Unit six Opening and Closing Ceremonies口译材料

Unit six Opening and Closing Ceremonies

Lesson 1

女士们，先生们，上午好！

我很荣幸地代表戴比尔斯公司欢迎你们来到美丽的大连参加“中国钻石节”。//借此机会我想介绍一下出席大会的代表们（介绍代表们的名字、职位和简要背景）。//在随后一天半的时间里，我们将有机会互相了解，并就影响钻石业的相关问题进行讨论。//今天大会的宗旨是广泛交流信息。//我们戴比尔斯公司将向你们介绍有关世界钻石珠宝市场的最新调查结果。//更为重要的是介绍最近发布的有关中国钻石珠宝业善的最新调查结果。//自从1992年我们进入中国市场以来，我们对中国的责任已大大加强。//过去的几年，中国的形势令人鼓舞，经济发展显著，管理良好。//我们满怀希望期待着未来，期待你们——作为企业的负责人——在进一步发展钻石珠宝市场中成为我们的合作者。//希望你们提出问题，开展对话。//我们相信在明后天我们共同相处的一天半时间中，戴比尔斯公司、你们及钻石珠宝精兵成员们都会从中受益。

我就不再罗嗦了，下面请琼。布朗夫人发言。

Unit seven Welcome

Lesson One

联合国人居中心执行行政主任在世界居住日的讲话

名位来宾、女士们、先生们：

欢迎各位来到中国大连， 很高兴与诸位一起庆祝世界居住日。大连是庆祝这个节日的最佳地方，这座城市和这个国家都体现了迎接不断变化、不断城市化的世界所需的进取精神和奉献精神。

今天我非常高兴能来到这里，因为这个时刻标志着我们已跨越新千年的门槛。1999年，全球已经或将要城市化，有史以来居住在城市里的人口将首次超过一半以上。这次城市革命为我们这个时代提供了最大的机遇，同时它也向世界提出了严峻的挑战。

今年世界居住日的主题——全人类的城市，它把我们的注意力集中在了所有的、被排除在享受城市生活乐趣之外的城市居民身上，这个现实可能是我们集体管理的最大失败之一，它导致城市分化为：服务齐全的“高级城市”和一成不变的、贫穷的“低级城市”。 联合国发展计划署的人类发展报告显示，13亿人喝不到清洁的水，同样数量的人每天生活费不足一美元，我们所目睹的完全是大规模的城市贫困化。

与此同时，世界财富却在创造新的'记录，人类发展计划报告显示，“1994年至1998年间世界最富有的200人的净财富从4400亿美元增长到一万亿美元以上，”这个数字相当于48个最不发达国家国民生产总值的总和。

贫富之间的悬殊导致了多种形式的隔离，人们自身与环境隔离。穷人无家可归，贫困潦倒，难以行使自己的权利。而这些权利本应是其理所当然应该享有的，包括隐私权和家庭生活权。

不及时、不可靠的公共交通对于有能力的人和无能力的人都是一种阻碍；路灯的不足使得市民感觉在夜间很不安全，对妇女和儿童更是如此。

隔离也是一种社会现象，无论是在发展中国家还是在发达国家，种族歧视，即按照种族、宗教、或文化的不同而在城市划一些分界线。一些国家的法律、法规规定妇女不能拥有财产和房屋。更多的人把有限的钱财投资到建造住宅上，而又不被官方或金融机构认可。 城市的贫穷是经济隔离过程的最终结果。缺乏教育、培训，充满竞争的就业市场及误导性政策削弱了城市的生产能力，阻碍了那些官方部门充分发挥其市场潜力。

最具有影响的隔离形式之一就是政治隔离，教育的缺乏加上政治上的隔离使得穷

人无法积极参与到影响他们生活的决定中去。

Lesson Three

The Vice-Mayor of Dalian’s welcome speech

0n the International Urban Water Conservation Workshop

Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Friends

Firstly, I will extend our sincere congratulation on the opening of the international urban water conservation workshop on behalf of the government of Dalian and the

people of Dalian. Let us express our warmly welcome to domestic and foreign friends to participates in symposium.

