2008年11月翻译专业资格考试(英语三级笔译实务)真题及答案 Section 1 English-Chinese Translation(英译汉)(50 points) Translate the following passage into Chinese. LONGYEARBYEN, Norway-With plant species disappearing at an alarming rate, scientists and governments are creating a work of plant banks to store seeds and sprouts, precious ic resources that may be needed for man to adapt the world's food supply to climate change. This week, the flagship of that effort, the Global Seed Vault near here, received its first seeds, millions of them. Bored into the middle of a frozen Arctic mountain topped with snow, the vault's goal is to store and protect samples of every type of seed from every seed collection in the world. As of Thursday, thousands of neatly stacked and labeled gray boxes of seeds - peas from Nigeria, corn from Mexico - reside in this glazed cavelike structure, forming a sort of backup hard drive, in case natural disasters or human errors erase the seeds from the outside world. Descending almost 500 feet under the permafrost, the entrance tunnel to the seed vault is designed to withstand bomb blasts and earthquakes. An automated digital monitoring system controls temperature and provides security akin to a missile silo or Fort Knox. No one person has all the codes for entrance. The Global Vault is part of a broader effort to gather and systematize information about plants and their genes, whi
