高普考題庫
103 年 103年公務人員高等考試三級考試暨普通考試・英文(包括作文、翻譯與應用文)
申論 1翻譯:請將下列英文段落翻譯成中文,中文段落翻譯成英文。While government officials and manufacturers focus their efforts on improving andmarketing LED technology, researchers and entrepreneurs have been pursuing others,convinced that none of the options on the market offer consumers a close enough matchto the familiar light quality at a low enough price. Now two start-ups are poised to beginselling bulbs that use entirely different technologies than compact fluorescents andLEDs – one borrowed from heavy industry and the other from old-fashionedtelevisions.At a small lab here, just outside Boston, work is proceeding on a new bulb to be calledFinally. It is the quest of John Goscha, 30, who has already had one successful start-up:IdeaPaint, which allows most surfaces to function as dry-erase boards. About threeyears ago, eager to do something new he enlisted the help of Victor Roberts, a formerGeneral Electric engineer who joined the venture.(20 分)多數日本人很難聽懂以英語為母語人士的演講內容,但溝通專家二階堂忠晴教授說:「歐巴馬的英文很容易聽懂,因為他咬字清楚,說話速度較慢。電影通常對日本人而言最難,特別是當演員含糊地唸台詞的時候。」朝日出版社編輯山本雄三表示,很多購買者根本不具備聽懂歐巴馬演講的基本英文能力,「即使他們聽不太懂英文。有些人甚至只聽懂『是,我們做得到!』(yes, we can!)但仍然感動落淚。」(20 分)