2020年翻译资格考试（cattti）三级笔译练习题三

Fin-Tech(节选)

捕鲸业透视金融科技创业(节选)

Before there were tech startups, there was whaling

今有高科技创业公司，昔有高风险捕鲸业

Few industries involve as much drama and risk as whaling did. The last voyage of the Essex, which inspired Herman Melville’s classic, “Moby Dick”, and is the subject of a new film, “In the Heart of The Sea”, gives a sense of the horrors involved. The ship left Nantucket in 1819 and sailed for over a year before being destroyed by a whale it was hunting. The 20 crew members survived the sinking, but found themselves adrift in the Pacific in three longboats, with little food and no water. Three opted to stay on a desert island, from which they were rescued three months later, on the verge of starvation. The others sailed on, hoping to reach South America but dying one by one. At first the survivors buried the dead at sea; then they resorted to eating the corpses of their crewmates. When they ran out of bodies, they drew lots to decide whom to shoot and eat. Only five of the 17 were eventually rescued. By then, they were so delirious that they did not understand what was happening.考生如果怕自己错过考试成绩查询的话，可以 免费预约短信提醒，届时会以短信的方式提醒大家报名和考试时间。

The only reason that anyone could be induced to take part in such a dangerous business was the fabulous profit that could be made. Gideon Allen & Sons, a whaling syndicate based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, made returns of 60% a year during much of the 19th century by financing whaling voyages – perhaps the best performance of any firm in American history. It was the most successful of a very successful bunch. Overall returns in the whaling business in New Bedford between 1817 and 1892 averaged 14% a year – an impressive record by any standard.

很少行业像捕鲸那样充满戏剧性和风险。埃塞克斯号(Essex)的最后一次航行让人一瞥其中的恐怖。这次航行曾经为赫尔曼·麦尔维尔(Herman Melville)创作的经典小说《白鲸》(Moby Dick)提供灵感，如今又成了新片《海洋深处》(In the Heart of The Sea)的主题。这艘捕鲸船1819年离开美国楠塔基特岛(Nantucket)后航行了一年多，最终被它捕猎的一条鲸鱼摧毁。20名船员在沉船后幸存下来，不过他们只能坐上三条救生艇漂流在太平洋上，食物稀少，滴水全无。其中三名船员选择留在一座荒岛上，并在三个月后濒临饿死之际获救。其他人继续航行，希望能到达南美洲，却一个接一个地死去。刚开始，幸存者把死者葬于大海，后来，他们不得不开始吃同伴的尸体。尸体吃完之后，他们抽签决定把谁射杀吃掉。最终，17个人中只有5人获救，而那时他们都已神志混乱，不知发生了什么。

会有人被吸引参与如此危险的一个行当，唯一的原因是可以获取惊人的利润。19世纪的大部分时间里，位于美国马萨诸塞州新贝德福德(New Bedford)的捕鲸辛迪加“吉迪恩·艾伦父子公司”(Gideon Allen & Sons)资助的捕鲸航行每年获利60%，这可能是美国历史上最高的公司回报了。它是一批已然非常成功的公司中最成功的一家。1817年至1892年，新贝德福德捕鲸业的年均总体回报率为14%——无论用什么标准衡量，这都是一个可观的数字。

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