省略法、增译法练习省略法1.Y ou cannot build a ship, a bridge or a house if you don’t know how to make adesign or how to read it.2.If you want to kill a snake you must hit it first on the head and if you want to catcha band of robbers you must first catch their leader.3.Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick itabout all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.4.It was very easy for him to pour the whole bottle of wine into his throat.5.Men and women, old and young, all joined in the battle.6.If I had known it, I would not have joined in it.7.Smoking is prohibited in public places.8.For generations, coal and oil have been regarded as the chief energy source totransport from place to place.9.She curtseyed again, and would have blushed deeper, if she could have blusheddeeper than she has blushed all the time.10.He was safe and sound.11.The time-keeping devices of electronic watches are much more accurate thanthose of mechanical ones.12.He took off his coat and shoes. Then he put on his slippers，went to the sofa andbegan to watch TV. He was thin and haggard and he looked miserable.13.He was well-favoured, bright, a good dancer, a fair shot and a fine tennis player.He was an asset at any party. He was lavish with flowers and expensive boxes of chocolate, and though he entertained little, when he did it was with an originality that pleased.14.Outside it was pitch dark and it was raining cats and dogs.15.He was lazy, peevish, and a bon-vivant; the appearance of a lady frightened himbeyond measure; hence it was but seldom that he joined the paternal circle in Russell Square, where there was plenty of gaiety, and where the jokes of his good-natured old father frightened his amour-propre(self-esteem).16.It was a keen disappointment when I had to postpone the visit which I hadintended to pay to China in May. I was delighted when, as a result of the effort of your company, it proved possible to reinstate the visit so quickly.17.Part-time job hunters who have worked at a job will receive preference over thosewho have not.18.There was no snow, the leaves were gone from the trees, the grass was dead.增译法19.An American officer slipped on a banana skin.20.Better be wise by the defeat of others than by your own.21.The footmen were as ready to serve her as they were their own mistress.22.More thorough testing might have caught the failure initially.23.He dismissed the meeting without a closing speech.24.The crowds melted away.25.Before she grew old, Aunt Harriet used to entertain lavishly.26.We have made some achievements, and we must guard against complacency.27.Oxidation will make iron and steel rusty.28.He is a complicated man—moody, mercurial, with a melancholy streak.29.The remedies you proposed are neat and easy but impossible.30.Newsmen went flying off to Mexico.31.I was, and remain, grateful for the part he played in my release.32.Repeat the experiment using a wooden ruler, a piece of glass, a coin, a piece ofpaper, and a pin.33.The advantages of the hall are bright, spacious, fashionable and without echo.34.For mistakes had been made, bad ones.35.Our rushing is understandable, but costly.36.Y ou got a prejudice all right—against a race that’s black. That’s why I called youwhite racists that night. But when you deal with a black person, I don’t feel any bad vices.37. Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.。
