2020年大学英语四级翻译练习题（4）
1. In the old society，five hundred million careworn people _________________ (生活在水深火热之中).
2. We think it most important that _______________(理论与实际相结合).
3. Don't trust such men ________________(当面过度称赞你).
4. The acoustics in the Festival Hall _______________(效果好极了).
5. Their income is ________________(一般家庭的3～5倍).
答案与解析：
1. were plunged into a dire suffering
本题考查考生基本词汇量和短语的掌握情况。"水深火热"在英文中没有一个对等词，所以要采用意译法。能够接受的译法有：a dire suffering，an abyss of suffering，extreme misery。Be plunged into表示"使......陷入，使......遭受"，如：plunge a country into war(使一个国家陷入战争);plunge sb. into deep sorrow(使某人陷入深深的悲痛之中)。另外，前半句中careworn意为"受折磨的，饱经忧患的"。
2. theory be combined with practice
be combined with...是固定搭配，意为"与......相结合"。Be connected with是指"将......连起来"，在含义上有所差别。其次，句首用了We think it most important that句型，暗示从句要用虚拟语气，should能够省略。
3. as overpraise you to your face
本题考查as用作关系代词或关系副词引导出限制性定语从句的结构。这种结构在从句中通常左主语、宾语、表语和状语。as在这里作
主语，指人。这句话相当于Don't trust those men who overpraise you to your face。as用作关系代词或关系副词除了能够用在such...as的结构中，还能够用在the same...as的结构中。如：We drove out of the town by the same road as we had entered
by.(我们沿着我们进城的同一条路开车出城。)as在这个句子中作关系副词。
4. are extremely good
本题旨在考查以-ics结尾的单词作主语时的单复数问题。acoustics在句中表示"音响效果"，是一个特定的事物，所以谓语要用复数are;当acoustics指学科"声学"的时候，谓语动词要用单数，如：Acoustics is a branch of physics.(声学是物理学的一个分支。)
5. three to five times that of ordinary households
本题考查数的表达。考生要学会用"倍数+the size
(length,volume) of..."，"...倍数+that of (what it was)..."的
句型实行倍数的表达。Household是个集合词，表示家庭，如：
average household(中等家庭);multiperson household(多人口家庭);peasant household(农户)。"家务"叫做household affairs。