【英语】2013年真题文本精讲159期
2013年text4 第四段,第五段:
①“Personally, I don’t like quotas,” Reding said recently.② “But I like what the quotas do.” ③Quotas get action: they “open the way to equality and they break through the glass ceiling,” according to Reding, a result seen in France and other countries with legally binding provisions on placing women in top business positions.
④I understand Reding’s reluctance—and her frustration.⑤ I don’t like quotas either; they run counter to my belief in meritocracy, governance by the capable. ⑥But, when one considers the obstacles to achieving the meritocratic ideal, it does look as if a fairer world must be temporarily ordered.
句子切分:
第一句,第二句:
1. “Personally, I don’t like quotas,” Reding said recently.
2. “But I like what the quotas do.”
翻译解析:“就我个人而言,我不喜欢定额,”Reding最近说道。“但我喜欢定额制所达到的结果。”
第三句:
1. Quotas get action:
2. they “open the way to equality and they break through the glass ceiling,” according to Reding
3. , a result seen in France and other countries with legally binding provisions on placing women in top business positions.
翻译解析:Reding认为(插入语前置)定额制行之有效:它能“打开性别平衡的通道,突破女性面临的天花板现象”。这个结果在法国和其他国家很明显,它们(增词法-定额制)对于女性进入企业高管职位都有强制性法律规定。(句末插入语信息过大,采用分开翻译)。
第四句:
I understand Reding’s reluctance—and her frustration.
翻译解析:我理解Reding的不情愿(无奈)——和她的沮丧。
第五句:
1. I don’t like quotas either;
2. they run counter to my belief in meritocracy, governance by the capable.
翻译解析:我也不喜欢配额制;它们与我的精英管理理念相左,即能者胜其任。
第六句:
1. But, when one considers the obstacles to achieving the meritocratic ideal,
2. it does look as if a fairer world must be temporarily ordered.
翻译解析:但是,考虑到实现精英管理理念所面临的障碍,似乎暂时借助命令才能让这个世界更加公平。
动词及短语(重点):
break through:打破;
bind:捆绑;真题中可能会与combine相结合考察;
provide(动词,提供)-provider(名词,提供者)-provision(名词,提供)
place:本文用作动词,表示安放;
run counter to sth:与某事相违背;counter在这里用作形容词,表示相反的;前面真题中还考察过其作为柜台的义项,如wipe counters刷卡;2010-3
其他相关词汇:
glass ceiling:表示女性晋升公司高层职位的障碍;
reluctant(形容词,犹豫的,不情愿的)-reluctance(名词,不情愿)
merit(优点,功绩)-meritocracy(英才教育制度)-meritocratic(精英管理的)
capable:有能力的,有才能的;
obstacle:障碍,干扰;
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