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2024年翻译 152010年英语二翻译真题
"Sustainability" has become a popular word these days, but to Ted Ning, the
concept will always have personal meaning. Having endured a painful period of
unsustainability in his own life made it clear to him that sustainability-oriented values
must be expressed through everyday action and choice.
Ning recalls spending a confusing year in the late 1990s selling insurance. He'd
been through the dot-com boom and burst and, desperate for a job, signed on with a
Boulder agency.
It didn't go well. "It was a really bad move because that's not my passion," says
Ning, whose dilemma about the job translated, predictably, into a lack of sales. "I was
miserable. I had so much anxiety that I would wake up in the middle of the night and
stare at the ceiling. I had no money and needed the job. Everyone said,'Just wait, you'll
tum the comer, give it some time."'2011年英语二翻译真题
Who would have thought that, globally, the IT industry produces about the same
volume of greenhouse gases as the world's airlines do - roughly 2 percent of all CO2
emissions?
Many everyday tasks take a surprising toll on the environment. A Google search
can leak between 0.2 and 7.0 grams of CO2, depending on how many attempts are
needed to get the "right" answer. To deliver results to its users quickly, then, Google
has to maintain vast data centres around the world, packed with powerfol computers.
While producing large quantities of CO2, these computers emit a great deal of heat, so
the centres need to be well air-conditioned, which uses even more energy.
However, Google and other big tech providers monitor their efficiency closely
and make improvements. Monitoring is the first step on the road to reduction, but there
is much more to be done, and not just by big companies.2012年英语二翻译真题
When people in developing countries worry about migration, they are usually
concerned at the prospect of their best and brightest departure to Silicon Valley or to
hospitals and universities in the developed world. These are the kind of workers that
countries like Britain, Canada and Australia try to attract by using immigration rules that
privilege college graduates.
Lots of studies have found that well-educated people from developing countries
are particularly likely to emigrate. A big survey of Indian households in 2004 found that
nearly 40% of emigrants had more than a high-school education, compared with around
3.3% of all Indians over the age 25. This "brain drain" has long bothered
policymakers in poor countries. They fear that it hurts their economies, depriving them
of much-needed skilled workers who could have taught at their universities, worked
in their hospitals and come up with clever new products for their factories to make.2013年英语二翻译真题
I can pick a date from the past 53 years and know instantly where I was, what
happened in the news and even the day of the week. I've been able to do this since I was
four.
I never feel overwhelmed with the amount of information my brain absorbs. My
mind seems to be able to cope and the information is stored away neatly. When I think of
a sad memory, I do what everybody does - try to put it to one side. I don't think it's
harder for me just because my memory is clearer. Powerfol memory doesn't make my
emotions any more acute or vivid. I can recall the day my grandfather died and the
sadness I felt when we went to the hospital the day before. I also remember that the
musical play Hair opened on Broadway on the same day - they both just pop into my
mind in the same way.2014年英语二翻译真题
Most people would define optimism as being endlessly happy, with a glass that's
perpetually half full. But that's exactly the kind of false cheerfulness that positive
psychologists wouldn't recommend. "Healthy optimism means being in touch with
reality," says Tal Ben-Shahar, a Harvard professor. According to Ben-Shahar, realistic
optimists are those who make the best of things that happen, but not those who believe
everything happens for the best.
Ben-Shahar uses three optimistic exercises. When he feels down - say, after giving
a bad lecture—he grants himself permission to be human. He reminds himself that not
every lecture can be a Nobel winner; some will be less effective than others. Next is
reconstruction. He analyzes the weak lecture, learning lessons for the future about what
works and what doesn't. Finally, there is perspective, which involves acknowledging
that in the grand scheme of life, one lecture really doesn't matter.2015年英语二翻译真题
Think about driving a route that's very familiar. It could be your commute to work,
a trip into town or the way home. Whichever it is, you know every twist and turn like the
back of your hand. On these sorts of trips it's easy to lose concentration on the driving
and pay little attention to the passing scenery. The consequence is that you perceive that
the trip has taken less time than it actually has.
This is the well-travelled road effect: People tend to underestimate the time it takes
to travel a familiar route.
The effect is caused by the way we allocate our attention. When we travel down a
well-known route, because we don't have to concentrate much, time seems to flow more
quickly. And afterwards, when we come to think back on it, we can't remember the
journey well because we didn't pay much attention to it. So we assume it was shorter.年英语二翻译真题
2016
The supermarket is designed to lure customers into spending as much time as
possible within its doors. The reason for this is simple: The longer you stay in the store,
the more stuff you'll see, and the more stuff you see, the more you'll buy. And
supermarkets contain a lot of stuff. The average supermarket, according to the Food
Marketing Institute, carries some 44,000 different items, and many carry tens of
thousands more. The sheer volume of available choice is enough to send shoppers into a
state of information overload. According to brain-scan experiments, the demands of so
much decision-making quickly become too much for us. After about 40 minutes of
shopping, most people stop struggling to be rationally selective, and instead begin
shopping emotionally - which is the point at which we accumulate the 50 percent of
stuff in our cart that we never intended buying.2017年英语二翻译真题
My dream has always been to work somewhere in an area between fashion and
publishing. Two years before graduating from secondary school, I took a sewing and
design course thinking that I would move on to a fashion design course. However,
during that course I realized I was not good enough in this area to compete with other
creative personalities in the future, so I decided that it was not the right path for me.
