It’s a high-risky, multibillion-dollar industry with tight deadlines, demanding customers and lives in danger.
The business is . And it’s booming.
The number of jobs for translators and interpreters doubled in the past 10 years while their wages steadily before, during and after the recession. During a period of stagnating (停滞的) wages across the labor market, the language-service industry with its 50,000 jobs is a spot in the jobs outlook.
Lillian Clementi is a French translator working in corporate communications from her home in Arlington, Massachusetts and is routinely on tight deadlines to hand in translated material. “The risks can be huge,” said Clementi, “There’s tons of pressure.”
In some cases, a(n) translation or interpretation is also vital. If a user’s guide for medical equipment is not translated well, it could lead to during an emergency. Soldiers in conflict areas require excellent interpreters to speak with community members. Any change of tone or context could put lives .
Translators’ and interpreters’ immunity (免疫力) to the nation’s economic downturn also the growing demand for people who can speak several languages in an increasingly globalized economy, experts said.
“Good translators who a particular subject and become really good at it can really make six-digit figures annually,” said Jiri Stejskal, spokesman for the American Translators Association.
Multinational corporations, U.S. demographic (人口的) changes and the Internet economy raise the need for translated and localized information. Companies increasingly want their content to the tongue of the town, even between dialects of the same language.
“As more people the worldwide economy, that’s going to drive more commerce, and that’s going to drive more language services,” said Bill Rivers, executive director of the National Council for Language and International Studies in the Washington region.
, qualifications for translators and interpreters are not as simple as they may seem. Speaking two languages does not mean a person can work in the language-service industry, experts said. Learning how to translate or interpret is a skill beyond knowing the language.
Furthermore, the most successful translators and interpreters maintain a , such as legal documents, quarterly earnings reports or a special knowledge of industry.
Technological advances may cut jobs in some industries, but online translation services like Google Translate raise demand for human translators and interpreters, experts said. Online sales companies also drive demand for translation.
A．tourism B．language C．technology D．economy
A．shrank B．changed C．grew D．remained
A．bright B．scenic C．historic D．tough
A．money B．peer C．blood D．time
A．proper B．quick C．direct D．innovative
A．disease B．depression C．violence D．confusion
A．in order B．at risk C．under control D．out of state
A．highlights B．understands C．increases D．resists
A．set up B．depend on C．specialize in D．object to
A．limited B．accustomed C．related D．tailored
A．agree with B．have access to C．are confident of D．insist on
A．Instead B．Therefore C．However D．Otherwise
A．separate B．genetic C．learnable D．worthwhile
A．certificate B．diploma C．strategy D．specialty
A．automatically B．respectively C．actually D．immediately
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A, B, C, D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My brother and I were born and grew up in a small village in England. Our father was a struggling , but I always knew he was special. He never us, but used praise to our best. He’d say, “If you pour water on flowers, they flourish. If you don’t give them , they die.” I remember as a child I said unkind about somebody, and my father said, “ time you say something unpleasant about somebody else, it’s a reflection of you.” He that if I looked for the best in people, I would get the best . From then on I’ve always tried to follow the in my life and later in running my company.
Dad’s always been very understanding. At 15, I started a magazine. It was taking up a great of my time, and the headmaster of my school gave me a choice：stay in school or leave to my magazine.
I decided to leave, and Dad tried to sway（使动摇） me from my decision, any good father would. When he I had made up my mind, he said, “Richard, when I was 23, my dad persuaded me to go into law. And I’ve always it. I wanted to be a biologist, but I didn’t my dream. You know you want. Go fulfill it.”
As it , my little publication went on to become Student, a national magazine for young people in the U.K. My wife and I have two children, and I’d like to think we are bringing them in the same way Dad raise me.
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请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Teaching second grade is always a challenge.Each student arrives at school with his own needs and difficulties.One year a student called Billy me with his behavior as well as his academic requirements.He struggled daily with his emotions and often became angry or violent.I knew that, to make progress, his emotions needed controlling.
One I tried to help Billy was to have him come directly into the classroom when he arrived at school.Billy’s mom would me to alert (警告) me to a particularly emotional morning at home.Then, I would focus on his anger and calming him down before the other students arrived.
