童话故事汉译英

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童话故事汉译英

第一篇:童话故事汉译英

Snake-like Reflection of a Bow in the Cup

Nearly 2,000 years ago, during the Han Dynasty, there was a

county magistrate called Ying Chen.One summer day, he invited

his secretary Du Xuan to his house and treated him with wine.On

the north wall of the room hung a red bow.It was reflected in Du

Xuan's cup.Du Xuan took the reflection for a squirming snake.He

was very frightened but he dared not turn down Ying Chen's offer

because Ying was his superior.He had to swallow the wine with

his eyes closed.When he was back at home he felt so painful in

his chest and stomach that he could hardly eat and drink any

more.He sent for the doctor and took some medicine, but

nothing could cure him.When Ying Chen asked Du Xuan how he

got so seriously ill, Du told him he drank the wine with a snake in

his cup the other day.Ying Chen found something strange about

that.He returned home , thought hard, but he could not find an

answer.Suddenly the shadow thrown by the bow on the wall

caught his eye.“That's it!” he shouted.He immediately sent his

man to fetch Du Xuan.He seated him where he sat before and

offered him a cup of wine.Du Xuan saw the snake-like shadow

again.Before Du was scared out of his wits again, Ying Chen said ,

pointing at the shadow, “The 'snake' in the cup is nothing but a

reflection of the bow on the wall!” Now that Do Xuan knew what

it was, he felt much easier.And strange enough, his illness

disappeared the next moment.This story was later contracted

into the idiom “Bei Gong She Ying'.It is used to describe

someone who is very suspicious.It is like saying someone is afraid

of his own shadow.杯弓蛇影 “杯弓蛇影”这则成语的意思是误把映入酒杯中的弓影当成蛇。比喻因错觉而疑神疑鬼,自已惊扰自已。

这个成语来源于东汉.应劭《风俗通义》,时北壁上有悬赤弩,照于杯,形如蛇。宣畏恶之,然不敢不饮。

有一年夏天,县令应郴请主簿(办理文书事务的官员)杜宣来饮酒。酒席设在厅堂里,北墙上悬挂着一张红色的弓。由于光线折射,酒杯中映入了弓的影子。杜宣看了,以为是一条蛇在酒杯中蠕动,顿时冷汗涔涔。但县令是他的上司,又是特地请他来饮酒的,不敢不饮,所以硬着头皮喝了几口。仆人再斟时,他借故推却,起身告辞走了。

emperor and was transferred to be the commander of the

armed forces in the Henei Prefecture.As soon as he took office ,he

had all the members of a wealthy and influential family that had

brought calamities to the people there executed.For a while , the

public order and the general mood of society in the Henei

Prefectures were greatly improved.If someone should lose

something on the road through carelessness,nobody would pick

it up and take it as his own.When YiZong was transferred to be

the prefect of the Nanyang Prefecture,NingCheng,a despotic

landlord who stopped at nothing in doing evil,wsa living there,In

order to ingratiate himself with YiZong,Ning Cheng pretended to

be very modest and courteous every time he met Yi Zong and

saw him off.But Yi Zong had heard of the evil conducts of Ning

Zong and saw him off.But Yi Zong had heard of the evil conducts

of Ning Cheng already and ,soon after he took office in

Nanyang,he made investigations.It did not take much time for

him to find out Ning cheng's crimes and had him put in

ter ,Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty appointed

YiZong the prefect of the Dingxiang Prefecture.At that time, the

publica order in Dingxiang was very chaotic.When he took office

there, there were 200 convicts in prison who had committed felonies had no implements of punishment on them.There were

also more than 200 persons who offered bribes in order to

absolve those serious offenders trom guilt.YiZong treated the

matter severely.He arrested all those bribers and punished the

bribers and those serious offenders already in prison

severely.More than 400 convicts were executed in a bay.From that

day on ,whenever the name of YiZong was mentioned.people in

Dingxinang would tremble with fear--they would shiver all over

though not cold.This story appears in the ”Lives of the Merciless

Judges and Prison Wardens “in The Historical Records written

by Sima Pian.The set phrase ”shivering all over though not cold

"is used to refer to the state of being extremely afraid.-

第二篇:汉译英

1.就像机器需要经常运转一样,身体也需要经常锻炼。(Just)as a

machine needs regular running, so does the body need regular

exercise.2.在美国学习时,他学会了弹钢琴。

He learned to play the piano while studying in the United

States.3.令我们失望的是,他拒绝了我们的邀请。

To our disappointment, he turned down our invitation.4.真实情况是,不管是好是坏,随着新科技的进步,世界发生了变化。

The reality is that, for better or worse, the world has changed

with advance of new technologies.5.我班里的大多数女生在被要求回答问题时都似乎感到不自在。

Most of the female students in my class appear to be ill at

ease when(they are)required to answer questions.6.当地政府负责运动会的安全。

The local government took charge of the security for the

sports meeting.第七单元

汉译英:

1.在会上,除了其他事情,他们还讨论了目前的经济形势。At the