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长难句翻译2014年10月12日星期日1.What can we learn from a teacher whose methods fly in theface of everything we think we know about education today, but who was undeniably effective? (P11_Para5)fly in the face of: go against 公然违抗undeniably: 不可否认的我们能从一个老师这里学到什么,这个老师的方法公然违抗了我们认为我们所知道的关于今天教育的一切,但是谁又是不可否认的有效呢?2.Not just traditional but old-fashioned in the sense that somany of us knew as kids, with strict discipline and unyielding demands.(P11_Para6)我们很多人小时候就知道的观念,不仅传统而且老式的教育,常常伴随着严格的纪律和坚硬的要求。
3.The whole point of intelligence praise is to boost confidenceand motivation, but both were gone in a flash. (P14_Para23) 智力表扬的全部意义是为了争强信心和动力,但是两者都转瞬即逝。
2014年10月13日星期一1.Let’s get down to brass tacks. Who’s paying for all this?让我们开始干正事吧。
谁来为这些买单?get down to brass tacks有“办正事”的意思,相当于get down to business,也可以引申为“言归正传”。
2.Ours is a small village and he is clearly at odds with peoplehere that if he wants to remain, I fear what would become of him.我们的家园是一个小镇,显然他这里的人格格不入,如果他想继续呆下去的话,我害怕一些不好的事会发生在他身上。
CATTI中级口译长难句翻译中级口译长难句翻译1. The most thrilling e_planation is, unfortunately, a little defective. Someeconomists argue that powerful structural changes in the world have upended theold economic models that were based upon the historical link between growth andinflation.[参考译文] 很不幸,这最令人震惊的解释有一点缺陷.一些经济学家认为世界经济结构的强有力的变化已经结束了那个以经济增长和通货膨胀的历史关联为基础的旧的经济模式.2. The Aswan Dam, for e_ample, stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egyptof the fertile silt that floods left-all in return for a giant reservoir ofdisease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity. [参考译文] 例如,阿斯旺大坝使得尼罗河不再洪水泛滥,但是它也夺去了埃及以前所享有的洪水留下的肥沃淤泥--这些换宋的就是这么个疾病滋生的水库,现在这个水库积满了淤泥,几乎不能发电了.3. New ways of organizing the workplace--all that re-engineering anddownsizing--are only one contribution to the overall productivity of an economy,which is driven by many other factors such as joint investment in equipment andmachinery, new technology, and investment in education and training,[参考译文] 企业重组的新方法--所有那些重新设计.缩小规模的做法--只是对一个经济的整体生产力做出了一方面的贡献.这种经济还受许多其他因素的驱动,比如结合设备和机械上的投资.新技术,以及在教育和培训上的投资.4. His colleague, Michael Beer, says that far too many companies have appliedre-engineering in a mechanistic fashion, chopping out costs without givingsufficient thought to long-term profitability.[参考译文] 他的同事迈克尔?比尔说,有太多的公司已经用一种机械的方式实行公司内部的重新设计,在没有充分考虑长期赢利的能力下削减了成本.5. Defenders of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings such asThe Flight from S.cience and Reason , held in New York City in _95, and Science in the Age of (Mis) information, which assembled last June nearBuffalo.[参考译文] 科学卫士们在会议上也表述了他们的关注,比如_95年在纽约市举行的逃离科学与理性会议,以及去年6月在布法罗附近召开的 (错误)信息时代的科学会议.6. A survey of news stories in _96 reveals that the antiscience tag has beenattached to many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated theelimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpo_ virus to Republicans whoadvocated decreased funding for basic research.[参考译文] 一项关于_96年新闻报道的调查显示,反科学的标签还可以贴在许多其他团体身上,从提倡消灭最后存留的天花病毒的权威机构,到鼓吹削减基础研究经费的共和党人(都被贴上了反科学的标签).7. The true enemies of science, argues Paul Ehrllch of Stanford University,a pioneer of environmental studies, are those who question the evidencesupporting global warming, the depletion of the ozone layer and otherconsequences of industrial growth.