One week our class was studying .I thought one way to bring learning into the classroom was to bring my dog Rocky to school for the day.
That day began as normal.I was preparing activities focused on dog themes I was told that Billy had a morning at home and I might need to get him .As I was talking to his mom, Billy into the classroom.To Billy’s , Rocky immediately ran up to his new , wagging his tail and licking Billy’s face with doggy affection.Billy couldn’t Rocky’s charm (魅力) and began laughing as his anger melted away.
Throughout the day, Billy never left Rocky’s side, feeding him, being gentle with him and even the other students while Rocky was sleeping.
Billy was known for doing anything he could to avoid , but on this day he found a good dog story, “Clifford’s Puppy Days,” and read it to Rocky.How I was at the sight of Billy reading happily！My little dog was able to Billy’s day from one of anger and frustration to one of laughter, gentleness and .
That day Rocky more than helped me with my ; he helped to change the life of a child! After that Billy’s behavior definitely improved.
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项A、B、 C和D中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables.In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me.I could see that he hadn’t longed to ____, but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor.
“Frank!” I cried in astonishment.He couldn’t _ __, as I knew, but all the time ___ his foot against mine.
My ____ raced back more than thirty years to the ___ days of 1941, when I was a student in London.The ____ was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night.Two of the regulars were Mrs.West and her son Frank.
____ wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to____ each other very well.Frank West ____ me because he wasn’t __ _, not even at birth.His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had ____ of a mind than a baby has.His “____” consisted of rough sounds-sounds of pleasure or anger and ____ more.Mrs.West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she has to be, of course, because Frank ____ on her entirely.He needed all the ____ of a baby.
One night a policeman came and told Mrs.West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder.She ____ nearly everything she owned.
When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the ____ ones.So before we____ that morning, I stood beside Frank and _____ my right foot against his.They were about the same size.That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for Frank.But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine.After that, his.____ to me was always the same.
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A little boy almost thought of himself as the most unfortunate child in the world because a disease made his leg lame.He ____ played with his classmates.When the teacher asked him to answer questions, he always ____ his head without a word.
One ___, the boy's father asked for some saplings (树苗) from the neighbor.He wanted the ____ to plant a sapling each person in front of the house.The father said, “Whose sapling grows best, I will buy him or her a favorite ____.”Seeing his brothers and sisters watering the trees, however, the boy had an idea.He hoped that the tree he planted would ____ soon.So, after watering it once or twice，he never ____ it.
A few days later, when the little boy went to see his tree again, he was ____ to find that it didn't fade but grew some fresh leaves.____ the trees of his brothers and sisters, his tree was even greener.His father kept his ____, bought the little boy his favorite gift and said that from the tree he planted, he would become an outstanding ____ when he grew up.
Since then, the little boy slowly became ____.One night, he lay on the bed but could not sleep.Then he got up and came to the ____.To his surprise, his ____ was splashing something onto his tree.__35__，he understood—his father had been ____ fertilizing his small tree! He returned to his room，____ running down.
____ passed.The little boy didn't become a botanist, but he was elected President of the United States.His name was Franklin Roosevelt.
Love is the ___ nourishment (营养) of life.____ it is just a drop of clear water, it can still help the tree of life thrive (茁壮成长)．
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Life is often like a game of cards—you can't help the hand you're dealt，but you can help the way you play it. It's easy for us to do something without careful thinking，but it's hard for us to take back what we have done.
There was once a who repeated a bit rumor(谣言)about a neighbor. Within a few days the whole community the story. The person it concerned，was deeply and annoyed. Later，the woman responsible for the rumor learned that it was completely . She was very sorry and went to a old man to find out what she could do to the damage.
“Go to the marketplace，”he said，“and a chicken，and have it . Then on your way home，pluck its feathers and drop them along the road.” surprised by this advice，the woman did she was told.
The next day the wise man said，“Now，go and collect all those you dropped yesterday and them back to me.”
The woman the same road，but to her disappointment，the wind all the feathers away. After searching for ，she returned with only three in her hand. “You see，” said the old man，“it's easy to drop them， it's impossible to get them back. So it is with rumor. doesn't take much to spread a rumor，but you do，you can never completely make up for the wrong.”
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