Directions: Translate the following sentences into Chinese. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET (10%)
1. Dubai’s reputation as the Gulfs financial and commercial hub has taken a battering since it surprised financial market in November by asking to restructure $26 million in debts. (2.5%)
2. Asia needs to bite the bullet if it wants to avoid another cycle of bubbles and busts. As soothing as high growth now feels, it needs to be restrained by higher interest rates and appreciating exchange rates to sustain. (2.5%)
3. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passion, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward (任意的，不定的) course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. (5%)
