如果所听内容是对话,那么是在考查考生对不同情景的对话作出反应的能力。考生要在信息量大,且只放一遍录音的情况下善于捕捉关键信息。因此,考生应做到在听录音之前先快速浏览四个选项,明确目的,有的放矢。在听的过程中考生要熟悉特定环境中特定的交际语言,尤其要注意听第二个人的讲话内容。一般情况下,答题的关键信息通常蕴含在第二个人的讲话中。
由于中高级口译笔试听力部分Listening and Translation(听译)的单句与段落的录音均只播放一遍,所以考生要用心记住所听句子和段落,适当记录数字、日期、年代和有助于记忆段落主要内容的词组等。例如,高口2000年3月高级口译笔试单句听译中的第三句:“For the first ten month of this year, bilateral trade volume was 4.1 billion US dollars, which is a 25 percent increase over the same period last year.”这里要记下“first ten months”(最初的10个月)、“4.1 billion
US dollars”(41亿美元)、“25 percent increase”(增长25%)等要点。若三个要点记住了,上句就可译为:今年最初的10个月,双边贸易额为41亿美元,比去年同期增长25%。
同样,段落听译也要抓住关键词,如2000年3月高级口译笔试第二段落翻译:“Police said about five hundred homes were washed away by floods after a typhoon struck the west coast of the island yesterday bringing driving rain and winds of up to eighty miles per hour.”考生不仅要记住此段第一部分的主语 police(警方),还要记住关键数字five hundred homes、eighty miles per hour。这样此段就可译为:“警方说台风昨天袭击了该岛西海岸并带来大雨,风速达每小时80英里,冲走大约500户人家。”
Note-taking and Gap-filling是中级口译笔试听力部分没有的项目,被称作“笔记”项目。做此项目时同样要求考生抓住关键词句与实词,尽可能使用缩略词、词首字母等简要易懂的速记方式。考生应多听少记,抓住文章的主题大意与结构,在试卷发下后尽可能用所听到的单词或相应的同义词填写,单词的拼写应正确无误。
考生在听录音的时候应重点记录录音中反复出现的单词。如2000年3月高级口译笔试笔记项目考题,考生开始时听到:“I'm going to talk about acid rain, a subject which many people have heard of but very few understand fully.”接着又听到:“I'm going to talk about exactly what acid rain is and why it's a problem and then I'm going to finish off by saying what we can do about it..…”考生听过两遍录音后应对与acid rain有关的词语引起注意。接着考生又听到: “So first of all, acid rain is a term that's really being used now for a kind of pollution which is hanging over our heads in a sense - it's the air pollution above us. It's the pollution that's coming down in rain, in mist, in snow, in hail, in many different ways and damaging our forests, our lakes and rivers, our buildings and even human health."
考生应注意听上述画线部分的内容,最好用缩略词记录。
我们来看听后发下的试题:
Acid rain is a kind of___(1) pollution which is hanging over our heads and coming down in many different ways such as rain and___(2). It damages___(3), lakes and rivers, buildings and even human___(4).
根据对画线部分的速记,对于空格(1)应填“air”,若遗忘也可填同义词“atmosphere”。对于空格(2),根据所听内容可知“rain”后有:“mist”,“snow”,“hail”三个词,但作为词组应填“snow”。对于空格(3),根据所听内容应填“forests”,或同义词“woods”。对于空格(4),可根据听到并记下的重点词填入“health”。
虽然以上只讲了该题20个空格中的4个,但其他空格的解题方法、答题技巧与之完全相同。
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