型。文章中的the lowest level（历史最低）也是我们涉及过的单词，还有一个同义表达record low，大家也不陌生。
最后，对于翻译技能来说，我们在翻译课堂上强调的转性法、具体译法、增/省词法、转态译法、换序译法等再次被证明是中口翻译考察的重中之重。 转性法：
原文：Household income declined across all groups, but at sharper percentage levels for middle-income and poor Americans.
分析：英文原文across all groups是一个介词短语，如果译成中文也直接使用介词短语，译成“家庭收入在各个群体中都有所下降”，感觉十分别扭。但如果我们把这里的across all groups调整为中文的主语，把后面at sharper percentage levels调整为谓语动词，译文则更加通顺了。
参考译文：虽然全美各个群体的家庭收入普降，但是中低收入者的跌幅更大。 具体译法、增词法：
原文：Poverty jumped sharply to 13.2 percent, an 11-year high.
分析：poverty（贫困）是不可能增加的，只有贫困人口的数量可以增加，因此在翻译poverty的时候需要将抽象名词具体化。另外，英文原文an 11-year high仅仅是一个名词短语，翻译成中文必须添加谓语动词。
参考译文：贫困人口的比例则飙升至13.2%，创下了11年来的新高。 换序译法
原文：Median income fell last year from $52,163 to $50,303, wiping out a decade's worth of gains to hit the lowest level since 1997.
分析：本句的词汇难点是median（中位数）；而从状语从句的翻译角度看，英文习惯先主句再从句，按照逻辑重要性来行文；而中文则习惯先从句再主句，按时间先后顺序来行文。因此我们在翻译的时候，需要将时间状语提前。
参考译文：去年，（家庭）收入的中位数从52163美元降低到50303美元，达到了1997年以来的最低点，相当于十年的财富收益蒸发殆尽。
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