英语翻译题库ONE

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三年级上学期英汉互译
A. Translate the following sentences:
1.So what do the Americans think of the foreign visitors who arrive
for the torrid heat, just when local from the United States tended to avoid Death Valley?
2.I suppose that if a man has a confused mind he will write in a
confused way, if his temper is capricious his prose will be fantastical, and if he has a quick, darting intelligence that id reminded by the matter in hand of a hundred things, he will, unless he has great control, load his pages with metaphor and simile.
3.Work, therefore, first and foremost, as a preventive of boredom, as
desirable, for the boredom that a man feels when he is doing necessary though uninteresting work is nothing in comparison with the boredom that he feels when he has nothing to do with his days. 4.To those of us who walk in sunlight and hear all the sounds that beat
on our ears, being blind and deaf would seem like being in a prison.
5.Such is the human nature in the West that a great many people are
often willing to sacrifice higher pay foe the privilege of becoming white collar workers.
B. Translate the following article:
When the Moon Follows Me
Mary E. Potter
Each of my sons made the discovery early. We would be riding in
the car at night, and a little voice woul d call out from the back seat, “Hey, the moon is following us!” I would explain that the moon was not actually gliding along with our car. There would be another period of critical observation and the final verdict, delivered mire quietly this time: “But it really is moving. I can see it.”
I thought of it one evening as I was driving. The moon, one day short of fullness, rode with me, first gliding smoothly, then bouncing over the bumpy stretches, now on my right, then straight ahead, finally disappearing as the road wound its way through the hills.
When I crested the hill in the village, there it was again – grown suddenly immense, ripe, flooding the town with a sprawling light so magical ji began to understand why it is said to inspire “looniness”. I could hardly wit to get back home to show the boys.
Robert was in the bathtub, so I grabbed John. “Close your eyes and cone see that followed me home,” I said, hoping to increase the dramatic impact. I led him out into the light, “Okay. Open! Isn’t it beautiful?”
John blinked a few times and looked at me as id I might, indeed, be loony. “Morn, it’s just the moon. Is this the surprise?” I suppose he was hoping for a puppy.
I should have realized that, being only ten, he was probably too young to know how much we sometimes need the magic and romance of moonlight. Often in the soothing, restorative glow we stare transfixed,
bouncing our ambitions and hopes and plans off this great reflector. We dream out dreams, we examine the structure of our lives; we make considered decisions.
The night after I showed John the moon, he burst breathlessly through the door, calling, “Morn, come out for a minute!” This time, he led me, coatless and shivering.
Past the row of pine trees that line the road, the sky opened up with the full moon on it, suspended so precariously that it might come hurtling toward us incandescent, even larger and more breathtaking than the night before, climbing its motionless climb over the molten silver of our pond. Even a ten-year- old could see this wasn’t just the moon. This was The Moon.
When I turned around, John was grinning, expectant, studying my face intently to see if he had pleased me. He had. I knew that now the moon was following.。