文档介绍：2006年5 月人事部三级笔译真题第一部分英译汉 Freed by warming, waters once locked beneath ice ar e gnawing at coastal settlements around the Arctic Circle. In Bykovsky, a village of 457 on Russia's north east coast, the shoreline is collapsing, creeping c loser and closer to houses and tanks of heating oil, at a rate of 15 to 18 feet a year. "It is practically all ice - permafrost - and i t is thawing." For the four million people who live north of the Arctic Circle, a changing climate presents n ew opportunities. But it also threatens their environment, their homes and, for those whose tradi tions rely on the ice-bound wilderness, the preservation of their culture. A push to develop the North, quickened by the m elting of the Arctic seas, carries its own rewards and dangers for people in the region. The discovery of vast petroleum fields in the Barents and Kara Seas has raised fears of catastrophic accidents as ships loaded with oil and, soon, liquefied gas churn through the fisheries off Scandinavia, headed to ma rkets in Europe and North America. Land that was untouched could be tainted by pollution as generato rs, smokestacks and large vehicles sprout to support the growing energy industry. Coastal erosion is a problem in Alaska as well, forcing the United States to prepare to relocate several Inuit villages at a projected cost of $100 million or more for each one. Across the Arctic, indigenous tribes with tradi tions shaped by centuries of living in extremes of cold and ice are noticing changes in weather and wildlif e. They are trying to adapt, but it can be confounding. In Finnmark, Norway's northernmost province, th e Arctic landscape unfolds in late winter as an endless snowy plateau, silent but for the cries of the reindeer and the occasional whine of a sno