一、英译中
ELYSEE PALACE
The Elysee Palace1 in France enjoys2 equal popularity in the world with the Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom, the Kremlin in Russia as well as the White House in the U.S.A. It is the residence of the president of the French Republic and the symbol of the supreme authority in France.
The Elysee Palace, with3 an area of 11,000 square meters, is at3 the eastern end of the Champs Elysee in3 the bustling city of Paris proper and backed by a large and tranquil garden of more than twenty thousand square meters. Its main building, quite handsome and graceful, is a 2-story classical stone architecture of European style, flanked by two side buildings facing each other and with an extensive rectangular courtyard in the middle. There are altogether 369 halls and rooms of different size.
法国的爱丽舍宫
法国的爱丽舍宫与美国白宫、英国白金汉宫以及俄罗斯的克里姆林宫一样闻名于世（享有盛誉）。它是法兰西共和国的总统府，也是法国最高权力的象征。
爱丽舍宫位于3巴黎香榭丽舍大街的东端，占地3（面积）1.1 万平方米，地处3喧闹的市中心，背倚一个2万多平方米的恬静大花园。主楼是一座两层高的欧洲古典式石建筑，典雅庄重，两翼各有一座两层高的石建筑，相峙（对）而立（两翼为对称的两座两层高的石建筑），中间是一个宽敞的矩形庭院。宫内共有369间大小不等的厅室。





Ecotourism
Thinking about going off the beaten path1 for your next vacation? If so, you might be one of the many people who2 are enjoying a relatively new mode of travel known as ecotourism. As the name implies, ecotourism focuses on conserving the ecology and natural heritage of tourist destinations. In addition, ecotourism features indigenous cultures and promotes ways for local communities3 to control and maintain their resources.
In the past, vacationers usually spent their time4 staying at luxury hotels and visiting famous landmarks5 and museums in cities such as New York, Paris and Tokyo. Others preferred to relax on the beautiful beaches of Hawaii or the deck of a cruise ship in the sunny Caribbean. 6 There was little interaction with the local people and overcrowding often spoiled the natural beauty of popular vacation spots. In addition, excessive commercialization turned many places into tourist traps.
生态观光
不想在下个假期去人多的热门景点观光吧（想在下个假期去人迹罕至的地方看看吗）？假使如此，你也许会像越来越多的人一样，2热衷于参加名为“生态观光”的新式旅游。正如名称所示，生态观光重在保护旅游目的地的生态和自然遗产。此外，生态观光突出了地方本土文化特色，并倡导一些可行的做法，促使地方控制和维护这些资源。
以前，许多度假者会入住豪华宾馆，参观纽约、巴黎和东京等城市著名标志性建筑和博物馆；还有些人喜欢在夏威夷的美丽海滩上放松身心，或是在邮轮甲板上，悠闲自在地游览阳光明媚的加勒比海（悠闲自得地沐浴加勒比海明媚的阳光）。不论如何，总是缺乏与当地人的交流。而熙熙攘攘的人潮，也破坏了度假胜地的自然风光。此外，操作过分商业化，也让许多地方成了诱使游客上钩的陷阱。





