2004年MBA英語翻譯真題及答案

1、2004年MBA英語翻譯真題及答案 2004年翻譯Section V Translation (10 points)Directions: In this section there is a passage in English. Translate the five sentences underlined into Chinese and write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET2.March 27, 1997, dawned as a normal day at the Collins home. By the middle of the m

2、orning, Jack Collins was at his desk, writing checks, paying bills the way he always had: on time. Then the phone rang, and the nightmare began.(71) An investigator for a bank was on the line, asking in a severe voice why Collins, a university physicist, was late on payments for a $27,000 car, bough

3、t in Virginia the previous year. I dont have a car like this, Collins protested. The last time he had set foot in Virnia was as an officer at a submarine base, three decades ago. But his name was on the contract, and so was his Social Security Number.During the months that ensued, he and his wife le

4、arned that someone had bought four more cars and 28 other items - worth $113,000 in all m in their name. Their hitherto good credit record had been destroyed. (72) After a lifetime of being honest, says Collins, all of a sudden I was basically being accused of stealing and treated like a criminal.Th

5、is is what it means to fall prey to a nonviolent but frightening and fast-growing crime: identity theft. It happens to at least 500,000 new victims each year, according to government figures.(73) And it happens very easily because every identification number you have m Social Security, credit cards

6、drivers license, telephone m is a key that unlocks some storage of money or goods, says a fraud (欺詐) program manager of the US Postal Service. So if you throw away your credit card receipt and I get it and use the number on it, Im not becoming you, but to the credit card company Ive become your acco

7、unt.(74) One major problems experts say, is that the Social Security Number (SSN) originally meant only for retirement benefit and tax purposes - has become the universal way to identify people. It is used as identification by the military, colleges and in billions of commercial transactions.Yet a s

8、hrewd thief can easily snatch your SSN, not only by stealing your wallet, but also by taking mail from your box, going through your trash for discarded receipts and bills or asking for it over the phone on some pretext.Using your SSN, the thief applies for a credit card in your name, asking that it

9、be sent to a different address than yours, and uses it for multiple purchases. A couple of months later the credit card company, or its debt collection agency, presses you for payment.You dont have to pay the debt, but you must clean up your damaged credit record. (75) Thatmeans getting a means gett

10、ing a police report and copy of the erroneous contract, and then using them to clear the fraud from your credit reports which is held by a credit bureau. Each step can require a huge amount of effort.參考譯文：(71) 家銀行的調(diào)查員打來電話，用嚴(yán)厲的口吻質(zhì)問柯林斯一位在大學(xué)里工作的物理學(xué)家為什么拖欠去年在弗吉尼亞買的一輛汽車所花的2.7萬美元。(72) “我一輩子都誠實待人，”柯林斯說，“突然之間，我被指控偷竊，并且被當(dāng)作罪犯一樣對待?！?73)美國郵政總局的一位負(fù)責(zé)詐騙案的項目經(jīng)理說，“這類事很容易發(fā)生，因為你所持有的每一種身份證件號碼，譬如社會