專八閱讀訓(xùn)練: Crime in Computer
詞匯:
1. bizarre 奇怪的
2. vandalism 破壞,故意破壞文化,藝術(shù)的行為
3. cripple 使癱瘓,削弱
4. fence 賊市,臟品買賣處
5. neutralize 使成為無(wú)效
6. affluent 富裕的
7. recordkeeping 記錄存貯
8. havoc 浩劫,大破壞
9. resort to 求助于,借助于
10. motivate 作為……的動(dòng)機(jī),激發(fā)
11. extremist 過(guò)激分子,極端主義分子
12. sprout 萌發(fā)迅速發(fā)展
13. awesome 令人驚懼的,引起敬畏的
14. vulnerability 易受攻擊,脆弱
15. devastation 劫持,破壞
16. hospital life-support system 醫(yī)院的生命維持系統(tǒng)
17. hit man 職業(yè)兇手(殺手)
18. pool 集中(資金)合辦,入股
19. criminology 犯罪學(xué),刑事學(xué)
難句譯注:
1. Organized crime to has been directly involved; the new technology offers it unlimitedopportunities, such as data crimes, theft of services, property-related crimes, industrial sabotage,politically related sabotage, vandalism, crimes against the individual and financially related crimes…
[結(jié)構(gòu)簡(jiǎn)析] 句子很長(zhǎng),都是簡(jiǎn)單句,中間有分號(hào)隔開,后面是舉例。
[參考譯文] 有組織犯罪團(tuán)伙也直接參與:計(jì)算機(jī)新技術(shù)較為犯罪提供了無(wú)限的機(jī)會(huì),如數(shù)據(jù)信息犯罪,偷竊服務(wù)項(xiàng)目,跟財(cái)產(chǎn)有關(guān)的犯罪,工業(yè)破壞,跟政治有關(guān)的破壞,破壞文化藝術(shù),對(duì)個(gè)人和財(cái)經(jīng)方面的罪行等等。
2. An international market already exists for computerized data, and specialized fences are said tobe playing a key role in this rapidly expanding criminal market.
[結(jié)構(gòu)簡(jiǎn)析] 并列句,and 作對(duì)比連接詞用。
[參考譯文] 一個(gè)計(jì)算機(jī)信息的國(guó)際市場(chǎng)已經(jīng)存在,而專門從事臟品交易的市場(chǎng)據(jù)說(shuō)在迅速擴(kuò)展的犯罪市場(chǎng)中起著關(guān)鍵的作用。
3. A competitor sabotages a company’s computer system to destroy or cripple the firm’soperational ability, thus neutralizing its competitive capability either in the private or thegovernment sector.
[結(jié)構(gòu)簡(jiǎn)析] 主謂賓補(bǔ)結(jié)構(gòu),后跟thus+從句表示結(jié)果。
[參考譯文] 競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手破壞一個(gè)公司的計(jì)算機(jī)系統(tǒng)為的是摧毀或削弱公司的操作運(yùn)行能力,從而使其喪失在私人或政府部門中的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)力。
4. The computer opens vast areas of crime to organized criminal groups, both national andinternational. It calls on them to pool their resources and increase their cooperative efforts,because many of these crimes are too complex for one group to handle, especially those requitinga vast network of fences.
[結(jié)構(gòu)簡(jiǎn)析] 兩句話。前一句為主謂賓,后一句為主從句,從句內(nèi)采用too…to 句型,后跟分詞獨(dú)立結(jié)構(gòu)進(jìn)一步說(shuō)明。
[參考譯文] 計(jì)算機(jī)為國(guó)內(nèi)和國(guó)際有組織犯罪集團(tuán)開辟了犯罪的廣泛領(lǐng)域。它要求它們集中資源,提高通力協(xié)作力量,因?yàn)樵S多犯罪太復(fù)雜,一個(gè)集團(tuán)難以駕馭,特別是那些需要巨大的臟品交易時(shí)常網(wǎng)絡(luò)的罪行。
寫作方法與文章大意:
文章介紹“計(jì)算機(jī)犯罪”,采用分類寫作手法,先列出種種計(jì)算機(jī)犯罪項(xiàng),下面逐一說(shuō)明。文本只選四種犯罪——信息數(shù)據(jù)偷竊或信息(數(shù)據(jù))犯罪,產(chǎn)業(yè)破壞,政治破壞,對(duì)個(gè)人生命破壞。分四段敘述,每段為一種罪行,最后是對(duì)比罪犯勢(shì)力越來(lái)越有組織,勢(shì)力請(qǐng)大,而司法部門卻沒(méi)有準(zhǔn)備好。