大家论坛 CATTI 翻译 TopSage 1 201 1 年 5 月二级笔译实务真题 Section 1: English -Chinese Translation ( 英译汉) ( 50 points) Passage 1 Death of a Farm Farms go out of business for many reasons, but few farms do merely because the soil has failed. That is the miracle of farming. If you care for the soil, it will last — and yield — nearly forever. America is such a young country that we have barely tested that. For most of our history, there has been new land to farm, and we still farm as tho ugh there always will be. Still, there are some very old farms out there. The oldest is the Tuttle farm, near Dover, ., which is also one of the oldest business enterprises in America. It made the news last week because its owner — a lineal descendant of John Tuttle, the original settler — has decided to go out of business. It was founded in 1632. I hear its sweet corn is legendary. The year 1632 is unimaginably distant. In 1632, Galileo was still publishing, and John Locke was born. There were perhaps 10,000 colonists in all of America, only a few hundred of them in New Hampshire. The Tuttle acres, then, would have seemed almost as surrounded as they do in 2010, but by forest instead of highways and houses. It was a precarious operation at the start — as all farming was in the new colonies —and it became precarious enough again in these past few years to peter out at last. The land is pro
