2017考博英语翻译平日练习（10）
考博英语翻译部分看起来简单，其实很容易失分，英译汉是肯定不可以直译的需要直译意译互动原则;汉译英则需要意译法以求信、达和地道。新东方在线考博频道整理了2017考博英语翻译平日练习并给出了答案希望考生们根据译文揣摩练习。
Examples of benefits or costs of the current concentration wave are scanty. Yet it is hard to imagine that the merger of a few oil firms today could re-create the same threats to competition that were feared nearly a century ago in the US， when the Standard Oil trust was broken up. The mergers of telecom companies， such as World Com， hardly seem to bring higher prices for consumers or a reduction in the pace of technical progress. On the contrary， the price of communications is coming down fast. In cars， too， concentration is increasing — witness Daimler and Chrysler， Renault and Nissan — but it does not appear that consumers are being hurt.
目前证明这股合并浪潮是带来利还是弊的实例并不多。但是很难想像当今的几个石油公司的合并是否会重新造成约100年前美国标准石油公司对竞争造成的同样的威胁，那时由于人们对该公司的这种担心而导致了它最终的解散。像世界通讯这样的通讯公司合并似乎没有给消费者带来更高的价格，或者降低技术进步的速度。相反，通信的价格在迅速下降。在汽车行业，合并也同样在增加——比如戴姆勒与克莱斯勒，雷诺与尼桑的合并——但消费者看起来并未受到伤害。