Before applying for university I told everyone that I would study journalism, because
writing was, and still is, one of my favourite activities. But, to be honest, I said it,
because I thought that fashion and me together was just a dream - I knew that no one
could imagine me in the fashion industry at all! So I decided to look for some fashion
related courses that included writing. This is when I noticed the course "Fashion Media
& Promotion."2018年英语二翻译真题
A fifth grader gets a homework assignment to select his future career path from a
list of occupations. He ticks "astronaut" but quickly adds "scientist" to the list and
selects it as well. The boy is convinced that if he reads enough, he can explore as many
career paths as he likes. And so he reads - eve1-ything from encyclopedias to science
fiction novels. He reads so passionately that his parents have to institute a "no reading
policy" at the dinner table.
That boy was Bill Gates, and he hasn't stopped reading yet - not even after
becoming one of the most successful people on the planet. Nowadays, his reading
material has changed from science fiction and reference books: recently, he revealed that
he reads at least 50 nonfiction books a year. Gates chooses nonfiction titles because they
explain how the world works. "Each book opens up new avenues of knowledge to
explore", Gates says.2019年英语二翻译真题
It is easy to underestimate English writer James Herriot. He had such a pleasant,
readable style that one might think that anyone could imitate it. How many times have I
heard people say, "I could write a book. I just haven't the time." Easily said. Not so
easily done. James Herriot, contrary to popular opinion, did not find it easy in his early
days of, as he put it, "having a go at the writing game". While he obviously had an
abundance of natural talent, the final, polished work that he gave to the world was the
result of years of practicing, re-writing and reading. Like the majority of authors, he had
to suffer many disappointments and rejections along the way, but these made him all the
more determined to succeed. Everything he achieved in life was earned the hard way and
his success in the literary field was no exception.2020年英语二翻译真题
It's almost impossible to go through life without experiencing some kind of failure.
But, the wonderful thing about failure is that it's entirely up to us to decide how to look
at it.
We can choose to see failure as "the end of the world." Or, we can look at failure as
the incredible learning experience that it often is. Every time we fail at something, we
can choose to look for the lesson we're meant to learn. These lessons are very important;
they're how we grow, and how we keep from making that same mistake again. Failures
stop us only if we let them.
Failure can also teach us things about ourselves that we would never have learned
otherwise. For instance, failure can help you discover how strong a person you are.
Failing at something can help you discover your truest friends, or help you find
unexpected motivation to succeed.
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We tend to think that friends and family members are our biggest sources of
connection, laughter, and warmth. While that may well be true, researchers have also
recently found that interacting with strangers actually brings a boost in mood and
feelings of belonging that we didn't expect.
In one series of studies, researchers instructed Chicago-area commuters using
public transportation to strike up a conversation with someone near them. On average,
participants who followed this instruction felt better than those who had been told to
stand or sit in silence. The researchers also argued that when we shy away from casual
interactions with strangers, it is often due to a misplaced anxiety that they might not
want to talk to us. Much of the time, however, this belief is false. As it turns out, many
people are actually perfectly willing to talk-and may even be flattered to receive your
attention.2022年英语二翻译真题
Although we try our best, sometimes our paintings rarely turn out as originally
planned. Changes in the light, the limitations of your painting materials, and the lack of
experience and technique mean that what you start out trying to achieve may not come
to life the way that you expected.
Although this can be frustrating and disappointing, it turns out that this can actually
be good for you. Unexpected results have two benefits: you pretty quickly learn to deal
with disappointment, and realise that when one door closes, another opens. You also
quickly learn to adapt and come up with creative solutions to the problems the painting
presents, and thinking outside the box will become your second nature.
In fact, creative problem-solving skills are incredibly useful in daily life, with
which you're more likely to be able to find a solution when a problem arises.2023年英语二翻译真题
In the late 18th century, William Wordsworth became famous for his poems about
nature. And he was one of the founders of a movement called Romanticism, which celebrated
the wonders of the natural world
Poetry is powerful. Its energy and rhythm can capture a reader, transport them to another
world and make them see things differently. Through carefully selected words and phrases,
poems can be dramatic, funny, beautiful, moving and inspiring
No one knows for sure when poetry began but it has been around for thousands of years,
even before people could write. It was a way to tell stories and pass dowrt history. It is closely
related to song and even when written it is usually created to be performed out loud. Poems
really come to life when they are recited. This can also help with understanding them too,
because the rhythm and sounds of the words become clearer2024年英语二翻译真题
With the smell of coffee and fresh bread floating in the air, stalls bursting with
colourful vegetables and tempting cheeses, and the buzz of friendly chats, farmers'markets
are a feast for the senses. They also provide an opportunity to talk to the people responsible
for growing or raising your food, support your local economy and pick up fresh seasonal
produce—all at the same time
Farmers'markets are usually weekly or monthly events, most often with outdoor stalls,
which allow farmers or producers to sell their food directly to customers. The size or
regularity of markets can vary from season to season, depending on the area's agricultural
calendar, and you're likely to find different produce on sale at different times of the year
By cutting out the middlemen, the farmers secure more profit for their produce. Shoppers
also benefit from seeing exactly where—and to who—their money is going
