2019年考博英语阅读经济学人文章精析【三篇】.pdf

2019 年考博英语阅读经济学人文章精析【三篇】 AT THE centre of a large o ice in west London sits a raised circular platform with several seats. Screens in front carry international news superimposed on a huge atlas. From here rescue missions are co-ordinated by International SOS (ISOS), the world’s largest travel-security firm, which counts nearly two-thirds of the Fortune Global 500 companies as clients. It operates 26 other centres across the world. The firm says they have never been busier.在伦敦西部一个大型 的写字楼的中间，摆放着一张大圆桌，几把椅子。前方的屏幕滚动的 国际新闻叠加在一个巨型地图册上，世界上的旅行安全保障公司国际 SOS 救援中心(ISOS)就是从这里策划营救活动的，世界财富 500 强公司 里接近 2/3 都是它的客户。它经营者横跨世界的其他 26 处中心，该公 司表示它从来没有这么忙碌过。 ISOS has responded to emergencies large and small. They range from giving timely advice to the parents of a child in Nigeria who had swallowed a coin to evacuating corporate and NGO clients from Burundi during last year’s coup attempt. Torn between a medical airlift and potentially risky surgery in a local hospital, the child’s parents were counselled by ISOS doctors to let nature take its course, which it duly did. The Burundi operation was trickier.国际SOS 救援中心对大大小小 的紧急情况做出了回应。从他们给尼日尼亚的一位吞了一枚硬币的小 孩的父母提供了即时的建议，到去年布隆迪政变期间组织撤离企业和 非政府组织成员。期待您的翻译，您能够将翻译留言到文章底部，第 二天会有答案解析哦。 “When the president [Pierre Nkurunziza] started talking about serving an unconstitutional third term,” explains Tim Willis, a former army officer who is the firm’s Europea security director, “we thought ‘look out’ and began sending alerts to our members. When the balloon went up in May, their families had got out and they were prepared.” A nurse was embedded with one client, a local security provider was told to stand by with vehicles and an ISOS manager flew to neighbouring Rwanda to co-ordinate the operation.前陆军军 官蒂姆·威利斯，现任国际 SOS 救援中心欧洲安全主管说：“当布隆 迪总统 (皮埃尔·恩库伦齐扎)违反宪法，表示自己会在第三个任期的 继续担任总统时，我们就开始留意并提醒其他成员警戒起来。等到 5 月份局势变糟的时候，本公司成员和其家庭成员都已经做好准备了。” 政变发生期间，一个护士照顾一个客户，当地一个备有车辆的安全机 构随时待命，还有一位国际救援中心经理还跑到邻国卢旺达去指挥调 配救助