地特三等申論題
105年
[新聞(選試英文)] 新聞英文
第 一 題
📖 題組：
Translate the following English passages into Chinese.（每小題 30 分，共 60 分）
Translate the following English passages into Chinese.（每小題 30 分，共 60 分）
📝 此題為申論題，共 2 小題
小題 (一)
The Salinas Valley, known as the salad bowl of the United States, is struggling with poverty and malnutrition among the migrant farmworkers who harvest its crops.
More than a third of the children in the Salinas City Elementary School District are homeless; overall diabetes rates are rising and projected to soar; and 85 percent of farmworkers in the valley are overweight or obese, partly because unhealthy food is less costly, said Marc B. Schenker, a professor at the University of California, Davis, who studies the health of farmworkers.
“The people who grow our food can’t afford to eat it, and they are sicker because of it,” said Joel Diringer, a public health specialist and advocate for farmworkers. “It’s an incredible irony that those who work in the fields all day long don’t have access to the fresh produce that they harvest.”
For decades, the fields of the Salinas Valley have been a revolving door of migrants, from the Okies of John Steinbeck’s writings to the Latin American immigrants who tend the fields today. Ninety-one percent of farmworkers in California are foreign born, primarily from Mexico, according to the United States Department of Labor.
While the valley’s vegetables are reaching an ever-growing number of American households, public health officials say there are no signs of improvement in the living conditions and diets of farmworkers.
思路引導 VIP
這題考查長難句解析與新聞語氣的掌握。考生在翻譯時應注意句構的語序調整（如引述句可將發言者移至句首或句中），並準確處理具備文化與比喻背景的詞彙（如 salad bowl, revolving door, Okies），以確保譯文符合中文新聞報導的流暢度與專業性。
小題 (二)
The Arctic Ocean may seem remote and forbidding, but to birds, whales and other animals, it’s a top-notch dining destination.
“It’s a great place to get food in the summertime, so animals are flying or swimming thousands of miles to get there,” said Kevin R. Arrigo, a biological oceanographer at Stanford University.
But the menu is changing. Confirming earlier research, scientists reported Wednesday that global warming is altering the ecology of the Arctic Ocean on a huge scale.
The annual production of algae, the base of the food web, increased an estimated 47 percent between 1997 and 2015, and the ocean is greening up much earlier each year.
These changes are likely to have a profound impact for animals further up the food chain, such as birds, seals, polar bears and whales. But scientists still don’t know enough about the biology of the Arctic Ocean to predict what the ecosystem will look like in decades to come.
Since the mid-2000s, researchers like Dr. Arrigo have been trying to assess the effects of retreating ice on the Arctic ecosystem.
The sun returns to the Arctic each spring and melts some of the ice that formed in winter. Algae in the open water quickly spring to life and start growing. These algae are the base of the food chain in the Arctic Ocean, grazed by krill and other invertebrates that in turn support bigger fish, mammals and birds.
思路引導 VIP
翻譯新聞英文首重語意準確與語氣客觀。看到此題應先標記出環境與生態學專有名詞（如 algae 藻類、invertebrates 無脊椎動物、food web 食物網等），接著留意被動語態與長句結構的拆解，依據中文閱讀習慣進行語序調整，確保譯文通順且符合新聞報導的正式文風。