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In a Polyglot Place, the Most Welcome of Voices 多国语目的地万，最受欢迎的声音The United Nations building would be little more than a glass Tower of Babel without them.没有他们，联合国大厦只不过是一座玻璃巴别塔。But the United Nations* core of inter-preters, who sit tucked away in badly ventilated glass booths overlooking the General Assembly hall, are to most delegates hardly more than disembodied voices that come piped in through white plastic earphones.但是，联合国核心口译员隐蔽地坐在能俯视大会大厅的通风不好的玻璃小房间里，对干大多数代表来说，他们只不过是从白色塑胶耳机里传过来的脱离实体的声音。“We are all performers at heart，” said Monique Corvington, who has worked as an interpreter since 1968. “We get stage fright and the rush of adrenaline. Unfortunately, we do not pick the script.”“我们实质上都是表演者，”自1968 年就开始做口译工作的莫妮克?考温特说道：“我们得了怯场症和肾上腺素涌出症。 不幸地是，我们不挑选剧本。”The United Nations Interpretation Service has been sorely tested of late by the crush of world leaders who have shown up here for the General Assembly session and the recent World Summit for Children, which was attended by more than 70 heads of state and government.联合国口译服务中心已接受了出席联 合国大会会议和最近召开的世界儿童问题 首脑会议的世界各国领导人的严峻考验，大会有70多个国家元首和政府首脑参加。The service had to bolster its normal complement of 130 full-time interpreters with 70 Ireehmcc interpreters, including two retirees who did simultaneous interpretation at the Nuremberg war- crimes trial.服务中心不得不为其130位全职的常规口译员增援70位自由口译员，其中包括在纽伦堡战争罪行审判中做同声传译的2名退休人员。Where It Began同声传译开始的地方The technique of simultaneous interpretation—interpretation sentence by sentence一got its start at Nuremberg, translators here said.这里的翻译员说，同声传译的技巧一句一句地翻译一开始于纽伦堡。It proved much faster than the old system of consecutive interpretation, in which successive interpreters, after taking copious notes, re4delivered the original speech in different languages. The Nazi leader Hermann Goring reportedly said simultaneous translation at Nuremberg shortened his remaining life by three- fourths, The interpreters here work in the six official languages of the United Nations—English, Russian, Chinese, French, Spanish and A