Beijing Is No Longer Like a Black-and-White Photograph
Vacationing in China was a new1 experience. In Beijing in the 1980s2, we felt like birds in a cage. At that time foreigners couldn’t travel at will around the country. My few trips outside Beijing were usually “business only”. Few Chinese cities were open to foreigners, and we needed travel permits everywhere we went. Airline flights were few, tickets were hard to get and they cost more for us than for Chinese citizens. Worst of all, our interactions with Chinese people were extremely limited. For example, two men stood at the door of the hotel where we lived, challenging3 every Chinese who entered. You could say that our China experience was shallow. We hoped for a deeper kind of experience in 2001.
In my memory, Beijing was like a black-and-white photograph. Few cars were on the streets, only bicycles. Everyone wore dark blue clothing. In the parks, the ground was bare of even a blade of grass. The gray buildings all looked alike. But when I stepped off the plane in Beijing on 20 September 2001, the black-and-white photograph exploded into bright color and came to life. Impressive new high-rise buildings4 lined the streets5, which6 were jammed with buses, trucks, and private cars. People wearing colorful clothing thronged the department stores and bookstores. Coffee houses, fast-food joints4, and every kind of restaurant beckoned us to try every kind of food. Small children played happily in verdant parks. Is this Beijing, I wondered, or Hong Kong? I walked and gawked, like a peasant visiting the city for the first time.
北京不再是一幅黑白照片
在中国度假是一种崭新1的经历。80年代在北京2，我们觉得自己就像是笼中鸟儿。那时外国人不能随意到全国各地旅行。我仅有的几次外埠旅行也都是“只办公事”。当时没有几个中国城市对外国人开放，去哪儿都要得到批准。飞机航班也极少，很难买到机票，而我们买机票还要比中国公民花钱多。最糟糕的是，我们和中国人的交流受到严格限制。举个例子，在我们住的宾馆门口就有两个人站岗，凡是每一个要进去的中国人，他们都要盘问一番。可以说，我们那时对中国的感受不深。我们希望2001年在中国能有比较深的体验。
在我的记忆中，北京就像一幅黑白照片。街道上只有自行车，汽车寥寥无几；人人都穿深蓝色衣服；公园里，土地裸露，寸草不生；灰色的楼房看上去千篇一律。可是，2001年9月20 日，我来到北京，刚走下飞机，黑白照片却一下子变成了鲜艳的彩色照片，而且是那么富有生气（生机勃勃）。马路两侧，一幢幢新建的高楼大厦鳞次栉比，威严耸立。马路上满是公共汽车、卡车和私人轿车。人们穿着色彩各异的服装，云集在商店和书店。各式各样的咖啡厅、快餐连锁店和餐厅吸引着我们去品尝各种食品。小孩子在绿草如茵的公园里嬉戏（快乐地玩耍）。我问自己，这是北京还是香港？我就像个第一次进城的农民，一边走一边傻傻地看。




Converting the Masses: Starbucks in China
It sounds like Mission Impossible：Sell coffee to China’s tea drinkers. Starbucks’ solution is to select high－profile locations1 on the busiest streets，where stores are sure to se duce the seeand－be－seen set.
As Starbucks launches an aggressive expansion in China，a coffee frontier steeped in nearly 5,000 years of tea3. The goal：to build hip hang－outs that tap into a new taste for China’s emerging middle class.4
星巴克强力吸引中国消费者
向中国的饮茶人兜售咖啡，听起来像是不可能完成的任务（天方夜潭）。而星巴克的招数是选择繁华街道的黄金地段（醒目地点），在那儿咖啡店一定会吸引那些爱凑热闹的人。
随着星巴克在中国开拓市场的强劲势头，具有近5000 年历史的中国茶文化就渗透了来自咖啡王国的浓香（咖啡先锋浸入拥有近5000年茶文化历史的中国）。目标是把星巴克建成时新的常去的场所，吸引中国新兴中产阶级品尝新的口味（开发新的口味来迎合中国新兴的中产阶级）。




二、英译中

旅游的意义
旅游是一种1集观光、娱乐、健身为一体的愉快而美好的活动。旅游业随着时代进步而不断发展。20 世纪中叶以来，现代3旅游在世界范围迅速兴起，旅游人数不断增加，旅游产业规模持续扩大，旅游经济地位显著提升4，旅游活动日益成为各国人民5交流文化、增进友谊、扩大交往的重要渠道，对人类生活和社会进步产生越来越广泛的影响。
古往今来，旅游一直是人们增长知识、丰富阅历、强健体魄的美好追求。在古代，中国先哲们就提出了“观国之光”的思想，倡导“读万卷书，行万里路”，游历名山大川，承天地之灵气，接山水之精华。
The Significance of Travel
Tourism is (represents) a [kind of]1 popular and pleasant activity that combines sightseeing, recreation and health care. With the passage of time, tourism has been developing.2 Since the middle of the 20th century, [modern] 3 tourism has been growing at a fast pace around the world. The number of tourists has been rising, the scale of the tourism industry has constantly been expanding, and the importance of tourism in the economy has grown obviously.4 Tourism acts (serves) gradually as an important bridge for cultural exchange and friendship6, and it exerts a steadily7 broadening influence on daily life (human life) and social progress among [people of various] countries5.
From ancient times to the present, tourism has demonstrated the happy wish of the people for more knowledge, varied experience and good health. In the distant past (In ancient times), (ancient)8 Chinese thinkers recommended [raised the idea of[9 “appreciating the landscape through sightseeing.” Ancient people also proposed to “travel ten thousand li and read ten thousand books,” which shows they found pleasure in enriching themselves mentally and physically through traveling over famous mountains and rivers.


