【七届通译杯比赛辅导】初赛笔译题3

【第七届通译杯比赛辅导】初赛笔译题3

试将下文翻译成英文：

过去100多年里，发达国家先后完成了工业化，消耗了地球上大量的自然资源，特别是能源资源。当前，一些发展中国家正在步入工业化阶段，能源消费增加是经济社会发展的客观必然。

译文一：The past century and more has seen developed countries get fully industrialized at the cost/expense of enormous natural resources, particularly energy sources. At this point, some developing countries are in the midst of industrialization where increases in energy consumption are part of what it takes to grow their economies and improve social well-being/As some developing countries are on track to industrialization, their socio-economic development will naturally entail more energy consumption.

中文很显然前后是有微弱因果关系，或者说前者是给出了事实、背景，应该想到英文的as+句子这样的句式。还有一个典型的介词使用问题，就是上升、下降、增加、减少后的介词是in...， 如：油价的上升rise in oil prices，粮价的下降fall in food prices。 这在英文新闻中比比皆是，平时学习应注意总结。试对比译文二。

译文二：Today, some developing countries are ushering in their own era of industrialization, and an increase of energy consumption is inevitable for their economic and social development.

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