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初赛题目 汉译英
传统的清明节除了祭祖外,还有许多风俗,如踏青、插柳、放风筝、荡秋千、踢毽子等。十几年来,经过悉心浇灌和涵养,这些原本日渐枯萎的文化活动又勃兴起来,呈现出新的形式以适应现代社会需求。比如“踏春”变成了春游,“插柳”转化为植树造林。被立为国家法定假日后,清明节还承载了人们购物、休闲、旅游等多种需求。小长假催生出更多消费需求和商机,为多个行业带来经济增长。这种“假日现象”是清明节在当代最大的变化。
在浩瀚的历史长河中,一个节日的形成是时间和人们双向互动的结果。作为中国重要的传统节日,清明节蕴含着华夏文明的文化基因。在城市化、市场化、国际化不断发展,现代生活与传统节日不断碰撞与冲突的当下,清明节的文化复归告诉我们,唯有不断丰富发展,才能更好地保护传承传统节日、守护民族精神家园。
初赛题目 英译汉
We are living during the biggest ever work experiment which has pushed us 10 years into the future in the span of just one. It is incredible what can be done when we have no choice. Many of those who doubted people could work from home have eaten their words as we all have gotten used to zoom calls, set up home offices, and worked out how to balance work and personal time. If we examine what this may look like in the short and long term, it is interesting to see some of the opportunities and challenges that lie before us.
Before 2020, we never really thought about how work has always been. We simply accepted everyone had to arrive to work at the same time and that we could end up sitting beside the same person for five years without any knowledge of who they might be. We shared a restroom, accepted the room temperature even if it did not suit us personally, few got a corner office or even a room with a view and many might even have had to accept pets in the office whether they wanted to or not. In March 2020, the shift happened, and overnight it was expected of everyone to work from home and the initial mood was overwhelmingly positive. No more commutes, more time with the family, and a belief that we would be much more productive, but how much did this align with reality?
The positives associated with remote working was the feeling that we suddenly had more time freed up; ample proof that things could be run without everyone having to be physically present in the office; a decrease in bureaucracy with even the most stubborn Luddites accepting email over snail mail. It gave us a rare glimpse into people's homes which helped us see our colleagues more as a person in their entirety and not just their work persona. It has certainly helped those with lives that just did not suit rigid clocking-in environments and that glower from the manager should one arrive even three minutes late.
决赛题目 汉译英
新职业提供更多人生出彩机会
新职业不会凭空出现,而是应时而生。新职业不断涌现,折射出的是社会变迁和时代发展。近年来,互联网、云计算、大数据、人工智能等与实体经济深度融合,人们对美好生活的向往越来越广泛丰富。透过新职业,可以感受科技革命大潮涌动、生活品质显著提升,更能看到一个充满生机与活力的中国。
新职业为个人成长出彩提供更多可能。除了不同以往的工作体验,新职业还意味着更广阔的就业空间、更多元的职业转型机会。三百六十行,行行出状元。在机遇面前,谁能率先把握住,谁就有可能成为弄潮儿。当今职业选择呈现多元化、个性化趋势,越来越多的年轻人摒弃传统的择业观,大胆尝试新生事物,勇于应对变化挑战,通过掌握新技能、学习新本领,使个人价值得到充分发挥,拓宽自己的人生舞台。
新职业为经济社会发展增添更多动力。一个新职业接续而生的社会,其经济脉动必然强劲有力。细数近年诞生的新职业,不难发现,其主要集中于高新技术产业、新兴产业和现代服务业领域,许多还与数字经济紧密关联。而以上领域,恰恰是中国经济提质升级的新动能所在。一系列新职业迅速壮大,支撑起一批批新产业、新业态、新模式的蓬勃发展,推动着经济社会迈向高质量发展。
决赛题目 英译汉
What does the future of work look like?
Well, this is only the beginning and there will be a lot of growing pains, but the reality is we will need a blend of working in offices and from home. We fail sometimes to see the work that happens when we connect with others. We come up with ideas, we understand people better when we meet them, we can influence, persuade, and communicate better when they see us in person and not just a face on a video call. We also must be careful of the ramifications if we sign up to becoming a full-time remote worker. Whether we like it or not there is a lot of unconscious bias that exists in business and many managers may feel it is easier to pass someone over for promotion or worse let them go when they don't see them face to face.
It is not just the employees who are struggling with this future; employers have to make big decisions about a very tricky next six to 12 months of job losses when we see the long-term economic ramifications. They have also just begun to see the benefits of technology and remote working. We have to realize that machines, robots, and artificial intelligence will be coming for many blue collar and white collar jobs over the next 10 years. How do we compete against a machine that works seven days a week 24 hours a day and never gets sick, never wants holidays, and never aspires for a promotion?!
The biggest opportunity however for employers is to build more trust in their employees.This idea that you cannot trust employees if you cannot see them ignores the fact that there have been countless employees in offices surfing the net, attending meetings they did not need to and not contributing much to the business, but because we could see they were in the office we presumed they were working. We need to move from this presenteeism performance model to a focus on productivity and outputs. Most managers would agree that if an employee is delivering an excellent standard of work all of the time, there is no need to worry as to where they are working from or how many hours they use to get the job done.
As regards jobs, we may begin to see many jobs that are advertised as "remote only." As more people work from home there will need to be a change to how we approach work when our home and workplace are the same place, and how to ensure we avoid burnout from over-work which we have started to see in some remote workers.
How do we plan for this uncertain future? We see that the genie is out of the bottle and we will never move back to the work model we had, but we will find an equilibrium post-COVID-19.For employees out there, I would be worrying less about where you will work and much more about the work you do, whether you are enjoying your work, and whether you are learning and feel challenged. You have to realize that it will be rare to stay in one job for the rest of one's life; therefore be ready for change, as well as building skills and networking. It is these relationships that we rely on the most when we need support, and in this new future we are all going to need support.