[参考译文] 环境研究的先驱.斯坦福大学的保罗?厄尔里西认为,科学真正的敌人是那些对支持全球变暖.臭氧层损耗以及工业发展的其他后果的证据提出置疑的人.8. This development--and its strong implication for US politics and economyin years ahead--has enthroned the South as America s most densely populatedregion for the first time in the history of the nation s head counting. [参考译文] 这种发展--以及其对美国政治.经济在未来几年的潜在的强有力的影响一一使得南部在全国人口普查中有史以来首次成为美国人口最密集的地区.9. Often they choose--and still are choosing--somewhat colder climates suchas Oregon, Idaho and Alaska in order to escape smog.crime and other plagues ofurbanization in the Golden State.[参考译文] 他们常常选择--现在依然这样选择--居住在那些气候较为寒冷的地区, 比如俄勒冈.爱达荷,还有阿拉斯加,为的是逃避烟雾.犯罪,以及金州 (加利福尼亚)城市化进程中的其他问题.10. As a result, California s growth rate dropped during the _70 s, to _.5percent--little more than two thirds the _60 s growth figure and considerablybelow that of other Western states.[参考译文] 结果,加利福尼亚的人口增长率在20世纪70年代时下降到了_.5%一一稍高于60年代增长率的三分之二,大大低于西部其他各州.中级口译长难句翻译1. Unlike most of the world s volcanoes, they are not always found at theboundaries of the great drifting plates that make up the earth s surface; on thecontrary, many of them lie deep in the interior of a plate.[参考译文] 跟世界上的大多数火山不同的是,它们(热点)并不总是在由构成地球表面巨大漂流板块之间的边界上出现;相反,它们中有许多位于一个板块较纵深的内部.2. The relative motion of the plates carrying these continents has beenconstructed in detail, but the motion of the plates with respect to anothercannot readily be translated into motion with respect to the earth sinterior.[参考译文] 携带这些大陆板块的相对运动已经能够被详细地表述出来,但是这些板块相对于另一些板块的运动还不能轻易地解释为它们相对于地球内部的运动.3. As the dome grows, it develops seed fissures (cracks); in at leasta fewcases the continentmay break entirely along some of these fissures, so that thehot spot initiates the formation of a new ocean.[参考译文] 暂缺4. While warnings are often appropriate and necessary--the dangers of druginteractions, for e_ample--and many are required by state or federalregulations, it isn t clear that they actually protect the manufacturers andsellers from liability if a customer is injured.[参考译文] 尽管警告常常是适当而且必须的--比如对于药物相互作用的危险提出警告--许多警告还是按州或联邦政府规定要求给出的,然而(我们)并不清楚,如果顾客受到伤害时,这些警告是不是确实可以使得生产者和销售者豁免责任.5. At the same time, the American Law Institute--a group of judges, lawyers,and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weight--issued newguidelines for tort law stating that companies need not warn customers ofobvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy list of possible ones.[参考译文] 与此同时,美国法律研究所--由一群法官.律师和理论专家组成,他们的建议分量极重--发布了新的民事伤害法令指导方针,宣称公司不必提醒顾客注意显而易见的危险,也不必连篇累牍地一再提请他们注意一些可能会出现的危险.6. In the past year, however, software companies have developed tools thatallow companies to push information directly out to consumers, transmittingmarketing messages directly to targeted customers.[参考译文] 但是,在过去的一年间,软件公司已经开发出工具,使得公司可以直接将信息推出给顾客,直接把营销讯息传递给目标顾客.7. The e_amples of Virtual Vineyards, , and other pioneers showthat a Web site selling the right kind of products with the right mi_ ofinteractivity, hospitality, and security will attract online customers. [参考译文] 像Virtual Vineyards,这样的先驱网站表明,一个将交互性.热情服务和安全性合理结合以销售同类商品的网址是可以吸引网上客户注意的.8. An invisible border divides those arguing for computers in the classroomon the behalf of students career prospects and those arguing for computersinthe classroom for broader reasons of radical education reform.