考MPA英語翻譯練習(一)
1. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month′s stockholders′ meeting, Levin asserted that "music is not the cause of society′s ills" and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students.
在-上個月的股東大會上關於搖滾歌詞的討論中，萊文宣稱說："音樂不是社會問題的原因"，他甚至還以他的兒子為例。他的兒子是紐約州布朗克斯的一個教師，並用說唱音樂與學生們進行溝通。
2. "The test of any democratic society, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column′, "lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be..."
對任何一個民主社會的考驗，"他在《華爾街雜誌》的一個專欄文章中寫到，"不在於它能夠多有效地控制各種意見的表達，而在於這個社會是否能給予思考和表達的儘可能廣泛的自由，不管有時候這種結果是多麼的富有爭議或令人不快…"
3. "Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers?" Senator Robert Dole asked Time Warner executives last week. "You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well?"
上星期參議員羅博特多爾質問時代華納公司的高階管理人員們："難道這就是你們希望能夠成就的事業?你們已經出賣了自己的靈魂，但是難道你們還非要腐化我們的國家，威脅我們的孩子們嗎?"
4. Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as "steering the economy to a soft landing" of "a touch on the brakes" ， makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing could be further from the truth.
有很多用於描述貨幣政策的詞彙，例如"輕踩剎車"以"操縱經濟軟著陸"，使貨幣政策聽起來像是一門精確的科學。沒有什麼比這更遠離實際情況的了。
5. Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since, conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially America′s, have little productive slack.
經濟學家們對英國和美國的有利的通貨膨脹資料尤其感到驚訝，因為傳統的計量方法顯示兩國的經濟，特別是美國的經濟，幾乎沒有生產蕭條的時候。
6. New ways of organizing the workplace--all that re-engineering and downsizing--are only one contribution to the overall productivity of an economy, which is driven by many other factors such as joint investment in equipment and machinery, new technology, and investment in education and training,
企業重組的新方法--所有那些重新設計、縮小規模的做法--只是對一個經濟的整體生產力做出了一方面的`貢獻。這種經濟還受許多其他因素的驅動，比如結合裝置和機械上的投資、新技術，以及在教育和培訓上的投資。
7. The Aswan Dam, for example, stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt that floods left-all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity.
例如，阿斯旺大壩使得尼羅河不再洪水氾濫，但是它也奪去了埃及以前所享有的洪水留下的肥沃淤泥--這些換宋的就是這麼個疾病滋生的水庫，現在這個水庫積滿了淤泥，幾乎不能發電了。
8. The most thrilling explanation is, unfortunately, a little defective. Some economists argue that powerful structural changes in the world have upended the old economic models that were based upon the historical link between growth and inflation.
很不幸，這最令人震驚的解釋有一點缺陷。一些經濟學家認為世界經濟結構的強有力的變化已經結束了那個以經濟增長和通貨膨脹的歷史關聯為基礎的舊的經濟模式。