西藏
西藏曾经是偏远的代名词，但最近几年，这里的建设和旅游业都迅猛发展，把手机相机、挥舞着喇叭话筒的导游们都带到了大昭寺这样的景点。西藏旅游业的高歌猛进要归结于中国人收入的增加、中国人对藏传佛教的越来越着迷、通往世界屋脊的交通状况改善等多种因素。今年夏天中国启动了一条通往西藏的铁路，堪称工程学的一大奇迹。这条铁路全称爬升高度达4876米，为世界之最
Tibet
Once almost a synonym for remoteness, Tibet has in recent years experienced rapid (a surge of ) development and tourism, bringing camera phones and tour guides/leaders waving/wielding megaphones to sites like the jokhang temple. Tourism to Tibet is increasing quickly/jumping/soaring/skyrocketing, a result of rising Chinese incomes, growing Chinese fascination with Tibetan Buddhism and easier access of the roof of the world. This summer, china opened a railway leading to Tibet ,which is a marvelous engineering feat(Beijing unveiled an engineering marvel of a train line to Tibet.). the train climbs to (a height of )4,876 meters,becoming the highest railroad in the world.



中国软件业的长足发展
中国硬件业的发展取得了举世瞩目的成功。在过去的五年中，中国的个人电脑销售额年增长率约为40%，成为亚洲地区乃至世界的一颗耀眼的明星。
过去的五年中，中国的软件业虽然也得到了发展，但从目前正在使用的计算机数量看来，软件业并未达到预期的增长。与同一地区的其它国家相比，在中国，每台计算机的软件收入低得惊人。而这却是衡量某个市场的软件业发展健康与否的一个重要标准。
中国软件业发展的主要挑战来自盗版软件的泛滥。盗版是软件业所面临的一个全球性问题，没有一个国家能够幸免。
Toward a Robust Chinese Software Industry
The growth of the hardware industry in China is a worldwide success story. (China's thrivinghardware industry is a success story recognized throughout the world.) With annual growth in PC sales of 40% over the past five years, China is the star of the Asian region and one of the bright lights around the world (and also a bright star in the global galaxy).
While the software industry in China has also grown over the past five years, it has not seen the level of growth one would expect, given the number of PCs in use. (In the past five years growth of the Chinese software industry, though steady, has not been in proportion to the number of PCs.) Software revenue per PC, one measure of the health of the software industry in a market, is particularly (surprisingly) low in China compared to other countries in the region.
The primary challenge to the development of the software industry in China is rampant software piracy. (Unrestrained software piracy continues as the primary challenge to progress in China's software industry.) Piracy is a worldwide concern of the software industry, and no country is immune.



中华传统文化
中华民族的传统文化博大精深、源远流长。早在2000 多年前，就产生了1以孔孟为代表的儒家学说和以老庄为代表的道家学说，以及其他许多也在中国思想史上有地位的学说流派，这就是2有名的“诸子百家”。
Traditional Chinese Culture
The traditional Chinese culture, both extensive and profound, starts far back and runs a long,long course. More than 2,000 years ago, there emerged1 in China Confucianism represented by2 Confucius and Mencius, Taoism represented by Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi, and many other [theories and] doctrines that figured prominently in the history of Chinese thought, all2 being covered by the famous term (all under the well-known heading), “the masters’ hundred schools/the Master’s One Hundred Schools.”