[参考译文] 有些人为了学生的就业前景为教室里放置电脑而辩,有些人为教育的彻底改革中更为广泛的理由为教室里放置电脑而辩,这两群人之间有一条无形的界线.9. Rather, we have a certain conception of the American citizen, a characterwho is incomplete if he cannot competently access how his livelihood andhappiness are affected by things outside of himself.[参考译文] 我们更应该具有的是作为美国公民的某种观念,这个公民人物如果不能很恰当地认识到自己的生存和幸福是如何受到自身之外的事物的影响,那么其公民特征就是不完整的.10. Besides, this is unlikely to produce the needed number of every kind ofprofessional in a country as large as ours and where the economy is spread overso many states and involves so many international corporations.[参考译文] 另外,在我们这么一个大国里,经济延展到这么多的州.涉及到这么多的国际公司,因而要按照数量培养出所需的各类专业人员是不大可能的.中级口译长难句翻译1. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches,right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attackedthe bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turnback.[参考译文] 一些机构终于松了一口气,但是其他一些机构,包括教堂,倡导生命之权的团体和澳大利亚医学协会,尖锐地抨击这个法案,指责法案的通过过于匆忙.但是大势已定,不可逆转.2. In Australia- where an aging population, life-e_tending technology andchanging community attitudes have all played their partother states are going toconsider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia.[参考译文] 在澳大利亚--人口老龄化,延长寿命的技术和变化看的社会态度,这些因素都在发挥作用一一其他的州也会考虑制定相似的关于安乐死的法律.3. There are, of course, e_ceptions. Small--minded officials, rude waiters,and ill mannered ta_i drivers are hardly unknown in the US. Yet it is anobservation made so frequently that it deserves comment.[参考译文] 当然,例外是存在的.在美国,心胸狭窄的官员,粗鲁的传者,和没有礼貌的出租车司机也并不少见.然而人们常常得出这样的观察意见,这使得它值得被讨论一下.4. We live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances(drugs) is pervasive: an aspirin to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable,coffee to get going in the morning, a cigarette for the nerves.[参考译文] 我们生活在一种药品(毒品)的医学用途和社会用途都很广泛的社会里: 一片用来止头痛的阿斯匹林,一些用来社交的葡萄酒,早上自己提提神所喝的咖啡,一支用来定神的香烟.5. Dependence is marked first by an increased tolerance, with more and moreof the substance required to produce the desired effect, and then by theappearance of unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the substance isdiscontinued.[参考译文] 对药品的依赖性首先表现为不断增长的耐药量,要产生想得到的效果所需要的药品剂量越来越大,然后表现为当停止用药后,令人不快的停药症状的出现.6. Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers? SenatorRobert Dole asked Time Warner e_ecutives last week. You have sold yoursouls,but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well?[参考译文] 上星期参议员罗博特多尔质问时代华纳公司的高级管理人员们:难道这就是你们希望能够成就的事业?你们已经出卖了自己的灵魂,但是难道你们还非要腐化我们的国家,威胁我们的孩子们吗?7. The test of any democratic society, he wrote in a Wall Street Journalcolumn , lies not in how well it can control e_pression but in whether it givesfreedom of thought and e_pression the widest possible latitude, howeverdisputable or irritating the results may sometimes be...[参考译文] 对任何一个民主社会的考验, 他在《华尔街杂志》的一个专栏文章中写到, 不在于它能够多有效地控制各种意见的表达,而在于这个社会是否能给予思考和表达的尽可能广泛的自由,不管有时候这种结果是多么的富有争议或令人不快…8. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month s stockholdersmeeting, Levin asserted that music is not the cause of society s ills and evencited his son, a teacher in the Bron_, New York, who uses rap to communicatewith students.[参考译文] 在-上个月的股东大会上关于摇滚歌词的讨论中,莱文宣称说: 音乐不是社会问题的原因 ,他甚至还以他的儿子为例.他的儿子是纽约州布朗克斯的一个教师,并用说唱音乐与学生们进行沟通.9. Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as steeringthe economy to a soft landing of a touch on the brakes , makes it sound likea precise science. Nothing could be further from the truth.[参考译文] 有很多用于描述货币政策的词汇,例如轻踩刹车以操纵经济软着陆 ,使货币政策听起来像是一门精确的科学.没有什么比这更远离实际情况的了.10. Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflationfigures in Britain and the United States, since, conventional measures suggestthat both economies, and especially America s, have little productive slack.[参考译文] 经济学家们对英国和美国的有利的通货膨胀数据尤其感到惊讶,因为传统的计量方法显示两国的经济,特别是美国的经济,几乎没有生产萧条的时候.catti二级口译试题及解析学习也是快乐的,因为你学习了许多知识,今天小编给大家带来了catti二级口译试题及解catti二级口译试题及解析分享学习也是快乐的,因为你学习了许多知识,今天小编给大家带来了catti二级口译试题及解_年翻译资格考试二级口译习题精选篇努力和效果之间,永远有这样一段距离.今天小编给大家带来了_年翻译资格考试二级口_下半年年翻译资格考试二级口译习题精选努力和效果之间,永远有这样一段距离.今天小编给大家带来了_年翻译资格考试二级口。
1. Accordingto conventional theory, yawning takes place when people are bored or sleepy andserves the function of increasing alertness by reversing, through deeperbreathing, the drop in blood oxygen levels that are caused by the shallowbreathing that accompanies lack of sleep or boredom.【译文】根据传统的理论,当人们无聊或者困倦的时候,打哈欠会出现。
打哈欠通过深呼吸来逆转血液中氧含量的降低,从而的起到提高警觉的功能。
而血液中氧含量的降低是由浅呼吸导致的,而浅呼吸又伴随着缺觉或无聊。
2. The keyfactor in the success of these countries (along with high literacy, whichcontributed to it) was their ability to adapt to the international division oflabor determined by the earlyindustrializers and to stake out areas ofspecialization in international markets for which they were especially wellsuited.【译文】这些国家成功的关键因素(促成这个因素的是高识字率)是他们有能力适应由早期的工业化国家决定的劳动力国际分工并占领了他们特别适合的国际市场中的专业化领域。
3. In the second case, pollinators(insects, birds) obtain food from the flowering plant, and the plant has itspollen distributed and seeds dispersed much more efficiently than they would beif they were carried by the wind only.【译文】在第二个案例中,传粉者(昆虫和鸟)从开花植物中获取食物,而植物也使得它们的花粉和种子相比于只通过风传播的更加高效。
笔译翻译练习(5.8)一、长难句翻译(分句与合句)1. Behaviorists suggest that the child who is raised in an environment where there are many stimuli which develop his or her capacity for appropriate responses will experience greater intellectual development.行为主义者认为,如果儿童的成长环境里有许多刺激因素,这些因素又有利于其适当反应能力的发展,那么,儿童的智力就会发展到较高的水平。
2. If parents were prepared for this adolescent reaction, and realized that it was a sign that the child was growing up and developing valuable powers of observation and independent judgment, they would not be so hurt, and therefore would not drive the child into opposition by resenting and resisting it.如果做父母的对这种青少年的反应有所准备,而且意识到这是一个显示出孩子正在成长,正在发展珍贵的观察力和独立的判断力的标志,他们就不会感到如此伤心,因此也就没有愤恨和反对的情绪而把孩子推到对立面去。
3. The election which has led to your being chosen to preside over(主持,负责,管理)this Assembly—a very wise choice indeed—is a tribute(礼物)to your great country, which has contributed to the development of the history of free nations a tradition of peace that serves as an example for the legal community that we constitute, a country which has always commanded respect and admiration from all corners of the world.这次选举你被选为主持这个大会,事实上是个非常明智的选择,是对你伟大的国家的献礼,贵国为自由国家的历史发展贡献出了一种和平传统,这一传统是我们法治国家的榜样,全世界都为贵国表示尊敬和钦佩。
1. The American economic system is, organized around a basically private-enterprise, market- oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most.[参考译文] 美国的经济是以基本的私有企业和市场导向经济为架构的,在这种经济中,消费者很大程度上通过在市场上为那些他们最想要的货品和服务付费来决定什么应该被制造出来。
2. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it.[参考译文] 因此,在美国的经济体系中,个体消费者的需求与商人试图最大化其利润的欲望和个人想最大化其收入效用的欲望相结合,一起决定了什么应该被制造,以及资源如何被用来制造它们。
3. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product.[参考译文] 另一方面,如果大量制造某种商品导致其成本下降,那么这就有可能增加卖方和制造商能提供的供给,而这也就会反过来降低价格并允许更多的消费者购买产品。
历届高考英语长难句100句精选(译文版)1.这个定理,先是由十七世纪法国数学家皮尔法特提出,曾使一批杰出的数学大师为难,包括一位法国女科学家,她在解决这个难题方面取得了重大的进展,她曾女扮男装为了能够在伊科尔理工学院学习。
简析:夹杂过去分词短语,现在分词短语,动名词及两个定语从句。
2.由于因特网的使用,计算所使用的纸张的数量是很难的,然而几乎任何在办公室工作的人能告诉你,当引进电子邮件后,打印机就开始超时工作。
也就是说近年来人们对于纸张的日益需求主要是由于因特网越来越多的使用。
简析:夹杂较复杂的句型结构,关键词just about几乎;overtime超时地。
3.或许,表明电脑及因特网使用促进人们对于纸张的需求的最好迹象源于高科技产业本身,印刷业被认为是高科技产业极有前景的新市场之一。
简析:夹杂较复杂的句型结构,关键词promising有前途的。
4.这个行动组也发现一种人们可接受的纸,制成这种纸的原料不是木料,而是农业废料。
简析:关键词other than而不是。
5.这些术语,主要从英语和汉语引入,经常会变成不再被说本族语的人们理解的形式。
简析:关键词term术语。
6.它是现在很畅销的许多外语书中的一本。
简析:比喻生动形象。
7.大众传播媒介和政府白皮书(正式报告)在外国词传播过程中起重要作用。
简析:关键词the mass media and government white papers大众传播媒介和政府白皮书(正式报告)。
8.来自动物医院(这个电视节目)的故事(这本书),将使这个电视节目的爱好者以及对无论是猫、狗还是蛇这类宠物有浓厚兴趣的任何人感到高兴。
简析:关键词fans…爱好者,whether…or…,无论是…还是…。
9.牛顿被证明是一位很有才华的科学家,他处于一个魔术终结科学开启的历史时期,他也有普通人所特有的弱点。
简析:夹杂两个定语从句。
10.但对于所有这些以电子手段记录,贮存及传递的文本而言,许多文本仍要(打印)在纸上。
长难句翻译一1. Other models exist that are hybrids of these three, such as delayed open-access, where journals allow only subscribers to read a paper for the first six months, before making it freely available to everyone who wishes to see it.2. The bodies playing major professional sports have changed dramatically over the years, and managers have been more than willing to adjust team uniforms to fit the growing numbers of bigger, longer frames.3. For example, changes in the economy that lead to fewer job opportunities for youth and rising unemployment in general make gainful employment increasingly difficult to obtain.4. As a linguist, he acknowledges that all varieties of human languages, including non-standard ones like Black English, can be powerfully expressive—there exits no language or dialect in the world that cannot convey complex ideas.5. Studies of both animals and humans have shown that sex hormones somehow affect the stress response, causing females under stress to produce more of the trigger chemicals than do males under the same conditions.6. Some attributed virtually every important cultural achievement to the inventions of a few, especially gifted peoples that, according to , then spread to other cultures.7. More, recently, while examining housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English-speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building industry's work.8. This DNA can reveal genetic information about only one or two ancestors, even though, for example, just three generations back people also have six other great-grandparents or, four generations back, 14 other great-great-grandparents.9. Sexual confusion, economic frustrations, and religion hope—all came together in a decisive moment when he opened the bible, told his father that the first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words: "Come out from among them, touch no unclean thing." and I will be your God and you shall be my people.10. Besides the ninety or so learned ministers who came to Massachusetts church in the decade after 1926, there were political leaders like John Winthrop, an educated gentleman, lawyer, and official of the Crown before he journeyed to Boston.