2017年大学英语四级翻译试题库：茶树
来源 :中华考试网 2017-11-15
中请将下面这段话翻译成英文：
茶树
茶树，原名茶，拉丁文名Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Ktze.，山茶科，山茶属灌木或小乔木，嫩枝无毛。叶革质，长圆形或椭圆形。茶树的叶子可制茶(有别于油茶树)，种子可以榨油，茶树材质细密，其木可用于雕刻。分布主要集中在南纬16度至北纬30度之间。树龄可达一二百年，但经济年龄一般为40～50年。我国西南部是茶树的起源中心。在热带地区也有乔木型茶树高达15-30米， 基部树围1.5米以上，树龄可达数百年至上千年。
参考译文
Tea Tree
The Tea tree, originally known as tea, or its Latin name “Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Ktze.”, is a kind of Theaceae shrub or small tree without hair on the twigs. The leaf takes on a leather structure, obround or oval shape. The leaves can be processed into tea (different from oil camellia), and the seeds into oil; with fine and closely woven structure, its wood can be used for carving. It is mainly distributed between the 16 degrees south latitude and 30 degrees north latitude. It boasts its age of up to 100-200 years, but generally 40-50 years for the economic age. With the southwestern China as its place of origin, it is also distributed in tropical areas and mainly takes on the arbor type with a height of up to 15-30m, the bottom circle of over 1.5m and the age of up to several hundred to one thousand years.