Dalian is one of the cities of severe water shortage in China. Since 1954, Dalian has made great contribution to the ensurance of the safe water supply to the city. For twice Dalian has been conferred honorable awards on “Model City of Water Conservation” by the state. Compares with the domestic and foreign advanced cities, there still some way to go. This workshop provides us with an excellent opportunity to modestly learn their advanced experiences, carefully compares and finds the weak points and promotes our work. The people's government of Dalian has solved the municipal water use question to list as one of the priorities urban development summary important contents, and we have been taken the practical effective measure to further improve the city’s water conservation. While the city government proposed to stick to the

policy of “broaden sources of income and reduces expenditure”, we will not in the slightest degree, and never neglect the work in the mitigatory situation of water supply for the city, and strive for building Dalian into a city of water conservation.

This international conservation has great significance ton promote our city’s water conservation work. I hope the organizing department and the unit concerned will do the service work well, and warmly and thoughtfully, and the seminar will attain the result as expected.

Finally, I wish the international urban water conservation workshop a complete success.

Lesson Four

Welcome speech of the Vice-mayor of Dalian

On the reception of the 9th Pan-Pacific Ports Seminar of the Pacific Region Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen:

It’s my great pleasure to have opportunity to merrily gather with all the friends from the port-shipping field of the Pacific Region. All of you get together in the beautiful

coastal city of China-Dalian, from afar to attend the 9th Pan-Pacific Ports Seminar of the Pacific Region and explore together the mutually concerned issues of the port-shipping field of the Pacific Region. This is really the grand occasion of the field.

Please allow me, on behalf of the people's government of Dalian, to extend warmest welcome to all of the friends.

Ladies and gentlemen:

In the vigorous economic region of China, Dalian plays the important role, in 1997, the GDP of Dalian were ￥82,9 billion, the total import and export values of the

self-managing products was 5,1 billion US dollars, and actually invested foreign capital was 1,42 billion 0 US dollars.

The economy of Dalian is developed economy and has solid foundation, which

supplies a vigorous support for the port’s development. Dalian Port has become the largest comprehensive commercial seaport; the largest grain enters leaves seaport, the largest transfer seaport of petroleum and liquid chemical products one of the most important seaports for foreign trade in the Northeast China region.

Dalian is one of the most open city in northern China; the people of Dalian are reputed for hospitality. Now spring is change into summer in Dalian, where spring is very much in the air and fresh flowers are bright and beautiful. It is full of vigor, vitality and hope.

I wish the Conference of the Ninth Pacific Rim port success

I sincerely wish a complete success to the 9th Pan-Pacific Ports Seminar of the Pacific Region. Wishes all of you a pleasant stay in Dalian and may you a good impression on it. Thanks!

Unit sixteen Economy

Lesson Three

Speech by President Jiang Zemin at the Sixth APEC Informal Leadership

Meeting

1998/11/18

The financial crisis in some Asian countries aroused wide concerns among

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC） members. Now a year has passed but its ramification is still spreading out, not only bringing serious economic difficulties to some countries and regions in Asia, but also affecting the world economy as a whole.

This crisis has occurred against the international background of accelerated

economic globalization, and it has given the world people important revelations.

Economic globalization has become a trend as a result of the economic, scientific and technological development in the present-day world. It has brought to countries in the world not only development opportunities, but also serious challenges and risks. It has also presented to countries, developing ones in particular, a new subject to tackle that is how to ensure the economic security of a country.

The trend of economic globalization requires active participation by all countries in international economic cooperation. However, countries should expand their opening-up programme in the light of their national conditions and in a step by step manner while paying attention to increasing their capabilities of preventing and withstanding risks.

The trend of economic globalization has made the economies of countries more and more interdependent and interactive. Once a financial crisis breaks out in certain countries or regions, not only developing countries will suffer immensely from it, but

developed ones will also find it hard to stay out of it. A globalized economy calls for global cooperation. All members of the international community should work together to maintain a steady development of the world economy in a spirit of sharing

responsibilities and risks.

The trend of economic globalization is emerging and developing in a context where there is no fundamental change in the inequitable and irrational old international economic order, which will inevitably widen the gap between the poor and the rich

countries. The ultimate solution to this problem is to work for the establishment of a fair

and reasonable new international economic order in the interest of the common development of all countries.

The financial crisis has also brought negative effect and great pressure on the economic development in China. The Chinese Government has assumed a highly responsible attitude. China has provided assistance to the relevant countries within the framework of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) arrangements and through bilateral channels. Proceeding from the overall interests of maintaining sustained economic growth and international economic development, China has made the decision of not devaluating the RMB, for which China has paid a high price. Having won a battle against the catastrophic floods this summer, we are now going ahead with more in-depth reforms, adopting active fiscal policies, increasing input for infrastructural construction, and boosting domestic demand in an effort to achieve this year's objective of economic and social development.