还有一些商业模式为以上三种主要模式的综合体,如延迟开放模式,即这些期刊前六个月只允许付费者阅读论文,之后才免费提供给所有想阅读的人;这些年来,参加主要职业棒球赛运动员的身材发生了显著变化,俱乐部的经理们更乐意修改队服来满足日益增多的更高、更壮的运动员的需要;比如,经济方面的变化使得青年的就业机会更少,加之失业率的普遍上升,这越发使得赚钱的工作日益难找;作为一名语言学家,他承认所有种类的人类语言,包括不规范的语言,如黑人英语,都具有强大的表达能力——世界上没有一种语言或方言不能表达复杂的意思;对动物和人类的研究表明:性激素会以某种方式影响对压力的反应,使处于压力下的雄性比处于相同条件下的雄性产生更多的触发不良反应的化学物质;有些人类学家认为,几乎每项重要的文化成就都是少数特别有天赋的民族所发明创造的;根据传播论者的看法,这些发明后来传播到了其他的文化中;最近,研究者在调查房屋建筑业时发现,尽管建筑行业的工作非常复杂,但是德克萨斯州休斯顿市的那些不识字、不会说英语的墨西哥工人却总能达到劳动生产率的最高标准;举例来说,只要上溯三代,一个人就会有八个曾父母,或者上溯四代,就会有十六位曾曾祖父母,即便如此,这种DNA 只能揭示一到两位祖先的基因信息;他打开圣经,告诉父亲他读到的第一行字将决定他的命运,接着读到了以下神奇的文字:“从他们中间走出来,不要沾不干净的物,我将成为你们的神,你将是我的子民;”在决定性的时刻,他的性困惑、经济困难以及宗教期待——所有的一切都交织在一起;除了大约九十位左右在1692 年之后的十年间来到马塞诸塞教堂的博学的牧师之外,还有像约翰·温斯洛普这样的政治领袖;在来波士顿之前,他是一位受过高等教育的绅士、律师,同时还是皇室的官员;。
英语经典长难句翻译-CAL-FENGHAI.-(YICAI)-Company One1英语经典长难句翻译这些句子摘自大学英语课本,都是很好的写作操练材料,对考生的作文词句规范化很有帮助。
反复分析句子结构和词汇词语,然后通过汉译英的反复的回译操练,直至以后英语写作中想到相关汉语就能出现对应英语表达的程度。
1. Do you often go online chatting with strangers Everyday, millions of people, especially the young, are online chatting with friends or with strangers.你经常上网闲聊吗?每天有数百万人,尤其年轻人,在网上与网友或陌生人聊天。
2. The successful launch and return of the manned spacecraft Shenzhou IV is deemed both a symbol of national prestige and a sign of advanced science and technology, which will definitely contribute to the economic growth of our country.载人航天飞机神州五号的成功发射及返回既是国家荣誉的一个象征,也是先进的科技能力的标志,这对我国的经济发展无疑会产生促进作用。
3. We all know that China is still a developing country and its education still lags behind that of developed countries. Many young Chinese are denied chances of receiving higher education because of insufficient educational facilities.我们都知道,中国还是一个发展中的国家,其教育水平仍然落后于发达国家。
考研英语常考长难句与典型作文范文例句含译文翻译版1、Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.–Helen Keller, Lecturer永远不要垂着头,要高昂着头。
直视这世界。
2、I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.–Jimmy Dean, Singer我无法改变风向,但我可以调整风帆,让我最终到达目的地。
3、Beautiful is the bloom of youth,but it does not last.青春的花朵是美丽的,但它不能持久。
4、No matter whether the world treats you gently or not, please keep smiling!无论世界待你温柔与否,请保持微笑。
5、No matter how you feel ,get up,dress up,show up and never give up.无论你遭遇了什么,请振作起来,精心打扮自己,展露你的才华,永不言弃。
6、It doesn't matter how slow you are, as long as you're determined to get there, you'll get there.不管你有多慢,都没关系,只要你下定决心,你最终会到达想去的地方。
7、Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.请铭记于心:每天都是一年中最好的一天。
8、The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.掌握智慧的重点在于学会选择性地忽视。
笔译翻译练习(5.8)
一、长难句翻译(分句与合句)
1. Behaviorists suggest that the child who is raised in an environment where there are many stimuli which develop his or her capacity for appropriate responses will experience greater intellectual development.
行为主义者认为,如果儿童的成长环境里有许多刺激因素,这些因素又有利于其适当反应能力的发展,那么,儿童的智力就会发展到较高的水平。
2. If parents were prepared for this adolescent reaction, and realized that it was a sign that the child was growing up and developing valuable powers of observation and independent judgment, they would not be so hurt, and therefore would not drive the child into opposition by resenting and resisting it.
