难句译注:
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…
[结构简析] 句子很长,都是简单句,中间有分号隔开,后面是举例。
[参考译文] 有组织犯罪团伙也直接参与:计算机新技术较为犯罪提供了无限的机会,如数据信息犯罪,偷窃服务项目,跟财产有关的犯罪,工业破坏,跟政治有关的破坏,破坏文化艺术,对个人和财经方面的罪行等等。
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.
[结构简析] 并列句,and 作对比连接词用。
[参考译文] 一个计算机信息的国际市场已经存在,而专门从事脏品交易的市场据说在迅速扩展的犯罪市场中起着关键的作用。
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.
[结构简析] 主谓宾补结构,后跟thus+从句表示结果。
[参考译文] 竞争对手破坏一个公司的计算机系统为的是摧毁或削弱公司的操作运行能力,从而使其丧失在私人或政府部门中的竞争力。
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.
[结构简析] 两句话。前一句为主谓宾,后一句为主从句,从句内采用too…to 句型,后跟分词独立结构进一步说明。
[参考译文] 计算机为国内和国际有组织犯罪集团开辟了犯罪的广泛领域。它要求它们集中资源,提高通力协作力量,因为许多犯罪太复杂,一个集团难以驾驭,特别是那些需要巨大的脏品交易时常网络的罪行。
写作方法与文章大意:
文章介绍“计算机犯罪”,采用分类写作手法,先列出种种计算机犯罪项,下面逐一说明。文本只选四种犯罪——信息数据偷窃或信息(数据)犯罪,产业破坏,政治破坏,对个人生命破坏。分四段叙述,每段为一种罪行,最后是对比罪犯势力越来越有组织,势力请大,而司法部门却没有准备好。