如果做父母的对这种青少年的反应有所准备,而且意识到这是一个显示出孩子正在成长,正在发展珍贵的观察力和独立的判断力的标志,他们就不会感到如此伤心,因此也就没有愤恨和反对的情绪而把孩子推到对立面去。
3. The election which has led to your being chosen to preside over(主持,负责,管理)this Assembly—a very wise choice indeed—is a tribute(礼物)to your great country, which has contributed to the development of the history of free nations a tradition of peace that serves as an example for the legal community that we constitute, a country which has always commanded respect and admiration from all corners of the world.
这次选举你被选为主持这个大会,事实上是个非常明智的选择,是对你伟大的国家的献礼,贵国为自由国家的历史发展贡献出了一种和平传统,这一传统是我们法治国家的榜样,全世界都为贵国表示尊敬和钦佩。
4. There are several reasons why he (Kissinger) no longer appears to be the magician the world press had made him out to be, an illusion which he failed to discourage(阻止)because, as he would admit himself, he has a tendency toward megalomania(狂妄自大).
全球内的报界曾把基辛格渲染成魔术师一般的人物。
而他也没有阻止人们制造这种错觉。
因为据说他有一种自大狂倾向,现在他不再像这样一种人物了,原因有这么几个。
5. Aluminum remained unknown until the nineteenth century, because nowhere in nature is it found free(游离的), owing to its always being combined with other elements, most commonly with oxygen, for which it has a strong affinity(亲和力).
铝直到19世纪才被人发现,由于铝总是跟其他元素结合在一起,最普遍的是跟氧结合;因为铝跟氧有很强的亲和力,由于这个原因,在自然界找不到游离状态的铝。
6. They (the poor) are the first to experience technological progress as a curse which destroys the old muscle-power jobs that previous generations used as a means to fight their way out of poverty. 穷人是首先体会到科技进步造成的痛苦的,因为科技进步破坏了前几代人把传统体力劳动作为摆脱贫困的方式。
7. Until 1972, all efforts by the two nations to curb(控制)the nuclear-arms race(军备竞赛)had founded on one point: U.S. insistence on the right to make on-site inspections of the Soviet
strategic arsenal(兵工厂)and Russia’s refusal.
美国坚持要求实地视察苏方战略武器库,而苏联拒绝这样做,两国有关限制核军备竞赛的一切努力就因此而告吹,直到1972年一直无进展。
8. A student of mathematics must become familiar with all the signs and symbols commonly used in mathematics and bear them in mind firmly, and be well versed(精通)in the definitions, formulas as well as the technical terms in the field of mathematics, in order that he may be able to build up the foundation of the mathematical subject and master it well for pursuing advanced study.
为了能够打好数学基础,掌握好数学以便更好的深造,一个学数学的人必须熟悉所有常用在数学领域里面的符号与标志,牢牢记住它们,并且精通数学领域的各种定义、公式和的相关术语。
9. People were afraid to leave their houses, for although the police had been ordered to stand by in case of emergency, they were just as confused and helpless as anybody else.
尽管警察已接到命令,要作好准备以应付紧急情况,但人们不敢出门,因为警察也和其他人一样不知所措和无能为力。
10. The medical waste(医疗废弃物)that has fouled(污染)beaches in the New York region at the peak of the summer season has taken its toll on(造成损失)business all along the shore, driving vacationers away both from beaches that have been closed and from those that have remained open.
医疗用品生产厂家的废弃物污染了纽约地区的海滨。
时值盛夏,一些海滨浴场关闭,而仍然开放的一些海滨浴场也门可罗雀,大批度假者离此而去,这造成海滨地区商业严重损失。
11. I must say that his statement was laudable(值得赞赏的)for its frankness and quite plausible (貌似有理的)on the basis of premises which, I’m af raid, are invalid(无效的)in the context of the United Nations Charter(《联合国宪章》).
我必须说他坦率的声明是值得称赞的,也相当合理,但是在《联合国宪章》的背景下,恐怕又是无效的。
12. Up to the present time, throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this new tendency placed(安放)the home in the immediate(最接近的)suburbs, but concentrated manufacturing activity, business relations, government, and pleasure in the centers of the cities.
至今为止,整个18和19两个世纪,出现了这种新的倾向:把住宅安排在城市的近郊,但把生产活动、商业往来、政府以及娱乐都集中在城市的中心地区。